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1984by George OrwellISBN 0452262933 (0-452-26293-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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1984by Thomas Pynchon, Erich Fromm, George OrwellISBN 0452284236 (0-452-28423-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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The Aeneidby Virgil, Richard Stoneman, C. H. Sisson, Denis FeeneyISBN 0460877542 (0-460-87754-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:Virgil was the Greatest of Roman Poets. From Spenser and Shakespeare through to Tennyson and William Morris, his poetry has influenced the works of major writers throughout the ages. Dante chose Virgil as a guide through the hell and purgatory of his inferno; in the middle ages the Roman poet was regarded as a seer and a magician. His Aeneid served as the model for all the Latinepics of the medieval period and then for the new classical epic of the renaissance.It follows the mythical exploits of the hero Aeneas, who escapes from the burning rubble of Troy to become the founder of the Roman Empire. In this Patriotic masterpiece, the adventures of Aeneas take him across oceans, to mysterious lands and through the darkness of the underworld before the Gods eventually allow him peace. [via]
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The Affluent Societyby John Kenneth GalbraithISBN 0451627482 (0-451-62748-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Ambassadorsby Henry James, Sandra KempISBN 0460871609 (0-460-87160-9)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ambassadors'Book summary:The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis [via]
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The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World Essays from 75 Years of Foreign Affairsby James F. HogeISBN 0465001718 (0-465-00171-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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American Notes and Pictures from Italy: For General Circulationby Charles Dickens, Leonee Ormond, Marcus Stone, Samuel PalmerISBN 0460876856 (0-460-87685-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Notes and Pictures from Italy: For General Circulation'Book summary:"American Notes" was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's travelogue includes the glitter of Boston; a Broadway swarming with hogs; a gruesome penitentiary in Philadelphia; Cincinnati, Louisville, and St Louis; railways and steamboats. Its publication was greeted with dismay: what Dickens described as 'honest and true' was regarded in America as 'a compound of egotism, coxcombry and cockneyism', the product of 'the most coarse, vulgar, impudent and superficial' writer ever to visit the country.
"Pictures from Italy" is a colourful account of a tour made in 1844.
This collectable series is the most comprehensive illustrated Dickens available. Each volume includes up to seventy-six early engravings, many of which appeared in the first editons of these works. The text is derived from the Charles Dickens Edition, revised by the author in the 1860s. [via]
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Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novelby Truman CapoteISBN 0452264839 (0-452-26483-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Atlas Shruggedby Ayn RandISBN 0452011876 (0-452-01187-6)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlas Shrugged'Book summary:Make this your next book club selection and everyone saves.[via]
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This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the worldand did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the worlds motorand the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story.Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human lifefrom the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboyto the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destructionto the philosopher who becomes a pirateto the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumphto the woman who runs a transcontinental railroadto the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.
You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions. This is a mystery story, not about the murderand rebirthof mans spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check.
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Bastard Out of Carolinaby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452269571 (0-452-26957-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bastard Out of Carolina'Book summary:[via]Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright familyrough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing everything with the mercilessly keen eye of a child, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone "cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty," yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furiousuntil their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back.More editions of Bastard Out of Carolina:
Bed and Breakfast U. S. A. 1998by Peggy Ackerman, Tourist House Association StaffISBN 0452278740 (0-452-27874-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Bertrand Russell's Bestby R.E. EgnerISBN 0451627776 (0-451-62777-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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A Boy's Own Storyby Edmund WhiteISBN 0452254302 (0-452-25430-2)
Softcover, New American Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Boy's Own Story'Book summary:The protagonist of this story is a homosexual, and his story is of a life in which homosexuality is a shaping force. Set in the American midwest of the 1950s, the book tells how the frustrated 15-year-old, whom the world would despise if it knew him, becomes the guardian of public morals. [via]
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Broke Heart Bluesby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452280346 (0-452-28034-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Broke Heart Blues'Book summary:If our age's ascendant idol is celebrity, then Joyce Carol Oates's conceit in Broke Heart Blues--that such worship is as compelling as in any less secular era--is both insight and affront. Set primarily in an affluent Buffalo, New York, suburb in the mid-'60s, the novel's charismatic core is high-school sensation John Reddy Heart, a local legend whose faultless, James Dean cool is so penetrating that it colors his peers' lives--even as his Christ-like transfiguration removes him from their orbit. As always, Oates's chronicling of her many characters is fairly astonishing in its scope, while the allegorical sheen of the book allows her to probe an often ambivalent fascination.
When the young John Reddy first arrives in town, he--as well as his beautiful and dissolute mother--becomes an object of instant awe. Handsome, dangerous, and inscrutable, he transforms steadily into a near-rumor, his every act lore-worthy, his habits the stuff of endless speculation. "Though he enters you through the eyes, he's someone you feel," observes one classmate. While his allure is, initially, mostly physical--the boys want to emulate him, the girls want to lose their virginity to him--John Reddy eventually becomes transcendent: that someone like him exists is a challenge to the drab and predictable trajectories of his classmates' lives. When one of his mother's lovers is killed, and the evidence seemingly points to John Reddy himself, a feverish martyrdom ensues, a self-sacrifice that is, we discover, more tangled and exacting than his disciple-like peers can imagine.
Oates, admirably, takes many chances in Broke Heart Blues, not the least of which is a frequent first-person plural narrator that, while allowing both a broad and immediate view of the proceedings, often seems thickly undifferentiated, a device for emphasizing the insular nature of rumor. John Reddy's identification with Christ (and the trinity he forms with his mother and grandfather) is a difficult maneuver as well, making him less a viable protagonist than a central cipher, an accretion of conjecture and myth. When, after a lengthy detour into the prosaic aftermath of John Reddy's high school career, we see his classmates at their 30-year reunion in Second Coming posture, longing for a John Reddy sighting, the endurance of celebrity becomes not only plain but pathetic. The cult of personality may lead to redemption, but life, inevitably, is what transpires in the interval. --Ben Guterson [via]
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Cavedwellerby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452279690 (0-452-27969-0)
Softcover, Plume
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The City of Your Final Destinationby Peter CameronISBN 0452284309 (0-452-28430-9)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City of Your Final Destination'Book summary:Peter Cameron's sublime, beautiful novel City of Your Final Destination concerns true love and a young academic's struggle to break free from a life he's molded but doesn't want to live. Omar Razaghi, who's pursuing a Ph.D. at a Midwestern university, fudges his application for grant money, stating he has already obtained authorization from the family of the deceased minor novelist Jules Gund. When he belatedly seeks permission to proceed, the three executors--Gund's brother, Adam; former wife Caroline; and Arden, Gund's mistress and mother of Gund's daughter, Portia--decline. Prompted by his girlfriend, Deirdre, Omar shows up unexpectedly in Uruguay, seeking to convince the family of his--and their--need for a biography of Jules Gund to exist.
Cameron is an able storyteller, and his command allows the prose to flow simply and beautifully; here, most every word counts. Adam's often hilarious wit and Caroline's recalcitrance are sharply drawn, descriptions are in crisp relief, and Cameron gives us many reasons to smile: "Pete stood there for a moment, as if he were deciding, trying to think of a reason why he must stay with them, but he was not clever enough, and so of course he had to leave." The City of Your Final Destination is a refreshing look at the impact of desire and love on quirky, elegantly drawn characters. --Michael Ferch [via]
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Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Twoby Allan BerubeISBN 0452265983 (0-452-26598-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Company Aytch: Or, a Side Show of the Big Show and Other Sketchesby M. Thomas Inge, Sam WatkinsISBN 0452281245 (0-452-28124-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Concise Jewish Encyclopediaby Cecil RothISBN 0452005264 (0-452-00526-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945by George H. NashISBN 046501402X (0-465-01402-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 046001501X (0-460-01501-X)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Cruel Peace: Everyday Life in the Cold Warby Fred InglisISBN 046501495X (0-465-01495-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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A Documentary History of the United Statesby Richard D. HeffnerISBN 0451628829 (0-451-62882-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Documentary History of the United States'Book summary:Available for the first time in a single edition are the documents, speeches and letters that have forged American history, accompanied by interpretations of their significance by a noted historian and scholar. Included are: the complete text of the "Declaration of Independence, " the complete "Constitution of the United States, " the "Monroe Doctrine, Emancipation Proclamation, " and many more. [via]
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Dogs Bark: Public People and Private Placesby Truman CapoteISBN 0452259096 (0-452-25909-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Donnie Brascoby Joseph D. Pistone, Richard WoodleyISBN 0453005578 (0-453-00557-8)
Hardcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Donnie Brasco'Book summary:In Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone tells the story of working so deep undercover in the Mafia that the truth of his identity became blurry even for him. For six years, Pistone posed as jewel thief Donnie Brasco in order to pull off one of the most audacious sting operations ever. Because any small detail could blow his cover, Pistone adjusted his personality and habits to earn the trust of Mafia soldiers, connected guys, captains, and godfathers. He was so successful that many FBI surveillance teams assumed that he was yet another Mafia guy. This memoir paints a vivid portrait of the underworld of wise guys by revealing their code of honor, their treacherous dealings, their relationships with their wives and mistresses, and their lavish money habits. The suspense in Pistone's story builds as he unfurls his experience of life on the edge of good and evil and on the verge of death. [via]
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Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of Americaby Thomas FlemingISBN 0465017371 (0-465-01737-1)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America'Book summary:To judge by many standard histories, the revolutionary founders of the United States came equipped with wings and haloes. They were anything but saintly, however; their behavior, public and private, was often scandalous. One of the most outrageous men of the day was Alexander Hamilton, the Federalist leader and architect of the American banking and judiciary systems, whose amorous exploits and political maneuverings alike were the stuff of legend. Tangled in a succession of failed business ventures and personal intrigues, and convinced that the might of the United States should not be hampered by such inconveniences as checks and balances, Hamilton fell afoul of just about everyone he encountered in his quest for influence and wealth.
To his eventual misfortune, one of those he crossed was Thomas Jefferson's vice president, Aaron Burr. Many histories of their tangled relationship personalize their differences, and, to be sure, they disliked each other with splendid fervor. Thomas Fleming's contribution to the often-told tale is to ground the Hamilton-Burr rivalry in the politics of the day--a politics complicated by many contending ideological factions, powerful interest groups, and lobbyists. Writing with vigor and clarity, Fleming points to the clay feet on which Hamilton and Burr marched to their sad destiny, and he crafts an exceptionally interesting portrait of the early Republic. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Helen McNeilISBN 0460878956 (0-460-87895-6)
Softcover, Everyman
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Fannyby Erica JongISBN 0453003826 (0-453-00382-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanny'Book summary:"A rollicking tale...a tour de force."Newsweek
Discovered on the doorstep of a country estate in Wiltshire, England, the infant Fanny is raised to womanhood by her adoptive parents, Lord and Lady Bellars. Fanny wants to become the epic poet of the age, but her plans are dashed when she is ravished by her libertine stepfather. Fleeing to London, Fanny falls in with idealistic witches and highwaymen who teach her of worlds she never knew existed. After toiling in a London brothel that caters to literati, Fanny embarks on a series of adventures that teach her what she must know to live and prosper as a woman. Soon to be a major Broadway musical. Reading group guide included. [via]More editions of Fanny:
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Fear of Flyingby Erica JongISBN 0452274796 (0-452-27479-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear of Flying'Book summary:Here is the gloriously wicked, sexy, brilliant novel that brought sexual frankness--and freedom--into its own--a book that still speaks to women's innermost sexual fantasies--and a book for every man who still believes that women "don't think like that". New introduction by the author. [via]
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Flight : My Life in Mission Controlby Chris KraftISBN 0452283043 (0-452-28304-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flight : My Life in Mission Control'Book summary:Flight: My Life in Mission Control is the feisty memoir of Chris Kraft, head of mission control ground crew on the famous Eagle mission of 1969. On July 20, 1969, near the end of a great decade of near-space exploration, a small craft called Eagle landed on the moon's surface. As anyone who watched the televised broadcast of the landing might recall, the astronauts aboard Eagle were guided to their objective by a capable ground crew headed by Chris Kraft, whom his colleagues had long called "Flight". Kraft was unflappable on the surface, but, as he writes in this memoir, the Eagle's landing had moments of drama that gave him pause, and that few outside NASA knew about--including baleful alarms from the ship's on-board computer that warned of imminent disaster.
For Kraft, frightening moments were part of his job as director of Mission Control. He encountered many of them in the early years of the space programme, when failures were commonplace and all too often caused not by mechanics but politics. We learn of many in Kraft's pages. One such failure was the Soviet Union's Sputnik launch, on which Kraft thunders, "We should have beaten them.... We were stopped by anonymous doctors in the civilian world who didn't know what they were talking about, by a bureaucrat in the White House who'd been stung when JFK shot down his position on manned space flight, and by our friend the German rocket scientist who got cold feet when he should have been bold."
Plenty of other contemporaries, including John Glenn and Richard Nixon, come in for a scolding in Kraft's fiery account, which offers a fly-on-the-wall portrait of the challenging work of astronautics--work that, Kraft writes hopefully, is only beginning. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officersby Joseph T. GlatthaarISBN 0452010683 (0-452-01068-3)
Softcover, E P Dutton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers'Book summary:The definitive work on one of the least explored aspects of Civil War history--the 180,000 enlisted African-Americans who fought for the Union. "One of the most revealing contributions to the literature of the Civil War . . . fascinating."--New York Times. [via]
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Fountainheadby Ayn RandISBN 0452273331 (0-452-27333-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fountainhead'Book summary:An early Ayn Rand novel about perseverance and determination . [via]
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Foxfireby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452272319 (0-452-27231-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Great Divide: A Walk Along the Continental Divide of the United Statesby Stephen PernISBN 0460070118 (0-460-07011-8)
Hardcover, Phoenix House
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The Growth Experiment: How the New Tax Policy Is Transforming the U. S. Economyby Lawrence B. LindseyISBN 0465027504 (0-465-02750-4)
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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Ageby Walter A. McDougallISBN 046502887X (0-465-02887-X)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age'Book summary:This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published literature, archival sources in both the United States and Europe, interviews with many of the key participants, and important declassified material, such as the National Security Council's first policy paper on space, McDougall examines U.S., European, and Soviet space programs and their politics. Opening with a short account of Nikolai Kibalchich, a late nineteenth-century Russian rocketry theoretician, McDougall argues that the Soviet Union made its way into space first because it was the world's first "technocracy"which he defines as "the institutionalization of technological change for state purpose." He also explores the growth of a political economy of technology in both the Soviet Union and the United States.
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Honeymooners : A Cautionary Taleby Chuck KinderISBN 0452283256 (0-452-28325-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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How to Save Your Own Lifeby Erica JongISBN 0452274540 (0-452-27454-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Infernoby Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi, Alighieri DanteISBN 0451628047 (0-451-62804-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:Ciardi's translation of the magnificent story of a man's way through the infinite torment of hell in his search for paradise. [via]
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Iona Moonby Melanie Rae ThonISBN 0452272807 (0-452-27280-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Islandiaby Austin Tappan WrightISBN 0452256356 (0-452-25635-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Islandia'Book summary:On his death, Austin Tappan Wright left the world a wholly unsuspected legacy. Among this distinguished legal scholar's papers were thousands of pages devoted to a staggering feat of literary creation - a detailed history of an imagined country complete with geography, genealogy, representations from its literature, language and culture. In a monumental labor of love Wright's wife and daughter culled from this material a thousand page novel, as detailed as J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Islandia has similarly become a classic touchstone for those concerned with the creation of imaginary worlds.
Islandia occupies the southern portion of the Karain Continent, which lies in the Southern Hemisphere. Its civilization is an ancient one, protected from outside intervention by a natural fortress of towering mountains. To this isolated country - this alien, compelling and totally fascinating world - comes John Lang, the American consul. As the reader lives with Lang in Islandia, as he comes to know this magnetic land, its unique people, its strange customs, he may find himself experiencing a feeling of envy, a wish that he, like Lang, be permitted, at the book's end, to return once more and spend the rest of his days in Islandia. [via]
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James : The Bostoniansby Henry James, Daniel AaronISBN 0460874934 (0-460-87493-4)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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Jazzby Toni MorrisonISBN 0452269652 (0-452-26965-2)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz'Book summary:Jazz embraces the vibrant music and lifestyle of 1920s Harlem, an urban renaissance of opportunity and glamour. A novel of murder, hard lives, and broken dreams, Jazz sways with a lyric medley of voices and human consciousness.
Narrated by the author, Toni Morrison, this is an intense but gratifying three hours of tape. Background jazz music enhances the feel of '20s Harlem, a city that attracted thousands of black southerners hoping for better lives. Joe Trace and his wife Violet were part of this migration; madly in love with each other and the idea of this urban mecca, they "traindanced into the city." But like so many of the marriages in Morrison's novels, this union crumbles, and the dreams for a better life fade away. Joe finds another, a love "that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep the feeling going."
In Jazz, time ebbs and flows like human memory, traversing between recollections of the past and expectations for the future; likewise, jazz music is often wild and chaotic. Here Morrison once again exemplifies herself as both a superb writer and a masterful storyteller. [via]
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Jonathan Edwards: Basic Writingsby Ola E. WinslowISBN 0452010012 (0-452-01001-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Edwards: Basic Writings'Book summary:The writings selected for this Meridian edition form the principle legacy of one of the most remarkable thinkers our country has produced. As a Puritan divine, Jonathan Edwards represented a major influence in American religious life; as a metaphysician, he was the first American to gain an international reputation as a human being, he imbued every page he wrote with profound personal commitment and moral concern. These selections extend from his first essays as a youthful prodigy to the great sermons and treatises of his maturity; they offer both a fascinating record of spiritual evolution and a body of intellectual achievement of truly enduring import. Writing of Edwards, Ola Winslow declares him "not only a master logician but also a great creative mind, calmly searching out meanings that have engaged great thinkers since the beginning of time-meaning of God, the universe and man in this world and in any future there may be... In the small but distinguished company to which he belongs, he is one of the few men of the far past who still have something to say to men of the present hour." 255 pages [via]
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Leaving Homeby Garrison KeillorISBN 0451821971 (0-451-82197-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Master Quilter: An Elm Creek Quilts Novelby Jennifer ChiaveriniISBN 0452284686 (0-452-28468-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Measuring America: How The United States Was Shaped By The Greatest Land Sale In Historyby Andro LinklaterISBN 0452284597 (0-452-28459-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Measuring America: How The United States Was Shaped By The Greatest Land Sale In History'Book summary:[via]In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in daily life.
Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary Systemthe last traditional system in the worldand how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.
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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, Penelope LivelyISBN 0460877232 (0-460-87723-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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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]
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0452254264 (0-452-25426-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinciby Pamela TaylorISBN 0452258464 (0-452-25846-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Odysseyby HomerISBN 0451628055 (0-451-62805-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of Odysseus' adventurous wanderings as he returns from the long war at Troy to his home in the Greek island of Ithaca, where his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus have been waiting for him for twenty years. He meets a one-eyed giant, Polyphemus the Cyclops; he visits the underworld; he faces the terrible monsters Scylla and Charybdis; he extricates himself from the charms of Circe and Calypso. After these and numerous other legendary encounters he finally reaches home, where, disguised as a beggar, he begins to plan revenge on the suitors who have for years been besieging Penelope and feasting on his own meat and wine with insolent impunity. [via]
Oedipus Plays of Sophoclesby Paul RocheISBN 0451628470 (0-451-62847-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby Sophocles, Paul RocheISBN 0452011671 (0-452-01167-1)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone'Book summary:Revising and updating his classic 1958 translation, Paul Roche captures the dramatic power and intensity, the subtleties of meaning, and the explosive emotions of Sophocles' great Theban trilogy. In vivid, poetic language, he presents the timeless story of a noble family moving toward catastrophe, dragged down from wealth and power by pride, cursed with incest, suicide, and murder. [via]
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The Oresteiaby Michael EwansISBN 0460875485 (0-460-87548-5)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oresteia'Book summary:With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest Aeschylus scholarship in an introduction, and also includes notes, plot summary, selected criticism and chronology of Aeschylus's life and times. [via]
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The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus: Agamemnon; the Libation Bearers; the Eumenidesby Paul Roche, AeschylusISBN 0452011663 (0-452-01166-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus: The Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenidesby AeschylusISBN 0451628195 (0-451-62819-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Oxford History of the American People: Prehistory to 1789by Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0452011302 (0-452-01130-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Oxford History of the American People Vol. 3: 1869 Through the Death of John F. Kennedyby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0452011329 (0-452-01132-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Parachutes and Kissesby Erica JongISBN 0453004660 (0-453-00466-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Paradiseby Toni MorrisonISBN 0452280397 (0-452-28039-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, January 1998: Toni Morrison's Paradise takes place in the tiny farming community of Ruby, Oklahoma, which its residents proudly proclaim "the one all-black town worth the pain." Settled by nine African American clans during the 1940s, the town represents a small miracle of self-reliance and community spirit. Readers might be forgiven, in fact, for assuming that Morrison's title refers to Ruby itself, which even during the 1970s retains an atmosphere of neighborliness and small-town virtue. Yet Paradises are not so easily gained. As we soon discover, Ruby is fissured by ancestral feuds and financial squabbles, not to mention the political ferment of the era, which has managed to pierce the town's pious isolation. In the view of its leading citizens, these troubles call for a scapegoat. And one readily exists: the Convent, an abandoned mansion not far from town--or, more precisely, the four women who occupy it, and whose unattached and unconventional status makes them the perfect targets for patriarchal ire. ("Before those heifers came to town," the men complain, "this was a peaceable kingdom.") One July morning, then, an armed posse sets out from Ruby for a round of ethical cleansing.
Paradise actually begins with the arrival of these vigilantes, only to launch into an intricate series of flashbacks and interlaced stories. The cast is large--indeed, it seems as though we must have met all 360 members of Ruby's populace--and Morrison knows how to imprint even the minor players on our brains. Even more amazing, though, are the full-length portraits she draws of the four Convent dwellers and their executioners: rich, rounded, and almost painful in their intimacy. This richness--of language and, ultimately, of human understanding--combats the aura of saintliness that can occasionally mar Morrison's fiction. It also makes for a spectacular piece of storytelling, in which such biblical concepts as redemption and divine love are no postmodern playthings but matters of life and (in the very first sentence, alas) death. [via]
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The Pathfinderby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0460000780 (0-460-00078-0)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The Peace of Europe, the Fruits of Solitude: And Other Writingsby William Penn, Edwin B. BronnerISBN 0460873024 (0-460-87302-4)
Softcover, Everymans Library
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hallby William L. RiordonISBN 0452010942 (0-452-01094-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Purgatorioby Dante AlighieriISBN 0451627148 (0-451-62714-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Purgatorio'Book summary:In The Inferno Dante described his journey to the depths of evil, to the recognition of the true nature of sin. In The Purgatorio he now describes his journey to the renunciation of sin, accepting his suffering in preparation for his entrance into the presence of God. This brilliant translation of Dantes soaring canticle crystallizes the power and beauty inherent in the great poets immortal conception of the aspiring soul. [via]
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The Quilter's Legacyby Jennifer ChiaveriniISBN 0452284678 (0-452-28467-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Quilter's Legacy'Book summary:[via]Resolving to locate her mother's heirloom quilts after so many years, Sylvia Compson embarks on a cross-country investigation of antique shops, quilt museums, and other, more unexpected places, where offers of assistance are not always what they seem. And as Sylvia recovers some of the missing quilts and accepts others as lost forever, she reflects on the woman her mother was and mourns the woman she never knew.
With heartfelt honesty, The Quilter's Legacy reveals the tenuous connections that bind generations and celebrates the love that sustains them.
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen Crane, Malcolm Bradbury, Christopher BigsbyISBN 0460873814 (0-460-87381-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Report from Ground Zeroby Dennis SmithISBN 0452283957 (0-452-28395-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Runaway Quiltby Jennifer ChiaveriniISBN 0452283981 (0-452-28398-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Runaway Quilt'Book summary:After learning of her familys ties to the slaveholding South, Sylvia Compson scours her attic for clues and discovers a window into the world of her ancestors: the memoir of her great-grandfathers spinster sister,
Gerda Bergstrom. Gerdas memoir chronicles the founding of Elm Creek Manor and the tumultuous years when Hans, Anneke, and Gerda Bergstrom sheltered fugitive slaves within its walls, using quilts as a signal of sanctuary. But little did the staunchly abolitionist Gerda know that a traitor was among them, placing the Bergstroms in grave danger and leading to family discord, betrayal, and a secret held for generations.
With the help of the Elm Creek Quilters and clues hidden within antique quilts discovered in the manors attic, Sylvia stitches together the pieces of her past and decodes the true nature of the Bergstrom legacy. [via]
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San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Firesby Dennis SmithISBN 0452287596 (0-452-28759-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sarah Canaryby Karen Joy FowlerISBN 0452286476 (0-452-28647-6)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sarah Canary'Book summary:When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort "the ugliest woman he could imagine" away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower. In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum. Chin has run afoul of the law and Sarah has been committed for observation. Their escape from the asylum in the company of another inmate sets into motion a series of adventures and misadventures that are at once hilarious, deeply moving, and downright terrifying.[via]More editions of Sarah Canary:
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The Secret Self Iby Hermione LeeISBN 0460873482 (0-460-87348-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Self I'Book summary:This immensely readable selection of 32 stories includes works from Gertrude Stein, Nadine Gordimer, Joyce Carol Oates, Katherine Ann Porter, Eudora Welty, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, and Doris Lessing. [via]
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Self-Helpby Lorrie MooreISBN 0452258219 (0-452-25821-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Self-Help'Book summary:In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer. [via]
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Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officerby Victor Cherkashin, Gregory FeiferISBN 0465009689 (0-465-00968-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Amesby Victor Cherkashin, Gregory FeiferISBN 0465009697 (0-465-00969-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames'Book summary:In his four decades as a KGB officer, Victor Cherkashin was a central player in the shadowy world of Cold War espionage. From his rigorous training in Soviet intelligence in the early 1950s to his prime spot as the KGB's head of counterintelligence at the Soviet embassy in Washington, Cherkashin's career was rich in episode and drama. In a riveting memoir, Cherkashin provides a remarkable insider's view of the KGB's prolonged conflict with the CIA. Playing a major role in global espionage for most of the Cold War, Cherkashin was posted to stations in the United States, Australia, India, and Lebanon. He tracked down U.S. and British spies around the world. But it was in 1985 that Cherkashin scored two of the KGB's biggest-ever coups. In April of that year, he recruited disgruntled CIA officer Aldrich Ames and became his principal handler. Six months later, FBI special agent Robert Hanssen contacted Cherkashin directly, eventually becoming an even bigger asset than Ames. In Spy Handler, Cherkashin offers the complete account of how and why both Americans turned against their country, and addresses the rumors of an undiscovered KGB spy-another Hanssen or Ames-still at large in the U.S. intelligence community. Full of vivid detail and dramatic accounts that shed stark new light on the inner workings of the KGB, Spy Handler is a major addition to Cold War history, told by one of its major players.[via]More editions of Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames:
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Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomasby Jane Mayer, Jill AbramsonISBN 0452274990 (0-452-27499-0)
Softcover, Plume
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Tales of Mystery and Imaginationby Edgar Allan Poe, Graham ClarkeISBN 0460873423 (0-460-87342-3)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'Book summary:Award-winning fantasy illustrator Gary Kelley writes, "I have selected three of Edgar Allan Poe's best short stories.... I chose 'The Fall of the House of Usher' for its classic Gothic images and its dark, melancholic central characters, including the house itself. 'The Black Cat' is ... appealing to me for its use of mystery and foreboding that takes us to a horrifying climax. 'The Cask of Amontillado' ... my personal favorite, [is] a simple narrative of revenge set in the contrasting worlds of carnival and catacomb." Click on the book's cover for a closer look, but the reproduction doesn't really do justice to the richness of color in Kelley's shadowy, atmospheric paintings. (The cat's eye is green, and its tongue is pink.) This gorgeous edition has 20 full- and double-page paintings, including a melancholy portrait of Poe; each page of text is surrounded by subtle decorative frames. The images of Roderick and Madeleine Usher are especially effective. [via]
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The Ten Thousand Day War: Vietnam, 1945-1975by Michael MacLearISBN 0458951706 (0-458-95170-6)
Hardcover, Methuen
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Transmissionby Hari KunzruISBN 0452286514 (0-452-28651-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Transmission'Book summary:[via]In Transmission, award-winning writer Hari Kunzru takes an ultra-contemporary turn with the story of an Indian computer programmer whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer.
Lonely and naïve, Arjun spends his days as a lowly assistant virus- tester, pining away for his free-spirited colleague Christine. Arjun gets laid off like so many of his Silicon Valley peers, and in an act of desperation to keep his job, he releases a mischievous but destructive virus around the globe that has major unintended consequences. As world order unravels, so does Arjuns sanity, in a rollicking cataclysm that reaches Bollywood and, not so coincidentally, the glamorous star of Arjuns favorite Indian movie.
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The Truth with Jokesby Al FrankenISBN 0452287677 (0-452-28767-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Truth with Jokes'Book summary:Nearly a year after the presidential election of 2004, Al Franken is still checking facts, exposing lies, and trying to clear the record as he sees it. Sneering at President Bush's declaration of a mandate after a two-and-a-half percent victory, he deconstructs Bush's 2004 platform of "fear, smear, and queers," and explains how the president has done some flip-flopping of his own. He offers comment on well-known stories, including the Terri Shiavo case, and some more obscure, such as reports of forced prostitution, indentured servitude, and squalid conditions at clothing factories in Saipan (which is part of the American Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). Franken focuses on Tom DeLay's connection to the territory and his efforts to prevent bills from being passed that would have required Saipan to follow U.S. labor laws. Iraq, too, is discussed, from its planning stages to the huge sum of money currently unaccounted for, including $8.8 billion missing from the Coalition Provisional Authority's coffers.
On the home front, Franken covers President Bush's attempt at Social Security reform, explaining how they came up with the projected shortfall figure of $11 trillion. For one thing, they adjusted life expectancy to 150 years, while leaving the retirement age at 67: "That's an eighty-three-year retirement. They're never gonna get to that without stem cell research." He also takes some wickedly funny swipes at Karl Rove, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pundits and hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Tim Russert, and Sean Hannity, and, of course, President Bush. The Truth succeeds in providing ammunition to liberals and others dissatisfied with the current power base in Washington, D.C.--only this time (with jokes). --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Typical Americanby Gish JenISBN 0452267749 (0-452-26774-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Unthinkable Thoughts Of Jacob Greenby Joshua BraffISBN 0452286700 (0-452-28670-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Voices of the Civil Warby Richard Wheeler, Bruce CattonISBN 0452010667 (0-452-01066-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trapby Stephanie CoontzISBN 0465001351 (0-465-00135-1)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap'Book summary:Did you ever wonder about the historical accuracy of those "traditional family values" touted in the heated arguments that insist our cultural ills can be remedied by their return? Of course, myth is rooted in fact, and certain phenomena of the 1950s generated the Ozzie and Harriet icon. The decade proved profamily--the birthrate rose dramatically; social problems that nag--gangs, drugs, violence--weren't even on the horizon. Affluence had become almost a right; the middle class was growing. "In fact," writes Coontz, "the 'traditional' family of the 1950s was a qualitatively new phenomenon. At the end of the 1940s, all the trends characterizing the rest of the twentieth century suddenly reversed themselves." This clear-eyed, bracing, and exhaustively researched study of American families and the nostalgia trap proves--beyond the shadow of a doubt--that Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary.
Gender, too, is always on Coontz's mind. In the third chapter ("My Mother Was a Saint"), she offers an analysis of the contradictions and chasms inherent in the "traditional" division of labor. She reveals, next, how rarely the family exhibited economic and emotional self-reliance, suggesting that the shift from community to nuclear family was not healthy. Coontz combines a clear prose style with bold assertions, backed up by an astonishing fleet of researched, myth-skewing facts. The 88 pages of endnotes dramatize both her commitment to and deep knowledge of the subject. Brilliant, beautifully organized, iconoclastic, and (relentlessly) informative The Way We Never Were breathes fresh air into a too often suffocatingly "hot" and agenda-sullied subject. In the penultimate chapter, for example, a crisp reframing of the myth of black-family collapse leads to a reinterpretation of the "family crisis" in general, putting it in the larger context of social, economic, and political ills.
The book began in response to the urgent questions about the family crisis posed her by nonacademic audiences. Attempting neither to defend "tradition" in the era of family collapse, nor to liberate society from its constraints, Coontz instead cuts through the kind of sentimental, ahistorical thinking that has created unrealistic expectations of the ideal family. "I show how these myths distort the diverse experiences of other groups in America," Coontz writes, "and argue that they don't even describe most white, middle-class families accurately." The bold truth of history after all is that "there is no one family form that has ever protected people from poverty or social disruption, and no traditional arrangement that provides a workable model for how we might organize family relations in the modern world."
Some of America's most precious myths are not only precarious, but down right perverted, and we would be fools to ignore Stephanie Coontz's clarion call. --Hollis Giammatteo [via]
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What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World: The People, Corporations, and Organizations That Control Our Futureby Melissa RossiISBN 0452286158 (0-452-28615-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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What Liberal Media: The Truth About Bias and the Newsby Eric AltermanISBN 0465001777 (0-465-00177-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News'Book summary:The incredulity begins with the title What Liberal Media?, journalist Eric Alterman's refutation of widely flung charges of left-wing bias, and never lets up. The book is unlikely to make many friends among conservative media talking heads. Alterman picks apart charges made by Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, George Will, Sean Hannity, and others (even the subtitle refers to a popular book by former CBS producer Bernard Goldberg that argues a lefty slant in news coverage). But the perspectives of less-incendiary figures, including David Broder and Howard Kurtz, are also dissected in Alterman's quest to prove that not only do the media lack a liberal slant but that quite the opposite is true. Much of Alterman's argument comes down to this: the conservatives in the newspapers, television, talk radio, and the Republican party are lying about liberal bias and repeating the same lies long enough that they've taken on a patina of truth. Further, the perception of such a bias has cowed many media outlets into presenting more conservative opinions to counterbalance a bias, which does not, in fact, exist, says Alterman. In methodically shooting down conservative charges, Alterman employs extensive endnotes, all of which are referenced with superscript numbers throughout the body of the book. Those little numbers seem to say, "Look, I've done my homework." What Liberal Media? is a book very much of 2003 and will likely lose some relevance as political powers and media arrangements evolve. But it's likely to be a tonic for anyone who has suspected that in a media environment overflowing with conservatives, the charges of bias are hard to swallow. For liberals hoping someone will take off the gloves and mix it up with the verbal brawlers of the right, Eric Alterman is a champion. --John Moe [via]
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What Maisie Knewby Henry James, P. LivelyISBN 0460878506 (0-460-87850-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Maisie Knew'Book summary:What Maisie Knew(1897) is written with humour and insight which belie the novel's generally muddled and unhappy state of affairs. Maisie is used as a pawn by her divorcing parents, and is an observer in their subsequent remarriages and divorces, becoming wise beyond her years and struggling to retain her innocence. [via]
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry James, Christopher Bigsby, Cheryle B. TorsneyISBN 0460876171 (0-460-87617-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wings of the Dove'Book summary:The Wings of the Dove is a classic example of Henry James's morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad. In early-20th-century London, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are engaged in a passionate, clandestine love affair. Croy is desperately in love with Densher, who has all the qualities of a potentially excellent husband: he's handsome, witty, and idealistic--the one thing he lacks is money, which ultimately renders him unsuitable as a mate. By chance, Croy befriends a young American heiress, Milly Theale. When Croy discovers that Theale suffers from a mysterious and fatal malady, she hatches a plan that can give all three characters something that they want--at a price. Croy and Densher plan to accompany the young woman to Venice where Densher, according to Croy's design, will seduce the ailing heiress. The two hope that Theale will find love and happiness in her last days and--when she dies--will leave her fortune to Densher, so that he and Croy can live happily ever after. The scheme that at first develops as planned begins to founder when Theale discovers the pair's true motives shortly before her death. Densher struggles with unanticipated feelings of love for his new paramour, and his guilt may obstruct his ability to avail himself of Theale's gift. James deftly navigates the complexities and irony of such moral treachery in this stirring novel. [via]
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