Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| ANAIS NIN | DELTA OF VENUS - In DELTA OF VENUS one encounters poetic pornography, if the two words can be joined. While the book must be classified triple-X for sex and language, the author communicates an authentic vision of crossing to paradise on a bridge of perversion.
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| PATRICK O'BRIAN | POST CAPTAIN (A/M#2) - In 1803 Napoleon smashed the Peace of Amiens and plunged Europe into war again. The second in the Aubrey/Maturin series.
In 1803 Napoleon smashed the Peace of Amiens and plunged Europe into war again. Jack Aubrey, R.N., taking refuge in France from his creditors, is interned. But he escapes from France, from debtors' prison, from a possible mutiny and pursues his quarry straight into the mouth of a French-held harbor.
"MASTER AND COMMANDER, first in the Aubrey-Maturin series, raised almost dangerously high expectations. POST CAPTAIN, the second, triumphantly surpasses them...a brilliant book." (Mary Renault)
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| PATRICK O'BRIAN | THE MAURITIUS COMMAND (A/M#4) - The fourth of the Aubrey/Maturin series opens with Captain Jack Aubrey gloomily ashore on half-pay until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant. Once there he is to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains - Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny.
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| PATRICK O'BRIAN | DESOLATION ISLAND (A/M#5) - Sent to rescue Governor Bligh, former captain of HMS Bounty, Jack Aubrey sets off for Australia in the Leopold with his friend Stephen Maturin and a hold full of convicts in this fifth of the Aubrey/Maturin series.
A beautiful and dangerous spy lurks among these prisoners, as does an even more lethal traveling companion, gaol fever, a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the under-manned, outgunned Leopold sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic. There in mountainous seas, the Dutchman closes.
"Good history, espionage, romance and an action at sea that for sheer descriptive power can match anything in fiction." (The Guardian)
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| PATRICK O'BRIAN | THE SURGEON'S MATE (A/M#7) - Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home to bring news of their latest victory. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he caused to the French intelligence network in the New World and the British packet carrying them is shadowed by two American privateers.
The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as tense, and as unexpected in its culmination of this seventh Aubrey/Maturin adventure, as anything Patrick O'Brian has ever written.
"Vividly detailed 19th-century settings and dramatic tension punctuated with flashes of wry humor make O'Brian's nautical adventure a splendid treat." (Publishers Weekly)
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| PATRICK O'BRIAN | TREASON'S HARBOUR (A/M#9) - All of Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea.
While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin takes center stage. For the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents and the admiralty's intelligence network is compromised. Maturin's cunning is the sole bulwark against sabotage of Aubrey's daring mission.
"Splendid adventures...polished, historically accurate and intensely pleasurable." (Kirkus Reviews)
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| PATRICK O'BRIAN | THE REVERSE OF THE MEDAL (A/M#11) - Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., ashore after a successful cruise, takes a friend's advice and makes "certain investments" in the City. But the investments are a sham. Worse, they mire him in London's criminal underground, even espionage -- the province of his friend Stephen Maturin.
The question is, is Aubrey's ruin the result of a deliberate plot? It takes Maturin to sort things out in one sphere, Aubrey in another.
"A great novel. You will meet nothing like O'Brian in all literature." (Chicago Sun-Times)
THE REVERSE OF THE MEDAL is the eleventh in the series, preceded by THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD and followed by THE LETTER OF MARQUE.
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| PATRICK O'BRIAN | THE THIRTEEN GUN SALUTE (A/M#13) - Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life after reinstatement in the Royal Navy. His task is to shepherd Stephen Maturin -- ship's surgeon, sometimes intelligence agent, and now unofficial advisor to His Britannic Majesty's envoy -- on a diplomatic mission.
Links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes would threaten English merchant shipping and must be prevented at all costs. Aubrey and Maturin deal with everything from a killer typhoon to court intrigue on their way to success.
"O'Brian reminds us that the triumphs and disasters of those who were here before us are in fact maps of our own lives." (The New York Times)
THE THIRTEEN GUN SALUTE is the 13th title in the Aubrey/Maturin series following THE LETTER OF MARQUE.
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| PATRICK O'BRIAN | THE HUNDRED DAYS (A/M#19) - For the benefit of those who are unacquainted with O'Brian, it was nearly 30 years ago that he began writing his beautifully staged historical seafaring novels about the adventures of Jack Aubrey, Captain, R.N., and his physician-scientist friend Stephen Maturin. In this, the nineteenth installment, Napoleon escapes from Elba, and the fate of Europe hinges on a desperate mission: Stephen Maturin must ferret out the French dictator's secret link to the powers of Islam, and Jack Aubrey must destroy it. Boldly conceived and brilliantly executed, THE HUNDRED DAYS is Patrick O'Brian's most ambitious novel yet, and surely one of his most rewarding. In this climactic - but not final! - adventure in the celebrated Aubrey/Maturin series, O'Brian succeeds in grafting his familiar, ever compelling principal characters to an historical event of tumultuous significance: the final defeat of Napoleon.
"The Aubrey/Maturin novels are by a long shot the best things of their kind, so much better than the competition that comparisons long ago ceased to be relevant; they are uniquely excellent." (New York Times Book Review)
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| BELVA PLAIN | EDEN BURNING - EDEN BURNING is the story of two men and one woman -- a triangle as old as time, made modern by the characters and their setting.
Eden is St. Felice, a lush Carribean island with extremes of privilege and want. Patrick, the fiery prime minister, seeks a better life for his people. Francis, scion of a prominent New York family, feels the tug of that other island. And Tee -- 15 years old when we meet her, wise beyond her years -- runs at life with a reckless passion.
"A superb story in the hands of a masterful storyteller. Violence, political upheaval, clandestine love -- they're all here in this great romantic saga." (E.R.S. Reviews)
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| ANNIE PROULX | ACCORDION CRIMES - A century ago, great waves of immigrants arrived in America and they brought only their most precious possessions with them. For one of the arrivals, a young Sicilian, it was his accordion. Within a year, he was dead, but the accordion took on a new life with a community of Germans in Iowa.
The accordion travels with other immigrants looking for a decent life in Texas, Maine and Louisian. Its music is their last link with the past, and the voice for their fantasies, sorrows and exubrance. Proulx's artistry unites the affecting segments in this story. | Y
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| ANNIE PROULX | THE SHIPPING NEWS - Ms. Proulx won both the Pulitzer prize and the National Book Award for this book, and it's easy to see why. This is a heartening story about a lovable but quirky character.
After his two-timing wife dies, Quoyle, a hack reporter, moves with his two daughters and an aged aunt to their ancestral home in a remote Newfoundland village. In this starkly beautiful country of coast and cove, the lumpish Quoyle, who hides a gentle heart within his bulk, cobbles up a new life for himself. He's sheltered in the tiny community; his talents come alive and he breaks the link between love and misery.
"Charged with sardonic wit, packed with brilliantly original images and sentences that simply take your breath away." | Y
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| AYN RAND | WE THE LIVING - The theories of communism become day-to-day realities in "We the Living." But this is not a story of politics. It's a story of men and women struggling to live their own lives, to pursue their own happiness in post-revolutionary Russia. One woman is torn between two men who love her -- one, an aristocrat and the other, a Communist.
While Ayn Rand invents the plot, she writes the truth of her ideas, values and convictions. As she illuminates the plight of the individual in a technological society, Rand's words speak with an intense freshness today.
"Ayn Rand has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly." (The New York Times)
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| JOHN CHEEVER | THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE - In 1957, when The WAPSHOT CHRONICLE was published, John Cheever was already recognized as a writer of superb short stories. But THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE, which won the 1958 National Book Award, established him as a major novelist. Seven years later, THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL confirmed his standing. Together, these novels present the complete story of the Wapshot inheritance, from the early 20th century to the 1960s and from a small Massachusetts village to New York and Europe.
"THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE has been a beautifully rewarding experience for me...it is a compelling book. Character after character is perfectly rendered with warmth and detachment. Episode after episode is a model of narrative virtuosity." --Robert Penn Warren
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| JOHN CHEEVER | THE WAPSHOT SCANDAL - Where the Wapshot Chronicle leaves off, this books takes over and completes the tale of the Wapshot family.
"This second novel about the Wapshot famiy is a delectable and glorious piece of fiction, especially in the three main strands of its subject matter: the pitiful lust of a well-meaning upperclass woman; the harm done by a scientist who lacks a grounding in the humanities; the humor inherent in old age. If it is a portrait of paradise, the author has included a fair leavening of serpents." | Y
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| WILKIE COLLINS | THE MOONSTONE (part 1) - "His eyes, of a steely light grey, had a very disconcerting trick, when they encountered your eyes, of looking as if they expected something more than you were aware of yourself." And thus our introduction to the celebrated Sergeant Cuff, quite possibly the first detective in English fiction.
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| WILKIE COLLINS | THE MOONSTONE (part 2) - Published in 1868, and presented to readers as "a romance," THE MOONSTONE has since become a classic in the mystery genre. The book concerns the disappearance of a sizable diamond, the Moonstone, that once adorned a rare Hindu idol, and has since come into the possession of an English officer.
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| CARLO COLLODI | PINOCCHIO - This is the classical tale of the mischievous puppet who longs to be a flesh-and-blood little boy. This heartwarming story ranges from highest adventure to deepest despair, with many lessons to be learned in between. These are the trials Pinocchio must endure on his way to becoming a real little boy.
Carlo Collodi was the pseudonym of Italian journalist Carlo Lorenzini (1826-1890). He also wrote didactic tales for children, the most famous being this ageless story which was first published in 1883. | Y
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| JOSEPH CONRAD | NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS / HEART OF DARKNESS -
THE NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS is the story of a voyage from an Eastern port, but at another level the voyage becomes a symbol and is merely the stage on which Waite, a dying black, plays out the drama of his demise. Waite's death brings out the best and worst in his crewmates...pity and humanity on one hand, selfishness and jealousy on the other.
HEART OF DARKNESS is centered around the death of the powerful white trader Kurtz aboard a river steamer in the Belgian Congo. It is one of the greatest portraits in all fiction of moral deterioration and reversion to savagery.
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| CHARLES DICKENS | THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD - Charles Dicken's contribution to the field of crime and its detection. When young Edwin Drood disappears, suspicion centers on John Jasper, a drug addicted choirmaster who hungers after Drood's fiancee. There is also Neville Landless, a Ceylonese who has previously quarreled violently with the missing man.
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD is further enhanced because it was left unfinished at the author's death. Thus the book has challenged the imagination of generations of readers.
"Certainly one of the most beautiful of all." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| ROSAMUNDE PILCHER | SEPTEMBER - September is an extraordinary month in Scotland, when a brief but glorious summer is ending and the long, gray winter has yet to begin. It is a time of parties, house guests and hospitality. It is a month of excess, when marriage is proposed and marriages break up, when people drink too much and dance too late, when promises are made, hearts broken and family secrets come to light.
SEPTEMBER begins in May, as invitations are sent for a 21st birthday party. May becomes June, summer begins, and the tug of an inexorable fate propels Pilcher's characters to their inevitable -- and often surprising -- destinies.
"SEPTEMBER is a novel to be savored, a curl-up-under-the-covers kind of old fashioned read hardly anyone knows how to write anymore." (Publisher's Source)
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| ROSAMUNDE PILCHER | THE SHELL SEEKERS (part 1) - THE SHELL SEEKERS tells the story of the Keeling family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. The family centers around Penelope, and it is her love and courage that determines the course of their lives.
One of Penelope's treasured possessions is "The Shell Seekers", a painting her father left her as a remembrance and a legacy. It is this painting that symbolizes to Penelope the ties between the generations. It is the link between the past, the present and the future. But it is also this painting that just may tear the family apart.
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| ROSAMUNDE PILCHER | THE SHELL SEEKERS (part 2) -
"THE SHELL SEEKERS is about looking for yourself in the fragmented mirror of your children's lives and finding an image blurred by memories rushing up from the past. A fine book, well deserving of its long stay on the best-seller list." (Publisher's Source) | Y
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| CHAIM POTOK | THE CHOSEN - The classic story of two boys, two fathers, and the bonds they build in the Brooklyn of the 1940s. Newly re-recorded. | Y
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| THOMAS PYNCHON | MASON & DIXON (part 1) - Thomas Pynchon's first novel in seven years was reportedly twenty years in the making. Now the author of THE CRYING OF LOT 49 and GRAVITY'S RAINBOW turns his brilliant and eclectic imagination toward the eighteenth-century surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, famous for the Mason-Dixon line. The novel follows this mismatched pair - Mason the dark melancholic, Dixon the sunny optimist - through a series of exploits that involves Native Americans, ripped bodices, naval warfare, political conspiracies, and major caffeine abuse. In England and America the two encounter a cast of characters, that includes Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Samuel Johnson, not to mention a talking dog, a robot duck, and a Chinese Feng Shui master. From start to finish, Mason and Dixon is a thoroughly madcap adventure story, a misplaced episode in the Age of Reason.
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| THOMAS PYNCHON | MASON & DIXON (part 2) -
"This is the old Pynchon, the true Pynchon, the best Pynchon of all." (The New York Times Book Review) | Y
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| AYN RAND | ATLAS SHRUGGED (part 1) - Atlas shrugged, and the world took a turn with the publication of this novel. Ayn Rand incited a philosophical revolution -- a revolution about having creativity and independence in a technological society, a revolution of ultimate importance to individuality.
The individual spirit wins when it's pitted against technology run amuck. Changed a whole generation's thinking. | Y
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| AYN RAND | ATLAS SHRUGGED (part 2) - Portrays the murder, and rebirth, of the human spirit. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in suspense, profound in meaning, it also illuminates Any Rand's unique philosophy | Y
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| AYN RAND | ATLAS SHRUGGED (part 3) - It's a thoughtful story filled with action, and a thriller of violent events with the birth and death of the human spirit at stake. | Y
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