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1421: The Year China Discovered the Worldby Gavin MenziesISBN 0553815229 (0-553-81522-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: '1421: The Year China Discovered the World'Book summary:If you're going to make a stir, you might as well do it in style. And Gavin Menzies has caused one, big time. In 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, this retired Royal Navy submarine commander, who only visited China for the first time on his 25th wedding anniversary, claims that the Chinese navigator Zheng He discovered America some 71 years before Columbus. And not content with this, he goes on to suggest that Zheng He learnt how to calculate longitude several centuries before John Harrison supposedly nailed the problem. Unsurprisingly, this has not gone down too well in some areas and the book has been the target of some scepticism.
Although Menzies has unearthed a few unknown primary sources, the bulk of his thesis depends on amalgamating several disparate areas of research into a grand unified theory. So he combines what we do know--principally that the Chinese built huge sailing ships with nine masts and that Asiatic chickens were discovered in South America--into what he considers compelling evidence. Menzies has also turned up some maps from the pre-Columbus era that appear to show the Americas, along with a few shipwrecks and Ming artefacts from along his supposed route.
It all makes for a gripping read, even if the sum doesn't quite add up to the whole. For all the detail, Menzies is some way off providing proof. None of the supposed 28,000 colonists has left any documentary evidence because all records, boats and shipyards associated with his voyage were burnt by imperial order in 1433. This surely begs the question--if we know so much of Zheng He's voyages around the Indian Ocean, how come we know nothing of his trips further east? Nor, conveniently for Menzies, did any of the colonists return home in triumph. They either died en route or skulked home to obscurity after they were disowned by the emperor.
So you either accept Menzies as an act of faith or brush him aside with scepticism. Either way, you'll have a lot of fun in the process as the book is never less than provocative. And even the sceptics will find themselves hoping Menzies has got it right, because there's something intrinsically uplifting about the notion of an amateur historian getting one over the professionals. --John Crace [via]
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All the Dead Lie Downby Mary Willis WalkerISBN 0553578227 (0-553-57822-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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All the King's Menby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0553204548 (0-553-20454-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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America at War!by Brian BlackISBN 0590455052 (0-590-45505-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America at War!'Book summary:A look at U.S. involvement in conflict at home and abroad examines eleven battles--including the Battle of Saratoga, the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of Midway, and others--showing how America's involvement affected their outcomes. [via]
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The Awakeningby Kate ChopinISBN 055321330X (0-553-21330-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses The Awakening , Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and "iridescent." This edition of The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin. "This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art." -- From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson. [via]
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Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Storiesby Carson McCullersISBN 0553239805 (0-553-23980-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Basketball Diaries Ages 12-15by Jim CarrollISBN 0553248952 (0-553-24895-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Battle Cryby Leon UrisISBN 0553259830 (0-553-25983-0)
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The Beet Queenby Louise ErdrichISBN 0553347233 (0-553-34723-3)
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Bel Cantoby Ann PatchettISBN 0606341722 (0-606-34172-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bel Canto'Book summary:In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. His hosts hope that Mr. Hosokawa can be persuaded to build a factory in their Third World backwater. Alas, in the opening sequence, just as the accompanist kisses the soprano, a ragtag band of 18 terrorists enters the vice-presidential mansion through the air conditioning ducts. Their quarry is the president, who has unfortunately stayed home to watch a favorite soap opera. And thus, from the beginning, things go awry.
Among the hostages are not only Hosokawa and Roxane Coss, the American soprano, but an assortment of Russian, Italian, and French diplomatic types. Reuben Iglesias, the diminutive and gracious vice president, quickly gets sideways of the kidnappers, who have no interest in him whatsoever. Meanwhile, a Swiss Red Cross negotiator named Joachim Messner is roped into service while vacationing. He comes and goes, wrangling over terms and demands, and the days stretch into weeks, the weeks into months.
With the omniscience of magic realism, Ann Patchett flits in and out of the hearts and psyches of hostage and terrorist alike, and in doing so reveals a profound, shared humanity. Her voice is suitably lyrical, melodic, full of warmth and compassion. Hearing opera sung live for the first time, a young priest reflects:
Never had he thought, never once, that such a woman existed, one who stood so close to God that God's own voice poured from her. How far she must have gone inside herself to call up that voice. It was as if the voice came from the center part of the earth and by the sheer effort and diligence of her will she had pulled it up through the dirt and rock and through the floorboards of the house, up into her feet, where it pulled through her, reaching, lifting, warmed by her, and then out of the white lily of her throat and straight to God in heaven.
Joined by no common language except music, the 58 international hostages and their captors forge unexpected bonds. Time stands still, priorities rearrange themselves. Ultimately, of course, something has to give, even in a novel so imbued with the rich imaginative potential of magic realism. But in a fractious world, Bel Canto remains a gentle reminder of the transcendence of beauty and love. --Victoria Jenkins [via]More editions of Bel Canto:
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Bellwetherby Connie WillisISBN 0553562967 (0-553-56296-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bellwether'Book summary:A sociologist who studies fads and a chaos theorist are brought together by a strange misdelivered package. This book has all the wit and clever writing that characterized Willis' earlier Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book. [via]
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Storiesby Herman MelvilleISBN 0553212745 (0-553-21274-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'Book summary:If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener," his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comicand ultimately disastrousextreme; and in "Benito Cereno," his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie "The Encantados," the beautiful, romantic "The Piazza," and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, "The Bell-Tower." [via]
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Boy Meets Girlby Meg CabotISBN 0606310444 (0-606-31044-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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A Canticle for Leibowitzby Miller, Walter M., Jr.ISBN 0553379267 (0-553-37926-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'Book summary:Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As 1984 cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959's A Canticle for Leibowitz warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. Following a cloister of monks in their Utah abbey over some six or seven hundred years, the funny but bleak Canticle tackles the sociological and religious implications of the cyclical rise and fall of civilization, questioning whether humanity can hope for more than repeating its own history. Divided into three sections--Fiat Homo (Let There Be Man), Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light), and Fiat Voluntas Tua (Thy Will Be Done)--Canticle is steeped in Catholicism and Latin, exploring the fascinating, seemingly capricious process of how and why a person is canonized. --Paul Hughes [via]
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A Canticle for Leibowitzby Walter M. MillerISBN 0553273817 (0-553-27381-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'Book summary:Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As 1984 cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959's A Canticle for Leibowitz warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. Following a cloister of monks in their Utah abbey over some six or seven hundred years, the funny but bleak Canticle tackles the sociological and religious implications of the cyclical rise and fall of civilization, questioning whether humanity can hope for more than repeating its own history. Divided into three sections--Fiat Homo (Let There Be Man), Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light), and Fiat Voluntas Tua (Thy Will Be Done)--Canticle is steeped in Catholicism and Latin, exploring the fascinating, seemingly capricious process of how and why a person is canonized. --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Clientby John Grisham, Janet McAlpinISBN 0582417775 (0-582-41777-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Client'Book summary:With her sparkling voice and superb acting ability, Blair Brown gives an impressive reading of this John Grisham blockbuster. The story hinges on a young boy who gets an unwanted earful of murder, politics--and dangerous secrets about both--from a conscience-stricken mob lawyer bent on suicide. "I can tell you where the body is... the most notorious undiscovered corpse of our time." Just the kind of information most children don't need, especially when the snakeskin-wearing hit man finds out what he knows. Aside from musical cues scattered as superfluously as laugh tracks on a sitcom, the production quality is stellar, preserving the crispness of Blair's voice and the nuances of her excellent interpretation. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes) --George Laney [via]
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Common Sense: Library Editionby Thomas Paine, Diana GabaldonISBN 0553214659 (0-553-21465-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Common Sense: Library Edition'Book summary:"These are the times that try men's souls," begins Thomas Paine's first Crisis paper, the impassioned pamphlet that helped ignite the American Revolution. Published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, Common Sense sold 150,000 copies almost immediately. A powerful piece of propaganda, it attacked the idea of a hereditary monarchy, dismissed the chance for reconciliation with England, and outlined the economic benefits of independence while espousing equality of rights among citizens. Paine fanned a flame that was already burning, but many historians argue that his work unified dissenting voices and persuaded patriots that the American Revolution was not only necessary, but an epochal step in world history. [via]
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Company Commanderby Charles B. MacDonaldISBN 0553270559 (0-553-27055-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Complete Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert JohnsonISBN 0571090877 (0-571-09087-7)
Hardcover, Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:770 pages [via]
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The Crazy Killby Chester B. HimesISBN 0586025677 (0-586-02567-7)
Hardcover, Panther
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Crucibleby Arthur MillerISBN 0553206575 (0-553-20657-5)
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D Is for Deadbeatby Sue GraftonISBN 0553271636 (0-553-27163-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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A Darker Placeby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553578243 (0-553-57824-3)
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Dawn on a Distant Shoreby Sara DonatiISBN 0553578553 (0-553-57855-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dawn on a Distant Shore'Book summary:Sara Donati's novel Dawn on a Distant Shore picks up soon after the conclusion of her prior book, Into the Wilderness. In the winter of 1794, on the edge of the New York wilderness, Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have settled into the comforts of domestic bliss. Typically, however, adventure seeks these two out. Alone but for her stepdaughter Hannah, Elizabeth gives birth to twins, while Nathaniel and his father Hawkeye are imprisoned in Montreal. Determined to help her men, Elizabeth packs up the children and sets off to free them. Liberty does not bring relief to the Bonner clan, however, as sinister forces conspire to pirate them to Scotland and embroil them in a complex family feud.
History and adventure are slathered on thickly throughout this epic tale. Donati's talent for dialect and detail bring the large cast of characters to life, though the steady pace of dramatic catastrophe is somewhat exhausting. Will our heroes never get a break? Fans of Donati's earlier work will enjoy seeing the familiar characters, but new readers would benefit by reading the books in the series in order. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien [via]
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The Difference Engineby Bruce Sterling, William GibsonISBN 055329461X (0-553-29461-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Difference Engine'Book summary:A collaborative novel from the premier cyberpunk authors, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine takes us not forward but back, to an imagined 1885: the Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven, cybernetic engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. [via]
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Ecotopiaby Ernest CallenbachISBN 0553348477 (0-553-34847-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecotopia'Book summary:A novel both timely and prophetic, ernest callenbach's ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the los angeles times as the "newest name after wells, verne, huxley, and orwell," callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . And our future.ecotopia was founded when northern california, oregon, and washington seceded from the union to create a "stable-state" ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned american visitor: new york times-post reporter will weston.skeptical yet curious about this green new world, weston is determined to report his findings objectively. But from the start, he's alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing ecotopia's earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient "mini-cities" to eliminate urban sprawl, zero-tolerance pollution control, tree worship, ritual war games, and a woman-dominated government that has instituted such peaceful revolutions as the twenty-hour workweek and employee ownership of farms and businesses. His old beliefs challenged, his cynicism replaced by hope, weston meets a sexually forthright ecotopian woman and undertakes a relationship whose intensity will lead him to a critical choice between two worlds [via]
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Flags of Our Fathersby James Bradley, Ron PowersISBN 0553384155 (0-553-38415-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flags of Our Fathers'Book summary:In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in american military history, james bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at iwo jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of america.in february 1945, american marines plunged into the surf at iwo jima-and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag.now the son of one of the flagraisers has written a powerful account of six very different young men who came together in a moment that will live forever.to his family, john bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In flags of our fathers, james bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men of easy company. Following these men's paths to iwo jima, james bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the pacific's most crucial island-an island riddled with japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last man.but perhaps the most interesting part of the story is what happened after the victory. The men in the photo-three were killed during the battle-were proclaimed heroes and flown home, to become reluctant symbols. For two of them, the adulation was shattering. Only james bradley's father truly survived, displaying no copy of the famous photograph in his home, telling his son only: "the real heroes of iwo jima were the guys who didn't come back."few books ever have captured the complexity and furor of war and its aftermath as well as flags of our fathers. [via]
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Softcover, Bantam Books - Flags of Our Fathers: ISBN 055338029X (0-553-38029-X)
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The Foundation Trilogyby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553628747 (0-553-62874-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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A Free Man of Colorby Barbara HamblyISBN 0553575260 (0-553-57526-0)
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The Heart of a Womanby Maya AngelouISBN 0553246895 (0-553-24689-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of a Woman'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1997: Maya Angelou has had more lives than the proverbial cat, and in The Heart of a Woman she continues the account of her remarkable life begun in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In the first book of her bestselling autobiographical series, she describes her traumatic childhood in the small, segregated town of Stamps, Arkansas, during the 1930s. Gather Together in My Name picks up the story in the postwar years, when Maya, a single teenager with an infant son becomes, in short order, a cook, a madam, a dancer, and a prostitute. Next comes Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, an account of her twenties and her unsuccessful first marriage to a white man. The Heart of a Woman, the fourth in the series, takes us through one of the most exciting and formative periods of Angelou's amazing life: her beginnings as a writer and an activist in New York.
Angelou has a happy knack of attracting the best and the brightest into her orbit, and The Heart of a Woman offers a veritable cornucopia of black luminaries in its pages. Singer Billie Holiday, writers John Ellins and Paule Marshall, jazz musicians Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, and actors Godfrey Cambridge and James Earl Jones--Maya meets and learns from them all. Political activism soon follows as Ms. Angelou first organizes a theatrical benefit for the Reverend Martin Luther King and then becomes the director of the New York Southern Christian Leadership Conference office. Her involvement in the civil rights movement eventually brings her into contact with African freedom fighters Oliver Tambo and the charming Vusumzi Make, whom she marries and follows to Africa.
The Heart of a Woman is as honest, painful, funny, outraged, and outrageous as Angelou herself. From her debut at the Apollo Theatre to her meeting with Malcolm X, Maya Angelou gives us something to cheer about and plenty to ponder as well. [via]
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0553212702 (0-553-21270-2)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the familys salvationor its downfall.
Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables a Romance, and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel. [via]More editions of House of the Seven Gables:
Imitationsby Robert LowellISBN 0571097170 (0-571-09717-0)
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Into the Badlands: Travels Through Urban Americaby John WilliamsISBN 0586090185 (0-586-09018-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into the Badlands: Travels Through Urban America'Book summary:In "a vital mix of literary criticism, personality profiles, and imaginary geography" (New Statesman and Society), Williams seeks out the mythical America of the nation's most astute chroniclers--the crime writers--to find Elmore Leonard's Miami, Sara Paretsky's Chicago, and Andrew Vachss' New York, among others. [via]
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A Is for Alibiby Sue GraftonISBN 0553279912 (0-553-27991-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Is for Alibi'Book summary:Laurence Fife was a slick divorce lawyer and slippery ladies' man. Until someone killed him. The jury believed that it was his pretty young wife Nikki, so they sent her to prison for eight years. Now, Nikki's out on parole and Kinsey Miihone's in for trouble. Nikki hires Kinsey to discover who really killed her husband. But the trail is eight years cold, and at the end is a chilling twist even Kinsey doesn't suspect -- a second eight-year-old murder and a brand new corpse. [via]
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Itby Stephen KingISBN 0606022341 (0-606-02234-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamlined Babyby Tom WolfeISBN 0553380583 (0-553-38058-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby'Book summary:The "streamline baby" in Tom Wolfe's 1965 debut book is a hot rod, but the car's candy colors and wild lines can't match the prose style Wolfe devised to describe them. The title essay--Wolfe's first magazine article--launched the New Journalism, partly because its original title was "There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored (Thphhhhhh!) Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (Rahghhh!) Around the Bend (Brummmmmmmmmmmmmmm)..." His voice was more shocking than any subculture he uncovered. Until Wolfe (Ph.D., Yale), nobody struck gold by applying Ph.D.-speak to lowbrow subjects. Kurt Vonnegut famously called this an "excellent book by a genius who will do anything to get attention."
Now that everybody does what Wolfe did, his early essays smack less of genius. But attention must be paid to this pioneering peek into King Pop's tomb. The most startling thing is how soberly sensible most of the prose now appears, except for the title of the first essay, "Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can't Hear You! Too Noisy) Las Vegas!!!" which anticipates the far superior Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Mostly, these articles seem like straightforward introductions to some of the signal figures of the early '60s: hot-rod designer Big Daddy Roth, surf guitarist Dick Dale, teen recording tycoon Phil Spector, Andy Warhol debutante Baby Jane Holzer, the Cassius Clay-era Muhammad Ali. We even glimpse the Beatles in a profile of the yappy DJ Murray the K in "The Fifth Beatle."
The last half of the book focuses more on New York and its denizens' endless combat for social status. The last piece, "The Big League Complex," is like a 1964 warm-up exercise for The Bonfire of the Vanities. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Lake in the Cloudsby Sara DonatiISBN 0553582798 (0-553-58279-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lake in the Clouds'Book summary:In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nations past--and in the life of the spirited Bonners--as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. Masterfully told, this passionate story is a moving tribute to a resilient, adventurous family and a people poised at the brink of a new century.
It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-year-old son, Hannahs half brother Robbie, but they struggle on as always: the men in the forests, the twins Lily and Daniel in Elizabeths school, and Hannah as a doctor in training, apprenticed to Richard Todd. Hannah is descended from healers on both sides--one Scots grandmother and one Mohawk--and her reputation as a skilled healer in her own right is growing.
After a long night spent attending to a birth, Elizabeth and Hannah encounter an escaped slave hiding on the mountain. She calls herself Selah Voyager, and she is looking for Curiosity Freeman--a former slave herself, one of the villages wisest women and Elizabeths closest friend. The Bonners take Selah, desperately ill, to Lake in the Clouds to care for her, and with that simple act they are drawn into the secret life that Curiosity and Galileo Freeman and their grown children have been leading for almost ten years. The Bonners will do what they must to protect the Freemans, just as Hannah will protect her patient, who presents more than one kind of challenge. For a bounty hunter is afoot--Hannahs childhood friend and first love, Liam Kirby.
While Elizabeth and Nathaniel undertake a treacherous journey through the endless forests to bring Selah to safety in the north, Hannah embarks on a very different journey to New-York City, with two goals: to learn the secrets of vaccination against smallpox, a disease that threatens Paradise, and to find out what she can about Liams immediate past and what caused him to change so drastically from the boy she once loved. The obstacles she faces as a woman and a Mohawk make her confront questions long avoided about her place in the world.
Those questions follow her back to Paradise, where she finds that the medical miracle she brings with her will not cure prejudice or superstition, nor can it solve the problem of slavery. No sooner have the Bonners begun to rebound from their losses--old and new--than they find themselves confronted by more than one old enemy in a battle that will test the strength of their love for one another. Hannah faces the decision she has always dreaded: will she make a life for herself in a white world, or among her mothers people? [via]More editions of Lake in the Clouds:
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The Long Winterby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0590300946 (0-590-30094-6)
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The Lovely Bonesby Alice SeboldISBN 0606309314 (0-606-30931-4)
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The Martian Chroniclesby Ray BradburyISBN 0553278223 (0-553-27822-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Martian Chronicles'Book summary:From "Rocket Summer" to "The Million-Year Picnic," Ray Bradbury's stories of the colonization of Mars form an eerie mesh of past and future. Written in the 1940s, the chronicles drip with nostalgic atmosphere--shady porches with tinkling pitchers of lemonade, grandfather clocks, chintz-covered sofas. But longing for this comfortable past proves dangerous in every way to Bradbury's characters--the golden-eyed Martians as well as the humans. Starting in the far-flung future of 1999, expedition after expedition leaves Earth to investigate Mars. The Martians guard their mysteries well, but they are decimated by the diseases that arrive with the rockets. Colonists appear, most with ideas no more lofty than starting a hot-dog stand, and with no respect for the culture they've displaced.
Bradbury's quiet exploration of a future that looks so much like the past is sprinkled with lighter material. In "The Silent Towns," the last man on Mars hears the phone ring and ends up on a comical blind date. But in most of these stories, Bradbury holds up a mirror to humanity that reflects a shameful treatment of "the other," yielding, time after time, a harvest of loneliness and isolation. Yet the collection ends with hope for renewal, as a colonist family turns away from the demise of the Earth towards a new future on Mars. Bradbury is a master fantasist and The Martian Chronicles are an unforgettable work of art. --Blaise Selby [via]
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0606241817 (0-606-24181-7)
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Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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Mystic Riverby Dennis LehaneISBN 0593044762 (0-593-04476-2)
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The Naked and the Deadby Norman MailerISBN 0606192131 (0-606-19213-1)
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Our Man Inby Clive AndersonISBN 0563370696 (0-563-37069-6)
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The Partnerby John GrishamISBN 0582434068 (0-582-43406-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Partner'Book summary:The man they were to kidnap in Brazil had not always been called Silva. As a lawyer, Patrick S. Lanigan, his previous life had ended in a car crash in 1992. But six weeks after his death, $90 million disappeared from his law firm. It was then that his partners knew he was still alive. An unputdownable thriller by the current master of the genre, John Grisham. [via]
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The Pearlby John SteinbeckISBN 0553262610 (0-553-26261-0)
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In this short book illuminated by a deep understanding and love of humanity, John Steinbeck retells an old Mexican folk tale: the story of the great pearl, how it was found, and how it was lost. For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to the tragedy.For Steinbeck, Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems. Originally published in 1947, The Pearl shows why Steinbecks style has made him one of the most beloved American writers: it is a simple story of simple people, recounted with the warmth and sincerity and unrivaled craftsmanship Steinbeck brings to his writing. It is tragedy in the great tradition, beautifully conveying not despair but hope for mankind.
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creekby Annie DillardISBN 0553233890 (0-553-23389-0)
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Practical Magicby Alice HoffmanISBN 0606158227 (0-606-15822-7)
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Princess in the Spotlightby Meg CabotISBN 0606274049 (0-606-27404-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess in the Spotlight'Book summary:Fifteen-year-old Mia Thermopolis, the witty, lovable star of Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries, has had it with princess lessons, also known as torture sessions: "Do they really think anyone in Genovia cares whether I know how to use a fish fork? Or if I can sit down without getting wrinkles in the back of my skirt? Or if I know how to say 'thank you' in Swahili? Shouldn't my future countrymen be more concerned with my views on the environment? And gun control? And overpopulation?" To make matters worse, she's getting these lessons from Grandmère, a rather judgmental woman who dresses her pet in chinchilla bolero jackets and has eyeliner permanently tattooed on her eyelids. Princess in the Spotlight further records Mia's path to princessdom: her artist mother's relationship with her algebra teacher (how awkward), her forced television interview, broadcast to all of America (how humiliating), and her crush on her best friend Lilly's brother Michael (how excruciating). The result is another thoroughly entertaining diary of a very human, very self-deprecating, very unprincesslike princess. (Ages 12 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Proud Towerby Barbara TuchmanISBN 0553256025 (0-553-25602-5)
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Ragtimeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0553257366 (0-553-25736-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ragtime'Book summary:Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.
The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home
of an affluent American family.
One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disap-
pears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sig- mund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.
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The Real Cool Killersby Chester B. HimesISBN 058602798X (0-586-02798-X)
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Red Dragonby Thomas HarrisISBN 0553264850 (0-553-26485-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Dragon'Book summary:Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas's Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs. As in Silence, the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist Lecter for clues to catching a killer on the loose.
The sleuth, Will Graham, actually quit the FBI after nearly getting killed by Lecter while nabbing him, but fear isn't what bugs him about crime busting. It's just too creepy to get inside a killer's twisted mind. But he comes back to stop a madman who's been butchering entire families. The FBI needs Graham's insight, and Graham needs Lecter's genius. But Lecter is a clever fiend, and he manipulates both Graham and the killer at large from his cell.
That killer, Francis Dolarhyde, works in a film lab, where he picks his victims by studying their home movies. He's obsessed with William Blake's bizarre painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, believing there's a red dragon within him, the personification of his demonic drives. Flashbacks to Dolarhyde's terrifying childhood and superb stream-of-consciousness prose get us right there inside his head. When Dolarhyde does weird things, we understand why. We sympathize when the voice of the cruel dead grandma who raised and crazed him urges him to mayhem--she's way scarier than that old bat in Psycho. When he falls in love with a blind girl at the lab, we hope he doesn't give in to Grandma's violent advice.
This book is awesomely detailed, ingeniously plotted, judiciously gory, and fantastically imagined. If you haven't read it, you've never had the creeps. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Red Ponyby John SteinbeckISBN 0553278363 (0-553-27836-3)
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The Red Screamby Mary Willis WalkerISBN 0553571729 (0-553-57172-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Scream'Book summary:In this 1995 winner of the Edgar Award for best mystery novel, crime reporter Molly Cates has chronicled the exploits of Louie Bronk, a brutal serial killer scheduled for execution, for her first book. With his execution just a few days away, Molly decides to write the closing chapter on her disturbing relationship with the man known as the Texas Scalper. Strangely, both her boss and the husband of the woman whose murder got Bronk the death penalty pressure her to back off the story. When she receives a chilling anonymous letter and another body is found, she begins to suspect that Bronk is not the killer at all. Her quest for the truth, she discovers, not only discredits her work, but places her own life on the line. [via]
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Remakeby Connie WillisISBN 0553374370 (0-553-37437-0)
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Riders of the Purple Sageby Zane GreyISBN 0553283081 (0-553-28308-1)
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Rising Sunby Michael CrichtonISBN 0606298231 (0-606-29823-1)
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Rubyfruit Jungleby Rita Mae BrownISBN 055327886X (0-553-27886-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubyfruit Jungle'Book summary:Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor southern couple who want something better for their daughter. Molly plays doctor with the boys, beats up Leroy and loses her virginity to her girlfriend in sixth grade. As she grows to realize she's different, Molly decides not to apologize. [via]
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Sarah, Plain and Tallby Patricia MacLachlanISBN 0590065726 (0-590-06572-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sarah, Plain and Tall'Book summary:MacLachlan, author of Unclaimed Treasures, has written an affecting tale for children. In the late 19th century a widowed midwestern farmer with two children--Anna and Caleb--advertises for a wife. When Sarah arrives she is homesick for Maine, especially for the ocean which she misses greatly. The children fear that she will not stay, and when she goes off to town alone, young Caleb--whose mother died during childbirth--is stricken with the fear that she has gone for good. But she returns with colored pencils to illustrate for them the beauty of Maine, and to explain that, though she misses her home, "the truth of it is I would miss you more." The tale gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love. [via]
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Second Foundationby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553293362 (0-553-29336-2)
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Seven Days in Mayby Fletcher KnebelISBN 0553269569 (0-553-26956-9)
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Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmasby Maya AngelouISBN 0553251996 (0-553-25199-6)
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0553213741 (0-553-21374-1)
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Snow Crashby Neal StephensonISBN 0553380958 (0-553-38095-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Crash'Book summary:From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible. [via]
A Solitary Blueby Cynthia VoigtISBN 0590471570 (0-590-47157-0)
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Song Of Solomonby Toni MorrisonISBN 0606050922 (0-606-05092-2)
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The Song of the Larkby Willa CatherISBN 0553213911 (0-553-21391-1)
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In this semiautobiographical portrait of a young artist in the making, Willa Cather takes us into the heart of a woman coming to know her deepest self.
Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, has dreams and gifts that her humble hometown will not satisfy. With the support of a few allies who recognize her rare qualities, she follows her ambitions to the big city, determined to be an opera diva. As she moves through a series of music teachers in Chicago, Thea finds that the attitudes and standards of those around her rarely match her own. It is only when she reconnects with pure nature in a brilliant Arizona desert canyon that Thea rediscovers the sensuous, mystical openness that is the source of her art. Realizing she must protect this experience at all costs, she resolves to shed all relationships that don't serve her higher purpose. [via]More editions of The Song of the Lark:
Sophie's Choiceby William StyronISBN 0553277499 (0-553-27749-9)
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Sulaby Toni MorrisonISBN 055320517X (0-553-20517-X)
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Tehanuby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0575022744 (0-575-02274-4)
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This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom DardisISBN 0553214535 (0-553-21453-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Side of Paradise'Book summary:Fitzgerald's first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman's Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920. [via]
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Time and Againby Jack FinneyISBN 0606300120 (0-606-30012-0)
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To Play the Foolby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553574558 (0-553-57455-8)
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To Say Nothing of the Dogby Connie WillisISBN 0553575384 (0-553-57538-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Say Nothing of the Dog'Book summary:To Say Nothing of the Dog is a science-fiction fantasy in the guise of an old-fashioned Victorian novel, complete with epigraphs, brief outlines, and a rather ugly boxer in three-quarters profile at the start of each chapter. Or is it a Victorian novel in the guise of a time-traveling tale, or a highly comic romp, or a great, allusive literary game, complete with spry references to Dorothy L. Sayers, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Conan Doyle? Its title is the subtitle of Jerome K. Jerome's singular, and hilarious, Three Men in a Boat. In one scene the hero, Ned Henry, and his friends come upon Jerome, two men, and the dog Montmorency in--you guessed it--a boat. Jerome will later immortalize Ned's fumbling. (Or, more accurately, Jerome will earlier immortalize Ned's fumbling, because Ned is from the 21st century and Jerome from the 19th.)
What Connie Willis soon makes clear is that genre can go to the dogs. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a fine, and fun, romance--an amused examination of conceptions and misconceptions about other eras, other people. When we first meet Ned, in 1940, he and five other time jumpers are searching bombed-out Coventry Cathedral for the bishop's bird stump, an object about which neither he nor the reader will be clear for hundreds of pages. All he knows is that if they don't find it, the powerful Lady Schrapnell will keep sending them back in time, again and again and again. Once he's been whisked through the rather quaint Net back to the Oxford future, Ned is in a state of super time-lag. (Willis is happily unconcerned with futuristic vraisemblance, though Ned makes some obligatory references to "vids," "interactives," and "headrigs.") The only way Ned can get the necessary two weeks' R and R is to perform one more drop and recuperate in the past, away from Lady Schrapnell. Once he returns something to someone (he's too exhausted to understand what or to whom) on June 7, 1888, he's free.
Willis is concerned, however, as is her confused character, with getting Victoriana right, and Ned makes a good amateur anthropologist--entering one crowded room, he realizes that "the reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over." Though he's still not sure what he's supposed to bring back, various of his confederates keep popping back to set him to rights. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a shaggy-dog tale complete with a preternaturally quiet, time-traveling cat, Princess Arjumand, who might well be the cause of some serious temporal incongruities--for even a mouser might change the course of European history. In the end, readers might well be more interested in Ned's romance with a fellow historian than in the bishop's bird stump, and who will not rejoice in their first Net kiss, which lasts 169 years! [via]
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Toxic Shockby Sara ParetskyISBN 0575043725 (0-575-04372-5)
Hardcover, Victor Gollancz
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Under the Beetle's Cellarby Mary Willis WalkerISBN 0553571737 (0-553-57173-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Beetle's Cellar'Book summary:The author and heroine of The Red Scream return in a novel so terrifying, so filled with squirming suspense, it's bound for the bestseller lists. When Kirkus Reviews greeted Mary Willis Walker's last book, The Red Scream, with "welcome to the big time," they weren't kidding. That novel established Walker as an author with "the kind of clout that sets publishers' mouths watering" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). And now she has done it again, with an unforgettable tale ripped from the headlines and more terrifying than our worst nightmares. Kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics, an Austin school bus driver and eleven of his young charges have been held underground at the group's highly fortified compound for forty-six days. While a team of federal negotiators begins to lose all hope of rescuing the hostages, crime reporter Molly Cates sets outto discover everything she can about the cult's iron-willed leader, Samuel Mordecai. And as the clock ticks inexorably, she takes the role of Clarisse Starling opposite Mordecai's Hannibal Lecter, engaging in a psychological confrontation as harrowing as any in The Silence Of The Lambs. Tough, terrifying, and relentlessly heart-wrenching, this is a novel whose images no reader will ever forget. [via]
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Wickedby Gregory Maguire, Douglas SmithISBN 060631184X (0-606-31184-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0590440896 (0-590-44089-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:For many of us, the adventures of Dorothy in Oz will forever be associated not with Judy Garland singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" but with W. W. Denslow's exceedingly odd line drawings for the original editions of Baum's Oz series. The Viennese artist Lisbeth Zwerger, however, goes a long way toward providing a new and refreshed set of images for the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the humbug wizard. These illustrations are often cockeyed, with occasional realistic details thrown in, like a crow with a corncob in its beak in the first portrait of the Scarecrow. The characters have a poignance and oddity that escaped the makers of the Oz movie. [via]
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Wizard of Oz, the, Level 2, Penguin Young Readersby PenguinISBN 0582468612 (0-582-46861-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wizard of Oz, the, Level 2, Penguin Young Readers'Book summary:A tornado whisks Dorothy and her dog, Toto, to the land of Oz. To find the way back to Kansas they have to follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City where the Wizard of Oz lives. [via]
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0553213849 (0-553-21384-9)
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The Yearlingby Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsISBN 0606001093 (0-606-00109-3)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writingsby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 055321375X (0-553-21375-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings'Book summary:Known primarily for her classic and haunting story "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an enormously influential American feminist and sociologist. Her early-twentieth-century writings continue to inspire writers and activists today. This collection includes selections from both her fiction and nonfiction work.
In addition to the title story, there are seven short stories collected here that combine humor, anger, and startling vision to suggest how women's "place" in society should be changed to benefit all. The nonfiction selections are from Gilman's The Man-Made World: Our Androcentric Culture and her masterpiece, Women And Economics, which was translated into seven languages and established her international reputation as a theorist.
Also included in a delightful excerpt from Gilman's utopian novel, Herland, an acidly funny tale about three American male explorers who stumble into an all-female society and begin their odyssey by insisting, "This is a civilized country . . . there must be men." Gilman's analyses of economic and women's issues are as incisive and relevant today as they were upon their original publication. This volume is an unprecedented opportunity to rediscover a powerful American writer. [via]More editions of The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings:
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