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Ana En El Tropico: Una Nueva Obra Teatralby Nilo Cruz, Nacho ArtimeISBN 1559362456 (1-55936-245-6)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Anna In The Tropicsby Nilo CruzISBN 1559362324 (1-55936-232-4)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Authenticityby Deirdre MaddenISBN 155597421X (1-55597-421-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Black Dahlia Avenger: The True StoryISBN 1559706643 (1-55970-664-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Blueby George Elliott ClarkeISBN 1551924145 (1-55192-414-5)
Softcover, Raincoast Book Dist Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue'Book summary:This incandescent book subscribes to the adage that "Good poems should rage like a fire, burning all things." Blue is black, profane, surly, damning - and unrelenting in its brilliance. Clarke writes: "I craved to draft lyrics that would pour out like Pentecostal fire - pell mell, scorching, bright, loud: a poetics of arson." Blue is divided into five parts that skillfully turn rage into a violet bruise of love and mourning. From the "Nasty Nofaskoshan Negro" of the Black section to the shocking satires of the red section, from the fierce tenderness of Gold Sapphics to the haunting lament of Blue Elegies, Clarke has written urgent and necessary poems - poems that burn and illuminate with their fury, truth, and beauty.[via]More editions of Blue:
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Boulevardby Jim GrimsleyISBN 1565124006 (1-56512-400-6)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boulevard'Book summary:Newell never really belonged in Pastel, Alabama. Ready for a change, he buys a one-way ticket to New Orleans. The year is 1978 and the rambunctious city beckons with its famous promise of bright lights, excitement, and men everywhere.
Newell makes his way, finding a job in a pornographic bookstore and renting a room in the French Quarter. His good nature, good looks, and a daring stunt in a popular bar make him a quick favorite of the town. Soon he has friends. Some are harmless, like Henry, a pudgy sidekick who's a frequent denizen of the porn shop's movie booths. Others prove more dangerous, like party-boy Mark, Newell's first beau, who has a penchant for recreational drugs. Finally, Newell encounters the volatile Jack, who shows Newell the blackest heart of the city.
Boulevard, Jim Grimsley's fifth novel, reminds us that Grimsley is what Publishers Weekly calls "an accomplished stylist and a complex moralist." He takes one character's dream and reveals what can happen when dreams are fulfilled.
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Brothers and Others in Arms: The Making of Love and War in Israeli Combat Unitsby Danny KaplanISBN 1560233656 (1-56023-365-6)
Softcover, Southern Tier Editions
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Castro and Cuba: From the Revolution to the Presentby Angelo Trento, Arthur FigliolaISBN 1566563399 (1-56656-339-9)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Chestnutby Constance W. McGeorge, Mary WhyteISBN 1561453218 (1-56145-321-8)
Hardcover, Peachtree Pub Ltd
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Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in Americaby Bruce E BabbittISBN 1559630930 (1-55963-093-0)
Hardcover, Island Pr
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Claire of the Moonby Nicole ConnISBN 1562800388 (1-56280-038-8)
Softcover, Naiad Pr
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Clay's Wayby Blair MastbaumISBN 1555838197 (1-55583-819-7)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clay's Way'Book summary:[via]Set against the dazzling backdrop of Hawaiis Oahu and Kauai islands, Clays Way seethes with energy and hormonally charged nihilism. For 15-year-old Sam, a wanna-be punk rocker who writes bad haiku poetry, his middle-class suburban life feels like a prison. Mistaking lust for fate, Sam becomes obsessed with Clay, a 17-year-old surfer, outwardly cool but equally adrift. The violence and tumult of Clays search for identity propels him, with desperately confused Sam in his wake, through the hardest decisions and obstacles of their young lives.
24-year-old Blair Mastbaum graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in fine arts. He was a fashion model for six years, and now lives in Beverly Hills, where he is hard at work on his second novel.
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Coal Black Horseby Robert OlmsteadISBN 1565125215 (1-56512-521-5)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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The Coal Tattooby Silas HouseISBN 1565123689 (1-56512-368-9)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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Crimes of War: Iraqby Robert Jay Lifton, Irene GendzierISBN 1560258039 (1-56025-803-9)
Softcover, Nation Books
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Cry, the Beloved Countryby Alan PatonISBN 1557360049 (1-55736-004-9)
Hardcover, Isis Large Print Books
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Diary Of A Mad Housewifeby Sue Kaufman, Maggie EstepISBN 1560256877 (1-56025-687-7)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Don't Make Me Stop Nowby Michael ParkerISBN 1565124855 (1-56512-485-5)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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Down in the Gardenby Anne GeddesISBN 1559120177 (1-55912-017-7)
Hardcover, Cedco Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Down in the Garden'Book summary:Do you believe in fairies? If so, this book will delight you. "It wasn't produced for someone who isn't a believer in things magical," observes photographer Anne Geddes, who clearly is. What is also abundantly clear is that she appreciates the charm of babies and small children, and the role that fantasy plays in their young lives. Her tiny models become fairies, gnomes, sunflowers, water lilies, field mice, ladybugs, and peas in a pod in this amusing and endearing volume. [via]
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Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Juntaby Gore VidalISBN 1560255021 (1-56025-502-1)
Softcover, Nation Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta'Book summary:When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head on in a series of devastating essays that demolish the lies American Empire lives by, unveiling a counter-history that traces the origins of America's current imperial ambitions to the experience of World War Two and the post-war Truman doctrine. And now, with the Cheney-Bush leading us into permanent war, Vidal asks whose interests are served by this doctrine of pre-emptive war? Was Afghanistan turned to rubble to avenge the 3,000 slaughtered on September 11? Or was "the unlovely Osama chosen on aesthetic grounds to be the frightening logo for our long contemplated invasion and conquest of Afghanistan?" After all he was abruptly replaced with Saddam Hussein once the Taliban were overthrown. And while "evidence" is now being invented to connect Saddam with 9/11, the current administration are not helped by "stories in the U.S. press about the vast oil wealth of Iraq which must- for the sake of the free world- be reassigned to U.S. consortiums."[via]More editions of Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta:
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Eunoiaby Christian BokISBN 1552450929 (1-55245-092-9)
Softcover, Coach House Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eunoia'Book summary:Christian Bök embarks on an ambitious exercise in Eunoia, an avant-garde work in which each chapter uses only one vowel, creating a text that fluctuates between poetry and prose. To make things more difficult, Bök constrained himself further: all chapters must allude to the art of writing, and they must describe a culinary banquet, a bawdy episode, a pastoral tableau, and a nautical voyage. This aesthetic style pays tribute to French writer Georges Perec, whose novel A Void was written (and then translated) without the letter "e."
Ultimately, Eunoia--the shortest word in the English language to contain all five vowels, it literally means "beautiful thinking"--is a taxing reading experience rife with repetition, although the author's vocabulary is nothing short of extraordinary. Chapter "E" comes across the smoothest: "Whenever Helen enters Hell's deepest recesses, she sees Hell's meekest dwellers. She meets the repenters, never redeemed." "U" is entertaining: "Ubu fluffs Lulu's tutu. Ubu cups Lulu's dugs; Ubu rubs Lulu's buns; thus Lulu must pull Ubu's pud." Despite the feeling of constraint that permeates the work, there are episodes of perfectly manicured and musical prose sprinkled with endearing onomatopoeia. At the end, the author explains that the text makes a "Sisyphean spectacle of its labour, wilfully crippling its language in order to show that, even under such improbable conditions of duress, language can still express an uncanny, if not sublime, thought." His assertion is true: Bök's technique draws the reader's attention away from the narrative to the form and then back again, conveying real ideas with a mathematical beauty of language. --Leah Eichler [via]
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Exile in Guyville: How a Punk-Rock Redneck Faggot Texan Moved to West Hollywood And Refused to Be Shiny And Happyby Dave WhiteISBN 1555839320 (1-55583-932-0)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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Firelandsby Michael JensenISBN 1555838405 (1-55583-840-5)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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Firewallby Ebba Segerberg, Henning MankellISBN 1565847679 (1-56584-767-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Firewall'Book summary:The latest mystery in the "exquisite" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander series.
Ystad, Sweden, fall 1997. Two teenage girls brutally murder a taxi driver. Although they are quickly apprehended, one of them escapes police custody and disappears without a trace. A few days later, a man stops at an ATM during his evening walk and suddenly falls dead to the ground. Shortly thereafter, a blackout cuts power to a large swath of southern Sweden. When a serviceman arrives at the malfunctioning power substation, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander begins to sense a connection between all of these events and, at the same time, becomes increasingly aware of the vulnerability of our digitized society. [via]
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Franceby Donna Bailey, John ArdaghISBN 1564586464 (1-56458-646-4)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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Fred and Edieby Jill DawsonISBN 156649222X (1-56649-222-X)
Hardcover, Welcome Rain
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Freedom Fries: The Political Art of Steve Brodnerby Steve BrodnerISBN 1560975938 (1-56097-593-8)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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The Furiesby John Bolton, Mike CareyISBN 1563899353 (1-56389-935-3)
Hardcover, Dc Comics
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Girl With a Pearl Earringby Tracy ChevalierISBN 1568951868 (1-56895-186-8)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'Book summary:With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.
Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:
I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.
In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton [via]More editions of Girl With a Pearl Earring:
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 1551113945 (1-55111-394-5)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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Half-Lifeby Aaron KrachISBN 1555838545 (1-55583-854-5)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Half-Life'Book summary:[via]During the last year of the 20th century, 18-year-old Adam Westman finds himself on the verge of manhood, as his best friend Dart likes to say. He lives in the exact center of center-less Los Angeles with his depressed father, Greg, and imaginative younger sister, Sandra. When Greg suddenly dies, more than everything changes and the relatively smooth orbits of family and friends are altered when Adam needs them most. In the middle of the drama, a man in uniform appearsand he is more than interested in Adam. This man, a policeman, is warm, witty and wise. He is 6 foot-something, dirty blond, and . . . well, hes a California Boy trapped inside the body of a 38 year-old man. But how can Adam consider the possibility of a relationship when he is dealing with his fathers death, his friends (and his own) pre-pre-pre mid-life crises, his mothers ambivalence, and his little sisters need for him? Then again, how can he not?
Half-Life is about beingor at least feelingyoung and old at the same time. About loving, or wanting to love, but knowing that life and love are both as exuberant and seductive yet two-dimensional and illusory as a billboard along any of Los Angeless endless freeways.
Aaron Krach has written for Time Out New York, Out magazine, InStyle, thePosition.com, CBSHealthwatch.com, The Independent Film and Video Monthly, TVTS, Oui, DOX: International Documentary Film, indieWIRE, A&U magazine Instinct, HX, The Villager, Downtown Express, and TWN (Florida). The former editor of Empire Magazine and arts editor of Gay City News, he is now the senior editor of Cargo magazine. He lives in New York City. Half-Life is his first novel.
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The Handsomest Man in the Worldby David LeddickISBN 156023458X (1-56023-458-X)
Softcover, Haworth Pr Inc
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Hope And Other Dangerous Pursuitsby Laila LalamiISBN 1565124936 (1-56512-493-6)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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Hubble: The Mirror on the Universeby Robin KerrodISBN 1552977811 (1-55297-781-1)
Hardcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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In the Name of Salomeby Julia AlvarezISBN 1565122763 (1-56512-276-3)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the Worldby Joan DruettISBN 1565124081 (1-56512-408-1)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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Java In A NutshellISBN 1556592183 (1-55659-218-3)
Hardcover, Copper Canyon Pr
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Jubilant Thicket: New & Selected Poemsby Jonathan WilliamsISBN 1556592027 (1-55659-202-7)
Softcover, Copper Canyon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jubilant Thicket: New & Selected Poems'Book summary:[via]Jonathan Williams founded The Jargon Societya publisher dedicated to poetry, experimental fiction, photography and visionary folk artand has championed the underdog, maverick and outsider in the arts for 50 years. He has also published over 100 of his own books, pamphlets and broadsides of poetry, essays and photography.
Jubilant Thicket collects the best of his poetry and teems with the eccentric, strange and boundlessly authenticneoclassical poems, social satire, musical suites and lyrics. There is spleen, salt and a delicious -sarcasm, as Williams finds inspiration in Mahler and Mojo Nixon, Blake and whimmydiddles. There is nobody quite like Jonathan Williams:
He is one of the few poets about whom it could be said, he has never bored a reader. Contemporary Poets
Of all the Black Mountain poets (teachers and disciples alike), Jonathan Williams is the wittiest, the least constrained, the most joyous. The New York Times
Jonathan Williams is himself a kind of polytechnic -institute, trained to write poems as spare, functional and alive as a blade of grass. Guy Davenport, from The Geography of the Imagination
Indispensable! . . . We need him more than we know. R. Buckminster Fuller
Of the thousands of essays and reviews published about his work, Williams writes, The best thing yet said about me came from an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. His letter ended: Thanks for writing all those kick-ass books.
Jonathan Williamss most recent book is A Palpable Elysium: Portraits of Genius and Solitude (Godine). He founded The Jargon Society in 1951, a publisher that, according to The New York Times, has come to occupy a special place in the cultural life as patron of the American imagination. He lives on Skywinding Farm in rural North Carolina.
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The Last Girlsby Lee SmithISBN 1565124057 (1-56512-405-7)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemenby Kevin O'Neill, Alan MooreISBN 1563898586 (1-56389-858-6)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'Book summary:Proving that mainstream comics could be infused with past literary/cultural ideals and still be bestsellers, the America's Best Comics imprint took the dilapidated superhero genre and created three vastly entertaining hybrids with Tom Strong, Promethea and Top Ten. Now, a stunning coup de grace is delivered with this masterful pairing of Victorian adventure fiction's greatest characters and the old war-horse of the super-group. With the stunning The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it would be no exaggeration to say that Alan Moore has produced a near-perfect piece of adventure fiction that is clever, literate, rich with excitement and hard to put down.
It's 1898 and at the behest of M, the mysterious head of the secret Service, Campion Bond is dispatched to procure the services of Miss Mina Murray (nee Harker), adventurer Allan Quartermain, "Science-Pirate" Captain Nemo, Henry Jekyll (and his monstrous alter ego) and Hawley Griffin (a.k.a. the Invisible Man). Together, they must combat an insidious threat that will decide supremacy of the London skies, but their success may unleash a far greater threat. With no shortage of action, Moore and O' Neill sustain a high level of suspense, intrigue, mystery and terrific wit that all contribute to an indispensable read. O'Neill's art, so memorable in Marshal Law, produces a London filled with vivid, magnificent architecture and a malevolent atmosphere ripe with thrills and danger. An unmitigated triumph--pure and simple. --Danny Graydon [via]
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1898by Alan MooreISBN 1563896656 (1-56389-665-6)
Hardcover, Dc Comics
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It's 1898 and at the behest of M, the mysterious head of the secret Service, Campion Bond is dispatched to procure the services of Miss Mina Murray (nee Harker), adventurer Allan Quartermain, "Science-Pirate" Captain Nemo, Henry Jekyll (and his monstrous alter ego) and Hawley Griffin (a.k.a. the Invisible Man). Together, they must combat an insidious threat that will decide supremacy of the London skies, but their success may unleash a far greater threat. With no shortage of action, Moore and O' Neill sustain a high level of suspense, intrigue, mystery and terrific wit that all contribute to an indispensable read. O'Neill's art, so memorable in Marshal Law, produces a London filled with vivid, magnificent architecture and a malevolent atmosphere ripe with thrills and danger. An unmitigated triumph--pure and simple. --Danny Graydon [via]
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Legends in Exileby Bill Willingham, Lan MedinaISBN 1563899426 (1-56389-942-6)
Softcover, DC Comics
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The Logic of American Politicsby Gary C. Jacobson, Samuel KernellISBN 1568028911 (1-56802-891-1)
Softcover, Cq Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Logic of American Politics'Book summary:For all their complexity, there is a logic and rationale embedded in American institutions and political processes. Now in its second edition, Logic of American Politics is a refreshingly accessible and engaging book that explores this underlying logic and leads readers toward a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of American government.
The Logic of American Politics poses many provocative questions that encourage readers to think critically and actively about our system of government. For example, why do so many citizens fail to exercise their cherished right to vote? Or, why don't we do more to stop pollution from cars, since we all agree on what causes it and that it is harmful?
The Logic of American Politics covers all the important topics from constitutional development to governmental institutions to political processes. The book is written as a narrative but is designed for easy reference. The text is supplemented by abundant illustrations throughout: tables, figures, maps, cartoons, and photos. [via]
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Loveykinsby Quentin BlakeISBN 1561452823 (1-56145-282-3)
Hardcover, Peachtree Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Loveykins'Book summary:Loveykins by renowned illustrator and former Childrens Laureate Quentin Blake is the tale of a baby bird that falls out of its nest and is discovered by spinster of the parish Angela Bowling.
Angela takes the bird home and names him Augustus--although he's more often referred to by his pet name, Loveykins. She proceeds to spoil him absolutely rotten--feeding him cakes and chocolates and taking him out for walks in a pushchair, swaddled in various jumpers and blankets to stop him catching cold. Augustus grows to mammoth proportions with all this indulgence and has to be kept in the garden shed. However, a heavy storm one night gives Augustus the opportunity to break out of his sheltered life and Nature takes over&
Blake's trademark quirky illustrative style is perfect for this gently satirical story. The facial expressions of the characters (especially Augustus's look of bliss when hes being fed or his stunned reaction to being wrapped up like a baby) are a source of delight throughout. Suitable for ages five and upwards. --Alison Drury [via]
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Meridianby Alice WalkerISBN 1557360197 (1-55736-019-7)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Miniaturesby Norah LabinerISBN 1566891515 (1-56689-151-5)
Softcover, Coffee House Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miniatures'Book summary:Norah Labiner's masterful follow-up to her groundbreaking Our Sometime Sister is an engrossing and innovative work conceived in classical style, popping with pop cultural panache, and exhibiting all the gifts and vision of its author, who was lauded by the Utne Reader as one of the "ten novelists who are changing the way we see the world."Miniatures is an intensely evocative novel with haunting characters and beautiful, painterly prose that summon the ghosts of Mary Shelley, Marcel Proust, and the Brontë sisters.
Young, impetuous, and possessing a passionate, vulnerable intellect, American Fern Jacobi is traveling in Ireland when she finds work as a live-in housekeeper to famous and reclusive writers Owen and Brigid Lieb.
The eccentric and world-weary Owen has lived in the shadow of scandal and suspicion ever since his first wife, a beloved and iconic novelist, committed suicide in the grand, drafty house where Fern has come to work. Amidst the Liebs's riddled and deceitful world, Fern forges an alliance with Brigid, Owen's young and beautiful second wife. When the two share the discovery of a controversial bundle of hidden letters, Fern not only unearths answers to the first wife's suicide, but also to her own past.
Norah Labiner's first novel, Our Sometime Sister, was a finalist for Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Award. She has received an NEA fellowship and her fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Columbia Review, and Passages North. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Mister Oby Lewis TrondheimISBN 1561633828 (1-56163-382-8)
Hardcover, Nbm Pub Co
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Never Say Neverby Linda HillISBN 1562801260 (1-56280-126-0)
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The New York Trilogy: City Of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Roomby Paul AusterISBN 155713166X (1-55713-166-X)
Hardcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architectureby Lisa RobertsonISBN 1552451771 (1-55245-177-1)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture'Book summary:What if there is no space, only a permanent, slow-motion mystic takeover, an implausibly careening awning? Nothing is utopian. Everything wants to be. Soft Architects face the reaching middle.
If architecture is the language of concrete and steel, then Soft Architecture needs a vocabulary of flesh, air, fabric and colour. Its about civic surface and natural history. Its about social space and clothing and urban geography and visual art, and some intersection of all these.
This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson, the ambulatory Office for Soft Architecture. There are essays on Vancouver fountains, the syntax of the suburban home, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, sca×olding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry. There are also seven Walks, tours of Vancouver sites poetic dioramas, really, and more material than cement could ever be.
Soft Architecture exists at the crossroads of poetry, theory, urban geography and cultural criticism, some place where the quotidian and the metaphysical marry and invert. The most intriguing book youll encounter this year.
We say, on almost every page and with utmost reverence, Holy shit. & Ever since, we have wanted to think like Robertson, write like her, maybe even be her. The Village Voice, listing it as a top pick of 2004
She plucks a subject (object) from the quotidian and banal in order to move through it, uncovering layers of the historical, the lyrical, and the political. The result feels somehow psychedelic. The Stranger
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On Equilibrium: Six Qualities of the New Humanismby John Ralston SaulISBN 1568582935 (1-56858-293-5)
Hardcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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One Step Behindby Henning Mankell, Ebba SegerbergISBN 1565846524 (1-56584-652-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Step Behind'Book summary:On Midsummer's Eve, three friends gather in a secluded meadow in Sweden. In the still-sun-lit northern night, they don costumes and begin to role play. But an uninvited guest soon brings their performance to a gruesome conclusion. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect. Three bullets, three corpses. The murderer then carefully photographs the grisly tableau. Meanwhile, the Ystad police station is experiencing a summer lull. Inspector Kurt Wallander is focusing on living healthier, but his peace of mind is shattered when a fellow officer is murdered. The police slowly realize how little they know about what is going on in their seemingly serene town. An unknown killer is on the loose, but their only lead is a photograph of three dead young people in costume. Forced to dig more deeply than he'd like into the personal life of one of his colleagues, Wallander's investigation uncovers something he could never have imagined. One Step Behind is the fifth book to appear in English in what the Los Angeles Times Book Review calls the "exquisite" Kurt Wallander series. [via]
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Payment in Bloodby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 1560540001 (1-56054-000-1)
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Principles and Practice of American Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readingsby Samuel Kernell, Steven S. SmithISBN 1568025769 (1-56802-576-9)
Softcover, Cq Pr
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Problem Solving Strategies: Crossing the River With Dogs and Other Mathematical Adventuresby Ken Johnson, Ted HerrISBN 1559533706 (1-55953-370-6)
Hardcover, Key Curriculum Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Problem Solving Strategies: Crossing the River With Dogs and Other Mathematical Adventures'Book summary:Problem Solving Strategies Crossing the River with Dogs and Other Mathematical Adventures Why Teach a Course in Problem Solving? The NCTM Principles andStandards state that problem solving should be integrated throughout all courses and grade levels. For example, guess-and-check is a natural strategy to apply in algebra. Advanced math students often use finite differences to study functions and sequences. And drawing a diagram and using physical representations are commonly employed strategies in many contexts. However, many students never encounter valuable strategies such as matrix logic or unit analysis. And in content-crowded math classes, few students get the concentrated practice or time necessary to fully develop their problem-solving skills. By taking a semester course in problem solving, students can master a multitude of strategies while developing confidence in their problem-solving abilities. Your students will be better prepared to meet the challenges of school and life by taking this course. [via]
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Purple Hibiscusby Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieISBN 1565123875 (1-56512-387-5)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purple Hibiscus'Book summary:Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at homea home that is silent and suffocating.
As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their fathers authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.
Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom. [via]More editions of Purple Hibiscus:
The Quotable Horse Loverby Steven D. PriceISBN 1558219501 (1-55821-950-1)
Hardcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Red Deathby Walter MosleyISBN 1560547235 (1-56054-723-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Republic of Platoby Thomas TaylorISBN 1564590240 (1-56459-024-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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River of the Brokenheartedby David Adams RichardsISBN 1559707127 (1-55970-712-7)
Hardcover, Arcade Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'River of the Brokenhearted'Book summary:Set in a small town on a river in New Brunswick, River of the Brokenhearted, David Adams Richards's first novel since his Giller Prize-winning Mercy Among the Children, is told by Wendell King, son of Miles King and grandson of the feisty, willful Janie McLeary King, who made her fortune running the town's first cinema. Set against this trio is the lower-class family of the Drukens, especially Rebecca Druken and her uncle, Joey Elias, bitter because their own early cinema failed. Established early on, the feud plays out across three generations, spanning successes, failures, murder, and dissolution. Yet despite the somewhat bleak subject matter, tremendous humour and vitality persist in this story. The characters leap off the page, and in the person of Miles King, Richards has imagined a fully human soul of stunning believability. Miles is fatally flawed, committing slow suicide by gin as his cinema too begins to fail in the face of the TV's small screen. A sensitive eccentric, a target of small-town narrowness, he is subtly tortured psychically, for years, by Elias and the vicious Rebecca, who have made the downfall of the Kings their life's ambition. Miles King is a character of great loneliness, pathos, humor, and compassion, one of the finest creations not only of Canadian writing but any literature.
River of the Brokenhearted is the story of a river, the Miramichi, but it is mostly about the river of time that passes through Miles King, his mother, his son, and their enemies, carrying all to their ultimate fates: "She had left a river in New Brunswick that would swallow you with its life, shout in its rapids, laugh in its eddies, create industry in its currents, a river of Irish and Scottish myth, wedded to the soil." An outstanding work of fiction. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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Rose Meets Mr. Wintergartenby Bob GrahamISBN 1564023958 (1-56402-395-8)
Softcover, Candlewick Pr
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The Sandman Companionby Hy BenderISBN 1563896443 (1-56389-644-3)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sandman Companion'Book summary:The Sandman was a groundbreaking and award-winning series that told the dark and tragic tale of Morpheus, the King of Dreams. A fascinating mythology of horror and consequence, this epic masterfully combined intriguing literature with captivating art. THE SANDMAN COMPANION is an exhaustive guide to this legend. Revealing hitherto undisclosed information and behind-the-scenes secrets, this book features in-depth interviews, never-before-seen illustrations, character origins, and story explanations and analysis. Also including excerpts from the original proposal for the series, this handbook is the perfect complement to the Sandman graphic novels. [via]
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The Sandman Companionby Neil Gaiman, Hy BenderISBN 1563894653 (1-56389-465-3)
Hardcover, Dc Comics
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Saving the Worldby Julia AlvarezISBN 1565125584 (1-56512-558-4)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saving the World'Book summary:Julia Alvarez is the author of five works of fiction, among them In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, books for children, essays, and poetry. Saving the World is an unfocused attempt to make a statement about the haves and the have-nots and the people who try to improve the lot of those who have never had a real chance in life: those people who try to save the world. Unfortunately, it does not bridge the chasm between authentic high-mindedness and sentimental twaddle.
There are two stories intertwined in the novel: one of Alma, a self-centered depressive author and the other of Isabel, a no-centered Spanish rectoress who, in 1803, with her 23 orphan boys, joins Dr. Balmis on a ship bound for the new world destined to save the world from smallpox. The boys are to be carriers; each of them vaccinated with cowpox and then, when the vesicles fill with fluid, it will be harvested to vaccinate others. This part is, basically, a true story.
Alma has a contract to write a book, gets stuck, and becomes enamored of Isabel's story instead. She starts to write, and her husband, Richard, is called away on a project to the Dominican Republic, Alma's native country, to establish a "green" zone. Another world-saving project in theory, it turns out not to be as advertised. Alma sends him off alone, telling him that she is going to work on the book--some book, anyway--and then wool-gathers about why. Isabel constantly asks herself if she has done the right thing by exposing the boys to the rigors of sea travel, the dangers of ailments other than smallpox, and will she ever have a husband and babies of her own? These two women are portrayed as having remarkably little self-knowledge, despite their concentration on taking their own emotional temperature hourly.
A red-herring sub-plot is that Alma's close neighbor and "good friend," whom she seldom sees until she finds out she's dying, has a crazy son who has a crazy wife. They come to visit as Richard is leaving. Their threats to Alma and to the world at large are described by the two loonies as "ethical terrorism." This nonsense gains Alma's sympathy and she ends up protecting and defending them, spouting poetic aphorisms as reasons. The other loose cannon in the tale is Tera, Alma's one-dimensional firebrand friend who is saving the world from everything you can mention, according to her own lights. She is tedious in her extremism, and especially annoying to Alma when Alma needs attention, which is all the time.
All manner of dreadful things take place in this truly messy book. Alma and Isabel cry a lot, everyone gets to act out and then we go around again. Unfortunately, this story trivializes the world-saving work of the Spanish Royal Philanthropic Expedition, which was an around-the-world voyage of the smallpox vaccine and really did prevent outbreaks in the New World. Now that is a fascinating story. --Valerie Ryan [via]
A Season With Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character and Goals!by Tim ParksISBN 1559706813 (1-55970-681-3)
Softcover, Arcade Pub
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Shining City: Includes Come On Overby Conor McPhersonISBN 1559362553 (1-55936-255-3)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Shyness And Dignityby Sverre LyngstadISBN 1555974465 (1-55597-446-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Sidetrackedby Henning Mankell, Steven T. MurrayISBN 1565845072 (1-56584-507-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sidetracked'Book summary:"The Swedish summer-time is too beautiful and too brief for something like this to happen." A young girl commits self-immolation, a former government minister is killed with an axe and scalped; these are the two brutal facts that confront Inspector Kurt Wallander as he prepares for his holiday. As the Swedish midsummer approaches there is no escaping from the darkness of society.
Sidetracked, the fifth of Henning Mankell's acclaimed Kurt Wallander mysteries, and the second to be translated into English, is an engrossing police procedural. The hard-boiled Kurt Wallander has softened slightly since he was first introduced in Faceless Killers, the first title in the series. He drinks less, has more functional relationships and has developed a faith in his investigative team. Despite this, it is his other qualities as a character, his philosophical angst and his intuitive pursuit of hunches, which drive this novel as Wallander struggles to discover the leads that will trap the killer.
Mankell manages to squeeze in serious comments on the state of Swedish society. The over-stretched police force, child prostitution and the corruption of high politics, all come under the scrutiny of Wallander's wearied gaze as he struggles to come to terms with the new violence of his society. This is a dark novel peppered with genuinely nasty violence, but it is Wallander's struggle to uncover the truth and face his own demons that provide the real thrills. --Iain Robinson [via]
Some Girls Doby Teresa McWhirter, Lynn HenryISBN 1551924595 (1-55192-459-5)
Softcover, Raincoast Book Dist Ltd
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Someone You Knowby Gary ZebrunISBN 1555838383 (1-55583-838-3)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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Tamarind Womanby Anita Rau BadamiISBN 1565123352 (1-56512-335-2)
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Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Triviaby Dubravka Ugresic, Celia HawkesworthISBN 1564782980 (1-56478-298-0)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Novel Units Inc. StaffISBN 1561373079 (1-56137-307-9)
Softcover, Novel Units
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Top 10 Book 1by Zander Cannon, Alan Moore, Gene HaISBN 1563896575 (1-56389-657-5)
Hardcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Top 10 Book 1'Book summary:Written by Alan Moore; Art by Gene Ha and Zander Cannon This is the tale of Neopolis, a modern metropolis with a citizentry made up exclusively of super beings. In a city where everyone is blessed with powers, it takes a unique and powerful police force to protect and serve. In this Eisner Award-winning book, we are introduced to the extremely diverse officers of Precinct Ten; an armored and talking dog, a genetically engineered "perfect woman," a high tech cowboy, an indestructible man, and a rookie with a toy box full of "helpers." Individually they are unique personalities, together they are Neopolis' finest. [via]
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The Top 10 of Everythingby Russell AshISBN 1564587037 (1-56458-703-7)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Top 10 of Everything'Book summary:What is so appealing about a list? It's tidy, it's pithy, it's easy on the eyes and noggin. In this over-saturated age of information inundation, the list presents preorganised data in a format that doesn't require a lot of concentration or drain vast stores of brain wattage. Even the weariest intellect can enjoy a list of 10 data points. Ten most suicidal countries? Lithuania, Estonia and Hungary get top billing. The best-selling postcard in the Tate Gallery is of The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse, whereas the top postcard in London's National Gallery shows Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers. And the list of top 10 countries with the most video rental outlets starts with the US, Pakistan,and China, and South Korea and Romania don't trail far behind.
Russell Ash provides lists on the universe and the earth, animals and vegetation, births, deaths and political achievements. There are city lists and country lists, building lists and park lists, as well as lists pertaining to music, books, movies, theatre, transportation, sports and the commercial world, plus a special section of millennium-milestone lists to prepare us for the next century.
The top 10 reasons to get The Top Ten of Everything? It is:
1.Entertaining
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3.Fine Bathroom Reading
4.An Excellent Statistical Resource
5.Fun to Read Aloud to Anyone Who'll Listen
6.Doesn't Require a V-Chip
7.Portable
8.Great Classroom Reference
9.Keeps the Back Seat Quiet During Family Trips
10.It Has Only One Adverse Side-Effect: Know-It-All-ism.--Stephanie Gold [via]
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Top Tenby Alan MooreISBN 1563896680 (1-56389-668-0)
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The Trolleyby Claude Simon, Richard HowardISBN 1565848578 (1-56584-857-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomskyby Noam Chomsky, John SchoeffelISBN 1565847032 (1-56584-703-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The chapters, each covering discrete sessions with Chomsky, arrive in a question-and-answer format that at times becomes delightfully contentious. Chomsky holds forth on such disparate topics as American third-party politics, the stifling of true dissent, the illusion of a muscular media, heavy-handed American imperialism (from Southeast Asia to Mexico), a dysfunctional and self-destructing United States political left, the gilding of the Kennedy and Carter administrations, and the impotent state of labor unions.
The relatively accessibility of Understanding Power is a welcome balance to Chomsky's often formidable scholarly writings. This is a book best taken in doses: a sort of bedside reader. --H. O'Billovitch [via]
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The Vegetable Bibleby Christian TeubnerISBN 1552854345 (1-55285-434-5)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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A Very Private Eyeby Barbara PymISBN 155921306X (1-55921-306-X)
Softcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
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Walking San Franciscoby Rick Newby, Liz GansISBN 1560447060 (1-56044-706-0)
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War Boy: A Wartime Childhoodby Michael ForemanISBN 1559700491 (1-55970-049-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Watershedby Percival EverettISBN 1555972373 (1-55597-237-3)
Hardcover, Graywolf Press
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Wellby Lisa KronISBN 1559362537 (1-55936-253-7)
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Y:The Last Man 1: Unmannedby Brian K. Vaughan, Pia GuerraISBN 1563899809 (1-56389-980-9)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Y:The Last Man 1: Unmanned'Book summary:"Funny and scary & an utterly believable critique of society. A+"THE WASHINGTON POST
"The best graphic novel I've ever read."STEPHEN KING
"This year's best movie is a comic book." ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, NPR
"A seriously funny, nuanced fable.... Grade A."ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Y: THE LAST MAN, winner of three Eisner Awards and one of the most critically acclaimed, best-selling comic books series of the last decade, is that rare example of a page-turner that is at once humorous, socially relevant and endlessly surprising.
Written by Brian K. Vaughan (LOST, PRIDE OF BAGHDAD, EX MACHINA) and with art by Pia Guerra, this is the saga of Yorick Brownthe only human survivor of a planet-wide plague that instantly kills every mammal possessing a Y chromosome. Accompanied by a mysterious government agent, a brilliant young geneticist and his pet monkey, Ampersand, Yorick travels the world in search of his lost love and the answer to why he's the last man on earth.
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