Harpercollins. 01/01/2001. 250 pgs. An American woman finds the journal of a young English girl, circa 1850, in an antique desk. The journal tells the story of the girl's idyllic Victorian life, which is suddenly overshadowed by a secret from the past. Originally published at $26.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/1997. 249 pgs. John Buchan of "The 39 Steps" is the protagonist in this "discovered" novel, which places Buchan in South Africa immediately after the Boer War. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/1998. 346 pgs. The hotel he runs with his wife is threatened with ruin, and Peter Leroy--the author's admitted alter ego, who also appears in other books--comes up with an idea that might save it: He will read aloud from his memoirs every night for 50 nights, culminating in his 50th birthday. Originally published at $23.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/2000. 251 pgs. A suspenseful courtroom drama unravels the mystery behind the the death of 78-year-old British war hero, David Trelawney. On trial for his alleged murder is 77-year-old Jonathan Playfair, a Knight of the Realm, a former Judge of the High Court, and David's best friend. Through Jonathan's defense, readers get a descriptive, albeit one-sided, view of their 50-year friendship, beginning with their initial camaraderie while fighting against the Germans in North Africa and ending with their final meeting at David's sickbed, where shortly thereafter he was found dead. Highlighting Jonathan's flashbacks are asides from the bit players--the forlorn trial judge, the young prosecutor, and the high-powered defense lawyer--all of which add even more depth and complexity to this psychological whodunit. Originally published at $22.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 06/01/2000. 349 pgs. In this psychological thriller, Cath Tolland is struck with amnesia on a runaway trip from her Connecticut hometown to Florida. When she is retrieved and taken back to the old house and lovely garden that is her home, Cath wonders what event might have caused such mental trauma. But as her recovery progresses, painful memories begin to resurface that involve her husband's infidelity, the mysterious deaths of two women associated with him, and the terrifying night in the woods that ultimately brought her to the brink of insanity. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Replica Books. 06/01/1997. Reprint. These 12 looping, interconnected stories about various aspects of modern love represent John Barth's first collection since "Lost in the Funhouse" was published in 1968. The individual tales are placed within the broader context of a comfortable semi-autobiographical relationship, in which husband and wife delight in the art of telling one another stories while vacationing in sunny resorts and playfully debating the qualities of each narrative. Originally published at $17.99 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 11/01/1981. 350 pgs. This is Evelyn Waugh's outsider's account of a troubled aristocratic family. Charles Ryder, the narrator, is a dull and rather pompous undergraduate at Oxford when he meets Sebastian Flyte, a wealthy and sybaritic classmate. The two become improbable friends, and Sebastian brings Charles to Brideshead, his family estate, and introduces him into the circle of rich aristocratic layabouts who inhabit the place. Charles falls in love with Sebastian's sister, Julia, but religious objections (Charles is divorced, and the Flytes are Catholics) stand in the way of their marriage. Although strongly satirical in parts, and written with the savage wit for which Waugh was renowned, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED is a work of rare sensitivity and depth. The novel was made into a landmark 11-hour mini-series by the BBC in 1991, starring Jeremy Irons as Charles, Laurence Olivier as Lord Marchmain (for which he won an Emmy), Claire Bloom as Lady Marchmain, and John Gielgud as Charles's father, Edward. Originally published at $14.95 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 05/01/2001. 290 pgs. Mattie, a young widow who lost her fisherman husband, Nick, in an accident at sea, looks back on the man she adored and who transformed her bleak life into a romantic adventure. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Lightning Source Inc. 02/01/1995. Reissue. Cam tells this story after the death of her beloved teacher and mentor, Jane Reid, when the discovery of a cache of poems triggers both memory and the elaborate imaginative reconstruction of the truth of Jane's life. Originally published at $19.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 08/01/1996. Reprint. 303 pgs. The life, death, marriage, and family of Pearl Cody Tull, as she recollects it from her perspective as a dying 86-year-old woman. Over the course of these brief and poignant series of episodes, her husband leaves her, the three children grow up and develop their own families and contend with continually defining themselves as a part of this family. Pearl's son Ezra, in particular, longs for a lost unity and often tries to get everyone together at his place, The Homesick Restaurant. For her part, Pearl is ultimately content with recollections of the simple and ordinary past such as the summer wind, picnics, a country auction, and the weight of a sleeping baby. Originally published at $14.95 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 12/01/1993. Reissue. Pearl gradually comes to understand her mother Jiang Weili (Winnie) as a heroic survivor, not a troublesome anachronism, as they begin to reveal secrets about themselves to one another. Winnie tells the story of how she escaped a horrible marriage to a cowardly fighter pilot in the Sino-Japanese war and how he may or may not be Pearl's father. Meanwhile Pearl gathers the strength confide her great secret, that she has multiple sclerosis, to her mother. Originally published at $13.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library. 04/01/2001. Reissue. 274 pgs. Forty-year-old African-American television news reporter Serpentine Williams is smart, sassy, and successful. But a failed suicide attempt proves her life is far from perfect. The narrative begins with Serpentine recovering in a hospital bed and slowly reverts back in time to her childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, revealing a life stricken with poor body image and low self-esteem. From the fat jokes as a child, to the fear of rejection from boys as a teenager, to executives criticizing her television appearance as an adult, it's clear why Serpentine feels her only solace is to destroy the body that has inspired such ridicule and thus brought her such pain. But as Serpentine recovers from her depression, self-hatred gives way to acceptance and love. Originally published at $13.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library Classics. 09/01/1997. Reissue. 168 pgs. In HEART OF DARKNESS, Conrad's most existential hero, Marlow, is the commander of a riverboat looking for ivory to trade in the Belgian Congo. His journey into the heart of the Congo is both a thrilling adventure and a symbolic excursion into the depths of the human psyche to confront the evil that exists there. Marlow's encounter with the mysterious and corrupted Kurtz, who dies proclaiming the "horror" of what he found in the Congo, is the novel's defining moment, when Marlow recognizes his kinship with Kurtz's corruption. This insight enables Marlow to retreat from Kurtz's world and return to England. Kurtz, in his attempts to reconcile his noble ideas with his greed, can't survive. "The Secret Sharer," one of Conrad's most celebrated stories, is about a ship's captain and his murderous double. Originally published at $4.95 You save 76% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 11/20/2001. Reprint. 573 pgs. A journalist named Simon Behler is shipwrecked and washed ashore, where he encounters the legendary Sinbad the Sailor. Over the course of six days, the two men tell the stories of their adventures. The result is an entertaining mixture of medieval and modern, Old World and new. Originally published at $14.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 01/01/1996. In this sequel to TIME AND AGAIN, Simon Morely is sent forward in time, to 1912, where he is charged with protecting a man who may be able to prevent World War I. The problem is that the man is in the middle of an ocean crossing--travelling on the Titanic. Originally published at $13.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 02/01/1994. Reprint. In five topical sections that deal with topics like "the natural world," "the unnatural world," and "other people," Tim Cahill describes his love of travel, from Kuwait, to the Antarctic, to the Washington State of his youth. Originally published at $14.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 11/01/1990. Reissue. When he and his wife move to a new house, Professor Godfrey St. Peter is uncomfortable with the materialistic turn his life is taking. Stubbornly, he clings to his dusty study in the old house in an attempt to hang on to his old life and values. In addition, he is finding difficulties coping with the marriages of his two daughters which have not only taken them away from him but forced him to give a dubious welcome two new sons-in-law. The novel is divided into three sections, the middle one dealing with the exploration of an ancient cliff city in New Mexico by a former student who died in World War I--and whose life and death are also crucial to the plot. In the final section, the professor, left alone while his family takes an expensive European tour, comes close to death from the malfunctioning gas stove in his study--and finds himself strangely willing to die. He is rescued, however, by the old family seamstress, Augusta, who has been his staunch friend throughout his trials. He resolves to go on with his life and make the best of things. Cather's exploration of loneliness, idealism vs. materialism, and the sadness and resiliency of old age is widely considered to be one of her best novels. Originally published at $12.95 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 09/01/2000. This debut novel is the history of the town of Sugars Spring, Arkansas. Myra McLarey uses two focal points around which to "swirl" (to use her own term) her narrative: a baseball game between the Sugars Spring men's team and the "coloreds" of Chickenham, and a tornado which tears apart the town exactly a year later. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 04/01/1991. Four prisoners, who are condemned for plotting against the Bourbon king, spend the hours before their execution telling one another tales of love, war, vengeance, loyalty, as each man decides if his life has had any meaning and to what, if anything, he owes his allegiance. Originally published at $18.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 02/01/2002. Reissue. 529 pgs. Kathleen is 50, lonely, unfulfilled, and tired of her life as a travel writer. Impulsively, she returns to her native Ireland to write about a legendary mid-19th-century romance between an Englishwoman and her stable hand. The project brings to life much of her own past, and that of Ireland, and forces her to reevaluate her life and heritage. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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W W Norton & Co Inc. 02/01/1994. Reprint. Using several different narrative voices, Busch reconstructs Charles Dickens's last years: his final American reading tour, the resolution of his affair with Ellen Ternan, the strain of maintaining his larger-than-life persona. Originally published at $9.95 You save 81% off the cover price!

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