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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 0812504208 (0-8125-0420-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:Discover the classics! Beautifully designed and carefully abridged, Troll Illustrated Classics are the perfect introductions to the worlds best-loved literature. [via]
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- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0816718601 (0-8167-1860-1)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0816725470 (0-8167-2547-0)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0816772347 (0-8167-7234-7)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C. - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0839362056 (0-8393-6205-6)
Hardcover, Raintree Childrens Books - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0866119574 (0-86611-957-4)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0812504208 (0-8125-0420-8)
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- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0816718601 (0-8167-1860-1)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Marion P. ThayerISBN 0822013010 (0-8220-1301-0)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:Cliffs Test Preparation Guides help students prepare for and improve their performance on standardized tests ACT Preparation Guide CBEST Preparation Guide CLAST Preparation Guide ELM Review GMAT Preparation Guide GRE Preparation Guide LSAT Preparation Guide MAT Preparation Guide MATH Review for Standardized Tests MSAT Preparation Guide Memory Power for Exams Police Officer Examination Preparation Guide Police Sergeant Examination Preparation Guide Police Management Examinations Preparation Guide Postal Examinations Preparation Guide Praxis I: PPST Preparation Guide Praxis II: NTE Core Battery Preparation Guide SAT Preparation Guide SAT II Writing Preparation Guide TASP Preparation Guide TOEFL Preparation Guide with 2 cassettes Advanced Practice for the TOEFL with 2 cassettes Verbal Review for Standardized Tests Writing Proficiency Examinations You Can Pass the GED Cliffs Quick Reviews help students in introductory college courses or Advanced Placement classes Algebra I Algebra II Anatomy & Physiology Basic Math and Pre-Algebra Biology Calculus Chemistry Differential Equations Economics Geometry Linear Algebra Microbiology Physics Statistics Trigonometry Cliffs Advanced Placement Preparation Guides help high school students taking Advanced Placement courses to earn college credit AP Biology AP Calculus AB AP Chemistry AP English Language & Composition AP English Literature & Composition AP United States History Cliffs Complete Study Editions are comprehensive study guides with complete text, running commentary and glossary Chaucer's Prologue Chaucer's Wife of Bath Hamlet Julius Caesar King Henry IV, Part I King Lear Macbeth The Merchant of Venice Othello Romeo and Juliet The Tempest Twelfth Night See inside back cover for listing of Cliffs Notes titles Registered trademarks include: GRE, MSAT, the Praxis Series, and TOEFL (Educational Testing Service): AP, Advanced Placement Program. [via]
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Americaby Jean Baudrillard, Chris TurnerISBN 0860919781 (0-86091-978-1)
Softcover, Verso Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America'Book summary:France's leading philosopher of postmodernism takes to the freeways of the New World. Baudrillard assembles images of light, distance, endless horizontal circulation, political indifference and, above all, simulation. [via]
The American Revolutionby Edward CountrymanISBN 0809025620 (0-8090-2562-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Revolution'Book summary:Written by the distinguished scholar and author of Americans, this pathbreaking study describes the process by which American society was changed in the tumultuous years between 1760 and 1790, and how the Revolution set the United States on the path toward its dynamic development in the nineteenth century. Bibliography, index. [via]
The American Revolutionby Eric Foner, Edward CountrymanISBN 0809025639 (0-8090-2563-9)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocquevilleby Bernard-Henri Levy, Charlotte MandellISBN 0812974719 (0-8129-7471-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville'Book summary:What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today? To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a year traveling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America remains the most influential book ever written about our country.
The result is American Vertigo, a fascinating, wholly fresh look at a country we sometimes only think we know. From Rikers Island to Chicago mega-churches, from Muslim communities in Detroit to an Amish enclave in Iowa, Lévy investigates issues at the heart of our democracy: the special nature of American patriotism, the coexistence of freedom and religion (including the religion of baseball), the prison system, the return of ideology and the health of our political institutions, and much more. He revisits and updates Tocquevilles most important beliefs, such as the dangers posed by the tyranny of the majority, explores what Europe and America have to learn from each other, and interprets what he sees with a novelists eye and a philosophers depth.
Through powerful interview-based portraits across the spectrum of the American people, from prison guards to clergymen, from Norman Mailer to Barack Obama, from Sharon Stone to Richard Holbrooke, Lévy fills his book with a tapestry of American voicessome wise, some shocking. Both the grandeur and the hellish dimensions of American life are unflinchingly explored. And big themes emerge throughout, from the crucial choices America
faces today to the underlying reality that, unlike the Old World, America remains the fulfillment of the worlds desire to worship, earn, and live as one wishesa place, despite all, where inclusion remains not just an ideal but an actual practice.
At a time when Americans are anxious about how the world perceives them and, indeed, keen to make sense of themselves, a brilliant and sympathetic foreign observer has arrived to help us begin a new conversation about the meaning of America.
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Americans: A Collision of Historiesby Edward CountrymanISBN 0809015986 (0-8090-1598-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Americans: A Collision of Histories'Book summary:Whether America is a "melting pot" of hybrid breeds dissolved into a composite people or a "tossed salad" of distinct groups roughly mixed is a debate that has grown considerably in recent years. Edward Countryman, a Southern Methodist University professor and author of several history books, weighs in with a sweeping examination of America's early years. Or specifically, he provides a look at the histories of the ethnic groups that make up the country. His conclusions are not simple generalizations, but rather a story laid bare of cultures clashing and the confused result. [via]
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Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youthby Richard WrightISBN 0808510525 (0-8085-1052-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth'Book summary:Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot.
Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictmenta poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.
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A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy TooleISBN 0807126063 (0-8071-2606-3)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Confederacy of Dunces'Book summary:"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.
Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Darlene and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807126071 (0-8071-2607-1)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr - A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807130087 (0-8071-3008-7)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr - A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807106577 (0-8071-0657-7)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr - A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807126063 (0-8071-2606-3)
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- A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807126071 (0-8071-2607-1)
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Confidence Manby Herman MelvilleISBN 0810103257 (0-8101-0325-7)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confidence Man'Book summary:Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the `masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fid `ele is `the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most `modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history. No other edition of this fine novel is available in paperback. This book is intended for the general reader; students of nineteenth-century American literature. [via]
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787by Gordon S. WoodISBN 0807847232 (0-8078-4723-2)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787'Book summary:Gordon S. Wood--winner of the Pulitzer Prize and professor of American history at Brown University--had no idea what he was getting into when he began this 653-page book. Innocently, he wanted to write a "monographic analysis of constitution-making in the Revolutionary era." Little did he know he would discover an intellectual world where a complete transformation of political thought was occurring, one that would create "a distinctly American system of politics." As Wood explains, "Beneath the variety and idiosyncrasies of American opinion there emerged a general pattern of beliefs about the social process--a set of common assumptions about history, society, and politics that connected and made significant seemingly discrete and unrelated ideas. Really for the first time I began to glimpse what late eighteenth-century Americans meant when they talked about living in an enlightened age." This original study of the American political system is a strong contribution to the scholarly studies of the events surrounding the nation's independence. [via]
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The Creation of the American Republic, Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Six Thru Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-Sevenby Gordon S. WoodISBN 0807811041 (0-8078-1104-1)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The Dante Clubby Matthew PearlISBN 0812971043 (0-8129-7104-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dante Club'Book summary:The New York Times Bestseller
Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dantes Inferno. Only an elite group of Americas first Dante scholarsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fieldscan solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dantes literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer. [via]More editions of The Dante Club:
Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Inquiry into the Salem Witch Trialsby Marion Lena StarkeyISBN 0809437414 (0-8094-3741-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Domestic Manners of the Americansby Frances Milton TrollopeISBN 0862990866 (0-86299-086-6)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Domestic Manners of the Americans'Book summary:Pursued by debt, Fanny Trollope, mother of the novelist, emigrated to Ohio where her business ventures with her husband failed. Returning to England, she published this text in 1832, achieving profit and fame with her sometimes critical observations of the novel society of the New World. [via]
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoplesby Tim FlanneryISBN 0871137895 (0-87113-789-5)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples'Book summary:Reading The Eternal Frontier might be the closest you'll get to taking a class from Tim Flannery--and that alone makes it an opportunity just too good to pass up. This ambitious retelling of North America's dramatic ecological history grew out of a course that Flannery taught at Harvard surveying the continent's ancient past up to its tumultuous near-present: from the extraterrestrial "death-dealing visitor" that struck 65 million years ago all the way through to the tidal invasions, adaptations, and extinctions that have washed over North America since, each idiosyncratically influenced by an ever-changing geology, geography, and climate.
Flannery admirably balances his twin roles as scientist and storyteller. As a thoughtful teacher, he employs memorable and effective examples to illustrate broader topics, but he's also willing to commit to theoretical explanations (with fair warning) when necessary to thread together the narrative. But Flannery's greatest strength might simply be the empathy he inspires as a fellow human being trying to sort out an intricate, often richly beautiful puzzle. It's hard not to identify with his curiosity and enthusiasm, whether he's recalling memories of late nights spent as a child reading the How and Why Book of Prehistoric Mammals (and the uintathere nightmares that followed) or just marveling over the vast American West from his window seat on a plane.
The Eternal Frontier certainly leaves you with a solid outline of the how, why, and when of North America's enigmatic ecology, and what the implications of a dwindling frontier have for our future. But don't be surprised when what you remember best are Flannery's countless details--worthy of repeating at any self-respecting pub--from marsupial sperm that swim in pairs to the reason that Native American cultures might owe their very existence to squirrels' taste in nuts. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Fear and Loathing:on the Campaign Trail '72: On the Campaign Trail '72by Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0879320532 (0-87932-053-2)
Hardcover, Straight Arrow Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing:on the Campaign Trail '72: On the Campaign Trail '72'Book summary:With the same drug-addled alacrity and jaundiced wit that made Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas a hilarious hit, Hunter S. Thompson turns his savage eye and gonzo heart to the repellent and seductive race for President. He deconstructs the 1972 campaigns of idealist George McGovern and political hack Richard Nixon, ending up with a political vision that is eerily prophetic. A classic! [via]
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Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacificby Eric BergerudISBN 0813338697 (0-8133-3869-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific'Book summary:In the first two years of the Pacific War of World War II, air forces from Japan, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand engaged in a ruthless struggle for superiority in the skies over the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. Despite operating under primitive conditions in a largely unknown and malignant physical environment, both sides employed the most sophisticated technology available at the time in a strategically crucial war of aerial attrition. In one of the largest aerial campaigns in history, the skies of the South Pacific were dominated first by the dreaded Japanese Zeros, then by Allied bombers, which launched massed raids at altitudes under fifty feet, and finally by a ferocious Allied fighter onslaught led by a cadre of the greatest aces in American military history.Utilizing primary sources and scores of interviews with surviving veterans of all ranks and duties, Eric Bergerud recreates the fabric of the air war as it was fought in the South Pacific. He explores the technology and tactics, the three-dimensional battlefield, and the leadership, living conditions, medical challenges, and morale of the combatants. The reader will be rewarded with a thorough understanding of how air power functioned in World War II from the level of command to the point of fire in air-to-air combat.[via]More editions of Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific:
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Herman Melville's Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Peter FishISBN 0812034287 (0-8120-3428-7)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Historical Atlas of the United StatesISBN 0870447475 (0-87044-747-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Innocents Abroadby Mark Twain, Jane JacobsISBN 0812967054 (0-8129-6705-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Innocents Abroad'Book summary:The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American New Barbarians and the European Old World provides much comic fodder for Mark Twainand a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully skewering the ethos of American tourism in Europe, Twains lively satire ultimately reveals just what it is that defines cultural identity. As Twain himself points out, Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all ones lifetime. And Jane Jacobs observes in her Introduction, If the reader is American, he may also find himself on a tour of his own psyche. [via]
Jefferson and His Timeby Dumas MaloneISBN 0813923581 (0-8139-2358-1)
Hardcover, University of Virginia Press
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Jefferson and the Ordeal of Libertyby Dumas MaloneISBN 0813923573 (0-8139-2357-3)
Hardcover, University of Virginia Press
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Jefferson and the Rights of Manby Dumas MaloneISBN 0813923565 (0-8139-2356-5)
Hardcover, University of Virginia Press
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Jefferson the President, Second Term, 1805-1809by Dumas MaloneISBN 081392359X (0-8139-2359-X)
Hardcover, University of Virginia Press
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Jefferson the Virginianby Dumas MaloneISBN 0813923557 (0-8139-2355-7)
Hardcover, University of Virginia Press
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Jefferson the Virginianby Jefferson MaloneISBN 0813923611 (0-8139-2361-1)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jefferson the Virginian'Book summary:Dumas Malones classic six-volume biography Jefferson and His Time was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jeffersons life.
Volume 1. Jefferson the VirginianThis first volume explores the early phases of Jeffersons life, from his youth, education, legal career, and marriage, to the building of Monticello, writing of the Declaration of Independence and his highly contentious governorship.
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The Joy Luck Clubby Amy TanISBN 0833552929 (0-8335-5292-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joy Luck Club'Book summary:Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery. [via]
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Killer Angelsby Michael ShaaraISBN 0808598104 (0-8085-9810-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killer Angels'Book summary:This novel reveals more about the Battle of Gettysburg than any piece of learned nonfiction on the same subject. Michael Shaara's account of the three most important days of the Civil War features deft characterizations of all of the main actors, including Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Buford, and Hancock. The most inspiring figure in the book, however, is Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, whose 20th Maine regiment of volunteers held the Union's left flank on the second day of the battle. This unit's bravery at Little Round Top helped turned the tide of the war against the rebels. There are also plenty of maps, which convey a complete sense of what happened July 1-3, 1863. Reading about the past is rarely so much fun as on these pages. [via]
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Little Womenby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0812523334 (0-8125-2333-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Book Details:- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 6/1/2003
- Pages: 217
- Reading Level: Age 9 and Up
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- Little Women: ISBN 0875527345 (0-87552-734-5)
Softcover, Presbyterian & Reformed Pub Co - Little Women: ISBN 0816707235 (0-8167-0723-5)
Hardcover, Troll Communications Llc - Little Women: ISBN 0866119558 (0-86611-955-8)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co - Little Women: ISBN 0812523334 (0-8125-2333-4)
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Lolitaby Vladimir Nabokov, Edward AlbeeISBN 0822206838 (0-8222-0683-8)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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Miracle at Philadelphiaby Catherine Drinker BowenISBN 0848825659 (0-8488-2565-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle, Harrison HayfordISBN 0810102692 (0-8101-0269-2)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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- Moby Dick: ISBN 0810119110 (0-8101-1911-0)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr - Moby Dick: ISBN 0812543076 (0-8125-4307-6)
Softcover, Tor Books - Moby Dick: ISBN 0809567288 (0-8095-6728-8)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - Moby Dick: ISBN 0866119671 (0-86611-967-1)
Hardcover, Playmore - Moby Dick: ISBN 0812541561 (0-8125-4156-1)
Softcover, Tor Books - Moby Dick: ISBN 0816704635 (0-8167-0463-5)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - Moby Dick: ISBN 0810102692 (0-8101-0269-2)
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- Moby Dick: ISBN 0810119110 (0-8101-1911-0)
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Moby Dick Notesby Cliff's Notes EditorsISBN 0822008521 (0-8220-0852-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick Notes'Book summary:Cliffs Test Preparation Guides help students prepare for and improve their performance on standardized tests ACT Preparation Guide CBEST Preparation Guide CLAST Preparation Guide ELM Review GMAT Preparation Guide GRE Preparation Guide LSAT Preparation Guide MAT Preparation Guide MATH Review for Standardized Tests MSAT Preparation Guide Memory Power for Exams Police Officer Examination Preparation Guide Police Sergeant Examination Preparation Guide Police Management Examinations Preparation Guide Postal Examinations Preparation Guide Praxis I: PPST Preparation Guide Praxis II: NTE Core Battery Preparation Guide SAT Preparation Guide SAT II Writing Preparation Guide TASP Preparation Guide TOEFL Preparation Guide with 2 cassettes Advanced Practice for the TOEFL with 2 cassettes Verbal Review for Standardized Tests Writing Proficiency Examinations You Can Pass the GED Cliffs Quick Reviews help students in introductory college courses or Advanced Placement classes Algebra I Algebra II Anatomy & Physiology Basic Math and Pre-Algebra Biology Calculus Chemistry Differential Equations Economics Geometry Linear Algebra Microbiology Physics Statistics Trigonometry Cliffs Advanced Placement Preparation Guides help high school students taking Advanced Placement courses to earn college credit AP Biology AP Calculus AB AP Chemistry AP English Language & Composition AP English Literature & Composition AP United States History Cliffs Complete Study Editions are comprehensive study guides with complete text, running commentary and glossary Chaucer's Prologue Chaucer's Wife of Bath Hamlet Julius Caesar King Henry IV, Part I King Lear Macbeth The Merchant of Venice Othello Romeo and Juliet The Tempest Twelfth Night See inside back cover for listing of Cliffs Notes titles Registered trademarks include: GRE, MSAT, the Praxis Series, and TOEFL (Educational Testing Service): AP, Advanced Placement Program, and SAT (College Entrance Examination Board); GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Council); and LSAT (Law School Admission Council.) Moby-Dick [via]
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Moby Dick Or, the Whaleby Herman MelvilleISBN 0875320015 (0-87532-001-5)
Hardcover, Hendricks House
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Mr. Lincoln's Armyby Bruce CattonISBN 0844667919 (0-8446-6791-9)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 084792968X (0-8479-2968-X)
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National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Fifty Statesby National Geographic Society (U.S). Book Division, Margaret SedeenISBN 0870448609 (0-87044-860-9)
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National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Fifty Statesby National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. Book ServiceISBN 0870442163 (0-87044-216-3)
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Native Sonby WrightISBN 0816157871 (0-8161-5787-1)
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The Old Man and the Seaby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0808519328 (0-8085-1932-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Man and the Sea'Book summary:Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work: "The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords." Hemingway's style, too, reverts to those superb snapshots of perception that won him his initial fame:
Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weed that heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by a dolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last of the sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air.
If a younger Hemingway had written this novella, Santiago most likely would have towed the enormous fish back to port and posed for a triumphal photograph--just as the author delighted in doing, circa 1935. Instead his prize gets devoured by a school of sharks. Returning with little more than a skeleton, he takes to his bed and, in the very last line, cements his identification with his creator: "The old man was dreaming about the lions." Perhaps there's some allegory of art and experience floating around in there somewhere--but The Old Man and the Sea was, in any case, the last great catch of Hemingway's career. --James Marcus [via]More editions of The Old Man and the Sea:
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63by Taylor BranchISBN 0844672955 (0-8446-7295-5)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63'Book summary:An award-winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., a history of the civil rights movement, and a portrait of an era, Taylor Branch's Parting the Waters begins slowly but soon catches the listener in a tumult of unforgettable events. Branch's thorough research has been synthesized into an impressive account of the violence, courage, and confusion at the beginning of the civil rights movement, building to a powerful conclusion with a blow-by-blow retelling of the events in Birmingham, Alabama. Ably narrated by Joe Morton and C.C.H. Pounder, the audio abridgment is occasionally choppy, but well-done considering the print edition runs about 900 pages. The broad cast of characters includes Baptist preachers and student movement leaders as well as President John F. Kennedy and his cabinet. If you are daunted by the sheer mass of the print edition of Parting the Waters, this abridged production is for you. However don't be surprised if you find yourself wanting more and digging into the print version after all or perhaps the audio version of Pillar of Fire, Taylor's second book in his projected three-part series. (Running time: 6 Hours; 4 cassettes) [via]
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grantby Ulysses S. GrantISBN 0831706783 (0-8317-0678-3)
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Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805by Ellis SandozISBN 0865971811 (0-86597-181-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805'Book summary:The early political culture of the American republic was deeply influenced by the religious consciousness of the New England preachers. Indeed, it was often through the political sermon -- the "pulpit of the American Revolution" -- that the political rhetoric of the period was formed, refined, and transmitted. And yet the centrality of religious concerns in the lives of eighteenth-century Americans is largely neglected. This has created a blind spot regarding the fundamental acts of the American founding.
Political sermons such as the fifty-five collected in this volume are unique to America, in both kind and significance. This volume thus fills an important need if the American founding period is to be adequately understood. [via]
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Profiles in Courage/Large Printby John F. KennedyISBN 0816158878 (0-8161-5887-8)
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismby Max WeberISBN 084466118X (0-8446-6118-X)
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Ragtimeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0812978188 (0-8129-7818-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ragtime'Book summary:Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.
The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch-bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. [via] 
The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0812504798 (0-8125-0479-8)
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Rights of Manby Gregory Claeys, Thomas PaineISBN 0872201473 (0-87220-147-3)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rights of Man'Book summary:Offering more detailed explanatory notes than earlier versions, this edition reprints together for the first time all of Paine's introductions to the versions published in his lifetime. In his own richly informed Introduction, Claeys elucidates the historical context and the subsequent influence of Paine's text, as well as the major problems in interpreting Paine's theory. Instructors will find this new edition a worthy counterpoint to the Hackett edition of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, edited by J G A Pocock. [via]
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Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalistsby Matthew JosephsonISBN 0848800915 (0-8488-0091-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Roughing Itby Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne ClemensISBN 0809531828 (0-8095-3182-8)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roughing It'Book summary:There is no nicer surprise for a reader than to discover that an acknowledged classic really does deliver the goods. Mark Twain's Roughing It is just such a book. The adventure tale is a delight from start to finish and is just as engrossing today as it was 125 years ago when it first appeared.
Roughing It tells the true-ish escapades of Twain in the American West. Although he clearly "speaks with forked tongue," Roughing It is informative as well as humorous. From stagecoach travel to the etiquette of prospecting, the modern reader gains considerable insight into that much-fictionalized time and place. Do you know about sagebrush, for example?
Sage-brush is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child, the mule. But their testimony to its nutritiousness is worth nothing, for they will eat pine knots, or anthracite coal, or brass filings, or lead pipe, or old bottles, or anything that comes handy, and then go off looking as grateful as if they had had oysters for dinner.
Roughing It is informally structured around the narrator's attempts to strike it rich. He meets a motley, colorful crew in the process; many mishaps occur, and it shouldn't surprise you that Twain does not emerge a man of means. But he withstands it all in such a relentless good humor that his misfortune inspires laughter. Roughing It is wonderful entertainment and reminds you how funny the world can be--even its grimmer districts--when you're traveling with the right writer. [via]More editions of Roughing It:
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The Sage of Monticelloby Dumas MaloneISBN 0813923662 (0-8139-2366-2)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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Volume 6. The Sage of Monticello
This final volume provides an all-encompassing account of Jeffersons accomplishments, friendships, and family difficulties in his last seventeen years, revealing his shift from the realm of politics to his roles as family man, architect, and educational enthusiast. Describing Jeffersons retirement from Washington, this volume recounts the events that formed Jeffersons final years, particularly the founding of the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia, in which he played a major role.
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Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Toby BluthISBN 0824980972 (0-8249-8097-2)
Hardcover, Ideals Childrens Books
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Visiting Our Past: America's Historylandsby National Geographic Society (U.S.)ISBN 0870446460 (0-87044-646-0)
Hardcover, National Geographic Society
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Visiting Our Past: America's Historylandsby Daniel J. Boorstin, Ross S. Bennett, National Geographic Book ServiceISBN 0870440039 (0-87044-003-9)
Hardcover, National Geographic Society
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War Plan Orange: The U. S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945by Edward S. MillerISBN 0870217593 (0-87021-759-3)
Hardcover, Naval Institute Press
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The Woman Warriorby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0808589768 (0-8085-8976-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Warrior'Book summary:The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother's mesmerizing "talk-story" tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upward. The author's America is a landscape of confounding white "ghosts"--the policeman ghost, the social worker ghost--with equally rigid, but very different rules. Like the woman warrior of the title, Kingston carries the crimes against her family carved into her back by her parents in testimony to and defiance of the pain. [via]
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