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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0804115710 (0-8041-1571-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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After the First Deathby Robert CormierISBN 0808516124 (0-8085-1612-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the First Death'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The hijacking of a bus of children by terrorists is described from the perspectives of a hostage, a terrorist, an Army general involved in the rescue operation, and his son, chosen as the go-between. [via]
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American Tabloid : A Novelby James EllroyISBN 0804114498 (0-8041-1449-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Tabloid : A Novel'Book summary:CHOSEN BY TIME MAGAZINE AS ONE OF
THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
"ONE HELLISHLY EXCITING RIDE."
--Detroit Free Press
The '50s are finished. Zealous young senator Robert Kennedy has a red-hot jones to nail Jimmy Hoffa. JFK has his eyes on the Oval Office. J. Edgar Hoover is swooping down on the Red Menace. Howard Hughes is dodging subpoenas and digging up Kennedy dirt. And Castro is mopping up the bloody aftermath of his new communist nation.
"HARD-BITTEN. . . INGENIOUS. . . ELLROY SEGUES INTO POLITICAL INTRIGUE WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT."
--The New York Times
In the thick of it: FBI men Kemper Boyd and Ward Littell. They work every side of the street, jerking the chains of made men, street scum, and celebrities alike, while Pete Bondurant, ex-rogue cop, freelance enforcer, troubleshooter, and troublemaker, has the conscience to louse it all up.
"VASTLY ENTERTAINING."
--Los Angeles Times
Mob bosses, politicos, snitches, psychos, fall guys, and femmes fatale. They're mixing up a molotov cocktail guaranteed to end the country's innocence with a bang. Dig that crazy beat: it's America's heart racing out of control. . . .
"A SUPREMELY CONTROLLED WORK OF ART."
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The Assassinsby Joe Musser, Oliver NorthISBN 0805425527 (0-8054-2552-7)
Hardcover, B & H Pub Group
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The Bachelors: Library Editionby Muriel SparkISBN 0811214249 (0-8112-1424-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Becoming Alienby Rebecca OreISBN 0812503139 (0-8125-0313-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Berlin Storiesby Christopher IsherwoodISBN 0811200701 (0-8112-0070-1)
Softcover, New Directions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Berlin Stories'Book summary:Christopher Isherwood was a diverse writer whose accomplishments included The Mortmere Stories (Edward Upward Series), A Single Man and a translation of The Song of God (Bhagavad Gita). But many critics hailed The Berlin Stories, the reissue of two of his best novels, as his finest. In the book, a man named Christopher Isherwood, who is and is not the author, writes a story of exile, combining the best of Isherwood's real life with the best of the life he imagined. [via]
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Biting the Moonby Martha GrimesISBN 0805056211 (0-8050-5621-1)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Bitter Ends: The Selected Stories of Robert Blochby Robert BlochISBN 0806512016 (0-8065-1201-6)
Hardcover, Carol Publishing Group
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Bleak Houseby Charles Dickens, Nicola BradburyISBN 0808577301 (0-8085-7730-1)
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Blood Moneyby Thomas PerryISBN 0804115419 (0-8041-1541-9)
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Bone Gameby Louis OwensISBN 0806128410 (0-8061-2841-0)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bone Game'Book summary:[via]Bone Game is a murder mystery on a grand scale. Cole McCurtain, a mixed-blood Indian professor of Indian Studies at Santa Cruz, California, is haunted by dreams dating back to events of Spanish California. Images of a Spanish priest murdered in 1812, a rearing grizzly bear, and a black-and-white painted Indian who offers bones in his extended hands come at a time when dismembered pieces of a young woman are washing ashore in 1993. The dreams become increasingly urgent as the murders become more frequent, and Coles family and friends gather to help-including Choctaw relatives who travel west from Mississippi because "this storys so big, Cole sees only a little bit of it."
Boy in the Waterby Stephen DobynsISBN 0805060200 (0-8050-6020-0)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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A Breach of Promiseby Anne PerryISBN 0804118558 (0-8041-1855-8)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Breach of Promise'Book summary:The promises that are breached, broken, and never born in Anne Perry's rich and resonant new William Monk mystery all have to do with the roles and positions of women in Victorian society. At the center of the book is a rousing courtroom drama, as young Zillah Lambert--daughter of a wealthy, well-meaning northern businessman and his socially ambitious wife--sues an immensely gifted architect, Killian Melville. Melville, Zillah argues, failed to live up to his promise of marriage and thereby ruined her chances of making any sort of acceptable match. Private detective Monk is brought into the case by lawyer Oliver Rathbone when his client (Melville), facing financial and social ruin, still refuses to offer any reason for his dastardly conduct.
Monk's attentions are occupied elsewhere, too. Hester Latterly, the courageous nurse who worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, and whose favors Monk and Rathbone both desire, is looking after a British officer, Gabriel Sheldon, who was badly wounded and disfigured in India. Gabriel's wife, Perdita, is having trouble adjusting to her husband's broken body and spirit. "It was not Perdita's fault that she was confused and frightened," Monk muses. "She had been protected all her short life. She had not chosen to be, it was her assigned role." Monk has also promised a housemaid in the Sheldons' service that he will look for her two little nieces--deaf and deformed from birth--who were abandoned by their mother almost 20 years before. As the cases tangle and combine (perhaps a tad too coincidentally for some tastes, but, then again, real life is full of coincidences), Perry manages to show us the many ways in which women were made to pay for their place in a male-dominated society. She also delivers a touching and surprisingly suspenseful story. Other Monk books in paperback: The Silent Cry, Cain His Brother, Defend and Betray, Weighed in the Balance. --Dick Adler [via]
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By the Time You Read Thisby Giles BluntISBN 0805080619 (0-8050-8061-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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C Is for Corpseby Sue GraftonISBN 0805028188 (0-8050-2818-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Callendar Papersby Cynthia VoigtISBN 0808559486 (0-8085-5948-6)
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The Case Has Altered : A Richard Jury Mysteryby Martha GrimesISBN 0805056203 (0-8050-5620-3)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Charles Dickens' Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Holly HughesISBN 0812034147 (0-8120-3414-7)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Classic Tales Of Jacques Futrelle: The Thinking Machineby Jacques FutrelleISBN 0809510561 (0-8095-1056-1)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Cold Lightby John HarveyISBN 0805020462 (0-8050-2046-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twainby Mark Twain, Charles NeiderISBN 0808522760 (0-8085-2276-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain'Book summary:For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years.
Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, to the bitter vision of humankind in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, to the delightful hilarity of Is He Living or Is He Dead? Surging with Twain s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of in the words of H. L. Mencken the father of our national literature. [via]More editions of The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain:
Complete Stories of Robert Blochby Robert BlochISBN 0806511443 (0-8065-1144-3)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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D Is for Deadbeatby Sue GraftonISBN 0805002480 (0-8050-0248-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Dark Debtsby Karen HallISBN 0804116555 (0-8041-1655-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 0804900655 (0-8049-0065-5)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Deliveranceby James DickeyISBN 0809310309 (0-8093-1030-9)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deliverance'Book summary:[via]The writing of the screenplay became an intense and extremely stimulating sort of game in which, with a camera in the hands of God rather than any mortal cinemaphotographer, I wrote the scenes one after the other as I would like to have them be. from the Afterword
This is the original screenplay that Dickey submitted to Warner Brothers. He had begun it with the idea of creating a work that would stand on its own as a work of art and still enhance and deepen the audiences apprehension of their individual experience of Deliverance and its special meaning to them. When he sent this screenplay to Warner Brothers it was with a sense of having accomplished that goalI was convinced I had put down on paper what I wanted to happen on the screen, no matter who the director was, or the actors, or any of the rest of the crew.
But while acknowledging the creativity, bravery, and dedication of John Boorman and the actors and the crew who made the film version of Deliverance, Dickey also states that their realization is not the film as he would have had it. That film exists only in his imagination and within this screenplay. The story as filmed is presented in twenty-two production stills that speak of the undeniable strengths of the production that received nominations from the Motion Picture Academy for its awards of best picture, best direction, and best editing. Arthur Knight described the film as one of those rare films that resonates like a literary work but thatrarer stillavoids either being or sounding literary. Dickey concludes his Afterword with an invitation to the reader to show [the screenplay] in the widescreen theater of his mind and compare it with the version he has seen in actual theaters, or on television.
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Duplicate Deathby Georgette HeyerISBN 0805013393 (0-8050-1339-3)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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E Is for Evidenceby Sue GraftonISBN 0805004599 (0-8050-0459-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Eight Months on Ghazzah Streetby Hilary MantelISBN 0805052038 (0-8050-5203-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Elements of Chanceby Barbara WilkinsISBN 0809243180 (0-8092-4318-0)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte, Frances McCarthyISBN 0812034481 (0-8120-3448-1)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Exileby Richard North PattersonISBN 0805079475 (0-8050-7947-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anthony S. AbbottISBN 0812034155 (0-8120-3415-5)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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The Face-Changersby Thomas PerryISBN 0804115400 (0-8041-1540-0)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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Final Witnessby James Scott BellISBN 0805418423 (0-8054-1842-3)
Softcover, Broadman & Holman Pub
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A Firing Offenseby David IgnatiusISBN 0804118027 (0-8041-1802-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Fridayby Robert HeinleinISBN 0808522000 (0-8085-2200-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Friday'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In a Balkanized North America of the near future, threatened by imminent extinction, a strikingly beautiful and resourceful interplanetary secret agent--an Artificial Person named Friday--tries to survive a gigantic human comedy. [via]
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0809597470 (0-8095-9747-0)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister. . . . but this is my tale, not my father's. It is the tale of how I lived my life, and thrived -- how I lost my all, and found something again, praiise God, a thing I love. Listen and you'dll hear . . . [via]
The Grounding of Group 6by Julian F. ThompsonISBN 080505085X (0-8050-5085-X)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0808510258 (0-8085-1025-8)
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Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbirdby Joyce Milton, Harper LeeISBN 0812034465 (0-8120-3446-5)
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling, Jim DaleISBN 0807282073 (0-8072-8207-3)
Softcover, Listening Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'Book summary:What makes the Harry Potter series so successful? Maybe it's the fact that J.K. Rowling doesn't write children's books, she writes children's stories, more in the tradition of the Brothers Grimm than Dr. Seuss. The exploits of Harry and his friends captivate even the shortest attention spans by engaging the imagination with vivid characters and fast-moving action, instead of trying to merely catch the eye with colorful pictures or pop-up effects. Not surprisingly, the Potter tales sound wonderful read aloud, and adapt to the audiobook format extremely well. Broadway actor Jim Dale's impressive vocal range gives each character in the book its own distinctive voice--a considerable task, given the pantheon of witches, warlocks, ghosts, ghouls, dwarves, and elves that Harry encounters in his second outing. And thankfully, since the book is read unabridged, no one's favorite character is omitted. Engaging for children without being childish, the audio version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is worthy addition to the deservedly popular series. (Running time: 9 hours, 7 CDs) --Andrew Nieland [via]
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The House of Forgettingby Benjamin Alire SáenzISBN 0804118310 (0-8041-1831-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Forgetting'Book summary:At seven, Gloria Santos accepts a ride with a charming stranger--and loses the only world she has ever known. Abducted and kept hidden by a respected academic for twenty long years, Gloria is raised in the shadow of her captor's dark, disturbed mind. She enters womanhood believing that life demands servitude, love means obsession, and fear is all-encompassing.
Driven to violence to free herself, Gloria is caught between a world she hates and one she does not know. Now she must find the strength to bury her twisted past--or risk losing her newfound freedom forever. . . . [via]More editions of The House of Forgetting:
The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor HugoISBN 0804901627 (0-8049-0162-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'Book summary:Kindle edition of Victor Hugo's classic work with an active table of contents. [via]
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In Too Deepby Cherry AdairISBN 0804120013 (0-8041-2001-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Jackal's Headby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0812500024 (0-8125-0002-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Judgment Calls : A Mysteryby Alafair BurkeISBN 0805073868 (0-8050-7386-8)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Knockout Mouse : A Silicon Valley Mysteryby James CalderISBN 0811834999 (0-8118-3499-9)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollowby Washington IrvingISBN 0809594080 (0-8095-9408-0)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Lord of Iceby Gaelen FoleyISBN 0804119732 (0-8041-1973-2)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, Alan DurbandISBN 0812035712 (0-8120-3571-2)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Masterpieces of Suspenseby Rosamund MorrisISBN 0805500065 (0-8055-0006-5)
Softcover, Hart Pub Co
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Medusaby Hammond InnesISBN 0812503910 (0-8125-0391-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medusa'Book summary:HMS Medusa is an obsolete frigate with an ill-assorted crew and an insecure captain. Why has she been dispatched under secret orders to be a sitting duck in one of the most vital ports of the Mediterranean? The author has written 27 novels including "The Lonely Skier" and "Campbell's Kingdom". [via]
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0809597357 (0-8095-9735-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:"I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning. "Go! Where to?" "To Dartmoor; to King's Pyland." I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed upon this extraordinary case, which was the one topic of conversation through the length and breadth of England. For a whole day my companion had rambled about the room with his chin upon his chest and his brows knitted, charging and recharging his pipe with the strongest black tobacco, and absolutely deaf to any of my questions or remarks. Fresh editions of every paper had been sent up by our news agent, only to be glanced over and tossed down into a corner. Yet, silent as he was, I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding. There was but one problem before the public which could challenge his powers of analysis, and that was the singular disappearance of the favorite for the Wessex Cup, and the tragic murder of its trainer. When, therefore, he suddenly announced his intention of setting out for the scene of the drama it was only what I had both expected and hoped for. This volumes includes "Silver Blaze," "The Yellow Face," "The Stock-Broker's Clerk," "The 'Gloria Scott'," "The Musgrave Ritual," "The Reigate Puzzle," "The Crooked Man," "The Resident Patient," "The Greek Interpreter," "The Naval Treaty," and "The Final Problem." [via]
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The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmesby Sebastian WolfeISBN 0806512350 (0-8065-1235-0)
Softcover, Carol Pub Group
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Monsieur Lecoqby Emile GaboriauISBN 0809532336 (0-8095-3233-6)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Murder Alfresco: A Sunny Mccoskey Napa Valley Mysteryby Nadia GordonISBN 081184630X (0-8118-4630-X)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Murder on the Titanicby James WalkerISBN 0805401989 (0-8054-0198-9)
Softcover, B & H Pub Group
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The Mysterious Islandby Jules VerneISBN 0804900779 (0-8049-0077-9)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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No Physical Evidence: A Courtroom Novelby Gus LeeISBN 0804117799 (0-8041-1779-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Of Human Bondageby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0809587696 (0-8095-8769-6)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Human Bondage'Book summary:From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.[via]More editions of Of Human Bondage:
Out of Sightby Cherry AdairISBN 0804120021 (0-8041-2002-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Paris Undergroundby Etta ShiberISBN 0809472589 (0-8094-7258-9)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Psycho IIby Robert BlochISBN 0812500334 (0-8125-0033-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Pursuitby Thomas PerryISBN 0804115435 (0-8041-1543-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes I: The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, and The Adventure of the Three Studentsby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0809597233 (0-8095-9723-3)
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0804900221 (0-8049-0022-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:I cast my eyes to the stranded vessel, when the breach and froth of the sea being so big, I could hardly see it, it lay so far off, and considered, Lord! how was it possible I could get on shore? After I had solaced my mind with the comfortable part of my condition, I began to look round me to see what kind of place I was in, and what was next to be done, and I soon found my comforts abate, and that, in a word, I had a dreadful deliverance; for I was wet, had no clothes to shift me, nor anything either to eat or drink to comfort me, neither did I see any prospect before me but that of perishing with hunger, of being devoured by wild beasts; and that which was particularly afflicting to me was that I had no weapon either to hunt and kill any creature for my sustenance, or to defend myself against any other creature that might desire to kill me for theirs. In a word, I had nothing about me but a knife, a tobacco-pipe, and a little tobacco in a box. This was all my provision; and this threw me into terrible agonies of mind, that for a while I ran about like a madman. Night coming upon me, I began, with a heavy heart, to consider what would be my lot if there were any ravenous beasts in that country, seeing at night they always come abroad for their prey. [via]
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 080851038X (0-8085-1038-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'Book summary:The French nobility are living in terror; one by one they are sent to the guillotine. Revenge at last for the years of callousness and cruelty suffered by the people of France. There is no escape; the city walls of Paris are guarded day and night. And yet a few achieve the impossible, disappearing without a trace in Paris, only to re-emerge in the safety of England. Rumours abound of a group of young English gentleman of unparalleled daring. Under their anonymous leader they save scores of aristocrats from terrible deaths. And each time a note is put mockingly into the hands of the merciless tribunal chairman, Citoyen Tinville. On it is the stamp of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Tinville will do or pay anything to see the Englishmen dead but they seem to evade capture with almost devilish ease. But with the cunning and ruthless spy master, Chauvelin, on his trail, the Scarlet Pimpernel must make no slip for he has everything to lose. [via]
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The Sea-Wolfby Jack LondonISBN 0809565420 (0-8095-6542-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sea-Wolf'Book summary:In The Sea-Wolf, London's most gripping novel, Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued from the freezing waters of San Francisco Bay by a demonic sea captain and introduced to fates far worse that death. Through this story London recalls his own adventures on a sealing vessel at the age of seventeen. John Sutherland's notes include a history of pelagic seal hunting and an account of the many cinematic versions of this novel.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. [via] -
Things Fall Apartby Chinua AchebeISBN 0808592777 (0-8085-9277-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Things Fall Apart'Book summary:One of Chinua Achebe's many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two years before Nigeria declared independence from Great Britain, the book eschews the obvious temptation of depicting pre-colonial life as a kind of Eden. Instead, Achebe sketches a world in which violence, war, and suffering exist, but are balanced by a strong sense of tradition, ritual, and social coherence. His Ibo protagonist, Okonkwo, is a self-made man. The son of a charming ne'er-do-well, he has worked all his life to overcome his father's weakness and has arrived, finally, at great prosperity and even greater reputation among his fellows in the village of Umuofia. Okonkwo is a champion wrestler, a prosperous farmer, husband to three wives and father to several children. He is also a man who exhibits flaws well-known in Greek tragedy:
Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand. His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children. Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo's fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father.
And yet Achebe manages to make this cruel man deeply sympathetic. He is fond of his eldest daughter, and also of Ikemefuna, a young boy sent from another village as compensation for the wrongful death of a young woman from Umuofia. He even begins to feel pride in his eldest son, in whom he has too often seen his own father. Unfortunately, a series of tragic events tests the mettle of this strong man, and it is his fear of weakness that ultimately undoes him.Achebe does not introduce the theme of colonialism until the last 50 pages or so. By then, Okonkwo has lost everything and been driven into exile. And yet, within the traditions of his culture, he still has hope of redemption. The arrival of missionaries in Umuofia, however, followed by representatives of the colonial government, completely disrupts Ibo culture, and in the chasm between old ways and new, Okonkwo is lost forever. Deceptively simple in its prose, Things Fall Apart packs a powerful punch as Achebe holds up the ruin of one proud man to stand for the destruction of an entire culture. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre DumasISBN 0804901279 (0-8049-0127-9)
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Tragedy of Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 0804910022 (0-8049-1002-2)
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0804900124 (0-8049-0012-4)
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Twice-Told Talesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0804900663 (0-8049-0066-3)
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William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Marina KastanISBN 0806943440 (0-8069-4344-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:He was the greatest poet and playwright who ever lived, the dramatist who penned lines that we quote without even realizing their origin. Shakespeare's glorious works have even inspired animated films--like Disney's The Lion King. Introduce children to the Bard with this wonderful, fully annotated collection of sonnets and soliloquies, enhanced with beautiful, highly realistic color paintings that bring each excerpt to vivid life. Here are Shakespeare's most famous speeches: "To be or not to be" from Hamlet, with the melancholy Dane pictured in front of the castle, his face pensive and gazing into the distance; Portia's gentle plea for mercy in The Merchant of Venice; Macbeth's witches' cackling "Double, double, toil and trouble"; and Marc Antony's sarcastic address to "Friends, Romans, Countrymen," in Julius Caesar. A golden-robed Henry V, kneeling and bowed from the weight of the world, ponders how rulers must bear the burden of their subjects' needs. Mercutio, seen here in a bright red background as fiery and explosive as his personality, gently teases his lovesick friend Romeo. From the tender sonnets (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) to the humorous songs sung by his jesters in comedies such as Twelfth Night, every page contains pure verbal and visual magic.[via]
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Witch Hillby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0812500067 (0-8125-0006-7)
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The Woodchipper Murderby Arthur HerzogISBN 0805007539 (0-8050-0753-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woodchipper Murder'Book summary:Even though the Newtown, Connecticut, police listed Helle Crafts' disappearance as a routine missing person case, Keith Mayo, a private investigator, knew the Danish-born mother of three hadn't skipped town nine days before Thanksgiving.. Rita Buonanno remembers the words exactly: "If anything happens to me don't think it was an accident." Helle Crafts was last seen on November 18, 1986.In the style of a brilliant detective novel, Arthur Herzog skillfully re-creates the hour-by-hour circumstantial details that inform this grisly true-crime narrative. We observe dispassionate Richard Crafts as he buys a truck with a pintle hook for towing heavy equipment, promised for delivery before November 18. A day later he reserves a Badger Brush Bandit woodchipper. [via]
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0809598981 (0-8095-9898-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wuthering Heights'Book summary:I have just returned from a visit to my landlord -- the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name. "Mr. Heathcliff?" I said. A nod was the answer. "Mr. Lockwood, your new tenant, sir. I do myself the honor of calling as soon as possible after my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you had had some thoughts --" "Thrushcross Grange is my own, sir," he interrupted, wincing. "I should not allow anyone to inconvenience me, if I could hinder it -- walk in!" [via]
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