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8.4by Peter HernonISBN 0515127132 (0-515-12713-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: '8.4'Book summary:A massive earthquake in America's heartland causes massive destruction and a launches an equally epic struggle to save the survivors. Reprint. [via]
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Angels Fallby Nora RobertsISBN 0515143170 (0-515-14317-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Annotated Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard WolfISBN 0517530716 (0-517-53071-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated 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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The Attorneyby Steven Paul MartiniISBN 0515130044 (0-515-13004-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Black Waterby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452269865 (0-452-26986-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Blood and Honorby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0515121940 (0-515-12194-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Blowout: An FBI Thrillerby Catherine CoulterISBN 0515139254 (0-515-13925-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blowout: An FBI Thriller'Book summary:A long weekend in the Poconos is interrupted by murder, and FBI agents Savich and Sherlock must look thirty years into the past to stop the killing.
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Blue Moonby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134457 (0-515-13445-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Moon'Book summary:Anita Blake makes a living raising the dead. She also executes rogue vampires and villains among the local were-folk. Marks bind her to Jean-Claude, the Master vampire of St. Louis and her lover, and to her ex-fiancé, a powerful werewolf who heads up the local pack. Anita shares some of their magic, and her own power over the dead keeps growing. But so does the body count and the situations that force Anita to bend or break her own rules.
In Blue Moon, Anita's ex Richard is jailed in Tennessee, accused of rape. When Anita arrives with a lawyer and an entourage of vampires and 'weres' supplied by Jean-Claude, it's clear that something is rotten in Myerton. The local cops are corrupt, and the trolls Richard was studying are threatened. But if she sticks around to investigate, the local Master vampire will attack her and her friends. The local werewolf clan isn't rushing to welcome her either, and her self-control is going to the, um, wolves.
Blue Moon is the eighth book in Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series; newcomers should start with earlier books. The protagonists' development and their relationships to each other and to the large cast of continuing secondary characters are what make these books so compelling. Be warned--there's steamy sex and graphic violence here, though Anita does reflect on her moral position. But if dark urban fantasy featuring those who hunt the night appeals, pounce on this series. --Nona Vero [via]
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The Bridge over the River Kwaiby Pierre BoulleISBN 0517207419 (0-517-20741-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 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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By Order of the Presidentby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0515139777 (0-515-13977-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Canceled Czechby Lawrence BlockISBN 0515086894 (0-515-08689-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Cleopatra Goldby William J. CaunitzISBN 0517574985 (0-517-57498-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wellsby H. G. WellsISBN 051726188X (0-517-26188-X)
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Contact Zeroby David WolstencroftISBN 0451412257 (0-451-41225-7)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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Dead Ringerby Charles SmithdealISBN 0451410513 (0-451-41051-3)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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Dean R. Koontzby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0517073692 (0-517-07369-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Double Tapby Steve MartiniISBN 0515139734 (0-515-13973-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0451523938 (0-451-52393-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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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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Earthquake Gamesby Bonnie RamthunISBN 0515131776 (0-515-13177-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Essential Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Leonard WolfISBN 0452269695 (0-452-26969-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde'Book summary:Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature has given voice to our own fears of the depravity within all of us. Wolf's extensive annotations throughout the text reveal the psychological depths of the Jekyll and Hyde story and bring the tale's intricate details to light. [via]
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The Essential Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard Wolf, Christopher BingISBN 0452269687 (0-452-26968-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Frankenstein'Book summary:Horror expert Wolf's sublime edition of this literary masterpiece features in-depth and extensive notes on all the novel's most interesting aspects, plus biographical information revealing how Mary Shelley's turbulent personal life influenced her work. Beautifully illustrated with original line drawings. [via]
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The Essential Frankensteinby Robert JamesonISBN 0517069741 (0-517-06974-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Fall of the House of Usher and Other Talesby Edgar Allan Poe, Marler, Regina (AFT), Stephen MarloweISBN 0451530314 (0-451-53031-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of the House of Usher And Other Tales'Book summary:Partial contents: The balloon-hoax -- The purloined letter -- The cask of Amontillado -- The masque of the red death. [via]
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- The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories: ISBN 0451524632 (0-451-52463-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales: ISBN 0451526759 (0-451-52675-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Fall of the House of Usher And Other Tales: ISBN 0451530314 (0-451-53031-4)
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Falling Awakeby Jayne Ann KrentzISBN 0515139599 (0-515-13959-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Fant(masby Marcel Allain, Robin Walz, cranstoun metcalfeISBN 0486449718 (0-486-44971-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fant(mas'Book summary:A noblewoman is hacked to death, a Russian princess is boldly robbed, a lord's lifeless body is found in a trunk. It is the work of Fantômas, a master of disguise whose diabolical crimes paralyze Parisians with terror. The first volume in a series of wildly popular French thrillers, Fantômas stands as the original pulp fiction.[via]More editions of Fant(mas:
Final Approachby John J. NanceISBN 0517575698 (0-517-57569-8)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Forfeitby Dick FrancisISBN 0515124451 (0-515-12445-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forfeit'Book summary:James Tyrone, a racing reporter for a London scandal sheet, suspects foul play when a fellow writer, who had a penchant for drink--but was always an honest sort--dies in an "accidental" fall. Tyrone finds clues to his death in some suspicious columns touting some can't-lose horses--who mysteriously failed to show up on race day. [via]
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Walter James MillerISBN 0451527712 (0-451-52771-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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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: ISBN 0460875280 (0-460-87528-0)
Softcover, Everyman - Frankenstein: ISBN 0486282112 (0-486-28211-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Frankenstein: ISBN 0486415627 (0-486-41562-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Frankenstein: ISBN 0460871498 (0-460-87149-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Frankenstein: ISBN 0517118807 (0-517-11880-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Frankenstein: ISBN 0451527712 (0-451-52771-2)
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 0460875280 (0-460-87528-0)
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0451523369 (0-451-52336-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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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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Frankenstein/Dracula/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram StokerISBN 0451523636 (0-451-52363-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein/Dracula/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:Three horror classicswith an introduction by Stephen King[via]
Some of literatures most popular and enduring horror icons in one indispensable tome.
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Gaijinby Marc OldenISBN 0515091944 (0-515-09194-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Gallowglassby Barbara VineISBN 0517577445 (0-517-57744-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Giriby Marc OldenISBN 051510048X (0-515-10048-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Grave Perilby Jim ButcherISBN 0451458443 (0-451-45844-3)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grave Peril'Book summary:No pages missing but it was used but still in very good condition [via]
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Headwindby John J. NanceISBN 0515132624 (0-515-13262-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Headwind'Book summary:Veteran aviation writer John J. Nance, a commercial pilot and TV commentator as well as a bestselling author, weighs in with a timely thriller whose near misses in the sky can't compete for drama with the political suspense unfolding on the ground. Former U.S. president John Harris, a principled politician who walked away from certain reelection because of a campaign promise to serve a single term, barely misses arrest on an Interpol warrant accusing him of violating the Treaty Against Torture by ordering a CIA operation against a biological weapons laboratory in Peru that resulted in the mutilation and murder of hundreds of innocent civilians.
The Peruvian government's hired gun is a British barrister who's tangled with Harris before; Harris's is an old friend and defrocked Texas judge who's languishing in obscurity at a Wyoming college when his former mentor calls on him for help--and who, not so coincidentally, has a deep-seated fear of flying. An added fillip is the plot's many references to the ongoing extradition battle over former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet on similar charges. But the real hero of this fast-paced suspense story is Craig Dayton, a reserve military officer and captain of the Boeing 737 that's running out of fuel as it searches for a safe harbor for Harris--not easy to find, since every nation in Europe has signed the treaty and will arrest Harris as soon as he lands.
It's a brilliant setup, and Nance handles it more than competently. Unusual for this writer, he pays as much attention to his human characters, their motivations and complexities, as he does to the aeronautical details. Harris is a bit overdone--what president ever walked away from a sure reelection win? And a secondary plot line featuring a group of veterans on Harris's flight who come to the aid of their former commander in chief errs on the side of sentimentality. Even so, this is a first-class read from a million-mile writer. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Hostageby W. E. B. GriffinISBN 0515142409 (0-515-14240-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchuby Sax RohmerISBN 0486298981 (0-486-29898-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu'Book summary:The first in the popular Fu-Manchu mystery series introduces English sleuth Denis Nayland Smith and his companion, Dr. Petrie, to the satanic Dr. Fu-Manchu, a cunning Chinese criminal mastermind who means to rule the world. Flavorful atmosphere, fast-paced action, and colorful characters enliven this 1913 classic.[via]More editions of The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:
John Le Carreby John Le CarreISBN 0517146975 (0-517-14697-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Le Carre'Book summary:This three-in-one set of le Carré thrillers about late cold war spycraft has wit, atmosphere, and intelligence to die for. In le Carré's most autobiographical novel, A Perfect Spy, Rick Pym, a con artist Dickens might have invented (except that he's based on le Carré's dad) raises his son, Magnus, to be the perfect gentleman for the spook trade. Magnus writes to explain himself to his son, Tom; le Carré wrote the book to explain his own scalawag dad to himself, and burst into tears when he finished the novel.
In The Russia House, set in 1987, a Soviet dissident physicist drops a secret manuscript to Barley Blair, a boozy loser of a British book publisher, to alert the West that the evil empire is about to collapse of its own absurd weight. Can Western spies trust the dissident? Just how safe is the "safe house" where Barley parleys with his sexy Russian contact, Katya? Where should Barley's loyalty lie, with love or country?
The Secret Pilgrim is almost a short-story collection. (That's why it was broken into three separate audio versions: The Fledgling Spy, The Spy Who Came of Age, and The Spy in His Prime.) Ned, a British spook who Barley troubled in The Russia House, invites le Carré's legendary spy George Smiley to lecture his new class of recruits. Smiley's remarks alternate with Ned's reminiscences of his own covert adventures, from the sublimely ridiculous to the scathingly scary. The new kids have no idea what tortuous moral torments await them, but le Carré gives us an idea. [via]
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The Keepby F. Paul WilsonISBN 0515088757 (0-515-08875-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Keep'Book summary:Something is murdering the Nazi troops stationed in a remote castle high in the Transylvanian alps. Immediately an elite SS extermination squad is sent to destroy whatever enemy dares challenge the Third Reich. And the battle is joined--a battle more terrifying than anything ever experienced. Reissue. [via]
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London Fieldsby Martin AmisISBN 0517577186 (0-517-57718-6)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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The Man Who Cast Two Shadowsby Carol O'ConnellISBN 0515118907 (0-515-11890-7)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Cast Two Shadows'Book summary:Formerly a child of the streets, now a brilliant computer hacker and NYPD sergeant, Kathleen Mallory's powerful intelligence is matched only by the ferocity with which she pursues her own unpredictable vision of right and wrong. And she will need every bit of that intensity now, in a murder case that strikes close to home in more ways than one.[via]More editions of The Man Who Cast Two Shadows:
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmareby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0486251217 (0-486-25121-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare'Book summary:In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon."
But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare:
The Medusa Stone: Library Editionby Jack Du BrulISBN 0451409221 (0-451-40922-1)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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Mind Catcherby John DarntonISBN 0451411056 (0-451-41105-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mind Catcher'Book summary:A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but neither pioneering neurosurgeon Leo Saramaggio nor Warren Cleaver, a brilliant researcher seeking to unravel the mystery of the soul and recreate it in a microchip, has any intention of letting that happen to Tyler, a 13-year-old boy whose brain is all but destroyed in a freak accident that leaves him closer to death than life. John Darnton, the author of two previous scientific thrillers (Neanderthal, The Experiment), offers a provocative glimpse of what lies beyond the frontiers of both medicine and artificial intelligence in this clearly well-researched and tightly plotted thriller that's bound to provoke comparisons to Robin Cook and Michael Crichton. Unlike them, Darnton is able to tell a gripping story without dumbing down the science or shortchanging the characters, even those who aren't central to the plot, like Tyler's father, Scott, or Kate Willett, a neurosurgery resident who suspects that her superiors have gone way beyond the boundaries of ethical practice in their treatment of Scott's injured son. This is a fast-paced, suspenseful thriller that demonstrates Darnton's increasing command of the genre and holds out the possibility that in his next book, he'll surpass it. --Jane Adams [via]
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Narcissus in Chainsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515133876 (0-515-13387-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narcissus in Chains'Book summary:In her tenth adventure, nothing can save vampire hunter Anita Blake from a twist of fate that draws her ever closer to the brink of humanity.[via]More editions of Narcissus in Chains:
Nerveby Dick FrancisISBN 0515123463 (0-515-12346-3)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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Never Dream of Dyingby Raymond BensonISBN 0515133078 (0-515-13307-8)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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A New Collection of Three Complete Novelsby John Le CarréISBN 0517150190 (0-517-15019-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Obsidian Butterflyby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134503 (0-515-13450-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Obsidian Butterfly'Book summary:Anita Blake, the tough, sexy vampire executioner, zombie animator, and police consultant for preternatural crimes in St. Louis, hunts monsters in New Mexico in the ninth book of Laurell K. Hamilton's excellent series. Edward, Anita's mentor in slaying, asks Anita to return the favor that she has owed him since she killed a backup he brought in to protect her. He needs Anita's preternatural expertise as well as her firepower. Something is skinning and mutilating a few of its chosen victims, and dismembering others. Edward has no idea what creature could be responsible for such heinous crimes.
Summoning Anita has its downside for Edward, since it means letting her onto his turf. Anita is surprised to find that this normally aggressive man has a personal life, and shocked by his ability to be entirely different from the stone cold killer she's known. She also has problems with the cop in charge in Albuquerque, who believes her powers must be evil, and with the other backups Edward has brought in. Most of all, she has to deal with her own vulnerability--she's tried to shut down her ties to her vampire and werewolf lovers and go it alone, but it turns out to be harder than she thought.
Anita's usual supporting cast is missing, and she's taking time out from her complex love life, but there's plenty of bloody action, vampires, werewolves, and Aztec ritual. Plus a lot more about Edward. Fans will find this installment similar to the earlier books in the series, particularly The Laughing Corpse. --Nona Vero. [via]
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Odds Againstby Dick FrancisISBN 0515125512 (0-515-12551-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Odds Against'Book summary:When he wakes up in hospital with his stomach shot full of holes, private detective and former steeplechase jockey, Sid Halley has his first case for a longtime. Taken to convalesce at his father-in-law's house, Sid encounters overbearing entrepreneur, Howard Kraye, a man determined to take over Seabury Racecourse - at any price. As Sid delves deeper into Kraye's shady past of violence, fraud and brutality, he finds that a bullet in the gut may turn out to the least of his problems. [via]
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Phoenix Risingby John J. NanceISBN 0517585669 (0-517-58566-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Play Deadby Anne FrasierISBN 0451411374 (0-451-41137-4)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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The Prisoner of Zendaby Anthony HopeISBN 0451511379 (0-451-51137-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prisoner of Zenda'Book summary:Anthony Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from a comfortable life in London to fast-moving adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land steeped in political intrigue. Rassendyll bears a striking resemblance to Rudolf Elphberg who is about to be crowned King of Ruritania. When the rival to the throne, Black Michael of Strelsau, attempts to seize power by imprisoning Elphberg in the Castle of Zenda, Rassendyll is obliged to impersonate the King to uphold the rightful sovereignty and ensure political stability. Rassendyll endures a trial of strength in his encounters with the notorious Rupert of Hentzau, and a test of a different sort as he grows to love the Princess Flavia. Five times filmed, The Prisoner of Zenda has been deservedly popular as a classic of romance and adventure since its publication in 1894. [via]
Purity of Bloodby Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0452287987 (0-452-28798-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Skyfallby Thomas H. BlockISBN 0515091782 (0-515-09178-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officerby Peter WrightISBN 0517014378 (0-517-01437-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Stone Angelby Carol O'ConnellISBN 051512298X (0-515-12298-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0486266885 (0-486-26688-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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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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- The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Stories: ISBN 0460871978 (0-460-87197-8)
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Such Men Are Dangerousby Lawrence BlockISBN 0515081701 (0-515-08170-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Swastikaby Michael SladeISBN 0451412001 (0-451-41200-1)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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Tanner's Twelve Swingersby Lawrence BlockISBN 051508106X (0-515-08106-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Target Lockby James H. CobbISBN 0515134139 (0-515-13413-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Three Fatesby Nora RobertsISBN 0515135062 (0-515-13506-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Fates'Book summary:Setting: Ireland, Europe, and New York City
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Irish siblings Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca Sullivan cherish the family legend of their great-great-grandfather's acquisition of one of the Fates, a trio of priceless, long-separated silver statues. When the Sullivans' Fate is stolen by an unscrupulous New York antiquities dealer, they vow to retrieve the little silver lady, and thus begins a quest that will send them racing across Europe, traveling through Ireland, and dodging killers in New York City. Most importantly, their search for their Fate and her two sister statues brings them into the world of a brilliant female mythology professor, a free-spirited exotic dancer, and a security expert adept at breaking and entering. This diverse sextet must meld their talents in order to thwart their enemy, retrieve the stolen statue, and stay alive while administering their particular brand of justice.
Prolific author Nora Roberts's latest tale of adventure and romance is a nonstop page-turner with quirky heroines, strong heroes, and a delightfully nefarious villainess. Toss in strong Irish, European, and New York settings, interesting secondary characters, and a plot with intriguing twists and turns and the result is romantic suspense at its best. --Lois Faye Dyer [via]
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0451527046 (0-451-52704-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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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]
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Treasure Island: ISBN 0517141450 (0-517-14145-0)
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Treasure Island : With Story of the Treasure of Normon Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0517618168 (0-517-61816-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Vampiresby John SteakleyISBN 0451451538 (0-451-45153-8)
Softcover, Roc
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Vodkaby Boris StarlingISBN 0451412060 (0-451-41206-0)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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Voyage of the Devilfishby Michael DimercurioISBN 0451410122 (0-451-41012-2)
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0451522761 (0-451-52276-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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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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While Angels Sleepby Judith KelmanISBN 0515140015 (0-515-14001-5)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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Wildcatby Craig ThomasISBN 0515101869 (0-515-10186-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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