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 | The War of the End of the World Product# 460447509 Selling for $17 "Deep within the remote backlands of 19th-century Brazil sits Canudosa libertarian paradise. Home of prostitutes, bandits, beggars, Canudos embodies the revolutionary spirit in its purest and most apocalyptic form. In one of his most brilliant and tragic novels, Mario Vargas Llosa creates an unforgettable tale of passion, idealism, adventure, and man's struggle to be free." |
| The War of the End of the World Product# 460450666 Selling for $17 "Deep within the remote backlands of 19th-century Brazil sits Canudosa libertarian paradise. Home of prostitutes, bandits, beggars, Canudos embodies the revolutionary spirit in its purest and most apocalyptic form. In one of his most brilliant and tragic novels, Mario Vargas Llosa creates an unforgettable tale of passion, idealism, adventure, and man's struggle to be free." |
 | A Sport of Nature Product# 460544394 Selling for $12.95 "After being abandoned by her mother, Hillela was pushed onto relatives where she was taught social graces. But when she betrayed her position as surrogate daughter, she was cast adrift. Later she fell into a heroic role in the overthrow of apartheid." |
 | Portable Hawthorne Product# 460544417 Selling for $16.95 "Includes many stories and letters, selected passages from his novels and journals, and all of 'The Scarlet Letter.'" |
 | The Sea, the Sea Product# 460544555 Selling for $16 "After a brilliant and fulfilling career, Charles Arrowby revels in his perfect refuge, an isolated home by the sea, but soon his complex past makes unbidden visits." |
 | The Yellow Rain Product# 460544639 Selling for $22 "Ainielle is a village high in the Spanish Pyrenees. Its houses are mostly deserted ruins and have been for years. Ainielle's last surviving inhabitant, an old man at death's door, lingers on, and as the 'yellow rain' of leaves flutters around him and the first snows of the year fall, he recalls the life he lived and the ghosts-once his friends and neighbors-who have taken possession of his solitude. Hailed on first publication and continuously reprinted in Spain, The Yellow Rain is a haunting ode to the power of memory, an elegy for a landscape and a way of life." |
 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Product# 460544951 Selling for $6.95 "A daringly ironic attack on racism American-style, Twain's story of what he once called a 'sound heart' triumphing over a 'deformed conscience' is poignant, powerful, and fresh. 1 map." |
| A Sport of Nature Product# 460551348 Selling for $12.95 "After being abandoned by her mother, Hillela was pushed onto relatives where she was taught social graces. But when she betrayed her position as surrogate daughter, she was cast adrift. Later she fell into a heroic role in the overthrow of apartheid." |
 | Ruth Product# 460551597 Selling for $12 "A fallen woman sympathetically portrayed would seem a less-than-ideal choice for a Victorian heroine. Yet novelist Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a portrait in her 1853 novel RUTH. Overturning conventional 'double standard' assumptions of the day, Gaskell draws a heroine whose emotional honesty, innate morality, and love for her illegitimate son are sufficient for redemption." |
| The Sea, the Sea Product# 460551743 Selling for $16 "After a brilliant and fulfilling career, Charles Arrowby revels in his perfect refuge, an isolated home by the sea, but soon his complex past makes unbidden visits." |
 | The Guermantes Way Product# 460552030 Selling for $18 "A new translation of the esteemed twentieth-century French writer's work on fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century takes readers into the vivid and shallow sides of the period's literary and aristocratic salons, where a young man is initiated into the insidious ways of the world. Reprint." |
| The Yellow Rain Product# 460552083 Selling for $22 "Ainielle is a village high in the Spanish Pyrenees. Its houses are mostly deserted ruins and have been for years. Ainielle's last surviving inhabitant, an old man at death's door, lingers on, and as the 'yellow rain' of leaves flutters around him and the first snows of the year fall, he recalls the life he lived and the ghosts-once his friends and neighbors-who have taken possession of his solitude. Hailed on first publication and continuously reprinted in Spain, The Yellow Rain is a haunting ode to the power of memory, an elegy for a landscape and a way of life." |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Product# 460552813 Selling for $6.95 "A daringly ironic attack on racism American-style, Twain's story of what he once called a 'sound heart' triumphing over a 'deformed conscience' is poignant, powerful, and fresh. 1 map." |
 | Mr. Lincoln's Wars: A Novel in Thirteen Stories Product# 460678589 Selling for $23.95 "'Mr. Lincoln's Wars marks the emergence of a remarkably gifted writer. In this wildly inventive, highly ambitious collection, Adam Braver explores Abraham Lincoln's inner life and personal turmoils -- while also reflecting on the indelible impact Lincoln had on the nation during the last year of his presidency. Writing with lyrical yet muscular prose, Braver brings Abraham Lincoln to life, not just as the strong and resilient president of history books, but as a griefstricken father, heartbroken over the loss of his young son. Narrated from the multiple perspectives of Abraham Lincoln and those whose lives he touched, 'Mr. Lincoln's Wars shows a president who is distraught over his inability to keep his country from destroying itself through civil war and a man who is fighting inner demons during a time of great crisis. Across a rich canvas of truth and imagination, Mr. Lincoln's Wars reveals the president in his darkest hours within the White House walls. We see Lincoln as he explores the meaning of loss through a chance encounter with the father of a slai" |
 | The Falls Product# 460678674 Selling for $26.95 "Reading Guide Introduction Is a relationship borne of a tragedy destined to the same fate? How much power does a place have over its inhabitants? Can a family, once unraveled, become whole again? These are the questions at the heart of The Falls, as Joyce Carol Oates unfolds the story of a family who must free themselves of the past in order to find solace and redemption. It is June 1950, and Ariah Erskine is on the brink of a new life. Niagara Falls is to be the site of an idyllic honeymoon, yet she finds herself married and widowed in the space of a day when her husband throws himself into the raging waters of The Falls. In a state of confusion, convinced her disastrous wedding night has played a part in her husband's decision to kill himself, 'The Widow Bride of The Falls,' as Ariah comes to be known, keeps a relentless, seven-day vigil in the mist waiting for the recovery of his body. At Ariah's side throughout her ordeal is confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby, a man whose own family understands first hand the treacherousness of The Falls. Dirk finds himself unexpectedly drawn to this plain, strange woman he has been asked to look after, and he falls in love with her though they barely exchange a word. When Ariah leaves Niagara Falls, it is Dirk who pursues her across the state to reveal his passion for her. Marrying Dirk once again brings Ariah to Niagara Falls to begin a new marriage and a new life. As the years pass, Ariah and Dirk create a seemingly perfect existence for their family. But the tragedy that began their life together shadows them, eventually eroding their happiness with distrust, greed, and even murder. In the end, it is Dirk and Ariah's three children who are forced to deal with their parents' legacy of dark secrets, unresolved emotions, and cruel truths. Chandler, Royall, and Juliet Burnaby each seek their answers in a different way. What they discover not only helps them come to terms with their loss, but their mother as well. Against the mythic-historic backdrop of Niagara Falls in the mid-twentieth century, Joyce Carol Oates explores what happens when the richly interwoven relationships of parents and their children are challenged by circumstances from outside the family -- and also from within. Displaying the 'impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers' (Los Angeles Times) and 'mastery of storytelling' (Newsweek) for which Oates has been praised, The Falls illustrates how a place can be as alive as the people who inhabit it. Discussion Questions Compare Ariah's respective relationships with Gilbert and Dirk, and her reasons for marrying each man. Ariah is deeply impacted by her brief marriage to Gilbert -- their lack of love for one another, their disastrous wedding night, his suicide. How do the physical and psychological circumstances of her first marriage echo throughout her marriage to Dirk? What attracts Dirk to Ariah when he meets her during her seven-day vigil at The Falls? If they had met under different circumstances would Dirk have fallen in love with her? In the days before Gilbert's body is recovered, Ariah 'refused to behave as others wished her to behave.' In what others ways throughout the story does she defy society's conventions and her family's expectations? Chart the unraveling of Dirk and Ariah's relationship. Is there a specific moment when they begin to grow apart, or is it a gradual process? Is one more at fault than the other? After months of avoiding Nina Olshaker, what motivates Dirk to take her case? Why does he continue the case even when it begins to jeopardize his marriage, his professional standing, his livelihood, and his friendships? What is your opinion of Ariah as a mother, both before and after Dirk's death? Describe her relationship with each child and how it relates to the family as a whole. In what ways is each of Ariah's children similar to -- and different from -- her? Why do you suppose Ariah chose to remain in Niagara Falls after Dirk's death, a place that had claimed the lives of her two husbands? Chandler, Royall, and Juliet each feel compelled to find out the circumstances surrounding their father's death. What drives each one to go on such a quest, and what is gained by it? Discuss the many references to suicide -- including Gilbert's death, Juliet's attempt, and the story of the dairy maid -- and their significance in the story. Why does the family decide to hold a memorial service for Dirk nearly two decades after this death? Why does Ariah at first refuse to attend and then change her mind? What is Joyce Carol Oates saying about the nature of families in The Falls? Are the Burnabys a typical family? About the author Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2003 she received the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature and the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement." |
 | Black Boy: (American Hunger) Product# 460678733 Selling for $13.95 Wright's unforgettable and eloquent autobiography of growing up in the Jim Crow South offers an unsurpassed portrait of the struggles against the ingrained racism and poverty faced by African Americans. |
 | The Poisonwood Bible Product# 460678734 Selling for $15 "The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in post-colonial Africa. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the 20th century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium; the murder of its first elected prime minister; the CIA coup to install his replacement; and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy." |
 | A Christmas Carol in Prose Being a Ghost Story of Christmas: In Prose : Being a Ghost Story of Christmas Product# 460679735 Selling for $10 An abridgment of the classic story with all the characters depicted as animals. |
 | The Clown Product# 460679777 Selling for $15 "Through the eyes of a despairing artist, Hans Schneir, who recreates in his pantomimes incidents in people's lives with honesty and compassion, Boll draws a revealing portrait of German society under Hitler and in the postwar years." |
 | Ethan Frome Product# 460679778 Selling for $7.95 "Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells 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 its unyielding and shocking pessimism, its bleak demonstration of tragic waste, it is a masterpiece of psychological and emotional realism. In her introduction the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success." |
 | Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years Product# 460679787 Selling for $17 "In this rich and passionate memoir, influential poet Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Only by heroic effort was she able to break away from her intense Brooklyn Italian family to follow through on the lifelong commitment to poetry she made in high school. Immersed in the proto-Beat world of Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, she emerged as a major force, not only establishing herself as a poet, but also coediting the influential literary newsletter, The Floating Bear, and cofounding The Poet's Theatre. Recollections of My Life as a Woman chronicles the intense, creative cauldron of those years as the Beat movement emerged on both coasts, and the country accelerated into the sixties. Poetry, painting, dance, and theater flowed into one another, and well-known figures from all those worlds -- including Merce Cunningham, Frank O'Hara, Audre Lorde, Trisha Brown, and Franz Kline -- move through her story. Di Prima was a deliberate single parent at a time when that was unheard of, and her relationships and sexuality were as r" |
 | Memoirs of a Beatnik Product# 460679790 Selling for $15 "From one of the Beat movement's most accomplished writer's comes a witty, sexy autobiography and feminist epic poem. Long regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of the Beat years, MEMOIRS OF A BEATNIK is a moving account of a powerful woman artist in a movement dominated by a small confederacy of men, many of whom she lived with and loved." |
 | Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life Product# 460679805 Selling for $14 "J.M. Coetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, with a father he despised and a mother he both adored and resented. Bold and telling, this masterly evocation of a young boy's life under apartheid is the book Coetzee's many admirers have been waiting for. 'Exceptional. . . . A scorched tale of race, caste, shame, and--at times--hilarious bewilderment'.--THE NEW YORKER." |
 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Product# 460679834 Selling for $5.95 The adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. |
 | Cranford ; Cousin Phillis Product# 460679836 Selling for $12 "Two of the nineteenth-century novelist's shorter works, in which she analyzes a country town besieged, at a critical time, by forces beyond its ken and presents an unfulfilled love affair which pits old values against new" |
 | The Bostonians Product# 460679839 Selling for $8.95 Sexual politics in nineteenth-century Boston society are explored in James' 1886 work |
 | Germinal Product# 460679856 Selling for $8.95 Zola's 1885 masterpiece of everyday relationships and working life exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. The new film version stars Gerard Depardieu. An Oxford University Press World Classic. |
 | A Hero of Our Time Product# 460679863 Selling for $13 "In five linked episodes, Lermontov builds up the portrait of a man caught up in and expressing the sickness of his times. A marvelous novel and an early landmark in Russian literature, A Hero of Our Time served as an inspiration for many later Russian authors, including Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky." |
 | Henry V Product# 460679894 Selling for $5.95 "Henry V, the climax of Shakespeare's sequence of English history plays, is an inspiring, often comic celebration of a young warrior-king. But it is also a study of the costly exhilarations of war, and of the penalties as well as the glories of human greatness." |
 | The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint Product# 460679896 Selling for $10.95 "The New Penguin Shakespeare offers a complete edition of the plays and poems. Each volume has been prepared from the original texts and includes an introduction, a list of further reading, a full and helpful commentary, and a short account of the textual problems." |
 | The New York Trilogy: City Of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room Product# 460679988 Selling for $16 "Quinn, a mystery writer, becomes involved in a puzzling case; Blue is hired by White to spy on Black; and Fanshawe, a gifted novelist, disappears, leaving his family and work behind, in an omnibus edition containing three interconnected novels--City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room. Reissue. 25,000 first printing." |
 | The Same Sea Product# 460680195 Selling for $13 "'The Same Sea is Amos Oz's most adventurous and inventive novel, the book by which he would like to be remembered. The cast of characters ranges from a prodigal son to a widowed father who has taken in his son's enticing young girlfriend, who in turn sleeps with her boyfriend's close friend. The author himself receives phone calls from his characters, criticizing the way he portrays them in his novel. In this human profusion there is chaos and order, love and eroticism, loyalty and betrayal, and ultimately an extraordinary energy. 'I wrote this book with everything I have. Language, music, structure--everything that I have. . . . This is the closest book I've written. Close to me, close to what I always wanted. . . . I went as far as I could.'--Amos Oz" |
 | Raymond and Hannah Product# 460680242 Selling for $14 "Their passionate love affair limited to the confines of written correspondence when Hannah leaves to spend a year in Jerusalem, Raymond and Hannah find their relationship challenged by Hannah's immersion in the world of Orthodox Judaism and Raymond's ongoing writing of his dissertation from multicultural Toronto. A first novel. Original." |
 | Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon Product# 460680294 Selling for $5.95 "Six weeks of shopping, taking tea with the most fashionable ladies and dancing with the most handsome gentlemen is what awaits young Catherine Morland when she makes her entree into the leisure society at Bath. But, oh, the thrill of an unexpected invitation from the mysterious Tilney family to stay at their home-a veritable abbey." |
 | The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner Product# 460680296 Selling for $7.95 "On a desolate tropical island, a shipwrecked British seaman tries to master his hostile environment and remain civilized" |
 | Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus Product# 460680299 Selling for $7.95 "At this challenge, Mary Shelley began work on the 'ghost story' that was to evolve into the most celebrated horror novel in literary history. Frankenstein was published the next year and become the rage of London. In the generations since, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has been read by millions all over the world. It has inspired hundreds of imitations, but it has never been equaled for its masterful manipulation of the elements of horror and suspense." |
 | 52 Pickup Product# 460680919 Selling for $7.5 "Although his marriage and prestige in the community are threatened, Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell proves to be a defiant blackmail victim when someone tries to extort money from him. Reprint." |
 | OUT OF SIGHT Product# 460680920 Selling for $7.5 A prison break in South Florida brings together two different people--federal marshal Karen Sisco and bank robber Jack Foley--as their mutual fascination leads them to the heist of the year in Detroit and a confrontation with vicious and brutal criminals specializing in home invasion. Reprint. |
 | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Product# 460680968 Selling for $39.95 "At thirty-nine, SiddaLee Walker has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers old letters, photos, journals, and souvenirs from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns" |
 | The Torn Skirt Product# 460680969 Selling for $11.95 "At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of Love's Baby Soft can't hide the musk of raw teenage anger, apathy, and desire. Sara Shaw is a girl full of fever and longing, a girl looking for something risky, something real. Her only possible salvation comes in the willowy form of the mysterious Justine, the outlaw girl in the torn skirt. The search for Justine will lead Sara on a daring odyssey into an underworld of hookers and johns, junkies and thieves, runaway girls and skater boys, and, ultimately, into a violent tragedy. One of the most provocative and original coming-of-age novels to appear in a long time, 'The Torn Skirt is a lyrical story that soars with an honest understanding of the teenage condition." |
 | What Color Is a Conservative? Product# 460681004 Selling for $24.95 "An African-American congressman recounts his life, from his meager beginnings in Oklahoma, to his athletic achievements in college and early adulthood, to his election to office as the first black congressman in Oklahoma since the Reconstruction. 60,000 first printing." |
 | The Point of Return Product# 460681232 Selling for $13.95 "A tale told in reverse chronological order is set against the political violence of the 1970s and 1980s in northeast India, during which the willful, curious Babu and his father, a doctor and enigmatic product of British colonial rule and Nehruvian nationalism, find themselves strangers living in the same home. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 10,000 first printing." |
 | The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice Product# 460681264 Selling for $7.99 "When terrorists destroyed the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik was at the scene within moments. In the ensuing months, he helped Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani coordinate rescue efforts and rebuild a shattered city, reassuring all Americans with his quiet strength and leadership. But September 11 was only the most visible in a series of extraordinary challenges Kerik has faced. From the tough streets of a New Jersey town to Colombia's cocaine fields, from Rikers Island to New York City, Kerik has dedicated his life to fighting injustice -- as a jail warden, beat cop, decorated undercover narcotics detective, and commissioner of the largest municipal police force in the world. But his most personal battle came when he pursued the greatest unsolved case of his life -- the tragic mystery of his mother, who abandoned him more than forty years ago. This is his astonishing, touching, and ultimately inspiring story." |
 | Mrs. Kimble Product# 460681372 Selling for $34.95 "In her masterful first novel 'Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh delivers the compelling story of three women who marry the same man -- an enigmatic opportunist named Ken Kimble. 'Birdie. 1961. He was the choir director at a Southern Bible college. At practice she followed his hands with her eyes. Watching him, she thought of the Pieta: Mary weeping over her son's crucified body, his naked arms smooth as milk, his chest delicately ribbed like the underside of a flower. She imagined his shoulders bare beneath his shirt, his body long and white. One evening he approached her after practice. 'Joan. 1969. She met him at a pool party in Florida. His lank dark hair hung to his shoulders; he wore faded jeans and a colorful cotton blouse. His eyes were a startling blue. No man had touched her in a year. He was engaged to someone else. 'Dinah. 1979 They met by accident in Washington, D.C. Their paths had intersected once before, when she was a teenager. 'You're a beautiful girl,' he'd told her, oblivious to the hideous scar on her face. He was old enough to be her" |
 | Walt Whitman: A Life Product# 460681393 Selling for $16.95 "Whitman's genius, passions, poetry, and androgynous sensibility entwined to create an exuberant life amid the turbulent American mid-nineteenth century. In vivid detail, Kaplan examines the mysterious selves of the enigmatic man who celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy and the brotherhood of man." |
 | 24: The House Special Subcommittee's Findings at Ctu Product# 460681399 Selling for $16.95 "Last season, CIA agent Jack Bauer, played by Golden Globe award-winning actor Keifer Sutherland, had us glued to our TVs and cursing the time clock as he uncovered a plot to assassinate presidential nominee, David Palmer. With just 24 hours to identify the killer, Bauer also had to deal with the kidnapping of his wife and daughter and the existence of a mole at the agency. This season he's at it again, helping President David Palmer save Los Angeles from nuclear ravage. Lest you think Jack had some down time between life-altering experiences, check out' 24: The House Special Subcommittees Findings at CTU. It's a new book providing a riveting account of Jack's grueling appearance before our government's most inquiring minds during their probe into alleged wrongdoings at CTU that first fateful 24 hour period. The testimony from these closed hearings was leaked to investigative journalist Marc Cerasini, who then ran with it to publisher HarperCollins. With some of the finest reporting seen since Woodward's coverage of the Pentagon Papers, this book con" |
 | Breakfast of Champions Product# 460681628 Selling for $29.95 The author of Cat's Cradle questions the condition of modern man in this novel depicting a science fiction writer's struggle to find peace and sanity in the world. Book available. |
 | The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove Product# 460681781 Selling for $13.95 "Reading Guide Introduction The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their usual antidepressants to placebos, so naturally -- well, to be accurate, artificially -- business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a colossal sea beast named Steve with a, shall we say, thing for explosive oil tanker trucks. Suddenly morose Pine Cove turns libidinous, is hit by a mysterious crime wave, and a beleaguered constable has to fight off his own gonzo appetites to find out what's wrong and what, if anything, to do about it. Topics for Discussion In Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, more than a third of the people in town are taking antidepressants, and many of those who aren't have their own medicine for melancholy. Does anything ring true about this? Do you think Dr. Val Riordan's decision to take her patients off of antidepressants was correct? Are we too eager to engineer our moods by the use of drugs? Both Mavis Sand, the bartender, and Catfish Jefferson the blues singer, talk about the value of sadness. Is there a real value to sadness in human experience? Are the blues an expression, a celebration, or a cure for sadness? Molly Michon is a has-been, Theo Crowe is a never was-which is harder to be? What does the author seem to be saying about expectations by his portrayal of these two characters? Steve, the sea monster, seems to appeal to that part of the human mind that is left over from the reptiles. Do you believe that we have evolved past being ruled by our instincts, or is our culture just a means to obtain our basic desires? What do you think the religious feelings in Steve's followers in the cave say about our animal nature? Estelle has used her art to escape from the sadness of the death of her husband and her frustration as a teacher. What is it about the old blues singer that attracts her? Does romance have an age limit? About the author Christopher Moore is the author of Fluke, Lamb, Practical Demonkeeping, Coyote Blue, Bloodsucking Fiends, Island of the Sequined Love Nun, and The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove." |
 | El Bosque De Los Pigmeos / the Forest of the Pygmies Product# 460681909 Selling for $19.99 "Eighteen-year-old Alexander Cold and his grandmother travel to Africa on an elephant-led safari, but discover a corrupt world of poaching and slavery." |
 | The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Product# 460681915 Selling for $39.95 "A quiet, sensitive girl searches for beauty in a small, but damned Southern town." |
 | Be Cool: Everyone Is Looking For The Next Big Hit Product# 460681934 Selling for $29.95 "The sequel to Chili Palmer's hit movie Get Leo tanked and now Chili's itching for a comeback. So when a power-lunch with record label executive and former associate Tommy Athens ends in a mob hit, he soon finds himself in an unlikely alliance with organized crime detective Darryl Holmes and the likely next target of Russian gangsters. But where others see danger, Chili Palmer sees story possibilities. Enter Linda Moon, a singer with aspirations that go further than her current gig in a Spice Girls cover band. Always keeping the fledgling film in mind, Chili takes over as Linda's manager, entering the world of rock stars, pop divas, and hip-hop gangstas. As he wings his way to success in the music business with his trademark cool, Chili manipulates his adversaries and advances his friends, all the while basing the plot of his new film on the action that results. Rife with drama, jealousy, and betrayal, all Chili needs to do is survive to make a new box office hit." |
 | Fabulous Nobodies Product# 460681991 Selling for $12.95 "In 1980s New York City, Reality Nirvana Tuttle, a young woman of impeccable taste and style, mans the door at Less Is More, downtown Manhattan's most exclusive and hippest club, to determine who is worthy of entry, all the while craving fame of her own after being noticed by Hugo Falk, the city's hottest gossip columnist. Reprint. 35,000 first printing." |
 | Works of Fiction: The Bean Trees/Homeland an d Other Stories/Animal Dreams/Pigs in Heaven Product# 460682205 Selling for $39.95 "Hailed as 'a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal talent' (Chicago Tribune), Kingsolver has drawn endless critical praise. The boxed set comprises The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven, Animal Dreams, and Homeland and Other Stories, her collection of short stories." |
 | Matters of Chance: A Novel Product# 460682227 Selling for $14.95 Here is a captivating novel about the marriage between a couple and the Second World War that changed it all for them and their daughters. |
 | Walking in the Shade: 1949-1962 Product# 460682228 Selling for $15.95 This highly acclaimed second volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography chronicles her growth from a fledgling writer to one of literature's most respected figures. B&W photos. |
| Black Boy: (American Hunger) Product# 460682229 Selling for $13.95 Wright's unforgettable and eloquent autobiography of growing up in the Jim Crow South offers an unsurpassed portrait of the struggles against the ingrained racism and poverty faced by African Americans. |
| The Poisonwood Bible Product# 460682237 Selling for $15 "The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in post-colonial Africa. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the 20th century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium; the murder of its first elected prime minister; the CIA coup to install his replacement; and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy." |
 | SLEEPING WITH CATS: A MEMOIR Product# 460682276 Selling for $14.95 "Marge Piercy, a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist, turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events in her life have changed -- her beloved cats. With searing honesty, Piercy tells of her strained childhood growing up in a religiously split, working-class family in Detroit. She examines her myriad friendships and relationships, including two painful early marriages, and reveals their effects on her creativity and career. More than a reminiscence of things past, however, 'Sleeping With Cats is also a celebration of the present and the future, as Piercy shares her views on aging, creativity, and finding a lasting and improbable love with a man fourteen years younger than herself. A chronicle of the turbulent and exciting journey of one artist's life, 'Sleeping With Cats is a deeply intimate, unforgettable story." |
 | The Season of Lillian Dawes Product# 460682285 Selling for $13.95 "From the acclaimed writer of 'Private Altars, comes a story of driving lyrical force set in Manhattan in the 1950s. When he is expelled from boarding school, Gabriel Gibbs is sent to live with his older brother Spencer in New York. Rather than a punishment, this becomes an exhilarating invitation to a dazzling world, from smoking cigars at the Plaza Hotel to weekend house parties filled with tennis and cocktails. It is in this heady atmosphere -- from white-gloved Park Avenue to literary Greenwich Village -- that Gabriel first glimpses the elusive Lillian Dawes. Free-spirited and mysterious, Lillian captures the imaginations of those in 'all the best circles,' including both brothers. As their lives entwine, so begins the powerful and poignant unraveling of innocence." |
 | Joy in the Morning Product# 460682330 Selling for $13.95 "In Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love.Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law to marry him. Little did they know how difficult their first year of marriage would be, in a faraway place with little money and few friends. But Carl and Annie come to realize that the struggles and uncertainty of poverty and hardship can be overcome by the strength of a loving, loyal relationship. An unsentimental yet uplifting story, 'Joy in the Morning' is a timeless and radiant novel of marriage and young love." |
 | Lost Product# 460682393 Selling for $16 "Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his home. Is the spirit Winnie's great-great-grandfather, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin? Winnie begins to investigate and finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades -- some from her family's peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past. In the spirit of A. S. Byatt's 'Possession, with dark echoing overtones of 'A Christmas Carol, 'Lost presents a rich fictional world that will enrapture its readers." |
 | The Shark Mutiny Product# 460682427 Selling for $7.99 "An oil tanker mysteriously explodes in the Persian Gulf. Then a second ... and a third. To the President's National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan it is more than a tragic coincidence -- it is a brazen act of aggression that must not stand. In partnership with Iran, the Chinese navy has mined the Strait of Hormuz, intending to hold the world's oil supply hostage. Now eighty percent of America's active sea power is being mobilized -- including 'U.S.S. Shark, an aging nuclear submarine on its final tour of duty -- to dismantle a deadly alliance between two powerful enemies. But something goes terribly wrong during a bold retaliatory SEAL assault on China's Indian Ocean power plants -- a disaster that spawns death, disbelief, rage ... and rebellion. And with a volatile world on the brink of catastrophic conflict, the commanders of a nuclear boat in the twilight of glory must confront a nightmare as devastating as it is unthinkable: mutiny!" |
 | The One That Got Away Product# 460682429 Selling for $6.99 "After being betrayed by her husband, former investigator for the Capital Defender's Office and mother-to-be Emma Price is forced to go back to work and must discover the reasons behind a teenage girl's murderous rampage with the help of a streetwise detective. Reprint." |
 | Triggerfish Twist Product# 460682430 Selling for $7.99 "Ensconced in a lovely tropical villa on idyllic Triggerfish Lane, Jim Davenport anticipates the good life to come. But this isn't living -- it's 'Florida and the neighborhood is not quite what it seems. It's got overly aggressive Little League parents, drug-free Rastafarians, homicidal hookers, unnatural sex and casual violence. Oh, yes, and there's a psychopathic serial killer-cum-Sunshine-State folklorist named Serge A. Storms living directly across the street. So it's only a matter of time before Jim up and actually kills somebody ..." |
 | Dog Years: A Memoir Product# 460682552 Selling for $23.95 "A memoir of the author's relationship with a pair of beloved canine companions is a tribute to their irrepressible personalities, their life-changing impact on the author and his family, and their role in how the author came to understand loss and grief. By the author of Heaven's Coast and Firebird. 60,000 first printing." |
 | Lost Years: A Memoir, 1945-1951 Product# 460682563 Selling for $30 "The late author describes his 'lost years' in postwar Santa Monica, New York, and London, a time spent in frantic socializing, increasing dissipation, and debilitating anxiety and despair." |
 | Without a Hero: Stories Product# 460686446 Selling for $15 "In his fourth collection of short stories, Boyle, showing fierce, comic wit and uncanny accuracy, zooms in on an astonishingly wide range of Americans, from the college football player who knows only defeat to the couple in search of the last toads on Earth to a real estate tycoon who takes his family on safari--in Bakerfield, California." |
 | Night and Day Product# 460686456 Selling for $15 "Night and Day, Virginia Woolf's second novel, is both a love story and a social comedy in the tradition of Jane Austen; yet it also questions that tradition, recognizing that the goals of society and the individual may not necessarily coincide. At its centre is Katharine Hilbery, the beautiful grand-daughter of a great Victorian poet. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney and her attraction to Ralph Denham, with whom she feels a more profound and disturbing affinity. Katharine's hesitation is vividly contrasted with the approach of her friend Mary Datchet, dedicated to the Women's Rights movement. The ensuing complications are underlined and to some extent unravelled by Katharine's mother, Mrs Hilbery, whose struggles to weave together the known documents, events and memories of her father's life into a coherent biography reflect Woolf's own sense of the unique and elusive nature of experience." |
| The Clown Product# 460686462 Selling for $15 "Through the eyes of a despairing artist, Hans Schneir, who recreates in his pantomimes incidents in people's lives with honesty and compassion, Boll draws a revealing portrait of German society under Hitler and in the postwar years." |
| Ethan Frome Product# 460686464 Selling for $7.95 "Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells 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 its unyielding and shocking pessimism, its bleak demonstration of tragic waste, it is a masterpiece of psychological and emotional realism. In her introduction the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success." |
| Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years Product# 460686481 Selling for $17 "In this rich and passionate memoir, influential poet Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Only by heroic effort was she able to break away from her intense Brooklyn Italian family to follow through on the lifelong commitment to poetry she made in high school. Immersed in the proto-Beat world of Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, she emerged as a major force, not only establishing herself as a poet, but also coediting the influential literary newsletter, The Floating Bear, and cofounding The Poet's Theatre. Recollections of My Life as a Woman chronicles the intense, creative cauldron of those years as the Beat movement emerged on both coasts, and the country accelerated into the sixties. Poetry, painting, dance, and theater flowed into one another, and well-known figures from all those worlds -- including Merce Cunningham, Frank O'Hara, Audre Lorde, Trisha Brown, and Franz Kline -- move through her story. Di Prima was a deliberate single parent at a time when that was unheard of, and her relationships and sexuality were as r" |
| Memoirs of a Beatnik Product# 460686489 Selling for $15 "From one of the Beat movement's most accomplished writer's comes a witty, sexy autobiography and feminist epic poem. Long regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of the Beat years, MEMOIRS OF A BEATNIK is a moving account of a powerful woman artist in a movement dominated by a small confederacy of men, many of whom she lived with and loved." |
 | Jackson's Dilemma Product# 460686512 Selling for $15 "On the eve of their wedding, Edward Lannion and Marian Berran are led away onto dark and strange paths, while their friends and lovers are forced to make new and surprising choices. Watching over all of them is Jackson, a mysterious and charismatic manservant who, in guiding all the young lovers into the light, has to make his own agonizing decisions." |
| Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life Product# 460686519 Selling for $14 "J.M. Coetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, with a father he despised and a mother he both adored and resented. Bold and telling, this masterly evocation of a young boy's life under apartheid is the book Coetzee's many admirers have been waiting for. 'Exceptional. . . . A scorched tale of race, caste, shame, and--at times--hilarious bewilderment'.--THE NEW YORKER." |
 | Manhattan Memoir Product# 460686546 Selling for $19 "The New York Times said that Mary Cantwell, in telling the story of her life, 'Makes you discover yourself'. Now, gathered in a single volume, are her three beautifully etched, unflinchingly honest memoirs. Cantwell's first book, American Girl, evoked the delights of her youth in a small New England town; her second, Monhattan, When I Was Young, told of her blossoming career in New York, her marriage and her children, and that marriage's decline. Speaking with Strangers finds Cantwell alone, a single mother struggling in the big city, bereft of her husband but bolstered by friends, thriving in her career yet personally troubled. With a sensibility as distinct as the city she calls home, Cantwell's autobiographical trilogy brilliantly captures her struggle to forge a life with one foot in her past and the other, warily, in her present." |
 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Product# 460686623 Selling for $7 Come along with Wishbone as he sniffs out hidden treasure with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in Mark Twain's classic story of boyhood adventure. |
| Germinal Product# 460686654 Selling for $8.95 Zola's 1885 masterpiece of everyday relationships and working life exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. The new film version stars Gerard Depardieu. An Oxford University Press World Classic. |
| Henry V Product# 460686756 Selling for $5.95 "Henry V, the climax of Shakespeare's sequence of English history plays, is an inspiring, often comic celebration of a young warrior-king. But it is also a study of the costly exhilarations of war, and of the penalties as well as the glories of human greatness." |
| The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint Product# 460686757 Selling for $10.95 "The New Penguin Shakespeare offers a complete edition of the plays and poems. Each volume has been prepared from the original texts and includes an introduction, a list of further reading, a full and helpful commentary, and a short account of the textual problems." |
 | The Wayward Bus Product# 460686993 Selling for $14 "The ambitions, dreams, failings, and innermost thoughts of a diverse group of passengers are revealed as they travel aboard a bus along the backroads of California." |
 | The Life of Graham Greene, 1955-1991 Product# 460687038 Selling for $25 "The third and final volume of a masterful biography of Graham Greene marks the centenary of the author's birth, following Greene, an agent for the British government, from prerevolutionary Cuba and the Belgian Congo, through adulterous interludes, to his relationships with other literary luminaries, drawing on personal interviews, letters, and diaries to capture the complex world of Graham Greene. Reprint." |
 | The Woodsman's Daughter Product# 460687059 Selling for $14 "The daughter of a nineteenth-century turpentine farmer in southern Georgia strives to create a better life for herself while protecting her family, efforts that are challenged by her father's past misdeeds. By the author of Icy Sparks. Reprint. 30,000 first printing." |
| The New York Trilogy: City Of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room Product# 460687082 Selling for $16 "Quinn, a mystery writer, becomes involved in a puzzling case; Blue is hired by White to spy on Black; and Fanshawe, a gifted novelist, disappears, leaving his family and work behind, in an omnibus edition containing three interconnected novels--City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room. Reissue. 25,000 first printing." |
 | Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World Product# 460687528 Selling for $18.95 "Winner of the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, this sparklingly written, exhaustively researched, and richly detailed biography of America's feisty, free-thinking 'first lady of letters' is an engrossing portrait of the American Left from the 1930s through the 1980s. 32 pages of b&w photographs." |
| The Same Sea Product# 460687564 Selling for $13 "'The Same Sea is Amos Oz's most adventurous and inventive novel, the book by which he would like to be remembered. The cast of characters ranges from a prodigal son to a widowed father who has taken in his son's enticing young girlfriend, who in turn sleeps with her boyfriend's close friend. The author himself receives phone calls from his characters, criticizing the way he portrays them in his novel. In this human profusion there is chaos and order, love and eroticism, loyalty and betrayal, and ultimately an extraordinary energy. 'I wrote this book with everything I have. Language, music, structure--everything that I have. . . . This is the closest book I've written. Close to me, close to what I always wanted. . . . I went as far as I could.'--Amos Oz" |
 | Dog Years Product# 460687594 Selling for $17 "Set in three parts, this novel moves from the 1920s to the 1950s, following the lives of Eduard Amsel, his blood brother Walter Matern, and Prinz, the black shepherd who is also the Fuhrer's favorite dog. Amsel builds lifelike, mechanically marching SA men, Matern practices a strange revenge on Nazi criminals, and Prinz deserts his master because even a dog can have enough. Exhibiting all the brilliance, inventiveness and narrative daring that Grass is famous for, this is a splendid evocation of an apocalyptic period and its startling aftermath." |
 | Lucca Product# 460687605 Selling for $14 "Rushed to the hospital following a devastating automobile accident that could leave her blind for the rest of her life, actress Lucca Montale, unhappily married and the mother of a son, finds herself increasingly drawn to Robert, the divorced doctor who has been treating her. Reprint. 20,000 first printing." |
 | My Life with Corpses Product# 460687626 Selling for $14 "A young woman known only as Oz is raised by a family of the 'walking dead' and finds herself struggling to be free of their stultifying influence in this smart, witty, and ultimately sage coming of age novel set in rural Kansas. By the author of Margaret Cape. Reprint." |
| Raymond and Hannah Product# 460687632 Selling for $14 "Their passionate love affair limited to the confines of written correspondence when Hannah leaves to spend a year in Jerusalem, Raymond and Hannah find their relationship challenged by Hannah's immersion in the world of Orthodox Judaism and Raymond's ongoing writing of his dissertation from multicultural Toronto. A first novel. Original." |
 | East Lynne Product# 460687790 Selling for $16.95 "'This book looks at the anxieties of the Victorian middle classes who feared a breakdown of the social order as divorce became more readily available and promiscuity threatened the sanctity of the family. In this novel the simple act of hiring a governess raises the spectres of murder, disguise, and adultery'--Provided by publisher." |
| Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon Product# 460687837 Selling for $5.95 "Six weeks of shopping, taking tea with the most fashionable ladies and dancing with the most handsome gentlemen is what awaits young Catherine Morland when she makes her entree into the leisure society at Bath. But, oh, the thrill of an unexpected invitation from the mysterious Tilney family to stay at their home-a veritable abbey." |
| The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner Product# 460687839 Selling for $7.95 "On a desolate tropical island, a shipwrecked British seaman tries to master his hostile environment and remain civilized" |
 | The Pickwick Papers Product# 460687842 Selling for $11.95 "The action is set in the late Georgian period of the writer's earliest youth, drawing on experience and acute observation ranging from the unreformed election at Eatanswill to the horrors of the debtors' prison." |
 | Martin Chuzzlewit Product# 460687843 Selling for $10.95 "'Martin Chuzzlewit is something other and better in tone and quality, and goes deeper than anything Dickens had written before', writes Geoffrey Russell in his Introduction to this study of selfishness." |
| Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus Product# 460687844 Selling for $7.95 "At this challenge, Mary Shelley began work on the 'ghost story' that was to evolve into the most celebrated horror novel in literary history. Frankenstein was published the next year and become the rage of London. In the generations since, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has been read by millions all over the world. It has inspired hundreds of imitations, but it has never been equaled for its masterful manipulation of the elements of horror and suspense." |
 | The Charterhouse of Parma Product# 460687854 Selling for $11.95 "Follows the adventures of young Fabrizio del Dongo as he joins Napoleon's army just before the Battle of Waterloo, and struggles to keep hidden his love for Clelia amid the intrigues and secrets of the small court of Parma." |
 | The Outsider Product# 460765416 Selling for $13.95 "Wright presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes. As Maryemma Graham writes in her Introduction to this edition, with its restored text established by the Library of America, ''The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative designed to show American racism in raw and ugly terms ... The stories of Bigger Thomas ... and Cross Damon bear an uncanny resemblance to many contemporary cases of street crime and violence. There is also a prophetic note in Wright's construction of the criminal mind as intelligent, introspective, and transformative.' In addition to the Introduction by Maryemma Graham, this edition includes a notes section by Arnold Rampersad." |
 | Between Two Rivers Product# 460765420 Selling for $24.95 "A proud New York City condominium concierge witnesses the experiences of his diverse tenants, including an Egyptian-born plastic surgeon who specializes in gender reassignment, a German World War II fighter pilot, a world-famous quilter, and a cancer-stricken industrialist. By the author of Bridge Fall Down. Reader's Guide available." |
 | Too Beautiful for Words Product# 460765447 Selling for $12.95 "The son of a prostitute who witnessed the death of his mother at the hands of her pimp, Jason struggles to overcome the world that created him when his girlfriend Chinaka, a former Black Panther, forces him to confront his past. Reprint." |
 | Moon Palace Product# 460765707 Selling for $15 "Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate." |
 | The General in His Labyrinth Product# 460765709 Selling for $13.95 "After his internationally acclaimed and bestselling Love in the Time of Cholera, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and author of the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude givesreat Simon Bolivar. Forced from power, the General embarks on a seven months' voyage down the Magdalena River, reflecting along the way on his life of campaigns and battles, love and loss." |
 | Rich in Love Product# 460765712 Selling for $13 "An acclaimed author's warm, funny novel of a 17-year-old South Carolina girl--who becomes her eccentric family's strength during a season of discontent--is now a major MGM motion picture scheduled for fall 1992 release. The New York Times Book Review calls Humphreys a 'dazzling stylist'. She also wrote Dreams of Sleep and The Fireman's Fair." |
 | The Pearl Product# 460765713 Selling for $9 "A fisherman finds the great pearl, only to lose it again. Re-issue of Steinbeck's classic." |
 | Travels With Charley in Search of America Product# 460765715 Selling for $14 "In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. A picaresque tale, this chronicle of their trip meanders along scenic backroads and speeds along anonymous superhighways, moving from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Travels with Charley is animated by Steinbeck's attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature - to weather, geography, the cycles of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way." |
 | Dubliners: Text, Criticism, and Notes Product# 460765720 Selling for $18 "In these masterful stories, steeped in realism, Joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of Irish culture and civilization. Joyce compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world, its controlling sense of the truths of human experience." |
 | The Awakening and Selected Stories Product# 460765733 Selling for $7.95 Stories tell of a woman who leaves her husband and family and life among the Creoles of Louisiana |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Product# 460765734 Selling for $7 Come along with Wishbone as he sniffs out hidden treasure with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in Mark Twain's classic story of boyhood adventure. |
 | Frankenstein Product# 460765737 Selling for $7.95 "Mary Shelley was only 19 when she composed this chilling fable of a scientist and his misshapen creation. The novel was a bestseller upon its publication in 1818, and it is now revised to collate the texts of 1818 and 1813 in a new, definitive edition." |
 | Eugene Onegin Product# 460765743 Selling for $9.95 Presents a new translation of the Russian classic about the heartless fop who is the object of an ardent young woman's selfless love |
 | Othello Product# 460765750 Selling for $5.95 "Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. This book contains information on the source from which Shakespeare derived 'Othello'--selections from Giraldi Cinthio's 'Hecatommithi'. Special introduction by Alvin Kernan, Princeton University." |
 | Macbeth Product# 460765751 Selling for $3.95 "Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. It also contains comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of 'Macbeth', then and now." |
 | Shakespeare: A Life Product# 460765861 Selling for $34.95 "In the last ten years, nearly every previously known fact about Shakespeare has been modified by new research. This book draws on such new, crucial information to dramatically alter our perceptions of the actor, poet, and playwright. Honan tells us virtually all that can be factually known or reasonably speculated about Shakespeare's life -- from his childhood to his deathbed. We encounter fascinating portraits of the Bard's London (wherein violence and even murder were a part of daily life) and of his days as a neophyte actor (he may have learned as many as 100 small parts per season). Honan casts new light on the young poet's relationships -- his early courtship of Anne Hathaway, their marriage, his attitudes toward women such as Jennet Davenant, Marie Mountjoy, and his own daughters -- illuminating Shakespeare's needs, habits, passions, and concerns. He also examines the world of Elizabethan playing companies -- the power of patronage, theatrical conditions, and personal rivalries -- to reveal the relationship between the man and his writing." |
 | Adolphe Product# 460765867 Selling for $12.95 "Adolphe enjoys all the advantages of a noble birth and an intellectual ability, yet he is haunted by the meaninglessness of life. Thus, he seeks distraction in the pursuit of the beautiful, but older and married Ellenore. The young Adolphe, inexperienced in the language of love, falls for her unexpectedly and falters under the burden of an illicit love that is destructive to his public career. Unable to commit himself fully to Ellenore, and yet unwilling to face the pain he would cause by leaving her, Adolphe finds himself incapable of resolving an increasingly tragic situation. Written in a clear and thoughtful style, Adolphe (1816) reveals Constant's own experiences in love, while reflecting his anxieties for the possibility of any authentic commitment to someone other than ourselves, whether emotional or political, in a disenchanted world." |
 | Too Many Men Product# 460766075 Selling for $15.95 "The daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Ruth Rothwax, the owner of her own successful business, Rothwax Correspondence, becomes obsessed with returning to Poland with her father, in order to make sense of her family's past, come to terms with their overwhelming loss, and put her own life into perspective so that she can confront the future. Reprint." |
 | Miss Julia Hits the Road Product# 460766199 Selling for $34.95 "Miss Julia -- that proper lady of a certain age with a backbone of iron and perfect Steel Magnolia poise, not to mention the sharpest tongue south of the Mason-Dixon Line -- always likes to nip any little problems in the bud. Not this time. Miss Julia is increasingly concerned about her gentleman friend, Sam, who has suddenly started wearing cowboy boots, sending flowers, and writing bad poetry. When he shows up on a Harley-Davidson one day, shes convinced he's lost his mind -- or is at the very least wrestling with a particularly intense midlife crisis. Meanwhile, Miss Julia's invaluable housekeeper, Lillian, and all her neighbors have been evicted from their homes by their greedy landlord, who has bigger plans for the property. So off Miss Julia rides (in the sidecar, naturally) -- wearing a Leslie Fay shirtwaist and a black-visored helmet -- risking life and limb on a poker run, a motorcycle fund-raiser to save Lillian and her friends' homes. Hitting a few bumps on the way, Miss Julia still manages to maintain the impeccable manners and irresistible charm" |
| The Outsider Product# 460766203 Selling for $13.95 "Wright presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes. As Maryemma Graham writes in her Introduction to this edition, with its restored text established by the Library of America, ''The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative designed to show American racism in raw and ugly terms ... The stories of Bigger Thomas ... and Cross Damon bear an uncanny resemblance to many contemporary cases of street crime and violence. There is also a prophetic note in Wright's construction of the criminal mind as intelligent, introspective, and transformative.' In addition to the Introduction by Maryemma Graham, this edition includes a notes section by Arnold Rampersad." |
 | Slaughterhouse Five Product# 460766224 Selling for $25.95 "Billy Pilgrim, a chaplain's assistant during the Second World War, returns home only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present." |
 | Breakfast of Champions: Or Goodbye Blue Monday Product# 460766225 Selling for $25.95 The author of Cat's Cradle questions the condition of modern man in this novel depicting a science fiction writer's struggle to find peace and sanity in the world. Book available. |
 | The Storm Product# 460766261 Selling for $13.95 "On the eve of his seventieth birthday, Kenzie Maxwell, a wealthy writer living in self-imposed exile on a Florida island, struggles to come to terms with his past, including a daughter born of a scandal and the older brother who betrayed him, in a modern-" |
 | Don Quixote Product# 460766420 Selling for $16.95 "A definitive English translation of the sixteenth-century classic follows the adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through Spain and become subject to the noble knight-errant's fanciful imagination. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 50,000 first printing." |
 | The Sweetest Dream Product# 460766427 Selling for $14.95 "Frances Lennox ladles out dinner every night to the motley, exuberant, youthful crew assembled around her hospitable tableher two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends, and ftesh-off-the-street friends. It's the early 1960s and certainly 'everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.' Except financial circumstances demand that Frances and her sons Eve with her proper ex-mother-in-law. And her ex-husband, Comrade Johnny, has just dumped his second wife's problem child at Frances's feet. And the world's political landscape has suddenly become surreal beyond imagination.... Set against the backdrop of the decade that changed the world forever, 'The Sweetest Dream is a riveting look at a group of people who dared to dream-and faced the inevitable cleanup afterward -- from one of the greatest writers of our time." |
 | The Accidental Virgin Product# 460766433 Selling for $13.95 "From: Venus, Goddess of Love, 120 Main, Mt. Olympus To: Stacy Temple, lapsed temptress Stacy, Stacy, Stacy. You were so promising at the beginning: Sexy, smart, personable and funny. Great on dates and really great afterward-if you know what I mean. But this is a sad state of affairs; or, in your case, non-affairs! It's been nearly an entire year and you haven't had your way with even ONE eligible male. You've been working so hard concocting sexy lingerie for Thongs.com -- and really, Stacy, if that little pink velvet bustier didn't put you in the mood, I don't know what to say! -- that you haven't even tried to be coaxed out of your own thong.com! Are you listening, Stacy? Seven days to find the perfect man -- or else! Happy hunting!" |
 | The Red Badge of Courage Product# 460766906 Selling for $9.57 "The glory, pride, horror, and cowardice that are associated with war are depicted in a classic account of a young soldier's Civil War experiences" |