Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| DONALD CLARKE | THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BILLIE HOLIDAY -
No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues-and this authentic biography sets the record straight. Donald clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s with those who knew Lady Day in all stages of her short, tragic life-from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore, through the early days of success in New York and the years of fame, to her tragic decline and death at the age of forty-four. This biography separates fact from fiction to reveal the true Billie Holiday.
Donald Clarke is the editor and principal author of The Penguin Encyclopedia of popular Music. He lives with his wife and son in Norfolk, England.
"A thoroughly riveting account of Holiday and her milieu." -New York Newsday
"May be the most thoroughly valuable of the many books on Holiday." -The New York Times Book Review
"Finally sets us straight... evoking her world in all of its anguish, triumph, force, and irony."-Seattle Times
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| A COLLECTION | GREAT AMERICAN SHORT STORIES (part 1) -
This collection is a short story lover's dream - over a dozen classic works, presented in their entirety, representing the finest writers of the genre. This collection - the first volume in a 3-volume set - includes "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville, "The Blue Hotel" and "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane, "The Minister's Black Veil" and "The Ambitious Guest" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The One Million Pound Bank Note" and "Baker's Bluejay Yarn" by Mark Twain, "The Princess and the Puma" by O. Henry, "Under the Lion's Paw" by Hamlin Garland, "The Law of Life" by Jack London, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "The Man and the Snake" by Ambrose Bierce, "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather, and "MS. Found in a Bottle" by Edgar Allan Poe.
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| A COLLECTION | GREAT AMERICAN SHORT STORIES (part 2) -
Immerse yourself in the short works of Twain, Hawthorne, Poe, and many others with this extensive, unabridged collection of favorite short stories. This second volume of a 3-volume anthology includes "Marjorie Daw" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, "The McWilliams and the Burglar Alarm" and "Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning" by Mark Twain, "The Phonograph and the Graft" and "The Lotus and the Bottle" by O. Henry, "The Wild Horse of Tartary" by Clara Morris, "The Legend of the Rose of the Alhambra" and "The Phantom Island" by Washington Irving, "The Great Stone Face" and "My Kinsman, Major Molineau" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Chickamauga" and "The Coup de Grace" by Ambrose Bierce, "The Premature Burial" and "The Oblong Box" by Edgar Allan Poe, "A Mystery of Heroism" by Stephen Crane, and "The Descent of Man" by Edith Wharton.
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| A COLLECTION | GREAT AMERICAN SHORT STORIES (part 3) -
This popular collection contains the following titles: "The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky" by Stephen Crane; "Mrs. Higgonbotham's Catastrophe" and "The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne; "Editha" by William Dean Howells; "The Courting of Sister Wisby" by Sarah Orne Jewett; "The Damned Thing" and "Beyond the Wall" by Ambrose Bierce; "The Gold Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe; "Jimmy Rose" and "The Fiddler by Herman Melville; "The Stout Gentleman" by Washington Irving; "Even Unto Death" by Jack London; "louisa" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; "Mliss" by Bret Harte; "The Bar Sinister" by Richard Harding Davis; "The Ghostly Kiss" by Lafcadio Hearn; and "The Californian's Tale" by Mark Twain. | Y
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| A COLLECTION | GREAT FRENCH AND RUSSIAN SHORT STORIES )part 1) -
This collection of literary masterpieces from the ninteenth century includes: "Love", "Regret", "A Piece of String", "The Necklace", "The False Jewels", "Useless Beauty", "In the Moonlight" and "Love's Awakening" by Guy deMaupassant; The Thief" and "The Wedding" by Fyodor Dostoevsky; "The Mysterious Mansion" and "Christ in Flanders" by Honoré de Balzac; "The Kiss" and"The Lottery Ticket" by Anton Chekov; "The Overcoat" by Nicolai Gogol;"Zodimirsky's Duel" by Alexander Dumas; "The Shot" by Alexander Poushkin and"The Long Exile" by Leo Tolstoy
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| A COLLECTION | GREAT FRENCH AND RUSSIAN SHORT STORIES (part 2) -
This second collection includes: "Where Love is There God is Also" and "How Much Land Does a Man Need" by Leo Tolstoy; "The Queen of Spades", "The Blizzard" and "Lady into Lassie" by Alexander Poushkin; "Boule de Suif", "How He Got the Legion ofHonor", "Waiter, a Bock!", "The Signal", "Growing Old", "Consideration", and"The Hole" by Guy de Maupassant; "A Simple Soul" by Gustave Flaubert; "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" by Fyodor Dostoevsky; "The Woman and the Cat" by Marcel Prevost;"A Piece of Bread" by Francois Coppe; "The Last Lesson" by Alphonse Daudet | Y
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| TONI MORRISON | BELOVED -
Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad. Sethe, who now lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing apparition who calls herself Beloved.
Sethe works at 'beating back the past,' but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly: in her memory; in Denver's fear of the world outside the house; in the sadness that consumes Baby Suggs; in the arrival of Paul D, a fellow former slave; and, most powerfully, in Beloved, whose childhood belongs to the hideous logic of slavery and who has now come from the 'place over there' to claim retribution for what she lost and for what was taken from her. Sethe's struggle to keep Beloved from gaining possession of her present - and to throw off the long-dark legacy of her past - is at the center of this spellbinding novel. But it also moves beyond its particulars, combining imagination and the vision of legend with the unassailable truths of history.
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| BARONESS ORCZY | THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL -
Was he an exiled French nobleman returning to wreak vengeance? Was he an English lord seeking the sheer adventure and sport? The rulers of the French Revolution needed to know, for this elusive figure who defied their vast network of fanatics, informers and secret agents, threatened their total power. The only thing that those who sought this man of many disguises, endless ruses, and infinite daring could be sure of is that where he had been so would be the blood-red flower known as the Scarlet Pimpernel.
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| HOWARD PYLE | THE MERRY ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD -
One of the most beloved legends of all, Howard Pyle's Robin Hood brings the brave, good-humored outlaw, Robin Hood, and his cohorts Friar Tuck, Little John, Will Scarlet, Alan a Daleû to life as they romp about deep in the Sherwood Forest just for the fun of it. Here are all the exciting tales, including Robin Hood's breathtaking escapes from his arch enemy, the Sheriff of Nottingham, a villain who sees Robin Hood as competition.
Listeners will likely find themselves agreeing with Pyle's merry Robin, "Methinks I would rather roam this forest in the gentle springtime than be king of all merry England."
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| SAX ROHMER | INSIDIOUS DR. FU-MANCHU -
Here is the first of the adventures of Nayland Smith, a civilized Englishman who pits all his logic and experience against a cunning and malevolent crime lord, the inscrutable and sinister celestial Dr. Fu Manchu.
The author of this famous series, Sax Rohmer, began his literary career as a jounalist. When he turned to writing short stories for magazines, he found his true vocation.
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| MARY SHELLEY | FRANKENSTEIN -
At 190 plus, Frankenstein is still going strong. This king of the monster stories is all the more remarkable because it was written by a young woman, the 21-year-old bride of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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| ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON | TREASURE ISLAND -
Since its publication in 1883, Treasure Island has remained one of the great tales of mutiny. Its primary malefactor, Long John Silver, has become synonymous with evil. The story is told through the eyes of Jim Hawkins, a young man who first encounters tales of buried treasure while working at his father's tavern. The action moves from the Admiral Benbow Inn to the high seas and on to secret islands. Never did virtue so reward a young man as Hawkins has been rewarded, made immortal by the gifts of an immortal storyteller.
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| JOHNATHAN SWIFT | GULLIVER'S TRAVELS -
This is Swift's most universal satire. Although it is full of allusions to recent and contemporary events, it is as valid today as it was in 1726 for its objects are man's moral nature and the defective political, economic, and social institutions. Swift adopts an ancient satirical device: the imaginary voyage. Lemuel Gulliver, the narrator, is ship's surgeon, a reasonably well-educated man--kindly, resourceful, cheerful, inquiring, patriotic, truthful, but unimaginative--the kind of man with whom we can reasonably identify.
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| LEO TOLSTOY | DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH AND MASTER AND MAN -
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is a masterpiece of 19th century fiction in which Tolstoy asks how an unreflective man confronts the moment of truth when he comes face to face with his own mortality. The result is a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.
"Master and Man" is a captivating story that keeps us in suspense to the end. Whether or not his motives are right, the merchant Brekhunov attempts, in a most business-like fashion, to save his servant's life. A marvellous story.
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| MARK TWAIN | THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN -
Huck Finn is a homeless rebel who loves freedom more than respectability. He isn't above lying and stealing, but he faces a battle with his conscience when he meets up with a runaway slave named Jim. Jim is trying to escape to a free state in the North while his owner wants to sell him to a slave trader down river. Huck knows that helping Jim will bring trouble, but can he turn in a man who only wants to be free?
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| MARK TWAIN | PUDD'NHEAD WILSON -
David Wilson is called “Pudd’nhead” by the townspeople, who fail to understand his combination of wisdom and eccentricity. He redeems himself by simultaneously solving a murder mystery and a case of transposed identities.
Two children, a white boy and a mulatto, are born on the same day. Roxy, mother of the mulatto, is given charge of the children; in fear that her son will be sold, she exchanges the babies.
The mulatto, though he grows up as a white boy, turns out to be a scoundrel. He sells his mother and murders and robs his uncle. He accuses Luigi, one of a pair of twins, of the murder. Pudd’nhead, a lawyer, undertakes Luigi’s defense. On the basis of fingerprint evidence, he exposes the real murderer, and the white boy takes his rightful place.
The book implicitly condemns a society that allows slavery. It concludes with a series of witty aphorisms from Pudd’nhead’s calendar.
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| MARK TWAIN | THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER -
They look alike but they are in very different worlds. Tom Canty, impoverished and abused by his father, is fascinated with royalty. Edward Tudor, heir to the throne of England, is kind and generous but wants to run free and play in the river-just once. Just how insubstantial their differences are becomes all too clear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of clothing and roles: the pauper finds himself caught up in the pomp and folly of the royal court, a role that is further complicated when the king dies soon after the switch; and the prince wanders horror-stricken through the lower strata of English society.
Out of the theme of switched identities, Mark Twain fashioned both a fiery assault upon social hypocrisy and injustice, and a riotous comedy filled with high-spirited play.
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| MARK TWAIN | THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER -
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a humorous and nostalgic book depicting the carefree days of boyhood in a small Midwestern town. The characters are based on Twain's schoolmates and the town is Hannibal, Missouri-the setting where he grew up. So, what did boys do in a small town during the mid-1800's, a time when there were no televisions, no arcades and no videos? They whitewashed fences, floated rivers, traded marbles, formed secret societies, smoked pipes and, on occasion, managed to attend their own funerals. Yes, they may have been a bit mischievous, but as Aunt Polly said of Tom when she believed him to be dead, "He was the best-hearted boy that ever was." Aunt Polly's sentiments reveal one of Twain's cardinal philosophies: In this deceitful and infirm world, innocence can be found only in the heart of a boy.
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| JULES VERNE | AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS -
One day in the Reformer's Club in London, in 1872, Phileas Fogg takes up a wager to journey round the world in 80 days. He is accompanied by his valet, Passepartout, and a detective named Fix, who has been assigned by the Reformer's Club to observe his movements. Showing fortitude and endless resourcefulness, Fogg and his companions narrowly escape from barbarians, hostile mobs and schemers during their journey. Does Fogg win the bet?
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| JULES VERNE | JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH -
This classic of nineteenth century French literature has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel travel across Iceland, and then down through an extinct crater toward a sunless sea where they enter a living past and are confronted with the origins of man. Exploring the prehistory of the globe, this novel can also be read as a psychological quest, for the journey itself is as important as arrival or discovery. Verne's distinctive combination of realism and Romanticism has marked figures as diverse as Sartre and Tournier, Mark Twain and Conan Doyle.
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| VIRGIL | THE AENEID -
The Aneid is one of the greatest works in all of world literature. It is filled with mythology, history, and archaeology; it is infused with patriotism, religious feeling, and pathos; it is rich in adventure and romance.
As the story begins, a storm shipwrecks Aeneas and his Trojan followers near Carthage in North Africa. There, Aeneas falls in love with Dido, queen of Carthage. But the gods order him to leave for Italy. In despair, Dido commits suicide. Upon finally reaching Italy, Aeneas goes down into the lower world and learns about his future descendants, the Romans.
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| FRANCOIS M. AROUET de VOLTAIRE | CANDIDE -
Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber
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| VOLTAIRE | ZADIG -
Zadig is a philosophical tale that first appeared in 1747 under the title of Memnon, Histoire Orientale. Zadig, a young man well endowed by nature and possessor of a fine education, is puzzled by the uncertainities of his destiny. He rises to the highest office but is unsuccessful in his ventures into love. Despite his wisdom and moderation, he meets with a number of misfortunes, coming close to being strangled in Babylon, roasted alive in Basra, impaled by bonzes in Serendip, and is actually enslaved in Egypt.
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| EDITH WHARTON | THE AGE OF INNOCENCE -
Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of the manners and morals of New York society in the later 1800s...a world she knew well.
Newland Archer is a young attorney, handsome and eligible. Torn between his socially acceptable fiancee and the more earthy attractions of Countess Olenska, Archer is truly on the horns of a dilemma.
"The plot is unobvious, delicately developed, with a fine finale that exquisitely satisfies one's sense of fitness, and as always with Edith Wharton, the drama of character is greater than that of event." (Publishers Weekly)
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| JACQUELYN MITCHARD | A THEORY OF RELATIVITY -
Jacquelyn Mitchard's first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, launched the Oprah's Book Club and riveted millions of readers across the country. Now comes A Theory of Relativity, Mitchard's most compelling and beautifully written novel yet.
At twenty-four, Gordon McKenna thinks he's already heard the worst news of his life when he learns that his sister Georgia is fatally ill. Then Georgia and her husband die in a car accident, leaving behind their baby daughter, Keefer. Gordon and his parents are able to survive their sorrow only by devoting themselves to the care of the beloved one-year-old.
But the decision of who will raise Keefer is far from over, and soon Gordon's most basic assumptions about his family will be challenged in ways so provocative that he will be driven to disbelief and then to outrage. The ordeal will test the bonds of this closely knit family, challenging even love's ultimate capacity to heal.
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| MICHAEL PALMER | CRITICAL JUDGMENT -
Emergency room doctor Abby Dolan has been at Patience Regional Hospital for only a few months when she begins totting up "NIWWs"-her shorthand for patients whose complaints offer her "no idea what's wrong." The hospital and town are literally overshadowed by the manufacturing giant Colstar, a cliff-dwelling international battery-making concern whose security rivals that of the Pentagon. After Abby's fiance, Josh Wyler, a new Colstar employee, suddenly exhibits alarming manic symptoms and threatens her with violence, Abby begins to wonder if Colstar is exposing its employees to the toxic heavy metal cadmium, a battery component. It doesn't take her long to cross Colstar security chief Lyle Quinn, or to be approached for help by an earnest group known as the Alliance, headed by Abby's handsome ER colleague Lew Alvarez, who also suspects that Colstar's chemicals are harming the town. If the soulless but many-eyed corporation, secret underground labs and evil experiments on unwitting patients are familiar elements to medical suspense fans, Palmer, an M.D. who worked in emergency medicine, renders them, for the most part, gripping and fresh. Scenes of medical terror (particularly one involving a claustrophobic patient who suffers an allergic reaction inside an MRI cylinder) are wrenchingly scary, and the imaginative final twists confirm that Palmer is reaching the top of a demanding craft.
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| MICHAEL PALMER | MIRACLE CURE -
An agonizing sports injury did more than end Brian Holbrook's professional football dreams. It left the skilled cardiologist with an addiction to prescription painkillers that eventually cost him his marriage and his license to practice medicine. But now, at thirty-eight, Brian's cleaned up his act, swallowed his pride, and is ready to start over. Yet how far is he willing to go to be a doctor again?
The prestigious Boston Heart Institute, home of some of the world's top surgeons and cardiologists, has offered Brian an opportunity to get back into scrubs...and participate in trials of an extraordinary new drug that could revolutionize medicine. Vasclear may have the power to reverse arteriosclerosis, the number one killer in the civilized world. In short, it offers the promise of a pharmaceutical fountain of youth.
The initial results are so dazzling, Brian pushes to get his own father, who has a dangerous heart condition, accepted into the Vasclear study. But soon Brian is uneasy. Under close scrutiny because of his past, he knows that the last thing he can afford to do is make waves--and yet he finds himself compelled to ask questions that his superiors can't, or won't, answer: Why crucial records have disappeared.... Why a patient who'd made startling progress has suddenly died.... With billions of dollars at stake in the race to get FDA approval for the drug, Brian's meddling could destroy his career--or worse. For as Dr. Brian Holbrook is beginning to suspect, at Boston Heart Institute, knowing too much is the quickest way to the morgue.
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| SARA PARETSKY | TUNNEL VISION -
V.I. Warshawski's 40th is just around the corner, but someone wants her to stay 39 ... forever! She gets the message, but not in a birthday card.
When somebody wastes a homeless advocate, it starts a scramble that touches runaways, beat-up spouses, a fraud that stretches from Chicago banks to Congress. V.I. finds the hardest questions in the case are those she has to ask herself.
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| ROBERT B. PARKER | CRIMSON JOY -
A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't catch him. But when the killer leaves his red rose calling card for Spenser's own Susan Silverman, he gets all the attention that Spenser and Hawk can give.
Spenser plays against time while he tracks the Red Rose killer from Boston's Combat Zone to the suburbs. His trap is both daring and brave, and gives the story a satisfying climax.
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| ROBERT B. PARKER | PALE KINGS AND PRINCES -
Wheaton is a typical New England small-college town, not the sort of place for drugs and murder. But when a reporter gets too inquisitive, he finds both -- the latter on his own.
Spenser's call comes when the local cops work a cover. He needs help to solve this one -- Hawk for back-up and Susan for insight on the basics of jealousy, passion and hate!
What the trio finds is a cutthroat cocaine ring, where drugs have value supreme and human life has none at all.
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| ROBERT B. PARKER | PLAYMATES -
Spenser smells corruption in a college town. Taft University's hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash. All manner of sleaze -- from corrupt academics to hoods with graduate degrees -- have their fingers in the pot.
Spenser's search takes him from lecture halls to blue collar bars and finally into a bloody confrontation with almost certain death. But Spenser saves an arrogant young athlete -- even though it nearly kills him to do it.
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| ROBERT B. PARKER | TAMING A SEA-HORSE -
"April Kyle, the teenage prostitute Spenser saved in Ceremony, has made a potentially disastrous career change: she's left the expensive brothel run by high-class madam Patricia Utley in favor of turning tricks for the man she loves - Robert Rambeaux, supposedly a student at Julliard.
It doesn't take Spenser long to determine that Rambeaux's interests include more than music and his stable more than April. Spenser questions Ginger Buckey, one of Rambeaux's hookers, and the two develop a guarded affection for each other.
Then April disappears.
As Spenser - with the help of Hawk and Susan Silverman - searches for April, he finds himself moving back and forth between the world of high-class prostitute and that of her wealthy clients. Taming a Sea-Horse, the thirteenth Spenser novel, shows us that two worlds are not as different as they seem, for in both, the relationship between sex, money, power, and ownership can be inextricable - and often deadly."
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| ROBERT B. PARKER | WALKING SHADOW -
Spenser and Hawk, Parker's inimitably tough team of private investigators, are at it again. This time, Spenser is embroiled in a search for a mysterious stalker who is following the Port City Theater Company's director. When an actor is murdered on stage, Spenser leaps into action by following any and all leads. Deductive reasoning and lots of knocking on doors lead our hero to startling conclusions. Daniel Parker, Robert Parker's son, tries his hand at performing this audiobook. The typical Spenserian dialog of short quips and sentence fragments will delight the fan and annoy the novice. | Y
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| RICHARD NORTH PATTERSON | SILENT WITNESS -
Almost thirty years have passed since Tony Lord left Lake City. Thirty long years dedicated to putting the past -- the brutal murder of his girlfriend, Alison Taylor, and his own acquittal of the crime -- behind him. Married, a father, and a successful defense lawyer in San Francisco, Tony Lord has run as far from Lake City as he can.
But the phone call requesting his return -- and the circumstances surrounding it -- is enough to make the ghosts of Tony's past live again. The trigger is the murder of another young woman -- that of 16-year-old Lake City High School track star Marcie Calder, last seen alive with Sam Robb, her coach and Tony's childhood friend.
With this stunning new novel of psychological drama and suspense, Richard North Patterson has done it again. Silent Witness is a drama of rivalry and betrayal, the darkest recesses of love and friendship, and the tenacious grip of the past on all our lives.
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| RUTH RENDELL | HARM DONE -
On the day Lizzie came back from the dead, the police and her family had already begun to search for her body. She had been missing for three days. Between her confusion and amnesia she could not describe where she'd been, or why. Soon after, a convicted pedophile is released back into the community. Then the child of a wealthy executive disappears, and not long after, the man himself is found stabbed to death.
Chief Inspector Wexford is charges with solving the mysterious disappearances, protecting a pedophile, and catching a killer. As he searches for connections, he finds himself focusing on domestic violence. His daughter, Sylvia, a social worker, has come to work nearby in a refuge for battered women. Her marriage is also strained, although her husband has never raised a hand to her. Others in Kingsmarkham are not so fortunate. As Wexford moves closer to the truth, he confronts the discomforting lesson that when it comes to the inner life of families, justice is rarely as straightforward as the letter of the law.
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| NANCY TAYLOR ROSENBERG | ABUSE OF POWER -
A searing portrait of one police officer's idealism – and the price she must pay for it. With a passion for the law, Rachel Simmons joins the police force in Oak Grove, California. When she witnesses another cop's violent abuse of authority, she breaks the blue code of silence to report it – and plummets into a nightmare of police recrimination.
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| MARTIN CRUZ SMITH | RED SQUARE -
"Sharply, evocatively written and elaborately plotted...It should find as many friends as did GORKY PARK."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Back from exile, Arkady Reko returns to find that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. Not so his enemies. Hounded by the Russian mafia, chased by ruthless minions of the newly rich and powerful, and tempted by his great love, Arkady can only hope for escape. Fate, however, has other ideas....
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
A LITERARY GUILD MAIN SELECTION
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| HENRY DAVID THOREAU | CAPE COD -
This work, posthumously published in 1865 and edited by the younger W.E. Channing after chapters had been printed in Putnam’s Magazine (1855) and the Atlantic Monthly (1864), is based on the author’s experiences during three short visits to Cape Cod between 1849-1855.
Perhaps best known for his years on Walden Pond, Thoreau also had an affinity for the sea. Thoreau sought to describe the natural environment and people of "the bare and bended arm of Massachusetts." Included are ten essays on the history and character of the inhabitants, Nantucket, the sea, the beach, and other aspects of the Cape.
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| HENRY DAVID THOREAU | WALDEN -
In 1845 Thoreau built himself a shanty in the woods by Walden Pond, where he lived from 1845 to 1847. Walden has remained a successful treatise on the subjects of self-sufficiency, individualism, relationship with nature, and rejection of material ambition.
His residence at the Pond was interrupted by a day's imprisonment for refusal to pay a poll tax to a government that supported the Mexican War. This action was in accord with his belief in passive resistance, a means of protest he explained in his essay "Civil Disobedience" (1849).
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| MARY WILLIS WALKER | UNDER THE BEETLE'S CELLAR -
It's a nightmare.For 45 days, a freaky Texas cult holds 11 students, a bus driver (and the bus) deep in its underground compound. Then comes a threat to "purify the lambs" in a ritual on the 50th day.
Molly Cates, a local reporter and an intuitive negotiator, thinks she can get inside the cult's psyche and that of its leader. She digs for clues in a race against doomsday.
A knockout that leaves you cheering, weeping and gasping.
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| VIRGINIA WOOLF | MRS. DALLOWAY -
Clarissa Dalloway, in her fifties, wife of an English MP, emerges from her house in Westminster one fine June morning to buy flowers for her party. By that simple act she entwines her life with the lives of others who will hear, with her, Big Ben toll away the hours of their destinies that day.
"Clarissa's day captures in a definite matrix the drift of thought and feeling in a period, the point of view of a class, and seems almost to indicate the strength and weakness of a civilization." (New York Times. (They don't always get everything wrong.)) | Y
(6T,6H) | $14 | No | T |
| VIRGINIA WOOLF | TO THE LIGHTHOUSE / THE LONDON SCENE -
To The Lighthouse is a haunting psychological portrait of the Ramsay family and their friends who gather for a brief vacation in the Ramsay summer home on the Hebrides Isle of Skye.
There is talk of a boating trip to the lighthouse at the island's end. But the year is 1914, a World War intervenes, and it is a somber group that finally assembles to make the ritual journey.
The five brief essays that comprise "The London Scene" conjure up the invisible magic known as London. The author lifts the city's docks, its abbeys and cathredals, the houses of its great men, Oxford Street, and the House of Commons above the commonplace.
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| CHARLES DARWIN | THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES -
It was sold out on its first day of publication in 1859. It is the major book of the last century and remains the most readable and accessible of all the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. It beguiled then and still does today.
Darwin's aim was to show the probability that every species is a development from previous species, which implied that man evolved from earlier and different forms of life. Darwin concluded that there exists a "natural selection" of favorable variations, which in the course of years succeeds in producing a variety of living things through this process of evolution.
Darwin, like Freud after him, transformed the way people thought about God, the world around them, other people and themselves.
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(12T,18H) | $39 | No | T |
| KATHARINE GRAHAM | PERSONAL HISTORY (part 1)
An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Personal History is, as its title suggests, a book composed of both personal memoir and history.
It is the story of Graham's parents: the multimillionaire father who left private business and government service to buy and restore the down-and-out Washington Post, and the formidable, self-absorbed mother who was more interested in her political and charity work, and her passionate friendships with men like Thomas Mann and Adlai Stevenson, than in her children.
It is the story of how The Washington Post struggled to succeed -- a fascinating and instructive business history as told from the inside (the paper has been run by Graham herself, her father, her husband, and now her son).
It is the story of Phil Graham -- Kay's brilliant, charismatic husband (he clerked for two Supreme Court justices) -- whose plunge into manic-depression, betrayal, and eventual suicide is movingly and charitably recounted.
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| KATHARINE GRAHAM | PERSONAL HISTORY (part 2) -
Best of all, it is the story of Kay Graham herself. She was brought up in a family of great wealth, yet she learned and understood nothing about money. She is half-Jewish, yet -- incredibly -- remained unaware of it for many years.She describes herself as having been naive and awkward, yet intelligent and energetic. She married a man she worshipped, and he fascinated and educated her, and then, in his illness, turned from her and abused her. This destruction of her confidence and happiness is a drama in itself, followed by the even more intense drama of her new life as the head of a great newspaper and a great company, a famous (and even feared) woman in her own right. Hers is a life that came into its own with a vengeance -- a success story on every level.
Graham's book is populated with a cast of fascinating characters, from fifty years of presidents (and their wives), to Steichen, Brancusi, Felix Frankfurter, Warren Buffett (her great advisor and protector), Robert McNamara, George Schultz (her regular tennis partner), and, of course, the great names from the Post: Woodward, Bernstein, and Graham's editorpartner, Ben Bradlee. She writes of them, and of the most dramatic moments of her stewardship of the Post (including the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and the pressmen's strike), with acuity, humor, and good judgment. Her book is about learning by doing, about growing and growing up, about Washington, and about a woman liberated by both circumstance and her own great strengths.
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| SUE MILLER | THE WORLD BELOW -
Maine, 1919. Georgia Rice, who has cared fro her father and two siblings since her mother's death, is diagnosed, at 19, with tuberculosis and sent away to a sanitarium. Freed from the burdens of caretaking, she discovers a nearly lost world of youth and possibility, and meets the doomed young man who will become her lover.
Vermont, the present. On the heels of a divorce, Catherine Hubbard, Georgia's granddaughter, takes up residence in Georgia's old house. Sorting through her own affairs, Catherine stumbles upon the true story of Georgia's life and marriage, and the misunderstanding upon which she build a lifelong love.
In the stories of these two women—linked by bitter disappointments, compromist, and powerful grace—Sue Miller offers us a novel of astonishing richness and emotional depth. The World Below captures the shadowy half-truths of the visible world, and the beauty and sorrow submerged beneath the surfaces of our lives—the lost world of the past, our lost hopes for the future. An extraordinary novel from one of our finest storytellers. | Y
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| JAMES PATTERSON | JACK AND JILL -
In the middle of the night, a U.S. Senator is found murdered in his Georgetown home. The only clue: a mysterious rhyme signed "Jack and Jill" promising more murders. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C., the beaten body of a little girl turns up in front of an elementary school. Is there a connection in the killings?
As Alex Cross, homicide detective, pieces the facts together, the killers strike again ... and again. Suddenly, no one in Washington is safe ... not even the President. Only Alex has the wits and pluck to crack the case, but can he discover the truth in time?
Golly.
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| LAWRENCE SANDERS | MCNALLY'S TRIAL -
Ignorance isn't really bliss; still, it's better if one doesn't know too much. But when you're Archy McNally, Chief of Discreet Inquiries at a prestigious Palm Beach law firm, it's your job to know.
The irrepressible private eye sets out to discover why there's a suspicious rise in business at the Whitcomb Funeral Home. McNally's faithful sidekick Binky Watrous helps him untangle a double-dealing, murderous criminal network that has infested the wealthy family. So far, this is his most enticing case ... sinister, sexy, and scandalous, and he hopes to stay a Whitcomb vendor, not a client.
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| LAWRENCE SANDERS | FIRST DEADLY SIN (part 1) -
The ultimate psychosexual thriller and one of the greatest suspense novels of all time, The First Deadly Sin is the book that began Sanders' success story. The book opens as a well-dressed man stalks the high-class neighborhoods of New York City. He is armed with an ice ax. His victims are strangers. And one cop, Captain Ed Delaney must solve a series of murders that defy logic or method. Where does he begin? A detective story, a romance, and a psychological thriller rolled into one.
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| LAWRENCE SANDERS | FIRST DEADLY SIN (part 2) -
The author proves to be a master of the telling psychological insight, for it is the killer's thought processes that make the book truly come into its own. With more than fifty million copies of his books in print, Sanders is ione of the most successful authors in the mystery/thriller tradition. | Y
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| LAWRENCE SANDERS | THE 2ND DEADLY SIN -
Marks the return of Edward X. Delaney in a spellbinding tale of greed, deception and murder. Coming out of retirement to investigate the stabbing murder of Victor Maitland, an artist both hated and acclaimed, ex-Chief of Detectives Delaney finds a mob of greedy suspects and a tangle of possible motives.
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| LAWRENCE SANDERS | THE 3RD DEADLY SIN -
The bone-chilling story of the "Hotel Ripper" who stalks New York's nightside and Edward X. Delaney, the retired cop who must stop him. It is a "high-voltage thriller," one you won't want to put down and will never forget.
"A first-rate thriller ... It is as good as you can get." (New York Times)
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| LAWRENCE SANDERS | THE 4TH DEADLY SIN -
Sanders presents his most compelling novel ever - the story of a savagely murdered New York psychiatrist, the ex-cop who must crack the high-profile case, and the only six suspects ... the doctor's own patients.
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| PETER STANFORD | THE DEVIL: A BIOGRAPHY -
"The Devil's deepest wile," wrote Charles Baudelaire, "is to persuade us that he does not exist." And for quite some time, the Devil succeeded. Pensioned off as irrelevant, the victim of our Age of Reason, he lingered on only in the margins: in the sermons of evangelicals, in the fears of the superstitious. For the rest, Science would answer the problem of Evil (for which the Devil had been invented). But Science has failed us. Evil - disturbing, inexplicable, deeply rooted - persists. Today we speak of the Devil once again: in tabloid accounts of cults, in popular novels, and even in scholarly theological works. We are back where we began 2,000 years ago: going to the Devil. In this informed, lucid and very readable biography Peter Stanford introduces us to this figure of fascination in a lively, engaging accout of our age-old enemy.
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| ROBERT K. TANENBAUM | CORRUPTION OF BLOOD -
When Congress reopens the JFK case, Manhattan A.D.A. Butch Karp is tapped to head the investigation. But barely has he left home for the nation's capitol when he finds himself facing Washington power plays at their most cynical. The message from above is clear: Rehash the Warren Commission's dubious lone-gunman conclusion ... and bury any new discoveries. When the going gets tough and the dense fog of conspiracy settles on the case, Butch will need the help of his wife, the former Marlene Clampi. But key evidence is disappearing without a trace and the husband-wife team will have to work fast.
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| ROBERT K. TANENBAUM | FALSELY ACCUSED -
What is the secret that two terrified children from Central America refuse to divulge? Why have murders of Guatemalan cab drivers by crooked cops remained uninvestigated? Who is behind the brutal beating of investigative reporter Arladne Stupenagel?
Butch Karp and Marlene Cliampi delve into a mysterisous web of circumstances that leaves no one immune from suspicion. Police officials, politicians, and corporate "suits" are all involved. But only Karp and Ciampi can say how deeply. From the meanest streets to the poshest offices, this pair searches for answers ... and finds them in the least expected places.
Gosh.
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| SCOTT TUROW | PRESUMED INNOCENT -
Rusty Sabich, Kindle County's longtime chief deputy prosecutor, has been asked to investigate the murder of one of his colleagues, Carolyn Polhemus. What Horgan, Sabich's boss, doesn't know is that Carolyn and Rusty had been lovers.
As Rusty nears 40, both his marriage and his career seem stalled. His energies focus on his son, and his desperate, unhappy love for Carolyn. The investigation fuels his fantasies, but he makes little progress in finding the killer. When his boss loses his bid for re-election, Rusty suddenly, incredibly, finds himself on trial for Carolyn's murder.
"Scott Turow's novel about a trial lawyer on trial captures the raised adrenaline, the gamesmanship and the sheer emotional impact of life in the courtroom with utter authenticity."
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| SCOTT TUROW | THE BURDEN OF PROOF -
Defense attorney Sandy Stern returns from a business trip to find that Clara, his wife of 30 years, is dead ... a suicide. But mourning must wait while Stern defends Dixon Hartnell, target of a federal grand jury investigation.
As Stern ponders the mysteries of Clara's death and Dixon's tangled financial affairs, his whole world cracks in a kaleidoscope of change and uncertainty. In this vortex, he must solve the greatest riddle of his personal and professional career.
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(12T,18H) | $39 | No | T |
| A.N. WILSON | JESUS: A LIFE -
Daring, unconventional and scholarly, this book searches for historical reality in the life of Jesus.
What do we know about Jesus, as opposed to the tenets of faith surrounding the miracles? What of the death and resurrection? How and when did Christianity become a separate religion from Judaism? The author seeks answers to these and other questions central to giving Jesus a factual identity.
Wilson argues no particular creed or vision. Instead, he tries to discover the man who became the central figure of Western civilization, the man whose words contain a wisdom that has never ceased to comfort, trouble and challenge the world.
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(8T,12H) | $26 | No | T |
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