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All That Glittersby Virginia AndrewsISBN 0671873199 (0-671-87319-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All That Glitters'Book summary:A royal fortune Millionaire hotel magnate Evan Tyler will stop at nothing to get revenge. So when the perfect opportunity arises--a chance to have Elena Royal, the daughter of his biggest competitor--he doesn't think twice. Evan plans not only to seduce family secrets from the sexy hotel heiress, he also plans to enjoy every second of it! But when the affair ends, Evan is forced to choose between payback or more pleasure in Elena's bed. Could this shrewd businessman negotiate a way to have both? [via]
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Beastby Peter BenchleyISBN 0679403558 (0-679-40355-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Black and Blueby Anna QuindlenISBN 0679435395 (0-679-43539-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Blood Moneyby Thomas PerryISBN 0679453040 (0-679-45304-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Money'Book summary:Penzler Pick, March 2000: When Thomas Perry won his Edgar for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America in 1983, anyone who'd read The Butcher's Boy cheered. That remarkable tale of a likable hit man stayed in one's mind long after the last page had been turned. Now with nine more highly original thrillers to his credit, Perry still knows how to keep us enthralled and, even better, surprised.
After several standalone titles, Perry began to produce a series unlike any other, giving us in Jane Whitefield a heroine that I'd have to imagine many of Hollywood's hippest young stars are fighting to play. Introduced in Sleeping Dogs, Jane is a "guide" of a very special kind, a sort of warrior-goddess capable of the most daring feats of cunning and courage who by day pursues a satisfying life off the radar as a suburban surgeon's wife. Her ordinary existence is, in fact, so contented--and her husband so worried for her safety when she's helping mortally threatened men, women, and children--that each time she's approached with a desperate case by a new victim of evil, her first instinct is to say no. But there would be no series if she did, and we would miss her intricately assembled exploits.
Picture the Scarlet Pimpernel looking like the singer Buffy Ste. Marie (Jane's of native American heritage) and equally skilled at disguise and seat-of-the-pants strategy. Isn't that the sort of companion you'd welcome if you were on the run from the Mob with $20 billion (that's with a "b") of their money, its secret whereabouts all stored mnemonically in your head? Maybe you'd rather have the U.S. Marine Corps on your side, but if that's not an option, newcomers to the Jane Whitefield books will quickly learn (and her fans already know) that she can pull it off on her own. A wonderfully entertaining element of these original adventures is that Jane's guiding principle is simplicity. Thus, the reader's vicarious thrills lie in watching the process, the twists and turns of her schemes and, above all, her amazing capacity for forethought.
Blood Money, like all the novels by Perry, works equally well on the level of character study as it does in nail-biting suspense. The novels can be read as much for their remarkable insights into human nature as for the excitement of a first-rate thriller. Surely Perry ranks among the very top of the crime-writing fraternity. --Otto Penzler [via]
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Blue Belleby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679761683 (0-679-76168-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Belle'Book summary:Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York Citys bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children.
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In Andrew Vachsss tautly engrossing novel Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitutes in the hood. He also gets help in the form of a stripper named Belle, whose moves on the runway are outclassed only by what she can do in a getaway car. But not even Burke is prepared for the evil that is behind the Ghost Van or for the sheer menace of its guardian, a cadaverous karate expert who enjoys killing so much that he has named himself after death.More editions of Blue Belle:
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Bone in the Throat: Novel of Death and Digestionby Anthony BourdainISBN 0679435522 (0-679-43552-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bone in the Throat: Novel of Death and Digestion'Book summary:When ambitious wannabe chef Tommy Pagano takes a job in his cousin's restaurant in Little Italy, he finds himself in the middle of a Mafia-run business and embroiled with eccentric hoods, an unusual hitman, and the most incompetent wiseguys ever. A first novel. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. [via]
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The Boy Who Followed Ripleyby Patricia HighsmithISBN 067974567X (0-679-74567-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Carriersby Patrick LynchISBN 067944842X (0-679-44842-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A Civil Actionby Jonathan Harr, Marty AsherISBN 0679772677 (0-679-77267-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Civil Action'Book summary:In America, when somebody does you wrong, you take 'em to court. W. R. Grace and Beatrice Foods had been dumping a cancer-causing industrial solvent into the water table of Woburn, Massachusetts, for years; in 1981, the families of eight leukemia victims sued. However, A Civil Action demonstrates powerfully that--even with the families' hotshot lawyers and the evidence on their side--justice is elusive, particularly when it involves malfeasance by megacorporations. Much of the legal infighting can cause the eyes to glaze. But the story is saved by great characters: the flawed, flamboyant Jan Schlichtmann and his group of bulldogs for the prosecution; Jerome Facher, the enigmatic lawyer for Beatrice, who proves to be more than a match; John J. Riley, the duplicitous, porcine tannery owner; and a host of others. It's impossible not to feel the drama of this methodical book, impossible not to grieve for the parents who lost children, and impossible not to share Schlichtmann's desperation as he runs out of money. A Civil Action reads like one long advertisement for a few well-placed Molotov cocktails. (But that wouldn't make for a very long book, now would it?) [via]
The Cold Six Thousandby James EllroyISBN 0679403922 (0-679-40392-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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College Weekendby R. L. StineISBN 0671868403 (0-671-86840-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The Confessionby R. L. StineISBN 0671894315 (0-671-89431-5)
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Cul-de-Sac : A Novelby David MartinISBN 0679410562 (0-679-41056-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Dain Curseby Dashiell HammettISBN 0679722602 (0-679-72260-2)
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The Danceby Christopher PikeISBN 0671736795 (0-671-73679-5)
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Death Benefits: A Novelby Thomas PerryISBN 0679453059 (0-679-45305-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Benefits: A Novel'Book summary:Fans of Thomas Perry's popular series featuring Jane Whitefield, the Seneca Indian woman who helps people disappear (The Face-Changers, Shadow Woman, et al.) may be disappointed when they discover that Death Benefits doesn't feature the heroine who has won this writer so many new readers. But the disappointment won't last longer than the first page of this intriguing and extremely well-written new thriller, whose hero, John Walker, a data analyst for a large insurance company, deserves a series of his own.
When a security man named Max Stillman plucks Walker out of the office pool and dragoons him into investigating a fraud against the McClaren Life and Casualty, Walker's previously safe life takes a new and potentially dangerous turn. As the pair begin searching for the missing employee, who signed off on the huge (and phony) payoff of a death claim, and follow her to a grave in a Midwestern wheat field, Walker discovers talents he never knew he had and a thirst for vengeance. With the mysterious Stillman, he tracks the conspirators to a New Hampshire village and an explosive and shocking conclusion to a fraud that's much older than either of the men might have guessed. Like Don Winslow, whose California Fire and Life also focused on insurance fraud, Perry manages to make even the dusty back corners of the corporate world a likely setting for mystery and mayhem. This is a sharp, suspenseful, successful debut for a pair of unlikely compatriots, marked by Perry's edgy, noirish style, lively dialogue, and superb pacing. --Jane Adams [via]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0679405380 (0-679-40538-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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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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Even Stevenby John GilstrapISBN 0671786733 (0-671-78673-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyISBN 067187036X (0-671-87036-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit 451: A Novel'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 Fortunate Pilgrimby Mario PuzoISBN 067945778X (0-679-45778-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Forty Words For Sorrowby Giles BluntISBN 0679310576 (0-679-31057-6)
Hardcover, Random House Canada
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0679409998 (0-679-40999-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book 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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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0672514575 (0-672-51457-5)
Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus'Book 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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The Glass Infernoby Thomas N. ScortiaISBN 0671787683 (0-671-78768-3)
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The Glass Keyby Dashiell HammettISBN 0679722629 (0-679-72262-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Graduationby Christopher PikeISBN 0671736809 (0-671-73680-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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Hard Candyby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679761691 (0-679-76169-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Head Gamesby Christopher GoldenISBN 0671775820 (0-671-77582-0)
Softcover, Simon Pulse
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I'll Be Seeing Youby Mary Higgins ClarkISBN 0671888587 (0-671-88858-7)
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequencesby Truman CapoteISBN 0679745580 (0-679-74558-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences'Book summary:"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks. [via]
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Into Thin Airby Jon KrakauerISBN 0679457526 (0-679-45752-6)
Hardcover, Villard Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into Thin Air'Book summary:Into Thin Air is a riveting first-hand account of a catastrophic expedition up Mount Everest. In March 1996, Outside magazine sent veteran journalist and seasoned climber Jon Krakauer on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of summit day eight people were dead. Krakauer's book is at once the story of the ill-fated adventure and an analysis of the factors leading up to its tragic end. Written within months of the events it chronicles, Into Thin Air clearly evokes the majestic Everest landscape. As the journey up the mountain progresses, Krakauer puts it in context by recalling the triumphs and perils of other Everest trips throughout history. The author's own anguish over what happened on the mountain is palpable as he leads readers to ponder timeless questions. [via]
The Intrudersby Stephen CoontsISBN 0671870610 (0-671-87061-0)
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London Fieldsby Martin AmisISBN 0679730346 (0-679-73034-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'London Fields'Book summary:London Fields is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts. Or is the killer the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch? [via]
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Looking for Mr. Goodbarby Judith RossnerISBN 0671735756 (0-671-73575-6)
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Mama's Boyby Charles KingISBN 0671744704 (0-671-74470-4)
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The Midnight Clubby Christopher PikeISBN 067187263X (0-671-87263-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Midnight Club'Book summary:Five young people living at Rotterham Home, a hospice for the terminally ill, make a deadly pact--that the first one of them who dies will attempt to contact the others from beyond the grave. [via]
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evilby John BerendtISBN 0679751521 (0-679-75152-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'Book summary:John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has been heralded as a "lyrical work of nonfiction," and the book's extremely graceful prose depictions of some of Savannah, Georgia's most colorful eccentrics--remarkable characters who could have once prospered in a William Faulkner novel or Eudora Welty short story--were certainly a critical factor in its tremendous success. (One resident into whose orbit Berendt fell, the Lady Chablis, went on to become a minor celebrity in her own right.) But equally important was Berendt's depiction of Savannah socialite Jim Williams as he stands trial for the murder of Danny Hansford, a moody, violence-prone hustler--and sometime companion to Williams--characterized by locals as a "walking streak of sex." So feel free to call it a "true crime classic" without a trace of shame. [via]
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Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil: A Savannah Storyby John BerendtISBN 0679643419 (0-679-64341-9)
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Midwivesby Chris BohjalianISBN 0679771468 (0-679-77146-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midwives'Book summary:On a violent, stormy winter night, a home birth goes disastrously wrong. The phone lines are down, the roads slick with ice. The midwife, unable to get her patient to a hospital, works frantically to save both mother and child while her inexperienced assistant and the woman's terrified husband look on. The mother dies but the baby is saved thanks to an emergency C-section. And then the nightmare begins: the assistant suggests that maybe the woman wasn't really dead when the midwife operated:
Did she perform at least eight or nine cycles as my mother said, or four or five as Asa recalled? That is the sort of detail that was disputable. But at some point within minutes of what my mother believed had been a stroke, after my mother concluded the cardiopulmonary resuscitation had failed to generate a pulse or a breath, she screamed for Asa and Anne to find her the sharpest knife in the house.
In Midwives, Chris Bohjalian chronicles the events leading up to the trial of Sibyl Danforth, a respected midwife in the small Vermont town of Reddington, on charges of manslaughter. It quickly becomes evident, however, that Sibyl is not the only one on trial--the prosecuting attorney and the state's medical community are all anxious to use this tragedy as ammunition against midwifery in general; this particular midwife, after all, an ex-hippie who still evokes the best of the flower-power generation, is something of an anachronism in 1981. Through it all, Sibyl, her husband, Rand, and their teenage daughter, Connie, attempt to keep their family intact, but the stress of the trial--and Sibyl's growing closeness to her lawyer--puts pressure on both marriage and family. Bohjalian takes readers through the intricacies of childbirth and the law, and by the end of Sibyl Danforth's trial, it's difficult to decide which was more harrowing--the tragic delivery or its legal aftermath.Narrated by a now adult Connie, Midwives moves back and forth in time, fitting vital pieces of information about what happened that night like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle into its complicated plot. As Connie looks back on her mother's trial, she is still trying to understand what happened--not on the night of the disaster--but in the months and years that followed. --Margaret Prior [via]
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Mr. Xby Peter StraubISBN 0679401385 (0-679-40138-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Namesby Don DelilloISBN 0679722955 (0-679-72295-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The New Boyby R. L. StineISBN 0671894250 (0-671-89425-0)
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Our Man in Havanaby Graham GreeneISBN 0671784668 (0-671-78466-8)
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The Partyby Christopher PikeISBN 0671736787 (0-671-73678-7)
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Pearl in the Mistby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0671759361 (0-671-75936-1)
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Pursuitby Thomas PerryISBN 0679453067 (0-679-45306-7)
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Remember Meby Mary Higgins ClarkISBN 0671867091 (0-671-86709-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remember Me'Book summary:After their young son's tragic death, Menley and Tony Richardson, a couple living on Cape Cod, try to begin life anew with a baby daughter, though an evil fate still seems to stalk them. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild Main. Tour. [via]
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Remember Whenby Judith McNaughtISBN 0671795554 (0-671-79555-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remember When'Book summary:Judith McNaught's last enchanting bestseller, Until You, was hailed as "brilliantly done and completely entertaining... ripe plot twists... a fine supporting cast" (Ocala Star-Banner). Now, with more than fourteen million books in print and seven New York Times bestsellers, Judith McNaught brings us her latest, most enthralling novel...
REMEMBER WHEN When multinational tycoon Cole Harrison approached her on a moonlit balcony at the White Orchid Charity Ball, Diana Foster had no idea how extraordinary the night ahead would be. The most lavish social event of the Houston season had brought out American aristocracy, Texas-style, in glittering array. So, after losing her fiancé to a blond Italian heiress and reading about it in a sleazy gossip paper, the lovely Diana felt obliged to make an appearance-if only to save face and to bolster her company's image. Foster's Beautiful Living magazine was her family's sucess story, and Diana knew that, single, childless, and suddenly unengaged, she was not living up to its lucrative image of upscale domestic tranquility. A women of gentle grace and kindness, Diana deeply valued her privacy and her dignity, both of which were at risk that night among certain rumor-driven socialites. And now the pride of Dallas billionaires, Cole Harrison, was closing in on her with two crystal flutes and a bottle of champagne...
The tall, lithe former stableboy couldn't negotiate his way out of a contract with his crusty uncle, Cal-he had to bring home a wife, and soon, or see Cal's share of the business Cole had created go to an undeserving relative. A man as coolly analytical as he was arrestingly attractive, Cole decided that his bride-to-be should be rich in her own right, meltingly beautiful, and a woman of impeccable character... Diana Foster! It was the perfect to their respective dilemmas, and, after a lot of champagne for Diana and some skilled persuasion from Cole, their lips met in a long, slow, bargain-sealing kiss. Neither one dared imagine that a match made in logic's heaven might be headed straight for an unexpected, once-in-a-lifetime love...
Once again, Judith McNaught creates an unforgettable world filled with her "very special of dazzling wit, passion, and tender sensuality" (Romantic Times). As a proud woman and a wary man begin to taste the delights and the treacheries of romance, the drama smolders deliciously in this suspenseful, richly satisfying novel. Graced with a deep understanding of love's surprises, it's a tale that can only come from a supremely gifted storyteller, one who makes us so happy to...REMEMBER WHEN. [via]
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Rubyby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0671759345 (0-671-75934-5)
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Scott Freeby John GilstrapISBN 0671786865 (0-671-78686-5)
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Scott Free: A Thrillerby John GilstrapISBN 0671786946 (0-671-78694-6)
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Second Skinby Eric LustbaderISBN 0671868101 (0-671-86810-1)
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Snow Falling on Cedarsby David GutersonISBN 067976402X (0-679-76402-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Falling on Cedars'Book summary:Fighting the distrust and prejudice of his neighbors on a remote island in Puget Sound, a Japanese-American man who spent time in an internment camp during World War II, finds himself on trial for murder. The histories of the accused and the victim, both fishermen and residents of the small town of San Piedro, unfold as newspaperman Ishmael Chambers embarks on a quest for the truth. Lonely and war-scarred, Chambers strives for justice and inner strength, while coming to terms with his ill-fated love for Hatsue Miyamoto, the wife of the accused. Evocative and beautifully written, Snow Falling on Cedars won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. [via]
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Someone at the Doorby Richie Tankersley Cusick, Lisa ClancyISBN 0671887424 (0-671-88742-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Someone at the Door'Book summary:The phone and the radio were dead, but they'd already heard the news: a mass murderer was on the loose. Hannah and her younger sister, Meg, were miles from the nearest neighbor, trapped in a raging blizzard, home alone. When two wounded, bleeding strangers show up, Hannah doesn't know whether to help them or turn them away. [via]
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0679734767 (0-679-73476-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of 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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Stregaby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679764097 (0-679-76409-7)
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Swan Songby Robert R. McCammonISBN 0671741039 (0-671-74103-9)
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Sword Pointby Harold CoyleISBN 0671737120 (0-671-73712-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sword Point'Book summary:THE SOVIETS UNLEASH A MASSIVE ATTACK ON IRAN. AMERICA STRIKES BACK... By sea, air and land, soldiers are plunged into a war of computerized guns and million-dollar killing machines on the bloody sands of Iran. But when the Soviet onslaught is stopped by a powerful American counter-attack, the superpowers are facing a greater danger. Iranian fanatics have a nuclear bomb - ready to explode. In the Kremlin and the White House, in the raging battles on the sand, SWORD POINT gives us the fighters, the weapons and the terror that could be tomorrow's war! [via]
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The Ten Thousandby Harold Coyle, Paul McCarthyISBN 0671885650 (0-671-88565-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ten Thousand'Book summary:Trapped in Eastern Europe by a united Germany with atomic weapons, an American army--led by Lieutenant General ""Big Al"" Malin--must fight its way to the safety of the Baltic Sea. 150,000 first printing. [via]
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Tender Triumphby Judith McNaughtISBN 0671742566 (0-671-74256-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tender Triumph'Book summary:This is a particular favorite. Distrustful of men, Kate Connelly has buried herself in her career, shutting out all chance of romance. Then a handsome Spaniard, Ramon Galverra, walks into her life. He is different than other men she has known, full of pride and passion, and he treats her with respect. But it's his intimate touches that make Kate realize that she could easily lose her heart to this wonderful man. But pride can be a mighty barrier in relationships, and both Ramon and Kate must learn to trust before they can love. You will want to read this love story time and time again. [via]
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The Third Horrorby R. L. Stine, Patricia MacDonaldISBN 0671885634 (0-671-88563-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Second Horror'Book summary:The second volume in an all-new Fear Street trilogy. Brandt thinks moving to Shadyside is great, but he hasn't heard the terrifying stories about his new home--99 Fear Street. He doesn't know about the headless bodies or bleeding walls. And he doesn't know that Cally Frasier still haunts the house and plans gruesome deaths for him and everyone close to him. [via]
The Thrill Clubby R. L. Stine, Patricia MacDonaldISBN 0671785818 (0-671-78581-8)
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The Towerby Richard Martin SternISBN 0679503633 (0-679-50363-3)
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, Mervyn PeakeISBN 0679418008 (0-679-41800-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Treasure Island'Book summary:Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
Truth or Dareby R. L. Stine, Patricia MacDonaldISBN 0671868365 (0-671-86836-5)
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Until Proven Guiltyby Christine McGuire, Julie RubensteinISBN 0671750127 (0-671-75012-7)
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The Untouchableby John BanvilleISBN 0679767479 (0-679-76747-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Untouchable'Book summary:A brilliant, engaging, and highly literate espionage-cum-existential novel, John Banville's The Untouchable concerns the suddenly-exposed double agent Victor Maskell, a character based on the real Cambridge intellectual elites who famously spied on the United Kingdom in the middle of the 20th century. But Maskell--scholar, adventurer, soldier, art curator, and more--respected and still living in England well past his retirement from espionage, looked like he was going to get away with it when suddenly, in his 70s and sick with cancer, he is unmasked. The question of why, and by whom is not as important for Maskell as the larger question of who finally he himself really is, why he spied in the first place, and whether his many-faceted existence adds up to an authentic life. [via]
The Vanishingby Tim KrabbeISBN 067941973X (0-679-41973-X)
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What Holly Heardby R. L. StineISBN 0671894277 (0-671-89427-7)
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White Starby James Stewart ThayerISBN 0671798146 (0-671-79814-6)
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Wolves Eat Dogsby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 0671775952 (0-671-77595-2)
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The World at Nightby Alan FurstISBN 0679773290 (0-679-77329-0)
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