Ridley

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Connecticut

History of England

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Timothy Dowley

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

His Life and Times

Bach

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Ring Lardner

Victor Navasky

A Memoir

The author recalls his life as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his testimony for the House Un-American Activities Committee, and being put on the Hollywood blacklist.

I'd Hate Myself in the Morning

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E. L. Doctorow

In post-Civil War New York City, a young pedestrian recognizes his supposedly dead father riding in a passing horse-drawn omnibus. By the author of Ragtime. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

The Waterworks

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Craig Holden

Darcy Arlen, a beautiful young American, is dangerously bored. Though she's on a very pricey tour of Europe, she's already sick of museums and ruins, and eager for distraction. After slipping away from the group one afternoon, she meets Will, an attractive young drifter who carries about him the scent of true adventure.Will invites Darcy back to the hostel where he's been staying and introduces her to Justine, his darkly seductive lover and mentor. Justine, a master of the con, senses a grand opportunity in this amenable blonde. She and Will manage to turn things so that Darcy not only accompanies them to Venice, but finances the trip as well. There they meet Maurice, a shady figure who offers them a job smuggling an important package to Greece.As the threesome travels across Europe toward the island of Crete, what unfolds is an astonishing tale of shifting alliances and shocking betrayals, of sexual obsession and mercenary enterprise, of conflicting passions and fateful choices. When the adventurers finally reach the village of Matala with the package in hand, they learn that what they have delivered is more valuable, and the repercussions of their involvement more terrifying, than they ever could have imagined.Endlessly surprising and altogether riveting,Matalais an unforgettable novel about the intersection of love and ruthlessness.

Matala

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Pete Hautman

"Of course, without people like us Marstens, there wouldn't be anybody to do the manual labor that makes this country run. Without penal workers, who would work the production lines, or pick the melons and peaches, or maintain the streets and parks and public lavatories? Our economy depends on prison labor. Without it everybody would have to work -- whether they wanted to or not."

In the late twenty-first century Bo Marsten is unjustly accused of a causing a rash that plagues his entire high school. He loses it, and as a result, he's sentenced to work in the Canadian tundra, at a pizza factory that's surrounded by hungry polar bears. Bo finds prison life to be both boring and dangerous, but it's nothing compared to what happens when he starts playing on the factory's highly illegal football team. In the meantime, Bork, an artificial intelligence that Bo created for a science project, tracks Bo down in prison. Bork has spun out of control and seems to be operating on his own. He offers to get Bo's sentence shortened, but can Bo trust him? And now that Bo has been crushing skulls on the field, will he be able to go back to his old, highly regulated life?

Pete Hautman takes a satirical look at an antiseptic future in this darkly comic mystery/adventure.

Rash

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Michael Cunningham

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author ofA Home at the End of the WorldandFlesh and Blood.

InThe Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and hislifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family.

Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date.
 
The Hours is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The Hours

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Eliot Schrefer

In a debut novel reminiscent of "The Nanny Diaries," a young SAT tutor reveals the glossy private world of Park Avenue teens whose parents will do anything to help them keep their advantage.

Glamorous Disasters

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Clare Naylor

Mimi Hare

A Continuing Tale from Behind the Hollywood Curtain

The further fortunes of everyone's favorite assistant as she struggles to keep her footing on Hollywood's slippery slope

In The Second Assistant, readers fell in love with smart, witty East Coast girl Elizabeth Miller. Now that Lizzie has been promoted, can she still keep her pumps firmly on the ground in the city of stars? With a viperish subordinate after her job, the world's hottest teen starlet to keep out of trouble and a boyfriend on location with a beautiful actress, she certainly has her hands full.

The satire is sharper than ever as Naylor and Hare take another wry and hilarious look at the wheeling, dealing, schmoozing, and snubbing that make Hollywood the cutthroat capital of the world. The First Assistant is a lesson in how to survive in a town where tonight's Oscar frock is tomorrow's laughing stock.

The First Assistant

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Stephen Minta

The Re-Creation of a Sixteenth-Century Journey Across South America

"In 1560 Lope de Aguirre, an obscure Basque of no great estate, joined the largest expedition ever mounted in Spanish Peru. Its goal was the mythical El Dorado, and before it came to an end, it would cross a continent, pushing well into terra incognita and leaving behind a trail of mutiny and blood." "Nearing fifty when he set out, Aguirre was unattractive and overbearing, even faintly ridiculous. Yet somehow in the course of that long trek across South America, this crude and common man rallied a fighting force large enough to earn him the status of rebel and traitor so that, at his violent end, all traces of his passing were obliterated by official proclamation, his dwellings and land leveled, ploughed under, and strewn with salt. It was obliteration on a grand scale, and it says much about the threat Aguirre posed to the imperial order. For if Aguirre, a man of towering rages and rancors, was psychotic, he was also a precursor of the rampant individualism that would, almost three centuries later, climax in a ferment of revolution, extinguishing the old order forever." "Contemporaneous history is unreliable in the best of times and no more so than with the chronicles of Aguirre's day. Thus he has remained shrouded in mystery. Now, knowledgeably sifting this original source material and measuring it against his own powerful imagination, Stephen Minta arrives at speculative history that rings with truth and narrative that pulses with life." "Combining informed readings of the texts with his own adventurous re-creation of the journey, Minta spins a tale that radiates a strangely modern cast, one whose unanswered questions have haunted us through four centuries and whose protagonists epitomize so much of the European encounter with the New World. Theirs is a tale of human foible, grandiose ambition, and false pride, and it strikes with the immediacy and truth of the finest fiction, the authority and power of the best narrative history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Aguirre

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James Elkins

On the Nature of Seeing

A thoughtful study on how our eyes function with our brains examines the irrational elements of physical sight and concludes that human seeing transforms both the viewer and the object being viewed. 15,000 first printing.

The Object Stares Back

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Since the triumph of "Our Town," many American writers have sensed the tug of the past, the longing to share the sights, sounds and smells of gentler times with each new generation. Bernie Carton is part of that noble tradition as she depicts Brooklyn, New York in the glittering 1920s and the depressed 1930s--a time when America was innocent and hopeful. This evocative portrait will appeal to young people exploring their roots as well as to older people looking for the glow of cherished memories. Carton uses the eye of a journalist and the sensitivity of a novelist to explore a long-past world where nobody ever left Brooklyn because it was the center of the universe. Bernice Carton has sailed the seven seas but has never lost her love for home. Her travels have ranged from the Arctic to the Antarctic and just about everywhere in between. She's waded ashore to barter for lemons with tribal chiefs in the South Pacific, explored Alaska's Inside Passage, the fjords of Scandinavia, the secret islands of the Caribbean and Greece--all from the deck of a small sailboat. She has also spent evenings waltzing at the Vienna Opera Ball, been a guest at the palace of the Prince of Morocco, and has enjoyed dinners at the White House. Her writing and photography have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers across the US and Canada. While her schoolteacher mother in Brooklyn claimed half jokingly to be preparing her as a child to marry the then Prince of Rumania, she never did realize that ambition. She is the grandmother of four--two girls and two boys.

Beyond the Brooklyn Bridge

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Sissy Leblanc's Rules to Live By

Learn how to navigate life with the effortless savior faire of a true daughter of the South with The Southern Belle's Handbook.

Sissy LeBlanc's rules to live by will teach you how to hook, hold on to, and handle any man as well as conquer any personal situation with the poise and confidence of a sophisticated southern stunner.

And because every woman possesses her own sassy instincts, you can also record your own rules for unstoppable fabulousness and success.

The Southern Belle's Handbook

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My Life in New York and New Guinea

In the swamps of Asmat in West New Guinea, Tobias Schneebaum--traveler, writer, painter, explorer--finds the way of life that suits him best. Secret Places reels readers into a world of storytellers and sorcerers, cannibals and carvers, a place where Schneebaum discovers his soulmates and his own soul.

Looking back at a life of wild adventure, Schneebaum seeks in Secret Places to intertwine the varied strands of his experience, pondering the parallel universes of his experience as a gay Jewish New Yorker and his years among the Asmat. The result illuminates both worlds--as when he juxtaposes the Asmat celebration of the spirits of the dead with a New York City plagued by AIDS and its own sad spirits.

Secret Places

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"I've got my entire life planned out for the next ten years -- including my PhD and Pulitzer Prize," claims 16-year-old overachiever Vassar Spore, daughter of overachiever parents, who in true overachiever fashion named her after an elite women's college. Vassar expects her sophomore summer to include AP and AAP (Advanced Advanced Placement) classes. Surprise! Enter a world-traveling relative who sends her plans into a tailspin when she blackmails Vassar's parents into forcing their only child to backpack with her through Southeast Asia.

On a journey from Malaysia to Cambodia to the remote jungles of Laos, Vassar sweats, falls in love, hones her outdoor survival skills -- and uncovers a family secret that turns her whole world upside-down.


Vassar Spore can plan on one thing: she'll never be the same again.

Carpe Diem

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Combining the intellectual audacity of A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters with the francophilia of the acclaimed Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes explores the English experience of France over the centuries with dazzling wit and sophistication. This is Barnes's first collection of stories.

Cross Channel

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"In this book, Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership - what it is, and how it is achieved - through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical school, and elementary school, among others." "Coles tells how to be a moral leader and shows how the intervention of one person can change the course of history, as well as influence the day-to-day quality of life in our homes, schools, communities, and nation. In Lives of Moral Leadership he explores how each of us can be engaged in a continual and mutual life-giving process of personal and national leadership development."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Lives of Moral Leadership

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Pretty Redwing

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Has Modernism Failed?

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Several months have passed since the tragedy enacted in Disturbed Earth. Artie Cohen has just married Maxine and is about to take time out of the city with her when two events pull him back: the apparent murder of a friend, and the appearance of his former girlfriend, Lily, their break-up never fully resolved. Through her great skills as a storyteller and creator of memorable characters, Reggie Nadelson weaves a thrilling tale of deception, while bringing to ever-greater life her protagonist, Artie Cohen--deeply flawed and deeply human.

Red Hook

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Interstellar liberator Magnus Gallowglass finds a lost colony planet where, for thousands of years, every detail of its citizens' lives has been dictated by a brutal Protector, and he must recruit a pair of brave star-crossed lovers to lead a revolution.

A Wizard in Peace

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The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks

A bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has continued to enlighten and entertain readers wanting to brush up on their history. Lively, exciting, full of great stories and humorous asides, this book looks at the key events in British history, covering all the important dates, people and events. Each subject is presented in short, self-contained 'articles', designed to be dipped into on the readers whim. Concise and authoritative, Remember, Remember makes history interesting and accessible for everyone once again.

Remember, Remember (the Fifth of November)

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Jesse Andrews

Wisconsin

A road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band.

The Haters

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Clare MacKintosh

Louisiana

"Two years ago, Tom and Caroline Johnson committed suicide, one seemingly unable to live without the other. Their adult daughter Anna is struggling to come to terms with her parents' deaths, unable to comprehend why they chose to end their lives. Now with a young baby herself, she feels her mother's presence keenly and is determined to find out what really happened to her parents. But as Anna digs up the past, someone is trying to stop her. She soon learns that nothing is as it seemed"--

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