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Against the Grainby Joris Karl Huysmans, John HowardISBN 1406505714 (1-4065-0571-4)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Grain'Book summary:A Rebours (Against the Grain) (1884), was a break from Naturalism for the French writer, and became the ultimate example of 'decadent' literature. It features a single character, the aesthete Des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive antihero. It gained further notoriety as an exhibit during the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, during which the prosecutor referred to the novel as a "sodomitical" book. [via]
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Arthur Pober, Scott McKowenISBN 1402725027 (1-4027-2502-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:A newly illustrated version of the childrens classic by the acclaimed artist Michael Foremantwo-time winner of the Kate Greenaway Award and many others. The art brings the real Alice into the wonderland she inspired.[via]
One of the most beloved childrens stories of all time now has new and magical illustrations, based on the child who inspired the tale. Artist Michael Foreman studied Charles Lutwidge Dodsons (Lewis Carroll) original photographs of the real Alice before embarking on this project. The result is a bold, mischievous, and very real character that is surprisingly modern. As Foreman notes, young Alice Liddell looked ready to break out of the Victorian photograph and run free. This painted Alice seems that way, too, wearing her simple pale striped dress, white stockings, and brown button boots. Other characters in the book have their basis in real people, too: Old Father William resembles Alices father, Henry Liddell, and the young man is Lewis Carroll himself. And there is a real contrast between Alices normal world, shown in sepia, and the bright, brilliant colors of the wonderland she discovers.
Michael Foreman was born in the seaside town of Pakefield, England, and received his M.A. from the Royal College of Art. He is a two-time winner of the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award, and has also received the Smarties Book Prize, The Kurt Maschler Award, the Childrens Book Award, the Bologna Book Prize and the Francis Williams Illustration Award.More editions of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland:
The Bird Is a Ravenby Benjamin Lebert, Peter ConstantineISBN 1400078067 (1-4000-7806-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Chronicle of a Death Foretoldby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 140003471X (1-4000-3471-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold'Book summary:A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister.
Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderersis put on trial. [via]More editions of Chronicle of a Death Foretold:
Companyby Max BarryISBN 1400079373 (1-4000-7937-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Cronica De Una Muerte Anunciada / Chronicle Of A Death Foretoldby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 1400034957 (1-4000-3495-7)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Sin embargo, si todos sabían que se iba a cometer un asesinato, ¿por qué nadie trató de impedirlo? Cuanto más se sabe de este asunto, menos se comprende, y cuando la historia al fin se precipita a su inesperada conclusión, una sociedad entera no sólo un par de asesinos está siendo enjuiciada. [via]More editions of Cronica De Una Muerte Anunciada / Chronicle Of A Death Foretold:
Eating Corn Through a Picket Fence: A Levittown Veteran's Storyby Helen HarveyISBN 141340264X (1-4134-0264-X)
Softcover, Xlibris Corporation
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El General En Su Laberinto / The General In His Labyrinthby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 1400034965 (1-4000-3496-5)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El General En Su Laberinto / The General In His Labyrinth'Book summary:El general Simón Bolívar, El Libertador de los países de América del Sur, da, por última vez, un nostálgico viaje por el río Magdalena en el que vuelve a visitar ciudades en sus orillas donde revive sus triumfos, sus pasiones y las traiciones de toda una vida. Poseedor de un gran encanto personal, prodigiosamente afortunado en amores, en la guerra y en la política, todavía baila con tanto entusiasmo y habilidad que los que lo ven no pueden creer lo enfermo que está. Apasionado por los recuerdos del poder que tuvo, y de su sueño de unidad continental que nunca logró realizar, Bolívar es un ejemplo conmovedor de cuánto puede ganarse y perderse en una vida. [via]
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The Elusive Pimpernelby Emma OrczyISBN 1406835862 (1-4068-3586-2)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Faceless Killersby Henning Mankell, Steven T. MurrayISBN 1400031575 (1-4000-3157-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas HardyISBN 1404362983 (1-4043-6298-3)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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Fine Balanceby Rohinton MistryISBN 140003065X (1-4000-3065-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fine Balance'Book summary:With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state. [via]
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For the Term of His Natural Lifeby Marcus ClarkeISBN 1404302565 (1-4043-0256-5)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continisby William Weaver, Giorgio Bassani, Tim ParksISBN 1400044227 (1-4000-4422-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'Book summary:Giorgio Bassani's masterwork has Vittorio de Sica's 1971 film adaptation to thank for its dual success and obscurity. Not enough people know that this tale of a middle-class Jewish youth's obsession with the far more aristocratic Micol Finzi-Contini stems from a novel, not a novelization. Bassani's doom- and tomb-ridden examination of one-sided love is far more complex--about individuals' inability to contend with personal and political annihilation. Events call for heroism, yet it seems "downright absurd that now, all of a sudden, exceptional behavior was demanded of us." The narrator writes in retrospect, 13 years after World War II's end, and reveals the Finzi-Continis' 1943 deportation to Germany right from the start: "Who could say if they found any sort of burial at all?"
As Fascist racial laws go from strength to strength, the family, which had long isolated itself from the other inhabitants of Ferrara, opens its walled grounds and tennis court to other young Jews and even returns to the local temple. Unfortunately, the situation encourages the narrator's dream that Micol will return his love, and she is forced into cruel honesty. "She looked into my eyes, and her gaze entered me, straight, sure, hard: with the limpid inexorability of a sword."
The author has re-created a tragic era in which even nobility could not outrun events, let alone admit they needed to. (For a nonfiction account of the fates of five Italian Jewish families under fascism, see Alexander Stille's Benevolence and Betrayal.) Bassani's elision of historical and personal agony is furthermore superbly translated by William Weaver. All is foretold in the novel's Manzonian epigraph, "The heart, to be sure, always has something to say about what is to come, to him who heeds it. But what does the heart know? Only a little of what has already happened." [via]
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The General in His Labyrinthby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith GrossmanISBN 1400034701 (1-4000-3470-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The General in His Labyrinth'Book summary:General Simon Bolivar, the Liberator of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he still dances with such enthusiasm and skill that his witnesses cannot believe he is ill. Aflame with memories of the power that he commanded and the dream of continental unity that eluded him, he is a moving exemplar of how much can be wonand lostin a life. [via]
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The General in His Labyrinthby Gabriel Marquez Garcia, Edith GrossmanISBN 1400043336 (1-4000-4333-6)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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Gabriel García Márquezs most political novel is the tragic story of General Simón Bolívar, the man who tried to unite a continent.
Bolívar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered heroes of the western hemisphere; in García Márquezs brilliant reimagining he is magnificently flawed as well. The novel follows Bolívar as he takes his final journey in 1830 down the Magdalena River toward the sea, revisiting the scenes of his former glory and lamenting his lost dream of an alliance of American nations. Forced from power, dogged by assassins, and prematurely aged and wasted by a fatal illness, the General is still a remarkably vital and mercurial man. He seems to remain alive by the sheer force of will that led him to so many victories in the battlefields and love affairs of his past. As he wanders in the labyrinth of his failing powersand still-powerful memorieshe defies his impending death until the last.
The General in His Labyrinth is an unforgettable portrait of a visionary from one of the greatest writers of our time. [via]More editions of The General in His Labyrinth:
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Germinalby Emile ZolaISBN 1406790184 (1-4067-9018-4)
Softcover, Read Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Germinal'Book summary:Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George FrazerISBN 1404304789 (1-4043-0478-9)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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Growth of the Soilby Knut HamsunISBN 1414290152 (1-4142-9015-2)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Growth of the Soil'Book summary:Translated from the Norwegian by W.W. WORSTER [via]
Heroes : Saviors, Traitors, and Supermen: A History of Hero Worshipby Lucy Hughes-HallettISBN 1400043999 (1-4000-4399-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Hill of Dreamsby Arthur MachenISBN 1414256787 (1-4142-5678-7)
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A History of Romeby Marcel Le Glay, Jean-Louis Voisin, Yann Le Bohec, David Cherry, David G. Kyle, Antonia NevillISBN 140511083X (1-4051-1083-X)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Rome'Book summary:Spanning over 1,300 years, this popular history of Rome has now been revised to include a new survey of the sources for Roman history, updated material on the formation of Rome, and extended coverage of Roman imperialism.
- New edition of this popular history of Rome.
- Spans 1,300 years of history in a single volume.
- Broad in scope covers political, social, economic, religious and cultural history.
- Material on the formation of Rome has been updated to take account of the most recent research.
- Coverage of Roman imperialism and the political world of the first century BC has been expanded
- A new section on Roman spectacles, including gladiatorial combat and chariot racing, has been inserted.
- A substantial survey of the sources for Roman history has been added.
The third edition is accompanied by a website available at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/historyofrome/ [via]
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The History Of Romeby Theodor MommsenISBN 1414273150 (1-4142-7315-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History Of Rome'Book summary:In preparing this new edition, I have incorporated all the additions and alterations which are introduced in the fourth edition of the German ;some of which, especially in the first volume, are of considerable importance, such as the fuller view given of the constitution and functions of the senate, the earlier paragraphs of the chapter on Religion, and the note on the history of the Greek alphabet at p. 281. I have also embraced the opportunity of correcting various errors of my own or of the printer, that had formerly escaped notice ;and I have subjected the translation particularly in the earlier portion to careful revision, so as to make the rendering more accurate and consistent, and in not a few instances, I trust, more idiomatic. Glasgow College, October, 1868. In the ffth edition of the first volume, which Dr. Mommsen has recently sent to me, he has made no change of any moment, except the insertion of a note on the newly discovered inscription of iE miliusP aulhis, which will be found at the end of Vol. II. of theE nglish edition.
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Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org [via]More editions of The History Of Rome:
History of the Later Roman Empire, Ad 284-641: The Transformation of the Ancient Worldby Stephen MitchellISBN 1405108568 (1-4051-0856-8)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundlingby Henry FieldingISBN 1404351701 (1-4043-5170-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling'Book summary:1907. Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. At the center of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose actions were as shocking in their day as we might find them funny today. Tom Jones, a young man of questionable birth, is raised as the son of a member of the minor gentry, only to fall prey to the cruelties of his malicious cousin and the wiles of the neighboring heiress. Readers have reveled in the classic adventures of the randy and rambunctious Tom Jones for generations now and will most likely continue to do so for years to come. [via]
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House of Sand and Fogby Dubus, Andre, IIIISBN 1400077354 (1-4000-7735-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of Sand and Fog'Book summary:Andre Dubus III wastes no time in capturing the dark side of the immigrant experience in America at the end of the 20th century. House of Sand and Fog opens with a highway crew composed of several nationalities picking up litter on a hot California summer day. Massoud Amir Behrani, a former colonel in the Iranian military under the Shah, reflects on his job-search efforts since arriving in the U.S. four years before: "I have spent hundreds of dollars copying my credentials; I have worn my French suits and my Italian shoes to hand-deliver my qualifications; I have waited and then called back after the correct waiting time; but there is nothing." The father of two, Behrani has spent most of the money he brought with him from Iran on an apartment and furnishings that are too expensive, desperately trying to keep up appearances in order to enhance his daughter's chances of making a good marriage. Now the daughter is married, and on impulse he sinks his remaining funds into a house he buys at auction, thus unwittingly putting himself and his family on a trajectory to disaster. The house, it seems, once belonged to Kathy Nicolo, a self-destructive alcoholic who wants it back. What starts out as a legal tussle soon escalates into a personal confrontation--with dire results.
Dubus tells his tragic tale from the viewpoints of the two main adversaries, Behrani and Kathy. To both of them, the house represents something more than just a place to live. For the colonel, it is a foot in the door of the American dream; for Kathy, a reminder of a kinder, gentler past. In prose that is simple yet evocative, House of Sand and Fog builds to its inevitable denouement, one that is painfully dark but unfailingly honest. --Alix Wilber [via]
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 1404366342 (1-4043-6634-2)
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The House of the Spiritsby Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin, Christopher Hitchens, Madga BoginISBN 1400043182 (1-4000-4318-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Chilean writer Isabel Allendes classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American countrys turbulent history.
In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants. The Trueba familys passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds. The House of the Spirits not only brings another nations history thrillingly to life, but also makes its peoples joys and anguishes wholly our own. [via]More editions of The House of the Spirits:
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In the Company of Cheerful Ladiesby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 140007570X (1-4000-7570-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Company of Cheerful Ladies'Book summary:THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 6
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswanas premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, and good humornot to mention help from her loyal assistant, Grace Makutsi, and the occasional cup of tea.
Precious is busier than usual at the detective agency when she discovers an intruder in her house on Zebra Driveand perhaps even more baffling--a pumpkin on her porch. Her associate, Mma Makutsi, also has a full plate. She's taken up dance lessons, only to be partnered with a man with two left feet. And at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, where Mr J.L.B. Matekoni is already overburdened with work, one of his apprentices has run off with a wealthy older woman. But what finally rattles Mma Ramotswes normally unshakable composure is a visitor who forces her to confront a difficult secret from her past. [via]More editions of In the Company of Cheerful Ladies:
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Indecisionby Benjamin KunkelISBN 1400063450 (1-4000-6345-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Indecision'Book summary:Benjamin Kunkels brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our timea pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse.
Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but hes having a midlife crisis. Of course, living a dissolute, dorm like existence in a tiny apartment and working in tech support at the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer are not especially conducive to wisdom.
And a few sessions of psychoanalysis conducted by his sister have distinctly failed to help with his biggest problem: a chronic inability to make up his mind.
Encouraged by one of his roommates to try an experimental pharmaceutical meant to banish indecision, Dwight jumps at the chance (not without some meditation on the hazards of jumping) and swallows the first fateful pill. And when all at once he is pfired from Pfizer and invited to a rendezvous in exotic Ecuador with the girl of his long-ago prep-school dreams, he finds himself on the brink of a new life.
The troublewell, one of the troublesis that Dwight cant decide if the pills are working. Deep in the jungles of the Amazon, in the foreign country of a changed outlook, his would-be romantic escape becomes a hilarious journey into unbidden responsibility and unwelcome knowledge.
How to affirm happiness without living in constant denial of the ways of the world? How to commit, and to what? At once funny and poignant, gentle and outrageous, finely intelligent and proudly silly, Indecision rings with a voice of great energy and originality, while its deeper inquiries reflect the concerns and style of a generation.
"Heres what Indecision gives you: sustained social and intellectual comedy, possibly the last but certainly the funniest Superfluous Man in modern literature, drive-by satire, plus detailed set-piece send-ups of Young Adult colgrads at work and play. The mockery is
humane. The tale of Dwight Wilmerding is told with style and care. And theres a surprising ending. Benjamin Kunkel, welcome!"
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Jazzby Toni MorrisonISBN 1400076218 (1-4000-7621-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz'Book summary:Jazz embraces the vibrant music and lifestyle of 1920s Harlem, an urban renaissance of opportunity and glamour. A novel of murder, hard lives, and broken dreams, Jazz sways with a lyric medley of voices and human consciousness.
Narrated by the author, Toni Morrison, this is an intense but gratifying three hours of tape. Background jazz music enhances the feel of '20s Harlem, a city that attracted thousands of black southerners hoping for better lives. Joe Trace and his wife Violet were part of this migration; madly in love with each other and the idea of this urban mecca, they "traindanced into the city." But like so many of the marriages in Morrison's novels, this union crumbles, and the dreams for a better life fade away. Joe finds another, a love "that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going."
In Jazz, time ebbs and flows like human memory, traversing between recollections of the past and expectations for the future; likewise, jazz music is often wild and chaotic. Here Morrison once again exemplifies herself as both a superb writer and a masterful storyteller. [via]
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Last Days of Pompeiiby E.G. Bulwer-LyttonISBN 1404314806 (1-4043-1480-6)
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 1404315608 (1-4043-1560-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last of the Mohicans'Book summary:This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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The Lemon Table: Storiesby Julian BarnesISBN 1400076501 (1-4000-7650-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lemon Table: Stories'Book summary:In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Julian Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old.
The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of their livessome with bitter regret, others with resignation, and others still with defiant rage. Their circumstances are just as varied as their responses. In 19th-century Sweden, three brief conversations provide the basis for a lifetime of longing. In todays England, a retired army major heads into the city for his regimental dinnerand his annual appointment with a professional lady named Babs. Somewhere nearby, a devoted wife calms (or perhaps torments) her ailing husband by reading him recipes.
In stories brimming with life and our desire to hang on to it one way or another, Barnes proves himself by turns wise, funny, clever, and profounda writer of astonishing powers of empathy and invention. [via]More editions of The Lemon Table: Stories:
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandyby Laurence SterneISBN 1404314709 (1-4043-1470-9)
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The Lion of Flandersby Hendrik ConscienceISBN 1410103927 (1-4101-0392-7)
Softcover, Fredonia Books
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Little Womenby Lucy Corvino, Deanna McFaddenISBN 1402712367 (1-4027-1236-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price.[via]
Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, set during the Civil War, has always captivated even the most reluctant readers. Little girls, especially, love following the adventures of the four March sisters--Meg, Beth, Amy, and most of all, the tomboy Jo--as they experience the joys and disappointments, tragedies and triumphs, of growing up. This simpler version captures all the charm and warmth of the original.More editions of Little Women:
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Little Womenby Scott McKowenISBN 1402714580 (1-4027-1458-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.[via]
Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.
The beautiful Meg, artistic tomboy Jo, doomed Beth, and selfish Amy: since the publication of Little Women in 1869, these four sisters have become Americas most beloved literary siblings. Louisa May Alcotts rich and realistic portrait has inspired three movies and stirred the emotions of countless young girls. Set in New England during the Civil War, the novel follows the adventures of the March sisters as they struggle to pursue their dreams.More editions of Little Women:
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Living to Tell the Taleby Edith Grossman, Gabriel Marquez GarciaISBN 140003454X (1-4000-3454-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living to Tell the Tale'Book summary:Living to Tell the Tale, the first of three projected volumes in the memoirs of Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Márquez, narrates what, on the surface appears to be the portrait of the young artist through the mid-1950s. But the masterful work, which draws on the craft of the author's best fiction, has a depth and richness that transcends straightforward autobiography.
Echoing Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, Márquez uses his memoir as justification for telling an artful story that challenges notions of authoritative record or chronology. Time is porous in Márquez's Colombia, flowing back and forth among the mythic moments of his personal history to accommodate his fascination for place. While recalling a trip he took as an adult to his grandparents' house in Aracataca, he veers suddenly back to childhood and his earliest infant memories in that house. Nearly one hundred pages have passed before he returns effortlessly to the pivotal moment on the trip when he declares to himself and family: "I'm going to be a writer... Nothing but a writer.'
Similarly, Márquez toys with the boundaries of truth and fiction throughout his book. He acknowledges that his memory is often faulty, especially with regards to his crucial, formative years with his grandparents. And his explorations of key moments in his life show that, despite his vivid mental snapshots, the events were often temporally impossible. Further, he colors his tale with recollections of ghostly presences and occult events that pass without a wink into his narrative, alongside the documented accounts of his early successes as a poet and singer or details of his first published writings.
With its play on time and truth, memory and storytelling, Living to Tell the Tale's literary form acts as early evidence for Márquez's inevitable calling as a writer, and the language of Edith Grossman's translation, which frequently skirts the boundaries of poetry, mirrors Márquez's effort. While he meanders on his picaresque artistic journey--distracted by trysts with a married woman, the tumult of Colombian politics, and the raw energy of the journalist's life--he ends this first volume with the tantalizing promise of the literary career about to explode, and the impossible prospect of even greater riches for his readers. --Patrick OKelley [via]
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Lost Illusions: Part I, Two Poetsby Honore De Balzac, George Saintsbury, Ellen MarriageISBN 1406506583 (1-4065-0658-3)
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Madam Secretaryby William Woodward, Madeleine AlbrightISBN 1401359620 (1-4013-5962-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madam Secretary'Book summary:In this outspoken and much-praised memoir, the highest-ranking woman in American history shares her remarkable story and provides an insider's view of world affairs during a period of unprecedented turbulence. A national bestseller on its first publication in 2003, Madam Secretary combines warm humor with profound insights and personal testament with fascinating additions to the historical record. [via]
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The Magic Skinby Honore De BalzacISBN 140435381X (1-4043-5381-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic Skin'Book summary:Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities." [via]
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The Master of Ballantraeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 1404317864 (1-4043-1786-4)
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Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes / Memories of My Melancholy Whoresby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 1400095808 (1-4000-9580-8)
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Memories Of My Melancholy Whoresby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith GrossmanISBN 1400095948 (1-4000-9594-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memories Of My Melancholy Whores'Book summary:"The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin." So begins Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and it becomes even more unlikely as the novel unfolds. This slim volume contains the story of the sad life of an unnamed, only slightly talented Colombian journalist and teacher, never married, never in love, living in the crumbling family manse. He calls Rosa Cabarcas, madame of the city's most successful brothel, to seek her assistance. Rosa tells him his wish is impossible--and then calls right back to say that she has found the perfect girl.
The protagonist says of himself: "I have never gone to bed with a woman I didn't pay ... by the time I was fifty there were 514 women with whom I had been at least once ... My public life, on the other hand, was lacking in interest: both parents dead, a bachelor without a future, a mediocre journalist ... and a favorite of caricaturists because of my exemplary ugliness."
The girl is 14 and works all day in a factory attaching buttons in order to provide for her family. Rosa gives her a combination of bromide and valerian to drink to calm her nerves, and when the prospective lover arrives, she is sound asleep. Now the story really begins. The nonagenarian is not a sex-starved adventurer; he is a tender voyeur. Throughout his 90th year, he continues to meet the girl and watch her sleep. He says, "This was something new for me. I was ignorant of the arts of seduction and had always chosen my brides for a night at random, more for their price than their charms, and we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark, so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were ... That night I discovered the improbably pleasure of contemplating the body of a sleeping woman without the urgencies of desire or the obstacles of modesty."
Márquez's style never falters throughout this recounting of his life and his exploration of love, found at an unexpected time and place. The erstwhile lover is still capable of being surprised--and fulfilled. After an absence of ten years, it is a treat to have another parable from the master. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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The Metamorphosisby Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper, Kerstin HasenpuschISBN 1400052998 (1-4000-5299-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphosis'Book summary:Acclaimed graphic artist Peter Kuper presents a brilliant, darkly comic reimagining of Kafkas classic tale of family, alienation, and a giant bug. Kupers electric drawingswhich merge American cartooning with German expressionismbring Kafkas prose to vivid life, reviving the original storys humor and poignancy in a way that will surprise and delight readers of Kafka and graphic novels alike.
A brilliant illustrated adaptation of Franz Kafkas famous story. Its a real pleasure to read and one in which everyone will recognize the existential drama and uncanny wit of the original text."Susan Bernstein, associate professor of comparative literature and German studies, Brown University [via]More editions of The Metamorphosis:
A Miscellany of Menby Gilbert K. ChestertonISBN 1406803006 (1-4068-0300-6)
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 1404319360 (1-4043-1936-0)
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My Life as a Fakeby Peter CareyISBN 1400030889 (1-4000-3088-9)
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My Name Is Asher Levby Chaim PotokISBN 1400031044 (1-4000-3104-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Name Is Asher Lev'Book summary:Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy.In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher's passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other subject only to the imagination. Asher Lev grows up in a cloistered Hasidic community in postwar Brooklyn, a world suffused by ritual and revolving around a charismatic Rebbe. But in time his gift threatens to estrange him from that world and the parents he adores. As it follows his struggle, My Name Is Asher Lev becomes a luminous portrait of the artist, by turns heartbreaking and exultant, a modern classic. [via]
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Never Let Me Goby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 1400078776 (1-4000-7877-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Never Let Me Go'Book summary:From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathynow thirty-one years oldlived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.
And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbedeven comfortedby their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailshams nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhoodand about their lives now.
A tale of deceptive simplicity, Never Let Me Go slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonanceand takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguros finest work. [via]More editions of Never Let Me Go:
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Paradiseby A. L. KennedyISBN 1400079454 (1-4000-7945-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise'Book summary:From one of Britains most acclaimed novelists, a comic but terrifying love story about two alcoholics alternately battling and embracing their addiction, and each other.
Everything in Hannah Luckrafts life is tinted amber: her dreary job selling cardboard boxes; her strained relations with a beloved younger brother, who is about to give up on her; and especially her incipient relationship with Robert, a man who understands what it is to drink. They become constant companions, and she drinks up his tender affection with the same soul-ravaged thirst she brings to her search for paradisethe paradise of self-annihilation, a reprieve from the howling loneliness and difficulty of waking life. Together and then alone, she and Robert spiral through the beauty and depravity of a love affair with alcohol and with each other. From Scotland to Montreal, and onward, Hannah travels beyond her limits, beyond herself, in search of the ultimate altered state, the place where she can be happy: her paradise.
No one writes with greater intelligence about the human predicament, about the comic dilemmas of consciousness and the mind divided against itself, and no young writer brings a greater gift of language to our concurrent pursuits of debasement and ascension. Paradise is a novel of dark extremes, rich in emotionKennedys most gripping and immediate work of fiction yet. [via] -
Pninby Vladimir Nabokov, David LodgeISBN 1400041988 (1-4000-4198-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pnin'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
One of the best-loved of Nabokovs novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator.
Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the readers deepest protective instinct.
Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity. [via]More editions of Pnin:
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Prepby Curtis SittenfeldISBN 1400062314 (1-4000-6231-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prep'Book summary:Curtis Sittenfeld's poignant and occassionally angst-ridden debut novel Prep is the story of Lee Fiora, a South Bend, Indiana, teenager who wins a scholarship to the prestigious Ault school, an East Coast institution where "money was everywhere on campus, but it was usually invisible." As we follow Lee through boarding school, we witness firsthand the triumphs and tragedies that shape our heroine's coming-of-age. Yet while Sittenfeld may be a skilled storyteller, her real gift lies in her ability to expertly give voice to what is often described as the most alienating period in a young person's life: high school.
True to its genre, Prep is filled with boarding school stereotypes--from the alienated gay student to the picture perfect blond girl; the achingly earnest first-year English teacher and the dreamy star basketball player who never mentions the fact that he's Jewish. Lee's status as an outsider is further affirmed after her parents drive 18 hours in their beat-up Datsun to attend Parent's Weekend, where most of the kids "got trashed and ended up skinny-dipping in the indoor pool" at their parents' fancy hotel. Yet even as the weekend deteriorates into disaster and ends with a heartbreaking slap across the face, Sittenfeld never blames or excuses anyone; rather, she simply incorporates the experience into Lee's sense of self. ("How was I supposed to understand, when I applied at the age of thirteen, that you have your whole life to leave your family?")
By the time Lee graduates from Ault, some readers may tire of her constant worrying and self-doubting obsessions. However, every time we feel close to giving up on her, Sittenfeld reels us back in and makes us root for Lee. In doing so, perhaps we are rooting for every high school student who's ever wanted nothing more than to belong. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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Ps, I Love Youby Cecelia AhernISBN 140130916X (1-4013-0916-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ps, I Love You'Book summary:Cecelia Ahern's debut novel, PS, I Love You, follows the engaging, witty, and occasionally sappy reawakening of Holly, a young Irish widow who must put her life back together after she loses her husband Gerry to a brain tumor. Ahern, the twentysomething daughter of Ireland's prime minister, has discovered a clever and original twist to the Moving On After Death concept made famous by novelists and screenwriters alike--Gerry has left Holly a series of letters designed to help her face the year ahead and carry on with her life. As the novel takes readers through the seasons (and through Gerry's monthly directives), we watch as Holly finds a new job, takes a holiday to Spain with her girlfriends, and sorts through her beloved husband's belongings. Accompanying Holly throughout the healing process is a cast of friends and family members who add as much to the novel's success as Holly's own tale of survival. In fact, it is these supporting character's mini-dramas that make PS, I Love You more than just another superficial tearjerker with the obligatory episode at a karaoke bar. Ahern shows real talent for capturing the essence of an interaction between friends and foes alike; even if Holly's circle of friends does resemble the gang from Bridget Jones a bit too neatly to ignore (her best friend is even called Sharon).
While her style can be at times repetitive and her delivery is occasionally amateurish, Ahern deserves credit for a spirited first effort. If PS, I Love You is any indication of this author's talent, readers have much to look forward to as Ahern matures as a novelist and a storyteller. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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Saturdayby Ian McEwanISBN 1400076196 (1-4000-7619-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saturday'Book summary:In his triumphant new novel, Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement, follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish. Henry Perowne-a neurosurgeon, urbane, privileged, deeply in love with his wife and grown-up children-plans to play a game of squash, visit his elderly mother, and cook dinner for his family. But after a minor traffic accident leads to an unsettling confrontation, Perowne must set aside his plans and summon a strength greater than he knew he had in order to preserve the life that is dear to him. [via]
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The Secret Historyby Donna TarttISBN 1400031702 (1-4000-3170-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret History'Book summary:Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement-both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill. [via]
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozenby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1402718926 (1-4027-1892-6)
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby George EliotISBN 141420972X (1-4142-0972-X)
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Sons and Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1404330909 (1-4043-3090-9)
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hydeby Kathleen Olmstead, Jamel AkibISBN 1402726678 (1-4027-2667-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde'Book summary:[via]A single personbut with two personalities: one thats noble and kind and another thats pure, repulsive evil. Robert Louis Stevensons engrossing masterpiece about the dual nature of manand a good doctor whose thirst for knowledge has tragic consequencesserves up all the suspense and satisfying chills one expects from the best horror and science fiction.
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Strange Tales From Make-do Studioby Pu Song-LingISBN 1410219046 (1-4102-1904-6)
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Such Is Lifeby Joseph FurphyISBN 1414224427 (1-4142-2442-7)
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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigaliby Gil Courtemanche, Patricia ClaxtonISBN 1400034345 (1-4000-3434-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali'Book summary:Look, for people whore going to be dead soon, were not doing too badly.
The novel of the year is what La Presse called this extraordinary book, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. A first work of fiction by one of French Canadas most admired journalists, Gil Courtemanche, it was first published in Quebec in 2000, spent more than a year on bestseller lists and won the Prix des Libraires, the booksellers award for outstanding book of the year. Rights were sold to publishers in over twenty countries in Europe and around the world. This humanist story of an unlikely love affair set against a holocaust has become an internationally acclaimed phenomenon, worthy of comparison with the work of Graham Greene and Albert Camus.
The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel, Kigali, in the early 1990s, draws a regular crowd of assorted aid workers, strutting Rwandan officials, Belgian businessmen, French paratroops and Canadian expats. Among them is Bernard Valcourt, a documentary filmmaker from Quebec, on a mission to set up a television station in the capital. Valcourt, who for two decades has earned his living from wars and famines, lingers around the pool drinking warm beer and watching football; but most of all, watching Gentille, a beautiful young waitress, who is a Hutu but often mistaken for a Tutsi because of her familys strange history.
The trouble coming stems from a long conflict, instigated in colonial times by Whites who treated Tutsis as superior to Hutus. The Hutu government is now openly encouraging violence against Tutsis. The physical traits of the Tutsis make them easy prey, but they are not the only ones in danger. Too many people are already dying in Rwanda daily: of AIDS, of malaria, and increasingly at roadblocks at the hands of drunken militia, or pulled from their homes. The hotel staff and prostitutes sense trouble and death drawing closer as they continue providing drinks and meals and sex.
The story of this developing catastrophe is revealed through the lives of a handful of Rwandans who befriend Valcourt. They confide in him because he listens, and because his interviews offer them a chance to try to change the way things are by telling the world. Their candour and warmth begin to make his heart glow. He meets people like Méthode, who knows a bloodbath is brewing and would rather die of AIDS in the comfort of a hotel room than by a machete. Threatened, frightened, sick, they dont want to talk and act like theyre dying. Poor as they are, they want to have some moments of pleasure and celebrate life.
As Kigali life continues in its resourcefulness and persistence, Valcourt is falling in love with Rwanda, and with Gentille, who loves him because he sees her as no-one has seen her before. Even as the worst horrors begin, as friends are raped and murdered, he starts to feel a strange peace in this land of a thousand hills, though he repudiates the outside world for its failure to intervene. Because Gentille is thought to be Tutsi, her life is in danger. Still, no-one can believe that the extremists will go too far, that brothers and sisters will kill brothers and sisters, and that 800,000 civilians will be massacred.
A hard-hitting chronicle of an overlooked chapter of recent history, told with skill and compassion, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is also a celebration of living in the moment, of the integrity of friendship and the courage of everyday heroes. Harrowing, unsettling, challenging, but beautiful and moving, it is a book that cannot leave the reader untouched; as a Quill & Quire reviewer said, it is full of real people that demand to be remembered. [via]More editions of A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali:
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Swann's Wayby Marcel ProustISBN 1414243677 (1-4142-4367-7)
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Swann's Way Of Remembrance Of Things Pastby Marcel ProustISBN 1414243669 (1-4142-4366-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way Of Remembrance Of Things Past'Book summary:Swann's Way begins with one of the most famous incidents in all of literature -- the taste of a madeleine and tea that reawakens the elusive childhood memories of the narrator, Marcel. An image of Charles Swann, a wealthy and fashionable neighbor, precipitates Marcel's recollection of Swann's marriage to Odette de Crecy, a beautiful, manipulative woman far beneath him in social standing, and of the jealousy, aroused by Odette's many affairs with both men and women, that eventually destroys Swarm. Marcel recounts, too, his own initiation into the aesthetic pleasures and sexual intrigues of belle-epoque Paris. The themes introduced in Swann's Way -- the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories -- form the threads that unite all the volumes of Remembrance of Things Past. [via]
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 1404336362 (1-4043-3636-2)
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Thousand Acresby Jane SmileyISBN 1400033837 (1-4000-3383-7)
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre DumasISBN 141421166X (1-4142-1166-X)
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Time Machineby H. G. WellsISBN 1414211287 (1-4142-1128-7)
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia WoolfISBN 140679239X (1-4067-9239-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To the Lighthouse'Book summary:Mrs Woolf first became known to the wider reading public with the publication of A Room of One's Own in 1929. But the year before that, her novel To the Lighthouse had been awarded the Northcliffe and Femina Vie Heureuse prizes. It has since been translated into many languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Virginia Woolf's technique was all her own. In the words of Naomi Royde-Smith: 'Mrs Woolf is illuminated, analytic, and radiant with a personal quality that increases with every book she writes, and has in To the Lighthouse reached a pitch unsounded by any English writer of her school.' [via]
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Under Western Eyesby Joseph ConradISBN 1414242697 (1-4142-4269-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under Western Eyes'Book summary:Espionage novel. Conrad's other novel of this same kind is "The Secret Agent." According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Conrad (1857 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English languagea fact that is remarkable, as he did not learn to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a strong Polish accent). He became a naturalized British subject in 1886. Conrad is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, V.S. Naipaul, Italo Calvino and J. M. Coetzee." [via]
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The Understudyby David NichollsISBN 1400061822 (1-4000-6182-2)
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Vivir Para Contarla / Live to Tellby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 1400034531 (1-4000-3453-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vivir Para Contarla / Live to Tell'Book summary:Pocos libros han despertado tanta expectación en todo el mundo como la autobiografía de Gabriel García Márquez, autor de Cien años de soledad y ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura. En sus memorias, García Márquez nos habla de su infancia y primera juventud en Colombia, ofreciéndonos una crónica de los años que modelaron su imaginación y que, andando el tiempo, cristalizarían en algunos de los relatos y novelas más importantes del siglo XX. En sus páginas el lector se encontrará con episodios como el conmovedor retrato de sus abuelos, con quienes se crió en su aldea natal de Aracataca, o la descripción del asesinato de un candidato presidencial en Bogotá, del que fue testigo ocular. García Márquez da cuenta de las gentes, los lugares y los sucesos que le sirvieron de acicate como periodista y como narrador. Desbordante de humor y sabiduría, el autor se adentra por igual en los misterios de la escritura y de la vida, brindándonos un relato apasionante de la búsqueda de sus orígenes que despierta ecos de los mejores momentos de la prosa de su ficción. Además de un escrito de extraordinario mérito literario, Vivir para contarla constituye una guía indispensable para entender el resto de su obra. [via]
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The War of the Worlds: Level 5, Penguin Readersby Orson WellsISBN 1405806389 (1-4058-0638-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds: Level 5, Penguin Readers'Book summary:A metal object falls from the sky over the south of England, and strange creatures come out. But they are not human - they are fighting machines from Mars. When another object falls, and then another, people start to worry. Are the Martians trying to take over the Earth? [via]
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War Trashby Ha JinISBN 1400075793 (1-4000-7579-3)
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When the Sleeper Wakesby H. G. WellsISBN 1404339256 (1-4043-3925-6)
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The Winter Queen: A Novelby Boris Akunin, Andrew BromfieldISBN 1400060494 (1-4000-6049-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Winter Queen: A Novel'Book summary:Moscow, May 1876: What would cause a talented young student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public in the Alexander Gardens? Decadence and boredom, most likely, is what the commander of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Police thinks, but still he finds it curious enough to send the newest member of the division, Erast Fandorin, a young man of irresistible charm, to the Alexander Gardens precinct for more information.
Fandorin is not satisfied with the conclusion that this is an open-and-shut case, nor with the preliminary detective work the precinct has doneand for good reason: The bizarre and tragic suicide is soon connected to a clear case of murder, witnessed firsthand by Fandorin. There are many unresolved questions. Why, for instance, have both victims left their fortunes to an orphanage run by the English Lady Astair? And who is the beautiful A.B., whose signed photograph is found in the apparent suicides apartment? Relying on his keen intuition, the eager sleuth plunges into an investigation that leads him across Europe, landing him at the deadly center of a terrorist conspiracy of worldwide proportions.
In this thrilling mystery that brings nineteenth-century Russia to vivid life, Akunin has created one of the most eagerly anticipated novels in years. [via]More editions of The Winter Queen: A Novel:
Zoliby Colum McCannISBN 1400063728 (1-4000-6372-8)
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El Club de la Buena Estrellaby Amy TanISBN 1400002370 (1-4000-0237-0)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Club de la Buena Estrella'Book summary:En 1949, cuatro mujeres chinas emigradas a San Francisco se reunen regularmente para comer dim sum,jugar al mah-jong y hablar. Unidas por sentimientos de perdida y esperanza, se hacen llamar El Club de laBuena Estrella. Amy Tan explora la conexion entre las protagonistas y sus hijas, ya nacidas en Estados Unidos, un mundo totalmente distinto al suyo. [via]
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Dune: La Casa Corrinoby Brian Herbert, Kevin J. AndersonISBN 1400059429 (1-4000-5942-9)
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Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes / Memories of My Melancholy Whoresby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 140004443X (1-4000-4443-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes / Memories of My Melancholy Whores'Book summary:El año de mis noventa años quise regalarme una noche de amor con una adolescente virgen.
Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa años a lo grande, dándose un regalo que le hará sentir que todavía está vivo: una jovencita. En el prostíbulo de un pintoresco pueblo, ve a la jovencita de espaldas, completamente desnuda, y su vida cambia radicalmente. Ahora que la conoce se encuentra a punto de morir, pero no por viejo, sino de amor.
Así, Memoria de mis putas tristes cuenta la vida de este anciano solitario lleno de manas. Por él sabremos cómo en todas sus aventuras sexuales (que no fueron pocas) siempre dio a cambio algo de dinero, pero nunca imagino que de ese modo encontrara el verdadero amor.
Esta nueva novela es una conmovedora reflexión que celebra las alegrías del enamoramiento y contempla las desventuras de la vejez, escrito en el estilo incomparable de Gabriel García Márquez.
In my ninetieth year, I decided to give myself the gift of a night of love with a young virgin.
An elderly journalist decides to celebrate his 90 years in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him feel like hes still alive: a virgin. In the brothel of a picturesque town, he sees the young woman from the back, completely naked, and his life changes radically. Now that he meets her he finds himself close to dying, not of old age, but rather of love.
Memoria de mis putas tristes is the story of this eccentric, solitary old man, a narrative of his sexual adventures (of which there were many), for which he always paid, never imagining that this would be the way he would discover true love.
This new novel, written in Gabriel García Márquezs incomparable style movingly, contemplates the misfortunes of old age and celebrates the joys of being in love. [via]More editions of Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes / Memories of My Melancholy Whores:
Oscuridad Exteriorby Cormac McCarthyISBN 1400002931 (1-4000-0293-1)
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Vivir Para Contarla / Live to Tellby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 1400041066 (1-4000-4106-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vivir Para Contarla / Live to Tell'Book summary:Vivir para contarla is the extraordinary story of Gabriel Garcia Marquezs early life. It is a recreation of his formative years, from his birth in Colombia in 1927, through his evocative childhood to the time he became a journalist. The Nobel laureate offers us the memory of his childhood and adolescence, the years that shaped his creative imagination, and, with time, would become the basis of the fiction that makes up much of twentieth-century literature in Spanish and indeed the world.
In these pages Garcia Marquez reveals the echoes of peoples and stories that we meet in One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, No One Writes to the Colonel, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Vivir para contarla is a guide to readers of his entire work, an indispensable companion to many unforgettable passages which, with the reading of this memoir acquire a new perspective.
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Vivir para contarla es, probablemente, el libro más esperado de la década, compendio y recreación de un tiempo crucial en la vida de Gabriel García Márquez. En este apasionante relato, el premio Nobel colombiano ofrece la memoria de sus años de infancia y juventud, aquellos en los que se fundaría el imaginario que, con el tiempo, daría lugar a algunos de los relatos y novelas fundamentales en la literatura en lengua española del siglo XX.
Estamos ante la novela de una vida a través de cuyas páginas García Márquez va descubriendo ecos de personajes e historias que han poblado obras como Cien años de soledad, El amor en los tiempos del cólera, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba o Crónica de una muerte anunciada y convierten Vivir para contarla en una guía de lectura para toda su obra, en acompañante imprescindible para iluminar pasajes inolvidables que, tras la lectura de estas memorias, adquieren una nueva perspectiva. [via]More editions of Vivir Para Contarla / Live to Tell:
Volkswagen Bluesby Jacques PuolinISBN 1400084660 (1-4000-8466-0)
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Die Aufzeichnungen Des Malte Laurids Briggeby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 1406808679 (1-4068-0867-9)
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Der Sternenseherby Jamal MahjoubISBN 1400039177 (1-4000-3917-7)
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The Magic Skin/la Peau De Chagrinby Honori De Balzac, Ellen MarriageISBN 1406506605 (1-4065-0660-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic Skin/la Peau De Chagrin'Book summary:By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comédie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories. Balzac entered the mainstream with The Magic Skin (La Peau de Chagrin) (1831), a fable-like tale delineating the excesses and vanities of contemporary life. [via]
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