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Legendary writer Yolanda Garcia has been married three times, and has entangled countless people in the web of her magnetic personality. This is her story, told from the points of view of some of them, and it adds up to a portrait of a remarkable and charismatic woman. AUTHOR: Julia Alvarez
PUBLISHER: Dutton/Plume
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Crime and Punishment by Constance Garnett, Constance Black Garnett, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Gibian, James McConnell
This 1866 novel is Dostoevsky's great fictional study of the criminal mind, in the character of the student Raskolnikov, who murders an aged pawnbroker. Initially, Raskolnikov believes that the killing was entirely justified, but as the novel proceeds he becomes tortured by his guilt, and begins to question all his most passionately held beliefs. Eventually, while the wily police inspector Porfiry Petrovich simply waits, Raskolnikov--prompted by Sonia, a prostitute who is devoted to him--breaks down and confesses. Despite its bleak subject matter, the novel holds out the possibility of redemption; it is also an indictment of the social conditions in which the action unfolds. AUTHOR: Constance Garnett, Constance Black Garnett, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Gibian, James McConnell
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore
A novel about cargo cults, messiahs, cannibals, and mad doctors, set on a Micronesian island. AUTHOR: Christopher Moore
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Dreamweaver by Jonathan London, Rocco Baviera
While hiking in the woods, a young boy comes across a small yellow spider spinning a web. Fascinated by the spider, the boy sits down to observe nature at work. Colored pencil illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Jonathan London, Rocco Baviera
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Children's Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Modern Art by Evelyn Toynton
The widow of a famous painter--and a painter herself--must cope, in her arthritic old age, with biographers, collectors, and museums who wish to make money from the remaining paintings of the dead genius. At the same time, she broods over the difficult years they spent together, during which her husband abused her, cheated on her, and did nothing to prevent the decline of her own career in favor of his. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. AUTHOR: Evelyn Toynton
PUBLISHER: Delphinium Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Cropper`s Cabin by Jim Thompson
For Tommy Carver, a short-tempered Okie sharecropper penned up in a sweltering cabin with a brutal father and a stepmother whose affection is anything but maternal, the question isn`t when he`ll explode, but who he`ll take with him when he does. My favorite crime novelist--often imitated but never duplicated. --Stephen King. AUTHOR: Jim Thompson
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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