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<title><![CDATA[The Best Things to Do in New York City]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780789313980</link>
<description><![CDATA[What are 1001 things you should treat yourself and your guests to in New York City? Be serenaded by Cole Porter's piano at the Waldorf, or hear Woody Allen play clarinet at the Carlyle. Drink champagne on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum, or discover the abandoned subway station at City Hall. Eat at America's very first pizzeria, or enjoy the most expensive cocktail in the country at the World Bar. Ride the Staten Island Ferry, or ride a  bike through Central Park. Go surfing out at Rockaway Beach, or relax in a Russian bath in the East Village . . . . Organized by theme–including Eating and Drinking, 24-hour New York, Shopping and Spending, Arts and Culture, Views and Sites, the Great Outdoors, and Classic New York–and packed with detailed, helpful indexes organized by neighborhood and by category, this is simply the most fun and comprehensive guidebook to New York City ever. The Best Things to Do in New York crosses genres and boroughs to explore every aspect of the most diverse and exciting city in the world. Written from experience by two people who love the city, and featuring priceless tips from expert contributors–from authors on their favorite bookstores to architects on the city's best buildings–The Best Things to do in New York is much more than just a guide.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Best Things to Do in New York City]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caitlin Leffel; Jacob Lehman]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Universe]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780789313980]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[What are 1001 things you should treat yourself and your guests to in New York City? Be serenaded by Cole Porter's piano at the Waldorf, or hear Woody Allen play clarinet at the Carlyle. Drink champagne on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum, or discover the abandoned subway station at City Hall. Eat at America's very first pizzeria, or enjoy the most expensive cocktail in the country at the World Bar. Ride the Staten Island Ferry, or ride a  bike through Central Park. Go surfing out at Rockaway Beach, or relax in a Russian bath in the East Village . . . . Organized by theme–including Eating and Drinking, 24-hour New York, Shopping and Spending, Arts and Culture, Views and Sites, the Great Outdoors, and Classic New York–and packed with detailed, helpful indexes organized by neighborhood and by category, this is simply the most fun and comprehensive guidebook to New York City ever. The Best Things to Do in New York crosses genres and boroughs to explore every aspect of the most diverse and exciting city in the world. Written from experience by two people who love the city, and featuring priceless tips from expert contributors–from authors on their favorite bookstores to architects on the city's best buildings–The Best Things to do in New York is much more than just a guide.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2006-10-17T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Babbitt]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780451527080</link>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Babbitt]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sinclair  Lewis; Loren  Baritz]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Signet Classics]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780451527080]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9780553904390]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>1998-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Main Street]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780553214512</link>
<description><![CDATA[The first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. Young college graduate Carol Milford moves from the city to tiny Gopher Prairie after marrying the local doctor, and tries to bring culture to the small town. But her efforts to reform the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, conventionality, pitifully unambitious cultural endeavors, and—worst of all—the pettiness and bigotry of small-town minds.Lewis’s portrayal of a marriage torn by disillusionment and a woman forced into compromises is at once devastating social satire and persuasive realism. His subtle characterizations and intimate details of small-town America make Main Street a complex and compelling work and established Lewis as an important figure in twentieth-century American literature.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Main Street]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sinclair Lewis]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Bantam Classics]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780553214512]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. Young college graduate Carol Milford moves from the city to tiny Gopher Prairie after marrying the local doctor, and tries to bring culture to the small town. But her efforts to reform the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, conventionality, pitifully unambitious cultural endeavors, and—worst of all—the pettiness and bigotry of small-town minds.Lewis’s portrayal of a marriage torn by disillusionment and a woman forced into compromises is at once devastating social satire and persuasive realism. His subtle characterizations and intimate details of small-town America make Main Street a complex and compelling work and established Lewis as an important figure in twentieth-century American literature.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9780553905359]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>1996-03-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Writing New York]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780671042356</link>
<description><![CDATA[New York is simply too big -- too lush, too rich with history, too integral to the texture of human life during the past two centuries -- for any one writer to tell its story. A proper literary portrait of the storied city demands nothing less than a multiplicity of voices.For this ambitious purpose, Phillip Lopate has selected a stunningly expansive and deeply illuminating collection of the best writing about the world's greatest city. As seen through the eyes of more than one hundred writers -- from Washington Irving, the first New York author to establish an international reputation, to Stephen Crane, Henry James, Dawn Powell, and Langston Hughes -- the Big Apple shines in dazzling and unprecedented ways. "Writing New York" is every bit as vital and surprising as the city it celebrates.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Writing New York]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phillip Lopate]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Washington Square Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780671042356]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[New York is simply too big -- too lush, too rich with history, too integral to the texture of human life during the past two centuries -- for any one writer to tell its story. A proper literary portrait of the storied city demands nothing less than a multiplicity of voices.For this ambitious purpose, Phillip Lopate has selected a stunningly expansive and deeply illuminating collection of the best writing about the world's greatest city. As seen through the eyes of more than one hundred writers -- from Washington Irving, the first New York author to establish an international reputation, to Stephen Crane, Henry James, Dawn Powell, and Langston Hughes -- the Big Apple shines in dazzling and unprecedented ways. "Writing New York" is every bit as vital and surprising as the city it celebrates.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2000-04-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780805068030</link>
<description><![CDATA[A special 60th anniversary edition of the bestselling re-creation of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, by the author of A Night to Remember.Sunday, December 7, 1941, was, as President Roosevelt said, "a date which will live in infamy." Day of Infamy is a fascinating account of that unforgettable day's events. In brilliant detail Walter Lord traces the human drama of the great attack: the spies behind it; the Japanese pilots; the crews on the stricken warships; the men at the airfields and the bases; the Japanese pilot who captured an island single-handedly when he could not get back to his carrier; the generals, the sailors, the housewives, and the children who responded to the attack with anger, numbness, and magnificent courage.In piecing together the saga of Pearl Harbor, Lord traveled over fourteen thousand miles and spoke or corresponded with over five hundred individuals who were there. He obtained exclusive interviews with members of the Japanese attacking force and spent hundreds of hours with the Americans who received the blow -- not just the admirals and generals, but enlisted men and families as well. He visited each of the Hawaiian bases attacked and pored over maps, charts, letters, diaries, official files, newspapers, and some twenty-five thousand pages of testimony, discovering a wealth of information that had never before been revealed. Day of Infamy is an inspiring human document and the best account we have of one of the epic events in American history.                                         Walter Lord is the author of several bestselling works of history, including A Night to Remember, a re-creation of the sinking of the Titanic.                                             In Day of Infamy, Walter Lord traces in brilliant detail the human drama of the great surprise attack on America’s Pacific Fleet on December 7, 1941: the spies behind it; the Japanese pilots; the crews on the stricken warships; the men at the airfields and on the bases; the generals, sailors, housewives, and children who responded to this attack with anger, numbness, and magnificent courage.Republished in 2001 to mark its 60th anniversary, this indespensible and inspiring account of how exactly Pearl Harbor happened is one of the classic books on America’s involvement in World War II.                                     “There have been many books on Pearl Harbor . . . but none of them have ever equaled Lord’s in telling the story of Pearl Harbor.”—Stephen E. Ambrose“[This] carefully planned hour-by-hour recording of the surprise assault on Pearl Harbor [is] as engrossing as the story of the sinking of the Titanic and more harrowing.”—The Atlantic"Stuns the reader with the weight of reality."—James Michener, The New York Times"A behind-the-scenes story that is utterly fascinating."—Chicago Sunday Tribune]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Day of Infamy, 60th Anniversary]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Lord]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Holt Paperbacks]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780805068030]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A special 60th anniversary edition of the bestselling re-creation of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, by the author of A Night to Remember.Sunday, December 7, 1941, was, as President Roosevelt said, "a date which will live in infamy." Day of Infamy is a fascinating account of that unforgettable day's events. In brilliant detail Walter Lord traces the human drama of the great attack: the spies behind it; the Japanese pilots; the crews on the stricken warships; the men at the airfields and the bases; the Japanese pilot who captured an island single-handedly when he could not get back to his carrier; the generals, the sailors, the housewives, and the children who responded to the attack with anger, numbness, and magnificent courage.In piecing together the saga of Pearl Harbor, Lord traveled over fourteen thousand miles and spoke or corresponded with over five hundred individuals who were there. He obtained exclusive interviews with members of the Japanese attacking force and spent hundreds of hours with the Americans who received the blow -- not just the admirals and generals, but enlisted men and families as well. He visited each of the Hawaiian bases attacked and pored over maps, charts, letters, diaries, official files, newspapers, and some twenty-five thousand pages of testimony, discovering a wealth of information that had never before been revealed. Day of Infamy is an inspiring human document and the best account we have of one of the epic events in American history.                                         Walter Lord is the author of several bestselling works of history, including A Night to Remember, a re-creation of the sinking of the Titanic.                                             In Day of Infamy, Walter Lord traces in brilliant detail the human drama of the great surprise attack on America’s Pacific Fleet on December 7, 1941: the spies behind it; the Japanese pilots; the crews on the stricken warships; the men at the airfields and on the bases; the generals, sailors, housewives, and children who responded to this attack with anger, numbness, and magnificent courage.Republished in 2001 to mark its 60th anniversary, this indespensible and inspiring account of how exactly Pearl Harbor happened is one of the classic books on America’s involvement in World War II.                                     “There have been many books on Pearl Harbor . . . but none of them have ever equaled Lord’s in telling the story of Pearl Harbor.”—Stephen E. Ambrose“[This] carefully planned hour-by-hour recording of the surprise assault on Pearl Harbor [is] as engrossing as the story of the sinking of the Titanic and more harrowing.”—The Atlantic"Stuns the reader with the weight of reality."—James Michener, The New York Times"A behind-the-scenes story that is utterly fascinating."—Chicago Sunday Tribune]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2001-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Bronx Zoo]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781572437159</link>
<description><![CDATA[The former "New York Times" bestseller is now available in trade paperback a quarter century after Golenbock's detailed examination of the 1979 New York Yankees World Series championship became hailed as one of the best baseball books written.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Bronx Zoo]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sparky Lyle; Peter Golenbock]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Triumph Books (IL)]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781572437159]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The former "New York Times" bestseller is now available in trade paperback a quarter century after Golenbock's detailed examination of the 1979 New York Yankees World Series championship became hailed as one of the best baseball books written.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2005-04-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Serpico]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060738181</link>
<description><![CDATA[The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. The so-called blue code of silence protected the minority of crooked cops from the sanction of the majority. Into this maelstrom came a working class, Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair, a beard, and a taste for opera and ballet. Frank Serpico was a man who couldn't be silenced -- or bought -- and he refused to go along with the system. He had sworn an oath to uphold the law, even if the perpetrators happened to be other cops. For this unwavering commitment to justice, Serpico nearly paid with his life.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Serpico]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Maas]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Harper Paperbacks]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780060738181]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. The so-called blue code of silence protected the minority of crooked cops from the sanction of the majority. Into this maelstrom came a working class, Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair, a beard, and a taste for opera and ballet. Frank Serpico was a man who couldn't be silenced -- or bought -- and he refused to go along with the system. He had sworn an oath to uphold the law, even if the perpetrators happened to be other cops. For this unwavering commitment to justice, Serpico nearly paid with his life.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2005-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[CIA]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780440203360</link>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[CIA]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victor Marchetti; John D. Marks]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Dell Publishing Company]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780440203360]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1989-02-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061120091</link>
<description><![CDATA[ One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.     One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gabriel Garcia Marquez]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Harper Perennial Modern Classics]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780061120091]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.     One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9780822071556]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>2006-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Life of Pi]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780156027328</link>
<description><![CDATA[The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. 	The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional--but is it more true?]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Life of Pi]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yann Martel]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Mariner Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780156027328]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. 	The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional--but is it more true?]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2003-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Of Human Bondage]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780140185225</link>
<description><![CDATA[Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a clergyman, but Philip sheds his religious faith and begins to study art in Paris.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Of Human Bondage]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[W. Somerset  Maugham; Robert  Calder]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Penguin Classics]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780140185225]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a clergyman, but Philip sheds his religious faith and begins to study art in Paris.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9780553902372]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>1992-03-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Up at the Villa]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375724626</link>
<description><![CDATA[Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects).In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy.On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days.  But driving into the hills above Florence alone that evening, Mary offers a ride to a handsome stranger.  And suddenly, her life is utterly, irrevocably altered.For this stranger is a refugee of war, and he harbors more than one form of passion.  Before morning, Mary will witness bloodshed, she will be forced to seek advice and assistance from an unsavory man, and she will have to face the truth about her own yearnings.  Erotic, haunting, and maddeningly suspenseful, Up at the Villa is a masterful tale of temptation and the capricious nature of fate.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Up at the Villa]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[W. Somerset Maugham]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780375724626]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects).In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy.On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and decides to postpone her reply a few days.  But driving into the hills above Florence alone that evening, Mary offers a ride to a handsome stranger.  And suddenly, her life is utterly, irrevocably altered.For this stranger is a refugee of war, and he harbors more than one form of passion.  Before morning, Mary will witness bloodshed, she will be forced to seek advice and assistance from an unsavory man, and she will have to face the truth about her own yearnings.  Erotic, haunting, and maddeningly suspenseful, Up at the Villa is a masterful tale of temptation and the capricious nature of fate.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2000-04-11T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Jamaica Inn]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780380725397</link>
<description><![CDATA[The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother's dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn's dark power. But never did Mary dream that she would become hopelessly ensnared in the vile, villainous schemes being hatched within its crumbling walls -- or that a handsome, mysterious stranger would so incite her passions ... tempting her to love a man whom she dares not trust.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Jamaica Inn]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daphne Du Maurier]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Avon]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780380725397]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother's dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn's dark power. But never did Mary dream that she would become hopelessly ensnared in the vile, villainous schemes being hatched within its crumbling walls -- or that a handsome, mysterious stranger would so incite her passions ... tempting her to love a man whom she dares not trust.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1995-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Rebecca]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780380730407</link>
<description><![CDATA[ With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten&#8212a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house's current occupants. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, determined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim's first wife&#8212the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca.   This special edition of Rebecca includes excerpts from Daphne du Maurier's The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories, an essay on the real Manderley, du Maurier's original epilogue to the book, and more. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Rebecca]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daphne Du Maurier]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Harper Paperbacks]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780380730407]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten&#8212a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house's current occupants. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, determined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim's first wife&#8212the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca.   This special edition of Rebecca includes excerpts from Daphne du Maurier's The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories, an essay on the real Manderley, du Maurier's original epilogue to the book, and more. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2006-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Group]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780156372084</link>
<description><![CDATA[McCarthy’s most celebrated novel portrays the experiences of eight young women from Vassar College, Class of  ‘33. As the story opens, they meet in New York City for the wedding of Kay, one of  “the group.” The author then describes the lives, loves, and aspirations of these women until they reconvene seven years later in the same city for Kay’s funeral. “Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost continually brilliant” (Cosmopolitan).]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Group]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary McCarthy]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Mariner Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780156372084]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[McCarthy’s most celebrated novel portrays the experiences of eight young women from Vassar College, Class of  ‘33. As the story opens, they meet in New York City for the wedding of Kay, one of  “the group.” The author then describes the lives, loves, and aspirations of these women until they reconvene seven years later in the same city for Kay’s funeral. “Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost continually brilliant” (Cosmopolitan).]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1991-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Angela's Ashes]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780684842677</link>
<description><![CDATA[Frank McCourt returned to America when he was nineteen. For many years, he was an English teacher at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. The sequel to Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, will be published in the fall of 1999. McCourt lives in Connecticut.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Angela's Ashes]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frank McCourt]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Scribner]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780684842677]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Frank McCourt returned to America when he was nineteen. For many years, he was an English teacher at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. The sequel to Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, will be published in the fall of 1999. McCourt lives in Connecticut.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1999-05-25T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780618084746</link>
<description><![CDATA[With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer moves into the Kelly house, where Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (and loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music. Wonderfully attuned to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated -- and, through Mick Kelly, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.     Richard Wright praised Carson McCullers for her ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." She writes "with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming," said the NEW YORK TIMES. McCullers became an overnight literary sensation, but her novel has endured, just as timely and powerful today as when it was first published. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, endearing best.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carson McCullers]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Mariner Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780618084746]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer moves into the Kelly house, where Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (and loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music. Wonderfully attuned to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated -- and, through Mick Kelly, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.     Richard Wright praised Carson McCullers for her ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." She writes "with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming," said the NEW YORK TIMES. McCullers became an overnight literary sensation, but her novel has endured, just as timely and powerful today as when it was first published. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, endearing best.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2000-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385494243</link>
<description><![CDATA[On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is editor of the newspaper The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister.In the days that follow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences that neither could have foreseen. Each will make a disastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to its limits, and Julian Garmony will be fighting for his political life. A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel, Amsterdam is "as sheerly enjoyable a book as one is likely to pick up this year" (The Washington Post Book World).]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Mcewan]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Anchor]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780385494243]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is editor of the newspaper The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister.In the days that follow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences that neither could have foreseen. Each will make a disastrous moral decision, their friendship will be tested to its limits, and Julian Garmony will be fighting for his political life. A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel, Amsterdam is "as sheerly enjoyable a book as one is likely to pick up this year" (The Washington Post Book World).]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9780307434791]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>1999-11-02T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Bright Lights, Big City]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780394726410</link>
<description><![CDATA[With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of dawn. With nothing but goodwill, controlled substances, and wit to sustain him in this anti-quest, he runs until he reaches his reckoning point, where he is forced to acknowledge loss and, possibly, to rediscover his better instincts. This remarkable novel of youth and New York remains one of the most beloved, imitated, and iconic novels in America.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Bright Lights, Big City]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Mcinerney]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780394726410]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of dawn. With nothing but goodwill, controlled substances, and wit to sustain him in this anti-quest, he runs until he reaches his reckoning point, where he is forced to acknowledge loss and, possibly, to rediscover his better instincts. This remarkable novel of youth and New York remains one of the most beloved, imitated, and iconic novels in America.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1984-08-12T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Smartest Guys in the Room]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781591840534</link>
<description><![CDATA[Just as Watergate was the defining political story of its time, so Enron is the biggest business story of our time. And just as All the President's Men was the one Watergate book that gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance, The Smartest Guys in the Room is the one book you have to read to understand this amazing business saga. And the critics agree: "This book is right up there with Den of Thieves and Barbarians at the Gate. . . . Those who want to learn what happened here, you don't have to read anything but this." --James Cramer, CNBC "The best book about the Enron debacle to date. . . . Based on hundreds of interviews and fresh details, McLean and Elkind masterfully weave together the many strands of the Enron story. They shine in their characterizations of Enron's often incompetent executives." --Wendy Zellner, BusinessWeek "News junkies and mystery lovers who enjoy financial scandals will devour this multilayered book. . . . The Smartest Guys in the Room will rival other models of the genre, including James Stewart's Den of Thieves. . . . The authors write with power and finesse. Their prose is effortless, like a sprinter floating down the track. . . . The character sketches of former chairman Kenneth Lay, former CEO Jeff Skilling and ex-chief financial officer Andrew Fastow are masterful." -- Edward Iwata, USA Today "Powerful and shocking. . . . succeed[s] in opening a disturbing window into both the company and the era . . . filled with fascinating characters and anecdotes." --Jonathan A. Knee, The New York Times Book Review "The Smartest Guys in the Room is utterly professional, readable and--even though you know what's coming--highly entertaining." --Daniel Gross, The Washington Post "Meticulously reported and compelling . . . a cautionary tale about highfliers who weren't as clever as they thought." --David Koeppel, Entertainment Weekly]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Smartest Guys in the Room]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bethany  McLean; Peter  Elkind]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Portfolio Trade]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781591840534]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Just as Watergate was the defining political story of its time, so Enron is the biggest business story of our time. And just as All the President's Men was the one Watergate book that gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance, The Smartest Guys in the Room is the one book you have to read to understand this amazing business saga. And the critics agree: "This book is right up there with Den of Thieves and Barbarians at the Gate. . . . Those who want to learn what happened here, you don't have to read anything but this." --James Cramer, CNBC "The best book about the Enron debacle to date. . . . Based on hundreds of interviews and fresh details, McLean and Elkind masterfully weave together the many strands of the Enron story. They shine in their characterizations of Enron's often incompetent executives." --Wendy Zellner, BusinessWeek "News junkies and mystery lovers who enjoy financial scandals will devour this multilayered book. . . . The Smartest Guys in the Room will rival other models of the genre, including James Stewart's Den of Thieves. . . . The authors write with power and finesse. Their prose is effortless, like a sprinter floating down the track. . . . The character sketches of former chairman Kenneth Lay, former CEO Jeff Skilling and ex-chief financial officer Andrew Fastow are masterful." -- Edward Iwata, USA Today "Powerful and shocking. . . . succeed[s] in opening a disturbing window into both the company and the era . . . filled with fascinating characters and anecdotes." --Jonathan A. Knee, The New York Times Book Review "The Smartest Guys in the Room is utterly professional, readable and--even though you know what's coming--highly entertaining." --Daniel Gross, The Washington Post "Meticulously reported and compelling . . . a cautionary tale about highfliers who weren't as clever as they thought." --David Koeppel, Entertainment Weekly]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Please Kill Me]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780802142641</link>
<description><![CDATA[Now in paperback, this first oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements brings the sound of the punk generation chillingly to life with 50 new pages of depraved testimony. "Please Kill Me" reads like a fast-paced novel, but the tragedies it contains are all too human and all too real. photos.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Please Kill Me]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Legs McNeil; Gillian McCain]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Grove Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780802142641]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Now in paperback, this first oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements brings the sound of the punk generation chillingly to life with 50 new pages of depraved testimony. "Please Kill Me" reads like a fast-paced novel, but the tragedies it contains are all too human and all too real. photos.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2006-04-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Mencken Chrestomathy]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780394752099</link>
<description><![CDATA[In my title I revive the word chrestomathy in its true sense of 'a collection of choice passages from an author or authors, ' and ignore the late edition of 'especially one complied to assist in the acquirement of a language.' In the latter significance the term is often used by linguists, and some of the chrestomathies issued by them in recent years.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Mencken Chrestomathy]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[H.L. Mencken]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780394752099]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In my title I revive the word chrestomathy in its true sense of 'a collection of choice passages from an author or authors, ' and ignore the late edition of 'especially one complied to assist in the acquirement of a language.' In the latter significance the term is often used by linguists, and some of the chrestomathies issued by them in recent years.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1982-04-12T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Peyton Place]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781555534004</link>
<description><![CDATA[This new paperback edition of "Peyton Place" features an insightful introduction by Ardis Cameron that thoroughly examines the novel's treatment of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and power, and consider's the book's influential place in American literary history.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Peyton Place]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Grace Metalious; Ardis Cameron]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Northeastern University Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781555534004]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[This new paperback edition of "Peyton Place" features an insightful introduction by Ardis Cameron that thoroughly examines the novel's treatment of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and power, and consider's the book's influential place in American literary history.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1999-03-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Savage Beauty]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781588360946</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Be prepared. This book weighs in at 2.2MB in size.  You'll need to make sure that you've got plenty of room on your PDA before you  try to sync up this book, perfect for you m500 & m505 owners. Store the  book on an SD card and you won't have any worries about running out of  memory!   Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford  returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait  of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed Americans even as she  tormented herself.  If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent  Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its  heroine. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was  dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an  instrument of seduction and her impact on crowds, and on men, was  legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well.   Milford calls her book "a family romance" -- for the love between the  three Millay sisters and their mother was so deep as to be dangerous. As  a family, they were like real-life Little Women, with a touch of  Mommie Dearest.  Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what  she found was an extraordinary treasure. Boxes and boxes of letters flew  back and forth among the three sisters and their mother -- and Millay  kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind  Sylvia Plath.   Written with passion and flair, Savage Beauty is an iconic  portrait of a woman's life.   "Nancy Milford has done it again. One seldom sees this level of  brilliant, hands-on research in contemporary literary biography. The  result is this compelling, keenly perceptive life of Edna St. Vincent  Milay -- with its own 'savage beauty.'"    TONI MORRISON  "Savage Beauty is irresistible, Nancy Milford gives us not only  the life of Edna St. Vincent]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Savage Beauty]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Milford]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Random House]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781588360946]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ Be prepared. This book weighs in at 2.2MB in size.  You'll need to make sure that you've got plenty of room on your PDA before you  try to sync up this book, perfect for you m500 & m505 owners. Store the  book on an SD card and you won't have any worries about running out of  memory!   Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford  returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait  of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed Americans even as she  tormented herself.  If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent  Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its  heroine. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was  dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an  instrument of seduction and her impact on crowds, and on men, was  legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well.   Milford calls her book "a family romance" -- for the love between the  three Millay sisters and their mother was so deep as to be dangerous. As  a family, they were like real-life Little Women, with a touch of  Mommie Dearest.  Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what  she found was an extraordinary treasure. Boxes and boxes of letters flew  back and forth among the three sisters and their mother -- and Millay  kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind  Sylvia Plath.   Written with passion and flair, Savage Beauty is an iconic  portrait of a woman's life.   "Nancy Milford has done it again. One seldom sees this level of  brilliant, hands-on research in contemporary literary biography. The  result is this compelling, keenly perceptive life of Edna St. Vincent  Milay -- with its own 'savage beauty.'"    TONI MORRISON  "Savage Beauty is irresistible, Nancy Milford gives us not only  the life of Edna St. Vincent]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[eBook]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[1]]></dc:relation>
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<title><![CDATA[Death of a Salesman]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781559942560</link>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Death of a Salesman]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arthur H. Miller; Lee J. Cobb]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Caedmon]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781559942560]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Audio Cassette, Abridged]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1991-03-27T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Tropic of Cancer CD]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780061477898</link>
<description><![CDATA[Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1943. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto, the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Tropic of Cancer CD]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Henry Miller; Campbell Scott]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Caedmon]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780061477898]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1943. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto, the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Compact Disc]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Winnie-The-Pooh]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780525444435</link>
<description><![CDATA[Here are Pooh and Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and of course Christopher Robin, doing what they've done for generations--enchanting young readers in A.A. Milne's tales from the Hundred Acre Wood.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Winnie-The-Pooh]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[A. A.  Milne; Ernest H. Shepard]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Dutton Juvenile]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780525444435]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Here are Pooh and Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and of course Christopher Robin, doing what they've done for generations--enchanting young readers in A.A. Milne's tales from the Hundred Acre Wood.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1988-10-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780451527929</link>
<description><![CDATA[The completed texts of two of the greatest epic poems in English literature are combined in one volume where each provides a profound exploration of the moral problems of God's justice. Each work demonstrates Milton's genius for classicism, innovation, narrative and drama. Includes a new introduction and extensive footnotes.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Milton; Susanne Woods; Christopher B. Ricks]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Signet Book]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780451527929]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The completed texts of two of the greatest epic poems in English literature are combined in one volume where each provides a profound exploration of the moral problems of God's justice. Each work demonstrates Milton's genius for classicism, innovation, narrative and drama. Includes a new introduction and extensive footnotes.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9785551064718]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>2001-11-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Gone with the Wind]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780684830681</link>
<description><![CDATA[A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Gone with the Wind]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Margaret Mitchell]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Scribner]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780684830681]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1936-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Eight Plays by Moliere]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780884114482</link>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Eight Plays by Moliere]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moliere]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Amereon Limited]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780884114482]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1986-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[The Misanthrope and Other Plays]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780140447309</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Misanthrope, Moliere's richly sophisticated comic drama is accompanied in this volume by The Would-be Gentleman, another tale of a dangerously deluded and obsessive hero. Tartuffe dares to take on the subject of religious hypocrisy. Also included are Such Foolish Affected Ladies and Those Learned Ladies, both newly translated for this edition. Finally, The Doctor Despite Himself is a hilarious example of Moliere's long-standing vendetta against the medical profession.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Misanthrope and Other Plays]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jean-Baptiste  Moliere; John  Wood; David  Coward]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Penguin Classics]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780140447309]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The Misanthrope, Moliere's richly sophisticated comic drama is accompanied in this volume by The Would-be Gentleman, another tale of a dangerously deluded and obsessive hero. Tartuffe dares to take on the subject of religious hypocrisy. Also included are Such Foolish Affected Ladies and Those Learned Ladies, both newly translated for this edition. Finally, The Doctor Despite Himself is a hilarious example of Moliere's long-standing vendetta against the medical profession.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2000-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Anne of Green Gables]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780553153279</link>
<description><![CDATA["She'll have to go back."Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert had decided to adopt an orphan. They wanted a nice sturdy boy to help Matthew with the farm chores.  The orphanage sent a girl instead - a mischievous, talkative redhead who the Cuthberts thought would be no use at all.  But as soon as Anne arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever.  And the longer Anne stayed, the harder it was for anyone to imagine Green Gables without her.The Anne Books Delightful, unpredictable Anne Shirley has been charming readers of all ages, in every part of the world, for over three-quarters of a century. Bestsellers from the moment they were published, the Anne Of Green Gables novels have allowed generations of children to grow up right along with Anne.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Anne of Green Gables]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[L.M. Montgomery]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Yearling]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780553153279]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["She'll have to go back."Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert had decided to adopt an orphan. They wanted a nice sturdy boy to help Matthew with the farm chores.  The orphanage sent a girl instead - a mischievous, talkative redhead who the Cuthberts thought would be no use at all.  But as soon as Anne arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever.  And the longer Anne stayed, the harder it was for anyone to imagine Green Gables without her.The Anne Books Delightful, unpredictable Anne Shirley has been charming readers of all ages, in every part of the world, for over three-quarters of a century. Bestsellers from the moment they were published, the Anne Of Green Gables novels have allowed generations of children to grow up right along with Anne.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1984-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Anne of Avonlea]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780553213140</link>
<description><![CDATA[At sixteen Anne is grown up. . . almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job as the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone else's romance, finds two new orphans at Green Gables, and wonders about the strange behavior of the very handsome Gilbert Blythe. As Anne enters womanhood, her adventures touch the heart and the funny bone.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Anne of Avonlea]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[L.M. Montgomery]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Laurel Leaf]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780553213140]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[At sixteen Anne is grown up. . . almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job as the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone else's romance, finds two new orphans at Green Gables, and wonders about the strange behavior of the very handsome Gilbert Blythe. As Anne enters womanhood, her adventures touch the heart and the funny bone.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1984-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Anne of the Island]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780978255282</link>
<description><![CDATA[Anne is an 18-year-old young woman, all grown up in this third installment of L. M. Montgomery's beloved series. Torn about leaving Avonlea, she sets off on a new adventure, packing her bags and heading off to Redmond College in Kingsport. She is lonely at first, but with Prissy and Gilbert by her side, it does not take long for Anne to make new friends. She soon attracts the attention of handsome Roy Gardner--much to the dismay of Gilbert. With lots of changes back home, Anne begins to discover a life of her own that is filled with surprises, life lessons, tragedy, and true love.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Anne of the Island]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lucy Maud Montgomery; Kevin Sullivan]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Davenport Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780978255282]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Anne is an 18-year-old young woman, all grown up in this third installment of L. M. Montgomery's beloved series. Torn about leaving Avonlea, she sets off on a new adventure, packing her bags and heading off to Redmond College in Kingsport. She is lonely at first, but with Prissy and Gilbert by her side, it does not take long for Anne to make new friends. She soon attracts the attention of handsome Roy Gardner--much to the dismay of Gilbert. With lots of changes back home, Anne begins to discover a life of her own that is filled with surprises, life lessons, tragedy, and true love.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-10-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Haunted Bookshop]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781888173574</link>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Haunted Bookshop]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Morley]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Akadine Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781888173574]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9781412125291]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>2000-03-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Beloved]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781400033416</link>
<description><![CDATA[Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Beloved]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Toni Morrison]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781400033416]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9780307388629]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>2004-06-08T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Bluest Eye]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307278449</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Bluest Eye]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Toni Morrison]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780307278449]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9780307386588]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>2007-05-08T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Art of Noir]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781585670734</link>
<description><![CDATA[With rare offerings from France, Italy, Spain, Britain, and Russia, as well as the knockout graphics of Hollywood, "The Art of Noir" is the ultimate companion for movie buffs, collectors, as well as artists and designers. 275 full-color illustrations.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Art of Noir]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eddie Muller]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Overlook Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781585670734]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[With rare offerings from France, Italy, Spain, Britain, and Russia, as well as the knockout graphics of Hollywood, "The Art of Noir" is the ultimate companion for movie buffs, collectors, as well as artists and designers. 275 full-color illustrations.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2002-10-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Lolita]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780679723165</link>
<description><![CDATA[Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Lolita]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir Nabokov]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780679723165]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1989-03-13T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Ada, or Ardor]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780679725220</link>
<description><![CDATA[Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.  It tells a love story troubled by incest.  But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue.   Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat.This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously  sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Ada, or Ardor]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir Nabokov]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780679725220]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.  It tells a love story troubled by incest.  But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue.   Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat.This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously  sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1990-02-19T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Reading Lolita in Tehran]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780812971064</link>
<description><![CDATA[Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi’s living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Reading Lolita in Tehran]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Azar Nafisi]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Random House Trade Paperbacks]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780812971064]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi’s living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2003-12-30T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Quiet Corners of Paris]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781892145505</link>
<description><![CDATA[More than eighty of the loveliest, most tranquil, and sometimes hidden places in Paris are celebrated in this charming guidebookQuiet Corners of Paris is a beautifully illustrated peek into eighty-one often overlooked, always beautiful, locales: hidden villas, winding lanes, little-known 19th-century passages, serene gardens, and cobblestone courtyards. Some of the places have breathtaking views, others are filled with historic and architectural details, from stone archways, garden follies, boxwood mazes, ornamental statuary, stained glass, and Renaissance fountains. Follow a stone path under a trellis of blossoms or wander through a gate to discoverÉ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Quiet Corners of Paris]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jean-Christophe Napias; Christophe Lefebure; David Downie]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Little Bookroom]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781892145505]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[More than eighty of the loveliest, most tranquil, and sometimes hidden places in Paris are celebrated in this charming guidebookQuiet Corners of Paris is a beautifully illustrated peek into eighty-one often overlooked, always beautiful, locales: hidden villas, winding lanes, little-known 19th-century passages, serene gardens, and cobblestone courtyards. Some of the places have breathtaking views, others are filled with historic and architectural details, from stone archways, garden follies, boxwood mazes, ornamental statuary, stained glass, and Renaissance fountains. Follow a stone path under a trellis of blossoms or wander through a gate to discoverÉ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2007-10-23T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[A Beautiful Mind]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780743224574</link>
<description><![CDATA[How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them seriously." Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and who -- thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community -- emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. The inspiration for a major motion picture, Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[A Beautiful Mind]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sylvia Nasar]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Simon & Schuster]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780743224574]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them seriously." Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness, and who -- thanks to the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community -- emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. The inspiration for a major motion picture, Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind, triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2001-12-04T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780805076127</link>
<description><![CDATA[A glamorous, haunted life unfolds in the mesmerizing biography of the woman behind a classic children's book In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name. Close to forty years after its publication, the book was out of print but not forgotten. When the cover image inexplicably came to journalist Jean Nathan one afternoon, she went in search of the book-and ultimately its author. Nathan found Dare Wright living out her last days in a decrepit public hospital in Queens, New York. Over the next five years, Nathan pieced together a glamorous life. Blond, beautiful Wright had begun her career as an actress and model and then turned to fashion photography before stumbling upon her role as bestselling author. But there was a dark side to the story: a brother lost in childhood, ill-fated marriage plans, a complicated, controlling mother. Edith Stevenson Wright, herself a successful portrait painter, played such a dominant role in her daughter's life that Dare was never able to find her way into the adult world. Only through her work could she speak for herself: in her books she created the happy family she'd always yearned for, while her self-portraits betrayed an unresolved tension between sexuality and innocence, a desire to belong and painful isolation. Illustrated with stunning photographs, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll tells the unforgettable story of a woman who, imprisoned by her childhood, sought to set herself free through art.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jean Nathan]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Henry Holt and Co.]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780805076127]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A glamorous, haunted life unfolds in the mesmerizing biography of the woman behind a classic children's book In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name. Close to forty years after its publication, the book was out of print but not forgotten. When the cover image inexplicably came to journalist Jean Nathan one afternoon, she went in search of the book-and ultimately its author. Nathan found Dare Wright living out her last days in a decrepit public hospital in Queens, New York. Over the next five years, Nathan pieced together a glamorous life. Blond, beautiful Wright had begun her career as an actress and model and then turned to fashion photography before stumbling upon her role as bestselling author. But there was a dark side to the story: a brother lost in childhood, ill-fated marriage plans, a complicated, controlling mother. Edith Stevenson Wright, herself a successful portrait painter, played such a dominant role in her daughter's life that Dare was never able to find her way into the adult world. Only through her work could she speak for herself: in her books she created the happy family she'd always yearned for, while her self-portraits betrayed an unresolved tension between sexuality and innocence, a desire to belong and painful isolation. Illustrated with stunning photographs, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll tells the unforgettable story of a woman who, imprisoned by her childhood, sought to set herself free through art.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Thus Spake Zarathustra]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780879758615</link>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Thus Spake Zarathustra]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Thomas Common; H. James Birx]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Prometheus Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780879758615]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9780875862286]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>1993-11-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Three by Flannery O'Connor]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780451525147</link>
<description><![CDATA[The quintessential Southern writer, O'Connor wrote fiercely comic, powerful fiction. This anthology includes the masterpieces Wise Blood. The Violent Bear it Away, and Everything that Rises Must Converge.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Three by Flannery O'Connor]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Flannery  O'Connor; Sally  Fitzgerald]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Signet Classics]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780451525147]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The quintessential Southern writer, O'Connor wrote fiercely comic, powerful fiction. This anthology includes the masterpieces Wise Blood. The Violent Bear it Away, and Everything that Rises Must Converge.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1986-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Appointment in Samarra]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375719202</link>
<description><![CDATA[A twentieth-century classic, Appointment in Samarra is the first and most widely read book by the writer Fran Leibowitz called “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald.”In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville social circuit is electrified with parties and dances, where the music plays late into the night and the liquor flows freely. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English—the envy of friends and strangers alike. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction. Appointment in Samarra brilliantly captures the personal politics and easy bitterness of small-town life. It is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement, and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence of a major American novelist.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Appointment in Samarra]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[John O'Hara]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780375719202]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A twentieth-century classic, Appointment in Samarra is the first and most widely read book by the writer Fran Leibowitz called “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald.”In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville social circuit is electrified with parties and dances, where the music plays late into the night and the liquor flows freely. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English—the envy of friends and strangers alike. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction. Appointment in Samarra brilliantly captures the personal politics and easy bitterness of small-town life. It is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement, and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence of a major American novelist.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2003-07-08T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[We Were the Mulvaneys]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780525942238</link>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[We Were the Mulvaneys]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joyce Carol Oates]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Dutton Adult]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780525942238]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1996-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Wonderland]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780812976557</link>
<description><![CDATA[Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. Spanning from the Great Depression to the turbulent Vietnam War era, Wonderland is the epic account of Jesse Vogel, a boy who emerged from a family tragedy with his life spared but his world torn apart. Orphaned after watching his father murder his entire family, Jesse embarks on a personal odyssey that takes him from a Dickensian foster home to college and graduate school to the pinnacle of the medical profession. As an adult, Jesse must summon the strength to reach across the “generation gap” and rescue his endangered teenaged daughter, who has fallen into the drug-infused 1960s counterculture. Hailed by Library Journal as “the greatest of Oates’s novels,” Wonderland is the capstone of a magnificent literary excursion that plunges beneath the glossy surface of American life. Wonderland is the final novel in Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, A Garden of Earthly Delights, Expensive People, and them, are also available from the Modern Library.J]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Wonderland]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elaine Showalter; Joyce Carol Oates]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Modern Library]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780812976557]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. Spanning from the Great Depression to the turbulent Vietnam War era, Wonderland is the epic account of Jesse Vogel, a boy who emerged from a family tragedy with his life spared but his world torn apart. Orphaned after watching his father murder his entire family, Jesse embarks on a personal odyssey that takes him from a Dickensian foster home to college and graduate school to the pinnacle of the medical profession. As an adult, Jesse must summon the strength to reach across the “generation gap” and rescue his endangered teenaged daughter, who has fallen into the drug-infused 1960s counterculture. Hailed by Library Journal as “the greatest of Oates’s novels,” Wonderland is the capstone of a magnificent literary excursion that plunges beneath the glossy surface of American life. Wonderland is the final novel in Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, A Garden of Earthly Delights, Expensive People, and them, are also available from the Modern Library.J]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2006-09-12T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060515065</link>
<description><![CDATA[For an extraordinary handful of years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force. With four World Series championships in five seasons and a deep bench of legends and comers -- Clemens, Rivera, Williams, Soriano, Jeter, O'Neill -- they dominated the major leagues, earning the love of their hometown fans and the grudging admiration of players and spectators everywhere. For the members of the team, though, baseball Yankees-style was an almost unbearable pressure cooker of anxiety, expectation, and infighting. With owner George Steinbrenner at the wheel, the Yankees money machine spun out of control, and as the team's revenues skyrocketed, salaries were inflated unimaginably -- and smaller teams found themselves priced out of competition. True devotees of the game suffered, and so did Steinbrenner's employees. Emboldened by New York's unforgiving fans, Steinbrenner let the Yankees know loud and clear that their fat paychecks carried an equally exaggerated mandate: win now, and win all the time -- any season that doesn't end in a World Series victory is an unforgivable failure. As the spending and emotion spiraled, careers were made and broken, friendships began and ended, and a sports dynasty rose and fell. In The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty, Buster Olney tracks the Yankees through these exciting and tumultuous seasons, providing insightful portraits of the stars, the foot soldiers, the coaches, the manager, and the Boss himself. With profound knowledge of the game and an insider's familiarity with the team, Olney also advances a compelling argument that the philosophy that made the Yankees great was inherently unsustainable, ultimatelyharmful to the sport, and led inevitably to that warm autumn night in Arizona -- the last night of the Yankee dynasty.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Buster Olney]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Ecco]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780060515065]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[For an extraordinary handful of years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force. With four World Series championships in five seasons and a deep bench of legends and comers -- Clemens, Rivera, Williams, Soriano, Jeter, O'Neill -- they dominated the major leagues, earning the love of their hometown fans and the grudging admiration of players and spectators everywhere. For the members of the team, though, baseball Yankees-style was an almost unbearable pressure cooker of anxiety, expectation, and infighting. With owner George Steinbrenner at the wheel, the Yankees money machine spun out of control, and as the team's revenues skyrocketed, salaries were inflated unimaginably -- and smaller teams found themselves priced out of competition. True devotees of the game suffered, and so did Steinbrenner's employees. Emboldened by New York's unforgiving fans, Steinbrenner let the Yankees know loud and clear that their fat paychecks carried an equally exaggerated mandate: win now, and win all the time -- any season that doesn't end in a World Series victory is an unforgivable failure. As the spending and emotion spiraled, careers were made and broken, friendships began and ended, and a sports dynasty rose and fell. In The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty, Buster Olney tracks the Yankees through these exciting and tumultuous seasons, providing insightful portraits of the stars, the foot soldiers, the coaches, the manager, and the Boss himself. With profound knowledge of the game and an insider's familiarity with the team, Olney also advances a compelling argument that the philosophy that made the Yankees great was inherently unsustainable, ultimatelyharmful to the sport, and led inevitably to that warm autumn night in Arizona -- the last night of the Yankee dynasty.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The English Patient]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780394280134</link>
<description><![CDATA[With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal,and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The English Patient]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Ondaatje]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage Canada]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780394280134]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal,and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1993-08-27T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Long Day's Journey Into Night]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780300093056</link>
<description><![CDATA[Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play "Long Day's Journey into Night" is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has sold more than one million copies. This edition includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom, and coincides with a new production of the play starring Brian Dennehy, opening in Chicago and in New York in 2002.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Long Day's Journey Into Night]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene Gladstone O'Neill; Harold Bloom]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Yale University Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780300093056]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play "Long Day's Journey into Night" is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has sold more than one million copies. This edition includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom, and coincides with a new production of the play starring Brian Dennehy, opening in Chicago and in New York in 2002.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2002-02-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Three Plays]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780679763963</link>
<description><![CDATA[These three plays exemplify Eugene O'Neil's ability to explore the limits of the human predicament, even as he sounds the depths of his audiences' hearts.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Three Plays]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eugene O'Neill]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780679763963]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[These three plays exemplify Eugene O'Neil's ability to explore the limits of the human predicament, even as he sounds the depths of his audiences' hearts.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1995-10-31T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375758638</link>
<description><![CDATA[The bestselling author of The Orchid Thief is back with this delightfully entertaining collection of her best and brightest profiles. Acclaimed New Yorker writer Susan Orlean brings her wry sensibility, exuberant voice, and peculiar curiosities to a fascinating range of subjects—from the well known (Bill Blass) to the unknown (a typical ten-year-old boy) to the formerly known (the 1960s girl group the Shaggs).Passionate people. Famous people. Short people. And one championship show dog named Biff, who from a certain angle looks a lot like Bill Clinton. Orlean transports us into the lives of eccentric and extraordinary characters—like Cristina Sánchez, the eponymous bullfighter, the first female matador of Spain—and writes with such insight and candor that readers will feel as if they’ve met each and every one of them. The result is a luminous and joyful tour of the human condition as seen through the eyes of the writer heralded by the Chicago Tribune as a “journalist dynamo.”]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Orlean]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Random House Trade Paperbacks]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780375758638]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The bestselling author of The Orchid Thief is back with this delightfully entertaining collection of her best and brightest profiles. Acclaimed New Yorker writer Susan Orlean brings her wry sensibility, exuberant voice, and peculiar curiosities to a fascinating range of subjects—from the well known (Bill Blass) to the unknown (a typical ten-year-old boy) to the formerly known (the 1960s girl group the Shaggs).Passionate people. Famous people. Short people. And one championship show dog named Biff, who from a certain angle looks a lot like Bill Clinton. Orlean transports us into the lives of eccentric and extraordinary characters—like Cristina Sánchez, the eponymous bullfighter, the first female matador of Spain—and writes with such insight and candor that readers will feel as if they’ve met each and every one of them. The result is a luminous and joyful tour of the human condition as seen through the eyes of the writer heralded by the Chicago Tribune as a “journalist dynamo.”]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2002-01-08T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous  &  Broke]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781573222976</link>
<description><![CDATA[A financial guide aimed squarely at "Generation Debt"-and their anxious parents-from the country's most trusted and dynamic source on money matters.  You've got student-loan debt that is a multiple of your entry-level salary. An obscene amount of your take-home pay goes out the window every month for rent on a dinky apartment in a cool neighborhood. Lucky you have that credit card with the ever-increasing charge limit! How else could you afford those fabulous shoes? "Hey, guys, the next round's on me!" What difference does it make? Your goals are totally unattainable and the idea that you'll ever get control of your money is ludicrous, so why even try? Okay. It's scary. Suze Orman knows you better than you know yourself. And now, the world's most trusted expert on personal finance, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, is going to break it down for you.  Whether you're twenty-five and single, a thirty-year-old newlywed, or married with kids and a mortgage at thirty-five; whether you're broke or making ends meet; whether you're financially aware or financially clueless, Start Smart was written with you in mind.  Beginning with a quick diagnostic section that tells you where you are (vs. where you think you are) and outlines your priorities (1, 2, 3...) for getting out of the red and into the black, Start Smart acts as a sort of "route planner," identifying the easy money moves to get you on the road to recovery and within reach of your dreams.  If you've never cracked a financial book in your life, if you can't deal with the unwieldy, impenetrable tomes currently on offer, if you've zoned out every time a parent has tried to share some wisdom about money-Start Smart is the book you need. You will learn:  - how to get a grip on credit card debt - why student-loan debt is not the worst thing in the world - how your credit score plays into nearly every financial move you will ever make - how to make the most of the benefits that come with your first real job - how to buy your first home - what you need to know before you move in together - what kind of insurance-auto, home, renter's, health-you need and what you don't - what to do if you're self-employed]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous  &  Broke]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Suze  Orman]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Riverhead Hardcover]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781573222976]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A financial guide aimed squarely at "Generation Debt"-and their anxious parents-from the country's most trusted and dynamic source on money matters.  You've got student-loan debt that is a multiple of your entry-level salary. An obscene amount of your take-home pay goes out the window every month for rent on a dinky apartment in a cool neighborhood. Lucky you have that credit card with the ever-increasing charge limit! How else could you afford those fabulous shoes? "Hey, guys, the next round's on me!" What difference does it make? Your goals are totally unattainable and the idea that you'll ever get control of your money is ludicrous, so why even try? Okay. It's scary. Suze Orman knows you better than you know yourself. And now, the world's most trusted expert on personal finance, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, is going to break it down for you.  Whether you're twenty-five and single, a thirty-year-old newlywed, or married with kids and a mortgage at thirty-five; whether you're broke or making ends meet; whether you're financially aware or financially clueless, Start Smart was written with you in mind.  Beginning with a quick diagnostic section that tells you where you are (vs. where you think you are) and outlines your priorities (1, 2, 3...) for getting out of the red and into the black, Start Smart acts as a sort of "route planner," identifying the easy money moves to get you on the road to recovery and within reach of your dreams.  If you've never cracked a financial book in your life, if you can't deal with the unwieldy, impenetrable tomes currently on offer, if you've zoned out every time a parent has tried to share some wisdom about money-Start Smart is the book you need. You will learn:  - how to get a grip on credit card debt - why student-loan debt is not the worst thing in the world - how your credit score plays into nearly every financial move you will ever make - how to make the most of the benefits that come with your first real job - how to buy your first home - what you need to know before you move in together - what kind of insurance-auto, home, renter's, health-you need and what you don't - what to do if you're self-employed]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2005-03-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[1984]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780451524935</link>
<description><![CDATA[Celebrate the 60th anniversary of Orwell's masterpiece 1984 Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions--a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[1984]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[George  Orwell; Erich  Fromm]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Signet Classics]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780451524935]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Celebrate the 60th anniversary of Orwell's masterpiece 1984 Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions--a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1950-07-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Animal Farm]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780451526342</link>
<description><![CDATA[revisit Orwell's classic satire Animal Farm As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As readers witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, they begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in the most idealistic organization--and in the most charismatic leaders, the souls of the cruelest oppressors.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Animal Farm]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[George  Orwell; Russell  Baker; C.M.  Woodhouse]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Signet Classics]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780451526342]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[revisit Orwell's classic satire Animal Farm As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As readers witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, they begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in the most idealistic organization--and in the most charismatic leaders, the souls of the cruelest oppressors.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1996-04-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Diary]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385511506</link>
<description><![CDATA[Chuck Palahniuk, the bestselling author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby continues his twenty-first-century reinvention of the horror novel in this scary and profound look at our quest for some sort of immortality.Diary takes the form of a "coma diary" kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid.Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses he's remodeled and scrawling vile messages all over the walls -- an old habit of builders but dramatically overdone in Peter's case. Angry homeowners are suing left and right, and Misty's dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. But can her newly discovered talent be part of a larger, darker plan? Of course it can...Diary is a dark, hilarious, and poignant act of storytelling from America's favorite, most inventive nihilist. It is Chuck Palahniuk's finest novel yet."Just for the record, Diary is as hypnotic as a poised cobra. Chuck Palahniuk demonstrates that the most chilling special effects come not from Industrial Light and Magic but from the words of a gifted writer." &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;IRA LEVIN, AUTHOR OF ROSEMARY'S BABY]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Diary]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chuck Palahniuk]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Doubleday]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780385511506]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Chuck Palahniuk, the bestselling author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby continues his twenty-first-century reinvention of the horror novel in this scary and profound look at our quest for some sort of immortality.Diary takes the form of a "coma diary" kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid.Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses he's remodeled and scrawling vile messages all over the walls -- an old habit of builders but dramatically overdone in Peter's case. Angry homeowners are suing left and right, and Misty's dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. But can her newly discovered talent be part of a larger, darker plan? Of course it can...Diary is a dark, hilarious, and poignant act of storytelling from America's favorite, most inventive nihilist. It is Chuck Palahniuk's finest novel yet."Just for the record, Diary is as hypnotic as a poised cobra. Chuck Palahniuk demonstrates that the most chilling special effects come not from Industrial Light and Magic but from the words of a gifted writer." &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;IRA LEVIN, AUTHOR OF ROSEMARY'S BABY]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[eBook]]></dc:format>
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<title><![CDATA[The Portable Dorothy Parker]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143039532</link>
<description><![CDATA[The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Portable Dorothy Parker]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dorothy  Parker; Marion  Meade]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Penguin Classics]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780143039532]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2006-04-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Doctor Zhivago]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780679774389</link>
<description><![CDATA[n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Doctor Zhivago]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Boris Pasternak]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Pantheon]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780679774389]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1997-03-18T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Bel Canto]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060188733</link>
<description><![CDATA[Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different countries and continents become compatriots.Without the demands of the world to shape their days, life on the inside becomes more beautiful than anything they had ever known before. At once riveting and impassioned, the narrative becomes a moving exploration of how people communicate when music is the only common language. Friendship, compassion, and the chance for great love lead the characters to forget the real danger that has been set in motion and cannot be stopped.Ann Patchett has written a novel that is as lyrical and profound as it is unforgettable. Bel Canto engenders in the reader the very passion for art and the language of music that its characters discover. As a reader, you find yourself fervently wanting this captivity to continue forever, even though you know that real life waits on the other side of the garden wall. Bel Canto is a virtuoso performance by one of our bestand most important writers. It is a no novel to be cherished.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Bel Canto]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Patchett]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[HarperCollins]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780060188733]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different countries and continents become compatriots.Without the demands of the world to shape their days, life on the inside becomes more beautiful than anything they had ever known before. At once riveting and impassioned, the narrative becomes a moving exploration of how people communicate when music is the only common language. Friendship, compassion, and the chance for great love lead the characters to forget the real danger that has been set in motion and cannot be stopped.Ann Patchett has written a novel that is as lyrical and profound as it is unforgettable. Bel Canto engenders in the reader the very passion for art and the language of music that its characters discover. As a reader, you find yourself fervently wanting this captivity to continue forever, even though you know that real life waits on the other side of the garden wall. Bel Canto is a virtuoso performance by one of our bestand most important writers. It is a no novel to be cherished.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2001-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Cry, the Beloved Country]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781433213694</link>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Cry, the Beloved Country]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Paton; Michael York]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Blackstone Audiobooks]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781433213694]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Compact Disc]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9780822070450]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>2008-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Moviegoer]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375701962</link>
<description><![CDATA[Winner of the 1961 National Book AwardThe dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southernliterature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world withthe detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption hecannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupieshimself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the"treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarkson a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, andsends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, richin irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Moviegoer]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Walker Percy]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780375701962]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Winner of the 1961 National Book AwardThe dazzling novel that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southernliterature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback.The Moviegoer is Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker who surveys the world withthe detached gaze of a Bourbon Street dandy even as he yearns for a spiritual redemption hecannot bring himself to believe in. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he occupieshimself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the"treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarkson a hare-brained quest that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, andsends him reeling through the chaos of New Orleans' French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, richin irony and romance, The Moviegoer is a genuine American classic.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1998-04-14T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Ariel]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060732592</link>
<description><![CDATA[Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, Ariel, in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by Sylvia Plath when she died in 1963 is different from the volume of poetry eventually published to worldwide acclaim. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, the selection and arrangement of the poems as Sylvia Plath left them at the point of her death. In addition to the facsimile pages of Sylvia Plath?s manuscript, this edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of the title poem, "Ariel," in order to offer a sense of Plath's creative process, as well as notes the author made for the BBC about some of the manuscript's poems. In her insightful foreword to this volume, Frieda Hughes, Sylvia Plath's daughter, explains the reasons for the differences between the previously published edition of Ariel as edited by her father, Ted Hughes, and her mother's original version published here. With this publication, Sylvia Plath's legacy and vision will be re-evaluated in the light of her original working draft.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Ariel]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sylvia Plath]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[HarperCollins]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780060732592]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, Ariel, in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by Sylvia Plath when she died in 1963 is different from the volume of poetry eventually published to worldwide acclaim. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, the selection and arrangement of the poems as Sylvia Plath left them at the point of her death. In addition to the facsimile pages of Sylvia Plath?s manuscript, this edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of the title poem, "Ariel," in order to offer a sense of Plath's creative process, as well as notes the author made for the BBC about some of the manuscript's poems. In her insightful foreword to this volume, Frieda Hughes, Sylvia Plath's daughter, explains the reasons for the differences between the previously published edition of Ariel as edited by her father, Ted Hughes, and her mother's original version published here. With this publication, Sylvia Plath's legacy and vision will be re-evaluated in the light of her original working draft.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-11-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Bell Jar]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060837020</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Bell Jar]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sylvia Plath]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Harper Perennial Modern Classics]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780060837020]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2005-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385720250</link>
<description><![CDATA[First U.S. PublicationA major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time.Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons. The complete Journals of Sylvia Plath is essential reading for all who have been moved and fascinated by Plath's life and work.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Karen V. Kukil; Sylvia Plath]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Anchor]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780385720250]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[First U.S. PublicationA major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time.Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons. The complete Journals of Sylvia Plath is essential reading for all who have been moved and fascinated by Plath's life and work.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback, Abridged]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2000-10-17T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[The Journals of Sylvia Plath]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385493918</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her "Sargasso", her repository of imagination, "a litany of dreams, directives and imperatives", and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath's ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons. Written in electrifying prose, the journals provide unique insight, and are essential reading for all those who have been moved and fascinated by Plath's life and work.An abridged version of the Journals was first published in 1982, edited by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. Now, for the first time, we have the complete journals, with all the material that had been suppressed by Hughes and by Plath's mother, Aurelia Plath, restored. What emerges is a more complete picture of the troubled poet, and especially a clearer view of the resentments she felt toward her husband and her mother. In addition, the inclusion of descriptions of her father -- a major presence in the Ariel poems -- and her parents' marriage, and of many sketches and ideas for stories and poems provide the reader with insight into the connections between Plath's life and her work.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Journals of Sylvia Plath]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Hughes; Sylvia Plath]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Anchor]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780385493918]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her "Sargasso", her repository of imagination, "a litany of dreams, directives and imperatives", and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath's ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons. Written in electrifying prose, the journals provide unique insight, and are essential reading for all those who have been moved and fascinated by Plath's life and work.An abridged version of the Journals was first published in 1982, edited by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. Now, for the first time, we have the complete journals, with all the material that had been suppressed by Hughes and by Plath's mother, Aurelia Plath, restored. What emerges is a more complete picture of the troubled poet, and especially a clearer view of the resentments she felt toward her husband and her mother. In addition, the inclusion of descriptions of her father -- a major presence in the Ariel poems -- and her parents' marriage, and of many sketches and ideas for stories and poems provide the reader with insight into the connections between Plath's life and her work.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback, Abridged]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1998-05-11T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[A Time to Be Born]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781883642419</link>
<description><![CDATA[Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America’s entry into World War II, A Time To Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends. At the center of the story are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler. Powell always denied that Amanda Keeler was based upon the real-life Clare Boothe Luce, until years later when she discovered a memo she’d written to herself in 1939 that said, “Why not do a novel on Clare Luce?” Which prompted Powell to write in her diary “Who can I believe? Me or myself?”]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[A Time to Be Born]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dawn Powell]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Zoland Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781883642419]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America’s entry into World War II, A Time To Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends. At the center of the story are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler. Powell always denied that Amanda Keeler was based upon the real-life Clare Boothe Luce, until years later when she discovered a memo she’d written to herself in 1939 that said, “Why not do a novel on Clare Luce?” Which prompted Powell to write in her diary “Who can I believe? Me or myself?”]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1998-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Golden Spur]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781883642273</link>
<description><![CDATA[IF A YOUNG MAN finds his own father inconveniently ordinary, can he choose another? Jonathan Jaimison, the engagingly amoral hero, comes to New York from Silver City, Ohio for exactly such a purpose. Combing through his mother’s diaries and the bars and cafés of Greenwich Village, Jonathan seeks out the writer or painter whose youthful indiscretion he believes he might have been, all the while committing numerous indiscretions of his own. By the end of the novel, Jonathan has figured out not only his paternity, but his maternity, and best of all, himself. Published in 1962, The Golden Spur was Dawn Powell’s last novel.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Golden Spur]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dawn Powell]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Zoland Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781883642273]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[IF A YOUNG MAN finds his own father inconveniently ordinary, can he choose another? Jonathan Jaimison, the engagingly amoral hero, comes to New York from Silver City, Ohio for exactly such a purpose. Combing through his mother’s diaries and the bars and cafés of Greenwich Village, Jonathan seeks out the writer or painter whose youthful indiscretion he believes he might have been, all the while committing numerous indiscretions of his own. By the end of the novel, Jonathan has figured out not only his paternity, but his maternity, and best of all, himself. Published in 1962, The Golden Spur was Dawn Powell’s last novel.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1998-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Remembrance of Things Past]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780394711829</link>
<description><![CDATA[One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Volume one includes SWANN'S WAY and WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Remembrance of Things Past]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marcel Proust]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780394711829]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Volume one includes SWANN'S WAY and WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1982-08-12T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Queen of Spades]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780192839541</link>
<description><![CDATA[This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Queen of Spades]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin; Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin; Andrew Kahn]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Oxford University Press, USA]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780192839541]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1999-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Godfather]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780451167712</link>
<description><![CDATA[a #1 New York Times bestseller.  A classic american crime novel. An offer you can't refuse...  Since its first publication in 1969, Mario Puzo's epic The Godfather has earned a permanent place in the American psyche and culture. In this story of family, loyalty, and the men who rule the American underworld, Puzo introduced a cast of singularly crafted characters, and offered an unforgettable look into the world of organized crime no writer has been able to duplicate since.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Godfather]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mario  Puzo]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Signet]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780451167712]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[a #1 New York Times bestseller.  A classic american crime novel. An offer you can't refuse...  Since its first publication in 1969, Mario Puzo's epic The Godfather has earned a permanent place in the American psyche and culture. In this story of family, loyalty, and the men who rule the American underworld, Puzo introduced a cast of singularly crafted characters, and offered an unforgettable look into the world of organized crime no writer has been able to duplicate since.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1983-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Fountainhead]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780451191151</link>
<description><![CDATA[Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be comprised. He has ideas that work against conventional standards.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Fountainhead]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ayn  Rand; Leonard  Peikoff]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Signet]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780451191151]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be comprised. He has ideas that work against conventional standards.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1996-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Atlas Shrugged]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780451191144</link>
<description><![CDATA[Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex.  Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction...to the philosopher who becomes a pirate...to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the lowest track worker in her train tunnels.  Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil,  Atlas Shrugged is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Atlas Shrugged]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ayn  Rand]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Signet]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780451191144]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex.  Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose economy is collapsing as a result of the mysterious disappearance of leading innovators and industrialists, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life-from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction...to the philosopher who becomes a pirate...to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the lowest track worker in her train tunnels.  Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil,  Atlas Shrugged is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1996-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Anthem]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780451191137</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person. That is a serious offense.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Anthem]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ayn  Rand; Leonard  Peikoff]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Signet]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780451191137]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person. That is a serious offense.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1996-03-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Where the Red Fern Grows PB]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780786273126</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a simply written, moving story of the love between a young boy and his two dogs.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Where the Red Fern Grows PB]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wilson Rawls]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Thorndike Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780786273126]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[This is a simply written, moving story of the love between a young boy and his two dogs.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback, Large Print]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2005-03-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Wonderful Town]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375757525</link>
<description><![CDATA[New York City is not only The New Yorker's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood; it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town collects superb short fiction by many of the magazine's and this country's most accomplished writers. Like all good fiction, these stories take particular places, particular people, and particular events and turn them into dramas of universal enlightenment and emotional impact. Here New York is every great place and every ordinary place. Each life in it, and each life in Wonderful Town, is the life of us all.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Wonderful Town]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Remnick]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Modern Library]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780375757525]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[New York City is not only The New Yorker's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood; it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town collects superb short fiction by many of the magazine's and this country's most accomplished writers. Like all good fiction, these stories take particular places, particular people, and particular events and turn them into dramas of universal enlightenment and emotional impact. Here New York is every great place and every ordinary place. Each life in it, and each life in Wonderful Town, is the life of us all.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2001-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Wide Sargasso Sea]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393960129</link>
<description><![CDATA[Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 1839-45.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Wide Sargasso Sea]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jean Rhys; Judith Raiskin]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[W. W. Norton & Company]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780393960129]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 1839-45.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1998-11-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Picture]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780306811289</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 1950, when New Yorker staff writer Lillian Ross heard that John Huston was planning to make a film of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, she decided she would follow the movie's progress "in order to learn whatever I might learn about the American motion-picture industry." What resulted was Picture, which Newsweek has called "the best book on Hollywood ever published." Picture received raves from the worlds of film and literature in equal measure for its unforgettable portrait of the language, the ways, and the preoccupations of Hollywood: Charlie Chaplin called Picture "brilliant and sagacious" and legendary editor William Shawn termed it "the definitive book on the Hollywood community." Little wonder, then, that when the Top 100 Works of U.S. Journalism of the Twentieth Century were chosen by the New York University Department of Journalism and a distinguished panel that included David Brinkley, Pete Hamill, Jeff Greenfield, Mary McGrory, and Morley Safer, Picture had an honored place on that list.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Picture]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lillian Ross]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Da Capo Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780306811289]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In the spring of 1950, when New Yorker staff writer Lillian Ross heard that John Huston was planning to make a film of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, she decided she would follow the movie's progress "in order to learn whatever I might learn about the American motion-picture industry." What resulted was Picture, which Newsweek has called "the best book on Hollywood ever published." Picture received raves from the worlds of film and literature in equal measure for its unforgettable portrait of the language, the ways, and the preoccupations of Hollywood: Charlie Chaplin called Picture "brilliant and sagacious" and legendary editor William Shawn termed it "the definitive book on the Hollywood community." Little wonder, then, that when the Top 100 Works of U.S. Journalism of the Twentieth Century were chosen by the New York University Department of Journalism and a distinguished panel that included David Brinkley, Pete Hamill, Jeff Greenfield, Mary McGrory, and Morley Safer, Picture had an honored place on that list.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2002-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Cyrano de Bergerac]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780743487757</link>
<description><![CDATA[ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATEDBY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIPEdmond Rostand's classic romance tells the unforgettable story of one unique man's bravery, loyalty, and unspoken love.EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:? A concise introduction that gives readers important background information? A chronology of the author's life and work? A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context? An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations? Detailed explanatory notes? Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work? Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction? A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experienceEnriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Cyrano de Bergerac]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Edmond Rostand]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Simon & Schuster]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780743487757]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATEDBY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIPEdmond Rostand's classic romance tells the unforgettable story of one unique man's bravery, loyalty, and unspoken love.EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:? A concise introduction that gives readers important background information? A chronology of the author's life and work? A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context? An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations? Detailed explanatory notes? Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work? Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction? A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experienceEnriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-11-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[American Pastoral]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375701429</link>
<description><![CDATA[As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order,  and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him.For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager—a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longer-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, this is Roth's masterpiece.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[American Pastoral]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Roth]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780375701429]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order,  and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him.For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager—a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longer-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, this is Roth's masterpiece.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1998-02-03T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Stranger Beside Me]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780451164933</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ted Bundy was everyone's picture of a natural "winner" -- handsome, charming, brilliant in law school, successful with women, on the verge of a dazzling career. On January 24, 1989, Ted Bundy was executed for the murders of three young women; he had also confessed to taking the lives of at least thirty-five more young women from coast to coast. This is his story written by a woman who thought she knew Ted Bundy -- until she began to pull all the evidence together, and the whole terrifying picture emerged from the dark depths.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Stranger Beside Me]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann  Rule]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Signet]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780451164933]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Ted Bundy was everyone's picture of a natural "winner" -- handsome, charming, brilliant in law school, successful with women, on the verge of a dazzling career. On January 24, 1989, Ted Bundy was executed for the murders of three young women; he had also confessed to taking the lives of at least thirty-five more young women from coast to coast. This is his story written by a woman who thought she knew Ted Bundy -- until she began to pull all the evidence together, and the whole terrifying picture emerged from the dark depths.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1981-07-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Catcher in the Rye]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316769488</link>
<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.  There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Catcher in the Rye]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[J.D. Salinger]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Little, Brown and Company]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780316769488]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.  There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1991-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Franny and Zooey]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316769495</link>
<description><![CDATA[The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Franny and Zooey]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[J.D. Salinger]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Little, Brown and Company]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780316769495]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1991-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Nine Stories]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316769501</link>
<description><![CDATA[Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before  the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme -- With Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, and Teddy.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Nine Stories]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[J.D. Salinger]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Little, Brown and Company]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780316769501]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before  the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme -- With Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, and Teddy.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1991-05-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[No Exit and Three Other Plays]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780679725169</link>
<description><![CDATA[4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[No Exit and Three Other Plays]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jean-Paul Sartre]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Vintage]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780679725169]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1989-10-23T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Fast Food Nation]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060838584</link>
<description><![CDATA[Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions, where the business was born, to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike, where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths -- from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Fast Food Nation]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Schlosser]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Harper Perennial]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780060838584]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions, where the business was born, to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike, where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths -- from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2005-07-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Hillside Strangler]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781884956379</link>
<description><![CDATA[This book is the dramatic psychological study of a brutal killer, whose crimes of rape and murder were gruesome secrets he kept even from himself. Written with exclusive information gleaned from countless conversations with killer Ken Bianchi, his girlfriend, his psychiatrists, as well as policemen and journalists involved with the case.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Hillside Strangler]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Schwarz]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Linden Publishing]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781884956379]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[This book is the dramatic psychological study of a brutal killer, whose crimes of rape and murder were gruesome secrets he kept even from himself. Written with exclusive information gleaned from countless conversations with killer Ken Bianchi, his girlfriend, his psychiatrists, as well as policemen and journalists involved with the case.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316143462</link>
<description><![CDATA[David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives -- a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Sedaris]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Little, Brown and Company]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780316143462]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives -- a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Me Talk Pretty One Day]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316776967</link>
<description><![CDATA[A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked", presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. A number one national bestseller now in paperback.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Me Talk Pretty One Day]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Sedaris]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Back Bay Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780316776967]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked", presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. A number one national bestseller now in paperback.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2001-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Naked]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316777735</link>
<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris's unmistakable voice, without doubt one of the freshest in American writing.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Naked]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Sedaris]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Back Bay Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780316777735]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris's unmistakable voice, without doubt one of the freshest in American writing.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1998-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Barrel Fever]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316779425</link>
<description><![CDATA[ In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris's collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life, and anything can happen.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Barrel Fever]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Sedaris]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Back Bay Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780316779425]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris's collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life, and anything can happen.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1995-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Cricket in Times Square]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780312380038</link>
<description><![CDATA[Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he’d seen it all. But he’s never met a cricket before, which really isn’t surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City?the Times Square subway station. Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. He’d be there still if he hadn’t followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst right into someone’s picnic basket. Now, like any tourist in the city, he wants to look around. And he could not have found two better guides?and friends?than Tucker and Harry. The trio have many adventures?from taking in the sights and sounds of Broadway to escaping a smoky fire.     Chester makes a third friend, too. It is a boy, Mario, who rescues Chester from a dusty corner of the subway station and brings him to live in the safety of his parents’ newsstand. He hopes at first to keep Chester as a pet, but Mario soon understands that the cricket is more than that. Because Chester has a hidden talent and no one?not even Chester himself?realizes that the little country cricket may just be able to teach even the toughest New Yorkers a thing or two.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Cricket in Times Square]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[George Selden; Garth Williams]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Square Fish]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780312380038]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he’d seen it all. But he’s never met a cricket before, which really isn’t surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City?the Times Square subway station. Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. He’d be there still if he hadn’t followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst right into someone’s picnic basket. Now, like any tourist in the city, he wants to look around. And he could not have found two better guides?and friends?than Tucker and Harry. The trio have many adventures?from taking in the sights and sounds of Broadway to escaping a smoky fire.     Chester makes a third friend, too. It is a boy, Mario, who rescues Chester from a dusty corner of the subway station and brings him to live in the safety of his parents’ newsstand. He hopes at first to keep Chester as a pet, but Mario soon understands that the cricket is more than that. Because Chester has a hidden talent and no one?not even Chester himself?realizes that the little country cricket may just be able to teach even the toughest New Yorkers a thing or two.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-04-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[William Shakespeare Complete Works]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780679642954</link>
<description><![CDATA[FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE, MODERNIZED, AND CORRECTED EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST FOLIO IN THREE CENTURIES.Skillfully assembled by Shakespeare’s fellow actors in 1623, the First Folio was the original Complete Works. It is arguably the most important literary work in the English language. But starting with Nicholas Rowe in 1709 and continuing to the present day, Shakespeare editors have mixed Folio and Quarto texts, gradually corrupting the original Complete Works with errors and conflated textual variations.Now Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, have edited the First Folio as a complete book, resulting in a definitive Complete Works for the twenty-first century.Combining innovative scholarship with brilliant commentary and textual analysis that emphasizes performance history and values, this landmark edition will be indispensable to students, theater professionals, and general readers alike.For more information on this Modern Library edition, visit www.therscshakespeare.com]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[William Shakespeare Complete Works]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Rasmussen; Jonathan Bate; William Shakespeare]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Modern Library]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780679642954]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE, MODERNIZED, AND CORRECTED EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST FOLIO IN THREE CENTURIES.Skillfully assembled by Shakespeare’s fellow actors in 1623, the First Folio was the original Complete Works. It is arguably the most important literary work in the English language. But starting with Nicholas Rowe in 1709 and continuing to the present day, Shakespeare editors have mixed Folio and Quarto texts, gradually corrupting the original Complete Works with errors and conflated textual variations.Now Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, have edited the First Folio as a complete book, resulting in a definitive Complete Works for the twenty-first century.Combining innovative scholarship with brilliant commentary and textual analysis that emphasizes performance history and values, this landmark edition will be indispensable to students, theater professionals, and general readers alike.For more information on this Modern Library edition, visit www.therscshakespeare.com]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2007-04-03T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780684843261</link>
<description><![CDATA[From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ntozake Shange]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Scribner]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780684843261]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975 when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing...every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1997-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Relocating to New York City and Surrounding Areas]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307394095</link>
<description><![CDATA[Making the Big Move to the Big Apple Just Got Easier!Moving to New York City and its neighboring areas can be overwhelming and expensive. What you need is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the diverse neighborhoods, cultures, and lifestyles–not to mention the entertainment options, trends, and hidden gems that are the heartbeat of your new home. In Relocating to New York City and Surrounding Areas, Revised and Updated 2nd Edition, you get an insider’s view of New York plus all the practical information you need to make your transition smooth and more affordable, including:•How to find a place to live–fast, and in a neighborhood you’ll love •Where to look for a job •How much it costs to live in the city and its environs•Where to find the best restaurants and entertainment in town •How to get around New York •How to move, ship, and store your stuff easily and affordablyNot just a neighborhood directory for newcomers, this is also a bible for those already living here, offering advice on the best schools, bargain shopping, discount tickets, and free events. Whether you’re planning a move or already here, you’ll want to keep this definitive guide in reach for the handy checklists, savvy tips, website listings, and fresh advice. Bursting with up-to-date statistics on every neighborhood and information on everything from post offices and grocery stores to health clubs and theaters, Relocating to New York City and Surrounding Areas will help you negotiate the city like a local on your very first day.Learn about New York’s hottest neighborhoodsGreenwich VillageSoHo   East Village  Morningside Heights Park Slope Williamsburg  Cobble Hill  Brooklyn Heights  Dumbo  Astoria]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Relocating to New York City and Surrounding Areas]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen R. Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Three Rivers Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780307394095]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Making the Big Move to the Big Apple Just Got Easier!Moving to New York City and its neighboring areas can be overwhelming and expensive. What you need is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the diverse neighborhoods, cultures, and lifestyles–not to mention the entertainment options, trends, and hidden gems that are the heartbeat of your new home. In Relocating to New York City and Surrounding Areas, Revised and Updated 2nd Edition, you get an insider’s view of New York plus all the practical information you need to make your transition smooth and more affordable, including:•How to find a place to live–fast, and in a neighborhood you’ll love •Where to look for a job •How much it costs to live in the city and its environs•Where to find the best restaurants and entertainment in town •How to get around New York •How to move, ship, and store your stuff easily and affordablyNot just a neighborhood directory for newcomers, this is also a bible for those already living here, offering advice on the best schools, bargain shopping, discount tickets, and free events. Whether you’re planning a move or already here, you’ll want to keep this definitive guide in reach for the handy checklists, savvy tips, website listings, and fresh advice. Bursting with up-to-date statistics on every neighborhood and information on everything from post offices and grocery stores to health clubs and theaters, Relocating to New York City and Surrounding Areas will help you negotiate the city like a local on your very first day.Learn about New York’s hottest neighborhoodsGreenwich VillageSoHo   East Village  Morningside Heights Park Slope Williamsburg  Cobble Hill  Brooklyn Heights  Dumbo  Astoria]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-03-25T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Pygmalion and Three Other Plays (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781593080785</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pygmalion and Three Other Plays, by George Bernard Shaw, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences?biographical, historical, and literary?to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Hailed as ?a Tolstoy with jokes” by one critic, George Bernard Shaw was the most significant British playwright since the seventeenth century. Pygmalion persists as his best-loved play, one made into both a classic film?which won Shaw an Academy Award for best screenplay?and the perennially popular musical My Fair Lady. Pygmalion follows the adventures of phonetics professor Henry Higgins as he attempts to transform cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a refined lady. The scene in which Eliza appears in high society with the correct accent but no notion of polite conversation is considered one of the funniest in English drama. Like most of Shaw’s work, Pygmalion wins over audiences with wit, a taut morality, and an innate understanding of human relationships. This volume also includes Major Barbara, which attacks both capitalism and charitable organizations, The Doctor’s Dilemma, a keen-eyed examination of medical morals and malpractice, and Heartbreak House, which exposes the spiritual bankruptcy of the generation responsible for the bloodshed of World War I.John A. Bertolini is Ellis Professor of the Liberal Arts at Middlebury College, where he teaches dramatic literature, Shakespeare, and film. He has written The Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw and articles on Hitchcock, and British and American dramatists. Bertolini also wrote the introduction and notes to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Shaw’s Man and Superman and Three Other Plays.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Pygmalion and Three Other Plays (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[George Bernard Shaw; John A. Bertolini]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Barnes & Noble Classics]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781593080785]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Pygmalion and Three Other Plays, by George Bernard Shaw, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences?biographical, historical, and literary?to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Hailed as ?a Tolstoy with jokes” by one critic, George Bernard Shaw was the most significant British playwright since the seventeenth century. Pygmalion persists as his best-loved play, one made into both a classic film?which won Shaw an Academy Award for best screenplay?and the perennially popular musical My Fair Lady. Pygmalion follows the adventures of phonetics professor Henry Higgins as he attempts to transform cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a refined lady. The scene in which Eliza appears in high society with the correct accent but no notion of polite conversation is considered one of the funniest in English drama. Like most of Shaw’s work, Pygmalion wins over audiences with wit, a taut morality, and an innate understanding of human relationships. This volume also includes Major Barbara, which attacks both capitalism and charitable organizations, The Doctor’s Dilemma, a keen-eyed examination of medical morals and malpractice, and Heartbreak House, which exposes the spiritual bankruptcy of the generation responsible for the bloodshed of World War I.John A. Bertolini is Ellis Professor of the Liberal Arts at Middlebury College, where he teaches dramatic literature, Shakespeare, and film. He has written The Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw and articles on Hitchcock, and British and American dramatists. Bertolini also wrote the introduction and notes to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Shaw’s Man and Superman and Three Other Plays.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-02-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The School for Scandal and Other Plays]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780140432404</link>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The School for Scandal and Other Plays]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Eric S. Rump]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Penguin Classics]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780140432404]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1989-03-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Lost in Yonkers]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780452268838</link>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Lost in Yonkers]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Neil  Simon]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Plume]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780452268838]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1993-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Jungle]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780140390315</link>
<description><![CDATA[Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to literature and social reform.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Jungle]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Upton  Sinclair; Ronald  Gottesman]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Penguin Classics]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780140390315]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to literature and social reform.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:relation><![CDATA[9780553897791]]></dc:relation>
<dc:date>1985-04-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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