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20 Master Plotsby Ronald B. TobiasISBN 0898795958 (0-89879-595-8)
Hardcover, F & W Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: '20 Master Plots'Book summary:Presents 20 fundamental plots that recur through all fiction -- with analysis and examples -- outlining benefits and warnings, for writers to adapt and elaborate in their own fiction. [via]
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All Year Round With Little Frogby Muff Singer, Roz SchanzerISBN 089577657X (0-89577-657-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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Animal Tracks of the Southwest Statesby Chris StallISBN 0898862264 (0-89886-226-4)
Softcover, Mountaineers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Tracks of the Southwest States'Book summary:How many times have you seen tracks ahead of you on a beach, muddy forest trail, or across a blanket of snow, and wondered what creature made them? This guide helps you name the track maker. [via]
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery, Laura Fernandez, Rick JacobsonISBN 0887765157 (0-88776-515-7)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
Aromatherapy Workbookby Marcel LavabreISBN 0892816449 (0-89281-644-9)
Softcover, Inner Traditions
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Beachesby Iris Rainer DartISBN 0896216551 (0-89621-655-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Bell Jarby Sylvia PlathISBN 0899668151 (0-89966-815-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bell Jar'Book summary:Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity. [via]
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Bertie & the Crime of Passionby Peter LoveseyISBN 0892965509 (0-89296-550-9)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Bertie and the Seven Bodiesby Peter LoveseyISBN 0892963999 (0-89296-399-9)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Beyond the Paleby NachmanISBN 0889740747 (0-88974-074-7)
Softcover, Press Gang Pub
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The Black Dahliaby James EllroyISBN 0892962062 (0-89296-206-2)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Dahlia'Book summary:The Black Dahlia is a roman noir on an epic scale: a classic period piece that provides a startling conclusion to America's most infamous unsolved murder mystery--the murder of the beautiful young woman known as The Black Dahlia. [via]
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Blood Debtby Tanya HuffISBN 0886777399 (0-88677-739-9)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Debt'Book summary:In the fifth and last installment in the popular Victoria Nelson vampire series, Henry, a vampire and writer of bodice rippers, calls on detectives Vicki and Mike to help him lay to rest the ghosts haunting him. Original. [via]
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Bloodhoundsby Peter LoveseyISBN 0892966459 (0-89296-645-9)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Bloody Murderby Julian SymonsISBN 0892964960 (0-89296-496-0)
Hardcover, Mysterious Pr
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Book of North American Birdsby Reader's Digest EditorsISBN 0895773511 (0-89577-351-1)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of North American Birds'Book summary:This attractive and informative book of 600 species includes a "special collection" of more than 100 species that are rare. Each portrait includes full-color original artwork; details on identification, habitat, nesting, and food; and a color-coded range map. [via]
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The Book of Questionsby Gregory StockISBN 0894803204 (0-89480-320-4)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Questions'Book summary:A New York Times bestseller with over 2.5 million copies in print, THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS poses over 300 questions that invite people to explore the most fascinating of subjects: themselves. These questions are as intriguing as our very lives because they are about our lives-our fundamental values and beliefs, our dreams and nightmares about sex, money, love, power.
Some of the questions thrust you into a value-testing hypothetical situation (Would you accept 20 years of extraordinary happiness and fulfillment if it meant you would die at the end of the period?), some ask you to delve into your past (When is the last time you stole anything?) and help you find out if you've changed (Would you now return it if you could?), and others reveal your basic nature by examining your behavior (When you are given a compliment do you usually acknowledge it or suggest that you really do not deserve it?). Whether used as an avenue for personal growth, a tool for deepening relationships, or simply as an entertainment, The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges-and even changes-the way readers view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own.
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The Book of Questions: Love and Sexby Gregory StockISBN 089480619X (0-89480-619-X)
Softcover, Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
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The Book of Ruthby Jane HamiltonISBN 0899197442 (0-89919-744-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Ruth'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, November 1996: The Book of Ruth is a virtuoso performance and that's precisely why it can be excruciating to read. Author Jane Hamilton leads us through the arid life of Ruth Grey, who extracts what small pleasures and graces she can from a tiny Illinois town and the broken people who inhabit it. Ruth's prime tormentor is her mother May, whose husband died in World War II and took her future with him. More poor familial luck has given Ruth a brother who is a math prodigy; Matt sucks up any stray attention like a black hole. Ruth is left to survive on her own resources, which are meager. She struggles along, subsisting on crumbs of affection meted out by her Aunt Sid and, later, her screwed-up husband Ruby. Hamilton has perfect pitch. So perfect that you wince with pain for confused but fundamentally good Ruth as she walks a dead-end path. The book ends with the prospect of redemption, thank goodness--but the tale is nevertheless much more bitter than sweet. [via]
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Breathing Lessonsby Anne TylerISBN 0896218597 (0-89621-859-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Buddhist Handbook: The Complete Guide to Buddhist Schools, Teaching, Practice, and Historyby John SnellingISBN 0892817615 (0-89281-761-5)
Softcover, Inner Traditions
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companiesby James C. Collins, Jerry I. PorrasISBN 0887307396 (0-88730-739-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies'Book summary:Built to Last became an instant business classic. This audio abridgement is read by the authors, who alternate chapters. Collins is a bit breathlessly enthusiastic, but clear and interesting; Porras, unfortunately, is poorly inflected and wooden. They set out to determine what's special about "visionary" companies--the Disneys, Wal-Marts, and Mercks, companies at the very top of their game that have demonstrated longevity and great brand image. The authors compare 18 "visionary" picks to a control group of "successful-but-second-rank" companies. Thus Disney is compared to Columbia Pictures, Ford to GM, and so on.
A central myth, according to the authors, is that visionary companies start with a great product and are pushed into the future by charismatic leaders. Usually false, Collins and Porras find. Much more important, and a much more telling line of demarcation between a wild success like 3M and an also-ran like Norton, is flexibility. 3M had no master plan, little structure, and no prima donnas. Instead it had an atmosphere in which bright people were not afraid to "try a lot of stuff and keep what works."
If you listen to this audiocassette on your daily commute, you may discover whether you are headed to a "visionary" place of work--and, if so, whether you are the kind of employee who fits your employer's vision. (Running time: two hours, two cassettes) --Richard Farr [via]
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Call for the Deadby John Le CarreISBN 0896211932 (0-89621-193-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryby Roald DahlISBN 0899669042 (0-89966-904-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Children's Letters to Godby Stuart Hample, Eric Marshall, Tom BloomISBN 0894809997 (0-89480-999-7)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children's Letters to God'Book summary:Here is the unassuming little book that charmed its way up the bestseller lists and now has over 1.2 million copies in print. This third edition of CHILDREN-S LETTERS TO GOD reveals again the surprising pleasures and provocations of what happens when kids decide to send a letter off to their maker. Whether posing a question, begging a favor, or expressing doubt or joy, these letters are notable for their refreshing directness, unexpected humor, and startling clarity of thought. It-s like seeing the world through a child-s bright eyesóeyes untouched by cynicism, eyes brimming with innocence, wonder, and curiosity.Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0893753564 (0-89375-356-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...am here, or how I came. I have listened to the Chimes these many years. They have cheered me often." "And you have thanked them?" said the Bell. " A thousand times!" cried Trotty. "How?" "I am a poor man," faltered Trotty, " and could only thank them in words." "And always so?" inquired the Goblin of the Bell. "Have you never done us wrong in words? " "No!" cried Trotty eagerly. "Never done us foul, and false, and wicked wrong, in words?" pursued the Goblin of the Bell. Trotty was about to answer, "Never!" But he stopped, and was confused. "The voice of Time," said the Phantom, "cries to man, Advance! Time is for his advancement and improvement; for his greater worth, his greater happiness, his better life; his progressonward to that goal within its knowledge and its view, and set there, in the period when Time and He began. Ages of darkness, wickedness, and violence, have come and gone: millions uncountable, have suffered, lived, and died: to point the way Before him. Who seeks to turn him hack, or stay him on his course, arrests a mighty engine which will strike the meddler dead; and be the fiercer and the wilder, ever, for its momentary check! " "I never did so, to my knowledge, Sir," said Trotty. "It was quite, by accident if I did. I wouldn't go to do it, I "in sure." " Who puts into the month of Time, or of its servants," said the Goblin of the Bell, "a cry of lamentation for days which have had their trial and their failure, and have left deep traces of it which the blind may see--a cry that only serves the Present Time, by showing men how much it needs their help when any ears can listen to regrets for such a Past--who does this, does a wrong. And yon have done that wrong to us, the Chimes." Trotty's first excess of fear was gone. But he... [via]
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- A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0886823277 (0-88682-327-7)
Hardcover, Creative Co - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0887080693 (0-88708-069-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0894718541 (0-89471-854-1)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub - A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0893753564 (0-89375-356-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- A Christmas Carol: ISBN 0886823277 (0-88682-327-7)
The Classic Tale of Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Realby Margery WilliamsISBN 0894712667 (0-89471-266-7)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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Cold Sassy Treeby Olive Ann BurnsISBN 0899193099 (0-89919-309-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Sassy Tree'Book summary:The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward - the news is served up all over town with that afternoon's dinner. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal. Boggled by the sheer audacity of it all, and not a little jealous of his grandpa's new wife, Will nevertheless approves of this May-December match and follows its progress with just a smidgen of youthful prurience. As the newlyweds' chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is privy to his one-armed, renegade grandfather's second adolescence; meanwhile, he does some growing up of his own. He gets run over by a train and lives to tell about it; he kisses his first girl, and survives that too. Olive Ann Burns has given us a timeless, funny, resplendent novel - about a romance that rocks an entire town, about a boy's passage through the momentous but elusive year when childhood melts into adolescence, and about just how people lived and died in a small Southern town at the turn of the century. Inhabited by characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Cold Sassy, Georgia, is the perfect setting for the debut of a storyteller of rare brio, exuberance, and style.[via]More editions of Cold Sassy Tree:
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Combatting Cult Mind Controlby Steven HassanISBN 0892813113 (0-89281-311-3)
Softcover, Inner Traditions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Combatting Cult Mind Control'Book summary:A former cult member, now a counselor helping those affected by destructive cults, Hassan exposes the troubling facts about cults' recruitment, their use of psychological manipulation, and their often subtle influence on government, the legal system, and society as a whole.
This updated paperback edition includes a new preface by the author and an expanded bibliography and resource list. [via]
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Complete Guide to Needleworkby Reader's Digest EditorsISBN 0895770598 (0-89577-059-8)
Hardcover, Readers Digest
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Guide to Needlework'Book summary:Embroidery, needlepoint, knitting, applique, quilting, patchwork, crochet, rug-making, macrame, and lacework -- all taught through step-by-step instructions and photographs and drawings. A reference for the beginner and expert alike. [via]
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Contactby Carl SaganISBN 089621687X (0-89621-687-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Contact'Book summary:It is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they've found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects Contact, his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wrought tension among the various countries involved. Sagan meditates on science, religion, and government--the elements that define society--and looks to their impact on and role in the future. His ability to pack an exciting read with such rich content is an unusual talent that makes Contact a modern sci-fi classic. [via]
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Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestineby Naseer Hasan AruriISBN 0896086879 (0-89608-687-9)
Softcover, South End Pr
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0893757829 (0-89375-782-9)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:[via]Awareness of Dracula as a masterly gothic thriller has increased ever since its publication in 1897, and the novel is regarded as one of the most seminal horror stories ever written, having inspired countless copycat tales and literary spin-offs. The tale of young Englishman Jonathan Harker's journey to Transylvania, into the very heart of Count Draculas evil realm, is compelling, but it is perhaps the journey of the vampire to Englandand the dangers he poses to Jonathans beloved Minathat is more horrifying.More editions of Dracula:
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A Dying Light in Cordubaby Lindsey DavisISBN 0892966645 (0-89296-664-5)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dying Light in Corduba'Book summary:In the dark of the night, a man is killed and Emperor Vespasian's chief of spies is left for dead. Private eye Marcus Didius Falco agrees to investigate and the case draws him into the highly-lucrative--and deadly competitive--world of olive oil production National ads & publicity. [via]
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Dynamic Charactersby Nancy KressISBN 0898798159 (0-89879-815-9)
Hardcover, F & W Pubns
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Eden Closeby Anita ShreveISBN 0896219682 (0-89621-968-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Enneagram Guide: A Spirituality of Love in Brokennessby BerginISBN 089622564X (0-89622-564-X)
Softcover, Twenty Third Pubns
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyISBN 089968484X (0-89968-484-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit 451'Book summary:In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman [via]
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The Family Bedby Tine TheveninISBN 0895293579 (0-89529-357-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland, & WalesISBN 0897249550 (0-89724-955-0)
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The Godwulf Manuscriptby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0893402184 (0-89340-218-4)
Softcover, L P Books
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Good Bonesby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0889104425 (0-88910-442-5)
Hardcover, Coach House Pr
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Goodnight Moonby Margaret Wise Brown, Clement HurdISBN 0898459885 (0-89845-988-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 0895773872 (0-89577-387-2)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940.
The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency."
The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people--we go on." It's almost as if she's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book's final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "'You got to,'" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Greatest Hitsby James TaylorISBN 0897241649 (0-89724-164-9)
Softcover, Alfred Pub Co
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0899662293 (0-89966-229-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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Houston: The Unknown City, 1836-1946by Marguerite JohnstonISBN 0890964769 (0-89096-476-9)
Hardcover, Texas A & M Univ Pr
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I Was So Sickby Mercer Mayer, Gina MayerISBN 0895777789 (0-89577-778-9)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Kids
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James Taylor: Greatest HitsISBN 0897240766 (0-89724-076-6)
Softcover, Alfred Pub Co
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The Kids' Book Of Questionsby Gregory StockISBN 0894806319 (0-89480-631-9)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kids' Book Of Questions'Book summary:From the author of the 1.9-million-copy bestseller The Book of Questions, here is a collection of questions specially designed to challenge, provoke, entertain, and expand young minds.
Going far beyond why the world is round and the sky is blue, these questions delve into fantasies (If you knew that by devoting every single Saturday to some talent, you could be the best in your school, what talent would you choose?), thorny dilemmas (If you agreed to sell your bike to a friend and then someone offered you more money, would you go back on the bargain?), provocative ideas (What things do you think your parents do just to set an example for you?), and embarrassing challenges (Would you kiss someone in front of your whole class for $100?).
The Kids' Book of Questions helps kids deal with fears and hopes, learn about trust, determine right from wrong, and confront divorce and other troubles at home, along with embarrassing or purely amusing challenges. Most of all, it teaches kids to make asking the right questions a part of their lives. [via]More editions of The Kids' Book Of Questions:
Kissing the Gunner's Daughterby Ruth RendellISBN 0892963905 (0-89296-390-5)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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L A Confidentialby James EllroyISBN 0892962933 (0-89296-293-3)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L A Confidential'Book summary:James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential is film-noir crime fiction akin to Chinatown, Hollywood Babylon, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Jim Thompson. It's about three tortured souls in the 1950s L.A.P.D.: Ed Exley, the clean-cut cop who lives shivering in the shadow of his dad, a legendary cop in the same department; Jack Vincennes, a cop who advises a Police Squad- like TV show and busts movie stars for payoffs from sleazy Hush-Hush magazine; and Bud White, a detective haunted by the sight of his dad murdering his mom.
Ellroy himself was traumatized as a boy by his party-animal mother's murder. (See his memoir My Dark Places for the whole sordid story.) So it is clear that Bud is partly autobiographical. But Exley, whose shiny reputation conceals a dark secret, and Vincennes, who goes showbiz with a vengeance, reflect parts of Ellroy, too.
L.A. Confidential holds enough plots for two or three books: the cops chase stolen gangland heroin through a landscape littered with not-always-innocent corpses while succumbing to sexy sirens who have been surgically resculpted to resemble movie stars; a vile developer--based (unfairly) on Walt Disney-- schemes to make big bucks off Moochie Mouse; and the cops compete with the crooks to see who can be more corrupt and violent. Ellroy's hardboiled prose is so compressed that some of his rat-a-tat paragraphs are hard to follow. You have to read with attention as intense as hisand that is very intense indeed. But he richly rewards the effort. He may not be as deep and literary as Chandler, but he belongs on the same top-level shelf. [via]
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Lake Wobegon Daysby Garrison KeillorISBN 0896216861 (0-89621-686-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Leaving Cold Sassyby Katrina Kenison, Olive Ann BurnsISBN 0899199089 (0-89919-908-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Ann M. Magagna, Louis JambourISBN 0893757071 (0-89375-707-1)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0899662447 (0-89966-244-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Midnightby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0896219658 (0-89621-965-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Mistral's Daughterby Judith KrantzISBN 0896215776 (0-89621-577-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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A Month in the Countryby J. L. CarrISBN 0897331249 (0-89733-124-9)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Month in the Country'Book summary:Any good reader has, well, had it with novels of healing. The culture of confession has given rise to novels that begin with an unspeakable act (graphically described) and end in redemption (this part is usually more vague). That's not how it works in J.L. Carr's quiet, brief, dreamy A Month in the Country. Writing in 1978, Carr's narrator, Tom Birkin, recalls the summer of 1920. A veteran of the Great War and a cuckold, Tom arrives in Oxgodby to restore a medieval mural in the church. His single season in this town in the north of England passes quickly: he sleeps in the belfry, makes a friend or two, falls secretly in love with the vicar's wife, and, chipping away at plaster and dirt, uncovers a lost masterpiece. These events seem to melt past Tom in the heat of the perfect, fleeting English summer: "The front gardens of cottages were crammed with marjoram and roses, marguerites, sweet William, at night heavy with the scent of stocks. The Vale was heavy with leaves, motionless in the early morning, black caves of shadow in the midday heat, blurring the sound of trains hammering north and south."
Carr devotes many fewer words to Tom's time in the war. The vicar's wife tries to ask him about it. "'What about hell on earth?' she said. I told her I'd seen it and lived there and that, mercifully, they usually left an exit open." His healing consists of not talking about his past--perhaps a revolutionary notion these days. A Month in the Country, with its paean to a lost, good place, oddly recalls Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes. But where that novel was elliptical, Carr's work values clarity and simplicity above all. These are rare enough qualities, but to find them in a novel of romance and healing is a rarer pleasure still. --Claire Dederer [via]
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A Murder of Qualityby John Le CarreISBN 0896218643 (0-89621-864-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Myth Directionsby Robert AsprinISBN 0898652502 (0-89865-250-2)
Softcover, Schiffer Pub Ltd
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The New Age Baby Name Bookby Sue BrowderISBN 0894800299 (0-89480-029-9)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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Our Guardian Angelsby George BrundageISBN 0899428452 (0-89942-845-2)
Hardcover, Catholic Book Pub Co
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Our Lady of Darknessby Fritz LeiberISBN 089968436X (0-89968-436-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books, Incorporated
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Out on a Limbby Shirley MacLaineISBN 0896215504 (0-89621-550-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Picnic at Hanging Rockby Joan LindsayISBN 0899665608 (0-89966-560-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different-And How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Menby Steve BiddulphISBN 0890878536 (0-89087-853-6)
Softcover, Celestial Arts
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A Savage Place: A Spenser Novelby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0896213439 (0-89621-343-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Press
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Spenser's job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story of her career. But her star witness has just bowed out with three bullets in his chest, two tough guys have doubled up to test Spenser's skill with his fists, and Candy is about to use her own sweet body as live bait in a deadly romantic game--a game that may cost Spenser his life. [via]More editions of A Savage Place: A Spenser Novel:
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The Tale of Peter Rabbitby Beatrix Potter, Margot AppleISBN 0893751022 (0-89375-102-2)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'Book summary:The quintessential cautionary tale, Peter Rabbit warns naughty children about the grave consequences of misbehaving. When Mrs. Rabbit beseeches her four furry children not to go into Mr. McGregor's garden, the impish Peter naturally takes this as an open invitation to create mischief. He quickly gets in over his head, when he is spotted by farmer McGregor himself. Any child with a spark of sass will find Peter's adventures remarkably familiar. And they'll see in Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail that bane of their existence: the "good" sibling who always does the right thing. One earns bread and milk and blackberries for supper, while the obstinate folly of the other warrants medicine and an early bedtime.
Beatrix Potter's animal stories have been a joy to generations of young readers. Her warm, playful illustrations in soft colors invite children into the world of words and flights of fancy. Once there, she gently and humorously guides readers along the path of righteousness, leaving just enough room for children to wonder if that incorrigible Peter will be back in McGregor's garden tomorrow. (Ages Baby to Preschool) [via]
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Taliesinby Steve LawheadISBN 0891074074 (0-89107-407-4)
Softcover, Good News Pub
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It was a time of legend, when the last shadows of the mighty Roman conqueror faded from the captured Isle of Britain. While across a vast sea, bloody war shattered a peace that had flourished for two thousand years in the doomed kingdom of Atlantis.
Taliesin is the remarkable adventure of Charis, the Atlantean princess who escaped the terrible devastation of her homeland, and of the fabled seer and druid prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of the age. It is the story of an incomparable love that joined two worlds amid the fires of chaos, and spawned the miracles of Merlin...and Arthur the king.
Taliesin, oracle of melody. His singing bore the haunting beauty of another world and the spark of a kingdom yet to come.
Charis, Lady of the Lake. Driven by the cataclysm that destroyed her home--the scented groves of the Isle of Apples, the coliseums of the bull dancers of Atlantis--she encountered an uncertain future in a barbarous land . . . and the bard who would capture her untamed heart.
Their love would bridge two worlds. And like golden threads, their lives would knit the fabric of a timeless legend; that of Merlin the prophet and Arthur the king.
Stephen Lawhead's majestic retelling of western literature's most compelling epic is an enchanting tale of love and loss set in the twilight of Rome's power, as the Celtic chieftains of Britain battle to save their land from an onrushing darkness. [via]More editions of Taliesin:
Talking Godby Tony HillermanISBN 0896218953 (0-89621-895-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Tarot: A New Handbook for the Apprenticeby Eileen ConnollyISBN 0893706450 (0-89370-645-0)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Tarot for Your Self: A Workbook for Personal Transformationby Mary K. GreerISBN 0893706779 (0-89370-677-9)
Hardcover, R. Reginald/Borgo Press
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The Temple of My Familiarby Alice WalkerISBN 0896219372 (0-89621-937-2)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Velveteen Rabbitby Margery Williams Bianco, Monique FelixISBN 0898123836 (0-89812-383-6)
Softcover, Creative Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 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 Rabbit or How Toys Become Realby Margery Williams Bianco, Michael GreenISBN 089471127X (0-89471-127-X)
Hardcover, Running Press
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The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Realby Michael Green, Margery WilliamsISBN 0894711539 (0-89471-153-9)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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What to Expect the First Yearby Arlene Eisenberg, Sandee E. Hathaway, Heidi Eisenberg MurkoffISBN 0894805770 (0-89480-577-0)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What to Expect the First Year'Book summary:From the authors of the 9.6-million-copy bestselling What to Expect When You're Expecting, here is What to Expect the First Year (over 5.6 million copies in print), the most comprehensive guide available on the next phase of parenting-newborn care. Written with the same reassuring, lively authority as What to Expect When You're Expecting, the book is organized for ease of reference, leading nervous parents from month to month, check-up to check-up, even feeding to feeding. The chapters on each month address basic expectations of behavior and growth, as well as special concerns and decisions-from finding the perfect pediatrician to getting baby on a sleep-through-the-night schedule to choosing toys, shoes, and diapers. Equally important are the emotional issues a new baby raises for every member of the family-these are covered thoughtfully and thoroughly.Additional chapters cover special subjects such as first aid, traveling with a baby, premature babies, adopted babies, and much more. Winner of the 1994 Parenting "Hall of Fame" Award from Child magazine's Child's Best Parenting Book Award. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service. [via]
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What to Expect When You're Expectingby Arlene EisenbergISBN 089480829X (0-89480-829-X)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What to Expect When You're Expecting'Book summary:Introducing a completely Revised & Updated Third Edition of America's bestselling pregnancy book, What to Expect When You're Expecting. Two years in the making, it's a cover-to-cover, chapter-by-chapter, line-by-line revision and update.
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Incorporating the most recent developments in medicine, and responding to the many queries and letters received from readers, the book contains both the most accurate information available, and the most reader-friendly. The Third Edition includes more information on working while pregnant. It offers more in-depth coverage of complementary and alternative birthing. Greater attention is paid to pre-conception, alternative families, second pregnancies, HMOs, the role of the father, and lifestyle. There's a completely new look at the Best-Odds diet, which is better suited to the needs of busier women with less time. An updated cover and all-new black-and-white illustrations give the classic a fresher look.-More editions of What to Expect When You're Expecting:
What to Expect When You're Expecting: What to Expect the First Yearby Arlene Eisenberg, Sandee E. Hathaway, Heidi Eisenberg MurkoffISBN 0894804359 (0-89480-435-9)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aestheticsby Burton Silver, Heather BuschISBN 0898156238 (0-89815-623-8)
Hardcover, Ten Speed Pr
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Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aestheticsby Heather Busch, Silver BurtonISBN 0898156122 (0-89815-612-2)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1996by Robert FamighettiISBN 0886877806 (0-88687-780-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1996'Book summary:A best-selling almanac offers up-to-date, detailed facts and information on such current topics as crime, the economy, computers, education, and lifestyles, and features a review in pictures of 1995, a section on notable personalities, and much more. [via]
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0895771594 (0-89577-159-4)
Hardcover, Readers Digest Assn
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