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  The Ambassadors
  

  by Henry James, S. P. Rosenbaum

  ISBN 0393963144 (0-393-96314-4)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

  
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  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 Ambassadors: ISBN 0395051371 (0-395-05137-1)
    Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
  • The Ambassadors: ISBN 0451519892 (0-451-51989-2)
    Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
  • The Ambassadors: ISBN 0393963144 (0-393-96314-4)
    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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  The Americans: The Democratic Experience
  

  by Daniel J. Boorstin

  ISBN 0394710118 (0-394-71011-8)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Daniel J. Boorstin describes a post-Civil War America united not by ideological conviction or religious faith but by common participation in ordinary living: "A new civilization found new ways of holding men together--less and less by creed or belief, by tradition or by place, more and more by common effort and common experience, by the apparatus of daily life, by their ways of thinking about themselves." This is not a familiar litany of names, dates, and places, but an anecdotal account that rises far above impressionism and paints a compelling portrait of the United States as it climbed to new heights. Sheer reading pleasure for lovers of history, this fittingly ambitious conclusion to the Americans trilogy won the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1973. --John J. Miller [via]

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  • The Americans: The Democratic Experience: ISBN 0394710118 (0-394-71011-8)
    Softcover, Random House Inc
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  The Americans Vol. 3: The Democratic Experience
  

  by Daniel J. Boorstin

  ISBN 0394487249 (0-394-48724-9)
  Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

  
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    Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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  Anno's USA
  

  by Mitsumasa Anno

  ISBN 0399209743 (0-399-20974-3)
  Hardcover, Philomel Books

  
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  A reissue from Hans Christian Andersen Medal recipient Mitsumasa Anno. [via]

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  • Anno's USA: ISBN 0399215956 (0-399-21595-6)
    Softcover, Penguin USA
  • Anno's USA: ISBN 0399209743 (0-399-20974-3)
    Hardcover, Philomel Books
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  Anno's U.S.A.
  

  by Mitsumasa Anno

  ISBN 0399210601 (0-399-21060-1)
  Softcover, Philomel Books

  
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  The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin
  

  by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates, Hollis Robbins, Karen C.C. Dalton

  ISBN 0393059464 (0-393-05946-4)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

  
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  Henry Louis Gates Jr. redefines Uncle Tom's Cabin with this seminal interpretation of the great American novel.

  Declared worthless and dehumanizing by James Baldwin in 1949, Uncle Tom's Cabin has lacked literary credibility for fifty years. Now, in a ringing refutation of Baldwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr. demonstrates the literary transcendence of Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece. Uncle Tom's Cabin, first published in 1852, galvanized the American public as no other work of fiction has ever done. The editors animate pre-Civil War life with rich insights into the lives of slaves, abolitionists, and the American reading public. Examining the lingering effects of the novel, they provide new insights into emerging race-relation, women's, gay, and gender issues. With reproductions of rare prints, posters, and photographs, this book is also one of the most thorough anthologies of Uncle Tom images up to the present day. [via]

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  • The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin: ISBN 0393059464 (0-393-05946-4)
    Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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  The Big Sleep
  

  by Raymond Chandler

  ISBN 0394758285 (0-394-75828-5)
  Softcover, Vintage Books

  
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  "His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock." Published in 1939, when Raymond Chandler was 50, this is the first of the Philip Marlowe novels. Its bursts of sex, violence, and explosively direct prose changed detective fiction forever. "She was trouble. She was tall and rangy and strong-looking. Her hair was black and wiry and parted in the middle. She had a good mouth and a good chin. There was a sulky droop to her lips and the lower lip was full." [via]

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  • The Big Sleep: ISBN 0394721365 (0-394-72136-5)
    Hardcover, Vintage Books
  • The Big Sleep: ISBN 0394758285 (0-394-75828-5)
    Softcover, Vintage Books
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  The Black Echo
  

  by Michael Connelly

  ISBN 0446612731 (0-446-61273-1)
  Softcover, Grand Central Pub

  
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  For maverick Lapd homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit. Pitted against enemies inside his own department and forced to make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, Bosch goes on the hunt for a killer whose true face will shock him. [via]

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  • The Black Echo: ISBN 0446612731 (0-446-61273-1)
    Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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  Body Farm
  

  by Patricia Daniels Cornwell

  ISBN 0425148637 (0-425-14863-7)
  Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

  
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  New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell brings back Kay Scarpetta, consulting forensic pathologist for the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, in her grittiest and most compelling novel. In rural North Carolina, the brutal murder of eleven-year-old Emily Steiner has shaken a small town. But more disturbing are the details of the crimes, chillingly reminiscent of the handiwork of a serial killer who has eluded the unit for years. Into this volatile atmosphere comes Scarpetta's ingenious, rebellious niece Lucy, an FBI intern with a promising future in Quantico's computer engineering facility--until she is accused of a shocking security violation. While coming to terms with Lucy, Kay must conduct a grisly forensic investigation at a clandestine research facility in Tennessee known as the Body Farm. There she will find more answers to Emily Steiner's murder--and evidence that paints a picture of a crime more horrifying than she imagined . . . [via]

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  • Body Farm: ISBN 0425201449 (0-425-20144-9)
    Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
  • Body Farm: ISBN 0425147622 (0-425-14762-2)
    Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
  • Body Farm: ISBN 0425148637 (0-425-14863-7)
    Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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  Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
  

  by James Bamford

  ISBN 0385499086 (0-385-49908-6)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Everybody knows about the CIA--the cloak-and-dagger branch of the U.S. government. Many fewer are familiar with the National Security Agency, even though it has been more important to American espionage in recent years than its better-known counterpart. The NSA is responsible for much of the intelligence gathering done via technology such as satellites and the Internet. Its home office in Maryland "contains what is probably the largest body of secrets ever created."

  Little was known about the agency's confidential culture until veteran journalist James Bamford blew the lid off in 1982 with his bestseller The Puzzle Palace. Still, much remained in the shadows. In Body of Secrets, Bamford throws much more light on his subject--and he reveals loads of shocking information. The story of the U-2 crisis in 1960 is well known, including President Eisenhower's decision to tell a fib to the public in order to protect a national-security secret. Bamford takes the story a disturbing step forward, showing how Eisenhower "went so far as to order his Cabinet officers to hide his involvement in the scandal even while under oath. At least one Cabinet member directly lied to the committee, a fact known to Eisenhower." Even more worrisome is another revelation, from the Kennedy years: "The Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government. In the name of anticommunism, they proposed launching a secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American public into supporting an ill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba."

  Body of Secrets is an incredible piece of journalism, and it paints a deeply troubling portrait of an agency about which the public knows next to nothing. Fans of The Sword and the Shield will want to read it, as will anybody who is intrigued by conspiracies and real-life spy stories. --John J. Miller [via]

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  • Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency: ISBN 0385499086 (0-385-49908-6)
    Softcover, Random House Inc
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  Body of Secrets : Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency, from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century
  

  by James Bamford

  ISBN 0385499078 (0-385-49907-8)
  Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing

  
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  Everybody knows about the CIA--the cloak-and-dagger branch of the U.S. government. Many fewer are familiar with the National Security Agency, even though it has been more important to American espionage in recent years than its better-known counterpart. The NSA is responsible for much of the intelligence gathering done via technology such as satellites and the Internet. Its home office in Maryland "contains what is probably the largest body of secrets ever created."

  Little was known about the agency's confidential culture until veteran journalist James Bamford blew the lid off in 1982 with his bestseller The Puzzle Palace. Still, much remained in the shadows. In Body of Secrets, Bamford throws much more light on his subject--and he reveals loads of shocking information. The story of the U-2 crisis in 1960 is well known, including President Eisenhower's decision to tell a fib to the public in order to protect a national-security secret. Bamford takes the story a disturbing step forward, showing how Eisenhower "went so far as to order his Cabinet officers to hide his involvement in the scandal even while under oath. At least one Cabinet member directly lied to the committee, a fact known to Eisenhower." Even more worrisome is another revelation, from the Kennedy years: "The Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government. In the name of anticommunism, they proposed launching a secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American public into supporting an ill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba."

  Body of Secrets is an incredible piece of journalism, and it paints a deeply troubling portrait of an agency about which the public knows next to nothing. Fans of The Sword and the Shield will want to read it, as will anybody who is intrigued by conspiracies and real-life spy stories. --John J. Miller [via]

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    Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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  Cat's Cradle
  

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  ISBN 038533348X (0-385-33348-X)
  Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

  
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  Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature. At one time, this novel could probably be found on the bookshelf of every college kid in America; it's still a fabulous read and a great place to start if you're young enough to have missed the first Vonnegut craze. [via]

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  • Cat's Cradle: ISBN 0385281269 (0-385-28126-9)
    Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
  • Cat's Cradle: ISBN 0440111498 (0-440-11149-8)
    Softcover, Dell Publishing
  • Cat's Cradle: ISBN 038533348X (0-385-33348-X)
    Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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  Cause of Death
  

  by Patricia Daniels Cornwell

  ISBN 0425158616 (0-425-15861-6)
  Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

  
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  Patricia Cornwell's heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta is back; this time to solve the mystery of the death of an Associated Press reporter who was killed while nosing about in a decommissioned navy yard. Scarpetta's involvement in the case leads her to be targeted for murder herself by a nasty little neo-fascist cult with delusions of grandeur that include a plan to "kill and maim, frighten, brainwash and torture" all who oppose their plan to rule the world. Helping Scarpetta is her niece Lucy, an F.B.I. agent whose computer expertise leads to a heart-stopping journey into cyberspace. [via]

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  • Cause of Death: ISBN 0425213382 (0-425-21338-2)
    Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
  • Cause of Death: ISBN 0399141464 (0-399-14146-4)
    Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
  • Cause of Death: ISBN 0399141707 (0-399-14170-7)
    Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
  • Cause of Death: ISBN 0425158616 (0-425-15861-6)
    Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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  Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
  

  by Edgar Allan Poe

  ISBN 039440324X (0-394-40324-X)
  Hardcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Book summary:

  Compiled here are over 50 of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and tales in one giant Kindle book. This includes an active table of contents to make finding stories easy.
  
  This edition includes the following stories:
  The Angel of the Odd
  The Assignation
  The Balloon Hoax
  Berenice
  Bon-Bon
  The Black Cat
  The Business Man
  The Cask of Amontillado
  Colloquy of Monos and Una
  Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
  A Descent Into the Maelström
  The Devil in the Belfry
  Diddling
  The Domain of Arnheim
  Duc De L'Omelette
  Eleonora
  The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
  The Fall of the House of the Usher
  Four Beasts in One
  The Gold-Bug
  Hop Frog
  How to Write a Blackwood Article
  The Imp of the Perverse
  The Island of the Fay
  King Pest
  Landor's Cottage
  Landscape Garden
  Ligeia
  Lionizing
  Loss of Breath
  Maelzel's Chess-Player
  Man of the Crowd
  Man that was Used Up
  The Masque of the Red Death
  Mellonta Tauta
  Mesmeric Revelation
  Metzengerstein
  Morella
  Ms. Found in a Bottle
  The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  The Mystery of Marie Roget
  Mystification
  Never Bet the Devil Your Head
  Oblong Box
  The Oval Portrait
  Pit and the Pendulum
  The Power of Words
  Predicament
  The Premature Burial
  The Purloined Letter
  Shadow -- A Parable
  Silence -- A Fable
  Some Words with a Mummy
  Spectacles
  Sphinx
  System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
  A Tale of Jerusalem
  Tale of the Ragged Mountains
  The Tell Tale Heart
  Thou Art the Man
  The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
  Three Sundays in a Week
  The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal
  Von Kempelen and His Discovery
  Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
  William Wilson
  X-ing a Paragrab [via]

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  Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
  

  by Edgar Allan Poe

  ISBN 0394716787 (0-394-71678-7)
  Softcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Book summary:

  This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.

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  • Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: ISBN 0385074077 (0-385-07407-7)
    Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
  • The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: ISBN 0394716787 (0-394-71678-7)
    Softcover, Random House Inc
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  Cruel & Unusual
  

  by Patricia Daniels Cornwell

  ISBN 0380718340 (0-380-71834-0)
  Softcover, Harpercollins

  
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  A can't put down thiller! Classic! [via]

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  • Cruel & Unusual: ISBN 0380718340 (0-380-71834-0)
    Softcover, Harpercollins
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  The Devil Wears Prada
  

  by Lauren Weisberger

  ISBN 038550926X (0-385-50926-X)
  Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing

  
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  It's a killer title: The Devil Wears Prada. And it's killer material: author Lauren Weisberger did a stint as assistant to Anna Wintour, the all-powerful editor of Vogue magazine. Now she's written a book, and this is its theme: narrator Andrea Sachs goes to work for Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor of Runway magazine. Turns out Miranda is quite the bossyboots. That's pretty much the extent of the novel, but it's plenty. Miranda's behavior is so insanely over-the-top that it's a gas to see what she'll do next, and to try to guess which incidents were culled from the real-life antics of the woman who's been called Anna "Nuclear" Wintour. For instance, when Miranda goes to Paris for the collections, Andrea receives a call back at the New York office (where, incidentally, she's not allowed to leave her desk to eat or go to the bathroom, lest her boss should call). Miranda bellows over the line: "I am standing in the pouring rain on the rue de Rivoli and my driver has vanished. Vanished! Find him immediately!"

  This kind of thing is delicious fun to read about, though not as well written as its obvious antecedent, The Nanny Diaries. And therein lies the essential problem of the book. Andrea's goal in life is to work for The New Yorker--she's only sticking it out with Miranda for a job recommendation. But author Weisberger is such an inept, ungrammatical writer, you're positively rooting for her fictional alter ego not to get anywhere near The New Yorker. Still, Weisberger has certainly one-upped Me Times Three author Alix Witchel, whose magazine-world novel never gave us the inside dope that was the book's whole raison d' etre. For the most part, The Devil Wears Prada focuses on the outrageous Miranda Priestly, and she's an irresistible spectacle. --Claire Dederer [via]

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    Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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  Dune
  

  by Frank Herbert

  ISBN 0399128964 (0-399-12896-4)
  Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

  
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  This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.

  The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.

  Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [via]

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  Dune: La Batalla De Corrin
  

  by Frank Herbert

  ISBN 0441013597 (0-441-01359-7)
  Softcover, Ace Books

  
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  This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence.

  The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.

  Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [via]

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  • Dune: La Batalla De Corrin: ISBN 0441172717 (0-441-17271-7)
    Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
  • Dune: La Batalla De Corrin: ISBN 044100590X (0-441-00590-X)
    Hardcover, Ace Books
  • Dune: La Batalla De Corrin: ISBN 0441013597 (0-441-01359-7)
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  The Fifties
  

  by David Halberstam

  ISBN 0449909336 (0-449-90933-6)
  Softcover, Ballantine Books

  
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  "In retrospect," writes David Halberstam, "the pace of the fifties seemed slower, almost languid. Social ferment, however, was beginning just beneath this placid surface." He shows how the United States began to emerge from the long shadow of FDR's 12-year presidency, with the military-industrial complex and the Beat movement simultaneously growing strong. Television brought not only situation comedies but controversial congressional hearings into millions of living rooms. While Alfred Kinsey was studying people's sex lives, Gregory Pincus and other researchers began work on a pill that would forever alter the course of American reproductive practices. Halberstam takes on these social upheavals and more, charting a course that is as easy to navigate as it is wide-ranging. [via]

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  Fountainhead
  

  by Ayn Rand

  ISBN 0451191153 (0-451-19115-3)
  Softcover, Signet

  
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  The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence. [via]

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  • Fountainhead: ISBN 0451175123 (0-451-17512-3)
    Softcover, New Amer Library
  • Fountainhead: ISBN 0451191153 (0-451-19115-3)
    Softcover, Signet
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  Galapagos
  

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  ISBN 0385333870 (0-385-33387-0)
  Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

  
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  Galapagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave new, and totally different human race. Here, America's master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry -- and all that is worth saving. [via]

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  Galapagos/300854
  

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  ISBN 0385294166 (0-385-29416-6)
  Hardcover, Smithmark Pub

  
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  The human survivors of the "Nature Crisis of the Century", are quietly evolving into sleek, furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by their prized big brains. From the author of "Slaughterhouse 5". [via]

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  Gone With the Wind
  

  by Margaret Mitchell

  ISBN 0380001098 (0-380-00109-8)
  Softcover, Harpercollins

  
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  Spoiled Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara never stops loving the married Ashley Wilkes even as she faces the hardships of life during the Civil War and the changes brought about by Reconstruction. Reprint. [via]

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    Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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  Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
  

  by Jared Diamond

  ISBN 0393317552 (0-393-31755-2)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

  
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  With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller; over 1.5 million copies sold; is now a major PBS special.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. 32 illustrations [via]

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  • Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies: ISBN 0393038912 (0-393-03891-2)
    Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
  • Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: ISBN 0393973867 (0-393-97386-7)
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  Hannibal
  

  by Thomas Harris

  ISBN 0385339488 (0-385-33948-8)
  Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

  
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  Horror lit's head chef Harris serves up another course in his Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter trilogy, and it's a pièce de résistance for those with strong stomachs. In the first book, Red Dragon (filmed as Manhunter), Hannibal diabolically helps the FBI track a fascinating serial killer. (Takes one to know one.) In The Silence of the Lambs, he advises fledgling FBI manhunter Clarice Starling, then makes a bloody, brilliant escape.

  Years later, posing as scholarly Dr. Fell, curator of a grand family's palazzo, Hannibal lives the good life in Florence, playing lovely tunes by serial killer/composer Henry VIII and killing hardly anyone himself. Clarice is unluckier: in the novel's action-film-like opening scene, she survives an FBI shootout gone wrong, and her nemesis, Paul Krendler, makes her the fall guy. Clarice is suspended, so, unfortunately, the first cop who stumbles on Hannibal is an Italian named Pazzi, who takes after his ancestors, greedy betrayers depicted in Dante's Inferno.

  Pazzi is on the take from a character as scary as Hannibal: Mason Verger. When Verger was a young man busted for raping children, his vast wealth saved him from jail. All he needed was psychotherapy--with Dr. Lecter. Thanks to the treatment, Verger is now on a respirator, paralyzed except for one crablike hand, watching his enormous, brutal moray eel swim figure eights and devour fish. His obsession is to feed Lecter to some other brutal pets.

  What happens when the Italian cop gets alone with Hannibal? How does Clarice's reunion with Lecter go from macabre to worse? Suffice it to say that the plot is Harris's weirdest, but it still has his signature mastery of realistic detail. There are flaws: Hannibal's madness gets a motive, which is creepy but lessens his mystery. If you want an exact duplicate of The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice/Hannibal duel, you'll miss what's cool about this book--that Hannibal is actually upstaged at points by other monsters. And if you think it's all unprecedentedly horrible, you're right. But note that the horrors are described with exquisite taste. Harris's secret recipe for success is restraint. --Tim Appelo [via]

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    Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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    Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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  Idoru
  

  by William Gibson

  ISBN 0425158640 (0-425-15864-0)
  Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

  
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  Colin Laney is a data analyst with a talent for seeing patterns, or nodes, as he calls them, in the flow of information that is cyberspace. Chia McKenzie is a young member of the fan club for the Japanese pop supergroup Lo/Rez. When a rumour involving the lead singer of Lo/Rez and an idoru, a Japanese virtual-reality singing idol, brings both Laney and Chia to Tokyo, the resulting web of events involves Russian criminals, Japanese schoolgirls, and illegal nanotechnology. And it's all set in a Tokyo that is literally growing and changing around the characters, rising from the rubble of a major earthquake.

  Idoru is not William Gibson's best novel, but it is a good example of his primary strength: creating worlds that don't so much show the future as expose the world we already live in, a world of computers, information, mega-corporations, pop art, tabloids, and rock & roll. Idoru works not only on its own terms but also as a set-up for Gibson's next novel, All Tomorrow's Parties. Gibson broadens his perspective by including a wider range of characters than in his earlier novels, but mainly Idoru moves Gibson's work forward by pushing further into his familiar territory. It is the work not of a writer who is discovering new topics, but of one who is re-examining his old ones, bringing greater depth and maturity to his art in the process. --Greg L. Johnson [via]

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  • Idoru: ISBN 0399141308 (0-399-14130-8)
    Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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  Illustrated Dune
  

  by Frank Herbert

  ISBN 0425038912 (0-425-03891-2)
  Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

  
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  New, unused, never read condition+ [via]

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  The Jungle
  

  by Upton Beall Sinclair, Clare Virginia Eby

  ISBN 039397779X (0-393-97779-X)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

  
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  In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown, " the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the "muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of "wage-slavery, " the bewildering chaos of urban life. "The Jungle," a story so shocking that it launched a government investigation, recreates this startling chapter if our history in unflinching detail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform, Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one of the most important -- and moving -- works in the literature of social change. [via]

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  L A Confidential
  

  by James Ellroy

  ISBN 0446400106 (0-446-40010-6)
  Softcover, Grand Central Publishing

  
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  James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential is film-noir crime fiction akin to Chinatown, Hollywood Babylon, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Jim Thompson. It's about three tortured souls in the 1950s L.A.P.D.: Ed Exley, the clean-cut cop who lives shivering in the shadow of his dad, a legendary cop in the same department; Jack Vincennes, a cop who advises a Police Squad- like TV show and busts movie stars for payoffs from sleazy Hush-Hush magazine; and Bud White, a detective haunted by the sight of his dad murdering his mom.

  Ellroy himself was traumatized as a boy by his party-animal mother's murder. (See his memoir My Dark Places for the whole sordid story.) So it is clear that Bud is partly autobiographical. But Exley, whose shiny reputation conceals a dark secret, and Vincennes, who goes showbiz with a vengeance, reflect parts of Ellroy, too.

  L.A. Confidential holds enough plots for two or three books: the cops chase stolen gangland heroin through a landscape littered with not-always-innocent corpses while succumbing to sexy sirens who have been surgically resculpted to resemble movie stars; a vile developer--based (unfairly) on Walt Disney-- schemes to make big bucks off Moochie Mouse; and the cops compete with the crooks to see who can be more corrupt and violent. Ellroy's hardboiled prose is so compressed that some of his rat-a-tat paragraphs are hard to follow. You have to read with attention as intense as hisand that is very intense indeed. But he richly rewards the effort. He may not be as deep and literary as Chandler, but he belongs on the same top-level shelf. [via]

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  The Man in the High Castle
  

  by Philip K. Dick

  ISBN 0425101436 (0-425-10143-6)
  Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

  
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  It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war - and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake. [via]

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  The Mosquito Coast
  

  by Paul Theroux

  ISBN 0380619458 (0-380-61945-8)
  Softcover, Harpercollins

  
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  Allie Fox hates America and everything about the twentieth century. He takes his wife and two sons to the Honduran jungle to live a better, simpler life but when he starts to go mad, life for his family becomes much more frightening than ever before ... Tragedy and farce in the jungle. Harrison Ford starred in the smash-hit film. [via]

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    Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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  My Antonia
  

  by Willa Cather, Kathleen Norris

  ISBN 039575514X (0-395-75514-X)
  Softcover, Mariner Books

  
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  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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  • My Antonia: ISBN 0395075149 (0-395-07514-9)
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  The Portrait of a Lady
  

  by Henry James, Robert D. Bamberg

  ISBN 0393966461 (0-393-96646-1)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

  
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  "The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama. [via]

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    Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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    Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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    Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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    Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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    Hardcover, Norton
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    Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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  Postmortem
  

  by Patricia Cornwell

  ISBN 0380710218 (0-380-71021-8)
  Softcover, Harpercollins

  
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  Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner in Virginia City, is determined to unmask a serial killer who is leaving a trail of carnage throughout a terrified city, but as she struggles to find the key to unlock the mystery, she confronts unexpected sabotage. Reissue." [via]

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  The Prince of Tides
  

  by Pat Conroy

  ISBN 0395353009 (0-395-35300-9)
  Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin

  
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  In his most brilliant and powerful novel, Pat Conroy tells the story of Tom Wingo, his twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the family into which they were born. Set in New York City and the lowcountry of South Carolina, the novel opens when Tom, a high school football coach whose marriage and career are crumbling, flies from South Carolina to New York after learning of his twin sister's suicide attempt. Savannah is one of the most gifted poets of her generation, and both the cadenced beauty of her art and the jumbled cries of her illness are clues to the too-long-hidden story of her wounded family. In the paneled offices and luxurious restaurants of New York City, Tom and Susan Lowenstein, Savannah's psychiatrist, unravel a history of violence, abandonment, commitment, and love. And Tom realizes that trying to save his sister is perhaps his last chance to save himself. With passion and a rare gift of language, the author moves from present to past, tracing the amazing history of the Wingos from World War II through the final days of the war in Vietnam and into the 1980s, drawing a rich range of characters: the lovable, crazy Mr. Fruit, who for decades has wordlessly directed traffic at the same intersection in the southern town of Colleton; Reese Newbury, the ruthless, patrician land speculator who threatens the Wingos' only secure worldly possession, Melrose Island; Herbert Woodruff, Susan Lowenstein's husband, a world-famous violinist; Tolitha Wingo, Savannah's mentor and eccentric grandmother, the first real feminist in the Wingo family. Pat Conroy reveals the lives of his characters with surpassing depth and power, capturing the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina lowcountry and a lost way of life. His lyric gifts, abundant good humor, and compelling storytelling are well known to readers of The Great Santini and The Lords of Discipline. The Prince of Tides continues that tradition yet displays a new, mature voice of Pat Conroy, signaling this work as his greatest accomplishment.

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  Slouching Toward Bethlehem
  

  by Joan Didion

  ISBN 0440080274 (0-440-08027-4)
  Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

  
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  The Souls of Black Folk
  

  by W. E. B. Du Bois

  ISBN 0451526031 (0-451-52603-1)
  Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

  
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  William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true.

  With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T. Washington and Others," where Du Bois criticizes his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races," he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens." The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.... One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Thanks to W.E.B. Du Bois' commitment and foresight--and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem--black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown, and beige reflections. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]

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  The Souls of Black Folk
  

  by Henry Louis Gates, W. E. B. Du Bois, Terri Hume Oliver

  ISBN 039397393X (0-393-97393-X)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

  
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  When it was published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk revolutionized thinking about the experience of African Americans in the United States.This collection of essays on African American history, culture, and society probes fundamental issues of race and justice and documents Du Bois's conviction that the "soul" of the black community must be preserved and revered.  The text reprinted here is that of the first book edition (1903). "Contexts" presents a fascinating collection of political and biographical documents related to the text. Also included are eighteen photographs that accompanied Du Bois's 1901 article "The Negro As He Really Is." "Criticism" offers thirteen contemporary and recent assessments of Du Bois and Souls, rounding out the picture of this enduring work. [via]

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  The Sportswriter
  

  by Richard Ford

  ISBN 0394743253 (0-394-74325-3)
  Softcover, Vintage Books

  
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  Uncle Tom's Cabin
  

  by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Ammons

  ISBN 0393963039 (0-393-96303-9)
  Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

  
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  From back cover: A powerful indictment of slavery by America's first major woman novelist, Uncle Tom's Cabin was hailed by Tolstoy as "one of the greatest productions of the human mind". [via]

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    Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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  Uncle Tom's Cabin : Or, Life among the Lowly
  

  by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Darryl Pinckney

  ISBN 0451526708 (0-451-52670-8)
  Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

  
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  Arguably the most influential novel in American history, Uncle Tom's Cabin fanned the embers of the struggle between free states and slave states into the fire of the Civil War-and is as powerful and relevant today as when it was first published a century and a half ago. [via]

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  The Volcano Lover: A Romance
  

  by Susan Sontag

  ISBN 0385267134 (0-385-26713-4)
  Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group

  
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  A romance set in eighteenth-century Naples follows the fortunes of a British ambassador, the ravishing woman he marries, and the young British admiral with whom she falls in love. Reprint. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. [via]

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  The Water-Method Man
  

  by John Irving

  ISBN 0394473329 (0-394-47332-9)
  Hardcover, Random House Inc

  
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  Bogus Trumpeter, a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes, has a serious problem, and he has only his "weapon" to blame. Due to a birth defect, or a nonspecific kind of infection, or a strain of venereal disease, Trumpter suffers from a recurring urinary tract blockage. Four alternatives present themselves as possible solutions to his problem: drugs, no sex, surgery, or "the water method." As if this were not enough, Trumpeter's life is further complicated by a wife who wants out and a mistress who wants a baby! [via]

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  Woman on the Edge of Time
  

  by Marge Piercy

  ISBN 0449210820 (0-449-21082-0)
  Softcover, Ballantine Books

  
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  Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force herself to listen to the future and its lessons for today....
  
  
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  • Woman on the Edge of Time: ISBN 044900094X (0-449-00094-X)
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    Hardcover, Random House Inc
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  A Wrinkle in Time: Library Edition
  

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  ISBN 0395771544 (0-395-77154-4)
  Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

  
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  Everyone in town thinks Meg is volatile and dull-witted and that her younger brother Charles Wallace is dumb. People are also saying that their father has run off and left their brilliant scientist mother. Spurred on by these rumors, Meg and Charles Wallace, along with their new friend Calvin, embark on a perilous quest through space to find their father. In doing so they must travel behind the shadow of an evil power that is darkening the cosmos, one planet at a time.

  Young people who have trouble finding their place in the world will connect with the "misfit" characters in this provocative story. This is no superhero tale, nor is it science fiction, although it shares elements of both. The travelers must rely on their individual and collective strengths, delving deep into their characters to find answers.

  A classic since 1962, Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is sophisticated in concept yet warm in tone, with mystery and love coursing through its pages. Meg's shattering yet ultimately freeing discovery that her father is not omnipotent provides a satisfying coming-of-age element. Readers will feel a sense of power as they travel with these three children, challenging concepts of time, space, and the power of good over evil. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]

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    Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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  • A Wrinkle in Time: Library Edition: ISBN 0440498058 (0-440-49805-8)
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  • A Wrinkle in Time: Library Edition: ISBN 0440998050 (0-440-99805-0)
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  • A Wrinkle in Time: ISBN 0395771544 (0-395-77154-4)
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