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Description not available.A chronicle of the life of the award-winning science-fiction writer, presented by his son, describes Herbert's childhood in Tacoma, Washington, his early years as a reporter and editor, his military service, his struggles to become published, and his creation of numerous works including Dune, The Green Brain, and The Santaroga Barrier. 35,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Brian Herbert
PUBLISHER: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science Fiction & Fantasy 
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 | Far From the Madding Crowd by Jill Masters, Linda M. Shires, Michael Slater, Robert C. Schweik, Suzanne B. Falck-Yi
Hardy's first major novel tells the story of the shepherd Gabriel Oak and his long, patient devotion to Bathsheba Everdene. Bathsheba's faithless husband is murdered by a neighboring farmer, William Bellwood, who also loves her. At the end of a traumatic series of events, Bathsheba turns to Gabriel at last, valuing his honesty and integrity. Like Hardy's later novels, this one is characterized by coincidence, melodrama, and a degree of improbability. It also emphasizes the role of natural forces--the earth and the rhythms of rural life--all of which are personified in Gabriel Oak. The novel is less bleak and unforgiving than the later works, and is remarkable for its insight into the complexities of character, particularly that of the many-faceted Bathsheba. AUTHOR: Jill Masters, Linda M. Shires, Michael Slater, Robert C. Schweik, Suzanne B. Falck-Yi
PUBLISHER: Audio Partners Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Gullivar of Mars by Christon I. Archer, Gary Hoppenstand, Holger H. Herwig, John R. Ferris, Richard A. Lupoff
From the Bison Frontiers of Imagination Series.
From the Bison Frontiers of Imagination Series.
AUTHOR: Christon I. Archer, Gary Hoppenstand, Holger H. Herwig, John R. Ferris, Richard A. Lupoff
PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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 | Anne of Green Gables by Barbara Greenwood, Barbara Steadman, Beth Baxter, Bob Blaisdell, Deborah G. Felder
This is the classic and immensely popular first novel in the series about Anne Shirley, an irrepressible red-headed orphan. The Cuthberts decide to adopt an orphan--a strong, hardworking boy to help with the farm chores. Anne is sent to live with them by mistake. Talkative, romantic and imaginative, Anne must convince the Cuthberts to keep her. Once adopted, Anne embraces her new life with energy, and no one who meets her is ever the same. AUTHOR: Barbara Greenwood, Barbara Steadman, Beth Baxter, Bob Blaisdell, Deborah G. Felder
PUBLISHER: Quiet Vision Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Women in Love by Clive Francis, D. H. Lawrence, David Bradshaw, David H. Farmer, John Worthen
Lawrence considered this sequel to THE RAINBOW to be his best novel. It traces the stories of Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, particularly their romantic entanglements and dilemmas. Ursula marries Rupert Birkin--Lawrence's alter ego--a thoroughly modern and enlightened young man who believes in ideal love based on passion, equality, and mutual respect. Gudrun falls for Gerald Crich, a formidably competent businessman, owner of the local mine. Gerald is a weak, possessive reactionary who is unable to work out his feelings for Gudrun, and who, when Rupert offers his friendship--the kind of profound male friendship that Lawrence considered necessary to a man's life--he rejects it. In the end, when the two couples travel together to the Tyrolean Alps, a despondent Gerald commits suicide by wandering off into the snow. Lawrence's heavily symbolic story is an overt statement of his beliefs about men and women in modern society. Written in 1916, it didn't find a publisher until 1920, and was considered by many readers and reviewers to be depraved. Lawrence attributed much of the despair and bitterness of the novel to the travails of World War I, a war to which he was violently opposed. AUTHOR: Clive Francis, D. H. Lawrence, David Bradshaw, David H. Farmer, John Worthen
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Savage Reprisals by Peter Gay
One of the most dramatic explorations of a German town in the grip of anti-Semitic passion ever written. In 1900, in a small country town in the eastern reaches of the German Empire, a German boy is found frozen beneath the ice. He has been brutally murdered, the blood drained from his dismembered body. The crime resembles in form traditional blood libel accusations against the Jews--the kind dramatized in Bernard Malamud's classic THE FIXER. When a Jewish butcher is accused of committing the murder, the town explodes in an anti-Semitic fervor. Using vast amounts of previously undiscovered material, Helmut Walser Smith has pieced together the web of false stories and accusations, the abundance of rumor and malice that engulfed this Prussian town. Reminiscent of THE KIDNAPPING OF EDGARDO MORTARA in its dramatic intensity, THE BUTCHER'S TALE presciently anticipates the Nazi pogroms that would descend on Germany three decades later-a true historical thriller. Map, illustrations. AUTHOR: Peter Gay
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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