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11 Harrowhouseby Gerald A. BrowneISBN 0877950245 (0-87795-024-5)
Hardcover, Arbor House Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: '11 Harrowhouse'Book summary:NICE Book Rated as entertainment novel of the year by LA TIMES [via]
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Almost Blueby Carlo Lucarelli, Oonagh StranskyISBN 0872863891 (0-87286-389-1)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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Alter Egoby Patrick WatsonISBN 0919630057 (0-919630-05-7)
Hardcover, Lester and Orpen
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Ambitious Womenby Barbara WilsonISBN 0931188369 (0-931188-36-9)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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The Annotated Thursdayby G. K. Chesterton, Martin GardnerISBN 0898707447 (0-89870-744-7)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Thursday'Book summary:This edition of Chesterton's masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, explicates and enriches the complete text with extensive footnotes, together with an introductory essay on the metaphysical meaning of Chesterton's profound allegory. Martin Gardner sees the novel's anarchists as symbols of our God-given free will, and the mysterious Sunday as representing Nature, with its strange mixture of good and evil when considered as distinct from God, as a mask hiding the transcendental face of the creator. The book also includes a bibliography listing the novel's many editions and stage dramatizations, as well as numerous illustrations that further illuminate the text. Gardner's annotating of Chesterton's famous novel is a delight. His notes bring Edwardian London to life, and he offers exciting new insights into the novel's meaning. - Joseph Pearce, Author, Tolkien: Man and Myth Gardner is a gift to anyone interested in genuine literary scholarship. He magnifies the fascinating pictures seen through the gorgeous window that is a Chesterton novel. - Michael Coren, Author, Gilbert: The Man Who Was G. K. Chesterton Gardner's annotations provide everything required for the study and enjoyment of Chesterton's best novel, a grand thriller. - John Peterson, Editor, Father Brown of the Church of Rome Martin Gardner's skill in combining math, science, philosophy and literature has produced more than sixty books of diverse natures, including two novels and a collection of short stories. Some of his other annotated works include The Annotated Alice and The Annotated Ancient Mariner. For 25 years he was the writer of mathematical games for Scientific American. [via]
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Ashendenby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0891902139 (0-89190-213-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ashenden'Book summary:Fact is a poor story-teller as Maugham reminds us. Fact starts a story at random, rambles on inconsequently and tails off , leaving loose ends, without a conclusion. It works up to an interesting situation, has no sense of climax and whittles away its dramatic effects in irrelevance. While some novelists believe this is a proper model for fiction, Maugham believes that fiction should not seek to copy life, but instead choose from life what is curious, telling, and dramatic, but keep to it closely enough not to shock the reader into disbelief. In short, fiction should excite, interest, and absorb the reader. Ashenden: The British Agent is founded on Maugham's experiences in the English Intelligence Department during World War I, but rearranged for the purposes of fiction. This fascinating book contains the most expert stories of espionage ever written. For a period of time after it was first published the book became official required reading for persons entering the secret service. The plot follows the imaginary John Ashenden who during World War I is a spy for British Intelligence. He is sent first to Geneva and later to Russia. Instead of one story from start to finish, the chapters contain individual stories involving many different characters. All of the people whom Ashenden meet during his travels have their own reason for being involved in the spy game, and each are more complex than they first look. [via]
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The Avenging Saintby Leslie CharterisISBN 0884112675 (0-88411-267-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Bernie Wrightson's Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bernie WrightsonISBN 0887331939 (0-88733-193-9)
Softcover, Underwood Books
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Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bernie WrightsonISBN 0887331947 (0-88733-194-7)
Hardcover, Underwood Books
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Boneby George C. ChesbroISBN 0892962925 (0-89296-292-5)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Brandenburg Gateby Henry PorterISBN 0871139405 (0-87113-940-5)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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The Bridesmaidby Ruth RendellISBN 0892963883 (0-89296-388-3)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bridesmaid'Book summary:When Philip Wardman's feminine ideal, a Greek goddess, appears in the flesh as Senta Pelham, Philip thinks he has found true love. But darker forces are at work, and Senta is led to propose that Philip prove his love by committing murder. [via]
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Bridge over the River Kwaiby Pierre BoulleISBN 0891905715 (0-89190-571-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridge over the River Kwai'Book summary:1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one prisoner, Colonel Nicholson, a proud perfectionist. Pitted against the warden, Colonel Saito, Nicholson will nevertheless, out of a distorted sense of duty, aid his enemy. While on the outside, as the Allies race to destroy the bridge, Nicholson must decide which will be the first casualty: his patriotism or his pride. [via]
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Brothers Keepersby Donald E. WestlakeISBN 0871311933 (0-87131-193-3)
Hardcover, M. Evans
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Bull-dog Drummondby Herman Cyril McNeileISBN 0895263300 (0-89526-330-0)
Softcover, Regnery Pub
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Bulldog Drummondby SapperISBN 0881844535 (0-88184-453-5)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Burning Angelby James Lee BurkeISBN 0963192531 (0-9631925-3-1)
Hardcover, B E Trice Pub
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Cause for Alarmby Eric AmblerISBN 0881846643 (0-88184-664-3)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Cold in Julyby Joe R. LansdaleISBN 0929480503 (0-929480-50-3)
Hardcover, Mark V Ziesing
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Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton: The Club of Queer Trades The Man Who Was Thursday The Ball and the Crossby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0898703654 (0-89870-365-4)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis and W.H. Auden all recognized Chesterton as a giant literary figure. This volume contains G.K. Chesterton's earliest and greatest novels. The reader will encounter characters that defend with great vigor the diginity of the person and fundamental Christian beliefs. This volume is graced with Chesterton's own drawings and photos, as well as maps. [via]
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The Copenhagen Connectionby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0931773113 (0-931773-11-3)
Softcover, Critics Choice Paperbacks
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The Copper Peacock and Other Storiesby Ruth RendellISBN 0892964650 (0-89296-465-0)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Crocodile on the Sandbankby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0922890366 (0-922890-36-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Cyborgby Martin CaidinISBN 0877950253 (0-87795-025-3)
Hardcover, Arbor House Pub Co
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Dain Curseby Dashiell HammettISBN 0893406066 (0-89340-606-6)
Softcover, J. Curley
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The Delta Starby Joseph WambaughISBN 0893406538 (0-89340-653-8)
Softcover, J. Curley
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Don't Askby Donald E. WestlakeISBN 0892964693 (0-89296-469-3)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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The Door in the Dragon's Throatby Frank PerettiISBN 0891073701 (0-89107-370-1)
Softcover, Crossway Books
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The Double Imageby Helen MacInnesISBN 0891901051 (0-89190-105-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0884119947 (0-88411-994-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Duplicate Keysby Jane SmileyISBN 0893408883 (0-89340-888-3)
Softcover, J. Curley
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The Earthquake Birdby Susanna JonesISBN 0892967420 (0-89296-742-0)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Elmore Leonard's Banditsby Elmore LeonardISBN 0877958416 (0-87795-841-6)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Escape from the Island of Aquariusby Frank PerettiISBN 0891073841 (0-89107-384-1)
Softcover, Crossway Books
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyISBN 0881030198 (0-88103-019-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit 451'Book summary:In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman [via]
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Storiesby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0886390230 (0-88639-023-0)
Hardcover, New Trend Pub
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Fire Arrowby Franklin Allen LeibISBN 0891413332 (0-89141-333-2)
Hardcover, Presidio Pr
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Flesh, the Blood and the Fireby S. A. SwiniarskiISBN 0886778794 (0-88677-879-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Follow the Saintby Leslie CharterisISBN 0891903828 (0-89190-382-8)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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FrankensteinISBN 0883017040 (0-88301-704-0)
Softcover, Xs Books
Find This BookBook summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 0883010976 (0-88301-097-6)
Softcover, Ags Pub - Frankenstein: ISBN 0893754013 (0-89375-401-3)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - Frankenstein: ISBN 0894718827 (0-89471-882-7)
Hardcover, Courage Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 0883017040 (0-88301-704-0)
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0914061070 (0-914061-07-0)
Softcover, Orchises Pr
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Gaijinby Marc OldenISBN 0877957886 (0-87795-788-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Going Wrongby Ruth RendellISBN 0892963891 (0-89296-389-1)
Hardcover, Mysterious Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Going Wrong'Book summary:TILL DEATH DO US JOIN...Ever since they ran with the same London teenage gang Guy Curran has loved Leonora Chisholm passionately. He was a slum kid, and her parents lived in tasteful Kensington; she went to university while he made his jet-set fortune dealing drugs and sentimental, mass-produced art--but he's always been good enough for her, and once they were lovers. Of course she'll marry him in the end--he's been calling her every day for years and buying her lunch every Saturday. Then Leonora tells him she's engaged to some pasty-faced intellectual. But Guy knows she's being brainwashed by her family and friends--from her snobbish brother and her mother with pointy silver fingernails to her so-superior feminist roommate. Leonora and he belong together...If he can't have her, he'll die--or someone else will. [via]
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Haunting of Hill Houseby Shirley JacksonISBN 0891906223 (0-89190-622-3)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Haunting of Hill House'Book summary:Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages.
Eleanor Vance has always been a loner--shy, vulnerable, and bitterly resentful of the 11 years she lost while nursing her dying mother. "She had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words." Eleanor has always sensed that one day something big would happen, and one day it does. She receives an unusual invitation from Dr. John Montague, a man fascinated by "supernatural manifestations." He organizes a ghost watch, inviting people who have been touched by otherworldly events. A paranormal incident from Eleanor's childhood qualifies her to be a part of Montague's bizarre study--along with headstrong Theodora, his assistant, and Luke, a well-to-do aristocrat. They meet at Hill House--a notorious estate in New England.
Hill House is a foreboding structure of towers, buttresses, Gothic spires, gargoyles, strange angles, and rooms within rooms--a place "without kindness, never meant to be lived in...."
Although Eleanor's initial reaction is to flee, the house has a mesmerizing effect, and she begins to feel a strange kind of bliss that entices her to stay. Eleanor is a magnet for the supernatural--she hears deathly wails, feels terrible chills, and sees ghostly apparitions. Once again she feels isolated and alone--neither Theo nor Luke attract so much eerie company. But the physical horror of Hill House is always subtle; more disturbing is the emotional torment Eleanor endures. Intense, literary, and harrowing, The Haunting of Hill House belongs in the same dark league as Henry James's classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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The Heart of the Matter: Stamboul Train ; A Burnt-Out Case ; The Third Man ; The Quiet American ; Loser Takes All ; The Power and the Gloryby Graham GreeneISBN 0905712013 (0-905712-01-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann/Octopus
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I Am Legendby Richard MathesonISBN 0899668380 (0-89966-838-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Ian Fleming's James Bond in License to Killby Ian Fleming, John E. GardnerISBN 092289017X (0-922890-17-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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James Carterby James Carter, Ed McCormack, Michelle Lublin CassanettiISBN 0941393186 (0-941393-18-6)
Hardcover, Lublin Graphics
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The Keepby F. Paul WilsonISBN 0877457735 (0-87745-773-5)
Softcover, Univ of Iowa Pr
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Licence to Killby John E. GardnerISBN 0922890145 (0-922890-14-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Light of Dayby Eric AmblerISBN 0881848360 (0-88184-836-0)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Lucifer Risingby Sharon BowersISBN 0963823167 (0-9638231-6-7)
Softcover, Pacific Eagle Pub
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmareby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0881842257 (0-88184-225-7)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Mary Shelley's Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0877547467 (0-87754-746-7)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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The title, Mary Wollsonecraft Shelleys Frankenstein, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Mary Wollsonecraft Shelleys Frankenstein through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Mary Wollsonecraft Shelley, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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Mary Wollstonecraft Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0939766752 (0-939766-75-2)
Softcover, Marvel Enterprises
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Mucho Mojoby Joe R. LansdaleISBN 0892964901 (0-89296-490-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mucho Mojo'Book summary:In the second installment of the Hap Collins-Leonard Pine series, Leonard is still recuperating from the injuries he suffered in the first book (Savage Season) when he learns that his Uncle Chester has died. Hap agrees to stay with Leonard and help clean out the rundown house that he's inherited; when they find a small skeleton buried under the floor, it's up to them to prove that Chester wasn't responsible for a string of child murders by finding the real killer.
Lansdale slowly develops the relationship between his two protagonists as they banter with each other throughout their pursuit of the killers. Mucho Mojo also introduces two other characters, LaBorde Police Department members Lieutenant Marvin Hanson and his sidekick, Charlie, who serve as ongoing sources of friction--and, when it's most needed, support. [via]
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A Murder of Qualityby John Le CarreISBN 0896218643 (0-89621-864-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Nerveby Dick FrancisISBN 0922890269 (0-922890-26-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Night of Morningstarby Peter O'DonnellISBN 0892962224 (0-89296-222-4)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Only When I Laughby Len DeightonISBN 0892961759 (0-89296-175-9)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Providence Fileby Amanda Kyle WilliamsISBN 0941483924 (0-941483-92-4)
Softcover, Naiad Pr
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Readers Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readersby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0945260237 (0-945260-23-7)
Hardcover, Choice Pub
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The Saint in Europeby Leslie CharterisISBN 0891903879 (0-89190-387-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Saint on Guardby Leslie CharterisISBN 0891903860 (0-89190-386-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Saint Overboardby Leslie CharterisISBN 089190381X (0-89190-381-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Saint Vs Scotland Yardby Leslie CharterisISBN 0891903909 (0-89190-390-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Scarpetta's Winter Tableby Patricia CornwellISBN 0941711420 (0-941711-42-0)
Hardcover, Gibbs Smith, Publisher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scarpetta's Winter Table'Book summary:When Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the intrepid chief medical examiner of Virginia, isn't busy solving crimes, she is concocting delicious dishes in her kitchen. In Scarpetta's Winter Table, Patricia Cornwell takes her readers behind the scenes for intimate glimpses of her three major characters as they come together to celebrate the week between December 26, "the biggest letdown day of the year," and New Year's. On the day after Christmas, Scarpetta make her special pizza pie and Detective Pete Marino creates his "cause-of-death eggnog" (he uses corn liquor), while Lucy Farinelli (a special agent with ATF and Scarpetta's only niece) goes on a long run in the snowy suburbs of Richmond, Virginia. The next day, Scarpetta flies to Miami to spend a few days with her querulous mother and Sindbad, her Siamese cat. In Richmond, Lucy entertains her friends, all from various federal law enforcement agencies; and Marino first apprehends and then befriends Jimmy Simpson, a ten-year-old boy who had been snowballing his house. In the final scene of the novelette, all the characters (including Jimmy's mother, who seems to catch Marino's eye) gather in Scarpetta's warm house on a cold night to enjoy her famous stew. This book--a special "gift" from Cornwell to her readers--is perfect for the Christmas-present buyer, and gives the reader insights into her best-known characters that cannot be found in any other work. It is illustrated with photographs that suggest the locales and activities of her characters, and it includes the ingredients for all the dishes described in the story. [via]
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The Second Mouseby Archer MayorISBN 0892960728 (0-89296-072-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Silent Terrorby James EllroyISBN 0940941007 (0-940941-00-7)
Hardcover, Blood & Guts Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silent Terror'Book summary:1953-1983: 30 years of American society, from the hope of Eisenhower's presidency, to the kinky flower generation, through the death of the dream, Charles Manson, the beginning of the twisted nightmare and the moral backlash of the 80s. One Man's crimes span these years and the length and breadth of America. Martin Michael Plunkett - of genius level intelligence, articulate, ruthless, yet deranged sex killer. And beneath his calm veneer, rage voices implanted in his mind in one of the defing and deeply buried moment of his life, a moment so shocking that it takes him thirty years to bring it back into his consciousness. Sentenced to life in Sing Sing prison, Plunkett begins his autobio-graphical memoir, an account of more than fifty killing that made him America's most wanted serial killer and its greatest enigma. His account will drive even those who brought him to justice to despair. [via]
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The Sins of the Fathersby Lawrence BlockISBN 0913165662 (0-913165-66-2)
Hardcover, Dark Harvest Books
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The Snare of the Hunterby Helen MacInnesISBN 0891901035 (0-89190-103-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Sparesby Michael M. SmithISBN 0963339761 (0-9633397-6-1)
Hardcover, Overlook Connection Pr
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0893753572 (0-89375-357-2)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Swan Songby Robert R. McCammonISBN 0913165468 (0-913165-46-8)
Hardcover, Dark Harvest Books
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Team Yankeeby Harold CoyleISBN 0891412905 (0-89141-290-5)
Hardcover, Presidio Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Team Yankee'Book summary:In the winning tradition of Flight of the Intruder and Hunt for Red October comes an explosive new military adventure. "Stunning. A powerful story . . . so real, you can smell the smoke".--Tom Clancy [via]
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Testamentby David MorrellISBN 0871311925 (0-87131-192-5)
Hardcover, M Evans & Co
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Travels With My Auntby Graham GreeneISBN 0899669247 (0-89966-924-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels With My Aunt'Book summary:[via]Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written just for the fun of it." Travels with My Aunt is the story of Hanry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager, who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her wayto Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot; and breaks all currency regulations.
Originally published in 1970, Travels with My Aunt gives us an intoxicating entertainment yet also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0877208174 (0-87720-817-4)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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Hardcover, Sai Publications - Treasure Island: ISBN 0883011069 (0-88301-106-9)
Softcover, Ags Pub - Treasure Island: ISBN 0894717782 (0-89471-778-2)
Hardcover, Courage Books - Treasure Island: ISBN 0895772620 (0-89577-262-0)
Hardcover, Readers Digest - Treasure Island: ISBN 0913870781 (0-913870-78-1)
Hardcover, Abaris Books - Treasure Island: ISBN 0954510364 (0-9545103-6-4)
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Tree of Handsby Ruth RendellISBN 089621639X (0-89621-639-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Trojan Goldby Elizabeth PetersISBN 089621818X (0-89621-818-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0893753475 (0-89375-347-5)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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