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1984by George Orwell, Rafael Vazquez ZamoraISBN 061323393X (0-613-23393-X)
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Abelby Louise BernikowISBN 0671270540 (0-671-27054-0)
Hardcover, Trident Press
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The Acolyteby David ComptonISBN 0684804301 (0-684-80430-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Acolyte'Book summary:Demoralized by the arrest of his candidate for the Senate, brilliant political tactician Greer Whitaker gets involved in a sensitive national security operation with the CIA, an operation with deadly implications. 35,000 first printing. [via]
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Claude LaPointeISBN 0670869856 (0-670-86985-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Ted Lewin, Mark TwainISBN 0671437917 (0-671-43791-7)
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The Alienistby Caleb CarrISBN 0613072197 (0-613-07219-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alienist'Book summary:The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels.
The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over.
Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences. [via] 
All the Queen's Menby Linda HowardISBN 0671568841 (0-671-56884-1)
Softcover, Pocket Star
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The Angel of Darknessby Caleb CarrISBN 0679435328 (0-679-43532-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Angel of Darkness'Book summary:In The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew.
It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends--high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime--have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara's aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Their investigation leads the team to a shocking suspect: a woman who appears to the world to be a heroic nurse and a loving mother, but who may in reality be a ruthless murderer of children.
Once again, Caleb Carr proves his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low. As the horror unfolds, Delmonico's still serves up wondrous meals, and a summer trip to the elegant gambling parlors of Saratoga provides precious keys to the murderer's past. At the same time, we go on revealing journeys into Stevie's New York, a place where poor and neglected children--then as now--turn to crime and drugs at shockingly early ages. Peppered throughout are characters taken from real life and rendered with historical vigor, including suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton; painter Albert Pinkham Ryder; and Clarence Darrow, who thunders for the defense in a tense courtroom drama during which the sanctity of American motherhood itself is put on trial. Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel of Darkness is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York. [via]More editions of The Angel of Darkness:
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Angels & Demonsby Dan BrownISBN 0671027360 (0-671-02736-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angels & Demons'Book summary:It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (Digital Fortress) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels & Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville's The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (but more accessible).
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society's ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared--only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra's daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.
Brown seems as much juggler as author--there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances--readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. "Brain candy" it may be, but my! It's tasty. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Primeby Paul PreussISBN 0671038990 (0-671-03899-0)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime'Book summary:Editorial Reviews Product Description The second volume of the spectacular science-fiction thriller evolving from the works of Arthur C. Clarke, grandmaster of science fiction and author of 2001: a space odyssey.. Her code name is Sparta. Her beauty veils a mysterious past and abilities of superhuman dimension-the product of advanced biotech engineering. When a team of scientists is trapped in the gaseous inferno of Venus, Sparta must risk her life to save them, unaware that her actions will help recover a mysterious artifact: irrefutable evidence of life on another planet. . As the secrets of the artifact are revealed, Sparta uncovers a mystery which may lead her to the truth of her own destiny. This gripping saga brings together the genius of Arthur C. Clarke and the talents of distinguished science-fiction writer Paul Preuss. The book has an introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. [via]
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The Bad Luck Wedding Nightby Geralyn DawsonISBN 0671034499 (0-671-03449-9)
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Barrayarby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 067172083X (0-671-72083-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Bim Dooley Makes His Moveby Alice Schertle, Victoria ChessISBN 0688016367 (0-688-01636-7)
Hardcover, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
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Black Moneyby Ross MacDonaldISBN 0679768106 (0-679-76810-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Blame the Deadby Gavin LyallISBN 0670173436 (0-670-17343-6)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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The Book of Spiesby Alan FurstISBN 067964251X (0-679-64251-X)
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Brighton Rockby Graham GreeneISBN 0679420347 (0-679-42034-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The British Crossby Bill GrangerISBN 0671523619 (0-671-52361-9)
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The Captain and the Enemyby Graham GreeneISBN 0670824054 (0-670-82405-4)
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Carnival of Spiesby Robert MossISBN 0671623729 (0-671-62372-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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China Lakeby Tusitala, Inc. Staff, Anthony HydeISBN 0679410848 (0-679-41084-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Cold Warby David BrierleyISBN 0671477536 (0-671-47753-6)
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Collected Fictionsby Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew HurleyISBN 0670849707 (0-670-84970-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Fictions'Book summary:Although Jorge Luis Borges published his first book in 1923--doling out his own money for a limited edition of Fervor de Buenos Aires--he remained in Argentinian obscurity for almost three decades. In 1951, however, Ficciones appeared in French, followed soon after by an English translation. This collection, which included the cream of the author's short fictions, made it clear that Borges was a world-class (if highly unclassifiable) artist--a brilliant, lyrical miniaturist, who could pose the great questions of existence on the head of pin. And by 1961, when he shared the French Prix Formentor with Samuel Beckett, he seemed suddenly to tower over a half-dozen literary cultures, the very exemplar of modernism with a human face.
By the time of his death in 1986, Borges had been granted old master status by almost everybody (except, alas, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy). Yet his work remained dispersed among a half-dozen different collections, some of them increasingly hard to find. Andrew Hurley has done readers a great service, then, by collecting all the stories in a single, meticulously translated volume. It's a pleasure to be reminded that Borges's style--poetic, dreamlike, and compounded of innumerable small surprises--was already in place by 1935, when he published A Universal History of Iniquity: "The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it." (Incidentally, the thrifty author later recycled the second of these aphorisms in his classic bit of bookish metaphysics, "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Teris.") The glories of his middle period, of course, have hardly aged a day. "The Garden of the Forking Paths" remains the best deconstruction of the detective story ever written, even in the post-Auster era, and "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" puts the so-called death of the author in pointed, hilarious perspective.
But Hurley's omnibus also brings home exactly how consistent Borges remained in his concerns. As late as 1975, in "Avelino Arredondo," he was still asking (and occasionally even answering) the same riddles about time and its human repository, memory: "For the man in prison, or the blind man, time flows downstream as though down a slight decline. As he reached the midpoint of his reclusion, Arredondo more than once achieved that virtually timeless time. In the first patio there was a wellhead, and at the bottom, a cistern where a toad lived; it never occurred to Arredondo that it was the toad's time, bordering on eternity, that he sought." Throughout, Hurley's translation is crisp and assured (although this reader will always have a soft spot for "Funes, the Memorious" rather than "Funes, His Memory.") And thanks to his efforts, Borgesians will find no better--and no more pleasurable--rebuttal of the author's description of himself as "a shy sort of man who could not bring himself to write short stories." --James Marcus [via]
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The Continental Opby Dashiell Hammett, Steven MarcusISBN 0679722580 (0-679-72258-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Continental Op'Book summary:Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. In these stories the Op unravels a murder with too many clues, looks for a girl with eyes the color of shadows on polished silver, and tangles with a crooked-eared gunman called the Whosis Kid. [via]
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The Continental Opby Steven Marcus, Dashiell HammettISBN 0679740953 (0-679-74095-3)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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The Crocus Listby Gavin LyallISBN 0670808032 (0-670-80803-2)
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Directive Sixteenby Charles RobertsonISBN 0671611534 (0-671-61153-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Disciplesby Joseph J. AndrewISBN 0671795996 (0-671-79599-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Disciples'Book summary:The game of spies abides by the simple truth that she who holds the secrets holds the world. She is Rebecca Townsend, AWOL from the National Security Agency, who, in complicity with the 12 branches of her family - the disciples - plans to expose what nations will kill to protect. [via]
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The Dogs of Warby Frederick ForsythISBN 0670277533 (0-670-27753-3)
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End of the Affairby Graham GreeneISBN 0671445359 (0-671-44535-9)
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Enigmaby Robert HarrisISBN 0679428879 (0-679-42887-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enigma'Book summary:"LITERATE AND SAVVY . . . BRIMS WITH WARTIME INTRIGUE."
--The Washington Post Book World
England 1943. Much of the infamous Nazi Enigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans' movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of Allied vessels. Feeling that the blood of Allied sailors is on their hands, a top-secret team of British cryptographers works feverishly around the clock to break Shark. And when brilliant mathematician Tom Jericho succeeds, it is the stuff of legend. . . .
"A TENSE AND THOUGHTFUL THRILLER."
--San Francisco Chronicle
Until the unthinkable happens: the Germans have somehow learned that Shark has been cracked. And they've changed the code. . . .
"SUSPENSEFUL AND FASCINATING."
--The Orlando Sentinel
As an Allied convoy crosses the U-boat infested North Atlantic . . . as Jericho's ex-lover Claire disappears amid accusations that she is a Nazi collaborator . . . as Jericho strains his last resources to break Shark again, he cannot escape the ultimate truth: There is a traitor among them. . . .
"GRIPPING . . . CAPTIVATING ."
--New York Daily News
"ELEGANTLY RESEARCHED . . . Readers will find themselves perfectly placed to experience one of Britain's finest hours."
--People
"SATISFYING . . . Harris does a crackerjack job here, playing his characters' lives off historical events in surprising ways."
--Entertainment Weekly
"SUSPENSEFUL . . . FIENDISHLY CLEVER."
--Detroit Free Press
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Exocet: And a Prayer for Dyingby Jack HigginsISBN 0671000349 (0-671-00034-9)
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The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionageby Robert LindseyISBN 0671245600 (0-671-24560-0)
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Fall from Graceby Larry CollinsISBN 0671436090 (0-671-43609-0)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Fallbackby Peter NiesewandISBN 0688008194 (0-688-00819-4)
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A Firing Offenseby David IgnatiusISBN 0679448608 (0-679-44860-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Flight of the Falconby Robert LindseyISBN 067145160X (0-671-45160-X)
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Floating Cityby Eric LustbaderISBN 067186808X (0-671-86808-X)
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Floating Cityby Eric Van LustbaderISBN 0671868098 (0-671-86809-8)
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Forgetfulnessby Ward JustISBN 0618634630 (0-618-63463-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forgetfulness'Book summary:From one of our most critically acclaimed authors comes a masterly story of terrorism and revenge and one mans attempts to extricate himself from his past.[via]
Thomas Railles, an American expatriate and former "odd-jobber" for the CIA, is a respected painter living with his beloved wife, Florette, in the south of France. On an ordinary autumn day, Florette goes for a walk in the hills and is killed by unknown assailants. Her death devastates Thomas, and in the weeks and months that follow he struggles to make sense of a world that seems defined by violence and pain.
Each night Thomas tracks the war in Iraq on the evening news while Florettes killers remain at large. When French officials detain four Moroccan terrorists and charge them with Florette's murder, Thomas is invited to witness the interrogation. The experience completely undoes him, changing his world utterly, and he finds himself unable to remain at a distance from America, the country he left so long ago.
Ward Justs most gripping and insightful novel yet, Forgetfulness is a haunting depiction of the corrosive effects of todays war on terror and its unexpected consequences for the individual conscience.More editions of Forgetfulness:
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Game of Kingsby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0679777431 (0-679-77743-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Game of Kings'Book summary:Praised for her historical fiction by critics and devoted fans alike, author Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles took the romance world by storm some 30 years ago, firmly fixing Dunnett's reputation as a master of the historical romance. The Game of Kings, the first story in The Lymond Chronicles, sets the stage for what will be a sweeping saga filled with passion, courage, and the endless fight for freedom. The setting is 1547, in Edinborough, Scotland. Francis Crawford of Lymond returns to the country despite the charge of treason hanging over his head. Set on redeeming his reputation, He leads a company of outlaws against England as he fights for the country he loves so dearly. Dangerous, quick-witted, and utterly irresistible, Lymond is pure pleasure to watch as he traverses 16th-century Scotland in search of freedom. The Game of Kings is a must-have for the historical romance connoisseur. [via]
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Gate of the Tigersby Henry MeigsISBN 0670836206 (0-670-83620-6)
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George Orwell's 1984by Ralph A. RanaldISBN 067100719X (0-671-00719-X)
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The Haunted Wood : Soviet Espionage in America - The Stalin Eraby Allen Weinstein, Alexander VassilievISBN 0679457240 (0-679-45724-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Haunted Wood : Soviet Espionage in America - The Stalin Era'Book summary:The Haunted Wood fills in a valuable part of cold war history: the Soviet Union's attempts to spy on the United States from the time of FDR's New Deal, through the Second World War, and into the 1950s. Allen Weinstein (author of a highly regarded history of the Hiss-Chambers case, Perjury) and Alexander Vassiliev (a KGB agent turned journalist) show that among the Americans caught in the Soviet orbit were many top government officials, including a Congressman from New York and a close advisor to President Roosevelt, as well as an American ambassador's daughter. Most of these early spies were leftists driven by ideology--as opposed to money, which seems to have motivated many of the later cold war traitors, such as Aldrich Ames. (The Congressman, interestingly, is an exception--he demanded so much compensation that the Soviets gave him the code name "Crook.") The greatest windfall for the U.S.S.R. during this period was the acquisition of atomic secrets, with contributions from agents like Ted Hall, Klaus Fuchs, and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (the authors do not believe, however, that the scientist Robert Oppenheimer was a Soviet spook). Yet there were also notable failures, many brought on by Stalin's insatiable appetite for purges; defections by Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley also dealt several mortal blows. By the end of the 1940s, the Soviet spy ring in the United States was in serious breakdown. Weinstein and Vassiliev make use of both American sources and Soviet archives to deliver what will surely be an authoritative account for many years--or at least until more top-secret archives on both sides of the Atlantic become declassified. And don't expect that to happen anytime soon. --John J. Miller [via]
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Havana Bayby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 0679426620 (0-679-42662-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Havana Bay'Book summary:In this fourth book in Martin Cruz Smith's splendid series, an amiable Irish American gangster explains to Arkady Renko what he and the other 84 wanted Americans hiding out in Cuba do with themselves. "We try to stay alive. Useful. Tell me, Arkady, what are you doing here?" "The same," says Renko--and it's true. His life as a Russian cop has become so bleak and lonely that he takes any opportunity to shake things up, even spending his own savings to fly to Havana when an old colleague is found dead--floating inside an inner tube after night-fishing in Havana Bay. Renko sets out to make himself useful in this shabby, fascinating, haunted country whose inhabitants look on Russians with the cold disdain of survivors of a nasty divorce.
As he did so well in Gorky Park, Smith again makes Renko very much a classic Russian hero in temperament and tradition, but also the eternal outsider. He is at times close to the edge of despair--but his trip to Havana restores his natural curiosity and life force.
In this hot Havana, ripe with the fruity smell of sex, Renko keeps his Moscow overcoat on--until an equally idealistic and out-of-place young female cop gets him to loosen up. There's an unusually complex plot, even for the sly strand-spinner Smith. He raises baffling questions: Why would a group of military plotters order illegal lobsters in a fancy restaurant and then not eat them? And his descriptions of Cuban life are dead-on, reminding us on every page what a superb stylist he is. --Dick Adler [via]
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The Heart of the Matterby Graham GreeneISBN 061317271X (0-613-17271-X)
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Her Majesty's Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Communityby Christopher AndrewISBN 0670809411 (0-670-80941-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Inside the CIAby Ronald KesslerISBN 067173458X (0-671-73458-X)
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The Kaishoby Eric LustbaderISBN 0671868063 (0-671-86806-3)
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The Kaishoby Eric Van Lustbader, Claire ZionISBN 0671868071 (0-671-86807-1)
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The King's Indianby John GardnerISBN 0679721932 (0-679-72193-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Komarrby Lois McMaste BujoldISBN 0671578081 (0-671-57808-1)
Softcover, Baen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Komarr'Book summary:Lois McMaster Bujold comes through again with another sharp Miles Vorkosigan novel. Komarr can be read as a standalone, though it is part of a whole series. (Komarr brings the total to 16 books!) Miles is a hugely popular character with fans--and they won't be disappointed with his latest adventure.
The planet Komarr is undergoing centuries-long terraforming when one of the orbiting mirrors crucial to the effort is smashed by an off-course ship. Miles Vorkosigan is sent to Komarr to investigate the incident; once there, he becomes embroiled in political and scientific battles. To make matters worse, the name Vorkosigan is anathema on Komarr. But our intrepid hero can't be put down easily. While trying to save Komarr, he manages... maybe... to find true love at last! Bujold's original and intelligent blend of politics, science, and cliffhanging-good space opera makes this book a satisfying adventure and a charming romance. --Therese Littleton [via]
LA Tabla De Flandes/the Chess Masterby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 0679760903 (0-679-76090-3)
Softcover, Aims Intl Books Corp
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The Last Jews in Berlinby Leonard GrossISBN 0671657240 (0-671-65724-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Jews in Berlin'Book summary:In February 1943, four thousand Jews went underground in Berlin. By the end of the war, all but a few hundred of them had died in bombing raids or, more commonly, in death camps. This is the real-life story of some of the few of them - a young mother, a scholar and his countess lover, a black-market jeweler, a fashion designer, a Zionist, an opera-loving merchant, a teen-age orphan - who resourcefully, boldly, defiantly, luckily survived. In hiding or in masquerade, by their wits and sometimes with the aid of conscience-stricken German gentiles, they survived. They survived the constant threat of discovery by the Nazi authorities or by the sinister handful of turncoat Jewish "catchers" who would send them to the gas chambers. They survived to tell this tale, which reads like a thriller and triumphs like a miracle. "The author's skillful selection of detail and his narrative drive have created the type of footnote [to history] that illuminates an entire subject." - New York Times Book Review "A tour de force . . . A consummately suspenseful narrative . . . remindful, in [its] exquisite detail, of Capote's In Cold Blood" - Los Angeles Times "An historian's book, a storyteller's book, and - most of all - a reader's book . . . All the real-life stuff of a John le Carré novel" - Los Angeles Herald Examiner[via]More editions of The Last Jews in Berlin:
The Last Spyby Bob ReissISBN 0671776223 (0-671-77622-3)
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Mara, Daughter of the Nileby Eloise McGrawISBN 0613033264 (0-613-03326-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mara, Daughter of the Nile'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The adventures of an ingenious Egyptian slave girl who undertakes a dangerous assignment as a spy in the royal palace of Thebes, in the days when Queen Hatshepsut ruled. [via]
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Mazeby Larry CollinsISBN 0671665472 (0-671-66547-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maze'Book summary:Fiction, Espionage [via]
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Mirror Imageby Tom ClancyISBN 0613072464 (0-613-07246-4)
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Monsignor Quixoteby Graham GreeneISBN 0671722239 (0-671-72223-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monsignor Quixote'Book summary:No one was more astonished by the unexpected announcement than Father Quixote himself. A monsignor! Incredible! His local bishop is mystified. Anxious to be rid of him, however, the bishop suggests the freshly minted Monsignor Quixote take a driving holiday through Spain. Accompanied by his friend Sanchothe ex-mayor of El TobosoQuixote embarks upon a series of misadventures hilariously reminiscent of the monsignors more famous ancestor.
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Moose Masterby George Edward StanleyISBN 0613866940 (0-613-86694-0)
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The Naive and Sentimental Loverby John Le CarréISBN 0671042777 (0-671-04277-7)
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Night of the Foxby Jack HigginsISBN 0671728202 (0-671-72820-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night of the Fox'Book summary:On a secret sea maneuver just before D-Day, American Colonel Hugh Kelso goes down in the English Channel. Wounded and adrift for days, he washes ashore on the German-occupied island of Jersey. The news spreads panic through the Allied high command: Kelso knows the time and place of the invasion. He must be rescued -- or silenced.
A British professor turned Nazi impersonator and a young Jersey girl posing as his mistress set off to find Kelso in the fiercely guarded island fortress. The pair join a deadly game of wits that they must win....or perish in the darkness of the Night of the Fox [via]
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0679417397 (0-679-41739-7)
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Nineteen Eighty-Four revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth centurys greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. In Winston Smiths desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universal predicament of the individual. [via]More editions of Nineteen Eighty-Four:
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Odessa Fileby Frederick ForsythISBN 067052042X (0-670-52042-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Odessa File'Book summary:The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called Odessa ...of a real-life fugitive known as the "Butcher of Riga"..of a young German journalist tumed obsessed avenger.......and, ultimately, of brilliant, ruthless plot to reestablish the worldwide power of SS mass murderers and to carry out Hitler's chilling "Final Solution." [via]
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A Red File for Callanby James MitchellISBN 0671210203 (0-671-21020-3)
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A Season in Hellby Jack HigginsISBN 0671725319 (0-671-72531-9)
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The Second Saladinby Stephen HunterISBN 0688006396 (0-688-00639-6)
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Second Skinby Eric LustbaderISBN 0671868101 (0-671-86810-1)
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Second Skinby Eric Van LustbaderISBN 0671703498 (0-671-70349-8)
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Selected Non-Fictionsby Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger, Esther Allen, Suzane Jill Levine, Andrew HurleyISBN 0670849472 (0-670-84947-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Non-Fictions'Book summary:Jorge Luis Borges was our century's greatest miniaturist, perpetually cramming entire universes onto the head of a pin. Yet his splendid economy, along the wafer-thin proportions of such classic volumes as Ficciones and Labyrinths, has given readers the impression that Borges was miserly with his prose. In fact, he was something of a verbal spendthrift. His collected stories alone run to nearly 1,000 pages. And his nonfiction output was even more staggering: the young Borges cranked out hundreds of essays, book notes, cultural polemics, and movie reviews, and even after he lost his sight in 1955, he continued to dictate short pieces by the dozens. Eliot Weinberger has assembled just a fraction of this outpouring in Selected Non-Fictions, and the result is a 559-page Borgesian blowout, in which the Argentinean fabulist takes on being and nothingness, James Joyce and Lana Turner, and (surprisingly) racial hatred and the rise of Nazism. So much for our image of the mandarin bookworm! The very engagé author of this book seems more like a subequatorial Camus, with a dash of Siskel and Ebert on the side.
Selected Non-Fictions demonstrates just how quickly Borges began wrestling with such brainteasers as identity, time, and infinity. Indeed, the very first piece in the collection, "The Nothingness of Personality" (1922), already finds him fiddling with the self: "I, as I write this, am only a certainty that seeks out the words that are most apt to compel your attention. That proposition and a few muscular sensations, and the sight of the limpid branches that the trees place outside my window, constitute my current I." There are many such meditations here, including "A History of Eternity" (in which Borges maps out his own, disarmingly empty version of the eternal, "without a God or even a co-proprietor, and entirely devoid of archetypes"). But it's more fun--and more revelatory--to see the author venturing beyond his metaphysical stomping grounds. Borges on King Kong is a hoot, and a cornball masterpiece such as The Petrified Forest elicits this terrific nugget: "Death works in this film like hypnosis or alcohol: it brings the recesses of the soul into the light of day." His capsule biographies are a delight, his critiques of Nazi propaganda are memorably stringent, and nobody should miss him on the tango. True, the sheer variety and mind-boggling erudition of Selected Non-Fictions can be a little forbidding. But, taken as a whole, the collection surely meets the specifications that Borges laid out in a 1927 essay on literary pleasure: "If only some eternal book existed, primed for our enjoyment and whims, no less inventive in the populous morning as in the secluded night, oriented toward all hours of the world." Oh, but it does. --James Marcus [via]
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Shadow Warsby Charles D. TaylorISBN 0671736310 (0-671-73631-0)
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The Shadowboxerby Noel BehnISBN 067120193X (0-671-20193-X)
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Shards of Honorby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0671655744 (0-671-65574-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shards of Honor'Book summary:Cordelia Naismith, Betan Survey Captain, was expecting the unexpected: hexapods, floating creatures, odd parasites... She was not, however, expecting to find hostile humans on an uninhabited planet. And she wasn't really expecting to fall in love with a 40-plus barbarian known to cosmopolitan galactics as the Butcher of Komarr. Will Mother ever understand? And can such an odd beast as love survive an interplanetary war? [via]
Shell Gameby Douglas TermanISBN 067153291X (0-671-53291-X)
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Sleeper Spyby William SafireISBN 067943447X (0-679-43447-X)
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Soloby Jack HigginsISBN 0671676172 (0-671-67617-2)
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Spyby Richard Platt, Geoff Dann, Steve GortonISBN 0679881220 (0-679-88122-0)
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Summer Firesby Bob ReissISBN 0671246550 (0-671-24655-0)
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Travels With My Auntby Graham GreeneISBN 0670725242 (0-670-72524-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels With My Aunt'Book summary:[via]Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written just for the fun of it." Travels with My Aunt is the story of Hanry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager, who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her wayto Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot; and breaks all currency regulations.
Originally published in 1970, Travels with My Aunt gives us an intoxicating entertainment yet also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.
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Under Siegeby Stephen CoontsISBN 0671742949 (0-671-74294-9)
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Unificationby Jeri TaylorISBN 067177056X (0-671-77056-X)
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The Vor Gameby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0671720147 (0-671-72014-7)
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Walter Mosley Prepacked Boxed Setby Walter MosleyISBN 0671906070 (0-671-90607-0)
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