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All-American Comfort Food: Recipes for the Great-Tasting Food Everyone Lovesby Emily Anderson, Elizabeth AndersonISBN 1888952326 (1-888952-32-6)
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Andy Catlett Early Travelsby Wendell BerryISBN 1593761368 (1-59376-136-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andy Catlett Early Travels'Book summary:Berry opens this latest installment of the Port William series with young Andy Catlett preparing to visit a place he'd been to many times before, though this would be an adventure he will take very seriously. Nine years old, Andy embarks on the trip by bus, alone for the first time. He decides it will be a rite of passage and his first step into manhood. Sometimes a handful at home, Andy was a good boy when visiting his Grandparents' houses, and he looked forward to the little spoiling certain to come his way.Set during the Christmas of 1943, young Andy's experiences on this solitary voyage become pivot points of the entire epic of Port William. The old ways are in retreat, modern life is crowding everything in its path, and as Andy looks back many years later, he hears the stories again of his neighbors and friends.A beautiful short novel, this book is a perfect introduction into the whole world of Port William and will be a new chapter for those already familiar with this rich unfolding story.[via]More editions of Andy Catlett Early Travels:
The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarksby Donald HaringtonISBN 1592640737 (1-59264-073-7)
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Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life My Bondage and My Freedom Life and Timesby Frederick DouglassISBN 1883011302 (1-883011-30-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experimentby James H. JonesISBN 0029166764 (0-02-916676-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment'Book summary:From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatment. It purpose was to trace the spontaneous evolution of the disease in order to learn how syphilis affected black subjects. The men were not told they had syphilis; they were not warned about what the disease might do to them; and, with the exception of a smattering of medication during the first few months, they were not given health care. Instead of the powerful drugs they required, they were given aspirin for their aches and pains. Health officials systematically deceived the men into believing they were patients in a government study of "bad blood", a catch-all phrase black sharecroppers used to describe a host of illnesses. At the end of this 40 year deathwatch, more than 100 men had died from syphilis or related complications. "Bad Blood" provides compelling answers to the question of how such a tragedy could have been allowed to occur. Tracing the evolution of medical ethics and the nature of decision making in bureaucracies, Jones attempted to show that the Tuskegee Study was not, in fact, an aberration, but a logical outgrowth of race relations and medical practice in the United States. Now, in this revised edition of "Bad Blood", Jones traces the tragic consequences of the Tuskegee Study over the last decade. A new introduction explains why the Tuskegee Study has become a symbol of black oppression and a metaphor for medical neglect, inspiring a prize-winning play, a Nova special, and a motion picture. A new concluding chapter shows how the black community's wide-spread anger and distrust caused by the Tuskegee Study has hampered efforts by health officials to combat AIDS in the black community. "Bad Blood" was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was one of the "N.Y. Times" 12 best books of the year. [via]
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A Bad Hair Dayby Sophie DunbarISBN 1890768081 (1-890768-08-1)
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Behind Eclair's Doorsby Sophie DunbarISBN 1890768103 (1-890768-10-3)
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Bleachersby John GrishamISBN 1844134571 (1-84413-457-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bleachers'Book summary:With Bleachers John Grisham departs again from the legal thriller to experiment with a character-driven tale of reunion, broken high school dreams, and missed chances. While the book falls short of the compelling storytelling that has made Grisham a bestselling author, it is nonetheless a diverting novella that succeeds as light fiction.
The story centers on the impending death of the Messina Spartans' football coach Eddie Rake. One of the most victorious coaches in high school football history, Rake is a man both loved and feared by his players and by a town that relishes his 13 state titles. The hero of the novel is Neely Crenshaw, a former Rake All-American whose NFL prospects ended abruptly after a cheap shot to the knees. Neely has returned home for the first time in years to join a nightly vigil for Rake at the Messina stadium. Having wandered through life with little focus since his college days, he struggles to reconcile his conflicted feelings towards his former coach, and he assays to rekindle love in the ex-girlfriend he abandoned long ago. For Messina and for Neely, the homecoming offers the prospect of building a life after Rake.
Physically a narrow book, Bleachers is a modest fiction in many respects. The emotional scope is akin to that of a short story, with a single-minded focus on explorations of nostalgia and regret. The dialogue, especially that of Neely's friend Paul Curry, is sometimes wooden as characters recall Messina history in paragraphs that were perhaps better left to the narrator. But Grisham has otherwise written a well-made, entertaining--if a bit sentimental--story. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearmentsby Celia RivenbarkISBN 1928556221 (1-928556-22-1)
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Building on a Vision: A Fifty Year Retrospective of Uab's Academic Health Centerby Virginia Elizabeth FisherISBN 1881548384 (1-881548-38-4)
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Butterfly Weedby Donald HaringtonISBN 1592640974 (1-59264-097-4)
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Camara De Gas / the Chamberby John Grisham, Enric TrempsISBN 8408039342 (84-08-03934-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Camara De Gas / the Chamber'Book summary:Adam Hall lleva apenas un año en uno de los bufetes más prestigiosos de Chicago cuando se presta voluntario para la defensa del caso más difícil que se haya visto en el ramo. Su futuro cliente no quiere ni a Adam ni a su bufete. Es un racista declarado e impenitente, con un historial repleto de violencia. Se encuentra en el corredor de la muerte por el asesinato de dos niños judíos, en un atentado horrible que tuvo lugar en 1967. ¿Por qué iba a querer a un abogado novato como Adam para que le defienda? ¿Y por qué querrá Adam tan desesperadamente llevar este caso? La respuesta está en el pasado, en un secreto que lleva veinte años enterrado en la sinrazón de otra época. «Irresistible... Poderosa... Cámara de gas hará que los lectores reconsideren a conciencia la pena de muerte.» USA Today [via]
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The Cherry Pitby Donald HaringtonISBN 1592641784 (1-59264-178-4)
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The Choiring of the Treesby Donald HaringtonISBN 1592641032 (1-59264-103-2)
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Cockroaches of Stay Moreby Donald HaringtonISBN 1592640729 (1-59264-072-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cockroaches of Stay More'Book summary:With this wonderfully irreverent comic novel, Harington leaves off chronicling the human inhabitants of the Arkansas Ozark town of Stay More and turns his attention to its insect world. In depicting the cockroach community, who perambulate on gitalongs, apprehend their environment through sniff whips and commit unwitting malapropisms about the mysterious world of Man (and Woman), Harington unleashes a sprightly, antic imagination. [via]
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The Color of Waterby James McBrideISBN 159448192X (1-59448-192-X)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color of Water'Book summary:[via]Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.
The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos" with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. "Mommy," a fiercely protective woman with "dark eyes full of pep and fire," herded her brood to Manhattan's free cultural events, sent them off on buses to the best (and mainly Jewish) schools, demanded good grades, and commanded respect. As a young man, McBride saw his mother as a source of embarrassment, worry, and confusionand reached thirty before he began to discover the truth about her early life and long-buried pain.
In The Color of Water, McBride retraces his mother's footsteps and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her remarkable story. The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in Poland on April 1, 1921. Fleeing pogroms, her family emigrated to America and ultimately settled in Suffolk, Virginia, a small town where anti-Semitism and racial tensions ran high. With candor and immediacy, Ruth describes her parents' loveless marriage; her fragile, handicapped mother; her cruel, sexually-abusive father; and the rest of the family and life she abandoned.
At seventeen, after fleeing Virginia and settling in New York City, Ruth married a black minister and founded the all- black New Brown Memorial Baptist Church in her Red Hook living room. "God is the color of water," Ruth McBride taught her children, firmly convinced that life's blessings and life's values transcend race. Twice widowed, and continually confronting overwhelming adversity and racism, Ruth's determination, drive and discipline saw her dozen children through collegeand most through graduate school. At age 65, she herself received a degree in social work from Temple University.
Interspersed throughout his mother's compelling narrative, McBride shares candid recollections of his own experiences as a mixed-race child of poverty, his flirtations with drugs and violence, and his eventual self- realization and professional success. The Color of Water touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.
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From ruined Louisiana plantations to bustling, cosmopolitan New Orleans, Kate Chopin wrote with unflinching honesty about propriety and its strictures, the illusions of love and the realities of marriage, and the persistence of a past scarred by slavery and war. Her stories of fiercely independent women, culminating in her masterpiece The Awakening (1899), challenged contemporary mores as much by their sensuousness as their politics, and today seem decades ahead of their time. Now, The Library of America collects all of Chopin's novels and stories as never before in one authoritative volume.
The explosive novel At Fault (1890) centers on a love triangle between a strong-willed young widow, a stiff St. Louis businessman, and the man's alcoholic wife. In the story collections Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), Chopin transforms the local color sketch into taut, perfectly calibrated tales of post-Civil War bayou culture. In The Awakening, the now-classic novel that scandalized many of her contemporaries and effectively ended her writing career, Chopin tells the story of a restless, unsatisfied woman who embarks on a quixotic search for fulfillment.
The volume also includes all the stories not collected by Chopin, including those meant for "A Vocation and a Voice," a projected volume that her publisher canceled in 1900, and three stories that were found in 1992 in a long-lost cache of Chopin's papers. [via]
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tome 1 de la saga chronique des vampires; [via]
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This second volume in the authoritative edition of John Steinbeck (with "Novels and Stories, 1932-1937") features the Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece "The Grapes of Wrath" in a newly corrected text based on the author's manuscript, typescript, and galleys. "The Harvest Gypsies is Steinbeck's investigative report on migrant farm workers which laid the groundwork for the novel. "The Long Valley" displays his brilliance with short stories, including such classics as "The Chrysanthemums," "Flight," and "The Red Pony." "The Log from the Sea of Cortez," about a marine biological expedition, combines science, philosophy, and adventure. [via]
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By the author of "The Snow Leopard", "The Tree Where Man Was Born" and "On the River Styx", this novel is based around the circumstances of the death of a man in Florida 1910, who had terrorized his community in the Florida Everglades. It explores whether it was murder, exorcism or sacrifice. [via]
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A story inspired by Grisham's own childhood in rural Arkansas. Seven-year old Luke Chandler lives in a little house in the cotton fields which his family farms. When the cotton is ready for harvesting, the family hires workers to help. Luke sees and hears things which are keeps to himself and unfortunately these secrets threaten the crop.
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"&¿Quién piensa en abogados? Grisham no, desde luego, al menos en esta cautivadora novela. Aquí, en lugar de abogados, encontramos sufridos granjeros, jornaleros miserables y un niño que va creciendo a lo largo de un libro tan rico en incidentes y conflictos como es habitual en Grisham, y más dotado de matices que nunca... Unos personajes inolvidables, un estilo más limpio y poderoso que en ninguna novela anterior, y una impresionante evocación de un tiempo y de un lugar que convierten esta historia en un clásico americano."& Publisher&s Weekly [via]
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A passionate literary innovator, eloquent in language and uncompromising in his social observation and his pursuit of emotional truth, James Agee (1909- 1955) excelled as novelist, critic, journalist, and screenwriter. In his brief, often turbulent life, he left enduring evidence of his unwavering intensity, observant eye, and sometimes savage wit.
This volume collects his fiction along with his extraordinary experiment in what might be called prophetic journalism, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), a collaboration with photographer Walker Evans that began as an assignment from Fortune magazine to report on the lives of Alabama sharecroppers, and that expanded into a vast and unique mix of reporting, poetic meditation, and anguished self-revelation that Agee described as "an effort in human actuality." A 64-page photo insert reproduces Evans's now iconic photographs from the expanded 1960 edition.
A Death in the Family, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that he worked on for over a decade and that was published posthumously in 1957, re-creates in stunningly evocative prose Agee's childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the upheaval his family experienced after his father's death in a car accident when Agee was six years old. A whole world, with its sensory vividness and social constraints, comes to life in this child's-eye view of a few catastrophic days. It is presented here for the first time in a text with corrections based on Agee's manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
This volume also includes The Morning Watch (1951), an autobiographical novella that reflects Agee's deep involvement with religious questions, and three short stories including the remarkable allegory "A Mother's Tale." [via]
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Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is on a streak of bad luck. First, her coworker is murdered. Then, she's face-to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins. But they saved her life, so when one of the bloodsuckers asks for a favor, Sookie complies - and soon she's in Dallas using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. [via]
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This Eloquent and dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its author was twenty eight years old & had just achieved his freedom. Although it was not uncommon during the era of American slavery for articulate Blacks who escaped to have their experiences published, Narraive Of The Life & Times Of Frederick Douglass is unique among these slave narratives because of Douglass's eloquent power of expression. [via]
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Born a slave in 1818 on a plantation in Maryland, Douglass taught himself to read and write. In 1845, seven years after escaping to the North, he published Narrative, the first of three autobiographies. This book calmly but dramatically recounts the horrors and the accomplishments of his early yearsthe daily, casual brutality of the white masters; his painful efforts to educate himself; his decision to find freedom or die; and his harrowing but successful escape.
An astonishing orator and a skillful writer, Douglass became a newspaper editor, a political activist, and an eloquent spokesperson for the civil rights of African Americans. He lived through the Civil War, the end of slavery, and the beginning of segregation. He was celebrated internationally as the leading black intellectual of his day, and his story still resonates in ours.
Robert OMeally is Zora Neale Hurston Professor of Literature at Columbia University and the Director of Columbia Universitys Center for Jazz Studies. He wrote the introduction and notes to the Barnes & Noble classics edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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William Faulkner's fictional chronicle of Yoknapatawpha County culminates in his three last novels, rich with the history and lore of the domain where he set most of his novels and stories. "The Town" (1957), the second novel of the Snopes trilogy that began with "The Hamlet," charts the rise of the rapacious Flem Snopes and his extravagantly extended family as they connive their way into power. In "The Mansion" (1959), the trilogy's conclusion, a wronged relative finally destroys Flem and his dynasty. Faulkner's last novel, "The Reivers: A Reminiscence" (1962), distinctly mellower and more elegiac than his earlier work, is a picaresque adventure that evokes the world of childhood with a final burst of comic energy. "Novels 1957-1962," like previous volumes in The Library of America's edition of the complete novels of William Faulkner, has been newly edited by textual scholar Noel Polk to establish an authoritative text, that features a chronology and notes by Fau! lkner's biographer Joseph Blotner. [via]
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From A. Philip Randolph's defiant call in 1941 for African Americans to march on Washington to Alice Walker in 1973, Reporting Civil Rights presents firsthand accounts of the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation in the United States. This two-volume anthology brings together for the first time nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports and book excerpts, and features 151 writers, including James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, David Halberstam, Lillian Smith, Gordon Parks, Murray Kempton, Ted Poston, Claude Sitton, and Anne Moody. A newly researched chronology of the movement, a 32-page insert of rare journalist photographs, and original biographical profiles are included in each volume
Roi Ottley and Sterling Brown record African American anger during World War II; Carl Rowan examines school segregation; Dan Wakefield and William Bradford Huie describe Emmett Till's savage murder; and Ted Poston provides a fascinating early portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. In the early 1960s, John Steinbeck witnesses the intense hatred of anti-integration protesters in New Orleans; Charlayne Hunter recounts the hostility she faced at the University of Georgia; Raymond Coffey records the determination of jailed children in Birmingham; Russell Baker and Michael Thelwell cover the March on Washington; John Hersey and Alice Lake witness fear and bravery in Mississippi, while James Baldwin and Norman Podhoretz explore northern race relations.
Singly or together, Reporting Civil Rights captures firsthand the impassioned struggle for freedom and equality that transformed America. [via]
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From A. Philip Randolph's defiant call in 1941 for African Americans to march on Washington to Alice Walker in 1973, Reporting Civil Rights presents firsthand accounts of the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation in the United States. This two-volume anthology brings together for the first time nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports and book excerpts, and features 151 writers, including James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, David Halberstam, Lillian Smith, Gordon Parks, Murray Kempton, Ted Poston, Claude Sitton, and Anne Moody. A newly researched chronology of the movement, a 32-page insert of rare journalist photographs, and original biographical profiles are included in each volume
Vivid reports by Robert Richardson and Bob Clark capture the nightmarish Watts and Detroit riots, while Paul Good records the growing schism in 1966 between King's nonviolence and Stokely Carmichael's "Black Power" advocacy. Joan Didion and Gilbert Moore cover the Black Panthers; Garry Wills and Pat Watters chronicle the traumatic aftermath of King's assassination and the failure of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign; Willie Morris and Marshall Frady assess the early 1970s South; Tom Wolfe caustically explores new forms of racial confrontation; and Richard Margolis depicts post-integration consciousness among African American college students.
Singly or together, Reporting Civil Rights captures firsthand the impassioned struggle for freedom and equality that transformed America. [via]
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Located in eastern Kentucky and home to 26,000 acres of untamed river, rock formations, historical sites, unusual vegetation and wildlife, the Gorge very nearly fell victim to a man-made lake thirty years ago. No place is to be learned like a textbook, Berry tells us, and so through revealing the Gorges corners and crevices, its ridges and rapids, his words not only implore us to know more but to venture there ourselves. Infused with his very personal perspective and enhanced by the startling photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, The Unforeseen Wilderness draws the reader in to celebrate an extraordinary natural beauty and to better understand what threatens it.
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Probably the most useful monograph on the head-right system in Virginia. It provides an insight into how this system of land conveyance shaped the Commonwealth. [via]
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Wendell Berry is absolutely unique in American letters: a poet, novelist, essayist, and man of the land whose pastoral vision presents a ringing indictment of modern materialist society. A World Lost is the latest in Berry's fictional recreations of the lost world of Port William, Kentucky, in the 1940s, and it tells the story of Uncle Andrew Catlett, a womanizer and roisterer whose death in a trivial argument is retold by his grown nephew, Andy. Berry is uninterested in stylistic leaps or postmodern bravura: he is interested in a profound, well-told tale of honor and memory and community. [via]
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El Alma Del Vampiro / Lost Soulsby Poppy Z. BriteISBN 848896627X (84-88966-27-X)
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LA Biblia Envenenada / The Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara Kingsolver, Damian AlouISBN 8484530256 (84-8453-025-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Biblia Envenenada / The Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:La autora des suroeste de Estados Unidos nos trae una novela de pasión, y de tragedia con un paisaje bello e inesperado. Una selección de Oprah para su club de lectores. Un bestseller de toda clase. [via]
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Camara De Gas / the Chamberby John GrishamISBN 8408014544 (84-08-01454-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Camara De Gas / the Chamber'Book summary:Adam Hall lleva apenas un año en uno de los bufetes más prestigiosos de Chicago cuando se presta voluntario para la defensa del caso más difícil que se haya visto en el ramo. Su futuro cliente no quiere ni a Adam ni a su bufete. Es un racista declarado e impenitente, con un historial repleto de violencia. Se encuentra en el corredor de la muerte por el asesinato de dos niños judíos, en un atentado horrible que tuvo lugar en 1967. ¿Por qué iba a querer a un abogado novato como Adam para que le defienda? ¿Y por qué querrá Adam tan desesperadamente llevar este caso? La respuesta está en el pasado, en un secreto que lleva veinte años enterrado en la sinrazón de otra época. «Irresistible... Poderosa... Cámara de gas hará que los lectores reconsideren a conciencia la pena de muerte.» USA Today [via]
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Entrevista Con El Vampiroby Anne Rice, Marcelo CovianISBN 8466616209 (84-666-1620-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Entrevista con el Vampiro'Book summary:The archetypal vampire myth is refreshed for a modern audience in this narrative of an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac and the charismatic and powerful vampire Lestat who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. In Louis's first-person confession to a skeptical boy, this novel transforms the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and human figure. The life of immortal Lestat, raised with a deep Catholic faith, provides a background for the novel's philosophical discussions of the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception.[via]La mitología del vampiro es reinventado para lectores del siglo 20 en esta historia de Louis Pointe du Lac, el dueño de una plantación en el Louisiana del siglo 18, y el vampiro poderoso y dinámico Lestat quien adopta a Louis como discípulo. El voz de Louis narra la novela, y este punto de vista trasforma el vampiro de un monstruo a una figura simpática, seductiva, y humana. La vida de inmortal Lestat, quien tiene profunda fe católica, provee una arena para discursos filosóficos de la natura del malo, la realidad de la muerte, y las limitaciones de la percepción humana.More editions of Entrevista Con El Vampiro:
Entrevista Con El Vampiro / Interview With The Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 8495501252 (84-95501-25-2)
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La Granja / a Painted Houseby John GrishamISBN 8466305920 (84-663-0592-0)
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"&¿Quién piensa en abogados? Grisham no, desde luego, al menos en esta cautivadora novela. Aquí, en lugar de abogados, encontramos sufridos granjeros, jornaleros miserables y un niño que va creciendo a lo largo de un libro tan rico en incidentes y conflictos como es habitual en Grisham, y más dotado de matices que nunca... Unos personajes inolvidables, un estilo más limpio y poderoso que en ninguna novela anterior, y una impresionante evocación de un tiempo y de un lugar que convierten esta historia en un clásico americano."& Publisher&s Weekly [via]
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Legitima Defensa / the Runaway Juryby John GrishamISBN 840804124X (84-08-04124-X)
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Las Manzanas De Oro / the Golden Applesby Eudora WeltyISBN 8437621127 (84-376-2112-7)
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Sangre sabia/ Knowledgeable Bloodby Flannery O'ConnorISBN 8437609704 (84-376-0970-4)
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Santuario / Sanctuaryby William FaulknerISBN 8420470023 (84-204-7002-3)
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El Ultimo Juradoby John GrishamISBN 8466614249 (84-666-1424-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Ultimo Jurado'Book summary:When a young mother is brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family in the small town of Clanton, Mississippi, 23 year-old college dropout Willie Traynor manages to save his nearly bankrupt newspaper by reporting all of the gruesome details. Danny Padgitt's trial comes to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatens revenge against the jurors if they convict him. Nine years after being sentenced to life by that same jury, Padgitt is released on parole, returns to Ford County, and the retribution begins. This tight legal thriller is also a portrait of a small town dealing with the effects of the Vietnam War, racial tensions, and political protest on the way of life they are struggling to preserve.[via]More editions of El Ultimo Jurado:
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El Ultimo Jurado / the Last Jurorby John Grisham, Maria Antonia MeniniISBN 8466618333 (84-666-1833-3)
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Las Uvas De La Ira/ the Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 8420676357 (84-206-7635-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Las Uvas De La Ira/ the Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:[via]Las uvas de la ira es un hito en la literatura norteamericana que explora el conflicto entre ricos y pobres, analiza la reacción feroz de un hombre contra la injusticia y el estoicismo de una mujer igualmente heróica, y refleja los horrores de la Gran Depresión. Aunque sigue la migración de miles personas del Dust Bowl, Las uvas de la ira se enfoca en la historia de una familia de Oklahoma, los Joads, echados de su hogar y forzados a viajar rumbo a esa Tierra Prometida que era por ese entoncesy que de algun modo sigue siendoCalifornia. De sus desventurasen un país dividido surge un drama sobre la dignidad humana, a un tiempo trágico y majestuoso en su grandeza su valentía moral.
Publicada por primera vez en 1939, la novela reflejó su época como Uncle Tom's Cabin reflejó los años antes de la Guerra Civil norteamericana. John Steinbeck, un escritor que simpatizaba con la crítica fascista y comunista, insistió en que la versión integral del "Himno de batalla de la República" fuese impresa en la primera edición del libro, que adopta en su título unas palabras del primer verso: "Está pisoteando la vendimia donde se conservan las uvas de la ira." La crónica de Steinbeck sobre el avergonzante maltrato de las clases sociales de los años treinta es tal vez el más "americano" de todos los clásicos norteamericanos.
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Die Hornisse.by Patricia CornwellISBN 3442439019 (3-442-43901-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Die Hornisse.'Book summary:Patricia Daniels Cornwell (* 9. Juni 1956 in Miami, Florida) ist eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Erfinderin der Romanfiguren Kay Scarpetta sowie des Trios Judy Hammer, Andrew Brazil und Virginia West. Während der Entstehungsphase von Ein Fall für Kay Scarpetta lernte Cornwell Marcella Fierro, die Leiterin der Gerichtsmedizin des Staates Virginia, kennen, durch die sie viele Einzelheiten über die gerichtsmedizinische Arbeit erfuhr. Diese Kenntnisse benutzte Cornwell als Grundlage für die Bücher um Kay Scarpetta. [via]
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Interview Mit Einem Vampirby Anne RiceISBN 3442430534 (3-442-43053-4)
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William Christenberryby William Christenberry, Susanne Lange, Claudia SchubertISBN 3933807611 (3-933807-61-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Christenberry'Book summary:If Alabama-born artist William Christenberry regularly engages with the countryside of his home state, with the artlessness of the rural idyll, and the local architecture and its relationship to space, his multimedia installation, the so-called "Klan Room," takes this discourse one step further, deeper, and darker. The room, a continuously evolving work-in-progress consisting of a mass of sketches, paintings, sculptures, found objects, and photographs, addresses the subject of violent repression and racist persecution in the United States, and reveals Christenberry's critical reflection on myths and power symbols. Disappearing Places focuses as well on the artist's greater body of work, on his individual photographs, paintings, sculptures, and drawings, as well as his assemblages and material collages, which underline the poetic power of everyday found objects. [via]
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L' Associeby John GrishamISBN 2266078615 (2-266-07861-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L' Associe'Book summary:Les avocats Rapley, Ravarac, Vitrano et Bogan sont très mécontents : leur associé Patrick Lanigan a disparu avec la bagatelle de 90 millions de dollars. Lanigan est donné pour mort dans l'incendie de sa propre voiture, mais ce dramatique accident s'avère n'être qu'une mise en scène. L'escroquerie de Lanigan a-t-elle échoué ? Oui, si l'on considère qu'il sera retrouvé au Brésil, torturé, remis à la justice et jugé. Non, si l'on imagine que l'astucieux voleur avait pu prévoir cette éventualité... Le FBI, qui le soupçonne aussi de meurtre, et toutes les victimes de son manège ne sont pas au bout de leurs surprises... Le lecteur non plus.
Avocat de formation, John Grisham maîtrise à fond les rouages de la justice américaine et il sait tenir le lecteur en haleine jusqu'au bout du récit. Pas étonnant que l'auteur de La Firme et de L'Affaire Pélican compte de par le monde des dizaines de milliers de fans et que les studios d'Hollywood s'arrachent les droits de ses romans. --Bruno Ménard [via]
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Le Couloir De La Mort / the Chamberby John GrishamISBN 2266072471 (2-266-07247-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Couloir De La Mort / the Chamber'Book summary:555pages. poche. broché. Mississippi, 1967. Deux enfants sont atrocement tués dans un attentat aveugle du Ku Klux Klan. Le procès de Sam Cayhall, complice des terroristes, est ajourné. Octobre 1981. Officiellement, la ségrégation est abolie et les droits civiques rétablis dans le Sud. L'affaire revient devant la Cour Suprême. Un nouveau jury condamne le vieux raciste à la chambre à gaz. Quelques jours plus tard, Adam Hall, jeune avocat chargé de la défendre, pénètre dans le couloir de la mort. C'est alors seulement qu'il découvre que Sam Cayhall est son grand-père. Il dispose de moins de trois mois pour apprendre à le connaître comprendre son crime et peut-être le sauver. [via]
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