Penguin USA. 06/01/1995. Reissue. Daniel Defoe was nearly 60 years old when he published ROBINSON CRUSOE, his first novel, in 1719. The story of an English mariner, sole survivor of a shipwreck, who manages to survive for 28 years on a deserted island in the South Pacific, ROBINSON CRUSOE is a stirring depiction of loneliness and isolation as Crusoe builds a house, teaches himself to grow corn and barley, and bakes bread. The book was based on the true tale of a sailor named Alexander Selkirk, but Defoe inserts his own preoccupations into the story. Long fascinated by travel, questions of identity, and the minutiae of daily life, Defoe makes Crusoe's saga of survival into the story of a man who takes control of his own life and overcomes hardships and difficulties in order not only to survive but to prosper. With the introduction of the faithful Friday, who has been taken prisoner by a band of cannibals, Defoe goes further, and explores the concepts of personal liberty and colonialism. The novel is a perennial favorite, providing not only food for thought but a rousing adventure that has influenced dozens of books, movies, and TV shows. People who have never read the novel and never will are very aware of the existence of Robinson Crusoe and his desert island. Originally published at $4.99 You save 70% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 05/01/1996. 445 pgs. At the close of World War II, William Fujita is in frigid Massachusetts, recently released from an internment camp in his native California. Margaret Kelly, a widow, made a special request to camp officials that they send Fujita, a horticulturist, to revitalize the barren farmland that she owns. Fujita, Margaret, another widow named Livvie, and Livvie's son Garvin grow together in an impromptu family. Fujita and Garvin in particular forge a relationship that sustains them both as they gather together the shards of their shattered lives. Originally published at $24.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 10/01/2002. Reprint. 288 pgs. William is terminally ill and his family has abandoned him. Only his closest friends, Susan and Henry, can care for him as he grows worse. Yet Willam grows ever more afraid that they, too, will leave him. It is not a simple loving friendship he requires, but a pledge of loyalty till death, a handing over of their lives to him. Jones explores the outer limits of friendship, the ties that bind and strangle, ridden with ambivalence and redemption. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/1998. A novel, set on the Rio Grande in New Mexico, about a disparate community of troubled souls. Gay Schaefer is separated from her husband of 15 years, but she continues to meet him secretly in motel rooms on a regular basis, while pretending to her daughter, Rita, that they are divorced. Rita, now in high school, is becoming aware of some strange force at play in town, some dread that haunts the lives of her neighbors, the Calzados, whose daughter, Cecilia, is Rita's best friend and whose son, Enrique, begins to date Rita, and to which Rita find herself increasingly drawn. Originally published at $13.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1987. Reissue. In Murdoch's neo-Gothic allegory, a young woman named Marian Taylor goes to Castle Gaze as a governess and finds not the refuge she hoped for but a fascinating and terrifying power struggle involving cruelty, enchantment, and possibly murder. Originally published at $16.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 09/01/1995. Reprint. 217 pgs. Henry and Theo take in Clare, Henry's ex-wife, after she has a fight with her boyfriend. The two women become friends (and possibly lovers) and decide to move in together. After a period of loneliness and confusion, Henry discovers that Theo wants him back. Originally published at $11.00 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 10/01/1999. 242 pgs. This 1948 story of moral decay was one of Graham Greene's greatest popular and critical successes, though not one of his own favorites. His hero Scobie is a colonial police commissioner in West Africa. He endures a loveless marriage and a nondescript career patiently enough until he falls in love with a young shipwreck survivor who, literally, washes ashore at his feet. To send his wife on an extended holiday to South Africa, he borrows money from a Syrian merchant, who then uses his position to blackmail Scobie into turning a blind eye to his smuggling. Once his wife returns home, Scobie finds that he can no longer reconcile his affection for his mistress with his duties as a husband, a policeman, and a Catholic, and is pressed to a desperate resolution of his confusions. One of Greene's aims in this novel was to open a philosophical exploration into the differences between pity (which he sees as destructive) and compassion (which is positive). Upon its publication, Greene commented, "I found myself regarded as a Catholic author in England, Europe, and America--the last title to which I had ever aspired." Originally published at $15.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1995. Reprint. The story of two women who meet and exchange life lessons while volunteering at an Ohio hospital to rock babies too small or damaged to survive without added human contact. Winner of the 1995 American Book Award. Originally published at $11.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 04/01/1995. This novel chronicles the life of a Canadian woman, born in 1905 out of love and tragedy, and follows her life through marriage, motherhood and widowhood as she ages with the century. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 08/01/1996. Reprint. "Songs in Ordinary Time" is the story of Marie Fermoyle, an Irishwoman living in Atkinson, Vermont. Lonely, ambitious for her teenage children, she is drawn to the stranger Omar Duvall. Her youngest son Benjy, who is desperate for Marie to be happy, knows Duvall's secret, which he will not tell his mother. Originally published at $15.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 08/01/2001. Reissue. 292 pgs. Ten years ago, spiritual medium Naomi Ash buried the dead body of her first love in a secret location, somewhere in her hometown in upstate New York. Now a 31-year-old struggling to make a living as one of the many psychics and seers in this New Age haven, Naomi finds herself fending off suspicion when her lost love's body is discovered. Who killed this young man? And why is Naomi hiding the truth underneath a veil of secrets? As the mystery unravels in this debut psychological suspense, so does the author's investigation into the meanings of reality, life, and death. Originally published at $13.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 07/01/1997. Illustrated. 340 pgs. The long-awaited conclusion to the bestselling Immigrants series, AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN tells the story of Barbara Lavette, whose life has been a selfless journey powered by an unshakable faith in the human spirit. In her old age, she discovers the unexpected joy of romantic love and makes an affecting return trip to Europe and Israel. Originally published at $25.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 06/01/2002. 319 pgs. Pi, the precocious animal-loving son of an Indian zookeeper, loses his family in a shipwreck en route to North America--and is left alone in a lifeboat with a man-eating Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, with whom he manages (thanks to his zoo background) to strike up an ingenious truce. When they finally reach land and the tiger disappears, Pi finds that no one will believe his story--and so he creates an alternative tale, one that is false but sounds true. This whimsical fantasy was short-listed for Canada's Governor General's Literary Award and won the Booker Prize in 2002. Also a New York Times Notable Book for 2002. Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 05/01/1994. Reprint. A highly meditative account of an old man's intimations and fear of death. The elderly polymath Geiser lives alone in a small mountain village in Switzerland that has a long history of avalanches. He watches obsessively for signs of an earthquake, keeps a notebook of his observations, and clips articles and treatises from various scientific publications. Torrential rains begin to fall, washing out the highway and isolating the village. Geiser becomes obsessed with archaeology as he awaits a landslide and his death by burial. Originally published at $11.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Dover Pubns. 07/01/1989. A man known only as Mr. Abel tells the story of how he discovered and fell in love with a strange, birdlike girl named Rima, living in a South American jungle. This 1904 romance, with its tragic ending in which innocence is sacrificed to corruption, was perhaps the first work of fiction that warned of the evils of exploitation of the natural world by predatory humans, whether they be colonial despots or oblivious natives. Originally published at $12.95 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Univ of Chicago Pr. 05/01/1998. Reprint. 392 pgs. A retired missionary schoolteacher travels to the troubled India of the mid-1940s and, because of her lower-class origins, is shunned by the British ruling class. This is the third volume in Scott's "Raj Quartet". Originally published at $20.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/1997. 306 pgs. Danny Kachiah is an Indian alone. His father Red Shirt is dead. His wife Loxie has left him. And at 34, he is faced with having to quit his rodeo cowboy job because he can't take the spills and jerks like he used to. When Danny learns that Loxie has died in a car accident, he brings home the teenage son he barely knows, and must make a life for them both. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/1998. Reprint. 349 pgs. This novel, about a village in the north of England called Arden, recalls Shakespeare's forest of Arden as it tells the story of two lonely, bereft children, Isobel and her brother, Charles. With the assistance of some time travel fantasies, Isobel learns disturbing truths about her family's past and future. Originally published at $15.00 You save 87% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/1999. 341 pgs. In a small English village, Stella Benson tries to make sense of the life she has fled, as well as her new life working for autocratic employers, caring for a disabled boy, coping with unsuitable weather, and fighting off persistent young men. Originally published at $24.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 12/01/2000. 263 pgs. Thriller extraordinaire Frederick Forsyth spins a tale based on Gaston Lereaux's classic THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Set in 1906, twelve years after the tragic, disfigured hero escapes the opera house in Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical version, this story finds the Phantom living in New York City under the name Eric Mulheim and accumulating enormous wealth--first as a con artist, then as a Wall Street tycoon. Still desperate for beautiful Christine de Chagny's love and affection, he spends millions building the world's greatest opera house--a prop that he hopes might lure her to New York. But as the Phantom schemes for Christine's love, he stumbles upon a secret so potent it will change his life forever. Originally published at $6.99 You save 86% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 04/01/1998. 422 pgs. A writer named Philip who lives in London is having an affair with an Englishwoman. Both are married to other people and, later, when the affair is over and Philip's wife finds the manuscript of his new novel, she assumes it's a description of an actual love affair. He denies it, but in fact that's exactly what it is: the affair that inspired the novel he then writes. Philip Roth's novel, which is full of twists and turns that shed light on the many varieties of deception, consists entirely of dialogue between Philip and the various women in his life.. Originally published at $6.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Xlibris Corp. 09/01/1999. 249 pgs. A black comedy about a photographer married to a man whose bizarre, relentless clumsiness (deliberate? hapless?) goes out of control. Desperate after he breaks her foot, she resolves to hire a hit man and have him eliminated. Instead, she flees their Brooklyn apartment, then misses him and returns, only to find herself in real danger. Originally published at $28.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 11/29/2005. Reprint. 423 pgs. Godwin takes as her starting point George Gissing's feminist novel, THE ODD WOMEN, and tells the story of a contemporary woman who is outside the mainstream of tradition. Jane Clifford, a professor at a Midwestern college, is stuck in a long-term but unproductive affair with a married man. She is also facing middle age, loneliness, and a growing feeling of irrelevance. She goes home for her grandmother's funeral and confronts a few truths that help her make the decisions she needs to make. Originally published at $14.95 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 01/01/2001. 311 pgs. Superintendent Thomas Pitt investigates the murder of London's most renowned social photographer in this installment in Anne Perry's Victoriana mystery series. Scandal erupts when word gets out that Delbert Cathcart's body was discovered in a punt on the Thames, laid out in a green velvet dress reminiscent of Millais' rendering of Ophelia. And that's just the beginning. A presumably unrelated scandal involving Grandmama Mariah Ellison takes Pitt into controversial territory where women's liberation, sexual freedom, divorce laws, and artistic censorship reside. Originally published at $6.99 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 09/01/2004. Reprint. 3490 pgs. This is the omnibus edition of two previously published paranormal romances, the third and fourth installments of the Donovan Legacy. The series concerns a contemporary family whose members possess magical powers. CHARMED is the story of Anastasia Donovan, an empathic healer: she can sense others' feelings and can cure people by assuming their pain herself. When she falls in love with fantasy writer Boone Sawyer, Ana hides her powers for fear of being rebuffed by him. Such a situation would be doubly painful for her because she'd actually be able to feel her lover's thoughts of rejection. Unfortunately, Ana won't be able to keep her secrets forever. In ENCHANTED, beautiful, lonely schoolteacher Rowan Murray treats herself to a vacation at a friend's cabin on the Oregon coast. Once there, she meets her enchanting neighbor, handsome brooder Liam Donovan, and his golden-eyed pet wolf. Liam and the wolf are literally the stuff of dreams as Rowan begins to have spicy fantasies about her mysterious neighbor. Will Rowan finally act on her desires and turn these dreams into a reality? Originally published at $7.99 You save 75% off the cover price!

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