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American Short Story Masterpiecesby Raymond Carver, Tom JenksISBN 0385295243 (0-385-29524-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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And Did You Once See Sydney Plain?: A Random Memoir of S.J. Perelmanby Max WilkISBN 0393023435 (0-393-02343-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Animal Crackersby Hannah TintiISBN 0385337442 (0-385-33744-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Presentby Phillip Lopate, Teachers & Writers CollaborativeISBN 038542339X (0-385-42339-X)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present'Book summary:For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking a walk -- to offer insight into the human condition and the great social and political issues of the day. The Art of the Personal Essay is the first anthology to celebrate this fertile genre. By presenting more than seventy-five personal essays, including influential forerunners from ancient Greece, Rome, and the Far East, masterpieces from the dawn of the personal essay in the sixteenth century, and a wealth of the finest personal essays from the last four centuries, editor Phillip Lopate, himself an acclaimed essayist, displays the tradition of the personal essay in all its historical grandeur, depth, and diversity. [via]
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Black Ticketsby George Phillips, Jayne Anne PhillipsISBN 0385280882 (0-385-28088-2)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Black Ticketsby Jayne Anne PhillipsISBN 0385280785 (0-385-28078-5)
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Book of Embracesby Eduardo H. GaleanoISBN 0393029603 (0-393-02960-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Busted Scotchby James KelmanISBN 0393040720 (0-393-04072-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Caravanby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0385423616 (0-385-42361-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caravan'Book summary:Plucky Caressa Horvath travels with her anthropologist husband to Tripoli, where a band of vicious nomads kidnaps her, believing she is a sorceress, and force her to make a three-year odyssey across the Sahara. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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Charityby Mark RichardISBN 0385425708 (0-385-42570-8)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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Charles Kuralt's Americaby Charles KuraltISBN 0385485107 (0-385-48510-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Chinese Talesby Martin BuberISBN 039103698X (0-391-03698-X)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Christmas in My Heart, a Second Treasury : More Heartwarming Tales of Holiday Joyby Joe L. WheelerISBN 0385490291 (0-385-49029-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Complete Storiesby Isaac AsimovISBN 0385416067 (0-385-41606-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Complete Prose Tales of Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkinby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Gillon R. AitkenISBN 0393004651 (0-393-00465-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Cubanisimo!by Cristina GarciaISBN 0385721374 (0-385-72137-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Deep Wizardryby Diane DuaneISBN 0385293739 (0-385-29373-9)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Emerald Cityby Jennifer EganISBN 0385482124 (0-385-48212-4)
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Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of Pablo's Noseby Donald J. Sobol, Eric VelasquezISBN 0385321848 (0-385-32184-8)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dogby Donald J. Sobol, Warren ChangISBN 0385325762 (0-385-32576-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog'Book summary:Will Wilford Wiggins finally part the kids of Idaville from their hard-earned allowances? Can Encyclopedia stop Sally from belting Bugs Meany into the next millennium? What happens when performance art comes to Idaville? To find the answers--and to solve the mysteries of the sleepy beagle and the shower singers--read the continuing adventures of the world's most famous boy detective! [via]
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Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery Salamanderby Donald J. SobolISBN 0385325797 (0-385-32579-7)
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A slippery salamander, a banana burglar, a judge who's run away, and a presidential toothbrush . . . these are just some of the clues that the world's greatest young detective must use to solve 10 all-new mysteries. Young readers can try to solve the cases alongside Encyclopedia--the answers to all the mysteries are in the back of the book. [via]More editions of Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery Salamander:
Every Hunter Wants to Know: A Leningrad Lifeby Mikhail IosselISBN 0393029859 (0-393-02985-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Fantasia Mathematica : Being a Set of Stories, Together with a Group of Oddments and Diversions, All Drawn from the Universe of Mathematicsby Clifton FadimanISBN 0387949313 (0-387-94931-3)
Softcover, Springer
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The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowaby Elizabeth Stuckey-FrenchISBN 0385498969 (0-385-49896-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fraudby David RakoffISBN 038550084X (0-385-50084-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fraud'Book summary:Let's get this out of the way: David Rakoff is not David Sedaris. When you hear him being incredibly smart and funny on This American Life, you invariably think, "Oh, it's David Sedaris." But if you listen closely, you can tell the difference. Rakoff, while no less witty or nasal, is a little more disappointed. In his first collection--a series of pieces for public radio and for various magazines--he positively revels in his world-weariness. Whether he's investigating the Loch Ness monster, attending a comedy festival in Aspen, Colorado, visiting a New Age retreat hosted by Steven Seagal, or just, you know, playing Freud in a department-store window at Christmastime, Rakoff tends to get comically depleted. Watching the comic Dan Castellaneta, for example, he writes, "It's a bad sign when I start counting the unused props on stage. Only two wigs, one stool, an easel, and a dropcloth to go. I begin to pray to an unfeeling God to please make Castellaneta multitask." In a piece where he attempts to climb a mountain (well... a very short hill), Rakoff immediately nips any Sierra Club fantasies in the bud: "I do not go outdoors. Not more than I have to. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach." But in the end, what makes him such a terrific writer is that he's not only onto everyone else, he's onto himself. No wonder his visit to a kibbutz becomes the occasion for some supremely self-conscious amusement: "I know I sound like the Central Casting New Yorker I've turned myself into with single-minded determination when I say this, but the main problem with working in the fields is that the sun is just always shining." --Claire Dederer [via]
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Funny About Thatby John GouldISBN 0393030490 (0-393-03049-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Fur Personby May SartonISBN 0393041948 (0-393-04194-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fur Person'Book summary:A delightful, whimsical taleone of the most popular books for cat lovers ever written, now newly illustrated.
May Sarton's fictionalized account of her cat Tom Jones's life and adventures prior to making the author's acquaintance begins with a fiercely independent, nameless street cat who follows the ten commandments of the Gentleman Catincluding "A Gentleman Cat allows no constraint of his person, not even loving constraint." But after several years of roaming, Tom has grown tired of his vagabond lifestyle, and he concludes that there might be some appeal after all in giving up the freedom of street life for a loving home. It will take just the right human companion, however, to make his transformation from Cat About Town to genuine Fur Person possible. Sarton's book is one of the most beloved stories ever written about the joys and tribulations inherent in sharing one's life with a cat. This edition, beautifully illustrated with 9 new color watercolors by Jared Williams, will continue to be an enduring favorite. 9 new color watercolors [via]More editions of The Fur Person:
The Gamblerby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0393000443 (0-393-00044-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Going after Cacciatoby Tim O'BrienISBN 0385283490 (0-385-28349-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Going after Cacciato'Book summary:"In October, near the end of the month, Cacciato left the war."
In Tim O'Brien's novel Going After Cacciato the theater of war becomes the theater of the absurd as a private deserts his post in Vietnam, intent on walking 8,000 miles to Paris for the peace talks. The remaining members of his squad are sent after him, but what happens then is anybody's guess: "The facts were simple: They went after Cacciato, they chased him into the mountains, they tried hard. They cornered him on a small grassy hill. They surrounded the hill. They waited through the night. And at dawn they shot the sky full of flares and then they moved in.... That was the end of it. The last known fact. What remained were possibilities."
It is these possibilities that make O'Brien's National Book Award-winning novel so extraordinary. Told from the perspective of squad member Paul Berlin, the search for Cacciato soon enters the realm of the surreal as the men find themselves following an elusive trail of chocolate M&M's through the jungles of Indochina, across India, Iran, Greece, and Yugoslavia to the streets of Paris. The details of this hallucinatory journey alternate with feverish memories of the war--men maimed by landmines, killed in tunnels, engaged in casual acts of brutality that would be unthinkable anywhere else. Reminiscent of Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Going After Cacciato dishes up a brilliant mix of ferocious comedy and bleak horror that serves to illuminate both the complex psychology of men in battle and the overarching insanity of war. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Good Bones and Simple Murdersby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385471106 (0-385-47110-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Greatest Generationby Tom BrokawISBN 0385334621 (0-385-33462-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greatest Generation'Book summary:"They came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America -- men and women whose everyday lives of duty, honor, achievement, and courage gave us the world we have today." In this magnificent testament to a nation and her people, Tom Brokaw brings to life the extraordinary stories of a generation that gave new meaning to courage, sacrifice, honor. From military heroes to community leaders to ordinary Americans, he profiles men and women who served their country with valor, then came home and transformed America: Senator Daniel Inouye, decorated at the front, fighting prejudice at home; Martha Putney, one of the first black women to serve in the newly formed WACs; Charles Van Gorder, a doctor who set up a MASH-like medical facility in the middle of battle, then came home to open a small clinic in his hometown; Navy pilot George Bush, assigned to read the mail of the enlisted men under him, who says that in doing so "I learned about life." And there are more, all seasoned by a time of tragedy and triumph. To this generation who gave so much and asked so little, Brokaw offers eloquent tribute in true stories of everyday heroes in extraordinary times. [via]
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The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflectionsby Tom BrokawISBN 0385335385 (0-385-33538-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodISBN 038549081X (0-385-49081-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now.... Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. [via]
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High Wizardryby Diane DuaneISBN 0385299834 (0-385-29983-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Wizardry'Book summary:Don't take brilliant, shrewd Dairine Callahan for just any bratty younger sibling. Impatient for adventure, knowledge, and recognition, she finds her sister Nita's wizardry manual and reads the Oath aloud. Disappointingly, nothing happens. But when her family's new computer arrives, Dairene discovers more than the standard issue system software on it and launches herself on a reckless, universe-wide, high-voltage magical conflict with the Lone Power. Diane Duane's storytelling is skillfully mythic and wittily referential; Dairine's discovery and shaping of a new form of life is wondrous. For maximum enjoyment, read So You Want To Be A Wizard and Deep Wizardry first. [via]
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The History of That Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De LA Manchaby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Burton RaffelISBN 0393037193 (0-393-03719-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Honeymoon : And Other Storiesby Kevin CantyISBN 0385491611 (0-385-49161-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftopsby Catherine Cobham, Hanan Al-Shaykh, Hanan ShaykhISBN 0385491271 (0-385-49127-1)
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Iliad of Homer: Shorten Versionby I.A. RichardsISBN 0393001016 (0-393-00101-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iliad of Homer: Shorten Version'Book summary:According to legend, in ancient times Agamemnon led the Greeks into war with the city of Troy to recapture the beautiful Helen of Troy, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta.
The Iliad, the heroic Greek epic called by I. A. Richards "the most influential poem in the Western tradition," describes what happens toward the end of the Trojan War, when a quarrel between Agamemnon and the Greek hero Achilles sets in motion tragic events that bring the war to its conclusion.
This edition of the Iliad, abridged and translated by the noted critic and translator I. A. Richards, has made this classic work of literature available to modern readers since 1958 in a remarkably readable version. Mr. Richards has cut many passages that are not essential to the storyline and has omitted books 2, 10, 13, and 17. Removing the stylized decoration that can hinder a nonspecialist reader, he makes the language of the poem clearly accessible, and his narrative condensation allows the action to stand out boldly. [via]More editions of Iliad of Homer: Shorten Version:
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Isaac Asimov: The Complete Storiesby Isaac AsimovISBN 0385420781 (0-385-42078-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Kolyma Talesby Varlam ShalamovISBN 039300077X (0-393-00077-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kolyma Tales'Book summary:Nearly three million people died in the forced-labour camps of Kolyma in the North-Eastern region of Siberia. Varlam Shalamov spent 17 years there and this is a collection of short stories concerning individual men and their lives in the camps. The author has also written "Graphite". [via]
Last Days of the Dog-Menby Brad WatsonISBN 0385318278 (0-385-31827-8)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Legends of the Fallby Jim HarrisonISBN 0385285965 (0-385-28596-5)
Softcover, Dell Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Legends of the Fall'Book summary:The publication of this magnificent trilogy of short novels Legends Of The Fall, Revenge, and The Man Who Gave Up His Name confirmed Jim Harrison's reputation as one of the finest American writers of his generation. These absorbing novellas explore the theme of revenge and the actions to which people resort when their lives or goals are threatened, adding up to an extraordinary vision of the twentieth-century man. [via]
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Lost Classicsby Michael Ondaatje, Linda Spalding, Michael Redhill, Esta SpaldingISBN 0385720866 (0-385-72086-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Classics'Book summary:Writers, it's often said, are readers first and writers second. Frequently, it is the indelible mark left by some book that inspires a person to commit to the writing life. Mining that vein, the editors of Brick, a Canadian literary journal, asked their contributors "to tell us the story of a book loved and lost." The "Lost Classics" issue has been expanded into a book, in which 73 authors--Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, John Irving, Philip Levine, Anchee Min, and Michael Ondaatje among them--write about the books they've loved and lost.
These are books worth stealing, books remembered in the twilight that precedes sleep, books that, for these authors, provided "that moment when a reader seems to have found the perfect mate." Though many of the books extolled here are acknowledged classics, many are not. Helen Garner cherishes a childhood book that "except for members of my immediate family, no Australian I've mentioned the book to ... has had any knowledge of it whatsoever." Sarah Sheard writes lovingly of Down and Out in the Woods: An Airman's Guide to Survival in the Bush, "a manual of food, shelter and first aid [that] was the companion text of my childhood summers." Michael Turner reminisces about a book he never actually read, and Erin Mouré describes a book about the history of fishes that "no one I knew was ever interested in reading." Anne Holzman laments her inability to find a copy of a book for lefty activists called Reweaving the Web of Life (hint to Holzman: check online--used copies are readily available). And Nancy Huston introduces Kressmann Taylor's Address Unknown, "a perfectly astonishing [and prescient] little book." A kind of Rand McNally for the literary explorer, each chapter a hand-forged map leading down bookish roads less traveled. --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Magicianby Raymond E. FeistISBN 0385426305 (0-385-42630-5)
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The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventuresby Malba Tahan, Patricia Reid BaqueroISBN 0393034305 (0-393-03430-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Managing by Storying Around: A New Method of Leadershipby David ArmstrongISBN 0385421540 (0-385-42154-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Melancholy of Anatomyby Shelley JacksonISBN 038572120X (0-385-72120-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Really Short Storiesby Jerome SternISBN 0393039684 (0-393-03968-4)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Moral Disorder: And Other Storiesby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385503849 (0-385-50384-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moral Disorder: And Other Stories'Book summary:Margaret Atwood is acknowledged as one of the foremost writers of our time. In Moral Disorder, she has created a series of interconnected stories that trace the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with itthose of parents, of siblings, of children, of friends, of enemies, of teachers, and even of animals. As in a photograph album, time is measured in sharp, clearly observed moments. The 30s, the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, and the present all are here. The settings vary: large cities, suburbs, farms, northern forests.
The Bad News is set in the present, as a couple no longer young situate themselves in a larger world no longer safe. The narrative then switches time as the central character moves through childhood and adolescence in The Art of Cooking and Serving, The Headless Horseman, and My Last Duchess. We follow her into young adulthood in The Other Place and then through a complex relationship, traced in four of the stories: Monopoly, Moral Disorder, White Horse, and The Entities. The last two stories, "The Labrador Fiasco" and "The Boys at the Lab," deal with the heartbreaking old age of parents but circle back again to childhood, to complete the cycle.
By turns funny, lyrical, incisive, tragic, earthy, shocking, and deeply personal, Moral Disorder displays Atwoods celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage. As the New York Times has said: "The reader has the sense that Atwood has complete access to her people's emotional histories, complete understanding of their hearts and imaginations. [via]More editions of Moral Disorder: And Other Stories:
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The Norton Book of Science Fictionby Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian AtteberyISBN 0393035468 (0-393-03546-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Book of Science Fiction'Book summary:In the tradition of other groundbreaking Norton anthologies, Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Atteberry's "Norton Book of Science Fiction" provided the first truly comphrehensive and cohereent look at the best of contemporary science fiction. Its 67 stories, all published since 1960, offer compelling evidence that science fiction is the source of the most thoughtful, imaginative - indeed literary - fiction being written today. [via]
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The Odysseyby Homer, Albert Spaulding CookISBN 0393007448 (0-393-00744-8)
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The Old Forest and Other Storiesby Peter TaylorISBN 0385279833 (0-385-27983-3)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Out of the Girls' Room and into the Nightby Thisbe NissenISBN 038572053X (0-385-72053-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Pantagruel Gargantuaby Francois Rabelais, Burton RaffelISBN 0393028437 (0-393-02843-7)
Hardcover, Norton
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The Parables of Joshuaby Joseph F. GirzoneISBN 0385495129 (0-385-49512-9)
Softcover, Image Books
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The Power of Mythby Joseph Campbell, Betty S. Flowers, Bill D. MoyersISBN 0385418868 (0-385-41886-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power of Myth'Book summary:Among his many gifts, Joseph Campbell's most impressive was the unique ability to take a contemporary situation, such as the murder and funeral of President John F. Kennedy, and help us understand its impact in the context of ancient mythology. Herein lies the power of The Power of Myth, showing how humans are apt to create and live out the themes of mythology. Based on a six-part PBS television series hosted by Bill Moyers, this classic is especially compelling because of its engaging question-and-answer format, creating an easy, conversational approach to complicated and esoteric topics. For example, when discussing the mythology of heroes, Campbell and Moyers smoothly segue from the Sumerian sky goddess Inanna to Star Wars' mercenary-turned-hero, Han Solo. Most impressive is Campbell's encyclopedic knowledge of myths, demonstrated in his ability to recall the details and archetypes of almost any story, from any point and history, and translate it into a lesson for spiritual living in the here and now. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Prize Stories 1994by William AbrahamsISBN 0385471181 (0-385-47118-1)
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Prize Stories 1998by Larry DarkISBN 0385489587 (0-385-48958-7)
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Prize Stories 1999by Larry DarkISBN 0385493584 (0-385-49358-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prize Stories 1999'Book summary:Some readers anxiously monitor each year's O. Henry anthology like doctors taking vital signs at a bedside, looking for clues to the current state of the American short story. Good news: the patient is alive and well--it's officially time to stop monitoring her pulse. Chosen by this year's prize jury (Sherman Alexie, Lorrie Moore, and, oddly enough, Stephen King), the three top winners are a satisfying mix of psychological realism and mild formal innovation. Best of all, they are as different from one another as chalk from cheese. Those looking for "trends" may come away disappointed, but anyone in search of a good solid read will find plenty to choose from here.
The year's first-prize pick is Peter Baida's "A Nurse's Story," a quiet, moving tale that manages to skirt sentimentality by possessing that rare literary gift, perfect pitch. "A good death. That's what everyone wants," longtime nurse Mary McDonald tells us, but Baida's story serves instead as a tribute to a good life--and all the other lives it ripples out to affect. The second-prize winner is a more unsettling and ambitious fiction, Cary Holladay's "Merry-Go-Sorry." Ostensibly about the rape and murder of three little boys, it somehow encompasses putative satanism, teenage alienation, hopeless love, grief, affliction, mystery, and everything else that makes us all human. The word merry-go-sorry "means a story with good news and bad," the accused killer's mother tells us, "joy and sorrow mixed together..." Holladay's story is indeed a merry-go-sorry, and in its juxtaposition of despair and hope it reminds us that, as in the wake of an Arkansas storm, sometimes "what's beautiful happens by accident." Rounding out the three prizewinners is a story by Alice Munro, a writer who deserves every prize extant and maybe a few not even thought of yet. Her "Save the Reaper" loosely reworks Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," but instead of a savage Southern parable, she produces what Lorrie Moore calls "a kind of pagan prayer," shot through with love, loss, mourning, and death.
Standouts from the rest of this collection include the splendid rodeo fiction "The Mud Below," by Annie Proulx, George Saunders's bizarre, tragic, and sidesplitting "Sea Oak," and something everyone either really really loves or really really hates, David Foster Wallace's footnote-enhanced "The Depressed Person." (This reviewer thinks it's funny, sad, and brilliant in an unrestrained and very Wallacean way.) As always, there are a few stories here that the clients in Saunders's male strip bar might rate "Stinker," but overall the miss-to-hit ratio is surprisingly low. Another year, another lively--and impressively vital--anthology. --Mary Park [via]
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Prize Stories 2000by Larry DarkISBN 0385498772 (0-385-49877-2)
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Prize Stories 2001by Larry DarkISBN 0385498780 (0-385-49878-0)
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The Question of Brunoby Aleksandar HemonISBN 038549923X (0-385-49923-X)
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Radios: Short Takes on Life and Cultureby Jerome SternISBN 0393041190 (0-393-04119-0)
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Rispondimiby Susanna Tamaro, John CullenISBN 0385503512 (0-385-50351-2)
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The Seasons of Womenby Gloria NorrisISBN 0393038602 (0-393-03860-2)
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Sins for Father Knoxby Josef SkvoreckyISBN 0393025128 (0-393-02512-8)
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So You Want to Be a Wizardby Diane DuaneISBN 0385293054 (0-385-29305-4)
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The Sound of Writingby Alan Cheuse, Caroline MarshallISBN 0385416709 (0-385-41670-9)
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A Stranger in This Worldby Kevin CantyISBN 0385473877 (0-385-47387-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Stranger in This World'Book summary:A collection of powerful and polished short stories charts the narrow territory between the normal and the obsessional, the known and the shockingly violent, where people cross into a world of danger and risk, hope and disappointment. Tour. [via]
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Characterby Richard P FeynmanISBN 0393019217 (0-393-01921-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character'Book summary:A series of anecdotes, such as are included in Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in this engagingly eccentric book. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers"), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out "Is Electricity Fire?"), unafraid to offend (see "You Just Ask Them?"), Feynman informs by entertaining. It's possible to enjoy Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985, simply as a bunch of hilarious yarns with the author as know-it-all hero. At some point, however, attentive readers realise that underneath all the merriment simmers a running commentary on what constitutes authentic knowledge: learning by understanding, not by rote; refusal to give up on seemingly insoluble problems, and total disrespect for fancy ideas that have no grounding in the real world. Feynman himself had all these qualities in spades, and they come through with vigour and verve in his no-bull prose. No wonder his students--and readers around the world--adored him. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Taking Flight: A Book of Story Meditationsby Anthony De MelloISBN 0385413718 (0-385-41371-8)
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Tara Roadby Maeve BinchyISBN 0385333951 (0-385-33395-1)
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The Tentby Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 0385516681 (0-385-51668-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tent'Book summary:One of the worlds most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the author. Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, these highly imaginative, vintage Atwoodian mini-fictions speak on a broad range of subjects, reflecting the times we live in with deadly accuracy and knife-edge precision.
In pieces ranging in length from a mere paragraph to several pages, Atwood gives a sly pep talk to the ambitious young; writes about the disconcerting experience of looking at old photos of ourselves; gives us Horatio's real views on Hamlet; and examines the boons and banes of orphanhood. Bring Back Mom: An Invocation explores what life was really like for the perfect homemakers of days gone by, and in The Animals Reject Their Names, she runs history backward, with surprising results.
Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, The Tent is vintage Atwood. Enhanced by the authors delightful drawings, it is perfect for Valentines Day, and any other occasion that demands a special, out-of-the-ordinary gift. [via]More editions of The Tent:
This Year It Will Be Different : And Other Storiesby Maeve BinchyISBN 0385315031 (0-385-31503-1)
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Three Greek Plays Prometheus Bound Agamemnon the Trojan Womenby Edith HamiltonISBN 0393002039 (0-393-00203-9)
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Total Immersionby Allegra GoodmanISBN 0385332998 (0-385-33299-8)
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Traveling Merciesby Anne LamottISBN 0385496095 (0-385-49609-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Traveling Mercies'Book summary:Anne Lamott claims the two best prayers she knows are: "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." She has a friend whose morning prayer each day is "Whatever," and whose evening prayer is "Oh, well." Anne thinks of Jesus as "Casper the friendly savior" and describes God as "one crafty mother."Despite--or because of--her irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier nonfiction books. The people in Anne Lamott's real life are like beloved characters in a favorite series for her readers--her friend Pammy, her son, Sam, and the many funny and wise folks who attend her church are all familiar. And Traveling Mercies is a welcome return to those lives, as well as an introduction to new companions Lamott treats with the same candor, insight, and tenderness. Lamott's faith isn't about easy answers, which is part of what endears her to believers as well as nonbelievers. Against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself. As she puts it, "My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers." At once tough, personal, affectionate, wise, and very funny, Traveling Mercies tells in exuberant detail how Anne Lamott learned to shine the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary life, exposing surprising pockets of meaning and hope. [via]
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Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Lifes Greatest Lessonby Mitch AlbomISBN 0385484518 (0-385-48451-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Lifes Greatest Lesson'Book summary:This true story about the love between a spiritual mentor and his pupil has soared to the bestseller list for many reasons. For starters: it reminds us of the affection and gratitude that many of us still feel for the significant mentors of our past. It also plays out a fantasy many of us have entertained: what would it be like to look those people up again, tell them how much they meant to us, maybe even resume the mentorship? Plus, we meet Morrie Schwartz--a one of a kind professor, whom the author describes as looking like a cross between a biblical prophet and Christmas elf. And finally we are privy to intimate moments of Morrie's final days as he lies dying from a terminal illness. Even on his deathbed, this twinkling-eyed mensch manages to teach us all about living robustly and fully. Kudos to author and acclaimed sports columnist Mitch Albom for telling this universally touching story with such grace and humility. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Ugly Little Boyby Isaac Asimov, Robert SilverbergISBN 0385263430 (0-385-26343-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ugly Little Boy'Book summary:Plucked out of the past and transported forty thousand years into the future, a Neanderthal child discovers that human nature has remained unchanged, in an expanded version of an original Asimov story published in 1958. 60,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Universe 1by Robert Silverberg, Karen HaberISBN 0385267711 (0-385-26771-1)
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The Unknown Errors of Our Livesby Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniISBN 0385497288 (0-385-49728-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unknown Errors of Our Lives'Book summary:From acclaimed and beloved author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni comes a new collection of moving stories about family, culture, and the seduction of memory. With the rich prose and keen insight that made Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart national bestsellers, these tales of journeys and returns, of error, of loss and recovery, all resound with her unique understanding of the human spirit."Don't we all have to pay, no matter what we choose?" a young woman asks in "The Love of a Good Man," one of the unforgettable stories in Chitra Divakaruni's beautifully crafted exploration of the tensions between new lives and old. In tales set in India and the United States, she illuminates the transformations of personal landscapes, real and imagined, brought about by the choices men and women make at every stage of their lives."The Love of a Good Man" tells of an Indian woman happily settled in the United States who must confront the past when her long-estranged father begs to meet his only grandson. In the acclaimed "Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter," a widow, inadvertently eavesdropping, discovers that her cherished, old-fashioned ways are an embarrassment to her daughter-in-law. A young American woman joins a pilgrimage of women in Kashmir and, in the land of her ancestors, comes to view herself and her family in a new light in "The Lives of Strangers." Two women, uprooted from their native land by violence and deception, find unexpected comfort and hope in each other in "The Blooming Season for Cacti." And in the title story, a young woman turns to her painting and the wisdom of her grandmother for the strength to accept her fiance's past when it arrives on her doorstep.Whether writing about the adjustments of immigrants to a foreign land or the accommodations families make to the disruptive differences between generations, Divakaruni poignantly portrays the eternal struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the allure of change. [via]
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The Vanishing Hitchhikerby Jan Harold BrunvandISBN 0393014738 (0-393-01473-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vanishing Hitchhiker'Book summary:The book that launched America's urban legend obsession!The Vanishing Hitchhiker was Professor Brunvand's first popular book on urban legends, and it remains a classic. The culmination of twenty years of collection and research, this book is a must-have for urban legend lovers. [via]
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Vinegar Pussby PerlemanISBN 0385291140 (0-385-29114-0)
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Walking Wordsby Eduardo Galeano, Jose Francisco BorgesISBN 0393037827 (0-393-03782-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walking Words'Book summary:These stories of ghouls and fools are found in the folklore of rural and urban Latin America, but are far more than an exercise in literary anthropology. Instead, these tales, riddles, aphorisms and paradoxes become testaments to the power of stories to make and remake and enchant the world. Woodcut illustrations. [via]
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Waltzing the Catby Pam HoustonISBN 039302749X (0-393-02749-X)
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Way That Water Enters Stoneby John DufresneISBN 0393029247 (0-393-02924-7)
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Characterby Richard P FeynmanISBN 0393026590 (0-393-02659-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character'Book summary:A thoughtful companion volume to the earlier Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynman!. Perhaps the most intriguing parts of the book are the behind-the-scenes descriptions of science and policy colliding in the presidential commission to determine the cause of the Challenger space shuttle explosion; and the scientific sleuthing behind his famously elegant O-ring-in-ice-water demonstration. Not as rollicking as his other memoirs, but in some ways more profound. [via]
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Whoredom in Kimmage: The World of Irish Womenby Rosemary MahoneyISBN 0385474504 (0-385-47450-4)
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