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The Handmaid's Tale

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:55 PST

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Mathilda Savitch

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:53 PST

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Dull is dull is dull is my life. So begins "Mathilda Savitch," a compelling page-turner and the debut of an extraordinary novelistic talent.

Tall blondes

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:50 PST

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Traces the cultural history of the giraffe, includes ancient and contemporary descriptions, and studies the impact of giraffes on the human imagination

The Moosewood Restaurant Cooking for Health

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:47 PST

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Presents over two hundred health-conscious recipes, focusing entirely on vegetarian and vegan cuisine that is both nutrient-rich and delicious.

Giraffe

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:43 PST

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Told from multiple points of view, a herd of giraffes is captured in Africa, brought to a small Czech town, and then systematically slaughtered by the secret ...

A Guide to the Birds of East Africa

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:39 PST

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Working up the nerve to invite Rose Mbikwa, the woman he has secretly loved for three years, to the Nairobi Hunt Club Ball, Mr. Malik, a reserved, honorable ...

The Daily Coyote

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:36 PST

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Developed from her tremendously popular blog, this book offers the inspiring andbeautifully illustrated account of the author's experiences raising an orphaned ...

Saddled

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:34 PST

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The battered alcoholic author of the best-selling Chosen by a Horse describes herhealing journey with a horse companion named Georgia, explaining how their ...

Ether

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:31 PST

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In “Leavers' Events,” a teenage girl awaits exam results and has a sexual encounter with a teacher that she hopes will define her. In “Sunday's Child,” a ...

Reader's Digest complete guide to drawing and painting

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:31 PST

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Everything Changes

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:27 PST

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"By page three of the introduction to Everything Changes, I wanted not only to devour the rest of the book, but I wanted to call Kairol up, get to know her, and ...

Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:24 PST

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Stories feature characters guided by misapprehensions, such as the high school boy whoresorts to black magic to win over his crush, and a Tetris player ...

Romeo and Juliet

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:22 PST

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Each edition includes:Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the playFull explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the playScene-by-scene plot summariesA key to famous lines and phrasesAn introduction to reading Shakespeare's languageAn essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the playIllustrations from the Folger Shakespea ...

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:22 PST

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One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prizewinning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy ...

Catcher in the Rye

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:22 PST

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Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.

The Great Gatsby

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:22 PST

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The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national ...

Animal Farm

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:22 PST

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As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals, and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As we witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, we begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in the mo ...

Of Mice and Men

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:22 PST

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While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in this classic work, Steinbeck narrows his focus, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness--a parable about commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss. [예스24 제공]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:22 PST

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Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. More than a century after its publication it remains a major work that can be enjoyed at many levels: as an incomparable adventure story and as a classic of American humor. Introduction by John Seelye and Notes by Guy Cardwell

To Kill a Mockingbird

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:22 PST

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One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Most recently, librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting ...

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:22 PST

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If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, A wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, A magic bean buyer Come in for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you ...

The Count of Monte Cristo

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:21 PST

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Alexandre Dumas' epic tale of suffering and revenge inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Count of Monte Cristo" is translated with an introduction by Robin Buss. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitter years imprisoned in the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hid ...

The Poisonwood Bible

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:21 PST

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『The Mosquito Coast』の読者ならご存じのとおり、理想を追って家族を遠い異国の地にまで引っ張り出す男は、ろくな目に遭わない。『At Play in the Fields of the Lord』や『Kalimantaan』を読んだ人なら、宣教師が小説の舞台に立つと、たちまち、あらゆる責め苦がその身に降りかかってくることを知っているだろう。したがって本書でも、宣教師ネーサン・プライスが妻と4人の娘を連れてアフリカに降り立つ場面ですでに、彼らが救いとは無縁であることがわかる。舞台は1959年のベルギー領コンゴ。バプテスト派の伝道師ネーサンは、神の言葉を広めるため、小型機でしかたどり着けない奥地の村にやって来る。しかしネーサンとその家族が整えてきた支度はお粗末そのものだった。「私たち、ジョージア州のベツレヘムから、ベティー・クロッカーのケーキミックスを持ってジャングルにや ...

Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:21 PST

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A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" leads the reader on an unsettling journey from the sublime beauty of the Swiss alps to the desolate waste of the arctic circle. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle. Obsessed with the idea of creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveya ...

A Tale of Two Cities

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:21 PST

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Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. This "Penguin Classics" edition of is edited with an introduction and notes by Richard Maxwell. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is fi ...

The Lovely Bones

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:21 PST

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When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. In the weeks following her death, Susie watches life on Earth continuing without her-her school friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her family holding out hope ...

Eat, Pray, Love

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:21 PST

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This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cul ...

Anne Frank

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:20 PST

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Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their ...

The Kite Runner

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:20 PST

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Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting toumament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him? for he always helps Amir? but this is 1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who is jeered at in the street, although Amir still feels jealous of his natural courage a ...

Into the Wild

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:20 PST

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What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992. Described by friends and relatives as smart, literate, compassionate and funny, did McCandless ...

Into Thin Air

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:20 PST

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Into Thin Air is a riveting first-hand account of a catastrophic expedition up Mount Everest. In March 1996, Outside magazine sent veteran journalist and seasoned climber Jon Krakauer on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of summit day eight people were dead. Krakauer's book is at once the story of the ill-fa ...

The Da Vinci Code

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:20 PST

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역사적인 사실과 가상의 미스테리가 잘 결합된 이야기는 한 편의 잘 짜여진 영화를 연상시킨다. 아마존을 비롯한 전세계적인 베스트셀러인 이 책은 그러한 경지를 가볍게 뛰어넘는 지적 스릴러. 출장 차 파리에 온 하버드대 교수 Robert Langdon은 늦은 밤 긴급한 전화를 받는다. 루브르 미술관의 큐레이터인 Jacques Sauniere가 미술관 내에서 잔인하게 살해당한 채 발견된 것. 경찰은 시체를 따라 늘어선 이해할 수 없는 숫자로 구성된 암호를 발견하고, Langdon은 프랑스의 유능한 암호 연구가인 Sophie Neveu와 함께 이 기괴한 수수께끼의 해독에 착수한다. 이 숫자들이 레오나르도 다 빈치의 작품에 숨겨진 단서라는 사실에 놀란 두 사람. 점점 더 깊숙이 파고들어가고, 루브르의 다른 큐레 ...

Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:20 PST

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Amazon.com Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomi ...

The Tipping Point

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:19 PST

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An introduction to the Tipping Point theory explains how minor changes in ideas and products can increase their popularity and how small adjustments in an individual's immediate environment can alter group behavior.

The Golden Compass

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:19 PST

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In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of ...

Fast Food Nation

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:19 PST

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Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions, ...

Pride and Prejudice

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:19 PST

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Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character who ,if provoked, is not above skewering her antagonist with a piece of her exceptionally sharp, yet always polite, 18th-century wit. The real point of the book th ...

The Hobbit

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:19 PST

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Written for J.R.R. Tolkien"s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when first published more than sixty years ago. Now recognized as a timeless classic with sales of more than 40 million copies worldwide, this introduction to Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Wizard, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth tells of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, ...

Jane Eyre

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Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead and subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search ...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:18 PST

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"Gloriously eccentric and wonderfully intelligent." -The Boston Globe W H I T B R E A D B O O K O F T H E Y E A R A N E W Y O R K T I M E S N O T A B L E B O O K "Moving. . . . think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sack's real-life stories." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "This is an amazing novel. An amazing book." -The Dallas M ...

1984

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:18 PST

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The year 1984 is finally upon us, and George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1984 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "Negative Utopia" - a startling original and powerful novel that creates and imaginary world that is completely convincing from the first sentence to the last four words. "Seldom has a books provided a greater wea ...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:18 PST

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There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? Harry has a lot on his mind for this, his fifth year at Hogwarts: a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a big surprise on the Gryffindor Quidditch team; and the looming terror of the Ordinar ...

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:18 PST

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Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she's never looked better.... Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it -- not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn't pay much a ...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:18 PST

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In one of the most hotly anticipated sequels in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where she left with Harry's second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girl's bathroom, an outrageously conceited professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, and a mysterious force that turns Hogwarts students to stone.

Gone with the Wind

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:18 PST

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Sometimes only remembered for the epic motion picture and "Frankly ... I don't give a damn," Gone with the Wind was initially a compelling and entertaining novel. It was the sweeping story of tangled passions and the rare courage of a group of people in Atlanta during the time of Civil War that brought those cinematic scenes to life. The reason the movie became so popular was the strength of its ...

Fahrenheit 451

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:18 PST

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Fahrenheit 451 ofrece la historia de un sombrío y horroroso futuro. Montag, el protagonista, pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos cuya misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Porque en el país de Montag está terminantemente prohibido leer. Porque leer obliga a pensar, y en el país de Montag está prohibido pensar. Porque leer impide ...

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:18 PST

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Performed, not read, by the author is the key here. This highly spirited interpretation of the cult classic is, like the book, full of humor and surprises. It captures with ease the powerful lifelong friendship between four Southern women, the Ya-Ya's: Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie. The author endows each of her charming characters with an inimitable Southern accent, from a low rumble for the agi ...

Brave New World

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:18 PST

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A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. "Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers." --Saturday Review of Literature "A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much exc ...

Me Talk Pretty One Day

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:17 PST

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Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious new pieces, including 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that 'every day spent with you is like having a ...

Old Man And The Sea

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:17 PST

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The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of de ...

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

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Survivor

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:16 PST

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From the author of the cult sensation Fight Club (now a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter) comes Survivor. "A turbo-charged, deliciously manic satire of contemporary American life." --Newsday "The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage," according to the "been there, done that" wisdom of Tender Branson, last surviving mem ...

I Am Charlotte Simmons

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:16 PST

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America's "peerless observer" (People) uncovers college life--from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating--plus race, class, sex, and basketball.

Angels & Demons

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:16 PST

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An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating newweapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illumi ...

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:16 PST

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Hailed by critics as the debut of a major literary voice, The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing dazzled and delighted readers and topped bestseller lists nationwide. Now, in anticipation of her upcoming new work of fiction, The Wonder Spot, Penguin is publishing Melissa Banks bestseller in a mass-market format to reach an even wider audience. Generous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The ...

The Wonder Spot

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:16 PST

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Melissa Bank's debut, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, was a literary landmark and a runaway bestseller. Now, in The Wonder Spot, she reminds us why she has been compared to John Cheever and Raymond Carver. Shaped by Bank's trademark blend of emotional depth and wry humor, The Wonder Spot traces the coming-of-age of Sophie, black sheep of the Applebaum family of Surrey, Pennsylvania. As w ...

The Lost Symbol

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:16 PST

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Dan Browns new novel, the eagerly awaited follow-up to his #1 international phenomenon, The Da Vinci Code , which was the bestselling hardcover adult novel of all time with ...

Diary

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:15 PST

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Chuck Palahniuk, the bestselling author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby continues his twenty-first-century reinvention of the horror novel in this scary and profound look at our quest for some sort of immortality. Diary takes the form of a "coma diary" kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of cre ...

I am Not Myself These Days

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:15 PST

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"I Am Not Myself These Days "follows a glittering journey through Manhattan's dark underbelly -- a shocking and surreal world where alter egos reign and subsist (barely) on dark wit and chemicals...a tragic romantic comedy where one begins by rooting for the survival of the relationship and ends by hoping someone simply survives. Kilmer-Purcell is a terrifically gifted new literary voice who str ...

Invisible Monsters

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:15 PST

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The fashion-model protagonist of Invisible Monsters has just about everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But one day she's driving along the freeway when a sudden "accident" leaves her with half her face, no ability to speak, and next to no self-esteem. From being the beautiful center of attention she becomes an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exis ...

Snuff

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Things Fall apart

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:14 PST

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This is Chinua Achebe's classic novel, with more than two million copies sold since its first U.S. publication in 1969. Combining a richly African story with the author's keen awareness of the qualities common to all humanity, Achebe here shows that he is "gloriously gifted, with the magic of an ebullient, generous, great talent." -- Nadine Gordimer

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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The Final Chapter

Art of Racing in the Rain

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Normal People Don't Live Like This

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Naked

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:12 PST

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In "Naked," David Sedaris's message--alternately rendered in "Fakespeare, " Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek--is the same: pay attention to me.

Holidays on Ice

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:12 PST

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『Holidays on Ice』は、既刊の本の中に収録されている3作品に、未発表の3作品を加えた物語集で、どの作品も、もちろんクリスマスがテーマ。そして全編を織り成すもう一本の糸は、密かに込められた遊び心である。デイヴィッド・セダリス流のユーモアが、明るくはちゃめちゃなクリスマスレター「Seasons Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!!」や、意地悪でおおげさな子どものクリスマス劇評｢Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol｣を通して、じわりじわりと進行する。セダリスのほかの作品集と同様に、特に優れているのは、現実を鋭く見据えたノンフィクションだ。その顕著な例である「Dinah, the Christmas Whore」では、若き日のセダリスが新たな視点で家族を見つめるきっかけとなった思い出のクリ ...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:12 PST

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The amazing popularity of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone means that now even Muggles know about the Leaky Cauldron, Diagon Alley, and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Whether or not you've read about Harry, this unabridged audiobook brings his world to life. Reader Jim Dale brings an excellent range of voices to the characters, from well-meaning Hermione's soft, earnest voice to ...

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:12 PST

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"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside ...

A Moveable Feast

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:11 PST

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Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation. ...

A Farewell to Arms

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In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the way with conviction and bru ...

For Whom the Bell Tolls

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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, ...

Beloved

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:10 PST

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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted b ...

Oryx and Crake

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With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity—and its present. Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman’s recollections Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when a boy named Jimmy loved an elusive, damaged girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius ...

Bluest Eye, The(Essential Edition)

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:10 PST

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The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world w ...

Song of Solomon

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Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s or ...

To Have and Have Not

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To Have and Have Not is the dramatic, brutal story of Harry Morgan, an honest boat owner who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who swarm the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.In this harshly realistic, y ...

Sula

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:10 PST

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Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard said in The New York Times--in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry." Her new novel has the same power, the same beauty. At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity f ...

The Year of the Flood

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Starred Review. SignatureReviewed by Marcel TherouxIn her 2002 speculative novel, Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood depicted a dystopic planet tumbling toward apocalypse. The world she envisaged was in the throes of catastrophic climate change, its wealthy inhabitants dwelling in sterile secure compounds, its poor ones in the dangerous pleeblands of decaying inner cities. Mass extinctions had taken ...

Paradise

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:09 PST

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"They shoot the white girl first. With the others they can take their time." Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature opens with a horrifying scene of mob violence then chronicles its genesis in a small all-black town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by descendants of free slaves as intent on isolating themselves from the outside world as it once was on rejecting ...

Tar Baby

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:04 PST

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Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the ...

Love

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:01 PST

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Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison’s spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of black women in a fading beach town. In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them may be even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughte ...

You Shall Know Our Velocity

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:30:00 PST

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In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is.

Ishmael

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:29:59 PST

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The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch. "You are the teacher?" he asks incredulously. "I am the teacher," the gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of imme ...

Kafka on the Shore

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:29:59 PST

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With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the sam ...

The Bean Trees

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:29:59 PST

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"A warmhearted and highly entertaining first novel in which a poor but plucky Kentucky girl . . . arrives at surprising new meanings for love, friendship, and family."--Kirkus Reviews

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

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arnia,a land frozen in eternal winter, a country waiting to be set free . Four adventurers step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia-a land enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change....

What Is the What

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:29:59 PST

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In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a boy and walks, with thousands of orphans, to Ethiopia, where he finds safety — for a time. Valentino's travels, truly Biblical in scope, bring him in contact with ...

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:29:59 PST

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3 books in one volume: The Thieving Magpie, Bird as Prophet, The Birdcatcher. This translation by Jay Rubin is in collaboration with the author.

Zeitoun

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:29:59 PST

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When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect ...

Eating Animals

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The Giving Tree

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This story of a boy who grows to manhood and of a tree that gives him her bounty through the years, is a moving parable about the gift of giving and capacity to love.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:29:58 PST

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One of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live . . . and a breathtaking meditation on how to live better. Here is the book that transformed a generation: an unforgettable narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, ...

The Giver

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When Jonas turns 12, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. Now, it’s time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.

After Dark

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:29:58 PST

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A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters—Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny’s toward people whose ...

Crime And Punishment

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:29:58 PST

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Abridged - 6 CDs, 5 1/4 hours, read by Alex Jennings Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police i ...

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renée is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and J ...

The Grapes of Wrath

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:29:57 PST

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MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independ ent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cov ...

The Canterbury Tales

Mon, 6 Sep 2010 0:29:56 PST

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For this new critical edition of "The Canterbury Tales", the editors have selected the most popular and admired of Chaucer's tales, together with the complete General Prologue. Each tale is presented in Chaucer's original verse but with modern spelling and substantial glossing. As with all Norton Critical Editions, "The Canterbury Tales" also includes sections on sources and backgrounds, and crit ...