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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, Jenny ThorneISBN 0361028008 (0-361-02800-8)
Hardcover, Purnell, Alice Kelly
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glass'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 0370109279 (0-370-10927-9)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snark'Book summary:, 292 pages including Prefatory Notes at rear, illustrated throughout with numerous black and white illustrations within the text [via]
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Almost a Womanby Esmerelda SantiagoISBN 037570521X (0-375-70521-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Almost a Woman'Book summary:"Not only for readers who share [Santiago's] experiences but for North Americans who seek to understand what it means to be the other."--The Boston Globe
In her new memoir, the acclaimed author of When I Was Puerto Rican continues the riveting chronicle of her emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the theaters of Manhattan.
"Negi," as Santiago's family affectionately calls her, leaves rural Macún in 1961 to live in a three-room tenement apartment with seven young siblings, an inquisitive grandmother, and a strict mother who won't allow her to date. At thirteen, Negi yearns for her own bed, privacy, and a life with her father, who remains in Puerto Rico. Translating for Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York's prestigious Performing Arts High School in the afternoons, and dancing salsa all night, she yearns to find balance between being American and being Puerto Rican. When Negi defies her mother by going on a series of hilarious dates, she finds that independence brings its own set of challenges.
At once a universally poignant coming-of-age tale and a brave and heartfelt immigrant's story, Almost a Woman is Santiago's triumphant journey into womanhood.
"A universal tale familiar to thousands of immigrants to this country, but made special by Santiago's simplicity and honesty."
--The Miami Herald
"A courageous memoir. . . . One witnesses. . .the blessings, contradictions and restraints of Puerto Rican culture."
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Beauvalletby Georgette Heyer, Heather GrahamISBN 037383604X (0-373-83604-X)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beauvallet'Book summary:What happens when a pirate falls in love with his captive?
During her return to Spain with her father, the lovely Dona Dominica de Rada y Sylva is horrified when their ship is set upon by pirates. Far worse is her discovery that their captor isn't just any pirate -- he is the notorious Sir Nicholas Beauvallet, an Englishman with a scandalous reputation for plundering Spanish ships. But Dominica's pride braces her determination to be no one's hostage . . .
I should have been easy for Sir Nicholas. It was, after all, just another ship. But instead, Sir Nicholas finds himself captivated by Dominica's dark beauty and indomitable courage. After returning his captives to their homeland, Sir Nicholas vows to win the heart of the Spanish beauty. It could be his riskiest venture yet -- and one that promises a treasure greater than any other . . . [via]
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Bodega Dreamsby Ernesto QuinonezISBN 0375705899 (0-375-70589-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Christopher Unbornby Carlos Fuentes, Alfred MacAdamISBN 0374123349 (0-374-12334-9)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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The Clan of the Cave Bearby Jean M. AuelISBN 0375431802 (0-375-43180-2)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clan of the Cave Bear'Book summary:When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.
Although Jean Auel obviously takes certain liberties with the actions and motivations of all our ancestors, her extensive research into the Ice Age does shine through--especially in the detailed knowledge of plants and natural remedies used by the medicine woman and passed down to Ayla. Mostly, though, this first in the series of four is a wonderful story of survival. Ayla's personal evolution is a compelling and relevant tale. --Sara Nickerson [via]
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The Confessionsby St Augustine, Maria BouldingISBN 0375700218 (0-375-70021-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessions'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Augustine's fourth-century spiritual autobiography not only is a major document in the history of Christianity, a classic of Roman Africa, and the unchallenged model through the ages for the autobiographical record of the journey to self-knowledge, it also marks a vital moment in the history of Western culture. As Augustine explains how, when, and why he became the man he is, he probes the great themes that others were to explore after himCfaith, time, truth, identity, and self-understanding--with a richness of detail unmatched in ancient literature. Dense with vivid portrayals of friends, family, colleagues, and enemies, The Confessions chronicles the passage from a life of sensuality and superstition to a genuine spiritual awakening--in a powerful narrative of one man's inner education that continues to shape the way we think and act today. [via] -
Constancia: And Other Stories for Virginsby Carlos Fuentes, Thomas ChristensenISBN 0374128863 (0-374-12886-3)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Constancia: And Other Stories for Virgins'Book summary:Included are five stories, whose plots range from the tale of two young men stealing a mannequin to a bullfighter in the time of Goya and of today. [via]
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Count Belisariusby Robert GravesISBN 0374517398 (0-374-51739-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Country under My Skin : A Memoir of Love and Warby Gioconda Belli, Kristina CorderoISBN 0375403701 (0-375-40370-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Country under My Skin : A Memoir of Love and War'Book summary:An electrifying memoir from the acclaimed Nicaraguan writer ( A wonderfully free and original talent Harold Pinter) and central figure in the Sandinista Revolution.
Until her early twenties, Gioconda Belli inhabited an upper-class cocoon: sheltered from the poverty in Managua in a world of country clubs and debutante balls; educated abroad; early marriage and motherhood. But in 1970, everything changed. Her growing dissatisfaction with domestic life, and a blossoming awareness of the social inequities in Nicaragua, led her to join the Sandinistas, then a burgeoning but still hidden organization. She would be involved with them over the next twenty years at the highest, and often most dangerous, levels.
Her memoir is both a revelatory insiders account of the Revolution and a vivid, intensely felt story about coming of age under extraordinary circumstances. Belli writes with both striking lyricism and candor about her personal and political lives: about her family, her children, the men in her life; about her poetry; about the dichotomies between her birth-right and the life she chose for herself; about the failures and triumphs of the Revolution; about her current life, divided between California (with her American husband and their children) and Nicaragua; and about her sustained and sustaining passion for her country and its people. [via]More editions of The Country under My Skin : A Memoir of Love and War:
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The Crystal Frontierby Carlos Fuentes, Alfred MacAdamISBN 0374132771 (0-374-13277-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crystal Frontier'Book summary:The nine stories comprising this brilliant new work all concern people who have had something to do with the family of one Leonardo Barroso, a powerful oligarch of northern Mexico with manifold connections to the United States. This exuberant fiction contains and alludes to journalism, politics, economics, famous tall tales, and picaresque adventures, all united by the "vitality, variety, and narrative force that Fuentes always gives his work"--(La Jornada). [via]
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The Cubs and Other Storiesby Mario Vargas Llosa, Gregory KolovakosISBN 0374521948 (0-374-52194-8)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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The Da Vinci Codeby Dan BrownISBN 0375432302 (0-375-43230-2)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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The Dante Clubby Matthew PearlISBN 034549038X (0-345-49038-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dante Club'Book summary:A New York Times Bestseller
Words can bleed.
In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses of the Dante Clubpoets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fieldsare finishing Americas first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dantes remarkable visions to the New World. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard College are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of foreign superstitions into American minds will prove as corrupting as the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor.
The members of the Dante Club fight to keep a sacred literary cause alive, but their plans fall apart when a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge. Only this small group of scholars realizes that the gruesome killings are modeled on the descriptions of Hells punishments from Dantes Inferno. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dantes literary future in America at stake, the Dante Club members must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and an outcast police officer named Nicholas Rey, the first black member of the Boston police department, must place their careers on the line to end the terror. Together, they discover that the source of the murders lies closer to home than they ever could have imagined.
The Dante Club is a magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dantes continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end. [via] 
Diana, the Goddess Who Hunts Aloneby Carlos Fuentes, Alfred MacAdamISBN 0374139032 (0-374-13903-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Diary of a Writerby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0374909423 (0-374-90942-3)
Hardcover, Octagon Books
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En El Nombre De Salomeby Julia AlvarezISBN 037572690X (0-375-72690-X)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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The Ends of the Earthby Kay DavidISBN 0373707983 (0-373-70798-3)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Explosion in a Cathedralby Alejo Carpentier, John SturrockISBN 0374521980 (0-374-52198-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Realityby Brian GreeneISBN 0375727205 (0-375-72720-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality'Book summary:As a boy, Brian Greene read Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus and was transformed. Camus, in Greene's paraphrase, insisted that the hero triumphs "by relinquishing everything beyond immediate experience." After wrestling with this idea, however, Greene rejected Camus and realized that his true idols were physicists; scientists who struggled "to assess life and to experience the universe at all possible levels, not just those that happened to be accessible to our frail human senses." His driving question in The Fabric of the Cosmos, then, is fundamental: "What is reality?" Over sixteen chapters, he traces the evolving human understanding of the substrate of the universe, from classical physics to ten-dimensional M-Theory.
Assuming an audience of non-specialists, Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. For the most part, he succeeds. His language reflects a deep passion for science and a gift for translating concepts into poetic images. When explaining, for example, the inability to see the higher dimensions inherent in string theory, Greene writes: "We don't see them because of the way we see&like an ant walking along a lily pad&we could be floating within a grand, expansive, higher-dimensional space."
For Greene, Rhodes Scholar and professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, speculative science is not always as thorough and successful. His discussion of teleportation, for example, introduces and then quickly tables a valuable philosophical probing of identity. The paradoxes of time travel, however, are treated with greater depth, and his vision of life in a three-brane universe is compelling and--to use his description for quantum reality--"weird."
In the final pages Greene turns from science fiction back to the fringes of science fact, and he returns with rigor to frame discoveries likely to be made in the coming decades. "We are, most definitely, still wandering in the jungle," he concludes. Thanks to Greene, though, some of the underbrush has been cleared. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Firmby John GrishamISBN 0375433465 (0-375-43346-5)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Firm'Book summary:D.W. Moffett uses his youthful voice to outstanding effect in this excellent abridgment of Grisham's bestselling thriller about a Harvard Law grad aggressively recruited by a curiously obscure firm. "We're small and very selective... we screened over two thousand third-year law students at the best schools. Only one letter was sent." They've decided he's their man and to get him they offer top dollar, dangle a BMW, and woo his wife with offers impossible to refuse. But as the wide-eyed youngsters soon discover, there's a catch. Moffett gives an excellent performance, bringing the story to life with vibrant and believable characterizations and a smooth, knowing narrative. (Running time: 3 hours, 2 cassettes) --George Laney [via]
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A Fish in the Water: A Memoirby Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen LaneISBN 0374155097 (0-374-15509-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Goyaby Robert HughesISBN 0375711287 (0-375-71128-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goya'Book summary:Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art (The Culture of Complaint), now turns his renowned critical eye to one of art historys most compelling, enigmatic, and important figures, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. With characteristic critical fervor and sure-eyed insight, Hughes brings us the story of an artist whose life and work bridged the transition from the eighteenth-century reign of the old masters to the early days of the nineteenth-century moderns.
With his salient passion for the artist and the art, Hughes brings Goya vividly to life through dazzling analysis of a vast breadth of his work. Building upon the historical evidence that exists, Hughes tracks Goyas development, as man and artist, without missing a beat, from the early works commissioned by the Church, through his long, productive, and tempestuous career at court, to the darkly sinister and cryptic work he did at the end of his life.
In a work that is at once interpretive biography and cultural epic, Hughes grounds Goya firmly in the context of his time, taking us on a wild romp through Spanish history; from the brutality and easy violence of street life to the fiery terrors of the Holy Inquisition to the grave realities of war, Hughes shows us in vibrant detail the cultural forces that shaped Goyas work.
Underlying the exhaustive, critical analysis and the rich historical background is Hughess own intimately personal relationship to his subject. This is a book informed not only by lifelong love and study, but by his own recent experiences of mortality and death. As such this is a uniquely moving and human book; with the same relentless and fearless intelligence he has brought to every subject he has ever tackled, Hughes here transcends biography to bring us a rich and fiercely brave book about art and life, love and rage, impotence and death. This is one genius writing at full capacity about anotherand the result is truly spectacular.
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Hannibalby Thomas HarrisISBN 0375728341 (0-375-72834-1)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hannibal'Book summary:Horror lit's head chef Harris serves up another course in his Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter trilogy, and it's a pièce de résistance for those with strong stomachs. In the first book, Red Dragon (filmed as Manhunter), Hannibal diabolically helps the FBI track a fascinating serial killer. (Takes one to know one.) In The Silence of the Lambs, he advises fledgling FBI manhunter Clarice Starling, then makes a bloody, brilliant escape.
Years later, posing as scholarly Dr. Fell, curator of a grand family's palazzo, Hannibal lives the good life in Florence, playing lovely tunes by serial killer/composer Henry VIII and killing hardly anyone himself. Clarice is unluckier: in the novel's action-film-like opening scene, she survives an FBI shootout gone wrong, and her nemesis, Paul Krendler, makes her the fall guy. Clarice is suspended, so, unfortunately, the first cop who stumbles on Hannibal is an Italian named Pazzi, who takes after his ancestors, greedy betrayers depicted in Dante's Inferno.
Pazzi is on the take from a character as scary as Hannibal: Mason Verger. When Verger was a young man busted for raping children, his vast wealth saved him from jail. All he needed was psychotherapy--with Dr. Lecter. Thanks to the treatment, Verger is now on a respirator, paralyzed except for one crablike hand, watching his enormous, brutal moray eel swim figure eights and devour fish. His obsession is to feed Lecter to some other brutal pets.
What happens when the Italian cop gets alone with Hannibal? How does Clarice's reunion with Lecter go from macabre to worse? Suffice it to say that the plot is Harris's weirdest, but it still has his signature mastery of realistic detail. There are flaws: Hannibal's madness gets a motive, which is creepy but lessens his mystery. If you want an exact duplicate of The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice/Hannibal duel, you'll miss what's cool about this book--that Hannibal is actually upstaged at points by other monsters. And if you think it's all unprecedentedly horrible, you're right. But note that the horrors are described with exquisite taste. Harris's secret recipe for success is restraint. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journeyby Ariel DorfmanISBN 0374168628 (0-374-16862-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Heights of Macchu Picchuby Pablo Neruda, Nathaniel TarnISBN 0374506485 (0-374-50648-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Her Dearest Sinby Gayle WilsonISBN 0373292074 (0-373-29207-4)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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The Historiesby Herodotus, George Rawlinson, Rosalind ThomasISBN 0375400613 (0-375-40061-3)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Histories'Book summary:Since the release of the film version of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, there has been renewed interest in the Histories of Herodotus--the book the dying patient treasures so much.
The writings of Herodotus are the ground zero of Western history. He lived during the fifth century B.C.E, and his Histories chronicle the events of the Persian Wars, which were within living memory when he wrote. He was the first writer to examine real, rather than mythical history, and although his work lacks the rigor of later histories, it has a breathtaking scope. Herodotus is a wonderful storyteller, and in recalling the wars with Persian invaders, he ranges across the ancient world, mixing politics with natural history and anthropology. These are traveler's tales, and a great deal of their appeal to a modern audience lies in the way Herodotus describes the cultures that influence his story. The societies of Scythians, Arabs, and Egyptians are depicted in detail, from their political structures to their dining habits. Herodotus created a sense of history for his people, and he gives us a picture of a distant past that reminds us of the vast continuum of civilization. [via]
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History of the Conquest of Mexicoby James Lockhart, William H. PrescottISBN 0375758038 (0-375-75803-8)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Conquest of Mexico'Book summary:"It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day.
"Regarded simply from the standpoint of literary criticism, the Conquest of Mexico is Prescott's masterpiece," judged his biographer Harry Thurston Peck. "More than that, it is one of the most brilliant examples which the English language possesses of literary art applied to historical narration. . . . Here, as nowhere else, has Prescott succeeded in delineating character. All the chief actors of his great historic drama not only live and breathe, but they are as distinctly differentiated as they must have been in life. Cortés and his lieutenants are persons whom we actually come to know in the pages of Pres-cott. . . . Over against these brilliant figures stands the melancholy form of Montezuma, around whom, even from the first, one feels gathering the darkness of his coming fate. He reminds one of some hero of Greek tragedy, doomed to destruction and intensely conscious of it, yet striving in vain against the decree of an inexorable destiny. . . . [Prescott] transmuted the acquisitions of laborious research into an enduring monument of pure literature."
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How Tia Lola Came to Stayby Julia AlvarezISBN 0375802150 (0-375-80215-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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I Don't Know How She Does Itby Allison PearsonISBN 0375713751 (0-375-71375-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Don't Know How She Does It'Book summary:Allison Pearson's debut novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, is a rare and beautiful hybrid: a devastatingly funny novel that's also a compelling fictional world. You want to climb inside this book and inhabit it. However, you might find it pretty messy once you're in there. Narrator Kate Reddy is the manager of a hedge fund and mother of two small children. The book opens with an emblematic scene as Kate "distresses" a store-bought mince pie to make it appear homemade. Her days are measured in increments of minutes and even seconds; her fund stays organized but her house and family are falling apart. The book is a pearly string of great lines. Here's Kate on lack of sleep: "They're right to call it a broken night.... You crawl back to bed and you lie there trying to do the jigsaw of sleep with half the pieces missing." On baby boys: "A mother of a one-year-old son is a movie star in a world without critics." On subtle office dynamics:
The women in the offices of EMF [Kate's firm] don't tend to display pictures of their kids. The higher they go up the ladder, the fewer the photographs. If a man has pictures of kids on his desk, it enhances his humanity; if a woman has them it decreases hers. Why? Because he's not supposed to be home with the children; she is.
There's inherent drama here: Kate is wildly appealing, and we want things to work out for her. In the end, the book isn't a just collection of clever lines on the theme of working motherhood; it's a real, rich novel about a character we come to cherish. --Claire Dederer [via]More editions of I Don't Know How She Does It:
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I Don't Know How She Does It : The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Motherby Allison PearsonISBN 0375414053 (0-375-41405-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Don't Know How She Does It : The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother'Book summary:Allison Pearson's debut novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, is a rare and beautiful hybrid: a devastatingly funny novel that's also a compelling fictional world. You want to climb inside this book and inhabit it. However, you might find it pretty messy once you're in there. Narrator Kate Reddy is the manager of a hedge fund and mother of two small children. The book opens with an emblematic scene as Kate "distresses" a store-bought mince pie to make it appear homemade. Her days are measured in increments of minutes and even seconds; her fund stays organized but her house and family are falling apart. The book is a pearly string of great lines. Here's Kate on lack of sleep: "They're right to call it a broken night.... You crawl back to bed and you lie there trying to do the jigsaw of sleep with half the pieces missing." On baby boys: "A mother of a one-year-old son is a movie star in a world without critics." On subtle office dynamics:
The women in the offices of EMF [Kate's firm] don't tend to display pictures of their kids. The higher they go up the ladder, the fewer the photographs. If a man has pictures of kids on his desk, it enhances his humanity; if a woman has them it decreases hers. Why? Because he's not supposed to be home with the children; she is.
There's inherent drama here: Kate is wildly appealing, and we want things to work out for her. In the end, the book isn't a just collection of clever lines on the theme of working motherhood; it's a real, rich novel about a character we come to cherish. --Claire Dederer [via]More editions of I Don't Know How She Does It : The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother:
In the Marketby Day LeclaireISBN 0373031831 (0-373-03183-1)
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Inezby Carlos Fuentes, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0374175535 (0-374-17553-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inez'Book summary:A magical short novel that weaves together two stories, two couples, two different times, and two grand passions[via]
In one of the narratives that comprise this superb new novel from Carlos Fuentes, we are introduced to Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestral conductor, and his great love Inez Prada, a renowned singer. In the other, Fuentes memorably delineates the very first encounter in human history between a man and a woman. In one, the intense drama of Berlioz's music for The Damnation of Faust informs the action; in the other, we watch as a slowly emergent love shapes the nature and character of the two protagonists. A beautiful crystal seal -- the meaning of which is a mystery that obsesses Atlan-Ferrara, who owns it -- unites these two narratives; the magical seal allows one to read unknown languages and hear impossible music, and it is the symbol of a shared love.
The duality of Carlos Fuentes's brilliant new novel mirrors two eras, one in the deepest remote time and one in a time to come, but the passions evoked in both, reflected against each other like two sides of a crystal seal, break the limits of time and space and unite in one story. And, like the light refracted through the seal, it begins in prehistory and spirals out into infinity . . .
In Inez, we find Carlos Fuentes at the height of his magical and realist powers. This profound and beautiful work confirms his standing as Mexico's pre-eminent novelist.More editions of Inez:
Just Marriedby Sandra Canfield, Rebecca Winters, Elise Title, Muriel JensenISBN 0373832583 (0-373-83258-3)
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The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyanaby Richard F. Burton, Called Mallanaga VatsyayanaISBN 0375759247 (0-375-75924-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyana'Book summary:Sir Richard F. Burtons translation of The Kama Sutra remains one of the best English interpretations of this early Indian treatise on politics, social customs, love, and intimacy. Its crisp style set a new standard for Sanskrit translation.
The Kama Sutra stands uniquely as a work of psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, and sexology. It has been a celebrated classic of Indian literature for 1,700 years and a window for the West into the culture and mysticism of the East.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the authoritative text of Sir Richard F. Burtons 1883 translation. [via]More editions of The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyana:
A Laramie, Texas Christmasby Cathy Gillen ThackerISBN 0373751451 (0-373-75145-1)
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Little Mama Forgetsby Robin Cruise, Stacey Dressen-McQueenISBN 0374346135 (0-374-34613-5)
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Loves That Bindby Edith Grossman, Julian RiosISBN 0375700609 (0-375-70060-9)
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Loves That Bind : A Novelby Julian Rios, Edith GrossmanISBN 0375400583 (0-375-40058-3)
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The Maltese Falcon, the Thin Man, Red Harvestby Dashiell Hammett, Robert PolitoISBN 0375411259 (0-375-41125-9)
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The three classic novels published here in one volume are rich with the crisp prose, subtle characters, and intricate plots that made Dashiell Hammett one of the most admired writers of the twentieth century.
A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel. In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade, a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, tangles with a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. The Thin Man introduces Hammett's wittiest creations, Nick and Nora Charles, who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. And in Red Harvest, Hammett's anonymous tough-guy detective, the Continental Op, takes on the entire town of Poisonville in a deadly war against corruption.
"Dashiell Hammett is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer."Boston Globe
Hammett was spare, hard-boiled, but he did over and over what only the best writers can ever do. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before. Raymond Chandler
Hammetts prose was clean and entirely unique. His characters were as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction. The New York Times
As a novelist of realistic intrigue, Hammett was unsurpassed in his own or any time. Ross Macdonald
Dashiell Hammetts dialogues can be compared only with the best in Hemingway. André Gide
Hammett is one of the best contemporary American writers. Gertrude Stein [via]More editions of The Maltese Falcon, the Thin Man, Red Harvest:
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Loveby Óscar HijuelosISBN 0374201250 (0-374-20125-0)
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A Man Like Macby Fay RobinsonISBN 0373709110 (0-373-70911-0)
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Memoirs Of Hadrian: and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrianby Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace FrickISBN 0374529264 (0-374-52926-4)
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The Miracle Wifeby Day LeclaiareISBN 0373035233 (0-373-03523-3)
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Wantedone mother!
Five-year-old River Sierra wants a mothera mother just like the beautiful fairy in her storybook. So when J.J. Randell turns up on her daddy's doorstep it seems her wish has come true.
Only River's daddy is less convinced. Raven Sierra has turned his back on love. Now he's torn between his tortured past and his little girl's dreams&.
J.J. realizes the situation is hopeless. But River is convinced that her miracle mommy can do anythingeven persuade her difficult daddy to take another chance on love!
Kids & Kisses
Where kids and kisses go hand in hand [via]
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Mona and Other Talesby Reinaldo Arenas, Dolores KochISBN 0375727302 (0-375-72730-2)
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Monkey Huntingby Cristina GarcíaISBN 0375410562 (0-375-41056-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monkey Hunting'Book summary:The new novel-her first in six years-from the acclaimed author of Dreaming in Cuban and The Agüero Sisters follows one family from China to Cuba to America in an emotionally resonant tale of immigration, assimilation, and the powerful integrity of self. In 1857, when Chen Pan signs a contract that will take him from China "beyond the edge of the world to Cuba," he has no idea that he will be enslaved on a sugarcane plantation . . . or that he will eventually, miraculously, escape his bonds and embark on a prosperous life in Havana's Chinatown . . . or that he will buy a mulatto woman out of slavery and take her into his home and heart . . . or that he will end his long days in Havana, surrounded by children and grandchildren, as Cuban as he is Chinese. In a vivid tapestry of incident and feeling, Chen Pan's life story is interwoven with those of two of his descendants: his granddaughter, Chen Fang, born in China and raised as a boy so she could be educated, her life coming to its end in one of Mao's hellish prisons, and Domingo, Chen Pan's great-great-grandson, who, with his father, becomes an American citizen after Castro's revolution, only to lose his parent to the false promises of the American dream, and himself, finally, to the madness of wartime Vietnam. Deeply stirring, wonderfully evocative of time and place, rendered in the lyrical prose that is Cristina García's hallmark, Monkey Hunting brilliantly illuminates a generations-long struggle toward a sense of true belonging. [via]
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The Moonstoneby Wilkie Collins, Carolyn G. HeilbrunISBN 0375757856 (0-375-75785-6)
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The Newlywedsby Elizabeth BevarlyISBN 0373613938 (0-373-61393-8)
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Known more for her work ethic than for her romantic history, FBI agent Bridget Logan landed an assignment that involved issues too close to home-and a "husband" as part of the sting. If Agent Samuel Jones weren't so sexy, Bridget would have had no problem handling this case. But he was, and for the first time in her career, Bridget had trouble keeping a cool head under fire. A lot was at stake, though, and Bridget was determined to solve this case and move on, no harm done. But then her "husband" made love to her. . .and suddenly their role as a devoted couple transformed into a passion over which neither had control! [via]
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The Nine Dollar Daddyby Day LeclaireISBN 0373157894 (0-373-15789-4)
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The Odysseyby Homer, Robert FitzgeraldISBN 0374525749 (0-374-52574-9)
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One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, the Homeric saga of the shipwrecks, wanderings, and homecoming of the master tactician Odysseus encompasses a virtual inventory of the themes and attitudes that have shaped Western culture. The tale of Odysseuss encounters with such obstacles as Calypso, Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens, and the lotus-eaters, and his dramatic return to Ithaca and his patient wife, Penelope, forms a prototype for all subsequent Western epics.
Robert Fitzgeralds much-acclaimed translation, fully possessing as it does the body and spirit of the original, has helped to assure the continuing vitality of Europes most influential work of poetry. This edition includes twenty-five new line drawings by Barnaby Fitzgerald. [via] 
One-Night Wifeby Day LeclaireISBN 0373033761 (0-373-03376-1)
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Opening Mexico: The Making Of A Democracyby Julia PrestonISBN 0374529647 (0-374-52964-7)
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The Orange Treeby Carlos Fuentes, Alfred MacAdamISBN 0374226830 (0-374-22683-0)
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Paradise Travelby Katherine Silver, Jorge Franco RamosISBN 0374229775 (0-374-22977-5)
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The Perpetual Orgyby Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen LaneISBN 0374230773 (0-374-23077-3)
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The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovaryby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0374520623 (0-374-52062-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary'Book summary:The book's first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces the gestation and birth of the novel, as well as Flaubert's method, his mania for documentation, and the novel's literary sources; the third situates it in literary history. Vargas Llosa's first work of non-fiction will send the reader back to Flaubert's masterpiece with renewed interest.[via]More editions of The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary:
Random House Webster's Handy Spanish Dictionary: Spanish English/English Spanish Espanol Ingles/Ingles Espanolby Random House IncISBN 0375707018 (0-375-70701-8)
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The Runaway Juryby John GrishamISBN 0375433449 (0-375-43344-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Runaway Jury'Book summary:Millions of dollars are at stake in a huge tobacco-company case in Biloxi, and the jury's packed with people who have dirty little secrets. A mysterious young man takes subtle control of the jury as the defense watches helplessly, but they soon realize that he in turn is controlled by an even more mysterious young woman. Lives careen off course as they bend everyone in the case to their will. [via]
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Secret Agentby Joseph ConradISBN 0375752528 (0-375-75252-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Agent'Book summary:The Secret Agent is an astonishing book," said Ford Madox Ford. "It is one of the best--and certainly the most significant--
detective stories ever written."
Set in late-nineteenth-century London, Joseph Conrad's intense political thriller anticipates the espionage novels of such writers as Graham Greene and John le Carré. It concerns a double agent who is charged with provoking the radical group he has infiltrated into an act of sabotage that will bring about its own destruction. In a marvelously drawn underworld of political and criminal intrigue, Conrad brilliantly explores the confused motives that lie at the heart of terrorism. Extraor-dinarily modern in the ironic view it takes of human affairs, this masterly tale of conspiracy builds to a climax that the critic F. R. Leavis called "one of the most astonishing triumphs of genius in fiction."
"The Secret Agent is an altogether thrilling 'crime story' . . . a
political novel of a foreign embassy intrigue and its tragic human out-come," said Thomas Mann. And F. R. Leavis deemed it "one of Conrad's supreme masterpieces . . . one of the unquestioned classics of the first order that he added to the English novel." [via]More editions of Secret Agent:
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane Austen, David GatesISBN 0375756736 (0-375-75673-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
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Shelters of Stoneby Jean M. AuelISBN 0375431748 (0-375-43174-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shelters of Stone'Book summary:Jean Auel's fifth novel about Ayla, the Cro-Magnon cavewoman raised by Neanderthals, is the biggest comeback bestseller in Amazon.com history. In The Shelters of Stone, Ayla meets the Zelandonii tribe of Jondalar, the Cro-Magnon hunk she rescued from Baby, her pet lion. Ayla is pregnant. How will Jondalar's mom react? Or his bitchy jilted fiancée? Ayla wows her future in-laws by striking fire from flint and taming a wild wolf. But most regard her Neanderthal adoptive Clan as subhuman "flatheads." Clan larynxes can't quite manage language, and Ayla must convince the Zelandonii that Clan sign language isn't just arm-flapping. Zelandonii and Clan are skirmishing, and those who interbreed are deemed "abominations." What would Jondalar's tribe think if they knew Ayla had to abandon her half-breed son in Clan country? The plot is slow to unfold, because Auel's first goal is to pack the tale with period Pleistocene detail, provocative speculation, and bits of romance, sex, tribal politics, soap opera, and homicidal wooly rhino-hunting adventure. It's an enveloping fact-based fantasy, a genre-crossing time trip to the Ice Age. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Shotgun Marriageby Day LeclaireISBN 0373034407 (0-373-03440-7)
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The Skin Of The Skyby Elena Poniatowska, Deanna HeikkinenISBN 0374265755 (0-374-26575-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Skin Of The Sky'Book summary:The Skin of the Sky is the fascinating and haunting story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant Mexican astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother, brothers, and sisters on their mother's farm on a small plot of land outside Mexico City. When Lorenzo's mother dies, his father brings the children to live with him in the capital. Thrust into a privileged world, the children struggle to adjust, and an angry Lorenzo turns to the study of the stars to find solace. He pursues his studies at Harvard, then returns to Mexico, where he attempts to do first-world scientific research in a third-world country. A complex and contradictory man, Lorenzo strives to make his country a better place for all her people, especially the very poor and disenfranchised.[via]
Setting traditional beliefs against technological progress, and personal sacrifice against professional achievement, The Skin of the Sky details the efforts of a country to join the twenty-first century, and paints the portrait of a lonely man who can find true contentment and satisfaction only in the stars.More editions of The Skin Of The Sky:
A Spanish Revengeby Sara WoodISBN 0373805489 (0-373-80548-9)
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Stella Descendingby Linn Ullmann, Barbara HavelandISBN 0375414991 (0-375-41499-1)
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Storybook Cowboyby Pat MontanaISBN 0373191111 (0-373-19111-1)
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The Storyteller: A Novelby Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen LaneISBN 0374270856 (0-374-27085-6)
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Tales from Moominvalleyby Tove Jansson, Thomas WarburtonISBN 0374474133 (0-374-47413-3)
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The Third Christmasby Margot EarlyISBN 0373706251 (0-373-70625-1)
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Time Machineby H. G. Wells, Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0375761187 (0-375-76118-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Machine'Book summary:When the intrepid Time Traveller finds himself in the year 802,701, he encounters a seemingly utopian society of evolved human beings but then unearths the dark secret that sets mankind on course toward its inevitable destruction. An insightful look into a distant, bleak, and disturbing future, The Time Machine goes beyond the reaches of science fiction to provide a strikingly relevant discussion of social progress, class struggle, and the human condition.Hailed as a masterpiece of its genre, H. G. Wells's famous novella about the perils of history and the hubris of modernity comes vividly alive in this remarkable reissue of a unique 1931 illustrated edition. [via]
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Tomas and the Library Ladyby Pat Mora, Raul ColonISBN 0375803491 (0-375-80349-1)
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Tuck Everlastingby Natalie BabbittISBN 0374378487 (0-374-37848-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tuck Everlasting'Book summary:Imagine coming upon a fountain of youth in a forest. To live forever--isn't that everyone's ideal? For the Tuck family, eternal life is a reality, but their reaction to their fate is surprising. Award winner Natalie Babbitt (Knee-Knock Rise, The Search for Delicious) outdoes herself in this sensitive, moving adventure in which 10-year-old Winnie Foster is kidnapped, finds herself helping a murderer out of jail, and is eventually offered the ultimate gift--but doesn't know whether to accept it. Babbitt asks profound questions about the meaning of life and death, and leaves the reader with a greater appreciation for the perfect cycle of nature. Intense and powerful, exciting and poignant, Tuck Everlasting will last forever--in the reader's imagination. An ALA Notable Book. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Tutoring Tuckerby Debrah MorrisISBN 0373196709 (0-373-19670-9)
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Waiting for Youby Margot EarlyISBN 0373706944 (0-373-70694-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting for You'Book summary:"Margot Early's stories pack a powerful punch. She writes with warmth, wit and emotional depth. A sheer pleasure."
Debbie Macomber
Emotional, daring, adventurousa stunning new novel from the award-winning author of The Third Christmas and The Keeper.
According to family legend, golden-haired Christopher was born with a missionto break a family curse. Only he, it is said, can end the history of miscarriages and maternal deaths.
Christopher, now a doctor living and working in Colorado, isn't sure he believes all this. But Dulcineathe first and only woman he ever lovedis pregnant. With his brother's baby.
She comes back to Christopher, begging him to take the risk, to break the curse.
How can he refuse?
"Waiting for You represents another remarkable achievement from an author who is second to none in creating mood, evoking setting and touching hearts. Unforgettable!"
Laura DeVries (a.k.a. Laura Gordon), author of Lethal Love and Gambler's Daughter [via]
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The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Partsby Louis De BernieresISBN 0375700137 (0-375-70013-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts'Book summary:Louis de Bernières's sardonic pen has concocted a spicy olla podrida of a novel, set in a fictitious Latin American country, with all the tragedy, ribaldry, and humor Bernières can muster from a debauched military, a clueless oligarchy, and an unconventional band of guerrillas. There's a plague of laughing, a flood of magical cats, and a torture-happy colonel. The cities, villages, politics, and discourse are an inspired amalgam of Latin Americana, but the comedy, horror, adventure, and vibrant individuals are pure de Bernières. This masterpiece, the first of a trilogy, is followed by Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. [via]
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When Lightning Strikes Twiceby Debrah MorrisISBN 0373196873 (0-373-19687-3)
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Aprender A Amarby Cara ColterISBN 0373682425 (0-373-68242-5)
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Caramelo : En Españolby Sandra Cisneros, Liliana ValenzuelaISBN 0375415092 (0-375-41509-2)
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Casi Una Mujer / Almost a Womanby Esmeralda Santiago, Nina Torres-VidalISBN 0375705260 (0-375-70526-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Casi Una Mujer / Almost a Woman'Book summary:A simultaneous Spanish-language edition, originally translated for Vintage by
Nina Torres-Vidal
In her new memior, the acclaimed author of When I Was Puerto Rican continues the riveting chronicle of her life.
"Negi," as Santiago's family affectionately calls her, leaves rural Macun in 1961 to live in a three-bedroom tenement apartment with seven siblings, and inquisitive grandmother, and a strict mother who won't allow her to date. At thirteen, Negi yearns for her own bed, for privacy, and her father, who remains in Puerto Rico. Translating for Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York's Performing Arts High School in the afternoon, and dancing salsa all night, she also seeks to find balance between being an American and Puerto Rican. When Negi defies her mother by going on a series of dates, she finds that independence brings challenges.
At once a universally poignant coming-of-age tale and a heartfelt immigrant's story, Almost a Woman is Santiago's triumphant journey into womanhood. [via]More editions of Casi Una Mujer / Almost a Woman:
Mal de Amoresby Angeles MastrettaISBN 0375702008 (0-375-70200-8)
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Maldito Amor Y Otros Cuentos (Damned Love and Other Stories)by Rosario FerreISBN 0375700633 (0-375-70063-3)
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Noches Secretas/Secret Nightsby Amy J. FetzerISBN 0373356595 (0-373-35659-5)
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El profetaby Kahlil Gibran, Mauro ArminoISBN 0375701621 (0-375-70162-1)
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Desde su publicación hace más de setenta años, El profeta ha sido traducido a más de veinte idiomas y ha dado inspiración a millones de lectores, quienes encuentran en sus palabras la expresión de los más profundos impulsos, la más profunda poesía, del corazón humano. Ilustrados con los dibujos místicos de Gibrán--comparados por Auguste Rodin a los de William Blake--El profeta es un volumen para disfrutar y al cual volver a lo largo de la vida. [via]More editions of El profeta:
Random House Webster's Pocket Spanish Dictionaryby Random HouseISBN 0375701575 (0-375-70157-5)
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Tuck Para Siempreby Natalie Babbitt, Narcis FraderaISBN 0374480117 (0-374-48011-7)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Un Amor Por Navidadby Cara ColterISBN 0373682050 (0-373-68205-0)
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Un Pasado Compartidoby Cara ColterISBN 0373682581 (0-373-68258-1)
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