Harpercollins. 12/01/2004. Reprint. 312 pgs. In London, an eccentric writer named Phillip is haunted by the fact that most of his friends are more successful than he is. He is also determined to track down Syd Barrett, who was once a member of Pink Floyd but has disappeared into the mists of time. Phillip's attempts to find an impressive gift for a wealthy pair of friends and to pull out all the stops in his quest for Syd Barrett culminate in his arrest--and some self-knowledge. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 03/01/1985. 338 pgs. Lodge uses the quest from medieval romance literature to tell the tale of Persse McGarrigle and his pursuit of the beautiful Angelica, as well as the quests of professors, critics and academic hangers-on for their various brass rings. Set in literary conferences held at universities, SMALL WORLD finds Persse flying all over the world after Angelica as she goes from conference to conference, culminating at the annual MLA conference in New York. Almost equally important, however, is the political jockeying among professors and critics for the UNESCO chair of Literary Theory, which involves no work and pays $100,000, tax-free. While SMALL WORLD is infused with a strong satiric flavor, Lodge also draws on the legend of the Fisher King in portraying a sterile, stagnant academic world consumed with greed and feeding off itself. Originally published at $1.98 You save 49% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/2002. Reprint. Billy Mann was orphaned and left on the doorstep of his grandparents' house as a baby. His father has died in Vietnam, and now Billy goes to New Mexico in search of his mother. He finds her daughter Sophia working in a bar in Santa Fe, and he finds a girlfriend named Consuelo, an ex-tightrope walker who sings in the bar. And eventually he finds his mother, too, the elusive Sky, as she is dying of cancer. Originally published at $12.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/1999. The classic coming-of age novel by the celebrated German author and Nobel Laureate. It tells the story of Arthur Sinclair, a young German from a wealthy family. Arthur is a constant target of bullying and abuse at school, until he makes the acquaintance of Max Demian, a mysterious new boy. Demian is at once sensitive and overpowering, and he fascinates Arthur long after they are separated. Many years later they are reunited at the university. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 03/01/1987. Reprint. Lambert Strether is dispatched to Paris by the widowed Mrs. Newsome--his fiancée--to bring back her son Chadwick. It is rumored that Chad has fallen under the spell of a Frenchwoman of dubious reputation, and his mother wants him to return to take over the running of the Newsome Mills, in Massachusetts. Once in Paris, Strether undergoes a personality change. Not only does he advise Chad to remain there with his lover--the charming Mme. de Vionnet--but he comes perilously close to succumbing to the city's magic himself. The ending is both unexpected and deeply ironic; Strether's situation illustrates James's lifelong preoccupation with the differences in culture, morality, and the concept of the good life in a city like Paris vs. a New England mill town. It is, of course, no secret where the author's sympathies lie. As the aging Strether expresses it in a word of advice to a younger character: "Live all you can....Don't miss things out of stupidity. Live!" James considered this novel to be his masterpiece, and--despite its extreme length, slowness, and quiet absence of action or real suspense--critical opinion generally agrees with him. Originally published at $7.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Lightning Source Inc. 09/01/1999. 247 pgs. Four wanderers in India are the focus of Jhabvala's powerful novel: two Indians (Asha, a widow, and Gopi, a student), an Englishman, and an American. Originally published at $15.50 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 09/01/1987. Olivia Rivers, first wife of colonial officer Douglas Rivers, is the central character in this book which is narrated by Anne, the granddaughter of Douglas Rivers by his second wife. In 1923, Olivia Rivers travels to India to join Douglas at his post, but she has difficulty adjusting because the British maintain such a distance from the Indians. Olivia finds a local man, Nawab, more interesting than British colonial society, and eventually she develops an affair with him. In a parallel story, the narrator also becomes enamored on an Indian man, her landlord Inder Lal. Written after Jhabvala had begun her film collaborations with Merchant/Ivory, the book contains 23 sections, juxtaposing certain scenes together in the manner of a film. The book won the 1975 Booker Prize. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/1996. 248 pgs. Sassela is at a crossroads. In her 30s, a schoolteacher living with a man who is no longer interesting to her, she meets Ciam. With his Caribbean accent and warm smile, he is like an invigorating island breeze washing over her cold and tired life. He is fifteen years younger than she, with no money or attachments; they find themselves together on a Greek island, where Sassela allows herself an affair with him. Seemingly innocent, this fling actually has dark implications, and Sassela finds that she is not in control of nearly as much as she thought. Originally published at $22.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 03/01/2004. Reprint. 352 pgs. Penny Culligan is a diabetic. Seven years before the novel begins, she lost her lover to a grizzly bear accident. Now a graduate student, she has about a year to live and decides to take a bicycle trip back to Alaska where her lover was killed. However, on the way, she accepts a ride from Ndele Rimes, who is possibly a professional basketball player, and who forces her to make a decision about her future. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/1997. Reprint. Sarah Durham is 65 years old and in love--first with a 28-year-old actor, and then with a 35-year-old director. The novel details Sarah's love, longing, desire, the sexuality of an older woman, grief, and a lifetime of love experiences. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 07/01/1998. 181 pgs. A novel about an American herpetologist searching for a rare Haitian frog. On his quest, he encounters an old Haitian guide, a local voodoo priest who is also a doctor and a frog expert, and his own dark memories of his failed marriage. Originally published at $13.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 09/01/1992. Reprint. Powers's almost dauntingly intellectual detective story is about a Midwestern molecular biologist who, in 1957, falls in love with a colleague and disappears. Twenty-five years later, a young couple tries to find him. The novel's title refers not only to Bach's Goldberg Variations but to Poe's story "The Gold Bug," both of which are elements of the plot. Originally published at $16.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 06/01/1992. Reprint. The love story of two college professors, Vivian Twostar and Roger Williams. They have little in common beyond a physical attraction and the fact that both are involved in research about Christopher Columbus. Vivian, a Native American and a single parent, is writing an academic piece on Columbus from the Native American viewpoint. Roger, an English professor and poet, is writing an epic poem about Columbus. The research brings them together on a quest for the truth about Columbus, and his impact on the contemporary world, and especially on the destinies of Native Americans. Originally published at $5.99 You save 71% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 02/01/1980. The unnamed narrator offers elegies to a lover who was famous, and who introduced him to a sort of sexual/friendly relationship that the narrator now feels, regretfully, he did not fully appreciate at the time--a relationship he has been trying, unsuccessfully, to recreate. Originally published at $6.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 03/01/1989. Reprint. In Saul Bellow's comic fable, Eugene Henderson, a discontented 55-year-old American millionaire, decides that money and all that it can buy is not enough. He travels to Africa, lives with an African tribe, and becomes a god to the people there when he convinces them he is able to make rain. Finally, knowing that his real gifts are as a healer, Henderson returns to the states to drastically change his life. Most of Bellow's novels are autobiographical, reaching into his own life and circle for plot and character, and in HENDERSON, the main character is reportedly based on a close friend--but Bellow has also claimed that, of all his creations, Henderson is the one most like himself. Originally published at $11.00 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 02/01/1995. 184 pgs. In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his ailing mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. This life-affirming novel illuminates the human experience: the need for an interior, spiritual life; for meaningful connections to the world in which we live; and for purity of vision. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 08/01/1987. This is a collection of Kesey's previously published work, focusing mostly on the Merry Prankster escapades, and the themes of seeking and questing. Originally published at $16.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 07/01/1987. Blue is hired by White to tail a man named Black who lives on Orange Street in Brooklyn Heights, and this assignment changes his life in ways he couldn't have expected. This hybrid of noir detective story and existential quest is set in 1947. Originally published at $5.95 You save 79% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 01/01/1997. 243 pgs. This novel about an immigrant's surreal adventures in Toronto includes characters who reappear in Ondaatje's novel THE ENGLISH PATIENT: the orphan Hana and the thief Caravaggio. Originally published at $13.00 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1996. Reprint. Felicia, an Irish girl in her late teens, falls for Johnny Lysaght. Pregnant, she searches for him in the factory towns north of Birmingham, but has only his lies about himself to guide her. Instead, she encounters Mr. Hilditch, a fat, sweaty catering manager at a local factory, who allows her to stay with him and arranges for her to have an abortion. His stories about five previous relationships arouse Felicia's suspicions as she struggles to exchange her innocence for freedom. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1998. Bradford Morrow takes the myth of Pandora's box as the basis for this story. Grant, the protagonist, sets out to help his aunt and uncle cope with a mysterious threat. After a family friend, Giovanni Trentas, is found dead, Grant is given an old cigar box filled with an odd collection of letters, photos, and objects--parts of a puzzle that may explain Giovanni's death and more. Originally published at $12.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1999. 288 pgs. A novel with some of the characteristics of an almanac, including astrological tidbits, planting advice, and short biographies of the famous--as well as the story of two modern lovers, their families, and their star-crossed romance. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1999. 254 pgs. Three childhood friends--Lesley (a St. Louis society woman), Julia (a Manhattan interior designer), and Margo (a teacher and divorced single mother) embark on a journey to London when a violent act forces them to take account of their lives. New worlds await the women in the markets and countryside surrounding Mrs. Smith-Porter's bed and breakfast. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 08/01/2000. Reissue. 15 pgs. A young woman searches for her father in the Australian desert. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1988. Reprint. DON QUIXOTE is the story of an aging gentleman who decides that he is a latter-day knight-errant, bound to sally forth to defend the world from evil. He enlists as his squire a neighboring peasant, Sancho Panza. Together they have many adventures across Spain until the gentleman's friends are able to convince him to return home and resume his old life. The most famous of all Spanish novels, the first part of DON QUIXOTE was published in 1605. The second part was published (after a spurious sequel was published by another author) in 1615. Originally published at $8.95 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1982. Reprint. Hugo's wrenching story centers on Jean Valjean, an honest peasant sentenced to five years' hard labor for stealing a loaf of bread, then 19 more for trying to escape. Turned into a hardened and ruthless criminal by his experiences, he reforms, becomes mayor of a French town, but is tracked down by the pitiless detective Javert for another obscure crime, and incarcerated. Escaping again from the brutal French prison, he befriends a prostitute named Fantine and her daughter, Cosette. This 1862 novel is remarkable for its sympathetic portrayal of common people: prisoners, the poor, women of the streets--all the down-and-out victims of the gross inequities of class in 19th-century Europe. Originally published at $11.95 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 07/01/2001. Reissue. 418 pgs. The eponymous Fiona is the black-sheep daughter of the Hollis family in small-town Massachusetts. She becomes simultaneously involved with her cousin's fiancé and the same cousin's old boyfriend, and looks for her long-lost father in a Vietnam vet with a violent history. As Fiona follows her self-destructive course, secrets of the past surface in a thrilling dénouement. Originally published at $14.00 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 09/01/2000. 170 pgs. Deep in the wilderness of Tasmania, a hunter named M. is looking for the elusive Tasmanian tiger--the thylacine--in order to isolate its rare genetic material. In his quest, he becomes one with the mind of the tiger, and more and more distant from humanity. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. Originally published at $20.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/2002. Reprint. 391 pgs. This literary mystery takes place in 1660 London, when a man named Isaac Inchbold is hired to find a manuscript that disappeared from a rural castle during one of Cromwell's raids. As Isaac searches for the manuscript and tries to unravel its mysteries, he also learns a great deal about the family who has engaged him, and about their enigmatic family motto, "Littera Scripta Manet." Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 07/01/1998. 274 pgs. Jenny Brown moves to California with her husband and tries both to find her biological mother and to have a child herself. Unexpectedly, she gets involved with a wacky adult education school called the Institute of Affirmation, and finds it curiously supportive. Originally published at $23.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 06/07/2004. Reissue. 480 pgs. A Spanish sailor named Coy becomes intrigued by a beautiful woman he encounters at a maritime auction. Her name is Tánger, and she is in search of a lost treasure that she believes lies at the bottom of the ocean off the coast. She draws Coy into her obsessive scheme to find it--and he, of course, falls in love with her. Originally published at $14.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 03/01/2001. 216 pgs. Mycroft Holmes, acknowledged by all to be a slightly mad genius, was Sherlock's brother. Was he also the uncle of young Damien, the hero of Marcel Theroux's second novel? When Uncle Patrick dies, Damien's discoveries about his uncle lead him to believe that his relative's life contained more than the family knew. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. Originally published at $23.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 10/01/1989. Grass's unusual novel about German life during the Nazi era is a powerful examination of the psyche of a country. It consists of three sections--the first, narrated by Herr Brauxel (a.k.a. Eddi Amsel), the second and third by his childhood friends Harry Liebenau (whose portion of the book consists of love letters to his cousin) and Walter Matern, an actor. Eddi is Jewish, Matern Catholic, but the two, opposite in many ways, consider themselves "blood brothers." During the war, however, Matern becomes a Nazi Stormtrooper who persecutes Eddi by beating him up and knocking out his teeth. The underlying theme of Grass's complex and many-layered story is the way in which the artist can transform evil into art. Originally published at $17.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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Oxford Univ Pr. 08/01/1998. 1087 pgs. Perhaps the greatest--and certainly the most famous--novel ever written in Spanish, DON QUIXOTE is the classic picaresque tale of a knight-errant living in a world which has no use for him. Written as a history, it gives an account of the life of Don Quixote of la Mancha, a deluded 17th-century Spaniard who believes himself to be a medieval knight and attempts to win renown through acts of chivalry that are invariably disastrous or absurd. One of the earliest examples of the novel form, it remains to this day among the most influential and best-loved works of fiction in any language. Originally published at $9.95 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 08/01/1992. Reprint. 231 pgs. Chandler's most famous protagonist, private detective Philip Marlowe, appears in this first novel. Drawn from Arthurian legend, Marlowe is a modern knight, dedicated to causes greater than himself and to restoring order in the world. His first priority is always his client. He is also wary of the authorities, although Chandler takes a more benevolent view of the police than do other writers of the noir genre. In this novel, Marlowe must discover what has happened to Rusty Regan, the beloved son-in-law of Marlowe's client General Sternwood. This book was originally published in 1939. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Univ of Chicago Pr. 08/01/2001. 321 pgs. Jackson Payne was one of the great be-bop tenor sax players; he was also a dope addict and sometime criminal who died mysteriously. A musicology professor, Charles Quinlan, who is writing Payne's biography, becomes immersed in his project, neglecting his family and his students in an increasingly obsessive quest for the truth of Payne's life. Originally published at $15.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Univ of Wisconsin Pr. 11/01/2002. 127 pgs. Two novellas: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN is about Isaac Gantz, a musicologist who becomes obsessed with a musical interpretation of the Hebrew alphabet, the secret of which lies with an enigmatic man named Friedmann, whom Gantz tracks down in Budapest; WEEKENDS IN MUSTARA is about a man named (like the author) Leviant who becomes involved in a search for a missing antiquity during a research trip to an Eastern European town. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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