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The Abortionist's Daughter: Library Editionby Elisabeth HydeISBN 0307263665 (0-307-26366-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Accelerationby Graham McNameeISBN 0440238366 (0-440-23836-6)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acceleration'Book summary:Its a hot, hot summer, and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authoritys Lost and Found, 17-year-old Duncan is cataloging lost things and sifting through accumulated junk. And between Jacob, the cranky old man who runs the place, and the endless dusty boxes overflowing with stuff no one will ever claim, Duncans just about had enough. Then he finds a little leather book. Its a diary filled with the dark and dirty secrets of a twisted mind, a serial killer stalking his prey in the subway. And Duncan cant make himself stop reading.
What would you do with a book like that? How far would you go to catch a madman?
And what if time was running out. . . . [via] 
Adjunct: An Undigestby Peter MansonISBN 1859332226 (1-85933-222-6)
Softcover, Edinburgh Review
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Backpackby Emily BarrISBN 0452282934 (0-452-28293-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Backpack'Book summary:Emily Barr's irrepressible first novel follows the trials and tribulations of Tansy, a Londoner who leaves behind her horrible boyfriend, too-trendy friends, and hotshot media job to find herself a continent away.
Adrift in the wake of her long-suffering mum's death, Tansy hopes her modest inheritance will help cast her in the role of glamorous "Englishwoman Abroad," as she flits from Vietnam to China. Instead, she finds ungrateful locals who treat her like the tourist she is, a climate that's hell on her skin, and a motley group of grimy back packers she likes more than she'll ever admit. But when blond Englishwomen in Asia start turning up dead, what began as a grand adventure suddenly becomes a real-life murder mystery . . . and blond Tansy wonders if she'll live long enough to tell the tale of her travels.
Brimming with romance, humor, and a slyly self-deprecating wit, Backpack is Lisa Jewell meets The Beach. [via]More editions of Backpack:
Be Mineby Jane McFannISBN 0590466909 (0-590-46690-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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Black and Blueby Anna QuindlenISBN 1568955650 (1-56895-565-0)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black and Blue'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1998: "The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old," begins Fran Benedetto, the broken heroine of Anna Quindlen's Black and Blue. With one sweeping sentence, the door to an abused and tortured world is swung wide open and the psyche of a crushed and tattered self-image exposed. "Frannie, Frannie, Fran"--as Bobby Benedetto liked to call her before smashing her into kitchen appliances--was a young, energetic nursing student when she met her husband-to-be at a local Brooklyn bar. She was instantly captivated by his dark, brooding looks and magnetic personality, but her fascination soon solidified into a marital prison sentence of incessant abuse and the destruction of her own identity. After an especially horrific beating and rape, Fran realizes that the next attack could be the last. Fearing her son would be left alone with Bobby, she escapes one morning with her child. Fran's salvation comes in the form of Patty Bancroft and Co., a relocation agency for abused women that touts better service than the witness protection program. Armed only with a phone number, a few hundred dollars, and the help of several anonymous volunteers, Fran begins a new life. The agency relocates her to Florida, where she becomes Beth Crenshaw, a recently divorced home-care assistant from Delaware. Fran and her son adapt, meeting challenges with unexpected resilience and resolve until their past returns to haunt them. Quindlen renders the intricacies of spousal abuse with eerie accuracy, taking the reader deep within the realm of dysfunctional human ties. However, her vivid descriptions of abuse, emotional disintegration, and acute loneliness at times numb the reader with their realism. [via]
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- Black and Blue: ISBN 0385333137 (0-385-33313-7)
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Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Black and Blue: ISBN 0613123123 (0-613-12312-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Black and Blue: ISBN 0679435395 (0-679-43539-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Black and Blue: ISBN 1568955650 (1-56895-565-0)
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Blue Smoke: Library Editionby Nora RobertsISBN 0515141399 (0-515-14139-9)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Smoke: Library Edition'Book summary:Reena Hale is an arson investigator who steps into an inferno of madness when a man begins to haunt her life with astring of horrifying crimes.
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Boy Gets Girl: A Playby Rebecca GilmanISBN 0571199836 (0-571-19983-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Carrieby Stephen KingISBN 8401491029 (84-01-49102-9)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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The Collectorby John FowlesISBN 0316290238 (0-316-29023-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collector'Book summary:Hailed as the first modern psychological thriller, The Collector is the internationally bestselling novel that catapulted John Fowles into the front rank of contemporary novelists. This tale of obsessive love--the story of a lonely clerk who collects butterflies and of the beautiful young art student who is his ultimate quarry--remains unparalleled in its power to startle and mesmerize.[via] 
Confusing Love With Obsession: When You Can't Stop Controlling Your Partner and the Relationshipby John D. MooreISBN 059529796X (0-595-29796-X)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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A Country Affairby Rebecca ShawISBN 1400098203 (1-4000-9820-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Crazy for Youby Jennifer CrusieISBN 1568958536 (1-56895-853-6)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crazy for You'Book summary:High school art teacher Quinn McKenzie's life is perfectly normal--and it's making her insane. She's living with Bill, the nicest guy in Tibbett, Ohio, and he's crazy about her. Really crazy. Quinn is already having serious doubts about the future of their relationship when Fate intervenes, in the form of the scrawniest, squirmiest scrap of a dog you'd ever want to lay eyes on. She figures if the dog has the good sense to detest Bill on first sight, she ought to pay attention. And besides, there's Nick Ziegler, local mechanic and totally unsuitable love interest. Of course, that only makes Nick all the more appealing, not to mention his phenomenal aptitude between the sheets, and against the wall, and in the car, and... But getting rid of Bill is harder than Quinn ever expected. In fact, Bill was the last person she would have thought would try to hurt her. Thank God Nick is as capable with a two-by-four as he is with an automobile engine! Jennifer Crusie's second contemporary romance is a smash--literally! You'll laugh while you're tucking the covers around you a little tighter. --Alison Trinkle [via]
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The Crushby Sandra BrownISBN 141040160X (1-4104-0160-X)
Softcover, Large Print Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crush'Book summary:When Dr. Rennie Newton's jury duty on a case involving a contract killer ends in an acquittal for Ricky Lozada, her carefully composed and very private life begins to unravel. First, someone breaks into her house to leave her an anonymous dozen red roses. Then her colleague and one-time rival for the chief of surgery job is murdered in the parking lot of her hospital, which makes her a prime suspect, especially when the police learn that she's killed a man once before. None of that stops Detective Wick Threadgill from falling in love with her; unlike his partner, he's sure that Lozada, not Rennie, is behind Howell's murder. And it soon becomes clear that the killer is so obsessed with Rennie that he'll do anything to have her--including killing again. Brown, master of the romantic mystery, goes into darker territory here, but she handles it with her usual deftness and turns in a well-paced if not particularly heart-stopping thriller with the requisite happy ending for Rennie and Wick. --Jane Adams [via]
Cubaby Emily BarrISBN 0452285038 (0-452-28503-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Cuban Heelsby Emily BarrISBN 0755301919 (0-7553-0191-9)
Softcover, Review
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Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworldby Patrick HarpurISBN 0937663093 (0-937663-09-3)
Hardcover, Idyll Arbor
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld'Book summary:Lake monsters, Yetis, UFOs, crop circles, guardian angels and visions of the Virgin Mary can all be described as apparitions, and this book weaves together an account of them. It argues that only in the last three centuries or so, and only in Western culture, they're as lively as ever. But, the author suggests, they can be made intelligible again by appealing to a different world-view. Three of the chief models for understanding mind and world are Jung's "Collective World", which is used to illuminate the links between the apparently disparate experiences being dealt with. [via]
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- Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld: ISBN 0140194851 (0-14-019485-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld: ISBN 0670855693 (0-670-85569-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA - Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld: ISBN 0937663093 (0-937663-09-3)
Hardcover, Idyll Arbor
- Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld: ISBN 0140194851 (0-14-019485-1)
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Enduring Loveby Ian McEwanISBN 0385494149 (0-385-49414-9)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enduring Love'Book summary:Joe Rose has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside to celebrate his lover's return after six weeks in the States. To complete the picture, there's even a "helium balloon drifting dreamily across the wooded valley." But as Joe and Clarissa watch the balloon touch down, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. As the wind whips into action, Joe and four other men rush to secure the basket. Mother Nature, however, isn't feeling very maternal. "A mighty fist socked the balloon in two rapid blows, one-two, the second more vicious than the first," and at once the rescuers are airborne. Joe manages to drop to the ground, as do most of his companions, but one man is lifted sky-high, only to fall to his death.
In itself, the accident would change the survivors' lives, filling them with an uneasy combination of shame, happiness, and endless self-reproach. (In one of the novel's many ironies, the balloon eventually lands safely, the boy unscathed.) But fate has far more unpleasant things in store for Joe. Meeting the eye of fellow rescuer Jed Parry, for example, turns out to be a very bad move. For Jed is instantly obsessed, making the first of many calls to Joe and Clarissa's London flat that very night. Soon he's openly shadowing Joe and writing him endless letters. (One insane epistle begins, "I feel happiness running through me like an electrical current. I close my eyes and see you as you were last night in the rain, across the road from me, with the unspoken love between us as strong as steel cable.") Worst of all, Jed's version of love comes to seem a distortion of Joe's feelings for Clarissa.
Apart from the incessant stalking, it is the conditionals--the contingencies--that most frustrate Joe, a scientific journalist. If only he and Clarissa had gone straight home from the airport... If only the wind hadn't picked up... If only he had saved Jed's 29 messages in a single day... Ian McEwan has long been a poet of the arbitrary nightmare, his characters ineluctably swept up in others' fantasies, skidding into deepening violence, and--worst of all--becoming strangers to those who love them. Even his prose itself is a masterful and methodical exercise in defamiliarization. But Enduring Love and its underrated predecessor, Black Dogs, are also meditations on knowledge and perception as well as brilliant manipulations of our own expectations. By the novel's end, you will be surprisingly unafraid of hot-air balloons, but you won't be too keen on looking a stranger in the eye. [via]
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Every Breath You Takeby Ann RuleISBN 0783896808 (0-7838-9680-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murderby Ann RuleISBN 0743439740 (0-7434-3974-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Fragments D'UN Discours Amoureuxby Roland BarthesISBN 2020046059 (2-02-004605-9)
Hardcover, Editions Du Seuil
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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violenceby Gavin De BeckerISBN 0440226198 (0-440-22619-8)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence'Book summary:Each hour, 75 women are raped in the United States, and every few seconds, a woman is beaten. Each day, 400 Americans suffer shooting injuries, and another 1,100 face criminals armed with guns. Author Gavin de Becker says victims of violent behavior usually feel a sense of fear before any threat or violence takes place. They may distrust the fear, or it may impel them to some action that saves their lives. A leading expert on predicting violent behavior, de Becker believes we can all learn to recognize these signals of the "universal code of violence," and use them as tools to help us survive. The book teaches how to identify the warning signals of a potential attacker and recommends strategies for dealing with the problem before it becomes life threatening. The case studies are gripping and suspenseful, and include tactics for dealing with similar situations.
People don't just "snap" and become violent, says de Becker, whose clients include federal government agencies, celebrities, police departments, and shelters for battered women. "There is a process as observable, and often as predictable, as water coming to a boil." Learning to predict violence is the cornerstone to preventing it. De Becker is a master of the psychology of violence, and his advice may save your life. --Joan Price [via]
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- The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence: ISBN 0440508835 (0-440-50883-5)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co - The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence: ISBN 0747538352 (0-7475-3835-2)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd - The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence: ISBN 0316235024 (0-316-23502-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Company - The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence: ISBN 0440226198 (0-440-22619-8)
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House of Leavesby Mark Z. DanielewskiISBN 0375703764 (0-375-70376-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of Leaves'Book summary:Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on.
Now that we've reached the post-postmodern era, presumably there's nobody left who needs liberating from the strictures of conventional fiction. So apart from its narrative high jinks, what does House of Leaves have to offer? According to Johnny Truant, the tattoo-shop apprentice who discovers Zampanò's work, once you read The Navidson Record,
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.
We'll have to take his word for it, however. As it's presented here, the description of the spooky film isn't continuous enough to have much scare power. Instead, we're pulled back into Johnny Truant's world through his footnotes, which he uses to discharge everything in his head, including the discovery of the manuscript, his encounters with people who knew Zampanò, and his own battles with drugs, sex, ennui, and a vague evil force. If The Navidson Record is a mad professor lecturing on the supernatural with rational-seeming conviction, Truant's footnotes are the manic student in the back of the auditorium, wigged out and furiously scribbling whoa-dude notes about life.Despite his flaws, Truant is an appealingly earnest amateur editor--finding translators, tracking down sources, pointing out incongruities. Danielewski takes an academic's--or ex-academic's--glee in footnotes (the similarity to David Foster Wallace is almost too obvious to mention), as well as other bogus ivory-tower trappings such as interviews with celebrity scholars like Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom. And he stuffs highbrow and pop-culture references (and parodies) into the novel with the enthusiasm of an anarchist filling a pipe bomb with bits of junk metal. House of Leaves may not be the prettiest or most coherent collection, but if you're trying to blow stuff up, who cares? --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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- House of Leaves: ISBN 0375420525 (0-375-42052-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - House of Leaves: ISBN 0375407324 (0-375-40732-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc - House of Leaves : A Novel: ISBN 0375410341 (0-375-41034-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - House of Leaves: ISBN 0375703764 (0-375-70376-4)
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How to Locate Anyone, Anywhere : Without Leaving Homeby Ted L. Gunderson, Roger McGovernISBN 0452277426 (0-452-27742-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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I Know You Really Love Me : A Psychiatrist's Account of Stalking and Obsessive Loveby Doreen OrionISBN 044022599X (0-440-22599-X)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Know You Really Love Me : A Psychiatrist's Account of Stalking and Obsessive Love'Book summary:In September 1989, Doreen Orion was just beginning her psychiatric practice when one of her female patients developed an erotomanic obsession with her. Over the next eight years, this patient skulked outside of Orion's house and at her workplace, leaving bizarre messages, watching her, and making her unwelcome presence known in virtually every aspect of her life. In I Know You Really Love Me, Orion recounts her legal and emotional struggles as she tried to take control of the situation.
As a psychiatrist, Orion has fascinating insights into the condition that causes some people to obsess inappropriately over others. She also describes compellingly the feelings of helplessness and fear that stalking causes its victims--but always with the compassion and understanding of someone who works with the mentally ill. Her unique perspective as both a victim and a professional makes I Know You Really Love Me not just a blow-by-blow account of a stalking, but a practical guide to understanding, avoiding, and discouraging stalkers. --Lisa Higgins [via]
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I Know You Really Love Me: A Psychiatrist's Journal of Erotomania, Stalking, & Obsessive Loveby Doreen R. OrionISBN 0028616650 (0-02-861665-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan General Reference
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I'll Be Watching You: True Stories of Stalkers and Their Victimsby Richard GallagherISBN 0753506963 (0-7535-0696-3)
Softcover, Virgin Books Limited
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John Macnabby John BuchanISBN 1406501298 (1-4065-0129-8)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Macnab'Book summary:Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. [via]
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Lover's Discourse: Fragmentsby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521611 (0-374-52161-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lover's Discourse: Fragments'Book summary:The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. It is a language of solitude, of mythology, of what Barthes calls an 'image repertoire'. This book revives beyond the psychological or clinical enterprises which have characterised such researches in our culture - the notion of the amorous subject. It will be enjoyed and understood by two groups of readers: those who have been in love (Or think they have, which is the same thing), and those who have never been in love (or think they have not, which is the same thing). This book might be considered, in its restless search for authorities and examples, which range from Nietzsche to Zen, from Ruysbroek to Debussy, an encyclopaedia of that affirmative discourse which is the lover's. [via]
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Miseryby Stephen KingISBN 0451169522 (0-451-16952-2)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Misery'Book summary:Can a best-selling author escape from a psychotic nurse who wants him to respect her favorite literary character?. [via]
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The Night Lawyer: A Novel of Suspenseby Michelle SpringISBN 0345437489 (0-345-43748-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Nightwoodby Djuna Barnes, Cheryl J. PlumbISBN 1564780805 (1-56478-080-5)
Hardcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nightwood'Book summary:Nightwood is not only a classic of lesbian literature, but was also acknowledged by no less than T. S. Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th century. Eliot admired Djuna Barnes' rich, evocative language. Lesbian readers will admire the exquisite craftsmanship and Barnes' penetrating insights into obsessive passion. Barnes told a friend that Nightwood was written with her own blood "while it was still running." That flowing wound was the breakup of an eight-year relationship with the lesbian love of her life. [via]
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Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Nightwood: ISBN 067964024X (0-679-64024-X)
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Nova Expressby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802133304 (0-8021-3330-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nova Express'Book summary:Nova Express takes William S. Burroughss nightmarish future one step beyond The Soft Machine. The diabolical Nova criminals have gained control and plan on wreaking untold destruction. Its up to Inspector Lee of the Nova Police to attack and dismantle the word-and-imagery machine of these control addicts before its too late.[via]More editions of Nova Express:
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Obsession: The Fbi's Legendary Profiler Probes the Psyches of Killers, Rapists and Stalkers and Their Victims and Tells How to Fight Backby John E. Douglas, Mark OlshakerISBN 0671017047 (0-671-01704-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Obsession: The Fbi's Legendary Profiler Probes the Psyches of Killers, Rapists and Stalkers and Their Victims and Tells How to Fight Back'Book summary:In this eagerly awaited new book by the international best-selling authors of "Mindhunter" and "Journey into Darkness", master FBI profiler John Douglas takes us into the minds and souls of both the hunters and the hunted. The legendary former head of the FBI's Investigative Support Unit, Douglas was the pioneer of modern behavioral profiling of serial criminals. In "Mindhunter", we followed his development into a modern, real-life Sherlock Holmes as he tracked down the Atlanta child murderer, San Francisco's Trailside Killer, and Seattle's Green River Killer-- a chase that nearly cost him his life. In "Journey into Darkness", he directed his unique skills particularly to crimes against children and young adults, and showed how the quest for closure for the survivors does not always end simply with catching the killer.
Written with Mark Olshaker, the coauthor of Douglas's previous books and an acclaimed novelist, journalist, and filmmaker, "Obsession" is vital reading for anyone seeking to understand and prevent violent crime. In "Obsession", Douglas once again takes us fascinatingly behind the scenes, focusing his expertise on predatory crimes, primarily against women. With a deep sense of compassion for the victims and an uncanny understanding of the perpetrators, Douglas looks at the obsessions that lead to rape, stalking, and sexual murder through such cases as Ronnie Shelton, the serial rapist who terrorized Cleveland; Joseph Thompson, New Zealand's South Auckland rapist; the stalking and killing of television star Rebecca Schaeffer; and New York's notorious "Preppie Murder". He plumbs the minds and motives of those who commit these terrifying and seemingly inexplicable offenses, using as examples his study of Ed Gein, Gary Heidnick, and Ted Bundy, the three obsessional killers who made up the composite character of "Buffalo Bill" in The Silence of the Lambs. (Douglas himself was the model for Special Agent Jack Crawford.)
But Douglas also looks at obsession on the other side of the moral spectrum: his own career-long obsession with hunting these predators; the obsession of the directors of a model police department's victim's program in Virginia that has literally saved the lives of survivors; and the obsession of a brilliant young lawyer who has established an innovative school in Harlem to combat crime, drugs, and despair. Finally, there's the poignant and moving story of Gene and Peggy Schmidt and their daughter, Jennifer, whose sister, Stephanie, was viciously murdered by a paroled rapist in Kansas, and who channeled their grief and anguish into fighting for a milestone Supreme Court ruling. Douglas analyzes the critical lessons of the Stephanie Schmidt case, which demonstrates the new empowerment galvanizing the victim's rights movement.
In a final section that serves as a call to action, Douglas shows us how we can all fight back and protect ourselves, our families, and loved ones against the scourge of the violent predators in our midst. But the first step is insight and understanding, and no one is better qualified to penetrate obsession than John Douglas. [via]
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Readyby Lucy MonroeISBN 0758208642 (0-7582-0864-2)
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Sleeping With the Enemyby Nancy PriceISBN 0425127923 (0-425-12792-3)
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The Soft Machineby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802133290 (0-8021-3329-0)
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Soloby Emily BarrISBN 0452285364 (0-452-28536-4)
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Surviving Stalkingby Michele PatheISBN 0521009642 (0-521-00964-2)
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Teach Meby R.A. NelsonISBN 1595140859 (1-59514-085-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teach Me'Book summary:What happens when a high school student and her teacher cross that line?
Teach Me by R. A. Nelson is a powerful debut novel that readers will not be able to put down. From the very first page, Nine speaks in a voice that is at once raw, honest, direct, and unusually eloquent. "There has been an earthquake in my life," she says, inviting you inside an experience that fascinates everyone-an affair between teacher and student-and giving a personal answer to the question: How does this happen?
R. A. Nelson's strong writing is paired with a story we all want to hear, resulting in a novel that will speak to every teenager. A novel about a love so intense that the person you're with becomes your world, and when you lose that person, you lose your world. [via] 
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Twelve Sharpby Janet EvanovichISBN 031234953X (0-312-34953-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twelve Sharp'Book summary:[via]Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, where bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's life is about to implode in Janet Evanovich's wildest, hottest novel yet!
FIRST A STRANGER APPEARS
While chasing down the usual cast of miscreants and weirdos, Stephanie discovers that a crazed woman is stalking her.
THEN THE STRANGER REVEALS HER SECRETS
The woman dresses in black, carries a 9mm Glock, and has a bad attitude and a mysterious connection to dark and dangerous Carlos Manoso &street name, Ranger.
NEXT, SOMEBODY DIES
The action turns deadly serious, and Stephanie goes from hunting skips to hunting a murderer.
SOON, THE CHASE IS ON
Ranger needs Stephanie for more reasons than he can say. And now, the two are working together to find a killer, rescue a missing child, and stop a lunatic from raising the body count. When Stephanie Plum and Ranger get too close for comfort, vice cop Joe Morelli (her on-again, off-again boyfriend) steps in. Will the ticking clock stop at the stroke of twelve&or will a stranger in the wind find a way to stop Stephanie Plum&forever? 
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Violent Attachments'Book summary:In this investigation, Dr Meloy begins with a question: why does most human violence occur between those who are emotionally involved or, more technically, within an attachment paradigm? He finds answers by applying attachment theory in the tradition of Bowlby and Ainsworth, and object relations theory in the tradition of Klein, Jacobson, Mahler and Kernberg, to case studies of bizarre and unusual homicides. These idiographic portraits illustrate erotomanic delusional disorder, chronic catathymia, the psychopath as love object and assassination as a form of pathological attachment. He elucidates the ways in which certain psychodynamics that inexorably move toward murder can only exist within a fixated or regressed pre-Oedipal personality structure. Such individuals are organised at a borderline or psychotic level, and most often utilise defences of projection, projective identification and omnipotent control. This book is written for psychotherapists, psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists and social workers in clinical or forensic practice. Biological foci include concepts about the deep limbic structures of the brain and the biochemistry that inhibits or disinhibits such violence. Psychological patterns include both psychoanalytic constructs and the specific psychological test data from the case studies that support such constructs. Social factors include the behaviour of the victim and, in the case of assassination, the political acts that contribute to predatory violence. loy emphasises the crucial need for mental health professionals to go beyond descriptive diagnoses and find the motivation and meaning of such acts. The professional's causal and purposive formulations about such violent attachments leads to more effective evaluation, treatment and intervention and, perhaps, testimony in subsequent criminal and civil litigation. [via]
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