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(03/16/2010) Blood's A Rover by James Ellroy

   Blood's A Rover by James Ellroy. New York. 2009. Knopf. keywords: Literature America Mystery. 643 pages. September 2009. 9780679403937.     FROM THE PUBLISHER -    Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of History. Dwight Holly is J. Edgar Hoover’s pet strong-arm goon, implementing Hoover’s racist designs and obsessed with a leftist shadow figure named Joan Rosen Klein. Wayne Tedrow—ex-cop and heroin runner—is building a mob gambling mecca in the Dominican Republic and quickly becoming radicalized. Don Crutchfield is a window-peeping...

(03/15/2010) A Journal Of The Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

   A Journal Of The Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. New York. 1976. Penguin Books. Penguin English Library Paperback Edition. Introduction By Anthony Burgess. keywords: Penguin Classic Paperback Literature England 18th Century. 256 pages. The cover shows 'The Great Plague', a coloured drawing of the dead cart by George Cruickshank, in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library, by permission of the Wellcome Trust The engraving of Daniel Defoe inside the front cover is by M. Van der. 0140430156.     FROM THE PUBLISHER -    The works of Defoe, the businessman turned writer, have fascinated readers of all ages. The moral tone which accompanies his very concrete view of life is, it is true, hardly consistent with his bankruptcy in business and his dubious political activities. But Defoe...

(03/15/2010) A Journal Of The Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

   A Journal Of The Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. New York. 1976. Penguin Books. Penguin English Library Paperback Edition. Introduction By Anthony Burgess.. keywords: Penguin Classic Paperback Literature England 18th Century. 256 pages. The cover shows 'The Great Plague', a coloured drawing of the dead cart by George Cruickshank, in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library, by permission of the Wellcome Trust The engraving of Daniel Defoe inside the front cover is by M. Van der. 0140430156.     FROM THE PUBLISHER -    The works of Defoe, the businessman turned writer, have fascinated readers of all ages. The moral tone which accompanies his very concrete view of life is, it is true, hardly consistent with his bankruptcy in business and his dubious political activities. But Defoe...

(03/14/2010) Odes & Elegies by Friedrich Holderlin

   Odes & Elegies by Friedrich Holderlin. Middletown. 2008. Wesleyan University Press. Translated From The German & With An Introduction By Nick Hoff. keywords: Poetry Germany Literature Translated. 260 pages. Cover illustration - Claude Lorrain, 'Trees and rocks by a cascade,' 1635.. 9780819568908.     FROM THE PUBLISHER -    Friedrich Hölderlin emerged in the early 20th century as one of the key figures of modern European literature. This comprehensive selection of over 80 of his odes, hexameters, and elegies is taken from the important early period of his mature work - a time in which we encounter the poet open to nature and love with a rare vulnerability. The translations in ODES AND ELEGIES, including poems never before available in English, render forcefully and directly the deep longing...

(03/13/2010) The Tragedy Of King Christophe by Aime Cesaire

   The Tragedy Of King Christophe by Aime Cesaire. New York. 1970. Grove Press. Translated From The French By Ralph Manheim.Paperback Original. keywords: Drama Martinique Caribbean Black Translated. E-547. 96 pages.     FROM THE PUBLISHER -    Aime Cesaire, the celebrated black poet from Martinique, tells a double story in this psychologically and politically acute play: the epic of the independence of a colony and a new version of the ancient theme of hubris. Henri Christophe, the black ex-slave and cook who, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, became first a general and then King of Haiti, is in this play a man driven by ambition. His terrible need to imprint the glory of free Haiti on the historical consciousness of the world fires his imagination to...

(03/12/2010) The Black Sheep by Honore de Balzac

   The Black Sheep by Honore de Balzac. Baltimore. 1970. Penguin Books. Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. Translated from The French & With An Introduction By Donald Adamson. keywords: Penguin Classic Paperback France Literature Translated 19th Century. L237. 339 pages. The cover shows a detail from 'Portrait of an Artist in his Studio' by Theodore Gericault. 0140442375.     FROM THE PUBLISHER -    The fight for an inheritance is a recurrent theme in Balzac’s work. In THE BLACK SHEEP he describes the struggle of two brothers, Joseph and Philippe Bridau, one an artist and the other an ex-officer, to recover their family fortune. The novel culminates in a duel of wits and ruthlessness between two notable villains, of the kind at which Balzac excels. Superior cunning triumphs where virtue...

(03/11/2010) Random House Book Of 20th Century French Poetry by Paul Auster (editor)

   Random House Book Of 20th Century French Poetry by Paul Auster (editor). New York. 1982. Random House. Dual-Language Edition. keywords: Poetry Translated France Anthology. 637 pages. Jacket design by Susan Shapiro. Jacket art - 'Red Eiffel Tower, 1911-1912' by Robert Delaunay. November 1982. 0394521978.     FROM THE PUBLISHER -    THE RANDOM HOUSE BOOK OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH Poetry is the most comprehensive and up-to-date bilingual anthology of modern French poetry ever published. It includes substantial selections from the work of forty-eight poets, ranging from Apollinaire, Jacob, Larbaud, Fargue, Cendrars, St.-John Perse and Reverdy through Tzara, Breton, Eluard, Aragon, Desnos, Michaux and Ponge, to Follain, Char, Jabes, Bonnefoy, Dupin and the leading younger poets of today. A virtual history of poetry in French in our century, this book...

(03/10/2010) Afro-American Folktales by Roger Abrahams

   Afro-American Folktales: Stories From Black Traditions In The New World by Roger Abrahams (editor). New York. 1985. Pantheon. keywords: Folklore Mythology African American Studies Literature America. 327 pages. Cover Illustration & Design by Bascove. April 1985. 0394728858.     FROM THE PUBLISHER -    The newest addition to the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library completes Roger Abrahams's masterful survey of taletelling in the black world by showing the vital forms African stories took as they entered the New World. These 107 tales come from the canefields of the antebellum South, the villages of Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary Philadelphia. Throbbing with life, they range from earthy comedy (in recounting the scandalous doings of tricksters Rabbit and Fox) to inventive ‘just-so’ stories explaining why the world...

(03/09/2010) Koestler by Michael Scammell

  Koestler: The Literary & Political Odyssey Of A Twentieth-Century Skeptic by Michael Scammell. New York. 2009. Random House. keywords: Biography Philosophy Politics Literature Arthur Koestler. 693 pages. Jacket design by Allison Warner. Jacket photograph by Fred Stein - Arthur Koestler, Paris, 1937. 9780394576305.     FROM THE PUBLISHER -    From award-winning author Michael Scammell comes a monumental achievement: the first authorized biography of Arthur Koestler, one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century. Over a decade in the making, and based on new research and full access to its subject's papers, Koestler is the definitive account of this fascinating and polarizing figure. Though best known as the creator of the classic anti-Communist novel Darkness at Noon, Koestler is here revealed as much more...

(03/08/2010) Karel Capek: In Pursuit Or Truth, Tolerance & Trust by Bohuslava R. Bradbrook

  Karel Capek: In Pursuit Or Truth, Tolerance & Trust by Bohuslava R. Bradbrook. Brighton. 1998. Sussex Academic Press. keywords: Literature Biography Czech Literature Literary Criticism. 257 pages. 1898723850.     FROM THE PUBLISHER -    Karel Capek is the most important, most versatile, but also the most neglected Czech writer in the twentieth century. The plays R.U.R: and ‘From the Life of Insects’ created a sensation in London in the 1920s; his word ‘robot’ was introduced into the Oxford English Dictionary. Capek's other plays — as well as novels, short stories, essays, travelogues and causeries — followed in English translations in quick succession until cultural links were broken off by the war. Because of his liberal, anti-war views Capek's works were blacklisted by the Nazis occupying his homeland,...

(03/07/2010) The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Baltimore. 1953. Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. Translated From The French By J.M. Cohen. Keywords: Literature France Translated Autobiography. L33. 606 pages.  FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘I have resolved on an enterprise which has no precedent and which, once complete, will have no imitator.’ . . . In his posthumously published CONFESSIONS Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) describes the first fifty-three years of his life. With a frankness at times almost disconcerting, but always refreshing, he set out to reveal the whole truth about himself to the world, and succeeded in producing a masterpiece which has left its indelible imprint on the literature of successive generations, influencing among other Proust, Goethe, and Tolstoy.        Buy a new copy of this book from zenosbooks

(03/06/2010) Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indridason

(03/06/2010) Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indridason. New York. 2009. St. Martin's Press. Translated From The Icelandic by Bernard Scudder & Victoria Cribb. keywords: Literature Iceland Scandinavia Mystery Translated. 352 pages. Jacket design by Ervin Serrano. September 2009. 9780312381035.     FROM THE PUBLISHER -     On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body of the young boy has been found in the garden, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. Erlendur and his team embark on an investigation but have little to go on. In this new extraordinary thriller from Gold Dagger Award winner Arnaldur Indridason, the Reykjavik police are called on an icy January day to a garden where a body has been...

(03/05/2010) The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason

The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason. New York. 2008. St. Martin's Press. Translated From The Icelandic by Bernard Scudder. keywords: Literature Iceland Scandinavia Mystery Translated. 320 pages. Jacket design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein. September 2008. 9780312358730.   FROM THE PUBLISHER -     In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy communication device is attached to it, possibly some sort of radio transmitter, bearing inscriptions in Russian. The police are called in and Erlendur, Elinborg and Sigurdur Oli begin their investigation, which gradually leads them...

(03/04/2010) Voices by Arnaldur Indridason

(03/04/2010) Voices by Arnaldur Indridason. New York. 2007. St. Martin's Minotaur. Translated From The Icelandic By Bernard Scudder. keywords: Literature Translated Iceland Mystery. 313 pages. October 2007. 9780312358716.   FROM THE PUBLISHER -     ‘A commanding new voice ...puts Iceland on the map as a major destination for enthusiasts of Nordic crime fiction.’ - Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review on Silence of the Grave. ARNALDUR INDRIDASON took the international crime fiction scene by storm after winning England's CWA Gold Dagger Award for Silence of the Grave. Now, with the highly anticipated Voices, this world-clan sensation treats American readers to another extraordinary Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson thriller. The Christmas rush is at its peak in a grand Reykjavik hotel when Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is called in...

(03/03/2010) Silence Of The Grave by Arnaldur Indridason

(03/03/2010) Silence Of The Grave by Arnaldur Indridason. New York. 2006. St Martin's/Minotaur. Translated From The Icelandic By Bernard Scudder. keywords: Literature Iceland Scandinavia Mystery Translated. 280 pages. Jacket photograph of birds and sky by Eugene Kuo. October 2006. 0312340710.   FROM THE PUBLISHER -     Downtrodden Detective Erlendur and his team must once again investigate Reykjavik’s hidden past to unravel a case of human nastiness. Construction work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who...

(03/02/1010) Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller by Arnaldur Indridason

  Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller by Arnaldur Indridason. New York. 2005. St Martin's Press. Translated From The Icelandic By Bernard Scudder. Keywords: Literature Iceland Scandinavia Mystery Translated. 275 pages. Jacket photograph by Michael Trevillion. October 2005. 0312340702. From the publisher - Jar City introduces American readers to a new crime writer from Iceland whose work has created an international sensation. Arnaldur Indridason has been compared to such luminaries in the field as Henning Mankell, Georges Simenon, Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall; everyone agrees that here is a world-class writer. When a lonely old man is found murdered in his Reykjavík flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the killer and a photograph of a young girl’s grave. Inspector Erlendur, who heads the investigation...

(03/01/2010) Max Havelaar, of The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch trading Company by Multatuli

Max Havelaar, of The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch trading Company by Multatuli. Leyde/London/New York. 1967. Sijthoff/Heinemann/London House & Maxwell. Edited & Introduced by Roy Edwards. Introduction by D.H. Lawrence. keywords: Literature Translated Dutch Asia Java. 337 pages. Illustration on the bookjacket - detail of a painting by A.J. Payen (1785-1853) Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leyden.   FROM THE PUBLISHER –   `MAX HAVELAAR created a furore, when it first appeared a century ago in Holland. In Germany it was the book of the moment, even in England it had a liberal vogue. And to this day it remains vaguely in the minds of foreigners as the one Dutch classic,' said D. H. Lawrence in his essay on Multatuli in 1927. When it first appeared in 1859 this...

(02/28/2010) Tambourines To Glory by Langston Hughes

Tambourines To Glory by Langston Hughes. New York. 1958. John Day. keywords: Literature America Black. 188 pages. Jacket design by Paul Sagsoorian.   FROM THE PUBLISHER –   Laura Reed and Essie Belle Johnson, two attractive Harlem tenement women with time on their hands and no jobs, decide to start their own gospel church on a street corner. Laura wishes to make money. Essie honestly desires to help people. ‘Money! I sure wish I had some. Say, Essie, why don't you and me start a church like Mother Bradley's? We ain't doing nothing else useful, and it would beat Home Relief. You sing good. I'll preach. We'll both take up collection and split it.’ ‘What denomination we gonna be?’ asked Essie, amused at the idea. ‘Start our own...

(02/27/2010) Shadows Move Among Them by Edgar Mittelholzer

Shadows Move Among Them by Edgar Mittelholzer. Philadelphia. 1951. Lippincott. keywords: Literature Caribbean Black Guiana. 334 pages.   FROM THE PUBLISHER -   This is fare to surprise and delight the most exacting reader, a distinguished and original novel by a writer with an unusually fertile mind. In the atmosphere of haunted jungles in British Guiana the author has placed a group of English characters as strange and almost as terrifying as the jungle fauna which he so vividly describes. Dictator of this tropical demi-paradise, the highly eccentric Reverend Gerald Harmston dispenses his home-brewed religion to overawed natives and his own peculiar family. His Sunday sermons are ghost stories, he flogs and chains offenders against his laws, while in the background the memory of Dutch settlers massacred...

(02/26/2010) The Life & Death Of Sylvia by Edgar Mittelholzer

The Life & Death Of Sylvia by Edgar Mittelholzer. New York. 1954. John Day. keywords: Literature Caribbean Black Guiana. 316 pages.     FROM THE PUBLISHER –   Telling the tragic story of a young Sylvia Ann Russell, this novel focuses on the dilemmas of a young woman of mixed race in 1930s Guyana. After the death of her English father, Sylvia constantly struggles for economic survival and against attempts to exploit her sexually. Impossibly torn between her desire for emotional closeness and the integrity of her independence, Sylvia willfully accepts her dark fate when she falls ill. This brilliant and moving novel explores the plight of a Caribbean woman who demands more meaning from her life than her society will give her. About the Author - Edgar...

(02/25/2010) Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton. New York. 2009. Penguin Books. Penguin Classics Deluxe Paperback Edition. Introduction by Fredrika Newton. keywords: African American Studies Autobiography History America Politics Black Panthers. 360 pages. Cover by Ho Che Anderson. 9780143105329.   FROM THE PUBLISHER –   The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package. Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton’s famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America’s Black Panther Party. From Newton’s impoverished childhood on the streets of Oakland to his adolescence and struggles with the system, from his role in the Black Panthers to his solitary confinement in the Alameda County Jail, Revolutionary Suicide is...

(02/24/2010) Fields Of Wonder: A Book Of Lyric Poems by Langston Hughes

Fields Of Wonder: A Book Of Lyric Poems by Langston Hughes. New York. 1947. Knopf. keywords: Poetry America Black Literature. 117 pages.   FROM THE PUBLISHER –   A book of poems that is a clear stream of lyricism is something to welcome warmly. This collection by Langston Hughes is not only such a stream, but also one that frequently runs deep, for, as his readers well know, Mr. Hughes can speak intensely about the things that matter to him. The moods are many: blues in the key of longing, the bitter song of racial inequality, the syncopated ballad, the quick thrust of an ironic quatrain. The style is generally a rich colloquial idiom in natural free-flowing patterns - a combination that may remind one of Carl Sandburg,...

(02/23/2010) Futureland: Nine Stories Of An Imminent World by Walter Mosley

Futureland: Nine Stories Of An Imminent World by Walter Mosley. New York. 2001. Warner. keywords: Literature America Black Science Fiction. 356 pages. Cover: Jon Valk. 0446529540.   FROM THE PUBLISHER –   Projecting a near-future United States in which justice is blind in at least one eye and the ranks of the disenchanted have swollen to dangerous levels, Mosely offers nine interconnected stories whose characters appear and reappear in each others' lives. For all its denizens, from technocrats to terrorists, celebs to crooks, 'Futureland' is an all-American nightmare just waiting to happen.      Buy a new copy of this book from zenosbooks.com

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9780312358730.jpg  The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason. New York. 2008. St. Martin's Press. Translated From The Icelandic by Bernard Scudder. keywords: Literature Iceland Scandinavia Mystery Translated. 320 pages. Jacket design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein. September 2008. 9780312358730.

 

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In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately that it has been there for many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy communication device is attached to it, possibly some sort of radio transmitter, bearing inscriptions in Russian. The police are called in and Erlendur, Elinborg and Sigurdur Oli begin their investigation, which gradually leads them back to the time of the Cold War when bright, left-wing students would be sent from Iceland to study in the ' heavenly State ' of Communist East Germany. The Draining Lake is another masterfully written Indridason mystery about passions and shattered dreams, the fate of the missing and the grief of those left behind.. Arnaldur Indridason was born in 1961. He worked at an Icelandic newspaper, first as a journalist and then for many years as a film reviewer. He won the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel for both Jar City and Silence of the Grave, and in 2005 Silence of the Grave also won the Golden Dagger Award. Indriaason lives in Reykjavik, Iceland; he and J.K. Rowling are the only authors to simultaneously hold the top three spots on the Icelandic bestseller list.

 

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1898723850.jpg  Karel Capek: In Pursuit Or Truth, Tolerance & Trust by Bohuslava R. Bradbrook. Brighton. 1998. Sussex Academic Press. Keywords: Literature Biography Czech Literature Literary Criticism. 257 pages. 1898723850
 
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Karel Capek is the most important, most versatile, but also the most neglected Czech writer in the twentieth century. The plays R.U.R: and ‘From the Life of Insects’ created a sensation in London in the 1920s; his word ‘robot’ was introduced into the Oxford English Dictionary. Capek's other plays — as well as novels, short stories, essays, travelogues and causeries — followed in English translations in quick succession until cultural links were broken off by the war. Because of his liberal, anti-war views Capek's works were blacklisted by the Nazis occupying his homeland, as well as later by the communists. Presenting a study of all genres Capek used, B.R.B.'s book pays the debt history owes to Capek. Both as a writer and as a journalist, Capek sought the truth: in the epistemological sense, how we acquire knowledge; in the moral one, how we apply it to our behaviour. Recognizing great differences between individuals, Capek recommends tolerance and mutual trust as the best way towards the improvement of democratic human relations. His philosophical trilogy HORDUBAL, METEOR and AN ORDINARY LIFE — is the best artistic expression of these ideas; as a journalist, he conveyed them explicitly. Capek's science fiction works show his admiration for the achievements of science and technology; he forecast the use of nuclear power, but also strongly warned against its abuse. His English readers particularly appreciated his common sense, wit and humour. Karel Capek was a man who taught through laughter. Bohuslava R. Bradbrook was born in Czechoslovakia and educated at the universities of Prague, Innsbruck and Oxford. Before retirement she was a lecturer at University College of North Wales, Bangor, and has published numerous articles and reviews on Karel Capek as well as on Czech literature scholarly journals, symposia and the Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century.
 
 
 
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9780819568908.jpg  Odes & Elegies by Friedrich Holderlin. Middletown. 2008. Wesleyan University Press. Translated From The German & With An Introduction By Nick Hoff. Keywords: Poetry Germany Literature Translated. 260 pages. Cover illustration - Claude Lorrain, 'Trees and rocks by a cascade,' 1635. 9780819568908.
 
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Friedrich Hölderlin emerged in the early 20th century as one of the key figures of modern European literature. This comprehensive selection of over 80 of his odes, hexameters, and elegies is taken from the important early period of his mature work - a time in which we encounter the poet open to nature and love with a rare vulnerability. The translations in ODES AND ELEGIES, including poems never before available in English, render forcefully and directly the deep longing and heartbreak of Hölderlin’s poetic world; their open, pathos-filled rhythm and disarming clarity present Hölderlin’s powerful work as distinctive English poems. A bilingual edition, this book also includes informative annotations and translations of drafts and revisions that give deep insight into Hölderlin’s craft and process, shining new light on the unique poetic voice that marks Hölderlin’s achievement and continuing influence on poetry and philosophy today. FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN (1770-1843), whose work has influenced such figures as Rilke, Celan, Heidegger, Adorno, and Benjamin, is considered by many to be one of the most important German lyric poets. NICK HOFF is a writer and translator who lives in San Francisco. His translations have been published in Telos, Left Curve, and other journals.
 
 

 
 
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Dr. Karel Capek (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) was one of the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. He introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1921. rur.jpg  Karel credited his brother, Josef Capek, as the true inventor of the word robot. Capek was born in Malé Svatonovice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic). Karel Capek wrote with intelligence and humor on a wide variety of subjects. His works are known for their interesting and precise descriptions of reality, and Capek is renowned for his excellent work with the Czech language. He is perhaps best known as a science fiction author, who wrote long before science fiction became established as a separate genre. He can be considered one of the founders of classical, non-hardcore European science fiction, a type which focuses on possible future (or alternative) social and human evolution on Earth, rather than technically advanced stories of space travel. However, it is best to classify him with Aldous Huxley and George Orwell as a speculative fiction writer, distinguishing his work from genre-specific hard science fiction. Many of his works discuss ethical and other aspects of revolutionary inventions and processes that were already anticipated in the first half of 20th century.  These include mass production, atomic weapons, and post-human intelligent beings such as robots or intelligent salamanders. In addressing these themes, Capek was also expressing fear of impending social disasters, dictatorship, violence, and the unlimited power of corporations, as well as trying to find some hope for human beings. Capek's literary heirs include Ray Bradbury, Salman Rushdie, Brian Aldiss and Dan Simmons. His other books and plays include detective stories, novels, fairy tales and theatre plays, and even a book on gardening. His most important works attempt to resolve problems of epistemology, to answer the question: "What is knowledge?" Examples include "The Tales from Two Pockets", tales from two pockets.jpg  and first book of all the trilogy of novels Hordubal, Meteor, and An Ordinary Life. Later, in the 1930s, Capek's work focused on the threat of brutal Nazi and fascist dictatorships.   His most productive years coincided with the existence of the first republic of Czechoslovakia (1918–1938). He wrote Talks with Tomáš Masaryk — Masaryk was a Czech patriot, the first President of Czechoslovakia, and a regular guest at Capek's Friday garden parties for Czech patriots. Capek was also a member of Masaryk's Hrad political network. This extraordinary relationship between the author and the political leader may be unique, and was an inspiration for Václav Havel. He also became a member of International PEN. Soon after it became clear that the Western allies had refused to help defend Czechoslovakia against Hitler, Capek refused to leave his country — despite the fact that the Gestapo had named him Czechoslovakia's "public enemy number 2." Karel Capek died of double pneumonia on December 25, 1938, shortly after part of Bohemia was annexed by Nazi Germany following the so-called Munich Agreement.   He was interred in the Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague. His brother Josef Capek, a painter and writer, died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.   After the war, Capek's work was reluctantly accepted by the Communist regime of Czechoslovakia, because during his life he had refused to accept a communist utopia as a viable alternative to the threat of Nazi domination. 

 
 
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Zeno’s is an online used and out-of-print bookstore that specializes in literature in translation, modern first editions, and hard-to-find books. In addition to selling books to customers all over the world for over 25 years (since 1983), we have worked with other local businesses and schools to promote literacy by providing books and other resource materials to the public schools. Zeno’sstarted as a mail-order used and out-of-print business. We moved into a storefront in 1992, moved to a bigger location a couple of years later, and eventually closed the physical store to go online. Thus, zenosbooks.com was born. We have been selling our own hard-picked eclectic selection of used, hard-to-find, and even rare books via the internet ever since. Recently we have added new books to our mix. Any book person can see that the number of independent bookstores, both new and used, is dwindling, and that the current “book world,” is increasingly dominated by the big-box chain store or by the massive internet retailers. We however would like to think that there is room for a alternative that is a little more interesting . . . And we support our local schools.

 

 

As a small business we are wedded to our community. We don’t live in some sort of multi-national hyperspace whose connection to community is whatever their PR Department has come up with for the current promotion. We live in the real world. We support our own local economy. According to The Andersonville Study by the Civic Economics Group (which can be read online at –

 

 

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for every $100 a consumer spends, locals businesses give $68 to the local economy, while chain stores only give back $43.

 

As far as buying online goes, zenosbooks.com offers essentially the same service that is offered by Amazon.com, with some notable extras...

We not only recycle money into our local economy (first and foremost because we live here), we will offer to the local school of your choice a monthly 10% rebate on any of your purchases through zenosbooks.com if the school is willing to work with us. Every time you purchase a book through us you have the opportunity to support your local schools.

 

How can you go wrong with that?

 
   
NCIBA/IndieBound/San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller List Sales
(Week Ending February 21, 2010)
Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the NCIBA and IndieBound.
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Hardcover Fiction

 

 

1.The Help by Kathryn Stockett

2.The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

3. The Man From Beijing by Henning Mankell

4. Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich

5. Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

6.The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

7. The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine

8. The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

9. The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason

10. Worst Case by James Patterson, Michale Ledwige

11.The First Rule by Robert Crais

12. Murder in the Palais Royal by Cara Black

13. Point Omega by Don Delillo

14.Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

15.The Godfather of Kathmandu by John Burdett

 

 

Hardcover Nonfiction

 

 

1.Game Change by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

2.Just Kids by Patti Smith

3.Stones Into Schools by Greg Mortenson

4.Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert

5. Willie Mays by James S. Hirsch

6. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Craft Rubin

7. I Am An Emotional Creature by Eve Ensler

8.What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

9.Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

10. Switch by Chip Heath

11. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

12. The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone

13. Ad Hoc At Home By Thomas Keller

14. Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

15. The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

 

 

Trade Paperback Fiction

 

 

1.The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

2.Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

3.Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

4. Little Bee by Chris Cleave

5. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

6.The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

7.A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

8. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

9.The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

10.Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

11. Honolulu by Alan Brennert

12. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

13. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

14.The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee

15. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

 

 

Trade Paperback Nonfiction

 

 

1.Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan

2.Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

3. The Lost City of Z by David Grann

4.In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

5.How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer

6.Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson

7.  A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

8.My Life in France by Julia Child

9. The Value of Nothing by Rajeev Charles Patel

10.The Blind Side by Michael Lewis

11.The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

12.Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler

13.Zagat San Francisco Bay Area Restaurants 2010

14. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

15. My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor

 

 

Mass Market

 

 

1. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

2. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

3.Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

4.The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly

5.The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

6. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

7.Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card

8.The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

9. First Family by David Balducci

10. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

 

Children’s Titles

 

 

1.The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan

2.The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 2) by Rick Riordan

3.The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3) by Rick Riordan

4.The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 4) byRick Riordan

5. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide by Rick Riordan

6.The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5) byRick Riordan

7.Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3) by Stephenie Meyer

8.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney

9. Diary of a Winpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

10.Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

11. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

12. The Book Thief by Marcus Zuzak

13. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney

14. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

15. The Viper's Nest (39 Clues, #7) by Peter Lerangis

 

 

 
 
 
 


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