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The Aeneidby Virgil, James H. MantinbandISBN 0804469520 (0-8044-6952-0)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Age of Griefby Jane SmileyISBN 0804103682 (0-8041-0368-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Being Thereby Jerzy N. KosinskiISBN 0802136346 (0-8021-3634-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being There'Book summary:A modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It is the story of Chauncey Gardiner - Chance, an enigmatic but distinguished man who emerges from nowhere to become an heir to the throne of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy adviser, and a media icon. Truly "a man without qualities," Chance's straightforward responses to popular concerns are heralded as visionary. But though everyone is quoting him, no one is sure what he's really saying. And filling in the blanks in his background proves impossible. Being There is a brilliantly satiric look at the unreality of American media culture that is, if anything, more trenchant now than ever. [via]
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The Big Rock Candy Mountainby Wallace StegnerISBN 0803291442 (0-8032-9144-2)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Blue Movieby Terry SouthernISBN 0802134661 (0-8021-3466-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Bonesetter's Daughterby Amy TanISBN 0804114986 (0-8041-1498-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'Book summary:At the beginning of Amy Tan's fourth novel, two packets of papers written in Chinese calligraphy fall into the hands of Ruth Young. One bundle is titled Things I Know Are True and the other, Things I Must Not Forget. The author? That would be the protagonist's mother, LuLing, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In these documents the elderly matriarch, born in China in 1916, has set down a record of her birth and family history, determined to keep the facts from vanishing as her mind deteriorates.
A San Francisco career woman who makes her living by ghostwriting self-help books, Ruth has little idea of her mother's past or true identity. What's more, their relationship has tended to be an angry one. Still, Ruth recognizes the onset of LuLing's decline--along with her own remorse over past rancor--and hires a translator to decipher the packets. She also resolves to "ask her mother to tell her about her life. For once, she would ask. She would listen. She would sit down and not be in a hurry or have anything else to do."
Framed at either end by Ruth's chapters, the central portion of The Bonesetter's Daughter takes place in China in the remote, mountainous region where anthropologists discovered Peking Man in the 1920s. Here superstition and tradition rule over a succession of tiny villages. And here LuLing grows up under the watchful eye of her hideously scarred nursemaid, Precious Auntie. As she makes clear, it's not an enviable setting:
I noticed the ripe stench of a pig pasture, the pockmarked land dug up by dragon-bone dream-seekers, the holes in the walls, the mud by the wells, the dustiness of the unpaved roads. I saw how all the women we passed, young and old, had the same bland face, sleepy eyes that were mirrors of their sleepy minds.
Nor is rural isolation the worst of it. LuLing's family, a clan of ink makers, believes itself cursed by its connection to a local doctor, who cooks up his potions and remedies from human bones. And indeed, a great deal of bad luck befalls the narrator and her sister GaoLing before they can finally engineer their escape from China. Along the way, familial squabbles erupt around every corner, particularly among mothers, daughters, and sisters. And as she did in her earlier The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan uses these conflicts to explore the intricate dynamic that exists between first-generation Americans and their immigrant elders. --Victoria Jenkins [via]More editions of The Bonesetter's Daughter:
Celebrantby Eric Rolfe GreenbergISBN 0803270372 (0-8032-7037-2)
Softcover, Bison Books
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Celestial Navigationby Anne TylerISBN 0804108889 (0-8041-0888-9)
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in Historyby George CrileISBN 0802141242 (0-8021-4124-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Clock Winderby Anne TylerISBN 0804108854 (0-8041-0885-4)
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurantby Anne TylerISBN 080410882X (0-8041-0882-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant'Book summary:"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to tell.... [via]More editions of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant:
Doc Hollidayby Jim MyersISBN 0803257813 (0-8032-5781-3)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Dropshot: The United States Plan for War with the Soviet Union in 1957by Anthony Cave Brown, United StatesISBN 080372148X (0-8037-2148-X)
Hardcover, Dial Press/J. Wade
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Earthly Possessionsby Anne TylerISBN 0804108897 (0-8041-0889-7)
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Edison & the Electric Chair: a Story of Light and Deathby Mark Regan EssigISBN 0802777104 (0-8027-7710-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edison & the Electric Chair: a Story of Light and Death'Book summary:[via]A Discover magazine Top Science Book
Thomas Edison stunned America in 1879 by unveiling a world-changing invention--the light bulb--and then launching the electrification of Americas cities. A decade later, despite having been an avowed opponent of the death penalty, Edison threw his laboratory resources and reputation behind the creation of a very different sort of device--the electric chair. Deftly exploring this startling chapter in American history, Edison & the Electric Chair delivers both a vivid portrait of a nation on the cusp of modernity and a provocative new examination of Edison himself.
Edison championed the electric chair for reasons that remain controversial to this day. Was Edison genuinely concerned about the suffering of the condemned? Was he waging a campaign to smear his rival George Westinghouses alternating current and boost his own system? Or was he warning the public of real dangers posed by the high-voltage alternating wires that looped above hundreds of Americas streets? Plumbing the fascinating history of electricity, Mark Essig explores Americas love of technology and its fascination with violent death, capturing an era when the public was mesmerized and terrified by an invisible force that produced blazing light, powered streetcars, carried telephone conversations--and killed.More editions of Edison & the Electric Chair: a Story of Light and Death:
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoplesby Tim FlanneryISBN 0802138888 (0-8021-3888-8)
Softcover, Grove 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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Federal Justice in California: The Court of Ogden Hoffman, 1851-1891by Christian G. FritzISBN 0803219792 (0-8032-1979-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Injustive and Alcohol-Free Beerby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 0802140319 (0-8021-4031-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Great Frontierby Walter Prescott WebbISBN 0803297114 (0-8032-9711-4)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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The Great Plainsby Walter Prescott WebbISBN 0803297025 (0-8032-9702-5)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Holidays in Hellby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 0802137016 (0-8021-3701-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holidays in Hell'Book summary:No doubt about it: P. J. O'Rourke has a bizarre sense of fun. "What I've ... been," he writes in his introduction to Holidays in Hell "is a Trouble Tourist--going to see insurrections, stupidities, political crises, civil disturbances and other human folly because ... because it's fun." Forget Hawaii or the Poconos--O'Rourke gets his jollies in places like war-torn Lebanon where he is greeted at the border by a gun barrel in his face, or Seoul, just in time for election-day violence. Wherever he goes, however, O'Rourke takes his quirky sense of humor, laser eye for detail, and artful way with words: a Philippine army officer is "powerful-looking in a short, compressed way, like an attack hamster," and the Syrian army is described as having "dozens of silly hats, mostly berets in yellow, orange and shocking pink, but also tiny pillbox chapeaux.... The paratroopers wear shiny gold jumpsuits and crack commando units have skin-tight fatigues in a camouflage pattern of violet, peach, flesh tone and vermilion on a background of vivid purple. This must give excellent protective coloration in, say, a room full of Palm Beach divorcees in Lily Pulitzer dresses."
O'Rourke's flip, sarcastic style isn't for everyone, of course; the concept that anyone could find sightseeing in the Beirut or El Salvador of the 1980s fun might prove offensive to more than a few readers right off the bat. But love him or hate him, P. J. O'Rourke knows how to tell a good story, and if you like your travel writing laced with more than a little cynicism, Holidays in Hell could be just the book you've been looking for. [via]
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Horse Heavenby Jane SmileyISBN 0804119430 (0-8041-1943-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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If Beale Street Could Talkby James BaldwinISBN 0803741693 (0-8037-4169-3)
Hardcover, Dial Press
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If Morning Ever Comesby Anne TylerISBN 0804108846 (0-8041-0884-6)
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If You Surviveby George WilsonISBN 0804100039 (0-8041-0003-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If You Survive'Book summary:"If you survive your first day, I'll promote you."
So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from the first penetration of the Siegfried Line to the Nazis' last desperate charge in the Battle of the Bulge, Wilson fought in the thickest of the action, helping take the small towns of northern France and Belgium building by building.
Of all the men and officers who started out in Company F of the 4th Infantry Division with him, Wilson was the only one who finished. In the end, he felt not like a conqueror or a victor, but an exhausted survivor, left with nothing but his life -- and his emotions.
If You Survive
One of the great first-person accounts of the making of a combat veteran, in the last, most violent months of World War II. [via]More editions of If You Survive:
The Inheritance of Lossby Kiran DesaiISBN 0802142818 (0-8021-4281-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Irrational Seasonby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0802724760 (0-8027-2476-0)
Softcover, Walker Large Print
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The Jacksonian Persuasion: Politics and Beliefby Marvin MeyersISBN 0804705062 (0-8047-0506-2)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Jonathan Livingston Seagullby Richard BachISBN 0802724698 (0-8027-2469-8)
Softcover, Walker Large Print
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A Journal for Christa : Christa McAuliffe, Teacher in Spaceby Grace G. CorriganISBN 0803214596 (0-8032-1459-6)
Hardcover, University of Nebraska Press
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A Journal for Christa: Christa McAuliffe, Teacher in Spaceby Grace George CorriganISBN 0803264119 (0-8032-6411-9)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: The Journal of Patrick Gass, May 14, 1804-September 23, 1806by Patrick Gass, American Philosophical Society, University of Nebraska--Lincoln Center for Great Plains Studies, William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, Gary E. Moulton, Thomas W. DunlayISBN 080322916X (0-8032-2916-X)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: The Journal of Patrick Gass, May 14, 1804-September 23, 1806'Book summary:The Lewis and Clark expedition is both one of the greatest geographical adventures undertaken by Americans and one of the best documented at the time. The University of Nebraska Press edition of the Journals of Lewis and Clark now reaches volume 10 of the projected 13 that will contain the complete record of the expedition.[via]In order that the fullest record possible be kept of the expedition, captains Lewis and Clark required their sergeants to keep journals to compensate for possible loss of the captains own accounts. The sergeants accounts extend and corroborate the journals of Lewis and Clark and contribute to the full record of the expedition. Volume 10 contains the journal of expedition member Sergeant Patrick Gass.
Gass was promoted to sergeant on the expedition to fill the place of the deceased Charles Floyd. His journal was subsequently published and proved quite popular: it went through six editions in six years. A skilled carpenter, Gass was almost certainly responsible for supervising the building of Forts Mandan and Clatsop; his records of those forts are particularly detailed and useful. Gass was to live until 1870, the last survivor of the expedition and the one who lived to see transcontinental communication fulfill the promise of the expedition.
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The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: The Journals of John Ordway, May 14, 1804-September 23, 1806, and Charles Floyd, May 14-August 18, 1804by American Philosophical Society, University of Nebraska--Lincoln Center for Great Plains Studies, William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, Gary E. Moulton, Thomas W. DunlayISBN 0803229143 (0-8032-2914-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: The Journals of John Ordway, May 14, 1804-September 23, 1806, and Charles Floyd, May 14-August 18, 1804'Book summary:Widely heralded as a lasting achievement, the University of Nebraska Press editions of the journals of Lewis and Clark now present volume 9 of the projected thirteen containing the complete record of the expedition.In order that the fullest record possible be kept of the journey, Captains Lewis and Clark required their sergeants to keep journals to guard against loss of the captains own accounts. The sergeants accounts extend and corroborate the journals of Lewis and Clark and contribute to the full record of the expedition.The bulk of this volume contains the fullest of the enlisted mens records, the journal of John Ordway. As senior sergeant, Ordway was in command when the captains were absent from the main body of the expedition. He was also the sole member of the party never to miss a day in his journal; for several portions of the crossing, his is the only extant account. Ordways journal has never before been published with the other records of the venture.Charles Floyds journal is tragically short, ending with his death near present-day Sioux City, Iowa, on 20 August 1804. Floyd was the only member of the party to die en route, and his journaladding several details absent from the captains recordsindicates that the record of the journey is poorer for his loss.[via]More editions of The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: The Journals of John Ordway, May 14, 1804-September 23, 1806, and Charles Floyd, May 14-August 18, 1804:
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The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: The Journals of Joseph Whitehouse, May 14, 1804-April 2, 1806by American Philosophical Society, University of Nebraska--Lincoln Center for Great Plains Studies, William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, Gary E. Moulton, Thomas W. DunlayISBN 0803229186 (0-8032-2918-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: The Journals of Joseph Whitehouse, May 14, 1804-April 2, 1806'Book summary:The University of Nebraska Press editions of The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition are widely heralded as a lasting achievement. In all, thirteen volumes are projected, which together will provide a complete record of the expedition.Volume 11 contains the journals of expedition member Joseph Whitehouse. His journals are the only surviving account written by an army private on the expedition, and he is one of the least known of the expedition party. Following the expedition, Whitehouse had a checkered army career, and he disappeared after 1817. His capabilities have been unfairly slighted by previous commentators, despite his narrative skill and evidence that he was a man of a lively and curious mind. His extensive journal entries contribute to our understanding of the epochal journey and of the unusual group of men who undertook one of the defining events in our history. The last part of his journals was not found until 1966; this is the first publication of the complete record of his account.[via]More editions of The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: The Journals of Joseph Whitehouse, May 14, 1804-April 2, 1806:
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The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expeditionby Meriwether LewisISBN 0803229488 (0-8032-2948-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition'Book summary:Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led this expedition of 18046. Along the way they filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the trans-Mississippi West.[via]This complete set of the celebrated Nebraska edition incorporates the journals along with a wide range of new scholarship dealing with all aspects of the expedition, including geography, Indian languages, plants, and animals, in order to recreate the expedition within its historical context.
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The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: August 25, 1804-April 6, 1805by Gary E. MoultonISBN 0803228759 (0-8032-2875-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: August 25, 1804-April 6, 1805'Book summary:When the Atlas of the Lewis and Clark Expedition appeared in 1983 critics hailed it as a publishing landmark in western history. The second volume, which began the actual journals, fully lived up to the promise of the first. This eagerly awaited third volume continues the journals of explorers whose epic trail-blazing still excites the imagination.[via]Instructed by President Jefferson to keep meticulous records bearing on the geography, ethnology, and natural history of the trans-Mississippi West, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and four of their men filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations during their expedition of 1804-6. The result was and is a national treasure: a complete look at the Great Plains, the Rockies, and the Pacific Northwest, reported by men who were intelligent and well prepared, at a time when almost nothing was known about those regions so newly acquired in the Louisiana Purchase.
Volume 3 consists of the journals during the expeditions route from the Vermillion River to Fort Mandan, North Dakota, and their winter encampment there. It describes their encounters with Sioux, Arikara, Mandan, and Hidatsa Indians, including considerable ethnographic material on these tribes. Some miscellaneous documents containing information gathered during the first year of the expedition, originally published in a separate volume, are here brought together in an appropriate chronological sequence.
Superseding the last edition, published early in this century, the current edition contains new materials discovered since then. It greatly expands and updates the annotation to take account of the most recent scholarship on the many subjects touched on by the journals.
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The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: November 2, 1805-March 22, 1806by Gary E. MoultonISBN 0803228937 (0-8032-2893-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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The Joy Luck Clubby Amy TanISBN 0804106304 (0-8041-0630-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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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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Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventionsby William J. BuckleyISBN 0802838898 (0-8028-3889-8)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Ladder of Yearsby Anne TylerISBN 0804113475 (0-8041-1347-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ladder of Years'Book summary:"UTTERLY COMPELLING . . . WONDERFULLY SATISFYING . . . VIRTUALLY FLAWLESS."
--Chicago Tribune
BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who feels like a tiny gnat buzzing around her family's edges, "walking away from it all" is not a premeditated act but an impulse that will lead her into a new, exciting, and unimagined life. . . .
"TYLER DETAILS DELIA'S ADVENTURE WITH GREAT SKILL. . . . As so often in her earlier fiction, [she] creates distinct characters caught in poignantly funny situations. . . . Tyler writes with a clarity that makes the commonplace seem fresh and the pathetic touching."
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A Lantern in Her Handby Bess Streeter AldrichISBN 0803259220 (0-8032-5922-0)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Last Exit to Brooklynby Hubert SelbyISBN 0802131379 (0-8021-3137-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Last Gentlemanby Walker PercyISBN 0804103798 (0-8041-0379-8)
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Letters of a Woman Homesteaderby Elinore Pruitt StewartISBN 0803251939 (0-8032-5193-9)
Softcover, Bison Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters of a Woman Homesteader'Book summary:Elinore Pruitt, a widow and mother who washed clothes for a living in Denver, planned to work as a housekeeper for some rancher while learning all she would need to know about homesteading a place for herself. In 1909 she went to work for Clyde Stewart, whose ranch was near Burnt Fork, Wyoming, and within six weeks she married him. "Ranch work seemed to require that we be married first and do our sparking afterward," she wrote Juliet Coney, her former employer. She maintained her independence by filing on a quarter section adjacent to her husband's land and proving it up herself. Her delightful letters, written from the time of her arrival until 1913, authentically depict an Old West that, as Jessamyn West notes in her foreword, has been "progressively obscured by those who portray it most often."[via]The critically acclaimed 1980 film Heartland was based on Elinore Pruitt Stewart's letters and journals.
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Life in Custer's Cavalry: Diaries and Letters of Albert and Jennie Barnitz, 1867-1868by Robert M. UtleyISBN 0803295537 (0-8032-9553-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Liftoff: The Story of America's Adventure in Spaceby Michael Collins, James DeanISBN 0802131883 (0-8021-3188-3)
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The Log of a Cowboyby Andy AdamsISBN 0803250002 (0-8032-5000-2)
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Lord of the Barnyardby Tristan EgolfISBN 0802136729 (0-8021-3672-9)
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Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracyby Andro LinklaterISBN 0802713963 (0-8027-1396-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy'Book summary:[via]Measuring America is the fascinating, provocative, and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measuresthe American Customary System, unlike any other in the worldand how this has profoundly shaped our country and culture. In the process, Measuring America reveals the colossal power contained inside the acres and miles, ounces and pounds, that we use every day without ever realizing their significance.The most urgent problem facing the newly independent United States was how to pay for the war that won the country its freedom; Americas debt was enormous. Its greatest asset was the land west of the Ohio River, but for this huge territory to be sold, it had first to be surveyedthat is, measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic. English, Scottish, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, and other settlers had all brought their own systems with them (more than 100,000 different units are reckoned to have been in daily use), and in his first address to Congress, George Washington put the establishment of a single system of weights and measures immediately after a national defense and a currency as the United States most urgent priority.
The debate on this vital measure took place at a critical moment in the history of ideas, when the traditional, subjective view of the world was being increasingly challenged by objective, scientific reasoning. Thomas Jeffersonsupported by Washington, Adams, Madison, Monroe, even Hamiltonchampioned the new idea of a scientific 10-based system derived from some universal constant such as time or the size of the earth. Such an alliance should have ensured a decimal America, but ranged against them was the invisible genius of Edmund Gunter, the seventeenth-century English mathematician whose twenty-two-yard surveying chain, introduced in 1607, had revolutionized land ownership in Britain and was still used by every surveyor in Americaincluding Thomas Hutchins and his successors in charge of the land survey on the Ohio frontier.
How we ultimately gained the American Customary Systemthe last traditional system in the worldand how Gunters chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast is both an exciting human and intellectual drama and one of the great untold stories in American history. At a time when the metric system may finally be unstoppable, Andro Linklater has captured the essential nature of measurement just as the Founding Fathers understood it. Sagely argued and beautifully written, Measuring America offers readers nothing less than the opportunity to see Americas historyand our democracyin a brilliant new light.More editions of Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy:
Millroy the Magicianby Paul TherouxISBN 0804113114 (0-8041-1311-4)
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Monitor: The Story of the Legendary Civil War Ironclad and the Man Whose Invention Changed the Course of Historyby James T. de KayISBN 0802713300 (0-8027-1330-0)
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Mooby Jane SmileyISBN 0804117683 (0-8041-1768-3)
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Morgan's Passingby Anne TylerISBN 0804108811 (0-8041-0881-1)
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
Morgan Gower works at Cullen's hardware store in north Baltimore. He has seven daughters and a warmhearted wife, but as he journeys into the gray area of middle age, he finds his household growing tedious. Then Morgan meets two lovely young newlyweds under some rather extreme circumstances--and all three discover that no one's heart is safe.... [via]More editions of Morgan's Passing:
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The Moviegoerby Walker PercyISBN 0804102902 (0-8041-0290-2)
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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, James L. Woodress, Kari Ronning, Charles MignonISBN 0803263724 (0-8032-6372-4)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
Nebraska Moments: Glimpses of Nebraska's Pastby Donald R. HickeyISBN 0803272847 (0-8032-7284-7)
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The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwestby Alvin M. JosephyISBN 080327551X (0-8032-7551-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest'Book summary:[via]"One of the classics of Indian history. The author describes the Nez Perce tribe, its confrontations with whites, and the beginnings of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. It has been one of the standards in the field of Western and Indian history since it was first published in 1965. Lake Charles American Press
"This magnificent book . . . is superb. English Westerners Tally Sheet
"Big, splendidly researched history. . .colorfully documented account."Time
"A big book, a good book, an authentic source book. . . . This is a book the Indians will long remember and deeply appreciate. It tells the truth."Indian Historian
"The fullest account of the tribe's epic struggle to preserve their identity."New York Times Book Review
"A must for every student of the west or of the American Indian. It should long be standard in the field."California Historical Society Quarterly
"Alvin Josephy has brought extraordinary skill and patience to the task of discovering the realities of the Nez Perce world from the time of Lewis and Clark. . .until it dissolved in gunfire and driving snow in Montana."Nation
The abridged edition of Alvin Josephy's classic work retains the entire and continuous account as it was presented in the original 1965 edition; quotations and descriptions have been condensed or deleted and end notes and plates are omitted.
Alvin M. Josephy is Chairman of the Board of the National Museum of the American Indian and an eminent historian. Among his books are Civil War in the American West (1991), Now That the Buffalo's Gone (1982), Red Power (1971), reprinted as a Bison Book.
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O Pioneers!by Willa Cather, Charles W. Mignon, Susan J. Rosowski, Kathleen A. DankerISBN 0803264372 (0-8032-6437-2)
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Obscure Destiniesby Willa Cather, Frederick M. Link, Kari Ronning, Mark KamrathISBN 0803214308 (0-8032-1430-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Obscure Destinies'Book summary:The jacket of the first edition of Obscure Destinies announced Three New Stories of the West, heralding Willa Cathers return to what many thought of as her territorythe Great Plains. These three stories, Neighbour Rosicky, Old Mrs. Harris, and Two Friends, reflected her return to the well of memory that had inspired the books that made her reputation.[via]The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition presents for the first time the three stories in their historical and biographical context, with an interpretive historical essay and detailed explanatory notes. The textual essay and apparatus establish the definitive text and trace Cathers changes through newly discovered prepublication versions.
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Off to the Side: A Memoirby Jim HarrisonISBN 0802140300 (0-8021-4030-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Off to the Side: A Memoir'Book summary:Rarely does one encounter a memoir so filled with the details of a life lived. Whether recalling bits of his past as a depressed child, manual laborer, Hollywood screenwriter, aspiring poet, novelist, or alcoholic husband, Jim Harrison pauses to analyze these moments--the cause and effect--and the choices that have made him who he is. Loosely divided into chapters, Off to the Side is somewhat rambling, and Harrison's opinions and conclusions occasionally remain obscure ("nearly everything you hear about Mexicans in the great north is utterly untrue")--but, to the benefit of readers, Harrison is never at a loss for ideas.
The solace Harrison finds in the natural world is most compelling, and it could be said he, too, shares Frost's "lover's quarrel with the world." After losing an eye at an early age and sinking into melancholy, Harrison's father advised that "curiosity will get you through hard times when nothing else will. Your curiosity had to be strong enough to lift you out of your self-sunken mudbath, the violent mixture of hormones, injuries, melancholy, and dreams of a future you not only couldn't touch but could scarcely see." These words were not lost on Harrison. With "no expertise outside of [his] own imagination" Harrison plays to his strengths in Off to the Side by setting down the events, experiences, thoughts, and feelings that have shaped his quite literate, truly American life. --Michael Ferch [via]
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On to Oregon: The Diaries of Mary Walker and Myra Eellsby Clifford Merrill Drury, Mary Richardson Walker, Myra Fairbanks EellsISBN 0803266138 (0-8032-6613-8)
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Ordeal by Hungerby George R. StewartISBN 080329171X (0-8032-9171-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ordeal by Hunger'Book summary:The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people -- men, women, and children -- set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms. Many perished; some survived by resorting to cannibalism; all were subjected to unbearable suffering. Incorporating the diaries of the survivors and other contemporary documents, George Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers; an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance.[via]More editions of Ordeal by Hunger:
Ordinary Love and Good Willby Jane SmileyISBN 0804107149 (0-8041-0714-9)
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Origins of the American Revolutionby John C. MillerISBN 0804705941 (0-8047-0594-1)
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Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologized, and Represented in Figuresby Ovid, George SandysISBN 0803207182 (0-8032-0718-2)
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Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U. S. Governmentby P. J. O'Rourke, Andrew FergusonISBN 0802139701 (0-8021-3970-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U. S. Government'Book summary:If satirists are at their best when tussling with something they hate, then this is P.J. O'Rourke's masterpiece. He clearly hates government--and has hated it since before it was cool to do so--and for all the right reasons, too: it's clumsy, inefficient, hypocritical, greedy, and arrogant. In other words, it magnifies the faults of the poor saps who staff it. Parliament of Whores is the humorist's howl of bitter laughter at the entire bloated, numskulled mess. As befits an ex-editor of National Lampoon, nothing is out of bounds for O'Rourke. Speaking of the fabled "football"--that satchel that follows the president around 24/7--the author doubts there are really launch codes in there at all--nothing but "a copy of Penthouse and a pint bottle of Hiram Walker--a Penthouse from back in the seventies, when Penthouse was really dirty, I'll bet."
Parliament of Whores is perfect for anyone who longs to cultivate an entertaining brand of cynicism, to be "a lone voice--not crying in the wilderness, thank you, but chortling in the rec room." O'Rourke is a master at making you laugh in spite of the better angels of your nature, and the only negative thing to be said about this tour de force is that his flamethrower brand of satire leaves nothing in its wake--certainly not the suggestion of an improvement. --Michael Gerber [via]
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A Patchwork Planetby Anne TylerISBN 0804119163 (0-8041-1916-3)
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Patty Jane's House of Curlby Lorna LandvikISBN 0804114609 (0-8041-1460-9)
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Platte Riverby Rick BassISBN 0803259735 (0-8032-5973-5)
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The Prophetby Kahlil GibranISBN 0802725325 (0-8027-2532-5)
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Reservation Bluesby Sherman AlexieISBN 0802141900 (0-8021-4190-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reservation Blues'Book summary:"Many may remember the tale of Robert Johnson, the musician who sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads in exchange for being the best blues guitarist around.[via]
What many may not know is that after this tragic deal in Mississippi, Johnson ended up in a small town on the Spokane Indian reservation in Washington state-at least that's how author Sherman Alexie tells it.
In his new book Reservation Blues, Alxie spins the fictional tale of Johnson's adventure at a new crossroads, this one in a small town called Wellpinit, Wash. It is here that he comes to seek out Big Mom, a local medicine woman, and, in so doing, leaves his famous guitar in the hands of misfit storyteller Thomas Builds-the-Fire.
Builds-the-Fire, brought back from Alexie's last book, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, takes up Johnson's magical guitar and, along with Victor Joseph, Junior Polatkin and two Flathead Indian sisters named Chess and Checkers, goes on to build a reservation blues band that takes the Northwest by storm...
As the band plays club after club, Alexie uses music as a crosscultural bridge, without compromising the cultural integrity of his characters. The band members seem to take on the gamut of problems faced by Indians on the reservation today, battling everything from alcoholism to violence, political corruption to sexual abuse.
Ghosts from the past, both personal and historical haunt the musicians, serving both to hold them back and urge them on. It would seem that the scars of abuse run deep." (The Commercial Appeal, June 11, 1995)More editions of Reservation Blues:
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Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing With a New Afterwordby Richard Poirier, John HollanderISBN 0804717427 (0-8047-1742-7)
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Saint Maybeby Anne TylerISBN 0804108749 (0-8041-0874-9)
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Searching for Calebby Anne TylerISBN 0804108838 (0-8041-0883-8)
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Serving Two Masters: The Development of American Military Chaplaincy, 1860-1920by Richard M. BuddISBN 0803213220 (0-8032-1322-0)
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A Slipping-down Lifeby Anne TylerISBN 0804108862 (0-8041-0886-2)
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Evie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager, lonely and silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages to meet him, bursting out of her lonely shell--and into the attentive gaze of the intangible man who becomes all too real.... [via]More editions of A Slipping-down Life:
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The Speed Queenby Stewart O'NanISBN 0802138535 (0-8021-3853-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Speed Queen'Book summary:Stewart O'Nan's The Speed Queen opens on Oklahoma's death row. Marjorie Standiford, scheduled to die that night for the murder of 12 people, dictates the story of her life into a tape recorder. Before she goes, she wants to set the record straight. It seems that one of her accomplices, Natalie, has already produced a bestselling book on the subject, and Marjorie doesn't want to be outdone. Her tape will be sent to an unnamed writer known as the King of Horror with a list of titles identical to those of Stephen King.
It's evident why a horror writer might be interested in Marjorie's story--the details of her life are pretty darned horrifying. A deep love of cars is what attracts Marjorie to her husband, Lamont, in the first place; an unplanned pregnancy is what pushes them into marriage. In the early days of their love affair, driving around in Lamont's convertible with the baby in the back and doing a little speed on the side is enough, but possession leads to prison time for Marjorie. There she meets Natalie, who will complete their deadly triangle. Once on the outside, Natalie, Marjorie, and Lamont start mainlining speed, then dealing it, and before long, a landscape of drive-thru restaurants and convenience stores becomes the backdrop for a series of gruesome murders. Marjorie may not be the most reliable narrator, but she is an original one, and The Speed Queen provides one heck of a joy ride. [via]
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45by Barbara TuchmanISBN 0802138527 (0-8021-3852-7)
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The Summer Before the Summer of Loveby Marly SwickISBN 0803293186 (0-8032-9318-6)
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Tales of the Frontier: From Lewis and Clark to the Last Roundupby Everett DickISBN 0803257449 (0-8032-5744-9)
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This Boy's Lifeby Tobias WolffISBN 0802136680 (0-8021-3668-0)
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This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0804114803 (0-8041-1480-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Side of Paradise'Book summary:First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise marks the beginning of the career of one of the greatest writers of the first half of the twentieth century. In this remarkable achievement, F. Scott Fitzgerald displays his unparalleled wit and keen social insight in his portrayal of college life through the struggles and doubts of Amory Blaine, a self-proclaimed genius with a love of knowledge and a penchant for the romantic. As Amory journeys into adulthood and leaves the aristocratic egotism of his youth behind, he becomes painfully aware of his lost innocence and the new sense of responsibility and regret that has taken its place.
Clever and wonderfully written, This Side of Paradise is a fascinating novel about the changes of the Jazz Age and their effects on the individual. It is a complex portrait of a versatile mind in a restless generation that reveals rich ideas crucial to an understanding of the 1920s and timeless truths about the human need for--and fear of--change.
"A very enlivening book indeed, a book really brilliant and glamorous, making as agreeable reading as could be asked . . . There are clever things, keen and searching things, amusingly young and mistaken things, beautiful things and pretty things . . . and truly inspired and elevated things, an astonishing abundance of each, in THIS SIDE OF PARADISE. You could call it the youthful Byronism that is normal in a man of the author's type, working out through a well-furnished intellect of unusual critical force."
--The Evening Post, 1920
"An astonishing and refreshing book . . . Mr. Fitzgerald has recorded with a good deal of felicity and a disarming frankness the adventures and developments of a curious and fortunate American youth. . . . [It is] delightful and encouraging to find a novel which gives us in the accurate terms of intellectual honesty a reflection of American undergraduate life. At last the revelation has come. We have the constant young American occupation--the 'petting party'--frankly and humorously in our literature."
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A Thousand Acresby Jane SmileyISBN 0804115761 (0-8041-1576-1)
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Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdadby David Zucchino, Mark BowdenISBN 080214179X (0-8021-4179-X)
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The Tin Can Treeby Anne TylerISBN 0804108870 (0-8041-0887-0)
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The Toughest Indian in the Worldby Sherman AlexieISBN 0802138004 (0-8021-3800-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Toughest Indian in the World'Book summary:Call Sherman Alexie any number of things--novelist, poet, filmmaker, thorn in the side of white liberalism--just don't call him "universal." Aside from his well-documented distaste for the word, its fuzziness misses the point. The Toughest Indian in the World, Alexie's second collection, succeeds as brilliantly as it does because of its particularity. These aren't stories about the Indian Condition; they're stories about Indians--urban and reservation, street fighters and yuppies, husbands and wives. "She understood that white people were eccentric and complicated and she only wanted to be understood as eccentric and complicated as well," thinks the Coeur d'Alene narrator of "Assimilation," who's married (unhappily) to a white man. And yet the issue of race has taken up permanent residence inside her house: the marriage survives, but it's love that's the most thorough assimilation of all.
Like The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, much of The Toughest Indian in the World combines deft psychological realism with the kind of narrative logic more commonly found in dreams. In "South by Southwest," a white drifter finds love on a "nonviolent killing spree" with an overweight Indian he calls Salmon Boy; in "Dear John Wayne," the cowboy actor falls in love with a young Spokane woman and proves himself a charmingly feminist hero. ("Oh, sons, you're just engaging in some harmless gender play," he tells his boys when he finds them trying on lipstick.) But for every bear hibernating on top of the Catholic church, there's also a GAP-wearing, Toyota-driving urban Indian on a quest for his roots. In both realist and surrealist modes, Alexie writes incantatory prose--as well as the kind of dialogue that makes even secondary characters leap into sudden focus: "'What?' asked Wonder Horse, as simple a question as could possibly be tendered, though he made it sound as if he'd asked Where's the tumor?"
Alexie is sometimes guilty of painting his white characters with too broad a brush. (Is any anthropologist truly as obtuse as the one in "Dear John Wayne"? Could any reader really want Mary Lynn, the narrator of "Assimilation," to stay with her boorish white husband?) Yet his kind of firebrand politics still has the power to shock. A harrowing fable about whites kidnapping Indians for the medical properties of their blood, "The Sin Eaters" could be dismissed as paranoid if it weren't so hauntingly written:
On that morning, the sun rose and bloomed like blood in a glass syringe. The entire Spokane Indian Reservation and all of its people and places were clean and scrubbed. The Spokane River rose up from its bed like a man who had been healed and joyously wept all the way down to its confluence with the Columbia River. There was water everywhere: a thousand streams interrupted by makeshift waterfalls; small ponds hidden beneath a mask of thick fronds and anonymous blossoms; blankets of dew draped over the shoulders of isolated knolls. An entire civilization of insects lived in the mud puddle formed by one truck tire and a recent rain storm. The blades of grass, the narrow pine needles, and the stalks of roadside wheat were as sharp and bright as surgical tools.
It's a hard story to read, and that's only right. The Toughest Indian in the World offers so many pleasures, who could deny it the power to disturb us as well? Funny, dreamlike, heartbreaking, angry--these are stories that could have been written by no one but Sherman Alexie. --Mary Park [via]More editions of The Toughest Indian in the World:
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed Americaby David Von DrehleISBN 080214151X (0-8021-4151-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Triangle: The Fire That Changed America'Book summary:"Sure to become the definitive account of the fire. . . . Triangle is social history at its best, a magnificent portrayal not only of the catastrophe but also of the time and the turbulent city in which it took place." -The New York Times Book ReviewTriangle is a poignantly detailed account of the 1911 disaster that horrified the country and changed the course of twentieth-century politics and labor relations. On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave for the day, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes it spread to consume the building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside: their ladders simply weren't tall enough. People on the street watched in horror as desperate workers jumped to their deaths. The final toll was 146 people-123 of them women. It was the worst disaster in New York City history. Triangle is a vibrant and immensely moving account that Bob Woodward calls, "A riveting history written with flare and precision." [via]
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True Northby Jim HarrisonISBN 0802142060 (0-8021-4206-0)
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Twelveby Nick McDonellISBN 0802140122 (0-8021-4012-2)
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Welcome to the World, Baby Girlby Fannie FlaggISBN 080411868X (0-8041-1868-X)
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When I Was a German, 1934-1945: An Englishwoman in Nazi Germanyby Christabel BielenbergISBN 0803261519 (0-8032-6151-9)
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A White Bird Flyingby Bess Streeter AldrichISBN 0803259158 (0-8032-5915-8)
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Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontentsby Guenter LewyISBN 0802841627 (0-8028-4162-7)
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