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1927: High Tide of the 1920sby Gerald LeinwandISBN 156858153X (1-56858-153-X)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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1929by Frederick W. TurnerISBN 1582433097 (1-58243-309-7)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: '1929'Book summary:In a briefly affluent and deeply disenchanted post-war America, the Jazz Age erupts in gaudy glory. It and one of its most colorful icons, Bix Beiderbecke, are celebrated in this fine first novel by an acclaimed nonfiction writer.
By 1929, the brief, brilliant career of Bix Beiderbecke--self-taught cornetist, pianist, and composer--had already become legend. From the summer of '26 at Hudson Lake, Indiana, when his genius blazed forth with a strange, doomed incandescence, Bix's career tragically reflected the chaotic impulses of a country suddenly awash in wealth, power, and a profound cynicism. Shy, elusive, inarticulate, Bix was beloved by both the raccoon-coated campus crowd and the men who nightly played alongside him. He is still celebrated in a yearly festival in his hometown of Davenport, Iowa.
And that is where the novel begins, in Davenport, at the Bix Fest. It then travels back in time to focus on the highlights of a meteoric career: the early jams at the Blue Lantern Casino, a Capone-controlled nightclub; the grueling cross-country tours with Paul Whiteman's "Symphonic Jazz" orchestra; the disastrous Whiteman trip to California to make the first all-color talkie musical; the stock-market crash of 1929, which finds Bix in an asylum, victim of the era's signature product, bootleg gin; and finally, Bix's dying efforts to combine his piano compositions into a suite that would be the pinnacle of his life's work and his evocation of his time and place.
Colored by some of the age's most popular characters--Bing Crosby, Maurice Ravel, Al Capone, Louis Armstrong, and Clara Bow--1929 brilliantly illuminates a period in history, personified in the gifted, compelling, and melancholy figure of Bix Beiderbecke. [via]
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The 8: 55 To Baghdadby Andrew EamesISBN 158567673X (1-58567-673-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 8: 55 To Baghdad'Book summary:[via]In 1928, Agatha Christie, the world's most widely read author, was a thirty-something single mother. With her marriage to her first husband, Archie Christie, over, she decided to take a much-needed holiday; the Caribbean had been her intended destination, but a conversation at a dinner party with a couple who had just returned from Iraq changed her mind. Five days later she was off on a completely different trajectory.
Merging literary biography with travel adventure, and ancient history with contemporary world events, Andrew Eames tells a riveting tale and reveals fascinating and little-known details en route in this exotic chapter in the life of Agatha Christie. His own trip from London to Baghdada journey much more difficult to make in 2002 with the political unrest in the Middle East and the war in Iraq, than it was in 1928becomes ineluctably intertwined with Agatha's, and the people he meets could have stepped out of a mystery novel.
Fans of Agatha Christie will delight in Eames' descriptions of the places and events that appeared in and influenced her fictionand armchair travelers will thrill in the exotica of the journey itself.
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8:55 to Baghdad: From London to Iraq on the Trail of Agatha Christieby Andrew EamesISBN 1585678023 (1-58567-802-3)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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Merging literary biography with travel adventure, and ancient history with contemporary world events, Andrew Eames tells a riveting tale and reveals fascinating and little-knowndetails en route in this exotic chapter in the life of Agatha Christie. His own trip from London to Baghdad--a journey much more difficult to make in 2002 with the political unrest in the Middle East and the war in Iraq, than it was in 1928--becomes ineluctably intertwined with Agatha's, and the people he meets could have stepped out of a mystery novel.
Fans of Agatha Christie will delight in Eames' description of the places and events that appeared in andinfluenced her fiction--and armchair travelers will thrill in the exotica of the journey itself.More editions of 8:55 to Baghdad: From London to Iraq on the Trail of Agatha Christie:
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Adventures in Arkham CountryISBN 1568820046 (1-56882-004-6)
Softcover, Chaosium
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Akenfield: Portrait of an English Villageby Ronald BlytheISBN 1585790095 (1-58579-009-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village'Book summary:This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers and the fascinating and personal recollections of, among others, the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate. Providing insights into farming, education, welfare, class, religion and death, Akenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has, in many ways, disappeared. [via]
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Amelia Earhart: A Biographyby Doris L. RichISBN 1560987251 (1-56098-725-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Ana En El Tropico: Una Nueva Obra Teatralby Nilo Cruz, Nacho ArtimeISBN 1559362456 (1-55936-245-6)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Anna In The Tropicsby Nilo CruzISBN 1559362324 (1-55936-232-4)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Anne of the Islandby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1576463087 (1-57646-308-7)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of the Island'Book summary:Continues the adventures of Anne Shirley and her friends at college. [via]
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Anne's House of Dreamsby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 1576463141 (1-57646-314-1)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne's House of Dreams'Book summary:The fifth volume in a popular series follows Anne Shirley Blithe and her new husband, Gilbert, in their first year of marriage, which brings them a beloved cottage home, new friends, and the birth of their first children. [via]
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Antic Hayby Aldous HuxleyISBN 1564781496 (1-56478-149-6)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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The Big Change: America Transforms Itself 1900-1950by F. AllenISBN 1560006390 (1-56000-639-0)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Big Change: America Transforms Itself 1900-1950'Book summary:Frederick Lewis Allen was one of the pioneers in social history. Best known as the author of Only Yesterday, Allen originated a model of what is sometimes called instant history, the reconstruction of past eras through vivid commentary on the news, fashions, customs, and artifacts that altered the pace and forms of American life. The Big Change was Allens last and most ambitious book. In it he attempted to chart and explain the progressive evolution of American life over half a century. Written at a time of unprecedented optimism and prosperity, The Big Change defines a transformative moment in American history and provides an implicit and illuminating perspective on what has taken place in the second half of the twentieth century.
Allens theme is the realization, in large measure, of the promise of democracy. As against the strain of social criticism that saw America as enfeebled by affluence and conformity, Allen wrote in praise of an economic system that had ushered in a new age of well being for the American people. He divides his inquiry into three major sections. The first, The Old Order, portrays the turn-of-the-century plutocracy in which the federal government was largely subservient to business interests and the gap between rich and poor portended a real possibility of bloody rebellion. The Momentum of Change graphically describes the various forces that gradually transformed the country in the new century: mass production, the automobile, the Great Depression and the coming of big government, World War II and Americas emergence as a world power. Against this background, Allen shows how the economic system was reformed without being ruined, and how social gaps began to steadily close.
The concluding section, The New America, is a hopeful assessment of postwar American culture. Allens analysis takes critical issue with many common perceptions, both foreign and domestic, of American life and places remaining social problems in careful perspective. As William ONeill remarks in his introduction to this new edition, The Big Change is both a deep and wonderfully readable work of social commentary, a book that gains rather than loses with the years.
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Birds Of A Featherby Jacqueline WinspearISBN 1569473684 (1-56947-368-4)
Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc
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Bricktopby James Haskins, BricktopISBN 1566491142 (1-56649-114-2)
Softcover, Welcome Rain
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The Chessmen of Marsby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 1576466248 (1-57646-624-8)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chessmen of Mars'Book summary:1922. After a rambunctious youth and series of short-lived jobs including door-to-door salesman, accountant, a peddler for a quack alcoholism cure and finally pencil sharpener wholesaler, Burroughs found his calling as writer. As the story goes, one of Burroughs' duties was to verify the placement of advertisements for his sharpeners in various magazines. These were all-fiction pulp magazines, a prime source of escapist reading material for the expanding middle class. Burroughs spent time reading those magazines and decided he could write those stories just as well. He was lucky his first time out and sold Under the Moon of Mars. The Tarzan series followed this and Burroughs was now a full-fledged writer. In this volume of the Mars series, Helium, a spoiled princess and John Carter's daughter, rejects Gahan, Jed of Gathol, as a suitor and foolishly flies off into a great storm. Gahan gives chase. By the time he finally catches up to Tara, she has forgotten who he is, and he assumes the name Turjun, a panthan mercenary. Together they challenge the power of O-Tar, Jeddak of Manator, whose barbaric nation of Red Men have preyed upon Gathol for centuries. The Manatorians have elevated Jetan, Martian chess, to an unprecedented level of skill and excitement: they use live chessmen who fight for live princesses. Gahan finds himself fighting for Tara on the chessboard of Manator, and haunting O-Tar's palace. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Citadelby A. J. CroninISBN 1567231381 (1-56723-138-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Citadel'Book summary:The titles in this series are mainly new editions of titles in the "Longman Simplified English Series". They are suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate. Every book has been re-edited to ensure ease of understanding and naturalness of language and keeps within the 2000 word Defining Vocabulary of the "Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English". Any additional vocabulary used is explained in the glossary. All titles feature a four to five page introduction to the authors, characters and themes of the texts, giving students not only background information, but also help in literary appreciation. Additionally, there is exercise material at the back of each book: 50 questions on factual detail, with a further 20 more open-ended questions for written work or to stimulate discussion. [via]
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The Code of the Woostersby P.G. WodehouseISBN 158567057X (1-58567-057-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Code of the Woosters'Book summary:On the 25th anniversary of Wodehouse's death, booksellers and readers will be cheered to find the finest editions available of his classic novels--the first in a series of his best known works--by one of the greatest English comic writers of our time.
Fans devoted to the master of comic fiction P. G. Wodehouse are legion. He represents an antic high point in the world of farce and social satire. Best known for the creation of two fictional worlds based on Blandings Castle and the Wooster-Jeeves gentleman-valet duo, Wodehouse is appreciated the world over for his exceedingly clever and comically savvy send-ups of the idle rich in Edwardian England.
In The Code of the Woosters, it takes all the ingenuity of Jeeves, the "gentleman's gentleman" extraordinaire, to rescue his hapless and hopelessly obtuse young employer, Bertie Wooster, from the pickle of a plot to steal a silver jug from the home of an irascible magistrate.
With each volume edited and reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth, these novels are elegant additions to any Wodehouse fan's library. [via]More editions of The Code of the Woosters:
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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Father Brown Storiesby Not Available, John PetersonISBN 1586170937 (1-58617-093-7)
Hardcover, Ignatius Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Father Brown Stories'Book summary:G.K. Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown The Wisdom of Father Brown The Donnington Affair G.K. Chesterton, one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, is most famous for a series of mystery stories and novelettes that feature the Roman Catholic priest, Fr. Brown. Adapted for stage, radio and film, the Fr. Brown stories have proved to be enduringly popular. But like Chesterton's other work, what to many may seem like trivial short stories contain profound observations of the world, human character, philosophy, morality and religion. John Peterson, the editor of Father Brown of the Church of Rome, takes the reader through this first group of stories, giving valuable annotations as well as an introduction that gives a fascinating look at Chesterton's detective fiction. Fans of Father Brown and Chesterton will be delighted by this latest volume in the Collected Works. Sewn Hardcover [via]
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The Compact Arkham Unveiledby Keith HerberISBN 1568820496 (1-56882-049-6)
Softcover, Chaosium
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The Complete Masks of Nyarlathotep: Adventures to Thwart the Dark Godby Jason C. Eckhardt, Lynn Willis, Tom Sullivan, John J. Eckhardt, Larry DitilloISBN 1568820690 (1-56882-069-0)
Softcover, Australian Centre for Innovation
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Crome Yellowby Aldous HuxleyISBN 1564783049 (1-56478-304-9)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Damsel in Distress : A Daisy Dalrymple Mysteryby Carola DunnISBN 1575667541 (1-57566-754-1)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Dead in the Waterby Carola DunnISBN 1575667568 (1-57566-756-8)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Death at Wentwater Court : A Daisy Dalrymple Mysteryby Carola DunnISBN 1575667509 (1-57566-750-9)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Documents in the Caseby Robert Eustace, Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 1560543582 (1-56054-358-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Escape from InnsmouthISBN 1568821158 (1-56882-115-8)
Softcover, Chaosium
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G.K. Chestertonby Cecil ChestertonISBN 1586170945 (1-58617-094-5)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'G.K. Chesterton'Book summary:Introduction and notes by John Peterson
G.K. Chesterton, one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, is most famous for a series of mystery stories and novelettes that feature the Roman Catholic priest, Fr. Brown. The stories have proved to be enduringly popular, containing profound observations of the world, human character, philosophy, morality and religion.
John Peterson, the editor of Father Brown of the Church of Rome, takes the reader through this group of stories, giving valuable annotations as well as an introduction that gives a fascinating look at Chesterton s detective fiction. Fans of Father Brown and Chesterton will be delighted by this latest volume in the Collected Works. [via] 
Gangsters And Gold Diggersby Jerome CharynISBN 1560256435 (1-56025-643-5)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Gangsters and Gold Diggers: Old New York, the Jazz Age, and the Birth of Broadwayby Jerome CharynISBN 1568582781 (1-56858-278-1)
Hardcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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George Orwell: An Age Like This 1920-1940 The Collected Essays, Journalism & Lettersby George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sonia OrwellISBN 1567921337 (1-56792-133-7)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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Grey Seas Underby F. MowatISBN 1585742406 (1-58574-240-6)
Softcover, Lyons Pr
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H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich: Return to the Forgotten Villageby Keith HerberISBN 1568821646 (1-56882-164-6)
Softcover, Chaosium
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Hanging Curveby Troy SoosISBN 1575666561 (1-57566-656-1)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Hot Waterby P.G. WodehouseISBN 1585673897 (1-58567-389-7)
Hardcover, Overlook Pr
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Inimitable Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 1585679224 (1-58567-922-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inimitable Jeeves'Book summary:The 11 stories prepared in this collection are the original stories which were all first published between 1918 and 1922 in the magazines Strand and Cosmopolitan, now in the public domain. They were then revised and re-published together as 18 stories in 1923 but these are the original magazine versions. The Inimitable Jeeves was the second collection of Jeeves stories, after My Man Jeeves (1919); the next collection would be Carry on, Jeeves in 1925. All of the stories in The Inimitable Jeeves are connected and most of them involve Bertie's friend Bingo Little, who is always falling in love. It's Wodehouse at his best. [via]
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Krazy & Ignatz 1929-1930by George Herriman, Bill BlackbeardISBN 1560975296 (1-56097-529-6)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Krazy & Ignatz 1929-1930'Book summary:This volume finds Herriman flowering into the peak of his inventiveness, liberated at last from the constraints of his syndicate's chosen format. Gorgeous cartoons are augmented by rare bonus materials.
This volume is one in a long-term plan to chronologically reprint the entirety of the 28-year run of Krazy Kat's breathtaking Sunday page, most of which has not seen print since originally running in newspapers 75 years ago. Each volume is painstakingly edited by the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum's Bill Blackbeard, the world's foremost authority on early 20th Century American comic strips, and designed by Jimmy Corrigan author Chris Ware. In addition to the 104 full-page black-and-white Sunday strips from 1929 and 1930 (Herriman did not use color until 1935), the book includes an introduction by Blackbeard and reproductions of rare Herriman ephemera from Ware's own extensive collection, as well as annotations and other notes by Ware and Blackbeard.
Of special note to collectors, this is the period when Herriman was again liberated from the "grid" constraints of the mid-'20s and was able to compose his pages far more creatively, resulting in richer, more complex, more eye-pleasing compositions. Krazy Kat is a love story, focusing on the relationships of its three main characters. Krazy Kat adored Ignatz Mouse. Ignatz Mouse just tolerated Krazy Kat, except for recurrent onsets of targeting tumescence, which found expression in the fast delivery of bricks to Krazy's cranium. Offisa Pup loved Krazy and sought to protect "her" (Herriman always maintained that Krazy was gender-less) by throwing Ignatz in jail. Each of the characters was ignorant of the others' true motivations, and this simple structure allowed Herriman to build entire worlds of meaning into the actions, building thematic depth and sweeping his readers up by the looping verbal rhythms of Krazy & Co.'s unique dialogue. Black-and-white comic strips and illustrations throughout [via]More editions of Krazy & Ignatz 1929-1930:
Krazy and Ignatz 1931-1932: A Kat Alilt with Songby George Herriman, Chris Ware, Bill BlackbeardISBN 1560975946 (1-56097-594-6)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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Krazy and Ignatz: The Komplete Kat Komics, 1925-1926by George Herriman, Chris WareISBN 1560973862 (1-56097-386-2)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Krazy and Ignatz: The Komplete Kat Komics, 1925-1926'Book summary:A collection of reprints from the popular Sunday cartoon. The comic strip features three main characters : Krazy, the cluelesscat who is in love with Ignatz, the mouse; Ignatz who likes to throw bricks at Krazy, which the feline invariably interprets as expressions of love; and Officer Pupp who adores Krazy and is always looking to arrest Ignatz for his crimes. Krazy, meanwhile, always sees the arrests as just two good friends playing a game together. Herriman manipulates this formula over and over again into something fresh, each strip becoming a little funnier because of the readers' familiarity with the strange relationships among the chararcters. [via]
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Letters to a Young Poetby Rainer Maria Rilke, Joan M. Burnham, Franz Xaver Kappus, Kent NerburnISBN 1577311558 (1-57731-155-8)
Hardcover, New World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to a Young Poet'Book summary:These have been called the most famous and beloved letters of the 20th century. Rainer Maria Rilke himself said that much of his creative expression went into his correspondence, and here he touches upon subjects that will interest writers, artists, and thinkers. Letters to a Young Poet is a classic that should be read by everyone who dreams of expressing themselves creatively. This luminous translation offers inspiration to all people who seek to know and express their inner truth. This edition features a new foreword by Kent Nerburn, author of Small Graces and Letters to My Son.[via]More editions of Letters to a Young Poet:
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Letters to a Young Poet/the Possibility of Beingby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 1567315208 (1-56731-520-8)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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The Life of Galileoby Ralph Manheim, Bertolt Brecht, John WillettISBN 1559702540 (1-55970-254-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Galileo'Book summary:Straight from London's National Theatre to L.A. Theatre Works! Unrelenting in his search for ""simple truth"" Galileo Galilei shatters beliefs held sacred for two thousand years. But, under threat of torture by the Holy Inquisition, his scientific and personal integrity are put to the test as he argues for his very life in a passionate debate over science, politics, religion and ethics that resonates to this day. This American premier, translated by David Hare and directed by Martin Jarvis, stars Stacy Keach and features an interview with Dr. E.C. Krupp, Director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Neil Dickson, Roy Dotrice, Jeannie Elias, Jill Gascoine, Stacy Keach, Peter Lavin, Robert Machray, Christopher Neame, Moira Quirk, Darren Richardson, Alan Shearman, Simon Templeman, Joanne Whalley, Matthew Wolf [via]
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Lovesickby Angeles Mastretta, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 1573226556 (1-57322-655-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lovesick'Book summary:When young Emilia Sauri is born in turn-of-the-century Puebla, Mexico, her father expects great things for this child who will "live her entire life in a new century." Emilia grows up to be an independent woman, a doctor in a time and place when female physicians were few and far between, but history has a habit of sidetracking even the most regulated lives; the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1911 throws the nation into chaos and Emilia's future into uncertainty. Angeles Mastretta's second novel, Lovesick, follows the fortunes of Emilia and of Mexico as both are torn by the ravages of war. For Mexico, a dictator's triumphant overthrow slips rapidly into endless bloody revolution; for Emilia, her peaceful life as a healer is disrupted by her conflicting feelings for her lover, a fellow doctor, and Daniel Cuenca, a childhood friend-turned-revolutionary.
In real life, love and war seldom end neatly. So it is with Lovesick, a novel that refuses to give either its characters or readers easy solutions to complex problems. Emilia's choice between the meaningful existence she shares with her lover and the exhilaration she experiences with Daniel is at the heart of this book, yet Angeles Mastretta's novel doesn't wear that heart on its sleeve; like life, Lovesick leaves some questions unanswered. [via]
The Mad Kingby Edgar R. BurroughsISBN 1576462382 (1-57646-238-2)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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Main Streetby Sinclair LewisISBN 1573920487 (1-57392-048-7)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Maisie Dobbsby Jacqueline WinspearISBN 1569473307 (1-56947-330-7)
Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maisie Dobbs'Book summary:Lady Rowan Compton first met Maisie when, at thirteen, she went into service as a maid at her ladyships Belgravia mansion. A suffragette, Lady Rowan took the remarkably smart youngster under her wing and became her patron. She encouraged Maisie to study at Cambridge, and was aided in this by Maurice Blanche, a friend often retained as an investigator by the elite of Europe when discretion and results were required. It was he who first recognized Maisies intuitive gifts.
The outbreak of war changed everything. Maisie left for France to train as a nurse, then served at the front, where she fell in love with a handsome young doctor.
After the Armistice, in the spring of 1929, Maisie hangs out her shingle: M. Dobbs, Trade and Personal Investigations. Her very first case involves suspected infidelity but turns up something else, a tombstone with only a first nameVincent. And then she finds another. The deceased had lived on a cooperative farm called The Retreat, a well-regarded convalescent refuge for those grievously wounded in the war, ex-soldiers too shattered to resume normal life. When Lady Rowans son makes plans to join the reclusive community, Maisie hurriedly investigates and finds a disturbing mystery at its core whose resolution gives her the courage to confront the ghost that has haunted her for ten years. [via]More editions of Maisie Dobbs:
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The Mating Seasonby P.G. WodehouseISBN 1585672319 (1-58567-231-9)
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The Mating Season is a time of love, mistaken identity, and mishap for Bertie, Gussie Fink-Nottle and other guests staying at Deverill Hall-luckily there's unflappable Jeeves to set things right.More editions of The Mating Season:
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Murder at the Vicarageby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126251 (1-57912-625-1)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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Murder in Montparnasseby Howard EngelISBN 1585670944 (1-58567-094-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder in Montparnasse'Book summary:Penzler Pick, January 2001: Howard Engel's Murder in Montparnasse, an intrigue-filled novel set in the Left Bank's glorious heyday in the 1920s, joins Stephen Glazier's The Lost Provinces and William Wiser's Disappearances as an outstanding example of this minigenre. Engel, an award-winning Canadian writer best known for his Benny Cooperman mystery series, makes his narrator a fellow countryman, Mike Ward. An expatriate supporting himself as a translator for a press agency on the Right Bank, Ward prefers to spend his time amid the colorful personalities who are permanent fixtures at the sidewalk cafes of the Left. One of his first acquaintances, J. Miller Waddington, is a sometime boxer and bullfight aficionado who's come to the City of Light intending to write the Great American Novel. Who does that remind you of?
Engel offers other characters both in and out of fictional disguise, and figuring out just who's who provides part of the entertainment value. The Fitzgeralds are on the scene, of course (as Wilson and Georgia O'Donnell), while another famous couple of the era, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, walk through the action as themselves.
But there's another celebrated figure on hand who, in every way possible, is distinctly out of place. Jack the Ripper, or at least a killer who resembles that British fiend, is stalking Montparnasse, the bohemian quarter of the city, and his knife has already left behind five corpses. Not prostitutes, as in London, the victims have been artists' models, although one dead woman was an up-and-coming young painter. Fear is in the streets and starting to seep behind tightly closed shutters, and even in the brightly lit brasseries and bistros there is only a hollow feeling of safety.
While others of his acquaintance watch and wait with the fatalism of the poets and artists that they are, Mike Ward keeps his journalist's instincts about him. It occurs to him to wonder, after the latest slaying, if someone with a grudge against a former lover might not take lethal initiative advantage of the cover provided by the unknown Jack de Paris in order to commit murder and avoid suspicion. One of the best passages, for those keeping an eye out for the celebrities in these pages, is the section where Ward discusses his theories with an engaging character--only very lightly disguised--based on the legendary crime novelist Georges Simenon.
Howard Engel has obviously enjoyed the jigsaw aspects of arranging this quasi- historic mise en scène, and so will those readers whose taste runs both to pastiche and pastis. --Otto Penzler [via]
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Murder on the Flying Scotsmanby Carola DunnISBN 1575667533 (1-57566-753-3)
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 1566194881 (1-56619-488-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
The New York Times Page One: Major Events 1900-1997 As Presented in the New York Timesby New York TimesISBN 1578660068 (1-57866-006-8)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Not As a Strangerby Morton ThompsonISBN 1568491182 (1-56849-118-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books, Incorporated
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The Original Pooh Treasury: Eeyore Has a Birthday, Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, Christopher Robin Gives a Pooh Partyby A. A. Milne, Peter DennisISBN 1573754587 (1-57375-458-7)
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Our Hearts Were Young And Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920sby Emily Kimbrough, Cornelia Otis SkinnerISBN 1579124364 (1-57912-436-4)
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Out of Egypt: A Memoirby Andre AcimanISBN 1573225347 (1-57322-534-7)
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Page One: The New York Times Major Events 1900-1998by New York Times StaffISBN 1578660327 (1-57866-032-7)
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Pellucidarby Edgar Rice Burroughs, J. Allen St. John, Jack McDevittISBN 1576465500 (1-57646-550-0)
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The Penal Colonyby Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin MuirISBN 1560004762 (1-56000-476-2)
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Pigs Have Wingsby P.G. WodehouseISBN 1585670596 (1-58567-059-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pigs Have Wings'Book summary:On the 25th anniversary of Wodehouse's death, booksellers and readers will be cheered to find the finest editions available of his classic novels--the first in a series of his best known works--by one of the greatest English comic writers of our time.
Fans devoted to the master of comic fiction P. G. Wodehouse are legion. He represents an antic high point in the world of farce and social satire. Best known for the creation of two fictional worlds based on Blandings Castle and the Wooster-Jeeves gentleman-valet duo, Wodehouse is appreciated the world over for his exceedingly clever and comically savvy send-ups of the idle rich in Edwardian England.
Pigs Have Wings takes us to Blandings Castle, where a romantic comedy unfolds alongside the intrigue of the Fat Pig competition in Shropshire.
With each volume edited and reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth, these novels are elegant additions to any Wodehouse fan's library. [via]More editions of Pigs Have Wings:
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Point Counter Pointby Aldous HuxleyISBN 1564781313 (1-56478-131-3)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Point Counter Point'Book summary:When it was published in 1928, Point Counter Point no doubt shocked its readers with frank depictions of infidelity, sexuality, and the highbrow high jinks of Aldous Huxley's arty characters. What's truly remarkable, however, is how his novel continues to shock today. True, we may hardly lift an eyebrow at poor Marjorie Carling leaving her husband to live in sin with--and get pregnant by--her lover Walter Bidlake. And the sexual exploits of Lady Edward Tantamount or her daughter, Lucy, seem quite in keeping with the behavior expected of such exalted persons by readers inured to the exploits of the British Royals. If the varieties of sexual experience on display in Huxley's novel seem tame by current standards, his clear-eyed dissection of the motives behind them are thrillingly fresh--and his commentaries on everything from politics to ecology sometimes chillingly prescient. Take for example, the wisdom of amateur biologist Lord Edward Tantamount on the subject of non-renewable resources:
"No doubt," he said, "you think you can make good the loss with phosphate rocks. But what'll you do when the deposits are exhausted?" He poked Everard in the shirt front. "What then? Only two hundred years and they'll be finished. You think we're being progressive because we're living on our capital Phosphates, coal, petroleum, nitre--squander them all. That's your policy. And meanwhile you go round trying to make our flesh creep with talk about revolutions."
When his interlocutor, the fascist politician Everard Webley, demands to know whether Lord Edward wants a revolution, Tantamount first asks whether such an event would reduce the population and check production and then, when assured it would, he responds, "'Then certainly I want a revolution.' The Old Man thought in terms of geology and was not afraid of logical conclusions."Huxley fills his novel with a multitude of characters, from the obscenely wealthy Tantamounts to the priapic painter John Bidlake, his children Walter and Elinor, and their respective mates, Marjorie Carling and Philip Quarles. There is also the venomous Maurice Spandrell, the revolutionary Illidge, the unctuous Burlap, and the happily married (a rarity in this novel) Mark and Mary Rampion, who are the book's moral center--theirs is the one relationship that combines reason and passion in proper measure. They are purportedly in part based on well-known figures of the time such as D.H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield. Love, loss, infidelity, and murder are the subjects under discussion as Huxley juxtaposes one point of view against its opposite, and mixes in a healthy dollop of science, politics, religion, and art, as well. Point Counter Point is an intelligent novel about the intellectual world, and one that bears up gracefully under the test of time. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Price Was Highby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph BruccoliISBN 1567311067 (1-56731-106-7)
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Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed Americaby Edward BehrISBN 1559703946 (1-55970-394-6)
Softcover, Arcade Pub
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The Red House Mysteryby Alan Alexander MilneISBN 1579247024 (1-57924-702-4)
Softcover, Bob Jones Univ Pr
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Requiem for a Mezzo : A Daisy Dalrymple Mysteryby Carola DunnISBN 1575667525 (1-57566-752-5)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Right and Leftby Joseph Roth, Michael HofmannISBN 1585674923 (1-58567-492-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Right Ho Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 1585670588 (1-58567-058-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fans devoted to the master of comic fiction P. G. Wodehouse are legion. He represents an antic high point in the world of farce and social satire. Best known for the creation of two fictional worlds based on Blandings Castle and the Wooster-Jeeves gentleman-valet duo, Wodehouse is appreciated the world over for his exceedingly clever and comically savvy send-ups of the idle rich in Edwardian England.
In Right Ho, Jeeves Bertie's old friend Gussie Fink-Nottle has fallen in love and, as usual, makes a hash of the affair until Jeeves comes to his rescue.
With each volume edited and reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth, these novels are elegant additions to any Wodehouse fan's library. [via]More editions of Right Ho Jeeves:
Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhoodby William WoodruffISBN 1561310697 (1-56131-069-7)
Softcover, New Amsterdam Books
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia WoolfISBN 1568493665 (1-56849-366-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room of Ones' Own'Book summary:"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."First published in 1929, Virginia Woolf's pioneering work on women in literature is an accessible yet fiercely astute essay. It is a crystallization of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austen's pandering to a male writing style, to imagining the dreadful fate of Shakespeare's talented, intelligent sister, Woolf makes the topic an enjoyable journey through her imagination, filling in for the undocumented in female history, and exploring the loss to the literary landscape in her own entertaining, convincing prose. The recording also includes a booklet with further information, including a contribution by Ali Smith, author of The Accidental. Unabridged.[via]More editions of Room of Ones' Own:
A Room With a Viewby E. M. ForsterISBN 1566191440 (1-56619-144-0)
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Starting over: A Step-By-Step Guide to Help You Rebuild Your Life After a Breakupby Randy Petersen, Tom WhitemanISBN 1576832368 (1-57683-236-8)
Softcover, Pinon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Starting over: A Step-By-Step Guide to Help You Rebuild Your Life After a Breakup'Book summary:You are not over when your relationship ends. If you've recently gone through a divorce or relational breakup, you know how difficult it is to recover your sense of identity, balance, and hope. The flood of emotions and impulses surrounding a divorce can leave you feeling permanently angry, bitter, fearful, or lonely. And the most natural thing in the world is to want relief. But be careful. Finding a new and satisfying relationship is ultimately a healthy goal. But if you haven't taken steps to heal emotionally and reflect on your role in past relationships, moving on is more likely to extend your pain than to relieve it. Resolving the complicated feelings associated with a breakup takes concentration, effort, and a good plan. It takes a fresh start. In Starting Over, authors Whiteman and Petersen present the insights, guidance, and encouragement they've gleaned from years of counseling and thousands of interviews. Drawn from the "hindsight wisdom" of those who have rebuilt their lives and moved on to healthier relationships, the eight principles revealed in this guidebook will help you: - Recognize which friends will speed your recovery (and which ones will sabotage it!) - Discover the power of forgiveness for overcoming old wounds - Regain a healthy view of yourself and your experience - Avoid the emotional and relational pitfalls common to those who experience loss - Learn how to help others through similar experiences As important as it is to acknowledge the parts of your soul that feel damaged or destroyed by an ended relationship, it's even more important to recognize your potential for the future. And the best time to start is right now. [via]
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945by Barbara TuchmanISBN 1568496044 (1-56849-604-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Thank You, Jeevesby P.G. WodehouseISBN 1585674346 (1-58567-434-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thank You, Jeeves'Book summary:A full cast of Wodehouse creations--including tyrannical relatives, beastly acquaintances, demon children, and literary fatheads--return for further near catastrophes and sparkling comedy Overlook is proud to present four more antic selections from comic genius, P.G. Wodehouse. A Damsel in Distress is an early novel about Belpher Castle, the idyllic home of the aristocratic Marshmoreton family and a precursor to the Blandings series. Leave it to Psmith is a comedy adventure involving crime and gunplay, all set into motion by an umbrella in the Drones Club and Mulliner Nights is a series of stories about the inimitable Mr. Mulliner, his extraordinary relations, and the tipsy bishops, angry baronets, lady novelists, and haughty dowagers who frequent the bar-parlor of the Angler's Rest. Meanwhile, Lord Chuffy' Chuffnell borrows the services of Jeeves in Thank You, Jeeves, while pursuing the love of his life, but when he finds out that Jeeves's employer, Bertie Wooster, was once engaged to Pauline himself, fearsome complications develop. [via]
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Thuvia, Maid of Marsby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 1576466221 (1-57646-622-1)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thuvia, Maid of Mars'Book summary:First Published - 1916.
Carthoris falls in love with Thuvia, princess of Ptarth, who was rescued by John Carter from the Therns. Thuvia is stolen away by Astok, Prince of Dusar, Ptarth's rival. Carthoris follows her across Barsoom and rescues her, encountering some strange and fascinating creatures. Thuvia, unfortunately, is already betrothed to Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol, ally of Helium. [via]More editions of Thuvia, Maid of Mars:
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Ukridge: Library Editionby P.G. WodehouseISBN 1585674796 (1-58567-479-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ukridge: Library Edition'Book summary:The ten stories in Ukridge revolve around Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge's none-too-successful schemes to make some money. [via]
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Velveteen Rabbitby Margery WilliamsISBN 1568460937 (1-56846-093-7)
Hardcover, Creative Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Velveteen Rabbit'Book summary:A stuffed toy rabbit (with real thread whiskers) comes to life in Margery Williams's timeless tale of the transformative power of love. Given as a Christmas gift to a young boy, the Velveteen Rabbit lives in the nursery with all of the other toys, waiting for the day when the Boy (as he is called) will choose him as a playmate. In time, the shy Rabbit befriends the tattered Skin Horse, the wisest resident of the nursery, who reveals the goal of all nursery toys: to be made "real" through the love of a human. "'Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'" This sentimental classic--perfect for any child who's ever thought that maybe, just maybe, his or her toys have feelings--has been charming children since its first publication in 1922. (A great read-aloud for all ages, but children ages 8 and up can read it on their own.) [via]
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The Velveteen Rabbitby Pat Thompson, Ashley CrownoverISBN 1577593758 (1-57759-375-8)
Softcover, Dalmatian Press
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Water for Elephants: Library Editionby Sara GruenISBN 1565125606 (1-56512-560-6)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Water for Elephants: Library Edition'Book summary:Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life wasn't always like this, however, because Jacob ran away and joined the circus when he was twenty-one. It wasn't a romantic, carefree decision, to be sure. His parents were killed in an auto accident one week before he was to sit for his veterinary medicine exams at Cornell. He buried his parents, learned that they left him nothing because they had mortgaged everything to pay his tuition, returned to school, went to the exams, and didn't write a single word. He walked out without completing the test and wound up on a circus train. The circus he joins, in Depression-era America, is second-rate at best. With Ringling Brothers as the standard, Benzini Brothers is far down the scale and pale by comparison.
Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob's life with this circus. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which he finds himself. The animals are mangy, underfed or fed rotten food, and abused. Jacob, once it becomes known that he has veterinary skills, is put in charge of the "menagerie" and all its ills. Uncle Al, the circus impresario, is a self-serving, venal creep who slaps people around because he can. August, the animal trainer, is a certified paranoid schizophrenic whose occasional flights into madness and brutality often have Jacob as their object. Jacob is the only person in the book who has a handle on a moral compass and as his reward he spends most of the novel beaten, broken, concussed, bleeding, swollen and hungover. He is the self-appointed Protector of the Downtrodden, and... he falls in love with Marlena, crazy August's wife. Not his best idea.
The most interesting aspect of the book is all the circus lore that Gruen has so carefully researched. She has all the right vocabulary: grifters, roustabouts, workers, cooch tent, rubes, First of May, what the band plays when there's trouble, Jamaican ginger paralysis, life on a circus train, set-up and take-down, being run out of town by the "revenooers" or the cops, and losing all your hooch. There is one glorious passage about Marlena and Rosie, the bull elephant, that truly evokes the magic a circus can create. It is easy to see Marlena's and Rosie's pink sequins under the Big Top and to imagine their perfect choreography as they perform unbelievable stunts. The crowd loves it--and so will the reader. The ending is absolutely ludicrous and really quite lovely. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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White Stainsby Anais NinISBN 156333609X (1-56333-609-X)
Softcover, Masquerade Publications
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The Winter Garden Mysteryby Carola DunnISBN 1575667517 (1-57566-751-7)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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