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Add and Romance: Finding Fulfillment in Love, Sex, & Relationshipsby Jonathan Scott HalverstadtISBN 087833209X (0-87833-209-X)
Softcover, Taylor Pub
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 088103004X (0-88103-004-X)
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Ali and Ninoby Kurban Said, Jenia GramanISBN 0879516682 (0-87951-668-2)
Hardcover, Overlook Press, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ali and Nino'Book summary:As is true of all great literature, Kurban Said's Ali and Nino has timeless appeal. Set in the years surrounding the Russian Revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union, Said's tale of an Azerbaijani Muslim boy in love with a Georgian Christian girl is both tender and disturbingly prescient. The novel, first published in 1937, begins as Ali Khan Shirvanshir is finishing his last year of high school:
We were a very mixed lot, we forty schoolboys who were having a Geography lesson one hot afternoon in the Imperial Russian Humanistic High School of Baku, Transcaucasia: thirty Mohammedans, four Armenians, two Poles, three Sectarians, and one Russian.
The multi-ethnic Baku, it seems, stands at a crossroads between West and East, and, as the smug Russian professor informs his pupils, it is their responsibility to decide "whether our town should belong to progressive Europe or to reactionary Asia." For Ali Khan Shirvanshir there is no doubt--he belongs to the East; his beloved Nino, however, is "a Christian, who eats with knife and fork, has laughing eyes and wears filmy silk stockings."Far away, to the West, there are rumblings of war. When the Russian Revolution begins, Ali Khan chooses not to fight; the Czar's fate is of little interest to a Muslim living in far away Transcaucasia. But the young man senses that another, greater danger is gathering on his country's borders--an "invisible hand" trying to force his world into new ways, the ways of the West. He assures his worried father that, like his ancestors, he is willing to die in battle, but at a time of his own choosing. In the meantime, he courts Nino and eventually marries her in the teeth of scandal and opposition. This union of East and West is at times a difficult one as Ali Khan finds himself lured further and further into European ways. When Soviet troops invade, however, he must choose once and for all whether to stand for Asia or Europe.
One of the many pleasures Ali and Nino offers is Kurban Said's lovingly rendered evocations of Muslim culture. Another is his compassionate portrait of the protagonists' difficult but profound relationship. Modern readers coming to this novel in the wake of the fall of Communism, outbreaks of sectarian violence, and the rise of religious fundamentalism will find disturbing parallels in its cautionary chronicle of cultures colliding and a way of life brutally destroyed. In the end, however, it is not historical accuracy, but rather the charm and passion of the title characters that lifts Said's only novel into literature's highest ranks. --Alix Wilber [via]
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All for the Love of Cassieby Joyce Proctor BeamanISBN 0877160465 (0-87716-046-5)
Hardcover, Moore Pub Co
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The All of Itby Jeannette HaienISBN 087923623X (0-87923-623-X)
Hardcover, David R Godine Pub
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And Then There Were Noneby Agatha ChristieISBN 0881032565 (0-88103-256-5)
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Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0881030074 (0-88103-007-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Ask the Dustby John Fante, Charles BukowskiISBN 0876854447 (0-87685-444-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ask the Dust'Book summary:This book is another sterling recommendation from the Saltzman workshop. The under-appreciated Fante's second outing details the adventures of his alterego, Arturo Bandini, as the struggling young writer tackles Los Angeles in the late 1930s. And take it from personal experience, tackling L.A. as a destitute young scribe some decades later isn't much different. In other words: Fante gets it right and sets it down in his Chianti-steak-and-potatoes style, with prose both simple and rich. This Black Sparrow edition has a bonus: Charles Bukowski's great preface on how Fante stacks up against writers that were at once more famous--and far more anemic. [via]
August Follyby Angela ThirkellISBN 0881844217 (0-88184-421-7)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Baby Houstonby June ArnoldISBN 0877191247 (0-87719-124-7)
Softcover, Texas Monthly Pr
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Beauty and the Beastby Cooper EdensISBN 0881381152 (0-88138-115-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Beauty and the Beastby Diane Goode, Leprince De BeaumontISBN 0878881190 (0-87888-119-0)
Hardcover, Bradbury Press
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Before Lunchby Angela ThirkellISBN 0881843970 (0-88184-397-0)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Bhowani Junctionby John MastersISBN 0881843105 (0-88184-310-5)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Bimbos Of The Death Sunby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0880384557 (0-88038-455-7)
Softcover, Wizards of the Coast
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The Blue Estuariesby Louise BoganISBN 0880011920 (0-88001-192-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Blue Italianby Rita CiresiISBN 0880015152 (0-88001-515-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Brave New Worldby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0881030104 (0-88103-010-4)
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Carrieby Stephen KingISBN 0881037249 (0-88103-724-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carrie'Book summary:Why read Carrie? Stephen King himself has said that he finds his early work "raw," and Brian De Palma's movie was so successful that we feel as if we have read the novel even if we never have. The simple answer is that this is a very scary story, one that works as well, if not better, on the page as it does on the screen. Carrie White, bullied by cruel teenagers at school and her religious nut of a mother at home, gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, powers that will eventually be turned on her tormentors. King has a way of getting under the skin of his readers by creating an utterly believable world that throbs with menace before finally exploding. He builds the tension in this early work by piecing together extracts from newspaper reports, journals, and scientific papers, as well as more traditional first- and third-person narrative in order to reveal what lurks beneath the surface of Chamberlain, Maine.
News item from the Westover (ME) weekly Enterprise, August 19, 1966: "Rain of Stones Reported: It was reliably reported by several persons that a rain of stones fell from a clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the town of Chamberlain on August 17th."
Although the supernatural pyrotechnics are handled with King's customary aplomb, it is the carefully drawn portrait of the little horrors of small towns, high schools, and adolescent sexuality that give this novel its power and assures its place in the King canon. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of Carrie:
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Changing Heaven: A Novelby Jane UrquhartISBN 087923895X (0-87923-895-X)
Hardcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Changing Heaven: A Novel'Book summary:Dedicated to Emily Bronte, this is a story of high winds and ballooning, of ghosts who talk about the vital details of life, of women who love too strongly and men who, stifled by passion, are nevertheless enthralled. The author has also written "The Whirlpool" and "False Shuffles". [via]
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Chernowitz!by Fran ArrickISBN 0878881905 (0-87888-190-5)
Hardcover, Bradbury Press
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0881011606 (0-88101-160-6)
Softcover, Unicorn Pub House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]
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Hardcover, Unicorn Pub. House - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0881010871 (0-88101-087-1)
Hardcover, Unicorn Pub House - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0881011606 (0-88101-160-6)
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- A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0880881259 (0-88088-125-9)
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0877549486 (0-87754-948-6)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contrmporary Poetsby Daniel HalpernISBN 0880013737 (0-88001-373-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contrmporary Poets'Book summary:A new telling of Dante's Inferno, this translation is the most fluent, grippingly readable version of the famous poem yet, andwith all the consummate technical skill that is the hallmark of Sean O'Brien's own poetrymanages the near-impossible task of preserving the subtle power and lyric nuance of the Italian original, while seeking out an entirely natural English music. No other version has so vividly expressed the horror, cruelty, beauty, and outrageous imaginative flight of Dante's original vision.
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Dante's Infernoby Dante Alighieri, James Merrill, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Daniel HalpernISBN 0880012919 (0-88001-291-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Inferno'Book summary:Product Details Hardcover: 199 pages Publisher: Ecco Press (July 20, 1998) Language: English ISBN-10: 0880012919 ISBN-13: 978-0880012911 Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds Average Customer Review: Be the first to review this item Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,890,212 in Books [via]
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Death in Aprilby Andrew M. GreeleyISBN 0881843830 (0-88184-383-0)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Diamondsby Shari MacDonaldISBN 0880709820 (0-88070-982-0)
Softcover, WaterBrook Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diamonds'Book summary:After Casey Foster inherits a minor league team, she quickly discovers that baseball isn't all fun and games. Before long, Casey is juggling crazy promotional events, major league expectations, and the egos of players like Tucker Boyd, a pitcher who wants nothing more than to return to the major leagues, until Casey catches his eye...and his heart. [via]
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Dragonsingerby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0881038156 (0-88103-815-6)
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Dragonsongby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0881038164 (0-88103-816-4)
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Dune: La Batalla De Corrinby Frank HerbertISBN 0881036366 (0-88103-636-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune: La Batalla De Corrin'Book summary:This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.
The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.
Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Eugenie Grandetby Honore De BalzacISBN 0877207461 (0-87720-746-1)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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Firestarterby Stephen KingISBN 0881037257 (0-88103-725-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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French Three Yearsby Gail Stein, Eli BlumeISBN 0877200416 (0-87720-041-6)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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Ham on Ryeby Charles BukowskiISBN 0876855575 (0-87685-557-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ham on Rye'Book summary:Charles Bukowski's fourth novel, Ham on Rye, is the semi-autobiographical story of the early years of his alter ego Henry Chinaski. It is a finely written and honest account of the painful childhood of a boy marked out from his peers. Regularly beaten by his father, Chinaski is shown growing through his difficult and violent adolescence (struck with the worst case of acne his doctors have ever seen) through to the first jobs he can't and won't hold down. In this moving story of growing up Bukowski disciplines his muscular, concentrated writing and creates a novel that distils his poetry into the finest full-length piece of prose that he ever wrote. Bukowski is often good but in Ham on Rye he's great.
Sadly, best known as the alcoholic inspiration for the film Barfly (an experience he reflected on in his book Hollywood), it is as a poet, rather than a drunk, that Bukowski should be best remembered. His bitter, caustic, direct, humane, damaged poetry reflects a life dominated by poverty and booze. His poetry stretches over many, many volumes but Bukowski also wrote great novels: all of them have many faults but the first four books he wrote shine for similar reasons. Post Office and Factotum both dissect, quite brilliantly, the life of an angry, poor man forced to do mindless jobs, pushed around and considered mindless by the fools who force him to do them. Women, as Roddy Doyle points out in his short introduction, continues the themes but focuses on the numerous women who share his hero's bed and bottle. --Mark Thwaite [via]
A Handbook of Costumeby Janet ArnoldISBN 0875992315 (0-87599-231-5)
Softcover, S G Phillips
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High Risingby Angela ThirkellISBN 0881844632 (0-88184-463-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Hunters of the Red Moonby Marion Zimmer Bradley, Paul Edwin ZimmerISBN 0879979682 (0-87997-968-2)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Instead of a Letterby Diana AthillISBN 0881840467 (0-88184-046-7)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Irish Fairy and Folk Talesby W. B. YeatsISBN 0880290730 (0-88029-073-0)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books, Incorporated
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Julius Caesar With Readers Guideby William ShakespeareISBN 0877208026 (0-87720-802-6)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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Kingof the Khyber Riflesby Talbot MundyISBN 0881841692 (0-88184-169-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kingof the Khyber Rifles'Book summary:Talbot Mundy ranks with Rudyard Kipling and Rider Haggard as a master of exotic adventure. Our young hero Athelston King of the India Secret Service, is dispatched to the Khyber Pass to prevent what threatens to become a Holy War. He is assigned a partner, Yasmini the Wonderful, who holds the mysteries of the mountains in the hollow of her hand...." [via]
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Last of the Big-Time Spendersby Jack WeylandISBN 0875790313 (0-87579-031-3)
Hardcover, Deseret Bk Co
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Lord Byron's Don Juanby Lord ByronISBN 0877547335 (0-87754-733-5)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Lord of the Fliesby William GoldingISBN 0881030317 (0-88103-031-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Flies'Book summary:Lord of the Flies , William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Love Lettersby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0877885281 (0-87788-528-1)
Hardcover, WaterBrook Press
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Love Poems from the Japaneseby Kenneth Rexroth, Sam HamillISBN 087773982X (0-87773-982-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 0881030325 (0-88103-032-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Macbeth With Readers Guideby William ShakespeareISBN 0877208034 (0-87720-803-4)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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The Male Chauvinist's Cookbookby B. Cory KilvertISBN 0876911580 (0-87691-158-0)
Hardcover, Winchester Press
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Marianneby George SandISBN 0881844772 (0-88184-477-2)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Medea the Sorceressby Dinae WakoskiISBN 0876858094 (0-87685-809-4)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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Nightrunners of Bengalby John MastersISBN 0881843555 (0-88184-355-5)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Oliver Twist ; A Tale of Two Cities ; Great Expectations ; A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0880299290 (0-88029-929-0)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble
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The Passions of Medora Graemeby Elsie LeeISBN 0877950474 (0-87795-047-4)
Hardcover, Arbor House
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Pastoraby Joanna BarnesISBN 0877951705 (0-87795-170-5)
Hardcover, Arbor House Pub Co
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The Path to the Nest of Spidersby Italo CalvinoISBN 0880013273 (0-88001-327-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Path to the Spiders' Nestby Italo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun, M. L. McLaughlinISBN 0880016213 (0-88001-621-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Path to the Spiders' Nest'Book summary:Italo Calvino's debut novel, updated to include changes that the author made for the definitive Italian edition, previously censored passages, and his newly translated, unabridged preface. "The Path to the Spiders' Nests," written when Calvino was twenty-three and first published in 1947--tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian Coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at the lowlife bar where he amuses the grownups. After a mishap with a Nazi soldier, Pin becomes involved with a band of partisans. Calvino's portrayal of this band, seen through the eyes of the child, is not only a revealing commentary on the Italian resistance, but also an insightful coming-of-age story. A bold, adventurous novel, The Path to the Spiders' Nests is animated by the formidable imagination that made Italo Calvino one of the most respected writers of our time. [via]
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Peerless Flatsby Esther FreudISBN 0880015926 (0-88001-592-6)
Softcover, Ecco Pr
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Plant Systematics: A Phylogenic Approachby Walter S. JuddISBN 0878934049 (0-87893-404-9)
Hardcover, Sinauer Associates Inc
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Pomfret Towersby Angela ThirkellISBN 0881842761 (0-88184-276-1)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Portraitsby Cynthia FreemanISBN 0877952191 (0-87795-219-1)
Hardcover, Arbor House Pub Co
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, N.H. ThompsonISBN 0879753447 (0-87975-344-7)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:A worthy translation of an important document in political philosophy! What separates this translation from others available is de Alvarez's attempt to be literal in order to preserve the remarkable precision of Machiavelli's speech. This distinctively accurate translation has been described as "careful, unusual, and challenging," permitting the reader to appreciate the manner and substance of Machiavelli's argument. States the translator in his twenty-four page introduction: "Among the reasons why this translation attempts to preserve the difficulties and ambiguities of the text is that Machiavelli is providing a puzzle that must be carefully and patiently worked through, and only those so willing to work will see what it is he has 'with great diligence long reflected upon and examined.' In other words, Machiavelli intends that the reader be caught up in the web of his discourse, and he does this by fascinating his readers with difficulties." [via]
Raintree Countyby Ross LockridgeISBN 0877956065 (0-87795-606-5)
Softcover, Arbor House Pub Co
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Reckless Appetitesby Jacqueline DevalISBN 0880014121 (0-88001-412-1)
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Rights of Manby Thomas PaineISBN 087975379X (0-87975-379-X)
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, Barbara ChitourasISBN 0880704381 (0-88070-438-1)
Softcover, Multnomah Pub
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Romance and Barbed Wire : Cowgirls in Loveby Gladiola MontanaISBN 0879059583 (0-87905-958-3)
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzgeraldISBN 0880884819 (0-88088-481-9)
Hardcover, Peter Pauper Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'Book summary:The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a collection of poems authored by Persian astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam. The poems in this title are written into quatrains, Rubaiyat being arabic for root of four, as in four line verses of which quatrains are made up of. This popular edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the edition by Edward Fitzgerald, who translated this work in the late 19th century. [via]
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Salems Lotby Stephen KingISBN 0881037206 (0-88103-720-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salems Lot'Book summary:Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.
Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Scapegoatby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 0881844098 (0-88184-409-8)
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The Sheltering Skyby Paul BowlesISBN 0880015829 (0-88001-582-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sheltering Sky'Book summary:American novelist and short-story writer, poet, translator, classical music composer, and filmscorer Paul Bowles has lived as an expatriate for more than 40 years in the North African nation of Morocco, a country that reaches into the vast and inhospitable Sahara Desert. The desert is itself a character in The Sheltering Sky, the most famous of Bowles' books, which is about three young Americans of the postwar generation who go on a walkabout into Northern Africa's own arid heart of darkness. In the process, the veneer of their lives is peeled back under the author's psychological inquiry. [via]
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The Shiningby Stephen KingISBN 0881037265 (0-88103-726-5)
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Siddharthaby Hermann HesseISBN 0881036390 (0-88103-639-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Siddhartha'Book summary:In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gautama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. Born the son of a Brahman, Siddhartha was blessed in appearance, intelligence, and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual gains until he was just like all the other "child people," dragged around by his desires. Like Hesse's other creations of struggling young men, Siddhartha has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism. His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating nor reciting, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader's ear down to hear answers from the river. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Song of the Highlandsby Sharon GillenwaterISBN 0880709464 (0-88070-946-4)
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Sonnets from the Portugueseby Elizabeth B. BrowningISBN 0880880600 (0-88088-060-0)
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Sonnets from the Portugueseby Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Julia Markus, William S. PetersonISBN 0880014512 (0-88001-451-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'Book summary:"I love your verse with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett . . . and I love you too," Robert Browning wrote in January 1845, thus initiating the most celebrated literary correspondence of the nineteenth century. During their courtship, Elizabeth privately wrote a series of forty-four sonnets to Robert, which she disclosed to no one -- not even to him -- until three years after their marriage. The poems were later collected in a volume entitled Sonnets form the Portuguese. In this elegant new edition, the poems are accompanied by relevant excerpts from Elizabeth and Robert's love letters. With an introduction by biographer Julia Markus, this volume will be a valued resource for the poetry scholar and those wanting wise and lyrical guidance in matters of love. [via]
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Sonnets from the Portugueseby William S. Peterson, Julia Markus, Elizabeth B. BrowningISBN 0880015101 (0-88001-510-1)
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The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Editionby Stephen KingISBN 0881037222 (0-88103-722-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition'Book summary:In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Stillest Dayby Josephine HartISBN 0879517271 (0-87951-727-1)
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Stormqueenby Marion Zimmer Bradley, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0879973811 (0-87997-381-1)
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Titus Aloneby Mervyn Laurence PeakeISBN 0879511451 (0-87951-145-1)
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Titus Aloneby Mervyn Peake, Anthony Burgess, Quentin CrispISBN 0879514272 (0-87951-427-2)
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William ShakespeareISBN 0881030295 (0-88103-029-5)
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Whispersby Robin Jones GunnISBN 0880707550 (0-88070-755-0)
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The Winged Bullby Dion FortuneISBN 0877285012 (0-87728-501-2)
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Witch Woodby John BuchanISBN 0881844969 (0-88184-496-9)
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