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"A" is for Alibiby Sue GraftonISBN 0312938993 (0-312-93899-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: '"A" is for Alibi'Book summary:A is for Avenger: a tough - talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. A twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments, she's got a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes. A is for Accusede: Thats why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. Eight years ago Nikki was cinvicted of killing her philandering husband. Now she's out on parole and needs Kinsey's help to find the real killer. But after all this time, clearing Nikki's bad name won't be easy. A is for Alibi: If there's one thing that makes Kinsey Millhone feel alive, it's playing on the edge. When her investigation turns up a second corpse, more suspects, and a new reason to kill, Kinsey discovers that the edge is closer - sharper - than she imagined. [via]
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Absolutely Normal Chaosby Sharon CreechISBN 0330322265 (0-330-32226-5)
Hardcover, Pan Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Absolutely Normal Chaos'Book summary:First, Mary Lou's weirdo country cousin, Carl Ray, comes to stay with the large and chaotic family, then Alex Cheevy asks her out, she stops talking to Beth Ann, her one-time best friend, and she has to cope with a neighbour's death. By the author of "The Recital" and "Nickel Malley". [via]
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The Archivistby Martha CooleyISBN 0316158461 (0-316-15846-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Archivist'Book summary:Matthias Lane is the proud gatekeeper to countless objects of desire, the greatest among them being T.S. Eliot's letters to Emily Hale. Now in his late 60s and archivist at an unnamed East Coast university, Matthias is--as one of his colleagues tells him--"exceptionally well defended." He's intent on keeping the Hale collection equally remote, and when a young poet first seeks access, Matthias rebuffs her with little difficulty. Still, Roberta Spire does remind him of his wife, Judith, who had also written poetry but had committed suicide 20 years earlier. And he is much taken with the student's self-possession: "Pleading never works with me," he concedes, "but authentic and angry self-interest does."
Betrayal figures heavily in The Archivist. For starters, Roberta feels betrayed by her parents, German Jews who had spent World War II in hiding and emigrated to the U.S. soon afterward, re-creating themselves as Christians. She has only recently discovered her Jewish background. The irony is that Matthias's wife had also been an Eliot adept and had felt violated by a false version of her own past and destroyed when confronted with the realities of the Holocaust. No wonder Roberta sees the Hale letters as a Holy Grail, the key to her questions about religious conversion and identity.
What holds this exceptionally ambitious and layered first novel together is the love all three main characters have for the pleasures of the text and the knowledge they share that time is, as Eliot writes, both preserver and destroyer. Eliot, after all, had wanted Emily Hale to destroy his letters (and in reality they are sealed until 2020, safe at Princeton University). Martha Cooley is deeply concerned, as are her characters, with questions of conscience, privacy, action and inaction, and security--personal and scholarly. If there is one parallel too many in this impressive work, perhaps that is more like life than some of us care to admit. --Kerry Fried [via]
The Awakeners : Northshore and Southshoreby Sheri S. TepperISBN 0312890222 (0-312-89022-2)
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Black Wineby Candas Jane DorseyISBN 0312865783 (0-312-86578-3)
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The Books of Great Alta : Comprising 'Sister Light, Sister Dark' and 'White Jenna'by Jane YolenISBN 031286258X (0-312-86258-X)
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Briar Roseby Jane YolenISBN 0312851359 (0-312-85135-9)
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Bridget Jones's Diaryby Helen FieldingISBN 0330332767 (0-330-33276-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridget Jones's Diary'Book summary:In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year's resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent.
At the beginning of Helen Fielding's exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she'll have made a good start. As far as she's concerned, "We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, 'How's your marriage going? Still having sex?'"
This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people's "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones's Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don't sound half as sensible to Bridget when she's sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it's impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Case Historiesby Kate AtkinsonISBN 0316010707 (0-316-01070-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Case Histories'Book summary:A triumphant new novel from award-winner Kate Atkinson: a breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found, and the mysteries of fate.
Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls, goes missing in the night and is never seen again. Thirty years later, two of her surviving sisters unearth a shocking clue to Olivias disappearance among the clutter of their childhood home. . .
Case Two: Theo delights in his daughter Lauras wit, effortless beauty, and selfless love. But her first day as an associate in his law firm is also the day when Theos world turns upside down. . .
Case Three: Michelle looks around one day and finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making. A very needy baby and a very demanding husband make her every waking moment a reminder that somewhere, somehow, shed made a grave mistake and would spend the rest of her life paying for it--until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.
As Private Detective Jackson Brodie investigates all three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge. Inextricably caught up in his clients grief, joy, and desire, Jackson finds their unshakable need for resolution very much like his own.
Kate Atkinsons celebrated talent makes for a novel that positively sparkles with surprise, comedy, tragedy, and constant, page-turning delight. [via]
Catnapby Carole Nelson DouglasISBN 0312852177 (0-312-85217-7)
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The Chessboard Queen : A Story of Guinevereby Sharan NewmanISBN 0312863918 (0-312-86391-8)
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Child of the Prophecyby Juliet MarillierISBN 0312870361 (0-312-87036-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Child of the Prophecy'Book summary:The powerful fantasy novel Child of the Prophecy successfully concludes Juliet Marillier's Sevenwaters Trilogy, which chronicles a fated family's three-generation struggle to preserve the failing magic of ancient Ireland.
The daughter of a forbidden romance, Fianne has been raised in isolation and trained in magic by her loving but remote druid-father, Ciaran, and her ruthless sorceress-grandmother, the Lady Oonagh. They send Fianne to Sweetwaters to live among relatives who had no knowledge of her existence and who may have instigated the death of her mother, their sister Niamh. Fianne has come to carry out her grandmother's long-planned vengeance on the clan--and on the Old Ones, who are the source of Ireland's mystic power. Despite her mother's death, Fianne is reluctant to harm her Sweetwaters kin. But if she lets them live, the Lady Oonagh will kill both her father and Darragh, the handsome young horse tamer who has captured Fianne's heart.
Child of the Prophecy works as a standalone novel, but readers will benefit by first reading its equally accomplished prequels, Daughter of the Forest and Son of the Shadows. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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City of Bonesby Martha WellsISBN 0312856865 (0-312-85686-5)
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The Cockatrice Boysby Joan AikenISBN 031286390X (0-312-86390-X)
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Coeluraby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0312930429 (0-312-93042-9)
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Complete Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 0316184136 (0-316-18413-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:Emily Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful. Only now is her complete oeuvre--all 1,775 poems--available in its original form, uncorrupted by editorial revision, in one volume. Thomas H. Johnson, a longtime Dickinson scholar, arranged the poems in chronological order as far as could be ascertained (the dates for more than 100 are unknown). This organization allows a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the sometimes-clunky rhyme schemes of her juvenilia, including valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings from her last years. Quite a difference from requisite Dickinson entries in literary anthologies: "There's a certain Slant of light," "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "I taste a liquor never brewed."
The book was compiled from Thomas H. Johnson's hard-to-find variorum from 1955. While some explanatory notes would have been helpful, it's a prodigious collection, showcasing Dickinson's intractable obsession with nature, including death. Poem 1732, which alludes to the deaths of her father and a onetime suitor, illustrates her talent:
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.The musicality of her punctuation and the outright elegance of her style--akin to Christina Rossetti's hymns, although not nearly so religious--rescue the poems from their occasional abstruseness. The Complete Poems is especially refreshing because Dickinson didn't write for publication; only 11 of her verses appeared in magazines during her lifetime, and she had long-resigned herself to anonymity, or a "Barefoot-Rank," as she phrased it. This is the perfect volume for readers wishing to explore the works of one of America's first poets. [via]
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The Copper Crownby Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, Patricia KennealyISBN 0312940629 (0-312-94062-9)
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Cursed in the Bloodby Sharan NewmanISBN 0312865678 (0-312-86567-8)
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Dark Cities Undergroundby Lisa GoldsteinISBN 0312868278 (0-312-86827-8)
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The Darkangelby Meredith Ann PierceISBN 0316067237 (0-316-06723-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Darkangel'Book summary:The servant girl Aeriel must choose between destroying her vampire master for his evil deeds or saving him for the sake of his beauty and the spark of goodness she has seen in him. [via]
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Daughter of the Forestby Juliet MarillierISBN 0312875304 (0-312-87530-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daughter of the Forest'Book summary:At the heart of this surprisingly accomplished first novel, first book of the Sevenwaters trilogy, is a retelling of an ancient Celtic legend. Marillier's story, however, is much more than a slightly disguised fairy tale. Young Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Irish Lord Colum of Sevenwaters, a domain well protected from invading Saxons and Britons by dense forest where, legend says, fey Deirdre, the Lady of the Forest, walks the woodland paths at night. Colum is first and foremost a warrior, bent on maintaining his lands against all outsiders. Not all of his sons are so bound to the old ways, and that family friction leads to outright disobedience when Sorcha and her brother Finbar help a Briton captive escape from Colum's dungeon. Soon after, Colum brings home a new wife who ensorcels everyone she can't otherwise manipulate. By her spell Sorcha's brothers are cursed to become swans. Only Sorcha, hiding deep in the forest, can break the spell by painfully weaving shirts of starwort nettle--but then Sorcha is captured by Britons and taken away across the sea. Determined to break the curse despite her captivity, Sorcha continues to work, little expecting that ultimately she will have to chose between saving her brothers and protecting the Briton lord who has defended her throughout her trials. Marillier's writing is deft and heartfelt, bypassing the usual bombast of fantasy fireworks for a rich, magical story of loyalty and love. --Charlene Brusso [via]
Death Comes As Epiphanyby Sharan NewmanISBN 0312854196 (0-312-85419-6)
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Define "Normal"by Julie Anne PetersISBN 0316734896 (0-316-73489-6)
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The Devil's Doorby Sharan NewmanISBN 031285420X (0-312-85420-X)
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The Difficult Saint : A Catherine Levendeur Mysteryby Sharan NewmanISBN 0312869665 (0-312-86966-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Difficult Saint : A Catherine Levendeur Mystery'Book summary:In The Difficult Saint, Sharan Newman returns to medieval France and the murder-haunted Catherine LeVendeur, heroine of this acclaimed series. After a harrowing stay with Catherine's in-laws in Scotland, Catherine and her husband, Edgar, have returned home with their two small children to live a life of peace at last--or so they hope. But soon the safety of those they love is questioned as anti-Jewish sentiment begins to grow in Paris. Raised Catholic by her father, Hubert, who poses as a Christian while practicing Judaism in secret, Catherine fears that the violence of the most recent crusade will repeat itself, victimizing members of her family. but before she can put too much thought into that, fate interrupts.[via]
Catherine's estranged younger sister, Agnes, has returned to Paris with the news that she has been promised in marriage to a German lord. Bitter about their religious differences Agnes wants no part of Catherine or Hubert--except for the sizable dowry that Hubert can provide. When Catherine and Hubert arrange for Agnes to be escorted to Germany with her dowry, they assume that they have seen the last of her.
But then one of Agnes's escorts returns to Paris with terrible news: Agnes's new husband appears to have been murdered by poisoning, and Agnes is the prime suspect. In spite of their differences, Catherine believes in her innocence, and knows that she must do everything she can to save her sister's life. And when Catherine and her brood travel to Germany to begin sleuthing in a dangerously anti-Semetic climate, it becomes clear that Catherine and Edgar's long-dreamt of life of peace remains in the distant future--if they live to see it at all.More editions of The Difficult Saint : A Catherine Levendeur Mystery:
The Falling Womanby Pat MurphyISBN 0312854064 (0-312-85406-4)
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Flying in Placeby Susan PalwickISBN 0312851839 (0-312-85183-9)
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Susan J. WolfsonISBN 0321399536 (0-321-39953-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:This edition of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, presents Mary Shelley's remarkable novel in several provocative and illuminating contexts, cultural, critical and literary. As part of Longman's new Cultural Edition series of novels, Susan Wolfson presents the 1818 version of Mary Shelley's famous novel in its cultural and historical contexts. Like all great works of fiction, Frankenstein gains depth and dimension from its "conversation" with contemporary texts, especially by Shelley's parents, husband, and friends. In addition to the 1818 text, this cultural edition features the introduction to and a sample revision of the 1831 version. A lively introduction to the edition is complemented by a chronology coordinating Shelley's life with key historical events and a speculative calendar of the novel's events in the late eighteenth century. For those interested in reading and critically analyzing literature. [via]
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Freedom & Necessityby Emma Bull, Steven BrustISBN 0312859740 (0-312-85974-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom & Necessity'Book summary:The early 19th century was a heady time of repeated challenges to the assumption that the social order as it stood was supernaturally (divinely) ordained. A particularly sticky web of politics and romance traps Susan Voight and James Cobham in a dense, thrillingly suspenseful plot connecting a reforming democratic labor movement, Chartism, to a secret society, the Trotters Club, whose corrupt members intend to exploit a magical ritual for their personal, complicated purposes of vengeance and power. Layers of truths and falsehoods mislead and confound the protagonists in their dealings with each other and the conspiracies; they come to understand that only honesty can save them. Although the perversion of the natural power of sorcery fails because it is unnatural, the social order, unnatural or not, is more resistant to justice. The swift pace, surprising developments, and appealing characters make it nearly impossible to put this book down. Though the women's rights movement is glancingly acknowledged, the conventionally romantic fulfillment is a little disappointing. Is there no other end for intelligent, financially independent women than maternity and love-partnership (as binding, or more, as legal marriage) with a man? [via]
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Ghostlightby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0312862180 (0-312-86218-0)
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Good Morning, Ireneby Carole Nelson DouglasISBN 0312932111 (0-312-93211-1)
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Gravelightby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0312865074 (0-312-86507-4)
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Guinevereby Sharan NewmanISBN 0312862334 (0-312-86233-4)
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Guinevere Evermoreby Sharan NewmanISBN 0312866410 (0-312-86641-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guinevere Evermore'Book summary:Guinevere is widely acknowledged as the most extraordinary woman in legend. From golden child to Queen of Camelot to passionate adulterer, her life is a vivid an fascinating saga. In this spellbinding climax to the tale of Guinevere--which began with Guinevere and continued in The Chessboard Queen--Sharan Newman, author of the highly acclaimed Catherine LeVendeur medieval mystery series, blends magic and history to create and unforgettable tale of passion and tragedy.[via]
Here we see the discover of Guinevere's affair with Lancelot and her subsequent fall from grace; the near-futile quest for the Holy rail; and the triumph of Galahad in a final battle with the villainous Mordred. Guinevere Evermore is a heartrending portrayal of a failed romance, a fallen woman, and the end of an era. Sharan Newman's reinterpretation of the Arthurian saga is as ambitious and persuasive as The Mists of Avalon and The Hollow Hills--just as memorable.More editions of Guinevere Evermore:
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The Historianby Elizabeth KostovaISBN 0316154547 (0-316-15454-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Historian'Book summary:a novel about Vlad the Impaler and the modern world [via]
I Capture the Castleby Dodie SmithISBN 0312993021 (0-312-99302-1)
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The Innamoratiby Midori SnyderISBN 031286924X (0-312-86924-X)
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Irene at Largeby Carole Nelson DouglasISBN 0312852231 (0-312-85223-1)
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Jack and Jillby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0316030848 (0-316-03084-8)
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Jo's Boys and How They Turned Outby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0316031038 (0-316-03103-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out'Book summary:Better known for her novels "Little Women" and "Little Men," Louisa May Alcott continued the story of her feisty protagonist Jo in this final novel chronicling the adventures and misadventures of the March family. Entertaining, surprising, and overall a joy to read, "Jo's Boys" is nevertheless shaded by a bittersweet tone, for with it Alcott brought her wonderful series to an end.
Beginning ten years after "Little Men," "Jo's Boys" revisits Plumfield, the New England school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo's boys -- including rebellious Dan, sailor Emil, and promising musicain Nat -- are grown; Jo herself remains at the center of this tale, holding her boys fast through shipwreck and storm, disappointment... and even murder.
Popular for more than a century, the series that began with "Little Women" continues to hold universal appeal with its powerful and affectionate depiction of family -- the safe haven where the prodigal can always return, adversity is never met alone, and our dreams of being cherished, no matter what our flaws, come true. With this new edition of "Jo's Boys," readers once again have access to a treasured classic by one of America's best-loved writers. [via]
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Killing Mr Griffinby Lois DuncanISBN 0316195499 (0-316-19549-9)
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Light Thickensby Ngaio MarshISBN 0312973144 (0-312-97314-4)
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Like a Hole in the Headby Jen BanburyISBN 0316171107 (0-316-17110-7)
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The Love Letterby Cathleen SchineISBN 0312426984 (0-312-42698-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Love Letter'Book summary:In the quaint New England town of Pequot--"an artists' colony without the artists"--a mystery unfolds in the form of a crumpled letter. Helen MacFarquhar, the divorced 42-year-old proprietor of Horatio Street Books, finds a torrid love note in a stack of mail. Creased oddly, without an accompanying envelope, addressed to "Goat" and signed "Ram," at first the letter only momentarily disrupts her routine. But Helen, usually in total control of her thoughts, can't seem to get it out of her head. Was it simply a postal error, or was it meant for her? Everyone who enters her store becomes a suspect, even her new summer employee, 20-year-old Johnny--whom she has paraded around the premises like "a turkey, perhaps, on a leash," introducing him with delighted condescension: "Look what I've got ... a college student."
Johnny is alternately fascinated and irritated by his boss, who relies on unabashed, highly skilled flirting as her fail-safe mechanism for closing a sale. We too are drawn in by Helen's seductive charm and savvy competency, so much so that we are as genuinely surprised as she is when her idle wonderings about Johnny become something more. What could this literary, lovely face that sells a thousand books see in a college boy, 22 years her junior?
Except for the duo's first embrace--precipitated by Helen's accidental hosing down of the hunky, shirtless undergrad--The Love Letter stays comfortably on this side of heaving-bosom romance novel. Humor reigns supreme here, as well as a warm nostalgia and thoughtful reflection on good old-fashioned letter writing: "Letters are so indiscreet, she thought. They're so exposed, so vulnerable, so naked--they're even worse than snapshots." Cathleen Schine's engaging fourth novel may even incite a few readers to forgo e-mail for the pleasant scrape of ink across paper. --Brangien Davis [via]
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Not Without My Daughterby Betty MahmoodyISBN 0312925883 (0-312-92588-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Not Without My Daughter'Book summary:In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans are despised. Their only hope for escape lay in a dangerous underground that would not take her child...[via]
Now the true story of this courageous woman and her breathtaking odyssey bursts upon the screen in the Pathe Entertainment production starring Academy Award-winner Sally Field!
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A Paradigm of Earthby Candas Jane DorseyISBN 0312877978 (0-312-87797-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Paradigm of Earth'Book summary:In critic-speak, A Paradigm of Earth is a near-future, feminist first-contact novel. In more human, reader-friendly terms, Candas Jane Dorsey's second novel is an emotional story based on the idea that the people most qualified to meet an alien are those who feel alienated themselves. Morgan is a social worker specializing in the problems of traumatized children. When both her parents die, she finds herself out of work but with a new house, an old mansion that she cleans up and begins to fill with renters who, like her, feel marginalized by the right-wing politics sweeping through Canada. Answering an ad for a childcare worker, she finds the child is Blue, an alien sent to Earth as a tabula rasa, an empty vessel ready to soak up this planet's experiences. Morgan becomes Blue's teacher, and as (he, she, it) learns, Morgan slowly learns to face her own depression and feelings of failure.
In its depiction of a household of outsiders communicating with the alien, A Paradigm of Earth somewhat resembles Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue series. But Dorsey's story is much more realistic in its plotting and much less strident in its politics. A subplot involving a series of mysterious deaths lends an element of suspense, and while the solution to the mystery may be a bit predictable, Dorsey generally avoids feminist clichés in her depictions of male characters, especially Mr. Grey, the wily and sensitive policeman/bureaucrat in charge of the security surrounding Blue. A Paradigm of Earth unfolds layer by layer, engaging the reader by pulling us into the characters and their desires. This is a deceptively gentle story with a hidden toughness at its core, written in prose that's as smooth as Blue's dreams. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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A Presumption of Deathby Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton WalshISBN 031299138X (0-312-99138-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Presumption of Death'Book summary:While Lord Peter is abroad on a secret mission, Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, takes their children to safety in the country. But there's no escape from war: rumors of spies abound, glamorous RAF pilots and flirtatious land-girls scandalize the villagers, and the blackout makes rural lanes as sinister as London's alleys. And when a practice air-raid ends with a young woman's death, it's almost a shock to hear that the cause is not enemy action, but murder. Or is it? With Peter away, Harriet sets out to find out whodunit...and the chilling reason why.[via]More editions of A Presumption of Death:
Q's Legacyby Helene HanffISBN 0316343404 (0-316-34340-4)
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Ring of Swordsby Eleanor ArnasonISBN 0312890168 (0-312-89016-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ring of Swords'Book summary:Searching for a worthy foe to conquer, a warlike alien race encounters humankind, leading to years of skirmishing that might be solved by diplomacy, except that there is a human traitor among the aliens. By the author of A Woman of the Iron People. [via]
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Rose in Bloomby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0316030899 (0-316-03089-9)
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This brilliant work by Alcott is testament to her modernistic attitudes. Life of Rose, the protagonist, her relationships with her male cousins as well as her independence and feminism have been presented here. Rich and rather sheltered, she faces the same peer pressure, temptations and problems with friends and romance. With simple narration and realistic plot, this masterpiece is worth reading.
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The Sea of Adventureby Enid BlytonISBN 033030173X (0-330-30173-X)
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Son of the Shadowsby Juliet MarillierISBN 0312875290 (0-312-87529-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Son of the Shadows'Book summary:Second of the Sevenwaters trilogy of novels about the last days of heroic Ireland, Son of the Shadows takes up the story of the children of Sorcha, who saved her enchanted brothers, and Hugh, the Briton she married. Sorcha's daughter Liadan is a gifted seer and healer who thinks, in spite of her visions, that she knows what the future has in store for her--caring for her dying mother and then an alliance marriage to Eamonn. A chance meeting on the road carries her off to care for a dying man--one of the mercenaries of the sinister Painted Man, Eamonn's archenemy and a killer for hire. Liadan discovers that she cannot choose whom she loves and that she and the Painted Man are as bound up in destiny as her mother and father were before her.
This is an intelligent historical romance in which the supernatural is a part of the character's everyday lives to an extent that makes it hard to think of the book as specifically a fantasy--these are people to whom the beings of forest speak on a regular basis and to whom sorcery is real. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Sonnets from the Portugueseby Elizabeth B. BrowningISBN 031274501X (0-312-74501-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'Book summary:Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a prolific writer and reviewer in the Victorian period, and in her lifetime, her reputation as a poet was at least as great as that of her husband, poet Robert Browning. Some of her poetry has been noted in recent years for strong feminist themes, but the poems for which Elizabeth Barrett Browning is undoubtedly best know are Sonnets from the Portuguese.[via]
Written for Robert Browning, who had affectionately nicknamed her his "little Portuguese," the sequence is a celebration of marriage, and of one of the most famous romances of the nineteenth century. Recognized for their Victorian tradition and discipline, these are some of the most passionate and memorable love poems in the English language. There are forty-four poems in the collection, including the very beautiful sonnet, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."More editions of Sonnets from the Portuguese:
Strong As Deathby Sharan NewmanISBN 0312861796 (0-312-86179-6)
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Summer King Winter Foolby Lisa GoldsteinISBN 0312856326 (0-312-85632-6)
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A Swiftly Tilting Planetby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0312368607 (0-312-36860-7)
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The Throne of Sconeby Patricia KennealyISBN 0312944241 (0-312-94424-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Thrones, Dominationsby Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton WalshISBN 0312968302 (0-312-96830-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thrones, Dominations'Book summary:Asked by her new husband, the gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey, why she is having trouble writing her latest mystery novel, Harriet Vane explains, "When I needed the money, it justified itself. It was a job of work, and I did it as well as I could, and that was that. But now, you see, it has no necessity except itself. And, of course, it's hard; it's always been hard, and it's getting harder. So when I'm stuck I think, this isn't my livelihood, and it isn't great art, it's only detective stories. You read them and write them for fun." Is this a clue to the mystery of why Dorothy L. Sayers put aside her 13th full-length Lord Peter novel in 1938 and never finished it? She had made lots of money, and was much more interested in translating Dante and writing about religion. Or is it another excellent novelist, Jill Paton Walsh, speculating--in a perfect imitation of Sayers's voice--on what might have happened? Walsh was invited by the estate of Sayers's illegitimate son, Anthony Fleming, to finish Thrones, Dominations. She has done a splendid job, certain to please Sayers loyalists on the "dorothyl" listserv as well as those new to the Wimsey canon. Lord Peter has been made much more human and interesting by marriage; Harriet is a wise and acerbic companion; and the story, about the murders of two beautiful young women involved with a theatrical producer, is full of twists and connivance. There's also a fascinating subplot involving the soon-to-abdicate King Edward VII and a country on the brink of World War II. Earlier Wimseys in paperback include The Five Red Herrings, Gaudy Night, Murder Must Advertise, and Unnatural Death. Books in print by Walsh include a mystery called A Piece of Justice and a novel, The Serpentine Cave. [via]
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Tidewaterby Anita StockenbergISBN 0312977301 (0-312-97730-1)
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To Wear the White Cloakby Sharan NewmanISBN 0312869657 (0-312-86965-7)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Under the Lilacsby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0316030872 (0-316-03087-2)
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Walk Two Moonsby Sharon CreechISBN 0330330004 (0-330-33000-4)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walk Two Moons'Book summary:Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle's mother has disappeared. While tracing her steps on a car trip from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents, Salamanca tells a story to pass the time about a friend named Phoebe Winterbottom whose mother vanished and who received secret messages after her disappearance. One of them read, "Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins." Despite her father's warning that she is "fishing in the air," Salamanca hopes to bring her home. By drawing strength from her Native American ancestry, she is able to face the truth about her mother. Walk Two Moons won the 1995 Newbery Medal. [via]
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Walking the Labyrinthby Lisa GoldsteinISBN 0312859686 (0-312-85968-6)
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The Wandering Armby Sharan NewmanISBN 0312877331 (0-312-87733-1)
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Which Witchby Eva IbbotsonISBN 0330265865 (0-330-26586-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Which Witch'Book summary:Arriman the Awful, Loather of Light and Wizard of the North, needs a wife. How else can he have a wizard baby to carry on the family tradition of blighting and smiting, blasting and wuthering? The problem is, wizards can only marry one kind of person--a witch. Arriman dreads the thought. "A great black crone with warts and blisters in unmentionable places from crashing about on her broom! You want me to sit opposite one of those every morning eating my cornflakes?" But a witch it must be, so Arriman holds a contest to decide which witch. The local witches are all atwitter over what spell they'll perform for the contest--all except Belladonna, who is, to her great shame, a white witch. She looks rather like the girl on the Clairol Herbal Essence bottle, with a sweet face and flowing blonde hair. "There was usually something in Belladonna's hair: A fledgling blackbird parked there by its mother while she went to hunt for worms, a baby squirrel wanting somewhere safe to eat its hazel nuts, or a butterfly who thought she was a lily or a rose."
Black spells are cast, enchantments are woven, and even Belladonna manages to do a little damage in this wonderfully clever 1979 book by Eva Ibbotson (of The Secret of Platform 13). Young readers will delight in the way Ibbotson glories in the ghoulish and the gory--and in her engaging characters who are kindly and fiendish all at once. Which Witch (finally reissued in the United States) begs to be read aloud, with before-bed-length chapters and lots of opportunities for funny voices. (Ages 9 and older) --Claire Dederer [via]
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White As Snowby Tanith LeeISBN 0312875495 (0-312-87549-5)
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White Oleanderby Janet FitchISBN 0316182540 (0-316-18254-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Oleander'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1999: Astrid Magnussen, the teenage narrator of Janet Fitch's engrossing first novel, White Oleander, has a mother who is as sharp as a new knife. An uncompromising poet, Ingrid despises weakness and self-pity, telling her daughter that they are descendants of Vikings, savages who fought fiercely to survive. And when one of Ingrid's boyfriends abandons her, she illustrates her point, killing the man with the poison of oleander flowers. This leads to a life sentence in prison, leaving Astrid to teach herself the art of survival in a string of Los Angeles foster homes.
As Astrid bumps from trailer park to tract house to Hollywood bungalow, White Oleander uncoils her existential anxieties. "Who was I, really?" she asks. "I was the sole occupant of my mother's totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was telling that day. There were so many missing pieces." Fitch adroitly leads Astrid down a path of sorting out her past and identity. In the process, this girl develops a wire-tight inner strength, gains her mother's white-blonde beauty, and achieves some measure of control over their relationship. Even from prison, Ingrid tries to mold her daughter. Foiling her, Astrid learns about tenderness from one foster mother and how to stand up for herself from another. Like the weather in Los Angeles--the winds of the Santa Anas, the scorching heat--Astrid's teenage life is intense. Fitch's novel deftly displays that, and also makes Astrid's life meaningful. --Katherine Anderson [via]
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Winner of the National Book Awardby Jincy WillettISBN 031242423X (0-312-42423-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winner of the National Book Award'Book summary:Set in Rhode Island, Winner of the National Book Award tells the story of twins who could not be more different. Abigail Mather is a woman of passionate sensual and sexual appetites, while her sister, the book loving local librarian Dorcas, lives a quiet life of the mind. But when the sisters are sought out by the predatory and famous poet, Guy DeVilbiss, who introduces them to Hollywood hack writer and possible psychopath Conrad Lowe, they rapidly become pawns in a game that leads to betrayal, shame and ultimately, murder.Darkly comic and satirical, Jincy Willett's Winner of the National Book Award is unnervingly funny and disarmingly tender whether she is writing about sex, literary delusion or Yankee pretension. [via]
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