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44 Scotland Streetby Alexander McCall Smith, Iain McIntoshISBN 1904598161 (1-904598-16-1)
Hardcover, Polygon
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African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collectionby Thomas McEvilley, Alvia J. Wardlaw, Andre Magnin, Alison De Lima GreeneISBN 1858942896 (1-85894-289-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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After Dachau: A Novelby Daniel QuinnISBN 1893956237 (1-893956-23-7)
Softcover, Context Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Dachau: A Novel'Book summary:The scion of one of America's wealthiest and most respected families, Jason Tull inhabits a world that is as close to paradise as anyone could desire. He's young, rich, and free to roam the earth in pursuit of his one great passion: to find a "Golden Case" of reincarnation--a case solid enough to impress even skeptics. When he hears about a young woman named Mallory Hastings who has wakened from a brief coma with an entirely new personality (and no recollection of her former one), he feels sure he's found it. The first secret he must have from her is, of course, her true identity. If she's not Mallory Hastings, then who is she? But pulling this secret from her proves to be like pulling the pin from a hand grenade. The explosion that follows opens a crack in the smooth surface of his world that no one will ever be able to paper over. [via]
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Almost French: A New Life in Parisby Sarah TurnbullISBN 1863252851 (1-86325-285-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Speciesby Steve JonesISBN 1862300259 (1-86230-025-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Species'Book summary:Steve Jones describes Darwin's The Origin of Species as "the only bestseller to change man's conception of himself ... without doubt, the book of the millennium." That book's sensational central proposition, that speciation arose from descent with modification through the mechanism of natural selection, constituted a kind of Grand Unifying Theory of the biological sciences, allowing what had been until Darwin's time an essentially anecdotal practice to cohere into a modern discipline. In the century and a half since its publication, Darwin's big idea has been attacked many times, on many grounds, but has never convincingly been refuted. Yet, as Jones points out, hardly anybody reads The Origin of Species now for its science. It is celebrated as a landmark in the history of ideas, as a contribution to the philosophy of science and as a masterly work of high Victorian prose. The idea of evolution has pervaded almost every aspect of human thought. But it has almost been forgotten that it is primarily a work of science. Almost like a Whale is an attempt to redress the balance. Jones, himself a geneticist, assumes the mantle of Darwin and rewrites his masterpiece for the modern reader, borrowing the structure and thesis but writing with the benefit of 150 years' hindsight. Throughout the 20th century new sciences have emerged that have in all cases buttressed the central claims of evolution, chief among them embryology and Jones' own discipline of genetics. Almost Like a Whale draws widely on them for its arguments and many illuminating stories and case- studies.
It is a bold and ambitious project, carried off with considerable style and wit. Any suspicion of lightness is misplaced, though, as the seriousness and profundity of the underlying arguments are signalled early in the book: Jones destroys one of the main creationist objections to the theory of evolution--that no-one has ever seen it happen--with a devastating account of the well-documented 50-year evolution of the AIDS virus into its present varieties. The title is not a near-miss reference to Hamlet: it is Darwin himself, speculating on whether a bear seen swimming and catching food with its mouth as it swam, might represent the first, behavioural step on an evolutionary journey towards a new creature" almost like a whale." This is a powerfully entertaining book, engrossing in its science, erudite and cogent. --Robin Davidson [via]
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The Ambidextrist: A Novelby Peter RockISBN 1893956229 (1-893956-22-9)
Hardcover, Context Books
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Bedbound & Misterman: &, Misterman Two Playsby Enda WalshISBN 1854596403 (1-85459-640-3)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Blacktownby Shane WeaverISBN 1863254072 (1-86325-407-2)
Softcover, Bantam
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Blanketsby Craig ThompsonISBN 1891830430 (1-891830-43-0)
Softcover, Top Shelf Productions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blankets'Book summary:At 592 pages, Blankets may well be the single largest graphic novel ever published without being serialized first. Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith. A profound and utterly beautiful work from Craig Thompson. The New Printing corrects 3 small typos, widening the spine graphics, but otherwise is identical to the first printing. [via]
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Bone: Out from Bonevilleby Jeff SmithISBN 188896314X (1-888963-14-X)
Softcover, Cartoon Books
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British Art Show 5ISBN 1853322040 (1-85332-204-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraqby Tariq AliISBN 1859845835 (1-85984-583-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq'Book summary:Tariq Ali is a novelist, essayist, and BBC commentator who was among the best-known radical student leaders in late 1960s Britain. One of the ways he distinguishes himself from his anti-war contemporaries is via prodigious and multidisciplinary cultural knowledge; he once collaborated with avant-garde filmmaker Derek Jarman on a film about the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, for instance. Bush in Babylon benefits greatly from such knowledge. The book is essentially a harsh critique of the way the Bush administration has dealt with Iraq in the wake of 9-11, referred to as "corporate looting." The most captivating chapter centers on the history of Iraqi resistance as exemplified in poetry made by Iraqis in exile. Ali translates important contemporary works by poets who left during Hussein's regime but are still denied entry back into Iraq by Coalition forces. These are works that have traveled from the Internet to the oral tradition, to become instant spoken-word hits, and they provide a fascinating glimpse into the Iraqi situation that one cannot simply find in a daily newspaper in the West or on CNN. Ali's biggest fault is an undisguised disgust for the "imperialist" United States government. When he lists the casualties in Hiroshima and Nagasaki alongside those in Vietnam with no discussion of the difference between the two events, he alienates many potential fans of his important work. Bush in Babylon has a lot going for it, despite a polemical tone which invariably grates as one marches through this smart, well-researched book. --Mike McGonigal [via]
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Bush, City, Cyberspace: The Development of Australian Children's Literature into the Twenty-First Centuryby John Foster, Charles Sturt University, Maureen Nimon, Ern FinnisISBN 1876938781 (1-876938-78-1)
Softcover, Centre for Information Studies
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bush, City, Cyberspace: The Development of Australian Children's Literature into the Twenty-First Century'Book summary:Aimed at academic, professional and general readers, Bush, city, cyberspace provides a snapshot of the state of Australian children's and adolescent literature in the early twenty-first century, and an insight into its history. In doing so, it promotes a sense of where Australian literature for young people may be going and captures a literary and critical mood with which readers in Australia and beyond will identify. The title of the work is intended to capture the fact that the field has changed dramatically in the century and a half that 'Australian children's literature' has existed, from the bush myths and heroism that inform the past and the present, through the recognition that the vast majority of authors and readers live in cities, to the third wave of 'cyberliterature' that incorporates multimedia, hypertext, weblinks and e-books - none of which lessens the enduring enthusiasm of practitioners and readers for books. Bush, city, cyberspace is not meant to be an encyclopedic volume. Rather, well-known, recent and/or award-winning works have been emphasised, with the addition of others where these help to illuminate particular points. The book is similar in coverage and approach to Australian Children's Literature: An Exploration of Genre and Theme , written by the same three authors and published by the Centre for Information Studies in 1995. In the intervening period, much has changed in the field, notable examples including the blurring of the dividing line between 'quality' and 'popular' literature; the blending of genres; the rise of a truly indigenous literature; the demise, to a significant extent, of 'Outbackery' in fiction; the acceptance of multiculturalism as the norm; and the advent of the literature of cyberspace, with new methods, and the sheer speed, of communication between writer and reader. All these trends, and others, are reflected in this work. [via]
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Carnevaleby M. R. LovricISBN 1860498655 (1-86049-865-5)
Hardcover, Virago
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Cat And Fishby Joan GrantISBN 1894965140 (1-894965-14-0)
Hardcover, Simply Read Books
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The Consumption of Kuala Lumpurby Ziauddin SardarISBN 1861890575 (1-86189-057-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Cult of MACby Leander KahneyISBN 1886411832 (1-886411-83-2)
Hardcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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The Dark Towerby Stephen King, Michael WhelanISBN 1880418622 (1-880418-62-2)
Hardcover, Donald m Grant Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dark Tower'Book summary:At one point in this final book of the Dark Tower series>, the character Stephen King (added to the plot in Song of Susannah) looks back at the preceding pages and says "when this last book is published, the readers are going to be just wild." And he's not kidding.
After a journey through seven books and over 20 years, King's Constant Readers finally have the conclusion they've been both eagerly awaiting and silently dread ing. The tension in the Dark Tower series has built steadily from the beginning and, like in the best of King's novels, explodes into a violent, heart-tugging climax as Roland and his ka-tet finally near their goal. The body count in The Dark Tower is high. The gunslingers come out shooting and face a host of enemies, including low men, mutants, vampires, Roland's hideous quasi-offspring Mordred, and the fearsome Crimson King himself. King pushes the gross-out factor at times--Roland's lesson on tanning (no, not sun tanning) is brutal--but the magic of the series remains strong and readers will feel the pull of the Tower as strongly as ever as the story draws to a close. During this sentimental journey, King ties up loose ends left hanging from the 15 nonseries novels and stories that are deeply entwined in the fabric of Mid-World through characters like Randall Flagg (The Stand and others) or Father Callahan (Salem's Lot). When it finally arrives, the long-awaited conclusion will leave King's myriad fans satisfied but wishing there were still more to come.
In King's memoir On Writing, he tells of an old woman who wrote him after reading the early books in the Dark Tower series. She was dying, she said, and didn't expect to see the end of Roland's quest. Could King tell her? Does he reach the Tower? Does he save it? Sadly, King said he did not know himself, that the story was creating itself as it went along. Wherever that woman is now (the clearing at the end of the path, perhaps?), let's hope she has a copy of The Dark Tower. Surely she would agree it's been worth the wait. --Benjamin Reese
A King and His Tower
Over 30 years in the making, spanning seven volumes, Stephen King's epic quest for the Dark Tower has encompassed almost his entire body of fiction. Amazon.com editor Ben Reese caught up with King to chat about the then-unpublished volumes of his Dark Tower series, rumors of his retirement, and the horrors of genre classification. Authors on Stephen King
Mystery writer Michael Connelly thinks Stephen King's "one of the most generous writers I know of." Thriller author Ridley Pearson says, "King possesses an incredible sense of story..." Read our Stephen King testimonials to find out what else they and other authors had to say about the undisputed King of Horror.The Path to the Dark Tower
There are only seven volumes in Stephen King's Dark Tower series but more than a dozen of his novels and short stories are deeply entwined with the Mid-World universe. Take a look at the nonseries titles, from Salem's Lot to Everything's Eventual. Can you find the connections? History of an Alternate Universe
Robin Furth, an expert on Stephen King's Dark Tower universe if ever there was one, has created a timeline of Mid-World, the slowly crumbling world of gunslinger Roland Deschain. Read it and get up to speed on a world of adventure.Hail to the King
Fans applauded and critics howled when Stephen King was awarded the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Service to American Letters. In typical fashion, King accepted the honor with humility and urged recognition for other "popular" authors. Listen to a clip of his acceptance speech, then order the entire speech on audio CD. [via]More editions of The Dark Tower:
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Dark Victoryby David Marr, Marian WilkinsonISBN 1865089397 (1-86508-939-7)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Victory'Book summary:Award-winning writer David Marr and investigative journalist Marian Wilkinson burrow deep into the world of spin-doctors, bureaucrats and the military to reveal the whole story, play by play - from the stricken asylum seekers' first sight of the red dot on the horizon that was the "Tampa" to John Howard singing the national anthem at his election victory celebrations. This book aims to bring to light the manipulation of the public, the mutability of the press and the machinations of one government in its all-consuming lust for power. [via]
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Der Vorleserby Stuart TabernerISBN 1853996491 (1-85399-649-1)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Der Vorleser'Book summary:The theme of the book is the Holocaust and questions of guilt, as it tells the tale of Michael Berg and his affair with Hanna Schmitz, who turns out to have been a guard at Auschwitz and who later hangs herself.
This edition makes the German text accessible to students, providing the full German text, with a substantial Introduction, Commentary, Vocabulary and Bibliography in English.
Bernhard Schlinks novel "Der Vorleser" ("The Reader") has sold over 500,000 copies in Germany, 750,000 in the USA, 200,000 in Britain, and 100,000 in France. It has been translated into 25 languages. [via]More editions of Der Vorleser:
Dissecting The Heartby Rosita BolandISBN 1852353430 (1-85235-343-0)
Softcover, Gallery Books
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The Disuniting of Americaby Arthur M. SchlesingerISBN 1879736004 (1-879736-00-4)
Hardcover, Whittle Direct Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Disuniting of America'Book summary:What does it mean to be an American? Is the republic a unified whole or a collection of disparate ethnic groups? In this book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, examines the changing face of American history and shows how an increasing focus on ethnicity has affected life both in academic circles and on the street. America has always been a nation of immigrants striving towards the common goal of a better life than they had known in the old country. But the melting pot no longer seems an apt metaphor for the American experience: racial and ethnic minorities are drifting apart, focusing on individual heritage and becoming more bitterly divided. However, Professor Schlesinger ultimately believes that the old ideals of "e pluribus unum" are still strong enough to bind the United States together. [via]
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Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: 1923-1926by Ireland Dept. of Foreign Affairs, Royal Irish Academy, Michael Kennedy, Dermot Keogh, Eunan O'Halpin, Ronan FanningISBN 1874045836 (1-874045-83-6)
Hardcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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Ears on Fire: Snapshot Essays in a World of Poetsby Gary Mex GlaznerISBN 1888809329 (1-888809-32-9)
Softcover, Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuationby Lynne TrussISBN 1861976127 (1-86197-612-7)
Hardcover, Profile Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation'Book summary:This is a witty, entertaining, impassioned guide to perfect punctuation, for everyone who cares about precise writing. Not a primer but a 'zero tolerance' manual for direct action. A panda walked into a cafe. He ordered a sandwich, ate it, then pulled out a gun and shot the waiter. 'Why?' groaned the injured man. The panda shrugged, tossed him a badly punctuated wildlife manual and walked out. And sure enough, when the waiter consulted the book, he found an explanation. 'Panda,' ran the entry for his assailant. 'Large black and white mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.' We see signs in shops every day for 'Banana's' and even 'Gateaux's'. Competition rules remind us: 'The judges decision is final.' Now, many punctuation guides already exist explaining the principles of the apostrophe; the comma; the semi-colon. These books do their job but somehow punctuation abuse does not diminish. Why? Because people who can't punctuate don't read those books! Of course they don't! They laugh at books like those! "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" adopts a more militant approach and attempts to recruit an army of punctuation vigilantes: send letters back with the punctuation corrected. Do not accept sloppy emails. Climb ladders at dead of night with a pot of paint to remove the redundant apostrophe in 'Video's sold here'. [via]
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Elevenby David LlewellynISBN 1854114158 (1-85411-415-8)
Softcover, Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd
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Eminenceby Morris WestISBN 1860465285 (1-86046-528-5)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eminence'Book summary:Morris West, author of the bestselling novel The Shoes of the Fisherman, manages in many of his books to balance a steadfast Catholic faith with a razor-keen perception of the flaws of the Church. Eminence begins with Monsignor Jorge Novak's 1995 admonishment of the Church's "complicities [in respect of] illegal repression" in Argentina and a short citation from William Pitt (1770): "Where law ends, tyranny begins." West uses these political statements as the launching point for his very personal story of Cardinal Luca Rossini. Luca is a compelling character--a haunted man who offers the world a stern visage to cover a deeply troubled soul. As a young and outspoken priest he was brutally tortured in an Argentine military prison and was then nursed to health by the beautiful Isabel, wife of an Argentine diplomat. To cover the scandal of his unacknowledged treatment, he was recalled to Rome and exiled to the Vatican. As the novel begins, Rossini is now the confidante of the reigning pope. He is admired and feared by his colleagues, for Rossini (like his creator) understands the Church, speaks frankly, and knows how to present his ancient faith to the late-20th-century media. When the pope becomes gravely ill and a successor must be chosen, Rossini takes a central role in the process. In the midst of the political intrigue that surrounds the selection of a new pope, however, Isabel arrives in Rome--along with Luca's daughter. Luca must suddenly confront old and painful memories of Argentina and the scandalous passion of his long-suspended love affair.
Eminence is a brisk thriller and simultaneously a very relevant examination of the byzantine Vatican City; but the ultimate pleasure of the book, as with the best of West's writings, derives from his complex and very human portrait of a modern man of the cloth. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Equal Ritesby Terry PratchettISBN 1856953874 (1-85695-387-4)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equal Rites'Book summary:The third Discworld novel.
They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
There are some situations where the correct response is to display the sort of ignorance which happily and wilfully flies in the face of the facts. In this case, the birth of a baby girl, born a wizard -- by mistake. Everybody knows that there's no such thing as a female wizard. But now it's gone and happened, there's nothing much anyone can do about it. Let the battle of the sexes begin. [via]More editions of Equal Rites:
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F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great GatsbyISBN 1874166676 (1-874166-67-6)
Softcover, Totem Books
Find This BookBook summary:F. Scott Fitzgerald has become something of a defining figure of the twenties - the decade he so famously described as 'The Jazz Age'. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald's writing is at its finest, exposing a society's tendency towards decadence and moral collapse through a decade of hedonism. Regarded as the most searching and tightly written of his novels, The Great Gatsby was the work that assured Fitzgerald's place amongst the major writers of the twentieth century. In this Readers' Guide, Nicolas Tredell introduces and sets in context the key critical debates surrounding a novel about which more critical material exists than any other work of American fiction. The extracts and essays included here reflect on The Great Gatsby's place as one of the first American novels to make significant use of modernist techniques, and explore the influence of the work on later American writings. Considering secondary sources from the Twenties to the present, the Guide offers readers an invaluable resource for the study of this complex rendering of a moment in American history. [via]
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Field Knowledgeby Morri Creech, J.D. McClatchyISBN 1904130232 (1-904130-23-2)
Softcover, Dufour Editions
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Five Little Men in a Flying Saucerby NISBN 1904550304 (1-904550-30-4)
Softcover, Childs Play Intl Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer'Book summary:When five little men come to visit Earth from Outer Space, they don't like what they see. Finding a planet that is spoiled and neglected, the little men fly away, one by one. Luckily, by the end of this much-loved counting song, the world becomes a better place to visit - and the five little men may even have had something to do with it! All children love this traditional rhyme and singing along will help to develop number skills. Bouncy illustrations, innovative die cutting and popular rhymes make Books with Holes a must for every child. Available in three formats, suitable for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and the nursery or classroom. [via]
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For Here or to Go: Life in the Service Industryby Leah RyanISBN 1891053442 (1-891053-44-2)
Softcover, Garrett County Pr
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From Hellby Alan MooreISBN 1880325071 (1-880325-07-1)
Softcover, Borderlands Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Hell'Book summary:The mad, shaggy genius of the comics world dips deeply into the well of history and pulls up a cup filled with blood in From Hell. Alan Moore did a couple of Ph.D.'s worth of research into the Whitechapel murders for this copiously annotated collection of the independently published series. The web of facts, opinion, hearsay, and imaginative invention draws the reader in from the first page. Eddie Campbell's scratchy ink drawings evoke a dark and dirty Victorian London and help to humanize characters that have been caricatured into obscurity for decades. Moore, having decided that the evidence best fits the theory of a Masonic conspiracy to cover up a scandal involving Victoria's grandson, goes to work telling the story with relish from the point of view of the victims, the chief inspector, and the killer--the Queen's physician. His characterization is just as vibrant as Campbell's; even the minor characters feel fully real. Looking more deeply than most, the author finds in the "great work" of the Ripper a ritual magic working intended to give birth to the 20th century in all its horrid glory. Maps, characters, and settings are all as accurate as possible, and while the reader might not ultimately agree with Moore and Campbell's thesis, From Hell is still a great work of literature. --Rob Lightner [via]
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A Game of Thronesby George R. R. Martin'SISBN 1892065290 (1-892065-29-0)
Hardcover, Meisha Merlin Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Game of Thrones'Book summary:Readers of epic fantasy series are: (1) patient--they are left in suspense between each volume, (2) persistent--they reread or at least review the previous book(s) when a new installment comes out, (3) strong--these 700-page doorstoppers are heavy, and (4) mentally agile--they follow a host of characters through a myriad of subplots. In A Game of Thrones, the first book of a projected six, George R.R. Martin rewards readers with a vividly real world, well-drawn characters, complex but coherent plotting, and beautifully constructed prose, which Locus called "well above the norms of the genre."
Martin's Seven Kingdoms resemble England during the Wars of the Roses, with the Stark and Lannister families standing in for the Yorks and Lancasters. The story of these two families and their struggle to control the Iron Throne dominates the foreground; in the background is a huge, ancient wall marking the northern border, beyond which barbarians, ice vampires, and direwolves menace the south as years-long winter advances. Abroad, a dragon princess lives among horse nomads and dreams of fiery reconquest.
There is much bloodshed, cruelty, and death, but A Game of Thrones is nevertheless compelling; it garnered a Nebula nomination and won the 1996 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. So, on to A Clash of Kings! --Nona Vero [via]
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Ghost Tales from the North Carolina Piedmontby Linda Duck Tanenbaum, Barry McGeeISBN 1878177133 (1-878177-13-3)
Softcover, John F Blair Pub
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The Golden Rules of Advocacyby Keith EvansISBN 1854312596 (1-85431-259-6)
Softcover, Blackstone
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Gordon's Got A Snookieby Lisa Shanahan, Wayne HarrisISBN 1865086908 (1-86508-690-8)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin
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Grab Bag: 2 storiesby Derek McCormackISBN 1888451599 (1-888451-59-9)
Softcover, Akashic Books
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 185326041X (1-85326-041-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:The Great Gatsby, a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that takes place from spring to autumn 1922, during the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition. [via]
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Hello, Againby Max EstesISBN 1891830635 (1-891830-63-5)
Softcover, Top Shelf Productions
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Horrible Harrietby Leigh HobbsISBN 1865084395 (1-86508-439-5)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Horrible Harriet'Book summary:Horrible Harriet lives in a nest in the roof of the school. She's mean, she's bad and she has no friends - or maybe it's the other way around? When Athol Egghead arrives in a hotair balloon he looks like the last person who could befriend Harriet. But stranger things happen every day. Leigh Hobbs says: 'Harriet is an amalgam of various bad girls I have taught in schools. This is a book about appearances, and friendships and people not being what they seem.' [via]
The Illustrated Manby Ray BradburyISBN 188736806X (1-887368-06-X)
Hardcover, Gauntlet Pr
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J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Mythby Bradley J. Birzer, Joseph PearceISBN 1882926846 (1-882926-84-6)
Hardcover, Isi Books
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Karl Marxby Francis WheenISBN 1857026373 (1-85702-637-3)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Karl Marx'Book summary:Karl Marx, whose influence on modern times has been compared to that of Jesus Christ, spent most of his lifetime in obscurity. Penniless, exiled in London, estranged from relations, and on the run from most of the police forces of Europe, his ambitions as a revolutionary were frequently thwarted, and his major writings on politics and economics remained unpublished (in some cases until after the Second World War). He has not lacked biographers, but even the most distinguished have been more interested in the evolution of his ideas than any other aspect of his life. Francis Wheen's fresh, lively, and moving biography of Marx considers the whole man--brain, beard, and the rest of his body. Unencumbered by ideological point scoring, this is a very readable, humorous, and sympathetic account. Wheen has an ear for juicy gossip and an eye for original detail. Marx comes across as a hell-raising bohemian, an intellectual bully, and a perceptive critic of capitalist chaos, but also a family man of Victorian conformity (personally vetting his daughters' suitors), Victorian ailments (carbuncles above all), and Victorian weaknesses (notably alcohol, tobacco, and, on occasion, his housekeeper). But there is great pathos, too, as Marx witnessed the deaths of four of his six children. For those readers who feel Marxism has given Marx a bad name, this is a rewarding and enlightening book. --Miles Taylor, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Kirith Kirinby Jim GrimsleyISBN 1892065169 (1-892065-16-9)
Softcover, Meisha Merlin Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kirith Kirin'Book summary:Kirith Kirin is like no other fantasy that you have ever read. Jim Grimsley has created a fantasy that could have come right from our world where power and greed can tempt, and sometimes conquer, even the most rightist person and where knowing who your friends and enemies are can be very difficult if not impossible. Yet it is not our world. For in Kirith Kirin's world magic is real, immortals walk the land, and people are sometimes the playthings for the dark arts. The Blue Queen, upon resuming the throne while King Kirith Kirin's eternality is renewed in the Arthen forest, has partnered with a magician of the dark arts. No longer does she need to leave the throne to renew her eternal nature. Swayed by promises of the dark magician, she has claimed the throne forever and is extending her influence to the far corners of the world. Malleable grey clouds, sidewinding wind, and intelligent lightning bolts made the trip across the vast Girdle nearly impossible. Out of nowhere, the Blue Queen's Patrols made haste to kill the boy and the warrior before they could safely reach the deep forest of Arthen. Riding upon two magnificent stallions, one a royal Prince out of Queen Mnemarra, Jessex and his uncle Sivisal reached Arthen despite a deadly storm that reeked of magic. Thus begins Jessex's new life as he enters Arthen and moves into the royal court of Kirith Kirin. [via]
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The Labyrinthby Catherynne M. ValenteISBN 1894815653 (1-894815-65-3)
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Lie with Meby Tamara Faith BergerISBN 1896356338 (1-896356-33-8)
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London: The Biographyby Peter AckroydISBN 1856197166 (1-85619-716-6)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'London: The Biography'Book summary:When the eminent novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd finished writing London: The Biography, he almost immediately had a heart attack, such was the effort of his 800-page work about the "human body" that is this most fascinating of cities. And not just any human body either, but "envisaged in the form of a young man with his arms outstretched in a gesture of liberation ... it embodies the energy and exaltation of a city continually beating in great waves of progress and of confidence". Probably there is no one better placed than Ackroyd--the author of mammoth lives of Dickens and Blake, and novels such as Hawksmoor and Dan Leno and the Lime House Golem which set singular characters against the backdrop of a city constantly shifting in time--to write such a rich, sinewy account of "Infinite London". Ackroyd's London is no mere chronology. Its chapters take on such varied themes as drinking, sex, childhood, poverty, crime and punishment, sewage, food, pestilence and fire, immigration, maps, theatre, war. We learn that gin was "the demon of London for half a century", and that "it has been estimated that in the 1740s and 1750s there were 17,000 'gin-houses'". Fleet Street was an area known for its "violent delights" where "a fourteen-year-old boy, only eighteen inches high, was to be seen in 1702 at a grocer's shop called the Eagle and Child by Shoe Lane". By the mid 19th-century "London had become known as the greatest city on earth". By 1939 "one in five of the British population had become a Londoner".
Though the variousness of London's chapters mean that it can be dipped into at random, Ackroyd is employing a skilful and continuous theme throughout, which constantly links past and present--the similarities of children's games in Lambeth in 1910 and 1999; the obsession with time--"in twenty-first century London time rushes forward and is everywhere apparent", while in 18th-century London the church clock of Newgate "regulated the times of hanging". Above all, he insists that the "dark secret life" of the metropolis is as relevant today as it was in perhaps its most appropriate period, Victorian London. Again and again Ackroyd returns to the image of London as a living organism, hence his use of the word "biography" in the title. At once awed by and intimate with this "ubiquitous" city, he stresses that "it can be located nowhere in particular ... its circumference is everywhere". --Catherine Taylor [via]
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Lonely Planet Scotlandby Neil Wilson, Graeme CornwallisISBN 186450157X (1-86450-157-X)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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The Lucky Onesby Rachel CuskISBN 1857029127 (1-85702-912-7)
Hardcover, Fourth Estate
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Magical Worlds of the Wizard of Ads: Tools and Techniques for Profitable Persuasionby Roy H. WilliamsISBN 1885167520 (1-885167-52-0)
Softcover, Bard
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Mercedes-Benz: From letter To Hrabalby Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Pawe HuelleISBN 1852428694 (1-85242-869-4)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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Money To Burnby Ricardo Piglia, Amanda HopkinsonISBN 1862075921 (1-86207-592-1)
Softcover, Granta Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Money To Burn'Book summary:[via]Love and betrayal complicate a robbery gone wrong in this edgy true-crime novel based on a 1965 Argentine bank robbery. There's the drama of the botched raid itself, followed by a blowout afterparty, an attempted double-crossing of the corrupt local authorities, and a final shootout where, as a last act of rebellion, the robbers burn all the loot. This gritty tale has been adapted for a major motion picture by renowned Argentine director Marcelo Pinyero. 
Mother's Milk: A Novelby Edward St. AubynISBN 1890447420 (1-890447-42-0)
Softcover, Open City Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mother's Milk: A Novel'Book summary:Writing with the scathing wit and bright perceptiveness for which he has become known, celebrated English author Edward St. Aubyn creates a complex family portrait that examines the shifting allegiances between mothers, sons, and husbands. The novels perspective ricochets among all members of the Melrose family -- the family featured in St. Aubyns widely praised trilogy, Some Hope -- starting with Robert, who provides an exceptionally droll and convincing account of being born; to Patrick, a hilariously churlish husband who has been sexually abandoned by his wife in favor of his sons; to Mary, whos consumed by her children and overwhelming desire not to repeat the mistakes of her own mother. All the while, St. Aubyn examines the web of false promises that entangle this once illustrious family -- whose last vestige of wealth, an old house in the south of France -- is about to be donated by Patricks mother to a New Age foundation. An up-to-the-minute dissection of the mores of child-rearing, marriage, adultery, and assisted suicide, Mothers Milk showcases St. Aubyns luminous and acidic prose -- and his masterful ability to combine the most excruciating emotional pain with the driest comedy.[via]More editions of Mother's Milk: A Novel:
Mother, Speak to Us About War / Madre, Hablanos De La Guerraby Marjorie Agosfn, Betty Jean CraigeISBN 1890932329 (1-890932-32-9)
Softcover, Sherman Asher Pub
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Motorcycle Adventures in the Southern Appalachians: Asheville Nc, the Blue Ridge Parkway, Nc High Country Book 2by Hawk HagebakISBN 1889596116 (1-889596-11-6)
Softcover, Milestone Pr Inc
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Motorcycle Adventures in the Southern Appalachians: North Georgia, Western North Carolina, East Tennessee Book 1by Hawk HagebakISBN 1889596108 (1-889596-10-8)
Softcover, Milestone Pr Inc
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Move under Groundby Nick MamatasISBN 1892389916 (1-892389-91-6)
Hardcover, Night Shade Books
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Naomiby Douglas CleggISBN 1892284758 (1-892284-75-8)
Hardcover, Subterranean
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Norwegian Woodby Haruki MurakamiISBN 1860468004 (1-86046-800-4)
Softcover, Random House
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Overlandby Richard CollinsISBN 1854114204 (1-85411-420-4)
Softcover, Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd
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Papunya School Book of Country and Historyby Papunya SchoolISBN 1865085251 (1-86508-525-1)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin
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Paradise Transformed: The Private Garden for the Twenty-First Centuryby Guy Cooper, Gordon TaylorISBN 1885254350 (1-885254-35-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Playing Sardinesby Michele RobertsISBN 1860498140 (1-86049-814-0)
Hardcover, Virago Press
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The Republicby PlatoISBN 1853264830 (1-85326-483-0)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic'Book summary:The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the twentieth-century philosopher A.N. Whitehead described all subsequent developments within the subject as foot-notes to Plato's work. Beyond philosophy, he has exerted a major influence on the development of Western literature, politics and theology. The Republic deals with the great range of Plato's thought, but is particularly concerned with what makes a well-balanced society and individual. It combines argument and myth to advocate a life organized by reason rather than dominated by desires and appetites. Regarded by some as the foundation document of totalitarianism, by others as a call to develop the full potential of humanity, the Republic remains a challenging and intensely exciting work. [via]
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The Rough Guide to Icelandby Rough GuidesISBN 1858285976 (1-85828-597-6)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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Sharksby L. R. TaylorISBN 1875137645 (1-875137-64-5)
Hardcover, Weldon Owen
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Sharksby Niki WalkerISBN 1876778806 (1-876778-80-6)
Hardcover, Fog City Press
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Sidetrackedby Henning MankellISBN 1860467857 (1-86046-785-7)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Silkby Caitlin KiernanISBN 1887368221 (1-887368-22-1)
Hardcover, Gauntlet Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silk'Book summary:To the residents of her small southern city, second-hand store owner Spyder Baxter is crazy. But her friends and followers know better. Something lives within Spder's brain. Something powerful. Something wonderful. Something dangerous. Pray it never escapes.[via]More editions of Silk:
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Song of Susannahby Stephen King, Darrel AndersonISBN 1880418592 (1-880418-59-2)
Hardcover, Donald m Grant Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Song of Susannah'Book summary:The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower.
To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to Susannah...and terrifying to the "daughter of none" who shares her body and mind.
Saving the Tower depends not only on rescuing Susannah but also on securing the vacant lot Calvin Tower owns before he loses it to the Sombra Corporation. Enlisting the aid of Manni senders, the remaining ka-tet climbs to the Doorway Cave...and discovers that magic has its own mind. It falls to the boy, the billy bumbler, and the fallen priest to find Susannah-Mia, who in a struggle to cope -- with each other and with an alien environment -- "go todash" to Castle Discordia on the border of End-World. In that forsaken place, Mia reveals her origins, her purpose, and her fierce desire to mother whatever creature the two of them have carried to term.
Eddie and Roland, meanwhile, tumble into western Maine in the summer of 1977, a world that should be idyllic but isn't. For one thing, it is real, and the bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called Salem's Lot, a writer who turns out to be as shocked by them as they are by him. [via]
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Speaks the Nightbird: Judgement of the Witchby Robert R. McCammonISBN 1880216620 (1-880216-62-0)
Hardcover, River City Pub
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Strangers In Paradise 1by Terry MooreISBN 1892597268 (1-892597-26-8)
Softcover, Abstract Studio Inc
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Sugimoto: Architectureby John Yau, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Francesco Bonami, Marco De MichelisISBN 189102454X (1-891024-54-X)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sugimoto: Architecture'Book summary:Known for his long-exposure photographic series of empty movie theaters and drive-ins, seascapes, museum dioramas, and waxworks, Hiroshi Sugimoto has been turning his camera on international icons of 20th-century architecture since 1997. His deliberately blurred and seemingly timeless photographs depict structures as diverse as the Empire State Building, Le Corbusier's Chapel de Nutre Dame du Haut, and Tadao Ando's Church of Light in Osaka. The resulting black-and-white photographs, shot distinctly out of focus and from unusual angles, are not attempts at documentation but rather evocation--meant to isolate the buildings from their contexts, allowing them to exist as dreamlike, uninhabited ideals. Among the other buildings represented in the series are Philippe Starck's Asahi Breweries, Fumihiko Maki's Fujisawa Municipal Gymnasium, the United Nations Building, the Chrysler Building, Giuseppi Terragni's Santelia Monument Como, the World Trade Center, Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, Antonio Gaud''s Casa Batll* II, the 1922 Schindler House, and buildings by Frank Gehry, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many others in Europe, North America, and Asia. [via]
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The System of Objectsby Jean Baudrillard, James BenedictISBN 185984068X (1-85984-068-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The System of Objects'Book summary:Published for the first time in English, this is Jean Baudrillard's earliest book, written in 1968, at a time when (as the author would put it later), "The society of the spectacle and its denunciation were still the focal point of semiological, psychoanalytical and sociological arguments". Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, this book offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the "new technical order" as functional, non-functional and metafunctional. He contrasts "modern" and "traditional" functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of non-functional or "marginal" objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the "schizofunctional". Finally, Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life. This book is an in-depth study of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard, who emerges in retrospect as something of a lightning rod for the live ideas of the day: Bataille's political economy of "expenditure" and Mauss's theory of the gift; Reisman's "lonely crowd" and the "technological society" of Jacques Ellul; the struturalism of Roland Barthes in "The System of Fashion"; Henri Lefebvre's work on the social construction of space; and Guy Debord's situationist critique of the spectacle. [via]
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Take Me to Paris, Johnnyby J. H. FosterISBN 1863951016 (1-86395-101-6)
Softcover, Black Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Take Me to Paris, Johnny'Book summary:A Cuban dancer meets an Australian historian, and a casual fling gradually becomes a love affair that transforms their lives. In this unforgettable memoir, John Foster recounts the life and death of his lover, Juan Cespedes. This unlikely love story takes in much of the twentieth century seen from the angle of the outsider - Juan is the refugee from oppression, the immigrant trying to make it, the early victim of a spreading plague. John is the sophisticate from a first-world culture, who fully embraces his unexpected love. This is the rarest of things - a book full of intelligence and laughter that tells of terrible events with intimacy and grace. [via]
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Ten Fat Sausagesby Elke ZinsmeisterISBN 1904550592 (1-904550-59-2)
Hardcover, Childs Play Intl Ltd
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Tenure Trackby Joseph Meigs MeigsISBN 1892614383 (1-892614-38-3)
Softcover, Briarwood Pubns
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This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeriaby Karl MaierISBN 1891620606 (1-891620-60-6)
Hardcover, Public Affairs
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Time Out London for Londonersby Time OutISBN 1904978525 (1-904978-52-5)
Softcover, Time Out Guides
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Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's the Lord of the Rings.by Janet Brennan CroftISBN 1887726098 (1-887726-09-8)
Softcover, Mythopoeic Pr
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Virginia Loversby Michael ParkerISBN 1883285240 (1-883285-24-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Wanting in Arabicby Trish SalahISBN 1894770005 (1-894770-00-5)
Softcover, Tsar Pubns
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Warlockby Perry BrassISBN 1892149036 (1-892149-03-6)
Softcover, Asp Wholesale
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Allen Barrow, a shy bank clerk, dresses out of discount stores and has a small penis that embarrasses him. One night at a noisy, popular bathhouse in Manhattan he meets Destry Powars-commanding, vulgar, seductive, successful-who pulls Allen into his orbit and won't let go. Destry lives in a closed, moneyed world that Allen can only glimpse through the smoky windows of popular media and tabloids. From generations of impoverished drifters, Powars has been chosen to learn a secret language based on force, deception, and nerve. But who chose him-and what does he really want from Allen? What are Mr. Powars's dark powers? These are the mysteries that Allen will uncover in Warlock, a novel that is as paralyzing in its suspense as it is voluptuously erotic. [via]
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Wars End: Profiles From Bosnia 1995-96by Joe SaccoISBN 1896597920 (1-896597-92-0)
Hardcover, Drawn & Quarterly Pubns
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How does an artist reconcile being forced to go to the front line of a brutal conflict that will change his life and homeland forever? What happens when a reporter finally comes face-to-face with an evil war criminal? Before his groundbreaking graphic novels Safe Area Gorazde and The Fixer, Palestinian author Joe Sacco created two short stories with characters from each side of the crossfire. Collected for the first time in Wars End: Profiles from Bosnia 19951996 are the acclaimed Soba and Christmas with Karadzic. In Soba, Sacco captures the internal torment of the romanticized Sarajevo artist-warrior who captivated the Western media with his guitar and hard-partying ways. In Christmas with Karadzic, Sacco gives the reader an inside peek at the darkly humorous news process that doesnt make the headlines back home as he chases after one of the most hated and sought-after Bosnian Serb leaders and war criminals.More editions of Wars End: Profiles From Bosnia 1995-96:
When I Lived in Modern Timesby Linda GrantISBN 1862074046 (1-86207-404-6)
Softcover, Granta Books
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Wolfgang Tillmans : If One Thing Matters, Everything Mattersby Wolfgang TillmansISBN 1854374850 (1-85437-485-0)
Softcover, Tate Gallery Publishing, Limited
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