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1-2-3 Magicby Thomas W. PhelanISBN 0963386123 (0-9633861-2-3)
Softcover, Independent Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: '1-2-3 Magic'Book summary:Addressing the task of child discipline with humour and practicality, this time-tested program provides easy-to-follow steps for disciplining children aged two to twelve without yelling, arguing, or hitting. With the help of this book, parents learn to deal with the six kinds of testing and manipulation, and they discover the 10 steps for building self-esteem in children. This award-winning guide also teaches parents how to handle the disrespectful outbursts of children with reason, patience, and compassion. [via]
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44 Scotland Streetby Alexander McCall Smith, Iain McIntoshISBN 1400079446 (1-4000-7944-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '44 Scotland Street'Book summary:44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 1
The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boyjust ask his mother.
Welcome to 44 Scotland Street, home to some of Edinburgh's most colorful characters. There's Pat, a twenty-year-old who has recently moved into a flat with Bruce, an athletic young man with a keen awareness of his own appearance. Their neighbor, Domenica, is an eccentric and insightful widow. In the flat below are Irene and her appealing son Bertie, who is the victim of his mothers desire for him to learn the saxophone and italianall at the tender age of five.Love triangles, a lost painting, intriguing new friends, and an encounter with a famous Scottish crime writer are just a few of the ingredients that add to this delightful and witty portrait of Edinburgh society, which was first published as a serial in The Scotsman newspaper.
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The Amateur Marriage: A Novelby Anne TylerISBN 1400042070 (1-4000-4207-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amateur Marriage: A Novel'Book summary:Anne Tyler's The Amateur Marriage is not so much a novel as a really long argument. Michael is a good boy from a Polish neighborhood in Baltimore; Pauline is a harum-scarum, bright-cheeked girl who blows into Michael's family's grocery store at the outset of World War II. She appears with a bloodied brow, supported by a gaggle of girlfriends. Michael patches her up, and neither of them are ever the same. Well, not the same as they were before, but pretty much the same as everyone else. After the war, they live over the shop with Michael's mother till they've saved enough to move to the suburbs. There they remain with their three children, until the onset of the sixties, when their eldest daughter runs away to San Francisco. Their marriage survives for a while, finally crumbling in the seventies. If this all sounds a tad generic, Tyler's case isn't helped by the characteristics she's given the two spouses. Him: repressed, censorious, quiet. Her: voluble, emotional, romantic. Mars, meet Venus. What marks this couple, though, and what makes them come alive, is their bitter, unproductive, tooth-and-nail fighting. Tyler is exploring the way that ordinary-seeming, prosperous people can survive in emotional poverty for years on end. She gets just right the tricks Michael and Pauline play on themselves in order to stay together: "How many times," Pauline asks herself, "when she was weary of dealing with Michael, had she forced herself to recall the way he'd looked that first day? The slant of his fine cheekbones, the firming of his lips as he pressed the adhesive tape in place on her forehead." Only in antogonism do Michael and Pauline find a way to express themselves. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Astonishing Splashes of Colourby Clare MorrallISBN 0954130324 (0-9541303-2-4)
Softcover, Tindal st Pr Ltd
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The Babes in the Woodby Ruth RendellISBN 1400034191 (1-4000-3419-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Babes in the Wood'Book summary:After weeks of rain, Chief Inspector Wexford has just finished moving his books and furniture upstairs to protect them from the rising waters when the telephone rings. Two local teenagers and their babysitter have gone missing. Wexford isnt particularly worried, since these things usually sort themselves out. But as hours stretch into days, he begins to suspect he has a kidnapping on his hands. The stakes get even higher when a member of the missing trio turns up dead in the woods nearby.
In the course of his investigation, Wexford must deal with a neighbor whose alibi is questionable, a religious cult and its sylvan rituals, someone close to the childrens family who nurses a terrible secret, and the babysitters ex-husband, who reveals the womans hidden penchant for violence.
In The Babes in the Wood, Ruth Rendell draws the reader into a riveting story that alternates between Chief Inspector Wexfords domestic lifehis worries about the security of his home and his daughters odd new boyfriendand his determination to see through a kaleidoscope of lies and bring a murderer to justice. [via] -
Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 1400033411 (1-4000-3341-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beloved'Book summary:Toni Morrison gently reads her own Pulitzer Prize-winning work in the unabridged version of this riveting tale of ex-slave Sethe and the beloved ghost that haunts her. While Morrison makes occasional odd pauses in her reading, what is lost in smoothness is more than made up for in quiet intensity as the author reads words obviously deeply felt. Her intimate knowledge of the characters and their motivations lends this reading an authority that helps the listener sort out the breaks in time and dialogue in this complex story of a woman coming to terms with her enslaved past and the loss of her husband and baby daughter. (Running time: 12 hours, eight cassettes) --Kimberly Heinrichs [via]
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Between the Blast Furnaces and the Dizziness: A Selection of Poems 1970-1999by Milo De Angelis, Emanuel Di PasqualeISBN 0972527109 (0-9725271-0-9)
Hardcover, Chelsea Editions
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Birds Without Wingsby Louis de BernieresISBN 1400079322 (1-4000-7932-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Birds Without Wings'Book summary:Louis de Bernièress last novel, Corellis Mandolin, was met with the highest praise: Behind every page, said Richard Russo, we sense its authors intelligence, wit, heart, imagination, and wisdom. This is a great book. A. S. Byatt placed the author in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. Now, de Bernières gives us his long-awaited new novel. Huge, resonant, lyrical, filled with humor and pathos, a novel about the political and personal costs of war, and of lovebetween men and women, between friends, between those who are driven to be enemies.
It is the story of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the peopleChristians and Muslims of Turkish and Greek and Armenian descentwhose lives are rooted there, intertwined for untold years. There is Iskander, the potter and local font of proverbial wisdom; KaratavukIskanders sonand Mehmetçik, childhood friends whose playground stretches across the hills above the town, where Mehmetçik teaches the illiterate Karatavuk to write Turkish in Greek letters. There are Father Kristoforos and Abdulhamid Hodja, holy men of different faiths who greet each other as Infidel Efendi ; Rustem Bey, the landlord and protector of the town, whose wife is stoned for the sin of adultery. There is a man known as the Dog because of his hideous aspect, who lives among the Lycian tombs; and another known as the Blasphemer, who wanders the town cursing God and all of his representatives of all faiths. And there is Philothei, the Christian girl of legendary beauty, courted from infancy by Ibrahim the goatherda great love that culminates in tragedy and madness. But Birds Without Wings is also the story of Mustafa Kemal, whose military genius will lead him to victory against the invading Western European forces of the Great War and a reshaping of the whole region.
When the young men of the town are conscripted, we follow Karatavuk to Gallipoli, where the intimate brutality of battle robs him of all innocence. And in the town he left behind, we see how the twin scourges of fanatical religion and nationalism unleashed by the war quickly, and irreversibly, destroy the fabric of centuries-old peace.
Epic in its narrative sweepsteeped in historical factyet profoundly humane and dazzlingly evocative in its emotional and sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is a triumph. [via]-
The Birth of Venusby Sarah DunantISBN 1400060737 (1-4000-6073-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of Venus'Book summary:Sarah Dunant's gorgeous and mesmerizing novel, Birth of Venus, draws readers into a turbulent 15th-century Florence, a time when the lavish city, steeped in years of Medici family luxury, is suddenly besieged by plague, threat of invasion, and the righteous wrath of a fundamentalist monk. Dunant masterfully blends fact and fiction, seamlessly interweaving Florentine history with the coming-of-age story of a spirited 14-year-old girl. As Florence struggles in Savonarola's grip, a serial killer stalks the streets, the French invaders creep closer, and young Alessandra Cecchi must surrender her "childish" dreams and navigate her way into womanhood. Readers are quickly seduced by the simplicity of her unconventional passions that are more artistic than domestic:
Dancing is one of the many things I should be good at that I am not. Unlike my sister. Plautilla can move across the floor like water and sing a stave of music like a song bird, while I, who can translate both Latin and Greek faster than she or my brothers can read it, have club feet on the dance floor and a voice like a crow. Though I swear if I were to paint the scale I could do it in a flash: shining gold leaf for the top notes falling through ochres and reds into hot purple and deepest blue.
Alessandra's story, though central, is only one part of this multi-faceted and complex historical novel. Dunant paints a fascinating array of women onto her dark canvas, each representing the various fates of early Renaissance women: Alessandra's lovely (if simple) sister Plautilla is interested only in marrying rich and presiding over a household; the brave Erila, Alessandra's North African servant (and willing accomplice) has such a frank understanding of the limitations of her sex that she often escapes them; and Signora Cecchi, Alessandra's beautiful but weary mother tries to encourage yet temper the passions of her wayward daughter.
A luminous and lush novel, The Birth of Venus, at its heart, is a mysterious and sensual story with razor-sharp teeth. Like Alessandra, Dunant has a painter's eye--her writing is rich and evocative, luxuriating in colors and textures of the city, the people, and the art of 15th-century Florence. Reminiscent of Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, but with sensual splashes of color and the occasional thrill of fear, Dunant's novel is both exciting and enchanting. --Daphne Durham [via]
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The Black Book 1993-1994: The Guide for the Erotic Explorerby Bill BrentISBN 0963740113 (0-9637401-1-3)
Hardcover, Asp Wholesale
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The Bronte Mythby Lucasta MillerISBN 1400078350 (1-4000-7835-0)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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Caramba!by Nina Marie Martinez, Liliana ValenzuelaISBN 1400077389 (1-4000-7738-9)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Conjunctionsby John Clute, Gary K. Wolfe, Peter StraubISBN 0941964558 (0-941964-55-8)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conjunctions'Book summary:For perhaps two decades, a small group of writers rooted in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror have been simultaneously exploring and erasing the boundaries of those genres by creating fiction of remarkable depth and power. Their connections to the genres they have been radically redefining have, for many of these writers, limited the appreciation of their accomplishments to a specialized readership. For example, though John Crowley and Jonathan Carroll have massive underground reputations, and Peter Straub has written two books with Stephen King and other bestselling novels such as Ghost Story, Koko, and The Throat, many if not most readers of Conjunctions will be unfamiliar with their work. In this haunting and beautiful collection of tales, Crowley, Carroll and Straub join Elizabeth Hand, China Mieville, M. John Harrison, Neil Gaiman and Kelly Link to demonstrate precisely how science fiction, fantasy and horror have been unobtrusively colonizing serious literature during the past 20 years. As an added bonus, science fiction and fantasy experts Gary K. Wolfe and John Clute offer a critical perspective and explain everything in sight. With original cover art by master cartoonist Gahan Wilson. [via]
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Crazy Ladiesby Michael Lee WestISBN 092926438X (0-929264-38-X)
Hardcover, Longstreet Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crazy Ladies'Book summary:Rebecca Wells's Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is rivaled by a fictional sibling: Michael Lee West's Crazy Ladies. West's tale of wild women down South is faster and snappier than Wells's thick bayou prose gumbo, but it has some of the same virtues--a cast of wacky characters, lively regional dialogue, and a satisfying multigenerational time frame. The scene shifts from 1932 to 1972, and from Crystal Falls, Tennessee, to New Orleans to hippie Frisco and L.A., though it's mostly rooted in Tennessee, where sunflower gardens contain deep secrets and kids can light up whole summers with lightning bugs in a jar.
The crazy lady who starts the story is Gussie, vexed by her ornery first daughter, Dorothy. When Dorothy's kid sister, Clancy Jane, comes of age, the real ruckus begins, thanks partly to Gussie's helpless preference for sweet Clancy Jane over dour Dorothy, who calls Gussie "Mother Dear" from age 6 on. Sweet Clancy Jane turns out to be headstrong, too--she runs off in a poodle skirt with Hart, who works on oil rigs, Esso stands, and the odd Cajun girl on the side. And then the '60s hit, bringing on Gussie's grandkids, Bitsy and Violet, plus some jolting social changes reminiscent of Lisa Alther's Kinflicks. Though it's spiced with horror (rape, crib death, one character buried alive), the dominant tone is breezy humor. At one point, the sister with "thighs that could break a man's neck" catches her husband and her shapelier sister "wrapped around each other like stripes on a candy cane." Not a magisterial novel, but a really good read. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Crossroads Cafeby Deborah SmithISBN 0976876051 (0-9768760-5-1)
Softcover, Belle Books Inc
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Di Kats Der Payats: The Cat In The Hatby Seuss, Sholem BergerISBN 0972693904 (0-9726939-0-4)
Hardcover, Yiddish House Llc
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Divided by a Common Language: A British American Dictionary Plusby Christopher E. Davies, Jason MurphyISBN 0966094573 (0-9660945-7-3)
Softcover, Mayflower Pr
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Eragonby Christopher PaoliniISBN 0966621336 (0-9666213-3-6)
Softcover, Paolini Intl Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eragon'Book summary:Here's a great big fantasy that you can pull over your head like a comfy old sweater and disappear into for a whole weekend. Christopher Paolini began Eragon when he was just 15, and the book shows the influence of Tolkien, of course, but also Terry Brooks, Anne McCaffrey, and perhaps even Wagner in its traditional quest structure and the generally agreed-upon nature of dwarves, elves, dragons, and heroic warfare with magic swords.
Eragon, a young farm boy, finds a marvelous blue stone in a mystical mountain place. Before he can trade it for food to get his family through the hard winter, it hatches a beautiful sapphire-blue dragon, a race thought to be extinct. Eragon bonds with the dragon, and when his family is killed by the marauding Ra'zac, he discovers that he is the last of the Dragon Riders, fated to play a decisive part in the coming war between the human but hidden Varden, dwarves, elves, the diabolical Shades and their neanderthal Urgalls, all pitted against and allied with each other and the evil King Galbatorix. Eragon and his dragon Saphira set out to find their role, growing in magic power and understanding of the complex political situation as they endure perilous travels and sudden battles, dire wounds, capture and escape.
In spite of the engrossing action, this is not a book for the casual fantasy reader. There are 65 names of people, horses, and dragons to be remembered and lots of pseudo-Celtic places, magic words, and phrases in the Ancient Language as well as the speech of the dwarfs and the Urgalls. But the maps and glossaries help, and by the end, readers will be utterly dedicated and eager for the next book, Eldest. (Ages 10 to 14) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Errant Storyby Michael PoeISBN 0977069605 (0-9770696-0-5)
Softcover, Keenspot Entertainment
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The Essential Ellisonby Harlan EllisonISBN 0962344745 (0-9623447-4-5)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Ellison'Book summary:"The best of Harlan Ellison has been assembled in a gorgeous volume of more than 1000 pages, encompassing fiction, essays, personal reminscences, reviews and a complete teleplay." From the dustcover blurb [via]
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Family Historyby Dani ShapiroISBN 1400032113 (1-4000-3211-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie FlaggISBN 1400064627 (1-4000-6462-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe'Book summary:The remarkable novel of two Southern friendships--the basis of the hit film--available for the first time in large print.
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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregonby Chuck PalahniukISBN 1400047838 (1-4000-4783-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon'Book summary:It's rare to find a travel guide and a memoir joined neatly together in a single, highly readable 176-page volume. But Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke, Lullaby) is a writer of rare talent and his home of Portland, Oregon, is a city of rare wonders. In Strangers and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon, Palahniuk goes beyond the AAA handbooks to reveal the places, people, and legends of Portland that have long been known only to locals. The reader learns the location of the legendary Self Cleaning House, where to find the restless ghost of the founder of Powell's Books, and why feral cats are such an important part of Portland baseball. Portland, it seems, is also a highly sexual city and Palahniuk dutifully dissects the specialties of each strip joint as well as discussing Mochika, a zoo penguin with a real fetish for black boots. Along the way, he includes "postcards" from his life in the Rose City dating back to 1981 when, as a 19-year-old, he dropped acid and accidentally ate part of a woman's fur coat during a laser show of Pink Floyd's The Wall. As Palahniuk matures, the postcards reveal the author becoming increasingly a part of the city's scene, culminating with a wild and wooly Millennium Eve celebration at the Bagdad Theater that featured a screening of the film version of Fight Club. Fugitives and Refugees is a must for anyone who may, in their lives, go to Portland. But its appeal should reach beyond Oregonians. Palahniuk's love of the city is so great, and his stories so weirdly wonderful, it makes one want to get out of the house, get in the car, and drive to Portland right away. Just remember to pack the book. --John Moe [via]
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Goodnight Moonby Margaret Wise Brown, Clement HurdISBN 0962929875 (0-9629298-7-5)
Softcover, Finney Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goodnight Moon'Book summary:This bilingual edition is part of the Hmong Translation Initiative coordinated by Motheread.Fatheread MN, a curriculum-based family literacy program of the Minnesota Humanities Commission (MHC). The purpose of this project is to help Hmong families develop literacy skills in their first language as well as in English. Because of the Moob Ntsuab (Green Mong) and Hmoob Dawb (White Hmong) dialects are different, the translation committee has translated the English text into both. The Hmong text is featured next to the English, and the books original artwork is maintained. [via]
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How to Use Yoga: A Step-By-Step Guide to the Iyengar Method of Yoga, for Relaxation, Health and Well-Beingby Mira Mehta, Elaine CollinsISBN 0962713864 (0-9627138-6-4)
Softcover, Rodmell Pr
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How to Behave So Your Children Will Tooby Sal SevereISBN 0965301206 (0-9653012-0-6)
Hardcover, Greentree Pub
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How to Take Great Photographs With Any Cameraby Jerry HughesISBN 0963434896 (0-9634348-9-6)
Softcover, Phillips Lane Pub
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zoneby Rajiv ChandrasekaranISBN 1400044871 (1-4000-4487-1)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone'Book summary:An unprecedented account of life in Baghdads Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq.
The Washington Posts former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran takes us with him into the Zone: into a bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competed with the distractions of a Little Americaa half-dozen bars stocked with cold beer, a disco where women showed up in hot pants, a movie theater that screened shoot-em-up films, an all-you-could-eat buffet piled high with pork, a shopping mall that sold pornographic movies, a parking lot filled with shiny new SUVs, and a snappy dry-cleaning servicemuch of it run by Halliburton. Most Iraqis were barred from entering the Emerald City for fear they would blow it up.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews and internal documents, Chandrasekaran tells the story of the people and ideas that inhabited the Green Zone during the occupation, from the imperial viceroy L. Paul Bremer III to the fleet of twentysomethings hired to implement the idea that Americans could build a Jeffersonian democracy in an embattled Middle Eastern country.
In the vacuum of postwar planning, Bremer ignores what Iraqis tell him they want or need and instead pursues irrelevant neoconservative solutionsa flat tax, a sell-off of Iraqi government assets, and an end to food rationing. His underlings spend their days drawing up pie-in-the-sky policies, among them a new traffic code and a law protecting microchip designs, instead of rebuilding looted buildings and restoring electricity production. His almost comic initiatives anger the locals and help fuel the insurgency.
Chandrasekaran details Bernard Keriks ludicrous attempt to train the Iraqi police and brings to light lesser known but typical travesties: the case of the twenty-four-year-old who had never worked in finance put in charge of reestablishing Baghdads stock exchange; a contractor with no previous experience paid millions to guard a closed airport; a State Department employee forced to bribe Americans to enlist their help in preventing Iraqi weapons scientists from defecting to Iran; Americans willing to serve in Iraq screened by White House officials for their views on Roe v. Wade; people with prior expertise in the Middle East excluded in favor of lesser-qualified Republican Party loyalists. Finally, he describes Bremers ignominious departure in 2004, fleeing secretly in a helicopter two days ahead of schedule.
This is a startling portrait of an Oz-like place where a vital aspect of our governments folly in Iraq played out. It is a book certain to be talked about for years to come. [via]More editions of Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone:
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The Iraq Warby John KeeganISBN 1400079209 (1-4000-7920-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iraq War'Book summary:John Keegan is recognized as one of the top military writers of his day, having authored comprehensive analyses of both World Wars and other significant historical events. In The Iraq War, he takes on a situation that was still murky and volatile at the time of publication. The result is a book rich with detailed information on the region and its key figures but somewhat hasty in its effort to provide a succinct history lesson. In the opening chapter, Keegan writes "The war was not only successful but peremptorily short, lasting only twenty-one days from 20 March to 9 April," and he later gives little mention to the protracted and amorphous violence in the region since Baghdad fell, characterizing as "aftermath" that which many see as the actual war itself. Between these sections, however, Keegan provides valuable insight into the geopolitical history of the region and provides an extensive biography of a ruler of whom most Westerners became aware only in the early 1990s: Saddam Hussein. Keegan presents Saddam as a brutal thug who is also possessed of a powerful and vicious political savvy, and charts his growth from Ba'ath Party muscleman to ruler of Iraq. Sections on the military efforts of the U.S. and British forces are extensively detailed and offer insight into not only what the plans of the coalition forces were but the strategic philosophies behind them as well. Keegan characterizes the war as "mysterious," seeking to understand why opposition forces seemed to disappear from active combat and why the citizens of Iraq paid the conflict little regard. And while such mysteries have not yet been solved, it is clear given the ongoing instability in Iraq that the final chapters of the Iraq War have yet to be written. --John Moe [via]
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Je T'Aimerai Toujoursby Robert MunschISBN 0920668496 (0-920668-49-6)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Guilty Pleasuresby Laurell K. Hamilton, Stacie M. RitchieISBN 097793330X (0-9779333-0-X)
Softcover, Dabel Brothers Prod Llc
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Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorismby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 1400031257 (1-4000-3125-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism'Book summary:From the Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times columnist and bestselling author of From Beirut to Jerusalem and The Lexus and the Olive Tree comes this smart, penetrating, brilliantly informed book that is indispensable for understanding todays radically new world and Americas complex place in it.
Thomas L. Freidman received his third Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. In Longitudes and Attitudes he gives us all of the columns he has published about the most momentous news story of our time, as well as a diary of his private experiences and reflections during his postSeptember 11 travels. Updated for this new paperback edition, with over two years worth of Friedmans columns and an expanded version of his diary, Longitudes and Attitudes is a broadly influential work from our most trusted observer of the international scene. [via]More editions of Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism:
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Lost Boy, Lost Girlby Peter StraubISBN 1400060923 (1-4000-6092-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Boy, Lost Girl'Book summary:A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her sonbeautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhillvanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Marks inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-laws funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help him unravel this mystery of death and disappearance. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mothers suicide Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house on Michigan Street whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain.
With lost boy lost girl, Peter Straub affirms once again that he is the master of literary horror. [via]More editions of Lost Boy, Lost Girl:
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Love You Foreverby Robert Munsch, Sheila McGrawISBN 0920668372 (0-920668-37-2)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love You Forever'Book summary:The mother sings to her sleeping baby: "I'll love you forever / I'll love you for always / As long as I'm living / My baby you'll be." She still sings the same song when her baby has turned into a fractious 2-year-old, a slovenly 9-year-old, and then a raucous teen. So far so ordinary--but this is one persistent lady. When her son grows up and leaves home, she takes to driving across town with a ladder on the car roof, climbing through her grown son's window, and rocking the sleeping man in the same way. Then, inevitably, the day comes when she's too old and sick to hold him, and the roles are at last reversed. Each stage is illustrated by one of Sheila McGraw's comic and yet poignant pastels. (Ages 4 to 8) --Richard Farr [via]
Lucia, Lucia: A Novelby Adriana TrigianiISBN 1400060052 (1-4000-6005-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Maps For Lost Loversby Nadeem AslamISBN 1400076978 (1-4000-7697-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maps For Lost Lovers'Book summary:Jugnu and his lover, Chanda, have disappeared.
Though unmarried, they had been living together, embracing the contemporary mores of the English town where they lived but disgracing themselves in the eyes of their close-knit Pakistani community. Rumors about their disappearance abound, but five months go by before anything certain is known. Finally, on a snow-covered January morning, Chandas brothers are arrested for the murder of their sister and Jugnu.
Shock and disbelief spread through the community, and for Jugnus brother, Shamas, and his wife, Kaukab, it is a moment that marks the beginning of the unraveling of all that is sacred to them. As the novel unfolds over the next twelve months, we watch Kaukab struggle to maintain her Islamic piety as the effects of the double murder prove increasingly corrosive to the life of her family.
Upon its publication last year in England, Alan Hollinghurst praised Maps for Lost Lovers as haunting, vivid, and tender, and Colm Tóibín hailed it as a superb achievement, a book in which every detail is nuanced, every piece of drama carefully choreographed, even minor characters carefully drawn. Beautifully written, emotionally and sensually arresting a Persian love poem for the twenty-first century (Books Quarterly)this deeply felt and moving novel explores the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, nationality, religion, and the most personal crises of faith. Maps for Lost Lovers introduces American readers to a magnificent voice in fiction. [via]-
A Mind of Summer: Post-punk Dispatches from a Post-structuralist Worldby Eric GraysonISBN 0977489701 (0-9774897-0-1)
Softcover, Tight Curtain Pr
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Mudworks: Creative Clay, Dough, and Modeling Experiencesby Mary Ann F. Kohl, Kathleen KerrISBN 0935607021 (0-935607-02-1)
Softcover, Bright Ring Pub
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The Murder Roomby P. D. JamesISBN 1400076099 (1-4000-7609-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Murder Room'Book summary:The Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of London's Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39, is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder, old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is brutally murdered, and what seemed to be no more than a family dispute erupts into horror. For even as Commander Adam Dalgiesh and his team investigate the first killing, a second corpse is discovered. Clearly, someone at the Dupayne is prepared to kill, and kill again.
The case is fraught with danger and complexity from the outset, not least because of the range of possible suspects--and victims. And still more sinister, the murders appear to echo the notorious crimes of th epast featured in one of the museum's most popular galleries, the Murder Room.
For Dalgiesh, P.D. James's formidable detective, the search for the murderer poses an unexpected complication. After years of bachelorhood, he has embarked on a promising new relationship with Emma Lavenham--first introduced in Death in Holy Orders--which is at a critical stage. Yet his struggle to solve the Dupayne murders faces him with a frustrating dilemma: each new development distances him further from commitment to the woman he loves.
The Murder Room is a story dark with the passions that lie at the heart of crime, a masterful work of psychological intricacy. It proves yet again that P.D. James fully deserves her place among the best of modern novelists. [via] -
My Lifeby Bill ClintonISBN 140003003X (1-4000-3003-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Life'Book summary:Loved and reviled, respected and resented, Bill Clinton is one of the more polarizing and complex politicians of our age. As the 42nd President, he presided over a period of dizzying economic growth and technological progress, and achieved such foreign policy successes as the ratification of NAFTA, helping to bring several former Eastern Bloc nations into NATO, and assisting China's entrance into the World Trade Organization. His time in office was also marked by a string of scandals, most notably the Monica Lewinsky debacle and the subsequent impeachment trial, which largely overshadowed his triumphs.
Just 53 years old when he left office, Clinton continues to keep a high profile, having formed the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation to focus on the battle against HIV/AIDS around the world; racial, ethnic, and religious reconciliation; economic empowerment of poor people; nd leadership development and citizen service. His memoir, My Life, due out on June 30, 2004, is an opportunity for Clinton to reveal his political philosophy and perspective on past events as well as a chance to influence his own place in history. [via]
My Life as a Fakeby Peter CareyISBN 1400030889 (1-4000-3088-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Necronomicon Spellbookby Simon, Studio 31 StaffISBN 0939708116 (0-939708-11-6)
Softcover, Phoenix Publishing, Incorporated
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The New Clay: Techniques and Approaches to Jewelry Makingby Nan Roche, Sue Roche, Chris RocheISBN 0962054348 (0-9620543-4-8)
Softcover, Flower Valley Pr
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The Night Before Christmasby Clement Clarke MooreISBN 0934593787 (0-934593-78-7)
Softcover, Stoneway Books
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The Outside Worldby Tova MirvisISBN 1400075289 (1-4000-7528-9)
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The Owner's Manual for the Brain: Everyday Applications from Mind-Brain Researchby Pierce J. HowardISBN 0963638904 (0-9636389-0-4)
Softcover, Leornian Pr
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Pobby and Dinganby Ben RiceISBN 1400031885 (1-4000-3188-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Possum Magicby Mem Fox, Julie VivasISBN 0949641057 (0-949641-05-7)
Hardcover, Omnibus Books
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Prepby Curtis SittenfeldISBN 1400062314 (1-4000-6231-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prep'Book summary:Curtis Sittenfeld's poignant and occassionally angst-ridden debut novel Prep is the story of Lee Fiora, a South Bend, Indiana, teenager who wins a scholarship to the prestigious Ault school, an East Coast institution where "money was everywhere on campus, but it was usually invisible." As we follow Lee through boarding school, we witness firsthand the triumphs and tragedies that shape our heroine's coming-of-age. Yet while Sittenfeld may be a skilled storyteller, her real gift lies in her ability to expertly give voice to what is often described as the most alienating period in a young person's life: high school.
True to its genre, Prep is filled with boarding school stereotypes--from the alienated gay student to the picture perfect blond girl; the achingly earnest first-year English teacher and the dreamy star basketball player who never mentions the fact that he's Jewish. Lee's status as an outsider is further affirmed after her parents drive 18 hours in their beat-up Datsun to attend Parent's Weekend, where most of the kids "got trashed and ended up skinny-dipping in the indoor pool" at their parents' fancy hotel. Yet even as the weekend deteriorates into disaster and ends with a heartbreaking slap across the face, Sittenfeld never blames or excuses anyone; rather, she simply incorporates the experience into Lee's sense of self. ("How was I supposed to understand, when I applied at the age of thirteen, that you have your whole life to leave your family?")
By the time Lee graduates from Ault, some readers may tire of her constant worrying and self-doubting obsessions. However, every time we feel close to giving up on her, Sittenfeld reels us back in and makes us root for Lee. In doing so, perhaps we are rooting for every high school student who's ever wanted nothing more than to belong. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agenciesby James BamfordISBN 140003034X (1-4000-3034-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, David M. ShapardISBN 0974505307 (0-9745053-0-7)
Hardcover, Pheasant Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:This book represents the first annotated version ever of Jane Austen's most popular novel. It contains the complete text of the novel, along with more than 2300 annotations. These annotations provide historical background on the society and customs depicted in the novel, point out connections between its incidents and Jane Austen's own life, analyze the techniques and themes of the author, and define the many words in the novel that have become archaic or have shifted their meaning since the time it was published. The book also includes illustrations related to the period, as well as an introduction discussing the novel's overall structure, a chronology laying out the precise sequence of events in the story, and maps showing all the places mentioned in the text. [via]
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Primal Mothering in a Modern Worldby Hygeia Halfmoon, David WolfeISBN 0965353346 (0-9653533-4-6)
Softcover, Sunfood Nutrition
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Purple Hibiscusby Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieISBN 1400076943 (1-4000-7694-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Random Acts of Kindnessby Conari PressISBN 0943233437 (0-943233-43-7)
Softcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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Rashi's Daughters: Book 1 Johevedby Maggie AntonISBN 0976305054 (0-9763050-5-4)
Softcover, Banot Pr
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Readers Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readersby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0945260237 (0-945260-23-7)
Hardcover, Choice Pub
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Resistanceby Barry Lopez, Alan MageeISBN 140007665X (1-4000-7665-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Resistance'Book summary:From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams, a highly charged, stunningly original work of fictiona passionate response to the changes shaping our country today. In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the mainstream and who are now suddenly parties of interest to the government tell their stories.A young woman in Buenos Aires watches bitterly as her family dissolves in betrayal and illness, but chooses to seek a new understanding of compassion rather than revenge. A carpenter traveling in India changes his life when he explodes in an act of violence out of proportion to its cause. The beginning of the end of a mans lifelong search for coherence is sparked by a Montana grizzly. A man blinded in the war in Vietnam wrestles with the implications of his actions as a soldierand with innocence, both lost and regained.Punctuated with haunting images by acclaimed artist Alan Magee, Resistance is powerful fiction with enormous significance for our times. [via]
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The Ruby Ringby Diane HaegerISBN 1400051738 (1-4000-5173-8)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ruby Ring'Book summary:From critically acclaimed historical novelist Diane Haeger comes The Ruby Ring, an unforgettable story of love, loss, and immortal genius . . .
Rome, 1520. The Eternal City is in mourning. Raphael Sanzio, beloved painter and national hero, has died suddenly at the height of his fame. His body lies in state at the splendid marble Pantheon. At the nearby convent of SantApollonia, a young woman comes to the Mother Superior, seeking refuge. She is Margherita Luti, a bakers daughter from a humble neighborhood on the Tiber, now an outcast from Roman society, persecuted by powerful enemies within the Vatican. Margherita was Raphaels beloved and appeared as the Madonna in many of his paintings. Theirs was a love for the ages. But now that Raphael is gone, the convent is her only hope of finding an honest and peaceful life.
The Mother Superior agrees to admit Margherita to their order. But first, she must give up the ruby ring she wears on her left hand, the ring she had worn in Raphaels scandalous nude engagement portrait. The ring has a storied past, and it must be returned to the Church or Margherita will be cast out into the streets. Behind the quiet walls of the convent, Margherita makes her decision . . . and remembers her life with Raphaeland the love and tormentembodied in that one precious jewel.
In The Ruby Ring, Diane Haeger brings to life a love affair so passionate that it remains undimmed by time. Set in the sumptuous world of the Italian Renaissance, its the story of the clergymen, artists, rakes, and noblemen who made Raphael and Margheritas world the most dynamic and decadent era in European history. [via]More editions of The Ruby Ring:
Runaway: Storiesby Alice MunroISBN 1400077915 (1-4000-7791-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Salmon of Doubtby Douglas AdamsISBN 1400045088 (1-4000-4508-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Salmon of Doubt'Book summary:On Friday, May 11, 2001, the world mourned the untimely passing of Douglas Adams, beloved creator of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, dead of a heart attack at age forty-nine. Thankfully, in addition to a magnificent literary legacywhich includes seven novels and three co-authored works of nonfictionDouglas left us something more. The book you are about to enjoy was rescued from his four computers, culled from an archive of chapters from his long-awaited novel-in-progress, as well as his short stories, speeches, articles, interviews, and letters.
In a way that none of his previous books could, The Salmon of Doubt provides the full, dazzling, laugh-out-loud experience of a journey through the galaxy as perceived by Douglas Adams. From a boys first love letter (to his favorite science fiction magazine) to the distinction of possessing a nose of heroic proportions; from climbing Kilimanjaro in a rhino costume to explaining why Americans cant make a decent cup of tea; from lyrical tributes to the sublime pleasures found in music by Procol Harum, the Beatles, and Bach to the follies of his hopeless infatuation with technology; from fantastic, fictional forays into the private life of Genghis Khan to extended visits with Dirk Gently and Zaphod Beeblebrox: this is the vista from the elevated perch of one of the tallest, funniest, most brilliant, and most penetrating social critics and thinkers of our time.
Welcome to the wonderful mind of Douglas Adams. [via]More editions of The Salmon of Doubt:
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The Secret Historyby Donna TarttISBN 1400031702 (1-4000-3170-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret History'Book summary:Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement-both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill. [via]
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Sins of the Seventh Sister : A Novelby Huston CurtissISBN 1400052645 (1-4000-5264-5)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Something to Declare: Essays on France and French Cultureby Julian BarnesISBN 1400030870 (1-4000-3087-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Song Of Solomonby Toni MorrisonISBN 140003342X (1-4000-3342-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Song Of Solomon'Book summary:Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world. [via]
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Songbookby Nick Hornby, Marcel DzamaISBN 0971904774 (0-9719047-7-4)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Songbook'Book summary:The personal essays in Nick Hornby's Songbook pop off the page with the immediacy and passion of an artfully arranged mix-tape. But then, who better to riff on 31 of his favorite songs than the author of that literary music-lover's delight, High Fidelity?
"And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do," writes Hornby. More than his humble disclaimer, he captures "the narcotic need" for repeat plays of Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like a Bird," and testifies that "you can hear God" in Rufus Wainwright's coy reinterpretation of his father Loudon's "One Man Guy" ("given a neat little twist by Wainwright Junior's sexual orientation..."). Especially poignant is his reaction to "A Minor Incident," a Badly Drawn Boy song written for the soundtrack of the film version of Hornby's book About a Boy. While Hornby was writing the book, his young son was diagnosed with autism--a fact that adds greater resonance to the seemingly unrelated song he hears much later: "I write a book that isn't about my kid, and then someone writes a beautiful song based on an episode in my book that turns out to mean something much more personal to me than my book ever did." Meandering asides and observations like this linger in your mind (just like a fantastic song) long after you've flipped past the final page.
The 11-song CD that accompanies the book is a great touch, but it's too bad it doesn't contain all of the featured songs--most likely the unfortunate result of licensing difficulties. Overall, Hornby's pitch-perfect prose, the quirky illustrations from Canadian artist Marcel Dzama, and a good cause--proceeds benefit TreeHouse, a U.K. charity for children with autism, and 826 Valencia, the nonprofit Bay Area learning center--add up to make Songbook a hit. Solid gold. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
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Sulaby Toni MorrisonISBN 1400033438 (1-4000-3343-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sula'Book summary:In Sula, Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, tells the story of two women--friends since childhood, separated in young adulthood, and reunited as grown women. Nel Wright grows up to become a wife and mother, happy to remain in her hometown of Medallion, Ohio. Sula Peace leaves Medallion to experience college, men, and life in the big city, an exceptional choice for a black woman to make in the late 1920s.
As girls, Nel and Sula are the best of friends, only children who find in each other a kindred spirit to share in each girl's loneliness and imagination. When they meet again as adults, it's clear that Nel has chosen a life of acceptance and accommodation, while Sula must fight to defend her seemingly unconventional choices and beliefs. But regardless of the physical and emotional distance that threatens this extraordinary friendship, the bond between the women remains unbreakable: "Her old friend had come home.... Sula, whose past she had lived through and with whom the present was a constant sharing of perceptions. Talking to Sula had always been a conversation with herself."
Lyrical and gripping, Sula is an honest look at the power of friendship amid a backdrop of family, love, race, and the human condition. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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There Are Jews in My Houseby Lara VapnyarISBN 1400033896 (1-4000-3389-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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There Is No Prince and Other Truths Your Mother Never Told You: A Guide to Having the Relationship You Wantby Marilyn Graman, Maureen WalshISBN 0971854874 (0-9718548-7-4)
Hardcover, Life Works Books
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These Three Remain: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentlemanby Pamela AidanISBN 0972852921 (0-9728529-2-1)
Softcover, Wytherngate Press
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With those devastating words, Fitzwilliam Darcys proposal to Elizabeth Bennet is thoroughly rejected and his character wholly condemned. These Three Remain traces Darcys painful journey of self-discovery in his quest to become the man he always hoped be would be. A chance meeting with Elizabeth at his Derbyshire estate offers Darcy a new opportunity, but the activities of his nemesis, George Wickham, interfere once more in a way that may ruin everyones hopes for happiness. [via]
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert R. IngpenISBN 0954510364 (0-9545103-6-4)
Hardcover, Palazzo Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Treasure Island'Book summary:Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Under the Damby David ConstantineISBN 0954828011 (0-9548280-1-1)
Softcover, Carcanet Pr
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The View from Castle Rock: Storiesby Alice MunroISBN 1400042828 (1-4000-4282-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The View from Castle Rock: Stories'Book summary:A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers.
In stories that are more personal than any that shes written before, Alice Munro pieces her familys history into gloriously imagined fiction. A young boy is taken to Edinburghs Castle Rock, where his father assures him that on a clear day he can see America, and he catches a glimpse of his fathers dream. In stories that follow, as the dream becomes a reality, two sisters-in-law experience very different kinds of passion on the long voyage to the New World; a baby is lost and magically reappears on a journey from an Illinois homestead to the Canadian border.
Other stories take place in more familiar Munro territory, the towns and countryside around Lake Huron, where the past shows through the present like the traces of a glacier on the landscape and strong emotions stir just beneath the surface of ordinary comings and goings. First love flowers under the apple tree, while a stronger emotion presents itself in the barn. A girl hired as summer help, and uneasy about her place in the fancy resort world shes come to, is transformed by her employers perceptive parting gift. A father whose early expectations of success at fox farming have been dashed finds strange comfort in a routine night job at an iron foundry. A clever girl escapes to college and marriage.
Evocative, gripping, sexy, unexpectedthese stories reflect a depth and richness of experience. The View from Castle Rock is a brilliant achievement from one of the finest writers of our time. [via]More editions of The View from Castle Rock: Stories:
We Are All Welcome Hereby Elizabeth BergISBN 140006161X (1-4000-6161-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Websters New Collegiate DictionaryISBN 091902825X (0-919028-25-X)
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Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plathby Kate MosesISBN 1400035007 (1-4000-3500-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Wishful Thinking: By Meby Jacqi LumerISBN 097535972X (0-9753597-2-X)
Hardcover, Caffeine Society
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The Woman's Belly Book: Finding Your Treasure Withinby Lisa SarasohnISBN 0974548111 (0-9745481-1-1)
Softcover, Self Health Education Inc
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Workplay: Playing to Learn and Learning to Playby Carmine ConsalvoISBN 0925652121 (0-925652-12-1)
Hardcover, Human Resource Development
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Workplay: Playing to Learn and Learning to Play'Book summary:WorkPlay offers you some of the most enjoyable and educational games and exercises you'll find anywhere. More than "just another" collection of structured activities, this reproducible volume includes a provocative discussion of the serious impact of fun and games on the adult learner.
WorkPlay provides training in: Leadership, team building, change, problem solving, creativity, decision making, goal setting, trust, risk taking, and more!
WorkPlay is designed to provide program designers, workshop presenters, facilitators, and consultants with creative, structured learning experiences and detailed guidance on how to use them for effective training, conferences, and workshops. It is a practical handbook containing 27 varied and versatile activities that cover a comprehensive range of learning themes. Although these activities are particularly well-suited to team building, group problem solving, and leadership training, they can be used for communication, decision making, creativity, resource management, and a multitude of other learning purposes. Each activity can serve a range of training needs and agendas. Each activity has applicability to a variety of learning themes, some of which can be explored in depth using the activity alone or in conjunction with suggested companion exercises. They can be implemented either at different times for different purposes or used singularly to accomplish a variety of related learning objectives.
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27 reproducible activities in a convenient 3-ring binder.
Exercises include icebreakers, energizers and closing activities, scenario-based activities, and general activities for multiple objectives.
Observer/judge sheets for participants to learn by observing
Guidelines for ensuring that physically challenged participants can safely and enjoyably take part in the activities
Requirements for set-up, time, group size, materials, constraints, and safety considerations.
Development
Experiential activities can transform learning into adventure for adults in conference, academic, and work training settings. Learning is an emotional, physical and cognitive experience. Movement and feelings affect learning. Play can engage the mind and body and provoke a positive, emotional response during exercises that are designed to enhance skills and elucidate concepts and theories. Almost any topic can be explored through gaming. Learning that involves skill building and behavioral change, such as group dynamics, communication, leadership, problem solving, teamwork, and decision making are particularly well-suited to gaming.
Playing games for the serious purpose of learning creates a paradoxical situation in which participants are simultaneously involved in serious play and playful seriousness. The object of gaming is knowledge, not fun. However, the process is enjoyable and thus conducive to learning. This type of play entails the lighthearted yet earnest pursuit of educational aims within a fun-and-games context. The paradoxical nature of gaming to learn allows players freedom to experiment with new approaches, change old approaches, and even fail with impunity. After all, learning is a risky business. Safety is ensured in the imaginative realm of play.
Conducting the Activities
Each activity provides all the information necessary to conduct the experience, including directions and other handouts that can be easily copied for the participants. Some of the games do not require these handouts for participants or may have handouts to be used by the facilitator as a guide. These handouts contain all the pertinent information necessary for the group considerations. They also ensure that the group cannot project responsibility for its performance on faulty facilitator instructions, insulating the facilitator from being unwittingly drawn into authority issues that properly belong in the group.
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