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Afterby Francine ProseISBN 0060080833 (0-06-008083-3)
Softcover, Avon Tempest
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After'Book summary:School has become a prison.No one knows why.There's no way to stop it.
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Anne of Avonleaby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0140367985 (0-14-036798-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Avonlea'Book summary:Anne Shirley, the redheaded girl of Green Gables returns.
Anne is home from Queen's. Now sixteen and a teacher, it is time to settle down and stay out of trouble. But trouble and Anne Shirley always seem to find each other.
Dolly, Anne's Jersey cow, is always getting in to Mr. Harrison's field. Mr. Harrision, a "crank" according to Rachel Lynde, was upset. So when Anne saw Dolly one day in his field Anne sold her on the spot. But when she arrived home there was Dolly. Anne had just sold Mr. Harrision's Jersey. Just the start of another quiet day for Anne.
Mark Twain described Anne as "the most moving and delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice." The "Anne" books have been best sellers since 1908. [via]
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery, Laura F. MarshISBN 0060791470 (0-06-079147-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Of Green Gables'Book summary:When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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- Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0140367411 (0-14-036741-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0140324623 (0-14-032462-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0140351485 (0-14-035148-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Anne Of Green Gables: ISBN 0060791470 (0-06-079147-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
- Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0140367411 (0-14-036741-1)
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Anne of the Islandby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0140367772 (0-14-036777-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of the Island'Book summary:This volume contains "Anne of The Island" and "Anne of Windy Willows". Anne is older now, and her friends are beginning to get married and move away; meanwhile her romance with Gilbert Blythe begins to blossom, and there are developments in her career as a schoolteacher. [via]
Arabellaby Georgette HeyerISBN 0061004448 (0-06-100444-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Asesinato En El Orient Expressby Agatha Christie, E. MACHADO-QUEVEDOISBN 8478712097 (84-7871-209-7)
Softcover, Rba Publicaciones Editores revistas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asesinato En El Orient Express'Book summary:Hercule Poirot Mysteries Series This is the story of one thrillingly exotic journey, one brutally stabbed victim, and seventeen suspicious suspects. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is full, but by the morning there is one less passenger. A man lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside&Many obstacles are put in Poirots path to try and keep him off the scent but in a dramatic finale he succeeds in coming up with two solutions to the crime.
Description in Spanish: Estambul, pleno invierno. Poirot decide tomar el Orient Express que en esta época hace su recorrido prácticamente vacío. A la mañana siguiente, cuando se despierta, descubre que un norteamericano, llamado Ratcher, ha sido apuñalado. El asesino, sin duda, es alguno de los ocupantes entre los que se encuentran una altiva princesa rusa y una institutriz inglesa. [via]
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The Awakening and Selected Storiesby Kate ChopinISBN 0140390227 (0-14-039022-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening and Selected Stories'Book summary:The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers and reviewers with its treatment of sex and suicide. In a departure from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class convention are the themes of this now-classic novel. The book was influenced by French writers ranging from Flaubert to Maupassant, and can be seen as a precursor of the impressionistic, mood-driven novels of Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes. Variously called "vulgar, " "unhealthily introspective, " and "morbid, " the book was neglected for several decades, not least because it was written by a "regional" woman writer. This edition also includes selected stories from Kate Chopin's Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie, and an introduction and notes by Nina Baym. [via]
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Bath Tangleby Georgette HeyerISBN 0061002046 (0-06-100204-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Biographer's Taleby A. S. ByattISBN 009928393X (0-09-928393-X)
Softcover, Vintage Uk
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Brat Farrarby Josephine TeyISBN 0020088221 (0-02-008822-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brat Farrar'Book summary:Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the identity of Patrick Ashby, heir to the Ashby fortune who disappeared when he was 13. Just when it seems that Brat will pull off the deception, he discovers the truth about Patrick's disappearance, a dark secret that threatens to tear apart the family and jeopardize Brat's carefully laid plans. Called "the best of its kind" by the New Yorker, Josephine Tey's classic is a tale of unrelenting suspense and tension. [via]
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Ceciliaby Fanny BurneyISBN 0140161368 (0-14-016136-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolateby Laura EsquivelISBN 9871138490 (987-1138-49-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate'Book summary:Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story.
The Spanish language edition of the best-selling Like Water For Chocolate is a remarkable success in its own right. Now, in this mass market edition, thousands of new readers will be able to partake in the sumptuous, romantic, and hilarious tale of Tita, the terrific cook with an extra special something in her sauce.
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- Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate: ISBN 9879397282 (987-9397-28-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori - Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate: ISBN 9684061404 (968-406-140-4)
Hardcover, Editorial Planeta Mexicana - Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate: ISBN 9871138490 (987-1138-49-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
- Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate: ISBN 9879397282 (987-9397-28-2)
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Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Placesby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0060972890 (0-06-097289-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places'Book summary:Incisive, eloquent, crackling with ideas, this is a "mental-biography" of the award-winning fiction writer, Ursula K. Le Guin. She draws together essays, travel journals, lectures, informal talks and reviews spanning twelve years, for a fascinating peek into the mind of a remarkable woman. [via]
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Diarioby Ana FrankISBN 9871138679 (987-1138-67-9)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hillby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140374566 (0-14-037456-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hill'Book summary:Orphaned Rose Campbell is overwhelmed when she arrives at the "Aunt Hill" to live with her six aunts and seven boy cousins. Life is certainly more exciting, but will she ever feel at home with this noisy family? [via]
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El Diario De Bridget Jones / Bridget Jones's Diaryby Helen Fielding, Random House MondadoriISBN 8497592603 (84-9759-260-3)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Diario De Bridget Jones / Bridget Jones's Diary'Book summary:Helen Fielding ha creado un personaje cómico, hilarante que hable sin tapujos sobre sus contemporaneos, Bridget Jones. El Diario de Bridget Jones es una sabia combinación de Anita Loos and Jane Austen y ha conseguido un éxito espectacular en todos los paises. [via]
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Ethan Fromeby Edith Wharton, Doris Grumbach, Sarah Higginson BegleyISBN 0140187367 (0-14-018736-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In her Introduction, the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. [via] -
The First Four Yearsby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060522437 (0-06-052243-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Four Years'Book summary:For the first time in the history of the Little House books, this new edition features Garth Williams interior art in vibrant, full color, as well as a beautifully redesigned cover.
Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house. Laura is a young pioneer wife now, and must work hard with Almanzo, farming the land around their home on the South Dakota prairie. Soon their baby daughter, Rose, is born, and the young family must face the hardships and triumphs encountered by so many American pioneers.
And so Laura Ingalls Wilder's adventure as a little pioneer girl ends, and her new life as a pioneer wife and mother begins. The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettable story.
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- The First Four Years: ISBN 0060581883 (0-06-058188-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - The First Four Years: ISBN 0060885459 (0-06-088545-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers - The First Four Years: ISBN 0060264268 (0-06-026426-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - The First Four Years: ISBN 0060264276 (0-06-026427-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The First Four Years: ISBN 006440031X (0-06-440031-X)
Softcover, Trophy Pr - The First Four Years: ISBN 0060522437 (0-06-052243-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
- The First Four Years: ISBN 0060581883 (0-06-058188-3)
The Foundlingby Georgette HeyerISBN 0061004731 (0-06-100473-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Franchise Affairby Josephine TeyISBN 002008823X (0-02-008823-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Franchise Affair'Book summary:Though Josephine Tey is not, perhaps, as well known as Agatha Christie, her contribution to the Golden Age of mysteries is unquestioned. In contrast to Christie, Tey rejected formulas and long-running series in favor of experimentation with new settings and odd conjunctions of character and subject matter. Her historical tale The Daughter of Time is frequently cited as one of the greatest mysteries of all time.
The Franchise Affair resembles some of the best work of Poe in its introduction of an apparently inhuman evil in an otherwise sedate country setting. Robert Blair, a lawyer who prides himself on his ability to avoid work of any significance, is interrupted one evening by a phone call from Marion Sharpe. Ms. Sharpe and her mother live in a run-down estate known as the Franchise, and their lives drew little attention until Betty Kane charged them with an unthinkable crime. Ms. Kane, having disappeared for a month, now says that she was held captive in the attic of the Franchise during her entire absence. While her story seems absurd, her recollection of minute details about the interior of the house sway even Scotland Yard. Blair--who Ms. Sharpe has chosen for her defense because, as she says, he is "someone of my own sort"--must dust off his neurons and undertake some serious sleuthing if his client is to beat these serious charges. As with all fine mysteries, one has the sense of being in a sea of clues with a solution just out of reach. The Franchise Affair is a classic mystery, and also a superb record of country life in early twentieth century England. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Friday's Childby Georgette HeyerISBN 006100166X (0-06-100166-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Friday's Child'Book summary:Young Lord Sheringham, rejected by the woman he deeply loved, could not gain his inheritance until he married. On a passionate impulse, he vowed to marry the next woman he saw. Enter Hero Wantage, the adorable life-long friend who has secretly loved Sheringham her entire life. Regency Romance reissue. [via]
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God of Small Thingsby Arundhati RoyISBN 0060977493 (0-06-097749-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God of Small Things'Book summary:The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, the twins Rahel and Esthappen fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family -- their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts). When their English cousin and her mother arrive on a Christmas visit, the twins learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever. The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it. [via]
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Guided Tours of Hellby Francine ProseISBN 006008085X (0-06-008085-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guided Tours of Hell'Book summary:These two novellas about Americans abroad combine to create one wallop of a book. As they confront the legacy of history and their own shortcomings, Prose's characters are obsessively self-aware, even narcissistically petty--just like we are. In the title story, Landau, a struggling playwright, engages in a vanity-laden struggle of wills with a charismatic Holocaust-survivor in the cafeteria of a death camp-turned-tourist-attraction during a Kafka symposium. In the second novella "Three Pigs in Five Days," Nina is sent to Paris by her boss and ex-lover to write an article about a whorehouse-turned-hotel. While there, she is plagued by the demons of her erotic past as well as the romantic ghosts of the dysfunctional relationships of dead Parisian artists and their mistresses. Always harrowing, occasionally baroque, and tinged with hilarity, Guided Tours of Hell is an early candidate for the best fiction of the year. [via]
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The Hauntingby Shirley JacksonISBN 0140287434 (0-14-028743-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Haunting'Book summary:Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages.
Eleanor Vance has always been a loner--shy, vulnerable, and bitterly resentful of the 11 years she lost while nursing her dying mother. "She had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words." Eleanor has always sensed that one day something big would happen, and one day it does. She receives an unusual invitation from Dr. John Montague, a man fascinated by "supernatural manifestations." He organizes a ghost watch, inviting people who have been touched by otherworldly events. A paranormal incident from Eleanor's childhood qualifies her to be a part of Montague's bizarre study--along with headstrong Theodora, his assistant, and Luke, a well-to-do aristocrat. They meet at Hill House--a notorious estate in New England.
Hill House is a foreboding structure of towers, buttresses, Gothic spires, gargoyles, strange angles, and rooms within rooms--a place "without kindness, never meant to be lived in...."
Although Eleanor's initial reaction is to flee, the house has a mesmerizing effect, and she begins to feel a strange kind of bliss that entices her to stay. Eleanor is a magnet for the supernatural--she hears deathly wails, feels terrible chills, and sees ghostly apparitions. Once again she feels isolated and alone--neither Theo nor Luke attract so much eerie company. But the physical horror of Hill House is always subtle; more disturbing is the emotional torment Eleanor endures. Intense, literary, and harrowing, The Haunting of Hill House belongs in the same dark league as Henry James's classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Haunting of Hill Houseby Shirley JacksonISBN 0140071083 (0-14-007108-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Haunting of Hill House'Book summary:Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages.
Eleanor Vance has always been a loner--shy, vulnerable, and bitterly resentful of the 11 years she lost while nursing her dying mother. "She had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words." Eleanor has always sensed that one day something big would happen, and one day it does. She receives an unusual invitation from Dr. John Montague, a man fascinated by "supernatural manifestations." He organizes a ghost watch, inviting people who have been touched by otherworldly events. A paranormal incident from Eleanor's childhood qualifies her to be a part of Montague's bizarre study--along with headstrong Theodora, his assistant, and Luke, a well-to-do aristocrat. They meet at Hill House--a notorious estate in New England.
Hill House is a foreboding structure of towers, buttresses, Gothic spires, gargoyles, strange angles, and rooms within rooms--a place "without kindness, never meant to be lived in...."
Although Eleanor's initial reaction is to flee, the house has a mesmerizing effect, and she begins to feel a strange kind of bliss that entices her to stay. Eleanor is a magnet for the supernatural--she hears deathly wails, feels terrible chills, and sees ghostly apparitions. Once again she feels isolated and alone--neither Theo nor Luke attract so much eerie company. But the physical horror of Hill House is always subtle; more disturbing is the emotional torment Eleanor endures. Intense, literary, and harrowing, The Haunting of Hill House belongs in the same dark league as Henry James's classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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The House of Mirthby Edith WhartonISBN 0140187294 (0-14-018729-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Mirth'Book summary:"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Jane Austenby Claire Tomalin, Beatriz Lopez-BuisanISBN 8477651590 (84-7765-159-0)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 8497940407 (84-9794-040-7)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros
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Kitchenby Banana YoshimotoISBN 8472233863 (84-7223-386-3)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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LA Casa De Los Espiritus / House of the Spiritsby Isabel AllendeISBN 8484503887 (84-8450-388-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Casa De Los Espiritus / House of the Spirits'Book summary:Bestseller internacional y muy admirado clásico de la literatura latinoamericana, la trascendental novela de Isabel Allende cuenta la historia épica de la numerosa y turbulenta familia Trueba de Chile, con su patriarca angustiado y sus mujeres clarividentes, trazando sus vidas desde los fines del siglo pasado, hasta los días violentos del golpe que derrocó al gobierno de Salvador Allende en 1973. En La casa de los espíritus, Allende combina lo supernatural con lo real en una versión sumamente personal de realismo mágico.Es raro, el caso, en que una primera novela lanza a su autora tan repentinamente al foro internacionales.
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- LA Casa De Los Espiritus / House of the Spirits: ISBN 8497592190 (84-9759-219-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori - LA Casa De Los Espiritus / House of the Spirits: ISBN 9500702916 (950-07-0291-6)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc - LA Casa De Los Espiritus / House of the Spirits: ISBN 8484503887 (84-8450-388-7)
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- LA Casa De Los Espiritus / House of the Spirits: ISBN 8497592190 (84-9759-219-0)
Lady Audley's Secretby Mary E. BraddonISBN 0140161856 (0-14-016185-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Liar's Clubby Mary KarrISBN 0140179836 (0-14-017983-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Liar's Club'Book summary:In this funny, razor-edged memoir, Mary Karr, a prize-winning poet and critic, looks back at her upbringing in a swampy East Texas refinery town with a volatile, defiantly loving family. She recalls her painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip into psychosis; a fist swinging father who spun tales with his cronies - dubbed the Liars' Club; and a neighborhood rape when she was eight. An inheritance was squandered, endless bottles emptied, and guns leveled at the deserving and undeserving. With a row authenticity stripped of self pity,and a poet's eye for the lyrical detail, Karr shows us a "terrific family of liars and drunks...redeemed by a slow unearthing of truth." [via]
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Mary Bartonby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0140430539 (0-14-043053-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Barton'Book summary:This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man implicated in the murder, through her adolescence, when she suffers the advances of the mill owner, and later through love and marriage. Set in Manchester, between 1837-42, it paints a powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England. [via]
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The Mill on the Flossby George Eliot, A. S. ByattISBN 0140431209 (0-14-043120-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Mrs Dallowayby Virginia WoolfISBN 0099470454 (0-09-947045-4)
Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs Dalloway'Book summary:As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.
As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.
Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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Murder Must Advertiseby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0061043559 (0-06-104355-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The New Meaning of Treasonby Rebecca WestISBN 0140073795 (0-14-007379-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Persepolisby Marjane SatrapiISBN 8484315614 (84-8431-561-4)
Softcover, Norma Editorial Sa
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The Reluctant Widowby Georgette HeyerISBN 0061001554 (0-06-100155-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Restorationby Rose TremainISBN 0140244883 (0-14-024488-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Restoration'Book summary:Restoration is a dazzling romp through 17th-century England. The main character Robert Merivel not only embodies the contradictions of his era, but ours as well. He is trapped between the longing for wealth and power and the realization that the pursuit of these trappings can leave one's life rather empty. [via]
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Strong Poisonby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0061043508 (0-06-104350-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Sylvester or the Wicked Uncleby Georgette HeyerISBN 0061002577 (0-06-100257-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hallby Anne BronteISBN 0140431373 (0-14-043137-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Toll-gateby Georgette HeyerISBN 0061002194 (0-06-100219-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Un Cadaver En La Bibliotecaby Agatha ChristieISBN 8478712526 (84-7871-252-6)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Un Cadaver En La Biblioteca'Book summary:One morning, Colonel and Dolly Bantry are awakened by their maid and informed that the body of a dead blonde lies on the library floor! They immediately call the authorities and their dear old friend Miss Jane Marple. Miss Marple is only too happy to help, as there's nothing she likes better than nosing around in other people's business. Description in Spanish: El coronel Bantry vive apaciblemente su retiro, junto con su esposa Dorothy, en St.Mary Mead. Una manana, su doncella rompe la tranquilidad cotidiana con una noticia insolita y escalofriante: ''Senora, hay un cadaver en la biblioteca''. La joven que aparece estrangulada tiene todo el aspecto de haber sido artista. [via]
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Venetiaby Georgette HeyerISBN 0061002593 (0-06-100259-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Venetia'Book summary:Determined to woo and win the lovely Venetia, a twenty-five-year-old hopeless romantic, Lord Damerel, an infamous rake, pursues her with passionate abandon, but Venetia will only marry for love. Reprint. [via]
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Whose Body?by Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0061043575 (0-06-104357-5)
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The Wind's Twelve Quartersby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0060914343 (0-06-091434-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wind's Twelve Quarters'Book summary:The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind's Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful stories, each with an introduction by the author, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts, from medieval settings to the future.
Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin, describing her experience, her inspirations, and her approach to writing, this stunning collection explores human values, relationships, and survival, and showcases the myriad talents of one of the most provocative writers of our time.
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Wizard of Earthseaby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0140304770 (0-14-030477-0)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wizard of Earthsea'Book summary:Often compared to Tolkien's Middle-earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu) tell the whole Earthsea cycle--a tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who becomes a wizard's apprentice after the wizard reveals Sparrowhawk's true name. The boy comes to realize that his fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible. Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world. Teens, especially, will be inspired by the way Le Guin allows her characters to evolve and grow into their own powers.
In this first book, A Wizard of Earthsea readers will witness Sparrowhawk's moving rite of passage--when he discovers his true name and becomes a young man. Great challenges await Sparrowhawk, including an almost deadly battle with a sinister creature, a monster that may be his own shadow. [via]
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El Alma Del Vampiro / Lost Soulsby Poppy Z. BriteISBN 848896627X (84-88966-27-X)
Softcover, LA Factoria De Ideas
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El Asesinato De Roger Ackroyd/the Murder of Roger Ackroydby Agatha Christie, G. Bernard De FerrerISBN 8478712070 (84-7871-207-0)
Softcover, Rba Publicaciones Editores revistas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Asesinato De Roger Ackroyd/the Murder of Roger Ackroyd'Book summary:Hercule Poirot Mysteries Series In the quiet village of Kings Abbot, a widows suicide has stirred suspicion and dreadful gossip. There are rumors she murdered her first husband, that she was being blackmailed and that her secret lover was Roger Ackroyd. Then Ackroyd is found murdered and all the members of the household stand to gain from his death. Hercule Poirot, who has retired to Kings Abbot to grow vegetable marrows, is reluctantly drawn into finding an extremely clever, and devious killer.
Description in Spanish: Mrs.Ferrari ha muerto víctima de una sobredosis de somníferos. Hace un año, su marido murió al parecer de una gastritis aguda. Carolina Sheppard, la hermana del médico del pueblo, sospecha que fue envenenado. Poco después, Roger Ackroyd, el terrateniente de la villa, aparece muerto con una daga tunecina clavada en la espalda. ¿Estarán las tres muertes relacionadas? ¿Tendrá Carolina razones para sospechar? [via]
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LA Biblia Envenenada / The Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara Kingsolver, Damian AlouISBN 8484530256 (84-8453-025-6)
Softcover, Ediciones Del Bronce
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Biblia Envenenada / The Poisonwood Bible'Book summary:La autora des suroeste de Estados Unidos nos trae una novela de pasión, y de tragedia con un paisaje bello e inesperado. Una selección de Oprah para su club de lectores. Un bestseller de toda clase. [via]
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La Casa De Los Espiritusby Not AvailableISBN 9685956790 (968-5956-79-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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La Casa De Los Espiritus / House of the Spiritsby Isabel AllendeISBN 9681104714 (968-11-0471-4)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Casa De Los Espiritus / House of the Spirits'Book summary:Bestseller internacional y muy admirado clásico de la literatura latinoamericana, la trascendental novela de Isabel Allende cuenta la historia épica de la numerosa y turbulenta familia Trueba de Chile, con su patriarca angustiado y sus mujeres clarividentes, trazando sus vidas desde los fines del siglo pasado, hasta los días violentos del golpe que derrocó al gobierno de Salvador Allende en 1973. En La casa de los espíritus, Allende combina lo supernatural con lo real en una versión sumamente personal de realismo mágico.Es raro, el caso, en que una primera novela lanza a su autora tan repentinamente al foro internacionales.
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Los Cien Sentidos Secretos/ The Hundred Secret Sensesby Amy TanISBN 8472239438 (84-7223-943-8)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolateby Not AvailableISBN 9706907483 (970-690-748-3)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate'Book summary:Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story.
The Spanish language edition of the best-selling Like Water For Chocolate is a remarkable success in its own right. Now, in this mass market edition, thousands of new readers will be able to partake in the sumptuous, romantic, and hilarious tale of Tita, the terrific cook with an extra special something in her sauce.
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El Diablo Viste de Prada / The Devil Wears Pradaby Lauren WeisbergerISBN 8497936760 (84-9793-676-0)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Diario / Diaryby Ana FrankISBN 8497593065 (84-9759-306-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diario / Diary'Book summary:Anne Frank's diary is a modern classic, the living testimony of a Jewish girl caught in the nightmare horror of Hitler's Final Solution. Her extraordinary story can be read in over 50 languages, and millions of copies are in print in various editions throughout the world. [via]
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Diario De Ana Frank/Diary of Anne Frankby Anne FrankISBN 9681500555 (968-15-0055-5)
Softcover, Editores Mexicanos Unidos-Mex
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diario De Ana Frank/Diary of Anne Frank'Book summary:Tras la invasion de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judios alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Ana tenia sus oficinas. Estas ocho personas permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidos y enviados a diversos campos de concentracion. En esta buhardilla y en las mas precarias condiciones, Ana, a la sazon una nina de trece anos, escribio un estremecedor Diario: un testimonio unico en su genero sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias de la propia Ana y de sus acompanantes. Ana murio en el campo de Bergen-Belsen en marzo de 1945. Su Diario nunca morira. [via]
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La Historiadora / The Historianby Eduardo G. Murillo, Elizabeth KostovaISBN 8495618877 (84-95618-87-7)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Historiadora / The Historian'Book summary:Elizabeth Kostova; La Historiadora: This edition published by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company (Inc.), New York, New York, USA. [via]
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Leer 'Lolita' En Teheran / Reading Lolita In Teheranby Azar NafisiISBN 8476696310 (84-7669-631-0)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Leer Lolita En Teheranby Azar NafisiISBN 8496333159 (84-96333-15-9)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Mi Antonia / My Antoniaby Cather WillaISBN 849793153X (84-9793-153-X)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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El Misterio Del Bellona Clubby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 8483461048 (84-8346-104-8)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Las Olasby Virginia WolfISBN 8472238962 (84-7223-896-2)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Persepolis 2by Marjane SatrapiISBN 8484315622 (84-8431-562-2)
Softcover, Norma Editorial Sa
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Una Mision Monstruosa/a Monsturus Missionby Eva IbbotsonISBN 8478888500 (84-7888-850-0)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Una Mision Monstruosa/a Monsturus Mission'Book summary:In Spanish. Translation: A monsterous mission. In a secret island, three women plan a terrible kidnapping. However, Etta, Coral and Myrtle are not a vulgar criminal. Your island is the home base for a very special and mysterious, and desperately need some kids to help them do their job. So, armed with darts anesthetics, tranquilizers concoctions and a large trunk, are preparing to capture two boys and a girl, and drag them to an amazing adventure, spooky and magical. [via]
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Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven 12 Juni 1942-1 Augustus 1944by Anne Frank, Mirjam Pressler, Otto FrankISBN 9035125622 (90-351-2562-2)
Hardcover, B. Bakker
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