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|  | The Heart of Darkness by Cedric Watts, D. C. R A. Goonetilleke, Dan O'Herlihy, Joseph Conrad, Robert Hampton
Description not available.Marlowe sails down the Congo in search of Kurtz, a company agent who has, according to rumors, become insane in the jungle isolation AUTHOR: Cedric Watts, D. C. R A. Goonetilleke, Dan O'Herlihy, Joseph Conrad, Robert Hampton
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Kara Kush by Idries Shah
Description not available.Born in Afghanistan and educated in America, Adam Durany returns home to rally his followers, an ill-equipped band of patriots, against Soviet infiltrators that threaten their country and way of life. By the author of The Sufis. AUTHOR: Idries Shah
PUBLISHER: Overlook Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
Winner of the 1918 Pulitzer Prize. AUTHOR: Booth Tarkington
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Edward Arlington Robinson by Edward A. Robinson, Robert Faggen
Edwin Arlington Robinson's finely crafted, formal rhythms lay bare the loneliness and despair of life in genteel small towns, the tyranny of love, and unspoken, unnoticed suffering. An Introduction sheds light on Robinson's influence on other poets--from Eliot and Pound to Frost and Berryman--and brings an unjustly neglected poet to new readers. AUTHOR: Edward A. Robinson, Robert Faggen
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age
LOURDES is a major work and sure to become an important history of the greatest of healing shrines...In 1858, near the tiny French town of Lourdes in the foothills of the Pyrenees, a young peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous witnessed the Virgin Mary in a grotto. Since then, millions of pilgrims from all over the world have gone there every year to walk in a procession to a shrine whose waters have made it a synonym for healing. Oxford historian Ruth Harris traces the history of this mass phenomenon, placing Lourdes at the center of nineteenth century debates on religion, science, and medicine--debates being revisited today. She examines the pivotal role of women and children as its visionaries, devotees and advocates address issues of mysticism and non-orthodox faith that speak to our own era of spirituality. Above all she explores how, at a moment in French history when the Church was under attack, this place of pilgrimage improbably prospered. She offers a serious challenge to the view that the spirit of modern Europe has been exclusively secular and progressive. LOURDES is a major work and sure to become an important history of the greatest of healing shrines.
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Dangerous Husband by Jane Shapiro
A black comedy about a photographer married to a man whose bizarre, relentless clumsiness (deliberate? hapless?) goes out of control. Desperate after he breaks her foot, she resolves to hire a hit man and have him eliminated. Instead, she flees their Brooklyn apartment, then misses him and returns, only to find herself in real danger. AUTHOR: Jane Shapiro
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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