Penguin USA. 12/01/1981. Reprint. In THE AMERICAN, a brash and wealthy American named Christopher Newman, a veteran of the Civil War, goes to Paris in search of an aristocratic wife. He falls in love with the widowed Claire de Cintré (née Bellegarde), whose ruthless, snobbish mother and older brother refuse to allow them to marry. Another family member tells Newman a family secret that he can use to force the Bellegardes to agree to the marriage, but he is too upright to do so. This early novel (1877) is one of Henry James's more accessible works, and his detailed, analytical, and always engaging view of American innocence as if succumbs to the jaded and cynical sophistication of the Old World makes for a highly enjoyable story. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Univ of Wisconsin Pr. 11/01/1980. 259 pgs. Unlike the movie, the Cain novel features no murder. Spanning the Depression era, it is the story of a suburban California wife and mother. At the beginning of the book, Mildred turns out her husband Bert, who is jobless and philandering. In order to support her two children and herself, she begins working as a waitress, which she finds abhorrent. Eventually, after different profitable liaisons, she starts a restaurant chain. She is subsumed in her work, obsessed by it, defined by it--as she is by her relationship to her daughter Veda. She draws Veda's heightened resentment, because the girl loves her father deeply, and Veda ultimately betrays Mildred. Originally published at $24.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 11/01/1995. Matthew Barber is the rare restaurant reviewer who goes incognito to the establishments he reviews. His manner of conducting his affairs, both intellectual and carnal, over these meals, lead him into a dangerous state of moral ambiguity, too close to madness for comfort. Spliced into the narrative are Barber's own restaurant reviews--acid and hilarious. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 01/01/1999. 336 pgs. Four African-American teenage girls, friends through high school (and known as "the pride," as in lionesses), grow up and try to make it in America. Each woman tells her own story, and the emphasis is on each one's independence and intelligence in the midst of life in a stultifying society. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 02/21/2005. Reprint. 367 pgs. This series of vignettes mercilessly exposes the stunted, quietly tragic life of an ordinary, middle-class, Middle American family man in Kansas City. Mr. Bridge is dutiful and generous but utterly unable to feel, and completely lacking in self-knowledge. Trying to do the right thing, he is mired in a Babbit-like respect for conformity and conventional morality, and as a result, he fails in nearly everything he strives for--despite his material success and his ability to provide for his family. Along with MRS. BRIDGE, this novel is a subtle indictment of many of the aspects of America that are often held up as admirable, but Evan S. Connell's subtlety and his comic touch ensure that we are also sympathetic to Mr. Bridge and wish him well. Originally published at $15.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Syracuse Univ Pr. 10/01/1995. Reprint. 161 pgs. In astronomy, a cannibal galaxy is a vast colony of stars that devourers smaller ones. With this metaphor, Cythia Ozick suggests something of the fate of Jewish people in modern Europe. The protagonist of this story is a French-Jewish survivor of Nazi-occupied France, now the principle of a school somewhere in the Midwest. He has so calcified his heart that he fails to recognize the blossoming prodigy that would fulfill his dreams. Originally published at $16.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 11/01/1994. Reissue. Four English aristocrats and their Irish servant go hunting for gold in the Klondike in 1897. They travel along the most difficult route on the principle that they will only travel on British soil, rather than take the easier path over U. S. lands. Originally published at $7.50 You save 76% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin College Div. 06/01/1973. A tale of corruption and moral decay by the celebrated Swiss novelist, translated from the original German. Walter Faber, a Swiss engineer working in South America, is brought by circumstance to see his life as nearly a complete failure. A close friend kills himself. An old professor and mentor becomes estranged. And finally Faber discovers that his young mistress is in fact his own daughter. She, too, dies later in the story, by which time Faber himself is dying of cancer. Originally published at $18.36 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 07/06/1998. Reprint. 248 pgs. Bunt Mallard is a middle-aged Englishman living in Hong Kong with his elderly mother. Bunt manages Imperial Stitching, a textile business started by his father, and has almost nothing to do with any part of China or Hong Kong that is not within the circuit of his colonial and expatriate clubs and hangouts. Despite the impending transfer of power to the Chinese in Hong Kong, Bunt makes no effort to accommodate himself to the changing times, and refuses a generous offer from Mr. Hung, a Chinese businessman who wants to buy out his business. Soon afterward, a worker in his factory disappears, and in the course of the investigation, Bunt begins to realize that his fate is inextricably bound with that of Hong Kong and China whether he likes it or not. Originally published at $13.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Warner Books Inc. 04/01/2000. 433 pgs. Years ago, Johnny and Kathleen Henry's love was ripped apart by misunderstandings and the violent winds of war. Now Johnny has finally returned from his tour of duty in the Pacific and would give anything to reunite with his beloved wife. But pride is keeping him from it. Kathleen, meanwhile, longs for Johnny's embrace but remains too ill at ease to welcome him home. All hurt is forgotten, however, when a crazed stalker threatens Kathleen's life. Now husband and wife are forced to work together to save their love and the life they once cherished. Originally published at $6.99 You save 86% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library Classics. 01/01/1990. Reissue. Misunderstood and unappreciated in its time, Melville's monumental work has become the classic epic of American literature. He tells the dual story of the initiation of young Ishmael, a schoolteacher, into the life of a seaman, and the tragedy of Captain Ahab's obsession with the white whale. The novel begins with a lengthy dissection of the word WHALE and its origins, and includes numerous citations about whales and the hunting of them, all taken from the extensive notes Melville accumulated during his research at the New York Public Library, and which he could not bear to leave out. After this rather pedantic beginning, the story proper begins. Another exploration of Melville's perennial themes of good vs. evil and the fundamental isolation of the human condition, MOBY-DICK is a layered, complex, allusive book that is part rip-roaring adventure tale, part quest, part travel chronicle, part picaresque coming-of-age novel. At the end of the wrenching narrative, Ishmael sets himself the task of telling the tale that would make Melville's reputation as one of the greatest American writers. Originally published at $4.95 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Pocket Books. 11/01/1996. Aurora Greenway is in her 70s. She has raised her daughter's children: Tommie is serving time for killing his girlfriend, Teddy is mentally unstable and married to an unfaithful, bisexual wife, and Melanie is pregnant and doesn't know who the father is. In the meantime, Aurora is nursing along one doddering, impotent lover while pursuing others. This book is a sequel to McMurtry's TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. Originally published at $6.99 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Pocket Books. 05/01/1999. 452 pgs. Mystery and romance collide in this modern tale of southern pride and prejudice. Respected photojournalist Memphis Maynard has returned to her childhood home in Yancey, West Virginia, to find out who murdered her grandmother, Sadie, 60 years ago. Was it the black man imprisoned for the crime? Or was the killer actually local yokel Cutter Tate's wealthy grandfather, Macauley? Though she is forced to confront several personal demons--including her slimy media hound of an ex-lover who follows her to Yancey to sensationalize the old murder story and to win her back--Memphis forms an attachment to Cutter not even she can control. Originally published at $6.50 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 06/01/1994. Reissue. 115 pgs. In a modern permutation of the Faust legend, a young novelist named Edward visits an aging great writer in the South of France. Upon learning a secret, he must make a dangerous bargain. The master writer dies, and Edward inherits his writing talents--along with an ancient manuscript, a beautiful and apparently ageless mistress, and horror the likes of which he has never known. Originally published at $17.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Troll Communications Llc. 09/01/1988. 48 pgs. Misunderstood and unappreciated in its time, Melville's monumental work has become the classic epic of American literature. He tells the dual story of the initiation of young Ishmael, a schoolteacher, into the life of a seaman, and the tragedy of Captain Ahab's obsession with the white whale. The novel begins with a lengthy dissection of the word WHALE and its origins, and includes numerous citations about whales and the hunting of them, all taken from the extensive notes Melville accumulated during his research at the New York Public Library, and which he could not bear to leave out. After this rather pedantic beginning, the story proper begins. Another exploration of Melville's perennial themes of good vs. evil and the fundamental isolation of the human condition, MOBY-DICK is a layered, complex, allusive book that is part rip-roaring adventure tale, part quest, part travel chronicle, part picaresque coming-of-age novel. At the end of the wrenching narrative, Ishmael sets himself the task of telling the tale that would make Melville's reputation as one of the greatest American writers. Originally published at $14.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Heinemann/Raintree. 04/01/1982. 47 pgs. Misunderstood and unappreciated in its time, Melville's monumental work has become the classic epic of American literature. He tells the dual story of the initiation of young Ishmael, a schoolteacher, into the life of a seaman, and the tragedy of Captain Ahab's obsession with the white whale. The novel begins with a lengthy dissection of the word WHALE and its origins, and includes numerous citations about whales and the hunting of them, all taken from the extensive notes Melville accumulated during his research at the New York Public Library, and which he could not bear to leave out. After this rather pedantic beginning, the story proper begins. Another exploration of Melville's perennial themes of good vs. evil and the fundamental isolation of the human condition, MOBY-DICK is a layered, complex, allusive book that is part rip-roaring adventure tale, part quest, part travel chronicle, part picaresque coming-of-age novel. At the end of the wrenching narrative, Ishmael sets himself the task of telling the tale that would make Melville's reputation as one of the greatest American writers. Originally published at $24.26 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Prometheus Books. 10/01/1996. 218 pgs. Ustinov examines the lives of the pompous and the unsung in this collection of stories. Originally published at $30.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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