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The Age of Reasonby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0679738959 (0-679-73895-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Reason'Book summary:The first novel of Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy who is obsessed with the idea of freedom. As the shadows of the Second World War draw closer -- even as his personal life is complicated by his mistress's pregnancy -- his search for a way to remain free becomes more and more intense. [via]
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All the Pretty Horsesby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0679744398 (0-679-74439-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the Pretty Horses'Book summary:Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age. [via]
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Altered Statesby Anita BrooknerISBN 0679773258 (0-679-77325-8)
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And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frankby Steve OneyISBN 0679764232 (0-679-76423-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank'Book summary:On April 27, 1913, the bludgeoned body of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan was discovered in the basement of Atlantas National Pencil Factory. The girls murder would be the catalyst for an epic saga that to this day holds a singular place in Americas collective imaginationa saga that would climax in 1915 with the lynching of Leo Frank, the Cornell-educated Jew who was convicted of the murder. The case has been the subject of novels, plays, movies and even musicals, but only now, with the publication of And the Dead Shall Rise, do we have an account that does full justice to the mesmerizing and previously unknown details of one of the most shameful moments in the nations history.
In a narrative reminiscent of a nineteenth-century novel, Steve Oney recounts the emerging revelations of the initial criminal investigation, reconstructs from newspaper dispatches (the original trial transcript mysteriously disappeared long ago) the day-to-day intrigue of the courtroom and illuminates how and why an all-white jury convicted Frank largely on the testimony of a black man. Oney chronicles as well the innumerable avenues that the defense pursued in quest of an appeal, the remarkable and heretofore largely ignored campaign conducted by William Randolph Hearst and New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs to exonerate Frank, the last-minute commutation of Franks death sentence and, most indelibly, the flawlessly executed abduction and brutal lynching of Frank two months after his death sentence was commuted.
And the Dead Shall Rise brings to life a Dickensian cast of characters caught up in the Frank casezealous police investigators intent on protecting their departments reputation, even more zealous private detectives, cynical yet impressionable factory girls, intrepid reporters (including a young Harold Ross), lawyers blinded by their own interests and cowed by the populaces furor. And we meet four astonishing individuals: Jim Conley, who was Franks confessed accomplice and the states star witness; William Smith, a determined and idealistic lawyer who brilliantly prepared Conley for the defenses fierce cross-examination and then, a year later, underwent an extraordinary change of heart; Lucille Frank, the martyred wife of the convicted man; and the great populist leader Tom Watson, who manipulated the volatile and lethal outrage of Georgians against the forces of Northern privilege and capital that were seeking to free Frank.
And the Dead Shall Rise also casts long-awaited fresh light on Franks lynching. No participant was ever indicted, and many went on to prominent careers in state and national politics. Here, for the first time, is the full account of the eventincluding the identities of the influential Georgians who conceived, carried out and covered up the crime. And here as well is the story of the lynchings aftermath, which saw both the revival of the Ku Klux Klan and the evolution of the Anti-Defamation League.
At once a work of masterful investigative journalism and insightful social history, And the Dead Shall Rise does complete justice to one of historys most repellent and most fascinating moments. [via]More editions of And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank:
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Angels & Insectsby A. S. ByattISBN 0679751343 (0-679-75134-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angels & Insects'Book summary:In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. Angels and Insects is "delicate and confidently ironic.... Byatt perfectly blends laughter and sympathy [with] extraordinary sensuality" (San Francisco Examiner). [via]
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Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in Americaby Charles V. Hamilton, Stokely Carmichael, Kwame TureISBN 0679743138 (0-679-74313-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America'Book summary:In 1967, this revolutionary work exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting order. An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 25 years after it was first published. [via]
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Bliss - the Screenplayby Peter CareyISBN 0679767193 (0-679-76719-3)
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Book of Common Prayerby Joan DidionISBN 0679754865 (0-679-75486-5)
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The Bostoniansby Henry James, Alison Lurie, Library of America StaffISBN 0679733817 (0-679-73381-7)
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China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Powerby Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn, Luann WaltherISBN 0679763937 (0-679-76393-7)
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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]
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Collected Poems of Wallace Stevensby Wallace StevensISBN 0679726691 (0-679-72669-1)
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Colored People: A Memoirby Henry Louis Gates, Louis GatesISBN 067973919X (0-679-73919-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colored People: A Memoir'Book summary:From an American Book Award-winning author comes a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection that ushers readers into a now-vanished "colored" world and extends and deepens our sense of African-American history, even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling. [via]
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Confessions of a Crap Artist-Jack Isidoreby Philip K. DickISBN 0679741143 (0-679-74114-3)
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Crime and Punishmentby Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0679734503 (0-679-73450-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. [via]
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Dance, Dance, Danceby Alfred Birnbaum, Haruki MurakamiISBN 0679753796 (0-679-75379-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dance, Dance, Dance'Book summary:In this propulsive novel by the author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Elephant Vanishes, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller, and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table.
As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls; plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic; and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs. [via]More editions of Dance, Dance, Dance:
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Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Centuryby Mark MazowerISBN 067975704X (0-679-75704-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century'Book summary:As the European Union introduces a common currency to world financial markets, Mark Mazower's Dark Continent critically examines the notion of "Europe." The Euro notwithstanding, Mazower argues that the "'Europe' of the European Union may be a promise or a delusion, but it is not a reality." Renouncing the notion of an essential "Europe," Mazower instead explores the conflicts which dominated the continent in the 20th century and the social value systems which informed them.
Mazower orders his examination chronologically, commencing with the collapse of Europe's continental empires following World War I and the initial European experiments in democracy and national self-determination which followed. He continues with analyses of state interventions in family health and the importance of healthy progeny, the financial crisis of the 1920s, the Hitler regime, the transformed democracy that emerged following World War II, the gradual erosion of the social state in the 1980s, and, finally, the collapse of communism. He consistently displays a firm grip of European history, directing his argument to readers with a foundational knowledge of the events that shaped 20th century Europe rather than historical novices unfamiliar with the period. Provocatively insightful, Dark Continent makes a convincing argument for a European 21st century characterized by continuity and harmony through divergence. "If Europeans can give up their desperate desire to find a single, workable definition of themselves," Mazower concludes, "they may come to terms more easily with the diversity and dissension which will be as much their future as their past." --Bertina Loeffler [via]
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Democracyby Joan DidionISBN 0679754857 (0-679-75485-7)
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Description of a Struggle: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Eastern European Writingby Michael March, Ivan KlimaISBN 0679745149 (0-679-74514-9)
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Dispatchesby Michael HerrISBN 0679735259 (0-679-73525-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dispatches'Book summary:Michael Herr, who wrote about the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine, gathered his years of notes from his front-line reporting and turned them into what many people consider the best account of the war to date, when published in 1977. He captured the feel of the war and how it differed from any theater of combat ever fought, as well as the flavor of the time and the essence of the people who were there. Since Dispatches was published, other excellent books have appeared on the war--may we suggest The Things They Carried, The Sorrow of War, We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young--but Herr's book was the first to hit the target head-on and remains a classic. [via]
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Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation With Karel Hvizdalaby Vaclav Havel, Karel HvizdalaISBN 0679734023 (0-679-73402-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation With Karel Hvizdala'Book summary:An intimate history of Czechoslovakia under communism; a meditation on the social and political role of art, and a triumphant statement of the values underlying all the recent revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe. [via]
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Divine Invasionby Philip K. DickISBN 0679734457 (0-679-73445-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Divine Invasion'Book summary:n The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick asks: What if God--or a being called Yah--were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern police state? The Divine Invasion "blends Judaism, Kabalah, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity into a fascinating fable of human existence" (West Coast Revew of Books). [via]
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Doctor Faustusby Thomas Mann, H.T. Lowe-PorterISBN 067973905X (0-679-73905-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor Faustus'Book summary:Tells the story of Adrian Leverkuhn, a theological student turned composer, who symbolically enters into a pact with the Devil, selling his soul and body in return for twenty-four years of musical genius. [via]
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El Arroyo De LA Lloronaby Sandra Cisneros, Liliana ValenzuelaISBN 0679768041 (0-679-76804-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Arroyo De LA Llorona'Book summary:The highly acclaimed short story collection by the author of The House on Mango Street is now available in a Spanish edition. El arroyo de La Llorana brings to life an astonishing array of characters and, like La casa en Mango Street, promises to become a book that will be cherished around the world. "Radiant."--New York Times Book Review. [via]
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The Elephant Vanishesby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0679750533 (0-679-75053-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elephant Vanishes'Book summary:With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald's in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard.
By turns haunting and hilarious, The Elephant Vanishes is further proof of Murakami's ability to cross the border between separate realities -- and to come back bearing treasure. [via]More editions of The Elephant Vanishes:
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The English Patientby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0679745203 (0-679-74520-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Patient'Book summary:With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companions-and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. [via]
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Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republicby Alexander Stille, Sarah BurnesISBN 0679768637 (0-679-76863-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic'Book summary:In 1992 Italy was convulsed by two brazen Mafia assassinations of high-ranking officials. The latest "excellent cadavers" were Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the Sicilian magistrates who had been the Cosa Nostra's most implacable enemies. Yet in the aftermath of the murders, hundreds of "men of honor" were arrested and the government that ad protected them for nearly half a century was at last driven from office. This is the story that Stille tells with such insight and immediacy in Excellent Cadavers. Combining a profound understanding of his doomed heroes with and unprecedented look into the Mafia's stringent codes and murderous rivalries, he gives us a book that has the power of a great work of history and the suspense of a true thriller.
"Riveting...a well-paced and highly informative account stocked with well-drawn characters."--Philadelphia Inquirer
"Masterful...[Stille] delivers a stiletto-sharp portrait of the bloodthirsty Sicilian mafia."--Business Week [via]More editions of Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic:
Exile and the Kingdomby Albert Camus, Justin O'BrienISBN 067973385X (0-679-73385-X)
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The Future of the Raceby Cornel West, Henry Louis GatesISBN 0679763783 (0-679-76378-3)
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The Gameby A. S. ByattISBN 0679742565 (0-679-74256-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Game'Book summary:The Game is a lush and disturbing novel portraying a sibling rivalry which compels the reader to reconsider the uses and misuses of imagination. when they were little girls, Cassandra and Julia played a game in which they entered an alternate world modeled on the landscapes of Arthurian romance. Now the sisters are grown, and hostile strangers--until a figure from their past, a man they once both loved and suffered over, reenters their lives. [via]
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Go Down, Mosesby William FaulknerISBN 0679732179 (0-679-73217-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Go Down, Moses'Book summary:"I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance." -William Faulkner, on receiving the Nobel Prize Go Down, Moses is composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in Faulkner's mythic Yoknapatawpha County. From a variety of perspectives, Faulkner examines the complex, changing relationships between blacks and whites, between man and nature, weaving a cohesive novel rich in implication and insight. [via]
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The Golden Gateby Vikram SethISBN 0679734570 (0-679-73457-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Gate'Book summary:Can 690 sonnets, rhyming a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-f-f-e-g-g, be a novel? Definitely! First published in 1986 and still fresh (the sole sign of its publication date being the frequent use of the word yuppie), Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate will turn the verse-fearing into admiring acolytes. Janet Hayakawa, a yet-to-be-discovered sculptor and drummer in the Liquid Sheep, secretly places a personal ad for her friend John, even though she too is single. "Only her cats provide distraction,/Twin paradigms of lazy action." The seventh letter does the trick. Lawyer Liz Donati's submission is two sonnets in toto and disarms John into meeting her. Soon they fall into brief bliss, as do her brother, Ed, and John's old college roommate, Phil. Unfortunately, the first couple's love is too soon destroyed, partly by a pet, partly by politics; and the second is rent by religion. Ed pulls away thanks to the Bible: "I have to trust my faith's decisions, / Not batten on my own volitions."
The rest of the novel leads less to the traditional comic ending--rapprochement and marriage all around--than to surprising sadness. But in between there is wit, wordplay, abounding allusion, and some marvelous animals, among them the iguana Schwarzenegger. The author even steps onto the stage on occasion: at a frou-frou publishing party a powerful editor accosts him, curious to hear about his new novel. When Seth tells him it's in verse, the temperature plummets. "'How marvelously quaint,' he said, / And subsequently cut me dead." Luckily, Seth's real editor did anything but. [via]
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Guerrillasby V.S. Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad NaipaulISBN 0679731741 (0-679-73174-1)
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The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki Murakami, Alfred BirnbaumISBN 0679743464 (0-679-74346-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'Book summary:Japan's most widely-read and controversial writer, author of A Wild Sheep Chase, hurtles into the consciousness of the West with this narrative about a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters--not to mention Bob Dylan and Lauren Bacall. [via]
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The Hero and the Bluesby Albert MurrayISBN 0679762205 (0-679-76220-5)
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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chaptersby Julian BarnesISBN 0679731377 (0-679-73137-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters'Book summary:This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven! [via]
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaustby Daniel Jonah GoldhagenISBN 0679772685 (0-679-77268-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust'Book summary:This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion."Hitler's Willing Executioner's is an original, indeed brilliant contribution to the...literature on the Holocaust."--New York Review of Books"The most important book ever published about the Holocaust...Eloquently written, meticulously documented, impassioned...A model of moral and scholarly integrity."--Philadelphia Inquirer [via]
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Illywhackerby Peter CareyISBN 0679767908 (0-679-76790-8)
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An Imaginary Lifeby David MaloufISBN 0679767932 (0-679-76793-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Imaginary Life'Book summary:In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, Malouf has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving novel. Marooned on the edge of the known world, exiled from his native tongue, Ovid depends on the kindness of barbarians who impale their dead and converse with the spirit world.Then he becomes the guardian of a still more savage creature, a feral child who has grown up among deer. What ensues is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature, as enacted by a poet who once cataloged the treacheries of love and a boy who slowly learns how to give it.
"A work of unusual intelligence and imagination, full of surprising images and insights...One of those rare books you end up underlining and copying out into notebooks and reading out loud to friends."--The New York Times Book Review [via]More editions of An Imaginary Life:
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The Immoralistby Richard Howard, Andre GideISBN 0679741917 (0-679-74191-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Immoralist'Book summary:With today's headlines and talk shows, it takes a lot to shock a reader--certainly more than was required in 1902, when André Gide's The Immoralist was first published. What was seen then as a story of dereliction translates today into a tale of introspection and fierce self-discovery. While traveling to Tunis with his new bride, the Parisian scholar Michel is overcome by tuberculosis. As he slowly convalesces, he revels in the physical pleasures of living and resolves to forgo his studies of the past in order to experience the present--to let "the layers of acquired knowledge peel away from the mind like a cosmetic and reveal, in patches, the naked flesh beneath, the authentic being hidden there."
But this is not the Michel his colleagues knew, nor the man Marceline married, and he must hide his new values under the patina of what he now reviles. Bored by Parisian society, he moves to a family farm in Normandy. He is happy there, especially in the company of young Charles, but he must soon return to the city and academe. Michel remains restless until he gives his first lecture and runs into Ménalque, who has long outraged society, and recognizes in him a reflection of his torment. Finally, Michel heads south, deeper into the desert, until, as he confides to his friends, he is lost in the sea of sand, under a clear, directionless sky.
What Gide's story lacks in sensationalism is fulfilled by his descriptive prose, which evokes the exotic nature of Michel's inner and outer journey: "I did not understand the forbearance of this African earth, submerged for days at a time and now awakening from winter, drunk with water, bursting with new juices; it laughed in this springtime frenzy whose echo, whose image I perceived within myself." --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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Imperiumby Ryszard Kapuscinski, Klara GlowczewskaISBN 067974780X (0-679-74780-X)
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Independent Peopleby Halldor Laxness, Brad Leithauser, J. A. ThompsonISBN 0679767924 (0-679-76792-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Independent People'Book summary:This magnificent novelwhich secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literatureis at least available to contemporary American readers. Although it is set in the early twentieth century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And if Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.
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Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.More editions of Independent People:
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The Informationby Martin AmisISBN 0679735739 (0-679-73573-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Information'Book summary:Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal--they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers, even as Tull himself sinks deeper into the sub-basement of literary failure. The only way out of this predicament, Tull believes, is the plot the demise of Barry.
"With The Information, Amis delivers a portrait of middle-age realignment with more verbal felicity and unbridled reach than [anyone] since Tom Wolfe forged Bonfire of the Vanities."--Houston Chronicle [via]More editions of The Information:
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The Journalist and the Murdererby Janet MalcolmISBN 0679731830 (0-679-73183-0)
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Killing Mister Watsonby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0679734058 (0-679-73405-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killing Mister Watson'Book summary:Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century. [via]
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The Kitchen God's Wifeby Amy TanISBN 0679748083 (0-679-74808-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kitchen God's Wife'Book summary:With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanized daughter. [via]
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The Last Days of Innocence: America at War 1917-1918by Meirion Harries, Susie HarriesISBN 0679743766 (0-679-74376-6)
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A Lesson Before Dyingby Ernest GainesISBN 0679741666 (0-679-74166-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Lesson Before Dying'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1997: In a small Cajun community in 1940s Louisiana, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair for murder. A white shopkeeper had died during a robbery gone bad; though the young man on trial had not been armed and had not pulled the trigger, in that time and place, there could be no doubt of the verdict or the penalty.
"I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be..." So begins Grant Wiggins, the narrator of Ernest J. Gaines's powerful exploration of race, injustice, and resistance, A Lesson Before Dying. If young Jefferson, the accused, is confined by the law to an iron-barred cell, Grant Wiggins is no less a prisoner of social convention. University educated, Grant has returned to the tiny plantation town of his youth, where the only job available to him is teaching in the small plantation church school. More than 75 years after the close of the Civil War, antebellum attitudes still prevail: African Americans go to the kitchen door when visiting whites and the two races are rigidly separated by custom and by law. Grant, trapped in a career he doesn't enjoy, eaten up by resentment at his station in life, and angered by the injustice he sees all around him, dreams of taking his girlfriend Vivian and leaving Louisiana forever. But when Jefferson is convicted and sentenced to die, his grandmother, Miss Emma, begs Grant for one last favor: to teach her grandson to die like a man.
As Grant struggles to impart a sense of pride to Jefferson before he must face his death, he learns an important lesson as well: heroism is not always expressed through action--sometimes the simple act of resisting the inevitable is enough. Populated by strong, unforgettable characters, Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying offers a lesson for a lifetime. [via]
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London Fieldsby Martin AmisISBN 0679730346 (0-679-73034-6)
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Look at the Harlequins!by Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679727280 (0-679-72728-0)
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The Loserby Thomas BernhardISBN 0679741798 (0-679-74179-8)
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The Makioka Sistersby Edward Seidensticker, Jun Ichiro TanizakiISBN 0679761640 (0-679-76164-0)
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A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Actsby Robert BoltISBN 0679728228 (0-679-72822-8)
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Mao: The Unknown Storyby Jung Chang, Jon HallidayISBN 0679746323 (0-679-74632-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mao: The Unknown Story'Book summary:In the epilogue to her biography of Mao Tse-tung, Jung Chang and her husband and cowriter Jon Halliday lament that, "Today, Mao's portrait and his corpse still dominate Tiananmen Square in the heart of the Chinese capital." For Chang, author of Wild Swans, this fact is an affront, not just to history, but to decency. Mao: The Unknown Story does not contain a formal dedication, but it is clear that Chang is writing to honor the millions of Chinese who fell victim to Mao's drive for absolute power in his 50-plus-year struggle to dominate China and the 20th-century political landscape. From the outset, Chang and Halliday are determined to shatter the "myth" of Mao, and they succeed with the force, not just of moral outrage, but of facts. The result is a book, more indictment than portrait, that paints Mao as a brutal totalitarian, a thug, who unleashed Stalin-like purges of millions with relish and without compunction, all for his personal gain. Through the authors' unrelenting lens even his would-be heroism as the leader of the Long March and father of modern China is exposed as reckless opportunism, subjecting his charges to months of unnecessary hardship in order to maintain the upper hand over his rival, Chang Kuo-tao, an experienced military commander.
Using exhaustive research in archives all over the world, Chang and Halliday recast Mao's ascent to power and subsequent grip on China in the context of global events. Sino-Soviet relations, the strengths and weakness of Chiang Kai-shek, the Japanese invasion of China, World War II, the Korean War, the disastrous Great Leap Forward, the vicious Cultural Revolution, the Vietnam War, Nixon's visit, and the constant, unending purges all, understandably, provide the backdrop for Mao's unscrupulous but invincible political maneuverings and betrayals. No one escaped unharmed. Rivals, families, peasants, city dwellers, soldiers, and lifelong allies such as Chou En-lai were all sacrificed to Mao's ambition and paranoia. Appropriately, the authors' consciences are appalled. Their biggest fear is that Mao will escape the global condemnation and infamy he deserves. Their astonishing book will go a long way to ensure that the pendulum of history will adjust itself accordingly. --Silvana Tropea [via]
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Martian Time-Slipby Philip K. DickISBN 0679761675 (0-679-76167-5)
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History/Her My Troubles Began/Boxedby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679748407 (0-679-74840-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History/Her My Troubles Began/Boxed'Book summary:A boxed edition of the two paperback volumed of this 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated narrative of Holocaust survival. Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in "drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust" ( The New York Times ). Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century's grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us. [via]
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679739742 (0-679-73974-2)
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Means of Ascentby Robert A. CaroISBN 067973371X (0-679-73371-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Means of Ascent'Book summary:The second installment in a projected four-volume biography of LBJ that opened with The Path to Power, Means of Ascent shines a harsh light on the early political years of one of America's most paradoxical presidents. The man who would later ram civil rights legislation through a reluctant Congress, and then be brought down by Vietnam, came out of a political swamp--Caro gives a graphic picture of the Texas democratic political machine at its most corrupt. The climax of the book is LBJ's election to the Senate in 1948, an election he won by 87 dubious votes out of almost a million. That vote arguably changed history. This book won the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. [via]
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The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammadby Karl EvanzzISBN 0679774068 (0-679-77406-8)
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Metrolandby Julian BarnesISBN 0679736085 (0-679-73608-5)
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Model Behaviorby Jay McInerneyISBN 0679749535 (0-679-74953-5)
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Moor's Last Sighby Salman RushdieISBN 0679744665 (0-679-74466-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moor's Last Sigh'Book summary:Time Magazine's Best Book of the YearBooker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerized offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave. "Fierce, phantasmagorical...a huge, sprawling, exuberant novel."--New York Times [via]
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Music for Chameleonsby Truman CapoteISBN 0679745661 (0-679-74566-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Music for Chameleons'Book summary:In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise; and a proper Connecticut householder with a ruinous obsession for a twelve-year-old he has never met. And we meet Capote himself, who, whether he is smoking with his cleaning lady or trading sexual gossip with Marilyn Monroe, remains one of the most elegant, malicious, yet compassionate writers to train his eye on the social fauna of his time.
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essaysby Albert Camus, Justin O'BrienISBN 0679733736 (0-679-73373-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays'Book summary:PhilosophyReligion/Philosophy [via]
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Now Wait for Last Yearby Philip K. DickISBN 0679742204 (0-679-74220-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Now Wait for Last Year'Book summary:Dr. Eric Sweetscent has problems. His planet is enmeshed in an unwinnable war. His wife is lethally addicted to a drug that whips its users helplessly back and forth across time -- and is hell-bent on making Eric suffer along with her. And Sweetscent's newest patient is not only the most important man on the embattled planet Earth but quite possibly the sickest. For Secretary Gino Molinari has turned his mortal illness into an instrument of political policy -- and Eric cannot tell if his job is to make the Male better or to keep him poised just this side of death.
Now Wait for Last fear bursts through the envelope between the impossible and the inevitable. Even as ushers us into a future that looks uncannily like the present, it makes the normal seem terrifyingly provisional -- and compels anyone who reads it to wonder if he really knows what time it is. [via]More editions of Now Wait for Last Year:
Optimist's Daughterby Eudora WeltyISBN 067972883X (0-679-72883-X)
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The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnsonby Robert A. CaroISBN 0679729453 (0-679-72945-3)
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Perjury : The Hiss-Chambers Caseby Allen WeinsteinISBN 067977338X (0-679-77338-X)
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Race Mattersby Cornel WestISBN 0679749861 (0-679-74986-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Race Matters'Book summary:With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Matters affirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America?s ongoing racial debate.
Cornel West is at the forefront of thinking about race. In Race Matters he addresses a range of issues, from the crisis in black leadership and the myths surrounding black sexuality to affirmative action, the new black conservatism, and the strained relations between Jews and African Americans. He never hesitates to confront the prejudices of all his readers?or wavers in his insistence that they share a common destiny. Bold in its thought and written with a redemptive passion grounded in the tradition of the African-American church, Race Matters is a book that is at once challenging and deeply healing. [via]More editions of Race Matters:
Rachel Papersby Martin AmisISBN 0679734589 (0-679-73458-9)
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Ragtimeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0679736263 (0-679-73626-3)
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Raisin in the Sunby Lorraine HansberryISBN 0679755330 (0-679-75533-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Raisin in the Sun'Book summary:This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husband's insurance money comes through, Mama dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans, however: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school. The tensions and prejudice they face form this seminal American drama. Sacrifice, trust and love among the Younger family and their heroic struggle to retain dignity in a harsh and changing world is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration. Winner of the NY Drama Critic's Award as Best Play of the Year, it has been hailed as a "pivotal play in the history of the American Black theatre." by Newsweek and "a milestone in the American Theatre." by Ebony. [via]
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Real Life of Sebastian Knightby Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0679727264 (0-679-72726-4)
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Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminismby Katha PollittISBN 0679762787 (0-679-76278-7)
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The Reiversby William FaulknerISBN 0679741925 (0-679-74192-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reivers'Book summary:This grand misadventure is the story of three unlikely thieves, or reivers: 11-year-old Lucius Priest and two of his family's retainers. In 1905, these three set out from Mississippi for Memphis in a stolen motorcar. The astonishing and complicated results reveal Faulkner as a master of the picaresque. [via]
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Remembering Babylonby David MaloufISBN 0679749519 (0-679-74951-9)
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The Reprieveby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0679740783 (0-679-74078-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reprieve'Book summary:An extraordinary picture of life in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the fateful Munich Pact and the subsequent takeover of Czechoslovakia in September 1938. Translated from the French by Eric Sutton. [via]
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Russia Under the Bolshevik Regimeby Richard PipesISBN 0679761845 (0-679-76184-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime'Book summary:Pipes is a widely recognized authority on Russia and is currently Baird professor of History at Harvard University. This is the final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to Lenin's death in 1924. [via]
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Six American Poetsby Joel ConarroeISBN 0679745254 (0-679-74525-4)
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The Sound of the Mountainby Yasunari Kawabata, Edward SeidenstickerISBN 0679762647 (0-679-76264-7)
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South of the Border, West of the Sunby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0679767398 (0-679-76739-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'South of the Border, West of the Sun'Book summary:In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the arc of an average man's life from childhood to middle age, with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment, becomes the kind of exquisite literary conundrum that is Haruki Murakami's trademark. The plot is simple: Hajime meets and falls in love with a girl in elementary school, but he loses touch with her when his family moves to another town. He drifts through high school, college, and his 20s, before marrying and settling into a career as a successful bar owner. Then his childhood sweetheart returns, weighed down with secrets:
When I went back into the bar, a glass and ashtray remained where she had been. A couple of lightly crushed cigarette butts were lined up in the ashtray, a faint trace of lipstick on each. I sat down and closed my eyes. Echoes of music faded away, leaving me alone. In that gentle darkness, the rain continued to fall without a sound.
Murakami eschews the fantastic elements that appear in many of his other novels and stories, and readers hoping for a glimpse of the Sheep Man will be disappointed. Yet South of the Border, West of the Sun is as rich and mysterious as anything he has written. It is above all a complex, moving, and honest meditation on the nature of love, distilled into a work with the crystal clarity of a short story. A Nat "King" Cole song, a figure on a crowded street, a face pressed against a car window, a handful of ashes drifting down a river to the sea are woven together into a story that refuses to arrive at a simple conclusion. The classic love triangle may seem like a hackneyed theme for a writer as talented as Murakami, but in his quietly dazzling way, he bends us to his own unique geometry. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of South of the Border, West of the Sun:
The Sportswriterby Richard FordISBN 0679762108 (0-679-76210-8)
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Strong Opinionsby Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0679726098 (0-679-72609-8)
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Talking It overby Julian BarnesISBN 0679736875 (0-679-73687-5)
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The Tax Inspectorby Peter CareyISBN 0679735984 (0-679-73598-4)
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilionby Yukio MishimaISBN 0679752706 (0-679-75270-6)
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritchby Philip K. DickISBN 0679736662 (0-679-73666-2)
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Total War: Causes and Courses of the Second World Warby Peter CalvocoressiISBN 0679730915 (0-679-73091-5)
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The Transmigration of Timothy Archerby Philip K. DickISBN 0679734449 (0-679-73444-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Transmigration of Timothy Archer'Book summary:The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the final novel in the trilogy that also includes Valis and The Divine Invasion, is an anguished, learned, and very moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief. It is the story of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress--and driven by them into a bizarre quest for the identity of Christ. [via]
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Troubled Sleep: A Novelby Jean-Paul Sartre, Gerard Manley HopkinsISBN 0679740791 (0-679-74079-1)
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Ubikby Philip K. DickISBN 0679736646 (0-679-73664-6)
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The Unconsoledby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0679735879 (0-679-73587-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unconsoled'Book summary:The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past. In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit.
"A work of great interest and originality.... Ishiguro has mapped out an aesthetic territory that is all his own...frankly fantastic [and] fiercer and funnier than before."--The New Yorker [via]More editions of The Unconsoled:
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The Unvanquishedby William FaulknerISBN 0679736522 (0-679-73652-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unvanquished'Book summary:Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the best of the Old South's traditions. [via]
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Up in the Old Hotel and Other Storiesby Joseph MitchellISBN 0679746315 (0-679-74631-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories'Book summary:Journalist Joseph Mitchell, whose death in in May 1996 at the age of 87 merited a half-page obituary in the New York Times, pioneered a style of journalism while crafting brilliant magazine pieces for the New Yorker from the 1930s to the early 1960s. Up in the Old Hotel, a collection of his best reporting, is a 700-page joy to read.
Mitchell lovingly chronicled the lives of odd New York characters. In the pages of Up In the Old Hotel, the reader passes through places such as McSorley's Old Ale House or the Fulton Fish Market that many observers might have found ordinary. But when experienced through Mitchell's gifted eye, the reader will see that these haunts of old New York possess poetry, beauty, and meaning. [via]
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Valisby Philip K. DickISBN 0679734465 (0-679-73446-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Valis'Book summary:The first of Dick's three final novels (the others are Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). Known as science fiction only for lack of a better category, "Valis" takes place in our world and may even be semi-autobiographical. It is a fool's search for God, who turns out to be a virus, a joke, and a mental hologram transmitted from an orbiting satellite.
The proponent of the novel, Horselover Fat, is thrust into a theological quest when he receives communion in a burst of pink laser light. From the cancer ward of a bay area hospital to the ranch of a fraudulent charismatic religious figure who turns out to have a direct com link with God, Dick leads us down the twisted paths of Gnostic belief, mixed with his own bizarre and compelling philosophy. Truly an eye opening look at the nature of consciousness and divinity. [via]
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The Voyageby Philip CaputoISBN 0679768394 (0-679-76839-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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What It Takes: The Way to the White Houseby Richard Ben CramerISBN 0679746498 (0-679-74649-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Winshaw Legacy or What a Carve Up!by Jonathan CoeISBN 0679754059 (0-679-75405-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Winshaw Legacy or What a Carve Up!'Book summary:If Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie had ever managed to collaborate, they might have produced this shamelessly entertaining novel, which introduces readers to what may be the most powerful family in England--and is certainly the vilest. A tour de force of menace, malicious comedy, and torrential social bile, this book marks the American debut of an extraordinary writer. [via]
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Woman Hollering Creek and Other Storiesby Sandra CisnerosISBN 0679738568 (0-679-73856-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories'Book summary:A collection of stories, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom. [via]
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Written on the Bodyby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0679744479 (0-679-74447-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Written on the Body'Book summary:The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review. [via]
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