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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0804115710 (0-8041-1571-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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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 0812504224 (0-8125-0422-4)
Softcover, Tor Books - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0835902242 (0-8359-0224-2)
Softcover, Globe Fearon Co - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0877207011 (0-87720-701-1)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn With Reader's Guide: ISBN 0877208166 (0-87720-816-6)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 079109426X (0-7910-9426-X)
Hardcover, Facts on File - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0804900043 (0-8049-0004-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0816714649 (0-8167-1464-9)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 081671858X (0-8167-1858-X)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C. - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0816130795 (0-8161-3079-5)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0821916394 (0-8219-1639-4)
Hardcover, EMC/Paradigm Pub - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0866119655 (0-86611-965-5)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0804115710 (0-8041-1571-0)
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0812504224 (0-8125-0422-4)
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, Constance Black GarnettISBN 080959322X (0-8095-9322-X)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Anna Karenina may be the greatest single novel ever written; it may also be just plainly and sublimely good. Regardless, there is no doubt that Anna Karenina (generally considered Tolstoy's finest novel) is a sublime achievement. Anna, miserable in a loveless marriage, succumbs to the desire for the dashing Vronsky. That sort of thing didn't stand one in good stead in 19th-century Russia; bad goes to worse, and the end Anna comes to is the stuff of legend. Tolstoy seamlessly captures a weaves a tapestry of Russian society -- as Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life." "One of the greatest love stories in world literature." -- Vladimir Nabokov [via]
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Annie on My Mindby Nancy GardenISBN 0808587560 (0-8085-8756-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Annie on My Mind'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Liza begins to doubt her feelings for Annie after someone finds out about their relationship, and then realizes, after starting college, that her denial of love for Annie was a mistake. [via]
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Ballet Shoesby Noel StreatfeildISBN 0808542508 (0-8085-4250-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ballet Shoes'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Relates the fortunes of three adopted sisters who take dancing and stage training; one to become an actress, the second a ballerina, and the third an aviatrix. [via]
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Betsy-Tacy: Library Editionby Maud Hart Lovelace, Lois LenskiISBN 0833513389 (0-8335-1338-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Betsy-Tacy: Library Edition'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Betsy makes a new friend and shares toys and secrets with her. [via]
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Blubberby Judy BlumeISBN 0878880720 (0-87888-072-0)
Hardcover, Bradbury Press
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Boyby Roald DahlISBN 080857275X (0-8085-7275-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boy'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Dahl tells the story of his adventures and misadventures as a child: his involvement in the Great Mouse Plot of 1924; his first automobile ride, in which he nearly lost his nose; his many canings by Headmasters; and his vacations at home in Wales with hi [via]
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The Boy on a Black Horseby Nancy SpringerISBN 0816736332 (0-8167-3633-2)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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Briar Roseby Jane YolenISBN 0812558626 (0-8125-5862-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Briar Rose'Book summary:It is an old, old tale, the German story of Briar Rose, the Sleeping Beauty. Now one of America's most celebrated writers tells it afresh, set this time in the forests patrolled by the German army during World War II. A tale of castles, of mists and thorns, of a beautiful sleeping princess, and an astonishing revelation of death and rebirth.
A tale that will leave you changed forever.
The tale of Briar Rose.
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The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0808514032 (0-8085-1403-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]
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- The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0792715160 (0-7927-1516-0)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0792715179 (0-7927-1517-9)
Hardcover, Curley Large Print - Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0822070383 (0-8220-7038-3)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0808514032 (0-8085-1403-2)
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- The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0792715160 (0-7927-1516-0)
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The Catcher in the Rye: New Essaysby J. P. SteedISBN 0820457299 (0-8204-5729-9)
Softcover, Peter Lang Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays'Book summary:J. D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye celebrated its fiftieth anniversary of publication in 2001. The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays presents a variety of new approaches to this extremely popular and intensely influential novel, ranging [via]
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The Chosenby Harold BloomISBN 0791081737 (0-7910-8173-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chosen'Book summary:Enjoy a comprehensive analysis and summary of The Chosen. Includes biographical sketches, summaries, an annotated bibliography, contributor profiles and index. [via]
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Cliffsnotes Lord of the Fliesby D. M. CalandraISBN 0822007541 (0-8220-0754-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffsnotes Lord of the Flies'Book summary:Great for writing a report for this particular book, and enhancing your understanding of the particulars of the book. It also describe the characters of the story and what they may represent whether within the story or within someone's life. [via]
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Emmaby Jane AustenISBN 0804901023 (0-8049-0102-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
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First Boyby Gary D. SchmidtISBN 0805078592 (0-8050-7859-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Boy'Book summary:A fast-paced political thriller[via]
Youre my first boy, Cooper, my first boy, grandfather says just before he dies. All alone in the world, without even a dog, the only thing that keeps Cooper going is running the dairy farm.
Suddenly, black sedans are swarming all around Coopers small New Hampshire town, driven by mysterious men in dark suits. Coopers barn is burned to the ground, and his house is broken into and searched during the night. The President of the United States calls on Cooper for a visit, and her opponent wants Cooper to join him on the campaign trail.
This fast-paced political thriller will have the reader turning the pages in anticipation of the next clue.More editions of First Boy:
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George Orwell's 1984by George OrwellISBN 0871295423 (0-87129-542-3)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'George Orwell's 1984'Book summary:This is a play taken from Orwell's '1984'. It gives a little taste of the original text but is very good. It will make you want to read the original book all the way through. [via]
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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A Handful of Timeby Kit PearsonISBN 0833568132 (0-8335-6813-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Handful of Time'Book summary:When Patricia's mother sends her to her cousins' cottage for the summer, Patricia doesn't want to go. She doesn't know her cousins at all, and she's never been good at camping or canoeing, let alone making new friends.
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0808598295 (0-8085-9829-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Throughout her career, Margaret Atwood has played with different literary genres in her novels--historical fiction (Alias Grace), pulp fiction (The Blind Assassin), the comedy of manners (The Robber Bride)--but no foray into genre fiction has been as successful as her turn to speculative fiction in The Handmaid's Tale. Published in 1985, it echoes Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, but a vibrant feminism drives Atwood's portrait of a futuristic dystopia. In the Republic of Gilead, we see a world devastated by toxic chemicals and nuclear fallout and dominated by a repressive Christian fundamentalism. The birthrate has plunged, and most women can no longer bear children. Offred is one of Gilead's Handmaids, who as official breeders are among the chosen few who can still become pregnant.
The Handmaid's Tale is an imaginatively audacious novel that is at once a page-turning psychological thriller, a moving love story, and a chilling warning about what might be waiting for us around the corner. What ultimately makes it stand out is Atwood's ability to balance a passionate political statement with finely wrought literary fiction. The Handmaid's Tale is a remarkable work by one of Canada's most inventive writers. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbirdby Christopher SergelISBN 0871290863 (0-87129-086-3)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co
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Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0808510258 (0-8085-1025-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbird'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A guide to reading ""To Kill A Mockingbird"" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]
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Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbirdby Joyce Milton, Harper LeeISBN 0812034465 (0-8120-3446-5)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbird'Book summary:Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0804901120 (0-8049-0112-0)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Independent Peopleby Halldor LaxnessISBN 0844669490 (0-8446-6949-0)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Independent Peopleby J. A. Thompson, Halldor LaxnessISBN 0837188725 (0-8371-8872-5)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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J. D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Ryeby Harold BloomISBN 0791056643 (0-7910-5664-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J. D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:The classic 1951 novel by J.D. Salinger is analyzed.
The title, J.D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on J.D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on J.D. Salinger, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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J.D. Salingerby Harold BloomISBN 0877547165 (0-87754-716-5)
Hardcover, Chelsea House Pub
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J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. Salinger, Joseph ClaroISBN 0812034074 (0-8120-3407-4)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]
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Joan Of Arc: The Authorized Uniform Editionby Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne ClemensISBN 0809531763 (0-8095-3176-3)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joan Of Arc: The Authorized Uniform Edition'Book summary:This fictionalized "biography" told by an intimate companion of Joan of Arc was thought by Mark Twain to be his finest work. It was hugely popular in its time, and while the tastes of subsequent generations may have elevated HUCKLEBERRY FINN and THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER to a higher level, JOAN OF ARC still remains one of Twain's most colorful and passionately-imagined books. [via]
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Le Fantome De L'Operaby Gaston LerouxISBN 0844212334 (0-8442-1233-4)
Softcover, Natl Textbook Co Trade
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Fantome De L'Opera'Book summary:A French reader for intermediate through advanced students
Le Fantôme de lOpéra (Leroux) is an adaptation that captures the meaning and mood of the original 1910 Gaston Leroux novel and includes all major scenes. It is 152 pages in length. [via]More editions of Le Fantome De L'Opera:
Les Miserablesby Norman Denny, Victor Hugo, Charles KeepingISBN 085067106X (0-85067-106-X)
Hardcover, Folio Press
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 0848805356 (0-8488-0535-6)
Hardcover, Amereon LTD.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:Les Misérables is an 1862 French novel by author Victor Hugo and is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. It follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a seventeen-year period in the early 19th century, starting in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion. The novel focuses on the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption. It examines the nature of law and grace, and expounds upon the history of France, architecture of Paris, politics, moral philosophy, anti-monarchism, justice, religion, and the types and nature of romantic and familial love. The story is historical fiction because it contains factual and historic events. [via]
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Lily's White Laceby Carolyn BrownISBN 0803494955 (0-8034-9495-5)
Hardcover, Avalon
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MacHiavelli's the Prince: Text and Commentaryby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0812005244 (0-8120-0524-4)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Taleby Harold BloomISBN 0791075699 (0-7910-7569-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Bloom's Guides collection, presents concise critical excerpts from The Handmaid's Tale to provide a scholarly overview of the work. This comprehensive study guide also features "The Story Behind the Story," which details the conditions under which The Handmaid's Tale was written. This title also includes a short biography on Margaret Atwood and a descriptive list of characters. [via]
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Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 079105926X (0-7910-5926-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Atwood's best-known novel depicts one woman's struggle to survive in a futuristic society in which women have become property.
The title, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Margaret Atwood, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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The Naked and the Deadby Norman MailerISBN 0805060189 (0-8050-6018-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Naked and the Dead'Book summary:Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since enjoyed a long and well-deserved tenure in the American canon. This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion by Norman Mailer.[via]
Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948 with the wisdom of a man twice Mailer's age and the raw courage of the young man he was, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.More editions of The Naked and the Dead:
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Softcover, Henry Holt & Co - The Naked and the Dead: ISBN 0805012737 (0-8050-1273-7)
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The Naked Mole-Rat Lettersby Mary Amato, Heather SaundersISBN 0823419274 (0-8234-1927-4)
Hardcover, Holiday House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Naked Mole-Rat Letters'Book summary:When her father begins a long-distance romance with a zookeeper from Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated e-mails to the zookeeper in an attempt to sabotage the relationship. But when the zookeeper responds, with wise and witty letters about protecting territory, shunning outsiders, and rebuilding a home, Frankie begins an honest and prickly correspondence that touches on family, friendship, and growing up. [via]
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Niccolo Machiavelli's the Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Gerald Lee RatliffISBN 0812035364 (0-8120-3536-4)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangarooby Judy Blume, Amy AitkenISBN 0878881824 (0-87888-182-4)
Hardcover, Bradbury Press
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Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston LerouxISBN 0808581678 (0-8085-8167-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phantom Of The Opera'Book summary:Dorset Press Hardcover 1985 2D Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, first published in 1910, remained a perennial favorite throughout the twentieth century and into the millenium. It was adapted to several popular motion pictures and into one of the most successful stage musicals of all time. Its main character, Erik, is a romantic figure and sensitive soul whose appeal reaches across different cultures and times. He is an accomplished composer and musician whose great unfinished work, Don Juan Triumphant, is described as breathtakingly beautiful by the one person he allows to hear it. Erik is an object of pity, whose face has been disfigured from birth, causing him to hide behind a silk mask; and he is hopelessly in love with a young woman. He can never seriously hope she will love him back. [via]
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Point Of Honourby Madeleine E. RobinsISBN 0812570499 (0-8125-7049-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Point Of Honour'Book summary:Miss Sarah Tolerance ran away with her brother's fencing master when she was sixteen. Now he's dead and she's back in England, and a Fallen Woman. But she refuses to follow the Fallen Women who have gone before her and become a courtesan. Sarah is a straight shooter, with her pistol as well as her wit, and her mind is as sharp as the blade of her sword. She's clever and discreet--she has reinvented herself as a private investigator.[via]
Miss Tolerance is an Agent of Inquiry, the sole one of her kind in London in this year of 1810, with mad King George III on the throne and Queen Charlotte acting as Regent. Sarah's position in society allows her to float between social layers, unearth secrets, find things that were lost, and lose things too dangerous to be kept.
An agent of the Earl of Versellion has asked her to find a fan that the Earl's father gifted to a lady with brown eyes. When Sarah discovers the secret of the fan, both she and the Earl are targeted by ruthless killers. They realize the fan has a second secret, one that will affect the fate of England itself, and they must decipher it.
Sarah's life is getting more and more complicated-and she's growing closer and closer to the Earl. To save England and herself, she must decide whether to be guided by her heart... or her conscience.More editions of Point Of Honour:
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Prepby Curtis SittenfeldISBN 081297235X (0-8129-7235-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prep'Book summary:Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition. Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school's glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel. As Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of-and, ultimately, a participant in-their rituals and mores. As a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By the time she's a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered. Ultimately, Lee's experiences-complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant, coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all. From the Hardcover edition. [via]
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The Princeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0804900566 (0-8049-0056-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:Notes, a 2-page map, an index, and an altogether remarkable Introduction by David Wootton, make this edition an ideal encounter with Machiavelli for any student of history and political theory. [via]
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Probably Still Nick Swansenby Virginia Euwer WolffISBN 0805007016 (0-8050-0701-6)
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The Promiseby Chaim PotokISBN 0808587722 (0-8085-8772-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Promise'Book summary:"A superb mirror of a place, a time, and a group of people who capture our immediate interest and hold it tightly."
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Young Reuven Malter is unsure of himself and his place in life. An unconventional scholar, he struggles for recognition from his teachers. With his old friend Danny Saunders--who himself had abandoned the legacy as the chosen heir to his father's rabbinical dynasty for the uncertain life of a healer--Reuvan battles to save a sensitive boy imprisoned by his genius and rage. Painfully, triumphantly, Reuven's understanding of himself, though the boy change, as he starts to aproach the peace he has long sought.... [via]More editions of The Promise:
Ramona and Her Fatherby Beverly Cleary, Stockard ChanningISBN 0807273147 (0-8072-7314-7)
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A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles, Book 4by Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0844672858 (0-8446-7285-8)
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia WoolfISBN 0848812271 (0-8488-1227-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room of Ones' Own'Book summary:Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing, smoothly comparing the architecture of sentences by the likes of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, all the while lampooning the chauvinistic state of university education in the England of her day. When she concluded that to achieve their full greatness as writers women will need a solid income and a privacy, Woolf pretty much invented modern feminist criticism. [via]
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A Room On Lorelei Streetby Mary PearsonISBN 0805076670 (0-8050-7667-0)
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0812504836 (0-8125-0483-6)
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Separate Peaceby John KnowlesISBN 0816158959 (0-8161-5895-9)
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Smackby Melvin BurgessISBN 080505801X (0-8050-5801-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smack'Book summary:Like so many teenagers, Tar and Gemma are fed up with their parents. Tar's family is alcoholic and abusive, and Gemma feels her home life is cramped by too many restrictions. The young, British couple runs away to Bristol in search of freedom, and finds it in the form of a "squat." This vacant building is also occupied by two slightly older teens who share everything with Tar and Gemma (including their heroin habits). For a while, everything is parties and adventures, but slowly Tar and Gemma find themselves growing more and more dependent on the drug--whose strict mandates are even less forgiving than those of the parents they fled. As Gemma says, "You take more and more, and more often. Then you get sick of it and give up for a few days. And that's the really nasty thing because then, when you're clean, that's when it works so well."
With Smack, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for Fiction, Melvin Burgess brilliantly sketches a gradual descent into drug addiction. There is no preaching here, just the artful revelation of cold, hard facts. Burgess's use of the first-person voice--for not only the main characters but those in the background as well--brings you into the mind of every character in this homeless, hooked culture, offering a (sometimes terrible) glimpse of the motivations and transitions of each person. (Tar's personality changes dramatically over the course of the book, from sweet-natured, lonely boy to hard-edged, hit-seeking addict.) More subtle and less graphic than Beauty Queen, Linda Glovach's tale of a girl's downward spiral into heroin addiction, Smack will linger in the your mind long after its haunting conclusion has been reached. (Ages 13 and older) --Brangien Davis [via]
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Someone Was Watchingby David PatneaudeISBN 0807575321 (0-8075-7532-1)
Softcover, Albert Whitman & Co
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The Sorrows of Young Wertherby Burton Pike, Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0812969901 (0-8129-6990-1)
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The Stainless Steel Rat's Revengeby Harry HarrisonISBN 0802755259 (0-8027-5525-9)
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The Sufferings of Young Wertherby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0804461902 (0-8044-6190-2)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Taming the Star Runnerby S. E. HintonISBN 083353369X (0-8335-3369-X)
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Tarzan of the Apesby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0809599813 (0-8095-9981-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan of the Apes'Book summary:First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest. Tarzan of the Apes is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring, and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle). Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less than a nightmare.
The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"! And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled; and smiles are the foundation of beauty." [via]
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0791093085 (0-7910-9308-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Kill a Mockingbird'Book summary:Harold Bloom's introduction questions whether Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that will endure or has had popularity merely as a time. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on his work, this text includes a brief biography of the author, structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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Twenty and Tenby Claire Huchet Bishop, William Pene DuboisISBN 0844661686 (0-8446-6168-6)
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0804901384 (0-8049-0138-4)
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Victor Hugo's Les Miserablesby Victor Hugo, Jim ReimannISBN 0849916879 (0-8499-1687-9)
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William Golding's Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, W. Meitcke, W. MeitcheISBN 0812034260 (0-8120-3426-0)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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