Harpercollins. 07/01/1979. In this collection of acclaimed short fiction by a modern master of the form, the title piece--Garcia Marquez's first novel, originally published in 1955--stands out. It takes place in the fictional town, Macondo, made famous in ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE. In LEAF STORM, the place has been devastated by the closing of the banana company that gave it what little prosperity it had. Told from the shifting points of view of an old colonel, his difficult daughter, and his young grandson, it revolves around the colonel's long-ago promise to give a decent burial to the man his fellow citizens hate most. This volume also includes four stories from the collection INNOCENT ERENDIRA (1972), and two early stories, "Nabo" and "Monologue of Isabel Watching the Rain in Macondo." Originally published at $11.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 05/01/1992. A famous reclusive novelist becomes involved with international terrorism, finding through involvement in a dubious cause an escape from the doomed book he is working on. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 10/01/1994. Reprint. Annette Horrocks has finally succeeded in getting pregnant, after 10 year of trying, and is also about to have a first novel published. Then she discovers that her husband is having an affair. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 01/01/1995. In Roddy Doyle's novel witty and poignant novel of working-class life in Dublin, 10-year-old Paddy copes with his parents' fights, his earthy neighborhood, and the trials of his little brother Sinbad. PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA was the winner of the Booker Prize in 1993. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 10/01/1995. Reprint. In this comic novel, a Southern storekeeper whose livelihood has been destroyed by a Walmart-like chain called Monster Marts kidnaps their creator and attempts to make him apologize for what he has done. Originally published at $20.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 02/01/1997. Reprint. Corporal Lituma and his young adjutant investigate the sinister disappearance of three men in Andian mountains. The duo find themselves caught up in forgotten mountain communities and rituals--including a local couple performing cannibalistic sacrifices with a strange similarity to the Dionysian rituals of ancient Greece. Originally published at $15.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1980. Reprint. Inspired by an anecdote told to George Eliot by her aunt, ADAM BEDE is notable for its extraordinarily realistic characters and convincing depiction of English rural life, complete with the earthy Derbyshire dialect of the title character. It is the story of Hetty Sorrel, the dairymaid who spurns the working-class Adam, a carpenter, for the faithless lord of the manor, and is abandoned by him after she becomes pregnant. When it was first published, in 1859, the book earned praise for its nuanced and unflinching description of a young woman's fall from grace and for Adam's simple righteousness. But George Eliot's choice of this scandalous subject matter for her first novel also met a great deal of adverse criticism, and only reaffirmed her decision to publish her novels under a pseudonym rather than as Mary Ann Evans, her given name. ADAM BEDE has also become famous for Eliot's groundbreaking defense, in chapter 17, of realism in art: "I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind. The mirror is doubtless defective….but I feel as much bound to tell you, as precisely as I can, what that reflection is, as if I were in the witness-box narrating my experience on oath." In this same section, she also makes a plea that her readers "tolerate, pity, and love" their fellow mortals despite their faults and sins--a sentiment that is embodied most vividly in ADAM BEDE. Originally published at $8.95 You save 79% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 08/01/1983. Turgenev's "comedy in five acts" was written in 1850. It depicts a love triangle straddling social and class barriers. Natalia is the bored wife residing at her husband's country estate who falls in love with her son's tutor. Vera, Natalia's ward, also falls for him and this rivalry results in the tutor being sent away. In the course of its various performances, it was among the first dramatic works to help establish Stanislavsky's acting methods by virtue of Turgenev's finely nuanced psychological dialogue. The play is also considered an important precursor to the style and subjects taken up by Chekhov. Originally published at $8.95 You save 81% off the cover price!

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Tor Books. 04/01/1999. Reissue. In the first book of the Homecoming series, an artificial intelligence charged with protecting the descendants of Earth's settlers on the planet Harmony, finds that its failing systems will need to be repaired. It only way to do that is to return to Earth, and facing the reasons that that planet was abandoned tens of thousands of years earlier. Originally published at $7.99 You save 82% off the cover price!

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Tor Books. 01/01/1994. The second book in the Homecoming series finds Nafai and his family selected to help save the Oversoul--the artificial intelligence protecting the people of Harmony--even as dissent and chaos begin to spread on the formerly peaceful colony world. Originally published at $7.99 You save 76% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 10/01/2001. 368 pgs. A group of people living in a town that was once a model of Chinese Communist aspirations struggles to adapt to the post-Mao world of the 1990s. They include an old man who was a Communist enthusiast until he was jailed, a student revolutionary who has become a millionaire, his old girlfriend who is now a prostitute, and a former opera singer whose only hope of renown now lies with her daughter. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Little Brown & Co. 09/01/1999. In Waugh's satire of American life, Barlow, the English protagonist, is a young man who comes to Hollywood to stay with the screenwriter Francis Hinsley, his uncle. Shortly after Barlow's arrival, Hinsley is fired from his position and hangs himself. While making arrangements for the burial, Barlow falls in love with Aimee Thanatogenes, one of the embalmers at the funeral home. Barlow courts Aimee by sending her plagiarized poems about death, and he takes a job at a nearby pet cemetery in order to raise enough money to get married. However, Aimee's boss, Mr. Joyboy, is also in love with her and concocts a plan to get Barlow out of the way. One of the most outrageous black comedies ever written, "The Loved One" is probably the most biting of all Waugh's satirical works. Originally published at $13.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 01/01/1990. Pat Barker's first novel is a bleak chronicle of the lives--from youth to old age--of working-class women in the north of England. Originally published at $4.95 You save 72% off the cover price!

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Farrar Straus & Giroux. 09/01/1995. The setting for this novel is an unnamed northern European capital which was occupied by the Germans during the Second World War. The protagonist is curator of the Palm House in the city's Botanical Garden, noted for the fine collection of tropical plants within its glass walls. The curator takes in a castrated young Gypsy as the war draws to a close in order to save the youth from a violent mob. Originally published at $22.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 01/01/1994. This literary thriller portrays the café life in Berlin during the days just before the Nazis came to power. Originally published at $10.00 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 09/01/1977. 295 pgs. Set against what Drabble sees as the spiritual wasteland of British life in the mid-1970s, this is the story of a television producer fighting off ennui who goes into real estate speculation and faces financial ruin. His long-time lover Alison, after a life of devotion to her cerebral palsy-afflicted daughter, finds she no longer has a role. The story is presented in first-person narratives alternating with vignettes of everyday life of the period. Originally published at $10.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 09/01/1981. Updike's third novel (after RABBIT, RUN and RABBIT REDUX) about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom follows the Pennsylvania car salesman's passage into middle age in the turbulent 1970s. Rabbit has achieved success as a salesman at Springer Motors, but his life is not without problems, including the return of his recalcitrant son Nelson, the return of an old flame into his life, and the ever-volatile relationship with Janice, his wife. Originally published at $35.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 10/01/1987. This novel traces the lives of three old college friends from their meeting at a New Year's Eve party as the 1970s become the 80s, to a point five years later when they and the world have changed profoundly. Originally published at $18.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 09/01/1971. With the coming of the First World War, Marcel's milieu undergoes changes, epitomized by the emergence of Mme. Verdurin as the new princesse de Guermantes. Marcel's friend Robert de Saint-Loup marries Gilberte. Marcel visits Gilberte at Swann's old estate in Combray, but the visit is not a success: Marcel is no longer enchanted by his old village and its surroundings, and, ill and unhappy, he enters a rest home outside Paris. When he returns, a reception at the Guermantes' triggers memories of the past--an echo at the end of Proust's masterwork that echoes the "madeleine" episode of the beginning--and reawakens his desire to write. He also sees that subject: the loss of that desire, and the recapture of it through the involuntary workings of memory. His book, in other words, will be the story of his own life. Marcel looks back on his life and realizes that his true vocation is the transformation of his experience into literature. He is introduced to Gilberte's daughter, who combines the two "ways" of his childhood and reconciles him to the workings of time and to his place in it. He begins work on his great book, always aware that he hasn't long to live. Originally published at $5.95 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 04/01/1998. 246 pgs. You might call Kurt Clausen a terminal smart-ass. He thinks that much of what gets into newspapers is stupid, and he doesn't mind saying so. John Welter's first novel offers an irreverent look at the wayward press and a portrait of a lonely young man waging a guerilla war on pomposity. Originally published at $6.99 You save 86% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library Classics. 04/01/1992. Reissue. Two of Forster's most celebrated novels in one volume. HOWARDS END is a vivid portrait of life in Edwardian England, centered on an old country house in Hertfordshire, the object of an inheritance dispute. When the bohemian Schlegel sisters, Helen and Margaret, meet the Wilcox family, convention gives way to a more complex set of standards and emotions in this beloved and remarkable novel. In A ROOM WITH A VIEW, Lucy Honeychurch, who is visiting Florence with her very proper chaperone, faints into the arms of a fellow tourist, and a chain of events is set in motion that culminate in Lucy's having to choose between passion and propriety. Originally published at $6.95 You save 71% off the cover price!

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Pocket Books. 09/01/1992. During this six-month chronicle, Tyler Johnson roams the earth on a trip through the psyche of modern 20-something who are trying to get along in the world their parents made. Originally published at $20.00 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 01/01/1997. Reprint. Kazuo Ishiguro's THE UNCONSOLED (1995) is the story of a famous pianist named Ryder, who visits an unnamed European city to give a recital. Ryder, who is suffering from a kind of amnesia, seems to be well known in the city, and in fact discovers that a woman and a young boy living there may be his wife and son--but he has no memory of either of them or of ever being there before. And, though he seems to be somewhere in Central Europe, surreal glimmers of English settings and of Ryder's life there haunt him as he travels around the city. In the course of his visit, he meets many people who want his help with various problems, and he begins to think he remembers these people from somewhere--or does he? The day is unusually long, and night seems never to arrive, as--in a book that resonates with wit, humanity, and elements of Kafkaesque satire--Ishiguro explores the nature of memory and of fame. Originally published at $15.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 02/01/1997. 288 pgs. Just before the Millennium, New York City is breaking down: arson is rampant, a mad religious sect awaits the apocalypse in a subway tunnel under Grand Central Station, a blistering heat wave engulfs the city, and the novel's four main characters search desperately for love in the midst of chaos. Originally published at $23.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 04/01/1996. Reprint. 233 pgs. This is the first novel by noted essayist and travel writer Pico Iyer. "Cuba and the Night" is a love story about an American photojournalist and young Cuban woman. Their story is set against the disintegration of Cuban society which has been occurring since the fall of the Iron Curtain. The city of Havana and the lives of its inhabitants have a new chronicler. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 02/01/1996. In this philosophical exploration of art, language, time, and identity, Winterson's novel sets three masters--Handel, Picasso, and Sappho--together on a high-speed train. Originally published at $13.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Crossway Books. 01/01/1985. Illustrated. 436 pgs. A writer is made an offer he can't refuse--either die or travel to an off-world colony to write about its condition. This is the first of the Empyrion duology.

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Pub Group West. 09/01/1998. 416 pgs. A comic fantasy by the British author of "Cock & Bull" and "My Idea of Fun". The story relates the travails of Simon Dykes, who awakes from troubled dreams one morning to discover that his girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1997. Originally published at $13.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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