Warner Books Inc. 04/01/1997. 455 pgs. Evelyn Dobbs, the "Ship's Fool" hired to amuse the crew of the starship Pasadena on its long voyage, is the only one on board who can hope to subvert a plot to bring the human crew into a war with artificially intelligent beings. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1997. Originally published at $5.99 You save 77% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library Classics. 06/01/1961. Reissue. Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov makes his way through the rural Russian countryside visiting landowners and town officials in a scheme to buy up "dead souls"--serfs who have died since the last census. He secretly hopes to have enough "souls," at least on paper, for financial leverage in a real estate deal in eastern Russia. Chichikov is alternately welcomed and greeted with suspicion by villagers, lawyers, town presidents, fellow travelers, and retired military men. Through these characters, Gogol paints a semi-allegorical portrait of the attitudes, weaknesses, habits, and eccentricities of his fellow countrymen. Sometime after he began "Dead Souls" in the autumn of 1835, Gogol became more and more convinced that he was writing an epic that would embrace all of Russia. This ambition consumed him, and, although he worked tirelessly on this project until his death by fasting in 1852, the version of "Dead Souls", as it was published in 1841, remains the only finished volume of a projected three-volume work. Originally published at $4.95 You save 76% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 09/01/1997. A bitingly dark Hollywood satire, as frightening as it is funny, by a screenwriter whose specialty is evoking the sad-sack optimism of losers. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 11/01/1999. 314 pgs. Set in New Orleans, this caper novel is about the attempt to steal a religious icon from a group of French nuns. Originally published at $23.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 12/01/2001. Bilingual. 163 pgs. Based on the author's father's experiences in World War II, this is the story of a child in a French village who is deeply embarrassed by his schoolteacher father's extracurricular job as a clown who entertains at parties. However, when a family friend reveals to him the reasons why his father feels compelled to do this--reasons that go back to his father's work with the Resistance--the child is forced to change his attitude. Originally published at $12.95 You save 85% off the cover price!

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