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St Martins Pr. 03/01/1999. 322 pgs. This mystery featuring Sayers's detective duo Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane went unfinished and unpublished for 60 years. The story has recently been completed by Booker Prize finalist Jill Paton Walsh according to Sayers's outline for the text. Originally published at $6.50 You save 70% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 09/01/2000. 305 pgs. Alice Adams's 11th and last novel is a sequel to A SOUTHERN EXPOSURE--a continuation of the story of the Bairds, who left their Connecticut home during the Great Depression to live in a small North Carolina town. When war comes, Harry goes off to fight, his wife Cynthia is introduced to some Southern prejudices, and young Abigail goes away to college. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. Originally published at $25.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 07/01/2001. 291 pgs. The only novel by a respected short-story writer who died in 1999 at the age of 33, LIGHTNING ON THE SUN tells the story of three Americans in Cambodia: the wily Asher, who is plotting a huge heroin deal; Julie, his girlfriend and accomplice; and Reese, who unwittingly is chosen to run the dope into the U.S. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Putnam Pub Group. 10/01/1989. Completed by Chandler's heir to the noir mystery, Robert B. Parker, "Poodle Springs" has Philip Marlowe married to Linda Loring of "The Long Goodbye". Chandler anticipated their marriage to be "a running fight interspersed with amorous interludes." Originally published at $18.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library Classics. 05/01/1988. Reissue. Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works. It began as a ballad, but grew into a short novel with an ambiguous plot that raises more questions than it answers, about good and evil, justice and injustice. Billy Budd, a handsome, angelic, and beloved young sailor, is wrongly accused of inciting mutiny. He lashes out in a rage and accidentally kills his accuser, the demonic Claggart, with one blow. The ship's commander, Captain Vere, a conflicted man of principle, cries, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang." And a court martial does indeed condemn the saintly Billy to death. His last words are, "God bless Captain Vere." Billy Budd is widely interpreted as a Christ figure, the victim of a kind of ritual sacrifice, after which order is restored. He is also seen as an innocent, Adam-like character who is destroyed by the evil that is inescapable in the world. When it was published, one critic called this novella "Melville's last will and spiritual testament." Originally published at $3.95 You save 76% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 04/01/2001. 340 pgs. Adolescent Swayze Barksdale learns a lot about love and death as he plays taps at the ever-increasing funerals for local soldiers killed in Korea. Willie Morris tracks Swayze's experiences, and those of some of his fellow townspeople, in this affectionate novel about life in a small Mississippi town. Originally published at $26.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 07/01/1999. 319 pgs. Hemingway's posthumous novel is set in Africa and involves an American man, his wife, and his African mistress. Patrick Hemingway, the novelist's son, compiled this text from the 200,000-word journal Hemingway kept of his Kenya tour in 1953 that seems to have been a self-destructive blend of safari, adultery, and hype. The resulting novel is an idyllic version of this tour, blending fact and fiction--Hemingway's last attempt to burnish his image as a great hunter, a great lover, and a sophisticated man of the world. Originally published at $26.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 08/01/1996. Reprint. A collection of short stories by the American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner. Set mainly in Key West, Florida (Hersey's home in his later years), it was published shortly after his death. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 07/01/2001. 233 pgs. Heller's posthumous novel, completed shortly before his death in 1999, is about an elderly man whose first novel made him rich and famous. Now forced to deal with age and infirmity, he casts about for a subject for what he knows will be his last book. He ponders writing about his wife's sexual history, updating TOM SAWYER or Kafka's METAMORPHOSIS, and composing riffs on various Greek myths and Bible stories. In the end, the book is a rich, irreverent, bawdy satirical stew that sheds light on Heller's creative process and on the coming of age in his own life. Originally published at $13.00 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Henry Holt & Co. 09/01/1998. 359 pgs. Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Northwestern Univ Pr. 02/01/2001. 273 pgs. Leon Forrest (1937-1997) is a major figure in African-American literature, and these five thematically intertwined novellas were among the last works he wrote. In them, a playwright named Joubert Jones tells stories of his past life in the American South before he and his family migrated north--all taking place in the month of November. Originally published at $26.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Naiad Pr. 06/01/1996. 162 pgs. Originally mentioned as a rumor in the lesbian journal "The Ladder", this lesbian romance by the founder of the "Little Review" went unpublished for over 30 years. Originally published at $21.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/01/1998. 375 pgs. This multigenerational novel, by the mother of actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, was written in 1989 and rejected by numerous publishers before its appearance in 1999, nearly six years after the author's death from breast cancer at the age of 55. BLOOD TIES tells the story of two generations of cruelly neglected and abused children and of the child who eventually breaks the cycle and brings peace to a troubled family. Originally published at $24.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Lb May & Assoc Inc. 10/01/1998. Dickens's last novel, left unfinished when he died in June 1870, is set in an English cathedral town. It tells the potentially sordid tale of an opium addict, John Jasper; Rosa Bud, the woman he loves; Edwin Drood, who disappears during a Christmas Eve storm; and Dick Datchery, the detective in charge of the case, who is obviously not what he seems. Although many endings to the tangled story have been proposed, Dickens's intentions are unknown. Originally published at $3.99 You save 50% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 10/01/2003. Unabridged. This World War II-era thriller is a posthumous offering from the late Robert Ludlum. Stephen Metcalfe, a wealthy American living in Paris, gets involved in a secret plot to destroy the Nazi regime. His efforts force him to travel from Paris to Russia, where he encounters his former lover, a passionate ballerina who may or may not be loyal to the Communist party. Originally published at $49.95 You save 98% off the cover price!

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Brook st Pr. 02/01/2004. 225 pgs. The eponymous Ira is an inventor who is both recovering from a recent heart attack and working on a new kind of artificial heart. Unfortunately, he's also massively depressed. His wife leaves him, he can't work, and so he embarks on a tour of Europe with a friend: fishing in Iceland, visiting his daughter in Paris, and trying to persuade his wife, who has moved to London, to come back to him. Finally, by a fluke involving a nubile young actress, the pieces of Ira's life begin to fall into place. The author of this novel, Thomas McMahon, died suddenly in 1999 at the age of 52; this short novel was found among his papers. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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