 | The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeannette Duncan
Buy new: $15.59 / Used from: $24.77 Superb women's reading -- see my full review.
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 | Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $1.70 An affair to remember! See my full review for details.
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 | A Mummer's Tale (Dodo Press) by Anatole France
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $23.09 Theater, sex, jealosy, love, revenge, retribution... and so on. A superb novel, little heard of these days.
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 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Lewis Carroll
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $2.27 Everyone should read this one.
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 | Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: $11.02 / Used from: $4.50 The sci-fi novel which helped to launch America's "Free-Love Society".
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 | Elephant Hill by Robin White
Buy used from: $1.50 Love in India. A terrific novel.
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 | The Yellow Room by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Buy used from: $0.01 The best mystery of all time.
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 | With the Armies of the Tsar by Florence Farmborough
Buy used from: $0.44 An astounding account (and photos!) by a young lady on the Russian Front during WW I.
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 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $4.20 You can never go back. Excess gone amuk!
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 | The Borden Tragedy: A Memoir of the Infamous Double Murder at Fall River, Mass., 1892 (Treasury of Victorian Murder (Graphic Novels)) by Rick Geary
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $2.54 Lizzie Borden took an ax....
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 | Kidnap - the Story of the Lindbergh Case by George Waller
Buy used from: $0.74 A phenomenal account of the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping.
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 | Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: $9.88 / Used from: $4.54 Millions have read "The Catcher in the Rye" but this one is good too.
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 | Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $11.45 Proto-Tolkienish tales about two kids (Dan and Una) who are presented with a history of England through the efforts of a "faun".
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 | The Lord of the Rings. 3 Vol. Set by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $1.00 The greatest fantasy tale ever written.
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 | Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $2.25 Nothing at all like the old horror films -- compelling!
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 | The Thread That Runs So True by Jesse Stuart
Buy new: $18.25 / Used from: $14.15 Jesse's semi-true early teaching experiences in the rural Eastern Kentucky foothills of Appalachia.
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 | Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook) by Billie Holiday
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $7.22 The sad saga of an American icon.
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 | A Life of Picasso: The Prodigy, 1881-1906 by John Richardson
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $17.50 Picasso was clearly a genius who led a fascinating life as he broke new ground (and thus all the "rules") in the field of art. He maintained a long-running platonic relationship with the controversial Gertrude Stein.
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 | Boudicca: The Warrior Queen by M. J Trow
Buy used from: $10.80 A Welsh (Icenian) Warrior Princess -- one tough lady!
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 | Death Comes As the End by Agatha Christie
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Murder in Ancient Egypt.
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| Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
Buy used from: $0.99 Why anti-semitism is stupid.
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 | Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $1.59 The "dolls" are pills!
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 | BOMB: The Classic Novel of Anarchist Violence by Frank Harris
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $1.72 A little-known story of American cruelty based upon an actual incident.
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 | The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $1.69 A favorite of young ladies in particular.
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 | The Adventures of Captain Horn (Dodo Press) by Frank R. Stockton
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $21.26 Mrs. Cliff is as strong as Captain Horn in this brilliant 19th Century tale of a shipwrecked group along a dangerous stretch of the South American coastline.
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 | Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Buy used from: $5.99 Terrific novel written by a terrific lady -- but she ultimately paid a high price for her "indiscretion" in revealing small-town scandals.
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 | The Gadfly by E. L. Voynich
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $12.49 A tragic tale of the Church failing its people during a time of revolution in Italy.
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 | A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.98 There are few better or more surprising novels than this one -- a brilliant author, as well.
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 | Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal by Lloyd C. Douglas
Buy used from: $19.95 Doctor Hudson has a secret that made him successful throughout his life. This is the "Overture" to "Magnificent Obsession".
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 | A Burnt-Out Case (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Graham Greene
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.97 Leprosy and an affair... in Africa! This is a terrific novel, little heard of today.
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 | Holy Bible NIV, New International Version by International Bible Society
Buy used from: $0.94 LOTS about life in here! This is a good, solid translation and easy to read.
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 | The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Buy used from: $2.78 A "history-mystery," rendered by a master of the art.
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 | DOCTOR ZHIVAGO - Unabridged (International Collectors Library) by Boris Pasternak
Buy used from: $18.75 A young doctor struggles to juggle his wife and his mistress during the Russian Revolution.
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 | Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Alison Weir
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.75 Not a huge page-turner but still a fine biography about a significant lady of European history.
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 | Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries) by Dorothy L. Sayers
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.83 Harriet Vane hates it when Lord Peter Wimsey shows up uninvited to help her solve a case!
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 | STUFFED: GROWING UP IN A RESTAURANT FAMILY by PATRICIA VOLK
Buy used from: $0.13 Ever wonder how pastrami got to America? This funny lady tells her family's story.
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 | Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Buy new: $9.72 / Used from: $5.00 The environmental blockbuster of the '60s.
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 | War and Peace (Signet Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy used from: $0.21 Anne Dunnigan translated the only contemporary (1968) English language version of this magnificent 19th Century story of three Noble Russian families and Napoleon's wars against that country. It's very easy to read and it's unabridged.
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