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Adventurous Prayerby Women of FaithISBN 0785249842 (0-7852-4984-2)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventurous Prayer'Book summary:These topical guides will deal with issues that women wrestle with today: God's Will, Living in Christ, Prayer, and Worry.
Reaching an audience across race, socio-economic, denominational, and age boundaries, these guides will enhance the lives of women in America as they empower them in their weekly devotions. The study guides can be used for both individual and group settings.
Women are asking good questions about their faith. With our study guides, we want to join them in their quest for knowledge and lead them in finding the answers they are seeking.
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Alias Graceby Margaret AtwoodISBN 1417671963 (1-4176-7196-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alias Grace'Book summary:In 1843, a 16-year-old Canadian housemaid named Grace Marks was tried for the murder of her employer and his mistress. The sensationalistic trial made headlines throughout the world, and the jury delivered a guilty verdict. Yet opinion remained fiercely divided about Marks--was she a spurned woman who had taken out her rage on two innocent victims, or was she an unwilling victim herself, caught up in a crime she was too young to understand? Such doubts persuaded the judges to commute her sentence to life imprisonment, and Marks spent the next 30 years in an assortment of jails and asylums, where she was often exhibited as a star attraction. In Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood reconstructs Marks's story in fictional form. Her portraits of 19th-century prison and asylum life are chilling in their detail. The author also introduces Dr. Simon Jordan, who listens to the prisoner's tale with a mixture of sympathy and disbelief. In his effort to uncover the truth, Jordan uses the tools of the then rudimentary science of psychology. But the last word belongs to the book's narrator--Grace herself. [via]
More editions of Alias Grace:
- Alias Grace: ISBN 0770428495 (0-7704-2849-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd - Alias Grace: ISBN 0771008570 (0-7710-0857-0)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd - Alias Grace: ISBN 077100835X (0-7710-0835-X)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd - Alias Grace: ISBN 0783880405 (0-7838-8040-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Alias Grace: ISBN 1417671963 (1-4176-7196-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
- Alias Grace: ISBN 0770428495 (0-7704-2849-5)
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And Then There Were Noneby Agatha ChristieISBN 1568497369 (1-56849-736-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And Then There Were None'Book summary:Considered the best mystery novel ever written by many readers, And Then There Were None is the story of 10 strangers, each lured to Indian Island by a mysterious host. Once his guests have arrived, the host accuses each person of murder. Unable to leave the island, the guests begin to share their darkest secrets--until they begin to die. [via]
More editions of And Then There Were None:
- And Then There Were None: ISBN 0613354478 (0-613-35447-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - And Then There Were None: ISBN 067170608X (0-671-70608-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books - And Then There Were None: ISBN 0881032565 (0-88103-256-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - And Then There Were None: ISBN 1568497369 (1-56849-736-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
- And Then There Were None: ISBN 0613354478 (0-613-35447-8)
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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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The Blind Assassinby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0747549370 (0-7475-4937-0)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blind Assassin'Book summary:"It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward," writes Margaret Atwood, towards the end of her impressive and complex new novel, The Blind Assassin. It's a melancholic account of why writers write--and readers read--and one that frames the different lives told through this book. The Blind Assassin is (at least) two novels. At the end of her life, Iris Griffen takes up her pen to record the secret history of her family, the romantic melodrama of its decline and fall between the two World Wars. Conjuring a world of prosperity and misery, marriage and loneliness, the central enigma of Iris's tale is the death of her sister, Laura Chase, who "drove a car off a bridge" at the end of the Second World War. Suicide or accident? The story gradually unfolds, interspersed with sketches of Iris's present-day life--confined by age and ill-health--and a second novel, The Blind Assassin by Laura Chase. Allowing a glimpse into a clandestine love affair between a privileged young woman and a radical "agitator" on the run, this version of The Blind Assassin is an overt act of seduction: the exchange of sex and story about an imaginary world of Sakiel-Norn (a play with the potential, and convention, of fantasy and sci-fi).
With the intelligence, subtlety and remarkable characterisation associated with Atwood's writing (from her first novel, The Edible Woman through to the best-selling Alias Grace), these two stories play with one another--sustaining an uncertainty about who has done what to who and why to the very end of this compelling book. --Vicky Lebeau [via]
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Cat's Eyeby Margaret AtwoodISBN 1853811262 (1-85381-126-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat's Eye'Book summary:Cat's Eye is one of Margaret Atwood's most intriguing novels, a ruminative, symbol-laced, and deceptively loose book that encompasses many of the concerns of her earlier works, compounding them with a new awareness of aging and the curious vagaries of memory. Its premise is simple enough: Elaine Risley, a successful painter living on the West Coast, returns to Toronto, the scene of her childhood and artistic development, for a retrospective of her work at an independent feminist gallery. As Risley arrives in Toronto, she begins to examine her past in that city, from her early girlhood through to the final days of her first marriage. Risley's memories dominate the book; her exhibition is a light but important counterpoint to all that has gone before it.
In a sense, Cat's Eye is a feminist deconstruction of the artist's coming-of-age novel, but Risley's feminism is skeptical and detached. Her painful girlhood friendships haunt her through her middle age, and she has far more sympathy for men than she does for the women who have supported her career. As a result, Cat's Eye transcends orthodox feminism and rigorously examines troubling questions of gender, sexuality, and art from a wryly nonpartisan perspective. Fans of Atwood's more recent novels will love Cat's Eye, but it is a book that deserves the attention of her numerous detractors; perhaps it will encourage them to give her a second look. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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- Cat's Eye: ISBN 0770423345 (0-7704-2334-5)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd - Cat's Eye: ISBN 0770428231 (0-7704-2823-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd - Cat's Eye: ISBN 0613377036 (0-613-37703-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Cat's Eye: ISBN 0553282476 (0-553-28247-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Cat's Eye: ISBN 0553377906 (0-553-37790-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Cat's Eye: ISBN 0771008171 (0-7710-0817-1)
Hardcover, McClelland and Stewart - Cat's Eye: ISBN 1853811262 (1-85381-126-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
- Cat's Eye: ISBN 0770423345 (0-7704-2334-5)
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The Cayman Islands: The Beach & Beyondby Martha K. SmithISBN 0965034909 (0-9650349-0-9)
Softcover, Cuchipanda Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cayman Islands: The Beach & Beyond'Book summary:From the author of the critically acclaimed "The Handmaid's Tale" comes this 2000 novel-within-a-novel centering on entangled relationships in 1930s-40s Ontario, Canada. [via]
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Charlotte and Emily Bronteby Charlotte Bronte, Emily BronteISBN 0517147793 (0-517-14779-3)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlotte and Emily Bronte'Book summary:Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor by Charlotte Brontë and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë are included in this new addition to the Library of Literary Classics. [via]
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Cultivating Contentmentby Luci SwindollISBN 0785251529 (0-7852-5152-9)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Diez Negritosby Agatha ChristieISBN 8478712089 (84-7871-208-9)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diez Negritos'Book summary:Some guests are invited to a lonely mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. First there were ten, each with something to hide and something to fear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts and, one by one, they die. This is considered by many readers the best mystery novel ever written.
Description in Spanish: Diez personas reciben sendas cartas firmadas por un desconocido Mr.Owen, invitándolas a pasar unos días en la mansión que tiene en uno de los islotes de la costa de Devon. Lo que parece ser una broma macabra se convierte en una espantosa realidad. [via]
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Discovering God's Will for Your Lifeby Women of Faith, Sheila WalshISBN 0785249834 (0-7852-4983-4)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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El Club De LA Buena Estrellaby Amy TanISBN 8472231631 (84-7223-163-1)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Club De LA Buena Estrella'Book summary:En 1949, cuatro mujeres chinas emigradas a San Francisco se reunen regularmente para comer dim sum,jugar al mah-jong y hablar. Unidas por sentimientos de perdida y esperanza, se hacen llamar El Club de laBuena Estrella. Amy Tan explora la conexion entre las protagonistas y sus hijas, ya nacidas en Estados Unidos, un mundo totalmente distinto al suyo. [via]
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Encouraging One Anotherby Nicole JohnsonISBN 0785251537 (0-7852-5153-7)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0030957648 (0-03-095764-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt School
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.' Bronte's infamous Gothic novel tells the story of orphan Jane, a child of unfortunate circumstances. Raised and treated badly by her aunt and cousins and eventually sent away to a cruel boarding school, it is not until Jane becomes a governess at Thornfield that she finds happiness. Meek, measured, but determined, Jane soon falls in love with her brooding and stormy master, Mr Rochester, but it is not long before strange and unnerving events occur in the house and Jane is forced to leave Thornfield to pursue her future. [via]
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The Joy Luck Clubby Amy TanISBN 1587248832 (1-58724-883-2)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joy Luck Club'Book summary:Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery. [via]
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- The Joy Luck Club: ISBN 067972768X (0-679-72768-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Joy Luck Club: ISBN 0804106304 (0-8041-0630-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Joy Luck Club: ISBN 0896219410 (0-89621-941-0)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr - The Joy Luck Club: ISBN 0833552929 (0-8335-5292-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Joy Luck Club: ISBN 0896218805 (0-89621-880-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - The Joy Luck Club: ISBN 1587248832 (1-58724-883-2)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
- The Joy Luck Club: ISBN 067972768X (0-679-72768-X)
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The Left Hand of Darknessby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0802713025 (0-8027-1302-5)
Hardcover, Walker & Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Left Hand of Darkness'Book summary:Genly Ai is an emissary from the human galaxy to Winter, a lost, stray world. His mission is to bring the planet back into the fold of an evolving galactic civilization, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own culture and prejudices and those that he encounters. On a planet where people are of no gender--or both--this is a broad gulf indeed. The inventiveness and delicacy with which Le Guin portrays her alien world are not only unusual and inspiring, they are fundamental to almost all decent science fiction that has been written since. In fact, reading Le Guin again may cause the eye to narrow somewhat disapprovingly at the younger generation: what new ground are they breaking that is not already explored here with greater skill and acumen? It cannot be said, however, that this is a rollicking good story. Le Guin takes a lot of time to explore her characters, the world of her creation, and the philosophical themes that arise.
If there were a canon of classic science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness would be included without debate. Certainly, no science fiction bookshelf may be said to be complete without it. But the real question: is it fun to read? It is science fiction of an earlier time, a time that has not worn particularly well in the genre. The Left Hand of Darkness was a groundbreaking book in 1969, a time when, like the rest of the arts, science fiction was awakening to new dimensions in both society and literature. But the first excursions out of the pulp tradition are sometimes difficult to reread with much enjoyment. Rereading The Left Hand of Darkness, decades after its publication, one feels that those who chose it for the Hugo and Nebula awards were right to do so, for it truly does stand out as one of the great books of that era. It is immensely rich in timeless wisdom and insight.
The Left Hand of Darkness is science fiction for the thinking reader, and should be read attentively in order to properly savor the depth of insight and the subtleties of plot and character. It is one of those pleasures that requires a little investment at the beginning, but pays back tenfold with the joy of raw imagination that resonates through the subsequent 30 years of science fiction storytelling. Not only is the bookshelf incomplete without owning it, so is the reader without having read it. --L. Blunt Jackson [via]
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A Life of Worshipby Sheila WalshISBN 0785251545 (0-7852-5154-5)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Life of Worship'Book summary:Filling the needs of today's women, we offer the next 4 titles in the best-selling Women of Faith series.
These topical guides deal with issues that women wrestle with today, such as friendship, encouragement, managing moods, finding contentment, and how to live out your faith.
Reaching an audience across racial, socio-economic, denominational, and age boundaries, these guides will enhance the lives of women as they empower them in their weekly devotions. The study guides can be used for both individual and group settings.
Women are asking good questions about their faith. With our study guides, we want to join them in their quest for knowledge and lead them in finding the answers they are seeking.
The Study Guide Series will include the following:
- #5 Managing Your Moods - Foreword by Marilyn Meberg
ISBN: 0-7852-5151-0 - #6 Cultivating Contentment - Foreword by Luci Swindoll
ISBN: 0-7852-5152-9 - #7 Encouraging One Another - Foreword by Nicole Johnson
ISBN: 0-7852-5153-7 - #8 A Life of Worship - Foreword by Sheila Walsh
ISBN: 0-7852-5154-5
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- #5 Managing Your Moods - Foreword by Marilyn Meberg
Little House in the Big Woodsby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 1581180780 (1-58118-078-0)
Hardcover, Library Reproduction Services
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Little Menby Louisa May AlcottISBN 1404314512 (1-4043-1451-2)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Men'Book summary:Please, sir, is this Plumfield? asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him. "Yes. Who sent you?" "Mr. Laurence. I have got a letter for the lady." "All right; go up to the house, and give it to her; she'll see to you, little chap." The man spoke pleasantly, and the boy went on, feeling much cheered by the words. Through the soft spring rain that fell on sprouting grass and budding trees, Nat saw large square house before him a hospitable-looking house, with an old-fashioned porch, wide steps, and lights shining in many win-dows. Neither curtains nor shutters hid the cheerful glimmer; and, pausing a moment before he rang, Nat saw many little shadows dancing on the walls, heard the pleasant hum of young voices, and felt that it was hardly possible that the light and warmth and comfort within could be for a homeless "little chap" like him. [via]
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- Little Men: ISBN 1421819007 (1-4218-1900-7)
Softcover, 1st World Library - Little Men: ISBN 1421818000 (1-4218-1800-0)
Hardcover, 1st World Library - Little Men: ISBN 1561796247 (1-56179-624-7)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub - Little Men: ISBN 0486418081 (0-486-41808-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Little Men: ISBN 0804901945 (0-8049-0194-5)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Little Men: ISBN 0590412795 (0-590-41279-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - Little Men: ISBN 0816714711 (0-8167-1471-1)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - Little Men: ISBN 0517030888 (0-517-03088-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Little Men: ISBN 0613377095 (0-613-37709-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Little Men: ISBN 0681410809 (0-681-41080-9)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr - Little Men: ISBN 0899664091 (0-89966-409-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - Little Men: ISBN 1404314512 (1-4043-1451-2)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
- Little Men: ISBN 1421819007 (1-4218-1900-7)
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Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boysby Louisa May Alcott, Frank T. MerrillISBN 067944503X (0-679-44503-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Men : Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys'Book summary:New Book, New Condition. We value your business! All of our books come with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. [via]
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Kevin McIntyreISBN 0020412401 (0-02-041240-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Chronicles the humorous and sentimental fortunes of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England. First published in 1869. [via]
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Living Above Worry and Stressby Women of FaithISBN 0785249869 (0-7852-4986-9)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living Above Worry and Stress'Book summary:These topical guides will deal with issues that women wrestle with today: God's Will, Living in Christ, Prayer, and Worry.
Reaching an audience across race, socio-economic, denominational, and age boundaries, these guides will enhance the lives of women in America as they empower them in their weekly devotions. The study guides can be used for both individual and group settings.
Women are asking good questions about their faith. With our study guides, we want to join them in their quest for knowledge and lead them in finding the answers they are seeking.
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Living in Jesusby Women of FaithISBN 0785249850 (0-7852-4985-0)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living in Jesus'Book summary:These topical guides will deal with issues that women wrestle with today: God's Will, Living in Christ, Prayer, and Worry. Reaching an audience across race, socio-economic, denominational, and age boundaries, these guides will enhance the lives of women in America as they empower them in their weekly devotions. The study guides can be used for both individual and group settings. Women are asking good questions about their faith. With our study guides, we want to join them in their quest for knowledge and lead them in finding the answers they are seeking. [via]
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The Long Winterby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0590300946 (0-590-30094-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Long Winter'Book summary:Paperback [via]
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Managing Your Moodsby Marilyn MebergISBN 0785251510 (0-7852-5151-0)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Managing Your Moods'Book summary:Filling the needs of today's women, we offer the next 4 titles in the best-selling Women of Faith series.
These topical guides deal with issues that women wrestle with today, such as friendship, encouragement, managing moods, finding contentment, and how to live out your faith.
Reaching an audience across racial, socio-economic, denominational, and age boundaries, these guides will enhance the lives of women as they empower them in their weekly devotions. The study guides can be used for both individual and group settings.
Women are asking good questions about their faith. With our study guides, we want to join them in their quest for knowledge and lead them in finding the answers they are seeking.
The Study Guide Series will include the following:
- #5 Managing Your Moods - Foreword by Marilyn Meberg
ISBN: 0-7852-5151-0 - #6 Cultivating Contentment - Foreword by Luci Swindoll
ISBN: 0-7852-5152-9 - #7 Encouraging One Another - Foreword by Nicole Johnson
ISBN: 0-7852-5153-7 - #8 A Life of Worship - Foreword by Sheila Walsh
ISBN: 0-7852-5154-5
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- #5 Managing Your Moods - Foreword by Marilyn Meberg
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Middlemarchby George EliotISBN 1419134205 (1-4191-3420-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-72) is one of the classic novels of English literature and was admired by Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." The complex main plot and many subplots revolve around Dorothea Brooke, an ardent young woman, and her relationship to three men: Casaubon, a clergyman and scholar twice her age; Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor who shares Dorothea's enthusiasm for reform but whose flaws compromise his ambitions; and Will Ladislaw, a young man of mysterious origins, romantic temperament, and artistic inclinations. A female Bildungsroman and a study of character and society in the realistic mode pioneered by Balzac, Middlemarch is also an historical novel that offers a panorama of English society in an era of social reform and political agitation. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of contextual materials, including contemporary reviews of the novel, other writings by George Eliot (essays, reviews, and criticism), and historical documents pertaining to medical reform, religious freedom, and the advent of the railroads. [via]
More editions of Middlemarch:
- Middlemarch: ISBN 1551112337 (1-55111-233-7)
Softcover, Broadview Pr - Middlemarch: ISBN 1593080239 (1-59308-023-9)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Middlemarch: ISBN 1853262374 (1-85326-237-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Middlemarch: ISBN 0553211803 (0-553-21180-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Middlemarch: ISBN 0679783318 (0-679-78331-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Middlemarch: ISBN 0613706633 (0-613-70663-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Middlemarch: ISBN 0679405674 (0-679-40567-4)
Hardcover, Everymans Library - Middlemarch: ISBN 0679600191 (0-679-60019-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Middlemarch: ISBN 1419134205 (1-4191-3420-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
- Middlemarch: ISBN 1551112337 (1-55111-233-7)
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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Lifeby George EliotISBN 067960118X (0-679-60118-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch : A Study of Provincial Life'Book summary:Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, . Her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes. During the following year Eliot resumed work, fusing together several stories into a coherent whole, and during 187172 the novel appeared in serial form. The first one-volume edition was published in 1874, and attracted large sales. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during the period 183032. It has multiple plots with a large cast of characters, and in addition to its distinct though interlocking narratives it pursues a number of underlying themes, including the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism and self-interest, religion and hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (187172), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. [via]
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Mists of Avalonby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0785787135 (0-7857-8713-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mists of Avalon'Book summary:Even readers who don't normally enjoy Arthurian legends will love this version, a retelling from the point of view of the women behind the throne. Morgaine (more commonly known as Morgan Le Fay) and Gwenhwyfar (a Welsh spelling of Guinevere) struggle for power, using Arthur as a way to score points and promote their respective worldviews. The Mists of Avalon's Camelot politics and intrigue take place at a time when Christianity is taking over the island-nation of Britain; Christianity vs. Faery, and God vs. Goddess are dominant themes.
Young and old alike will enjoy this magical Arthurian reinvention by science fiction and fantasy veteran Marion Zimmer Bradley. --Bonnie Bouman [via]
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On the Banks of Plum Creekby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0808537989 (0-8085-3798-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Banks of Plum Creek'Book summary:A new home
When the Ingalls family decides to move west to Minnesota, Laura is certain she won't like her new home. Her feelings quickly change as she and Mary make friends and Pa's wheat crop flourishes. Things take a turn for the worse when a cloud of grasshoppers destroys the crops and Pa is forced to leave to find work. Now it's Laura's chance to prove that she can help the family to survive.
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Orlando: A Biographyby Virginia WoolfISBN 1853262390 (1-85326-239-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orlando: A Biography'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Orlando doubles as first an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history in this novel that examines sex roles and social mores. [via]
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- Orlando: A Biography: ISBN 0613174224 (0-613-17422-4)
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Hardcover, Blackwell Pub - Orlando: A Biography: ISBN 070120995X (0-7012-0995-X)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press - Orlando: A Biography: ISBN 0951975609 (0-9519756-0-9)
Hardcover, S.N. Clarke - Orlando: A Biography: ISBN 8420655252 (84-206-5525-2)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa - Orlando: A Biography: ISBN 8435007529 (84-350-0752-9)
Hardcover, Edhasa - Orlando: A Biography: ISBN 1853262390 (1-85326-239-0)
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The Robber Brideby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0606208879 (0-606-20887-9)
Hardcover, Tandem Library Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Robber Bride'Book summary:Exploring the paradox of female villainy, this tale of three fascinating women is another peerless display of literary virtuosity by the supremely gifted author of Cat's Eye and The Handmaid's Tale. Roz, Charis and Tony all share a wound, and her name is Zenia. Beautiful, smart and hungry, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless, Zenia is the turbulent center of her own neverending saga. She entered their lives in the sixties, when they were in college. Over the three decades since, she has damaged each of them badly, ensnaring their sympathy, betraying their trust, and treating their men as loot. Then Zenia dies, or at any rate the three women -- with much relief -- attend her funeral. But as The Robber Bride begins, Roz, Charis and Tony have come together at a trendy restaraunt for their monthly lunch when in walks the seemingly resurrected Zenia... In this consistently entertaining and profound new novel, Margaret Atwood reports from the farthest reaches of the war between the sexes with her characteristic well-crafted prose, rich and devious humor, and compassion. [via]
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The Snow Queenby Joan D. VingeISBN 0803777396 (0-8037-7739-6)
Hardcover, Dial Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Snow Queen'Book summary:The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the sea mers. But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin. All is not lost if Arienrhod, the ageless, corrupt Snow Queen, can destroy destiny with an act of genocide. Arienrhod is not without competition as Moon, a young Summer-tribe sibyl, and the nemesis of the Snow Queen, battles to break a conspiracy that spans space. [via]
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Ten Little Indiansby Agatha ChristieISBN 0573616396 (0-573-61639-6)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Little Indians'Book summary:Mystery / 8m, 3f / Int. In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten "soldiers" met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other or their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island and, along with the two house servants, marooned. A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead---poisoned. One down and nine to go! The excitement never lets up in this ideal play for schools, colleges and little theatres. [via]
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The Thirteenth Taleby Diane SetterfieldISBN 158547892X (1-58547-892-X)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thirteenth Tale'Book summary:Settle down to enjoy a rousing good ghost story with Diane Setterfield's debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale. Setterfield has rejuvenated the genre with this closely plotted, clever foray into a world of secrets, confused identities, lies, and half-truths. She never cheats by pulling a rabbit out of a hat; this atmospheric story hangs together perfectly.
There are two heroines here: Vida Winter, a famous author, whose life story is coming to an end, and Margaret Lea, a young, unworldly, bookish girl who is a bookseller in her father's shop. Vida has been confounding her biographers and fans for years by giving everybody a different version of her life, each time swearing it's the truth. Because of a biography that Margaret has written about brothers, Vida chooses Margaret to tell her story, all of it, for the first time. At their initial meeting, the conversation begins:
"You have given nineteen different versions of your life story to journalists in the last two years alone."
She [Vida] shrugged. "It's my profession. I'm a storyteller."
"I am a biographer, I work with facts."
The game is afoot and Margaret must spend some time sorting out whether or not Vida is actually ready to tell the whole truth. There is more here of Margaret discovering than of Vida cooperating wholeheartedly, but that is part of Vida's plan. The transformative power of truth informs the lives of both women by story's end, and The Thirteenth Tale is finally and convincingly told. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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To Say Nothing of the Dogby Connie WillisISBN 0553575384 (0-553-57538-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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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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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 185326072X (1-85326-072-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette: Library Edition'Book summary:With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquetter. This first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journeya journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature. [via]
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- Villette: Library Edition: ISBN 0553212435 (0-553-21243-5)
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Softcover, Wildside Pr - Villette: Library Edition: ISBN 0679409882 (0-679-40988-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Villette: Library Edition: ISBN 0701112409 (0-7011-1240-9)
Hardcover, Zodiac Press - Villette: Library Edition: ISBN 185326072X (1-85326-072-X)
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Villetteby Kate Lawson, Lynn ShakinovskyISBN 1551114615 (1-55111-461-5)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette'Book summary:Charlotte Brontë's contemporary George Eliot wrote of Villette, "There is something almost preternatural in its power." The deceptive stillness and security of a girls school provide the setting for this 1853 novel, Brontës last. Modelled on Brontës own experiences as a student and teacher in Brussels, Villette is the sombre but engrossing story of Lucy Snowe, an unmarried Englishwoman making her way in a culture deeply foreign to her. The heroines relationships with the fiery professor M. Paul, the cool Englishman Dr. John, and the schools powerful headmistress, Madame Beck, are described in her compelling and enigmatic first-person narration. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction by Kate Lawson and Lynn Shakinovsky. The many contextual documents include contemporary writings on surveillance and espionage, anti-Catholicism, and working women, as well as letters describing Brontës own time in Brussels. [via]
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Villetteby Laura EngelISBN 1593083165 (1-59308-316-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette'Book summary:[via]Villette, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Charlotte Brontës last and most autobiographical novel, Villette explores the inner life of a lonely young Englishwoman, Lucy Snowe, who leaves an unhappy existence in England to become a teacher in the capital of a fictional European country. Drawn to the schools headmaster, Lucy must face the pain of unrequited love and the question of her place in society.
For Villette, Brontë drew upon her own experiences ten years earlier, when she studied in Brussels and developed an unreciprocated passion for her married teacher. The novel also reflects her devastating sense of loss and isolation after the deaths of her beloved brother and sisters, and her confusion and conflicts over the fame she achieved for having written Jane Eyre. But despite Brontës heartsick inspiration for the novel, and the grief that haunts its heroine, Villette is a story of triumph, in which Lucy Snowe comes to understand and appreciate her own strength and value.
Celebrated by George Eliot and Virginia Woolf for its strikingly modern psychological depth and examination of womens roles, Villette is now recognized as Charlotte Brontës masterpiece, surpassing even Jane Eyre.Laura Engel is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where she specializes in eighteenth-century British literature and drama.
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LA Casa Del Bosque/Little House in the Big Woodsby Sharon Creech, Montserrat Solanas I Mata, Garth WilliamsISBN 8427932405 (84-279-3240-5)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Casa Del Bosque/Little House in the Big Woods'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oat crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher. [via]
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El Club de la Buena Estrellaby Amy TanISBN 1400002370 (1-4000-0237-0)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Club de la Buena Estrella'Book summary:En 1949, cuatro mujeres chinas emigradas a San Francisco se reunen regularmente para comer dim sum,jugar al mah-jong y hablar. Unidas por sentimientos de perdida y esperanza, se hacen llamar El Club de laBuena Estrella. Amy Tan explora la conexion entre las protagonistas y sus hijas, ya nacidas en Estados Unidos, un mundo totalmente distinto al suyo. [via]
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Diez Negritosby Agatha ChristieISBN 8427200153 (84-272-0015-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Las Nieblas De Avalonby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 8478886036 (84-7888-603-6)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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