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The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women: A Portable Mentorby Gail McMeekinISBN 1567314163 (1-56731-416-3)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 1566192951 (1-56619-295-1)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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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 Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 1568495854 (1-56849-585-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Andersonvilleby MacKinlay KantorISBN 1568492979 (1-56849-297-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Arielby Sylvia PlathISBN 1568497237 (1-56849-723-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ariel'Book summary:Sylvia Plath churned out her final poems at the remarkable rate of two or three a day, and Robert Lowell describes them as written by "hardly a person at all ... but one of those super-real, hypnotic, great classical heroines." Even more remarkable, she wrote them during one of the coldest, snowiest winters (1962-63) Londoners have ever known. Snowbound, without central heating, she and her two children spent much of their time sniffling, coughing, or running temperatures (In "Fever 103°" she writes, "I have been flickering, off, on, off on. / The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss."). Pipes froze, lights failed, and candles were unobtainable.
As if these physical privations weren't enough, Plath was out in the cold in another sense--her husband, Ted Hughes, had left her for another woman earlier that year. Despite all this (or perhaps because of it), the Ariel poems dazzle with their lyricism, their surprising and vivid imagery, and their wit. Rather than confining herself to her bleak surroundings, Plath draws from a wide array of experience. In "Berck-Plage," for instance, clouds are "electrifyingly-coloured sherbets, scooped from the freeze." In "The Night Dances," the poet stands crib-side, reveling in her son's own brand of do-si-do: "Such pure leaps and spirals--Surely they travel / The world forever, I shall not entirely / Sit emptied of beauties, the gift / Of your small breath..."
Though at times they present the reader with hopelessness laid bare, these poems also teem with the brightest shards of a life, confounding those who merely look for the words of a gloomy, dispassionate suicide. Plath rose each morning in the final months of her life to "that still blue, almost eternal hour before the baby's cry" and left us these words like "axes/After whose stroke the wood rings..." [via]
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Asylumby Patrick McGrathISBN 1568954395 (1-56895-439-5)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Breath, Eyes, Memory: A Novelby Edwidge DanticatISBN 1569471428 (1-56947-142-8)
Hardcover, Soho Press, Incorporated
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Bringing Out the Best in Your Child: 80 Ways to Focus on Every Kid's Strengthsby Carol Funk, Cynthia Ulrich TobiasISBN 1569550166 (1-56955-016-6)
Softcover, Gospel Light Pubns
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Characterby E.M. Prince, Ferdinand BordewijkISBN 1566632277 (1-56663-227-7)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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The Christmas Oratorioby Goran Tunstrom, Paul HooverISBN 156792008X (1-56792-008-X)
Hardcover, David R Godine Pub
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Coming Apartby Kdaphne Rose KingmaISBN 1567311911 (1-56731-191-1)
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Contrary to Love: Helping the Sexual Addictby Patrick CarnesISBN 1568380593 (1-56838-059-3)
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Country of the Pointed Firsby Sarah Orne Jewett, Douglas AlvordISBN 156792140X (1-56792-140-X)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Country of the Pointed Firs'Book summary:First published in 1896, The Country of the Pointed Firs was considered by Willa Cather to be one of the three novels most likely to achieve a permanent place in the canon of American literature: I can think of no others that confront time and change so serenely... The young student of American literature in far distant years to come will take up this book and say a masterpiece! Long neglected and even ignored by criticism, this enduring classic by Sarah Orne Jewett now appears in a format worthy of its contents.
Set in the small coastal town of South Berwick, Maine, this is as much a series of small, intimate sketches as a sustained narrative. As F. O. Matthiessen pointed out, in these loosely connected sketches, she has acquired a structure independent of plot. Her scaffolding is simply the unity of her vision. Her vision was of a gentle and generous people on a rugged and dangerous coast, of New England character and characters limned in colors of high summer and blue skies. Here, too, you will meet the people of Dunnet s landing; the women, who are probably the most unforgettable characters of her book; and Elijah Tilley (among the very few men in Jewett s cast) who, after the death of his wife, learns the skills of husband and wife, of farm and sea. The black-and-white pencil drawings by Douglas Alvord are nothing short of spectacular. Closely observed and carefully rendered, they possess all of the haunting serenity of Jewett s landscapes. Faithfully reproduced and printed to the highest standards, this is destined to become a standard gift and reading book for everyone fascinated by New England, the rich history of its rockbound coast, and this magical author. [via]More editions of Country of the Pointed Firs:
The Couple's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Loversby Hugh Prather, Gayle Prather, William Martin, Hank TusinskiISBN 1569246505 (1-56924-650-5)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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Crazy for Youby Jennifer CrusieISBN 1568958536 (1-56895-853-6)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crazy for You'Book summary:High school art teacher Quinn McKenzie's life is perfectly normal--and it's making her insane. She's living with Bill, the nicest guy in Tibbett, Ohio, and he's crazy about her. Really crazy. Quinn is already having serious doubts about the future of their relationship when Fate intervenes, in the form of the scrawniest, squirmiest scrap of a dog you'd ever want to lay eyes on. She figures if the dog has the good sense to detest Bill on first sight, she ought to pay attention. And besides, there's Nick Ziegler, local mechanic and totally unsuitable love interest. Of course, that only makes Nick all the more appealing, not to mention his phenomenal aptitude between the sheets, and against the wall, and in the car, and... But getting rid of Bill is harder than Quinn ever expected. In fact, Bill was the last person she would have thought would try to hurt her. Thank God Nick is as capable with a two-by-four as he is with an automobile engine! Jennifer Crusie's second contemporary romance is a smash--literally! You'll laugh while you're tucking the covers around you a little tighter. --Alison Trinkle [via]
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Do I Have to Give Up Me to Be Loved by You?by Margaret Paul, Jordan PaulISBN 1568387962 (1-56838-796-2)
Softcover, Hci
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Do I Have to Give Up Me to Be Loved by You?by Jordan PaulISBN 1567310672 (1-56731-067-2)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Useby Elbert HubbardISBN 1565544463 (1-56554-446-3)
Softcover, Firebird Pr
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Ethan Fromeby Edith WhartonISBN 1566196760 (1-56619-676-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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Gay And Single...Forever?: 10 Things Every Gay Guy Looking For Love (And Not Finding It) Needs To Knowby Steve BereznaiISBN 1569243565 (1-56924-356-5)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps: The Classic Guide for All People in the Process of Recoveryby Patrick CarnesISBN 1568380585 (1-56838-058-5)
Softcover, Hci
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Ghost Childrenby Sue TownsendISBN 1569471517 (1-56947-151-7)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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Good News About Sex and Marriage: Answers to Your Honest Questions About Catholic Teachingby Christopher WestISBN 1569552142 (1-56955-214-2)
Softcover, St Anthony Messenger Pr
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Geniusby Dave EggersISBN 1568959095 (1-56895-909-5)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'Book summary:Dave Eggers is a terrifically talented writer; don't hold his cleverness against him. What to make of a book called A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Based on a True Story? For starters, there's a good bit of staggering genius before you even get to the true story, including a preface, a list of "Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of This Book," and a 20-page acknowledgements section complete with special mail-in offer, flow chart of the book's themes, and a lovely pen-and-ink drawing of a stapler (helpfully labeled "Here is a drawing of a stapler:").
But on to the true story. At the age of 22, Eggers became both an orphan and a "single mother" when his parents died within five months of one another of unrelated cancers. In the ensuing sibling division of labor, Dave is appointed unofficial guardian of his 8-year-old brother, Christopher. The two live together in semi-squalor, decaying food and sports equipment scattered about, while Eggers worries obsessively about child-welfare authorities, molesting babysitters, and his own health. His child-rearing strategy swings between making his brother's upbringing manically fun and performing bizarre developmental experiments on him. (Case in point: his idea of suitable bedtime reading is John Hersey's Hiroshima.)
The book is also, perhaps less successfully, about being young and hip and out to conquer the world (in an ironic, media-savvy, Gen-X way, naturally). In the early '90s, Eggers was one of the founders of the very funny Might Magazine, and he spends a fair amount of time here on Might, the hipster culture of San Francisco's South Park, and his own efforts to get on to MTV's Real World. This sort of thing doesn't age very well--but then, Eggers knows that. There's no criticism you can come up with that he hasn't put into A.H.W.O.S.G. already. "The book thereafter is kind of uneven," he tells us regarding the contents after page 109, and while that's true, it's still uneven in a way that is funny and heartfelt and interesting.
All this self-consciousness could have become unbearably arch. It's a testament to Eggers's skill as a writer--and to the heartbreaking particulars of his story--that it doesn't. Currently the editor of the footnote-and-marginalia-intensive journal McSweeney's (the last issue featured an entire story by David Foster Wallace printed tinily on its spine), Eggers comes from the most media-saturated generation in history--so much so that he can't feel an emotion without the sense that it's already been felt for him. What may seem like postmodern noodling is really just Eggers writing about pain in the only honest way available to him. Oddly enough, the effect is one of complete sincerity, and--especially in its concluding pages--this memoir as metafiction is affecting beyond all rational explanation. --Mary Park [via]
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Heidiby Johanna SpyriISBN 1569873917 (1-56987-391-7)
Hardcover, School Specialty Childrens Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidi'Book summary:Johanna Spyri's classic story of a young orphan sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Swiss Alps is retold in it's entirety in this beautifully bound hardcover edition. Heidi has charmed and intrigued readers since it's original publication in 1880. Much more than a children's story, the narrative is also a lesson on the precarious nature of freedom, a luxury too often taken for granted. Heidi almost loses her liberty as she is ripped away from the tranquility of the mountains to tend to a sick cousin in the city. Happily, all's well that ends well, and the reader is left with only warm, fuzzy thoughts. Spryi's story will never grow wearisome--and this is a very appealing edition. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Here Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystiqueby Jaclyn GellerISBN 1568581939 (1-56858-193-9)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Home Sweet Homeby Rumiko TakahashiISBN 1569310866 (1-56931-086-6)
Softcover, Viz Media
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How to Read a Person Like a Bookby Gerald Nierenberg, Henry H. CaleroISBN 1566194016 (1-56619-401-6)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble
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How to Recognize Emotional Unavailability and Make Healthier Relationship Choicesby Bryn CollinsISBN 1567313442 (1-56731-344-2)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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How Your Church Family Works: Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systemsby Peter L. SteinkeISBN 1566991102 (1-56699-110-2)
Softcover, Alban Inst
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If It Hurts, It Isn't Love: And 365 Other Principles to Heal and Transform Your Relationshipsby Chuck Spezzano, Robert HoldenISBN 1569246343 (1-56924-634-3)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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The Inheritanceby Louisa May AlcottISBN 1568955057 (1-56895-505-7)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Is It Love or Is It Addiction?by Brenda SchaefferISBN 1568381409 (1-56838-140-9)
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The Language of Letting Goby Melody BeattieISBN 1567312381 (1-56731-238-1)
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Larry's Partyby Carol ShieldsISBN 1568955375 (1-56895-537-5)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Larry's Party'Book summary:Larry Weller is a regular guy, or so Carol Shields has him think. When we first meet him in 1977 Winnipeg at age 26, he's pondering the pluses of Harris tweed, still living at home, and realizing he's in love with his girlfriend, Dorrie, a flinty car saleswoman. Larry is proud of his job at Flowerfolks, even though he fell into floral design by accident, and if his relationship with his parents isn't perfect, it's not too bad, either. (Stu and Flo Weller may have less page-time in Larry's Party, but they are hugely memorable. He is a master upholsterer, happiest when working; she is a woman ruined by nervous guilt, having inadvertently killed off her mother-in-law with some improperly preserved green beans.)
Carol Shields has said that she had "always been struck by the fact that in most novels people aren't working." Though her hero climbs the floral managerial trellis for 17 years and finds more rhapsody in work than marriage, Larry and Dorrie's honeymoon in England points him toward what will be his true vocation--mazes. These living constructs turn him into a thinker, a man of imagination, and the author's descriptions are quietly spectacular as well as effortlessly sweet. Larry wonders at their "teasing elegance and circularity ... a snail, a scribble, a doodle on the earth's skin with no other directed purpose but to wind its sinuous way around itself." Just as Larry changes with the times--each elliptical chapter ages him by one or two years--so does his art. In 1990, he designs a maze in which you can't really lose yourself. In 1997, the McCord Maze "is intended to mirror the descent into unconscious sleep, followed by a slow awakening." Larry, too, has a slow awakening, taking several false turns before reaching midlife. As the novel closes, with a bravura dinner party scene, he may finally be at ease in the world. But his creator knows that he is only halfway there, and still has to negotiate his way from the center of the maze to its exit. [via]
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The Law of Similarsby Chris BohjalianISBN 1568957238 (1-56895-723-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Leader of the Packby Kosuke FujishimaISBN 1569717648 (1-56971-764-8)
Softcover, Dark Horse Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leader of the Pack'Book summary:This second of three "re-mastered" volumes restores the "lost" Oh My Goddess! stories and fills in early details of student Keiichi Morisato's life with the beautiful Belldandy, a live-in, literal goddess. You can believe that the struggles of daily life - earning extra cash, looking for an apartment, the odd motorcycle race - play out a bit differently when you've got a supernatural stunner in your corner. But the blessings come along with the inevitable curses, like the unannounced arrival of Belldandy's older sister, Urd, a sexy spitfire determined to help Keiichi get over his shyness in his relationship with Belldandy - "help" him, that is, between the sheets! Note: includes material from the previously published 1-555-Goddess. [via]
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The Little Bit Naughty Book of Sexby Jean RogiereISBN 1569753059 (1-56975-305-9)
Hardcover, Amorata
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The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novelby Jennifer McKnight-TrontzISBN 1568983123 (1-56898-312-3)
Softcover, Princeton Architectural Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel'Book summary:Swashbuckling sailors, dashing dukes, naughty nurses, and sexy steward-esses caught in webs of love, passion, betrayal, and intrigue: these are the raw materials of the romance novel--and the lusty covers that advertise them. In The Look of Love, Jennifer McKnight-Trontz provides a rollicking history of the covers and stories that have captivated millions of readers worldwide. More than 150 of the most sensational covers from this venerable if venal literary form are shown in glorious color, focusing on the period from 1940 to 1970, romance design's most fertile era. The Look of Love features artwork and excerpts from titles such as Passion Flower, Kept Woman, Rendezvous in Lisbon, and Jungle Nurse. Along the way, it brings attention to the pioneers of the romance novel: cover artists such as Barye Phillips and Robert Maguire, who helped define the look of paperbacks in general, and Harlequin, the grand dame of romance publishers, with more than 100 million novels sold each year. McKnight-Trontz reveals the themes that typify both the story lines and the covers--hospital romance, the rich and raunchy, royalty, tropical paradises, Westerns, "taboo" relationships, pirates and warriors, and love triangles--resulting in this definitive compendium of camp. A book for romance lovers everywhere. [via]
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Love Lettersby Michelle LovricISBN 1569248575 (1-56924-857-5)
Hardcover, Shooting Star Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Letters'Book summary:"My weary mind turns for refreshment to the thought of you as a dusty traveller might sink onto a soft and grassy bank."
These tender words, written by Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet in 1853, offer just a hint of the rich collection of lovers' correspondence preserved in Michelle Lovric's Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion. This slim volume is overflowing with excerpted quotations that are artfully arranged around paintings and line drawings with a Victorian flair, and every passionate word is carefully attributed with names, dates, and details. But the excerpted quotations are only a fraction of the book's appeal: the real draw is the letters that Lovric tracked down and photographed in museums and libraries all over the world. In the tradition of Griffin and Sabine, these reproductions are tucked into envelopes and must be removed in order to be read. In this way, Lovric offers us a peek into the legendary relationships of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, and Dylan Thomas and his wife Caitlin, among others. Capturing the words of lovers--some famous, some not--in their own sometimes-hurried handwriting endows the epistolary with a remarkable sense of history and undeniable passion. [via]
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Love Signs: Find Your True Love Using Astrology, Numbers, Handwriting, Palm Reading, Face Reading, and Aura Readingby Jeraldine SaundersISBN 1567186181 (1-56718-618-1)
Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Signs: Find Your True Love Using Astrology, Numbers, Handwriting, Palm Reading, Face Reading, and Aura Reading'Book summary:From the creator of The Love Boat comes a fun-filled romp through the stormy world of love, sex, and romance. Love Signs would best be described as a compatibility manual based mainly in astrology, but with some facial analysis, palmistry, graphology, and numerology thrown in for good measure. This information could conceivably be applied to all sorts of relationships, but when Saunders turns phrases like "Staying power is the most noticeable attribute of the Taurus. Don't plan to get home early on your first date," you know she's not referring to office politics. Like a lighthouse beacon in the midst of a gale, Love Signs will guide you out of the choppy seas of the singles scene, and straight into the harbor of love. --Brian Patterson [via]
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Love's Way: The Union of Body, Ego, Soul, and Spiritby Brenda SchaefferISBN 1568386230 (1-56838-623-0)
Softcover, Hci
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Maison Ikkokuby Rumiko TakahashiISBN 1569310408 (1-56931-040-8)
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A Man in Fullby Tom WolfeISBN 1568956940 (1-56895-694-0)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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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]More editions of A Man in Full:
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suitby Sloan Wilson, Jonathan FranzenISBN 1568582463 (1-56858-246-3)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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The Meaning of Persons.by Paul TournierISBN 1568492480 (1-56849-248-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Medeaby Euripides, Nicholas RudallISBN 1566633214 (1-56663-321-4)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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Miniaturesby Norah LabinerISBN 1566891515 (1-56689-151-5)
Softcover, Coffee House Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miniatures'Book summary:Norah Labiner's masterful follow-up to her groundbreaking Our Sometime Sister is an engrossing and innovative work conceived in classical style, popping with pop cultural panache, and exhibiting all the gifts and vision of its author, who was lauded by the Utne Reader as one of the "ten novelists who are changing the way we see the world."Miniatures is an intensely evocative novel with haunting characters and beautiful, painterly prose that summon the ghosts of Mary Shelley, Marcel Proust, and the Brontë sisters.
Young, impetuous, and possessing a passionate, vulnerable intellect, American Fern Jacobi is traveling in Ireland when she finds work as a live-in housekeeper to famous and reclusive writers Owen and Brigid Lieb.
The eccentric and world-weary Owen has lived in the shadow of scandal and suspicion ever since his first wife, a beloved and iconic novelist, committed suicide in the grand, drafty house where Fern has come to work. Amidst the Liebs's riddled and deceitful world, Fern forges an alliance with Brigid, Owen's young and beautiful second wife. When the two share the discovery of a controversial bundle of hidden letters, Fern not only unearths answers to the first wife's suicide, but also to her own past.
Norah Labiner's first novel, Our Sometime Sister, was a finalist for Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Award. She has received an NEA fellowship and her fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Columbia Review, and Passages North. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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The Mountain of Names: A History of the Human Familyby Alex ShoumatoffISBN 1568360711 (1-56836-071-1)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Nakedby David SedarisISBN 1568954867 (1-56895-486-7)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Nine & A Half Weeksby Elizabeth McNeillISBN 1568491719 (1-56849-171-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The North China Loverby Marguerite Duras, Leigh HafreyISBN 1565840437 (1-56584-043-7)
Softcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The North China Lover'Book summary:Hailed in France as "an incomparable pleasure," Marguerite Duras's 1991 novel is a spare, beautiful retelling of the dramatic experiences of her own adolescence. More daring and truthful than any book she wrote previously -- including The Lover, it emphasizes the realities of her youth in Indochina and reveals much that her earlier works concealed. [via]
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Oh My Goddess!by Kosuke Fujishima, Alan Gleason, Toren Smith, Dana LewisISBN 1569716692 (1-56971-669-2)
Softcover, Dark Horse Comics
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One True Thingby Anna QuindlenISBN 156895168X (1-56895-168-X)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Our Cancer Yearby Frank Stack, Harvey Pekar, Joyce BrabnerISBN 1568580118 (1-56858-011-8)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addictionby Patrick CarnesISBN 1568386214 (1-56838-621-4)
Softcover, Hci
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The Pilot's Wifeby Anita ShreveISBN 1568951469 (1-56895-146-9)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilot's Wife'Book summary:With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve now offers a skillfully crafted exploration of the long reach of tragedy in The Pilot's Wife. News of Jack Lyons's fatal crash sends his wife into shock and emotional numbness:
Kathryn wished she could manage a coma. Instead, it seemed that quite the opposite had happened: She felt herself to be inside of a private weather system, one in which she was continuously tossed and buffeted by bits of news and information, sometimes chilled by thoughts of what lay immediately ahead, thawed by the kindness of others ... frequently drenched by memories that seemed to have no regard for circumstance or place, and then subjected to the nearly intolerable heat of reporters, photographers and curious on-lookers. It was a weather system with no logic, she had decided, no pattern, no progression, no form.
The situation becomes even more dire when the plane's black box is recovered, pinning responsibility for the crash on Jack. In an attempt to clear his name, Kathryn searches for any and all clues to the hours before the flight. Yet each discovery forces her to realize that she didn't know her husband of 16 years at all. Shreve's complex and highly convincing treatment of Kathryn's dilemma, coupled with intriguing minor characters and an expertly paced plot, makes The Pilot's Wife really take off. [via] 
The Rector's Wifeby Joanna TrollopeISBN 1568952007 (1-56895-200-7)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Repairing Intimacy: An Object Relations Approach to Couples Therapyby Judith P. SiegelISBN 1568217625 (1-56821-762-5)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Rootsby Alex HaleyISBN 1568494718 (1-56849-471-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The Sacred Marriage: Honoring the God and Goddess Within Each Otherby Lira SilburyISBN 1567186548 (1-56718-654-8)
Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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Sex and the Officeby Helen Gurley BrownISBN 1569802750 (1-56980-275-0)
Softcover, Barricade Books Inc
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Sex for Dummiesby Ruth WestheimerISBN 1568843844 (1-56884-384-4)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Silver's Spells for Loveby Silver RavenwolfISBN 1567185525 (1-56718-552-5)
Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silver's Spells for Love'Book summary:Does your current relationship need a spicy boost? Have you been browsing for love in all the wrong places? From finding a new lover to handling that couch-potato partner, Silver's Spells for Love has more than 100 ideas, potions, and incantations to bring titillating passion into your life. Besides romance, there are spells for improving and enhancing relationships with parents, siblings, children, friends, teachers, and even pets. Based on the folk magick of many cultures, these spells are all surprisingly simple. Whether you want affection, commitment, or a hot night on the town, this book will teach you the nuances of spellcasting for love!
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Simple Passionby Annie ErnauxISBN 1568580037 (1-56858-003-7)
Hardcover, Four Walls Eight Windows
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A Single Journey: Biblical Sketches for Life on Your Ownby James McNuttISBN 1569550530 (1-56955-053-0)
Softcover, Gospel Light Pubns
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Song of Nightby Glenville LovellISBN 1569471223 (1-56947-122-3)
Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc
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Spunkby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 1569247439 (1-56924-743-9)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spunk'Book summary:Sweet and horrific stories, fairy tales, and haunters. I read Hurston because her voice is so clear, and foreign, but the way she writes just wraps me up and I can see every character, even smell the world they live in, like I'm crouching behind a tree in their yards. [via]
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Strange Fruitby Lillian SmithISBN 1568494203 (1-56849-420-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books, Incorporated
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Strengthening Your Marriage and Familyby Douglas E. BrinleyISBN 1570083088 (1-57008-308-8)
Softcover, Bookcraft Pubs
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Summerby Edith WhartonISBN 1566196787 (1-56619-678-7)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Lifeby Oliver JamesISBN 1569243239 (1-56924-323-9)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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Thriving Marriages: An Inspirational and Practical Guide to Lasting Happinessby John A. Yzaguirre, Claire Frazier YzaguirreISBN 1565481941 (1-56548-194-1)
Softcover, New City Pr
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Video Girl Aiby Masakazu Katsura, Yuji OnikiISBN 1569314314 (1-56931-431-4)
Softcover, Viz
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Was It Something I Saidby Valerie BlockISBN 1569471096 (1-56947-109-6)
Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc
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When Couples Pray Together: Creating Intimacy and Spiritual Wholenessby David Stoop, Jan StoopISBN 1569551081 (1-56955-108-1)
Softcover, Servant Publications
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Why Men Don't Listen & Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About Itby Allan Pease, Barbara PeaseISBN 1566491568 (1-56649-156-8)
Hardcover, Welcome Rain
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Men Don't Listen & Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What to Do About It'Book summary:Ever wonder why women can brush their teeth while walking and talking on various subjects while men generally find this very difficult to do? Why 99 percent of all patents are registered by men? Why stressed women talk? Why so many husbands hate shopping? According to Barbara and Allan Pease, science now confirms that "the way our brains are wired and the hormones pulsing through our bodies are the two factors that largely dictate, long before we are born, how we will think and behave. Our instincts are simply our genes determining how our bodies will behave in given sets of circumstances." That's right: socialization, politics, or upbringing aside, men and women have profound brain differences and are intrinsically inclined to act in distinct--and consequently frustrating--ways.
The premises behind Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps is that all too often, these differences get in the way of fulfilling relationships and that understanding our basic urges can lead to greater self-awareness and improved relations between the sexes. The Peases spent three years researching their book--traveling the globe, talking to experts, and studying the cutting-edge research of ethnologists, psychologists, biologists, and neuroscientists--yet their work does not read a bit like "hard science." In fact, the authors go to considerable lengths to point out that their book is intended to be funny, interesting, and easy to read; in short, this is a book whose primary purpose is to talk about "average men and women, that is, how most men and women behave most of the time, in most situations, and for most of the past."
Why Men Don't Listen, therefore, deals largely in generalizations, and this is bound to alienate some readers. "We don't beat around the bush with suppositions or politically correct clichés," the Peases claim. Those up for an irreverent and unapologetic take on why men and women just can't help themselves sometimes may just decide to read on. --Svenja Soldovieri [via]
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood AndersonISBN 1566197511 (1-56619-751-1)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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