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A clockwork orange : the restored edition by Anthony BurgessThis 50th anniversary edition of the modern classic draws from three different published versions of the work as well as the original typescript to recreate the novel as the author originally envisioned it. 25,000 first printing.
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Carsick
by John Waters
The visual artist behind such cult films as Hairspray traces his haphazard cross-country hitchhiking journey at the sides of a motley group of unsuspecting drivers, including a gentle farmer, an indie band and the author's unexpected hero. 75,000 first printing
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Close range : Wyoming stories by Annie ProulxA new collection of award-winning short fiction by the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News includes "Brokeback Mountain," "The Mud Below," and "The Half Skinned Steer," selected by John Updike as one of the best stories of the century. 75,000 first printing.
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Deliverance by James DickeyFour suburban businessmen take a canoe trip along a Georgia river, an odyssey that pits their courage against the river's raging rapids and the most primitive human impulses of fear, lust, and murder. Reissue. Book available.
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Different seasons by Stephen KingA collection of four tales of outlandish, commonplace, and surprising terror includes such stories as "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" and "The Body."
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Foxfire : confessions of a girl gang by Joyce Carol OatesIn upstate New York during the 1950s, five rebellious teenage girls form a gang and embark on a mission of fury, anger, violence, and revenge. By the author of Black Water. 60,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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Lives of girls and women by Alice MunroA poignant portrayal of a young girl's youth in a Canadian town and her awakening to womanhood in the 1940s follows Del Jordan as she explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood and records the frustrations, joys, triumphs, and trials of small-town life. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the game by Tilly BagshaweIn the long-awaited sequel to Sidney Sheldon's The Master of the Game, the children of Kate Maxwell's granddaughters, Eve and Alexandra, battle to carry on Kate's fierce legacy; but in a family of secrets, the player who wins the game may be the only one who can survive. (General fiction). Simultaneous.
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Of mice and men by John SteinbeckClinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own. But after they come to work on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, their hopes, like "the best laid schemes o' mice an' men," begin to go awry
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Silent witness by Richard North PattersonYears after being wrongfully accused of the murder of his first love, Alison, successful San Francisco attorney Tony Lord returns to Lake City, Ohio, to defend old friend Sam Robb, charged with killing one of his students, and confronts the buried secrets of his past
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Snow falling on cedars by David GutersonIshmael Chambers, a newspaperman from the Pacific Northwest who lost an arm in World War II, reunites with his childhood sweetheart, Hatsue Imada, whom he was separated from by the Japanese-American internment, when Imada's husband is tried for murder.
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The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai RichlerA young, likeable Jewish hustler, member of the third generation of a Jewish immigrant family in Montreal, struggles to prosper despite his zany family and, in the process, learns about life. Reprint.
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The handmaid's tale by Margaret AtwoodOffred, a Handmaid, describes life in what was once the United States, now the Republic of Gilead, a shockingly repressive and intolerant monotheocracy, in a satirical tour de force set in the near future, in a classic work that is soon to be a 10-part Hulu series. Reissue. An Arthur C. Clarke Award winner and Booker Prize nominee. TV tie-in.
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The three musketeers by Alexandre DumasA headstrong young fighter, d'Artagnan joins forces with three members of the King's Musketeers to save the queen from the scheming Cardinal Richelieu
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The wars by Timothy FindleyIn 1915 Robert Ross, a young Canadian, enlists as an officer and begins a geographic and psychological journey through army training, troopship life, the slaughter at Ypres, a love affair in England, and the devastation of Belgium
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePresents the classic novel in which the explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape and its sequel, set twenty years later
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Wild fire : a novel by Nelson DeMilleWhile investigating the death of a member of the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force, Detective John Corey and his wife, FBI Agent Kate Mayfield, stumble into the middle of a terrifying nuclear conspiracy that leads them to the inner circle of the Custer Hill Club, a luxurious Adirondack hunting lodge whose members include America's most powerful leaders. 1,000,000 first printing.
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Women on top
by Nancy Friday
Transcripts of the actual sexual fantasies of more than 150 women complement a work that explores how the demands of contemporary society on women have transformed their sexual fantasies. Reprint.
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