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50 Days Worse Than Yoursby Justin Racz, Alec BrownsteinISBN 1596912634 (1-59691-263-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 1598184024 (1-59818-402-4)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. [via]
Allan Quatermainby H. Rider HaggardISBN 1598189441 (1-59818-944-1)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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American Born Chineseby Gene Yang, Lark PienISBN 1596431520 (1-59643-152-0)
Softcover, First Second
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Born Chinese'Book summary:Indie graphic novelist Gene Yang's intelligent and emotionally challenging American Born Chinese is made up of three individual plotlines: the determined efforts of the Chinese folk hero Monkey King to shed his humble roots and be revered as a god; the struggles faced by Jin Wang, a lonely Asian American middle school student who would do anything to fit in with his white classmates; and the sitcom plight of Danny, an All-American teen so shamed by his Chinese cousin Chin-Kee (a purposefully painful ethnic stereotype) that he is forced to change schools. Each story works well on its own, but Yang engineers a clever convergence of these parallel tales into a powerful climax that destroys the hateful stereotype of Chin-Kee, while leaving both Jin Wang and the Monkey King satisfied and happy to be who they are.
Yang skillfully weaves these affecting, often humorous stories together to create a masterful commentary about race, identity, and self-acceptance that has earned him a spot as a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People. The artwork, rendered in a chromatically cool palette, is crisp and clear, with clean white space around center panels that sharply focuses the reader's attention in on Yang's achingly familiar characters. There isn't an adolescent alive who won't be able to relate to Jin's wish to be someone other than who he is, and his gradual realization that there is no better feeling than being comfortable in your own skin.--Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Angelsby Marian KeyesISBN 1842230743 (1-84223-074-3)
Hardcover, Poolbeg Press
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Beyond Good And Evilby Friedrich NietzscheISBN 1599869934 (1-59986-993-4)
Softcover, Filiquarian Pub Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Good And Evil'Book summary:He's one of the most debated writers of the 19th century: Nietzsche and his works have been by turns vilified, lauded, and subjected to numerous contradictory interpretations, and yet he remains a figure of profound import, and his works a necessary component of a well-rounded education. This 1885 book serves as both vital introduction to and valuable summation of Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole. Here, broken down into bite-size segments are the great thinker's outlook on philosophical bias, religion, morality, virtue, nationalism, free-spiritedness, scholarship, gender relations, and other weighty topics. German psychologist and philosopher FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE (1844-1900) was appointed special professor of classical philology at the University of Basel at the precocious age of 24, but soon found himself dissatisfied with academic life and created an alternative intellectual society for himself among friends including composer Richard Wagner, historian Jakob Burckhardt, and theologian Franz Overbeck. Among his philosophical works are Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and Ecce Homo. ______________________________________ ALSO FROM COSIMO Nietzsche's The Use and Abuse of History, Thus Spake Zarathustra, and The Anti-Christ [via]
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Black Abbotby Edgar WallaceISBN 1842326627 (1-84232-662-7)
Softcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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Book of Margery Kempeby Barry WindeattISBN 1843840103 (1-84384-010-3)
Softcover, Ds Brewer
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Margery Kempe'Book summary:The Book of Margery Kempe, the earliest surviving autobiography in English (dated 1436-8), is a unique account of the extraordinary life, travels and revelations of a fifteenth-century Norfolk housewife and mother, pilgrim, prophet and visionary; it is one of the most compelling and significant English texts of the middle ages. This volume presents the original text in accessible form for modern readers, with on-page glossing and a glossary of common words. It is accompanied by on-page annotation of and commentary on the Book, bringing together scholarship on Kempe and setting her life in the social, political and spiritual context of her time. An introduction provides information on and context for the further interpretation of the text, and the volume is completed by a chronology of Kempe's life. (This edition previously published by Longman.) Professor BARRY WINDEATT is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. [via]
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A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, Neil BartlettISBN 1840023996 (1-84002-399-6)
Softcover, Oberon Books Ltd
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Complete Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 1842050664 (1-84205-066-4)
Hardcover, Cpg Inc
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The Crimson Petal and the Whiteby Michel FaberISBN 1841953237 (1-84195-323-7)
Hardcover, Canongate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crimson Petal and the White'Book summary:Although it's billed as "the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century," The Crimson Petal and the White is anything but Victorian. It's the story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men. Michel Faber's dazzling second novel dares to go where George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and the works of Charles Dickens could not. We learn about the positions and orifices that Sugar and her clients favour, about her lingering skin condition, and about the suspect ingredients of her prophylactic douches. Still, Sugar believes she can make a better life for herself.
When she is taken up by a wealthy man, the perfumer William Rackham, her wings are clipped and she must balance financial security against the obvious servitude of her position. The physical risks and hardships of Sugar's life (and the even harder "honest" life she would have led as a factory worker) contrast--yet not entirely--with the medical mistreatment of her benefactor's wife, Agnes, and beautifully underscore Faber's emphasis on class and sexual politics.
In theme and treatment, this is a novel that Virginia Woolf might have written, had she been born 70 years later. The language, however, is Faber's own--brisk and elastic--and, after an awkward opening, the plethora of detail he offers (costume, food, manners, cheap stage performances, the London streets) slides effortlessly into his forward-moving sentences. When Agnes goes mad, for instance, "she sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a naked duck, limp and faintly steaming, spreads its pimpled legs on a draining board." Despite its 800-plus pages, The Crimson Petal and the White turns out to be a quick read, since it is truly impossible to put down. --Regina Marler, Amazon.com [via]
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Dead To The Worldby Charlaine HarrisISBN 1596880163 (1-59688-016-3)
Hardcover, Large Print Book Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead To The World'Book summary:From Emma Bull's War for the Oaks to Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, from The X-Files to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, creators are mixing old European myths and legends with modern American pop culture. Incorporating influences ranging from blaxploitation movies and erotic novels to tabloid staples like UFOs and Elvis, authors and directors are creating a new mythology for the strip-mall, tract-house, cell-phone America of the new millennium.
One of the best-known and best writers of the new American mythology is Charlaine Harris. Dead to the World is the fourth novel in her Anthony Award-winning Southern Vampire series. It continues the story of psychic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who has fallen out with her undead lover, Bill. Bill has no sooner departed for Peru, than Sookie finds the head vampire, Eric, running naked and terrified through the rural night. She helps Eric, and discovers his memory has been destroyed by a coven of unscrupulous, astonishingly powerful witches, newly arrived in her small Louisiana town, and offering a huge reward for Eric. Sookie tries to hide Eric, but her brother sees him--and immediately disappears. And Sookie finds herself caught in a war among witches, vampires, and werewolves. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Democracy And Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Educationby John DeweyISBN 1596054085 (1-59605-408-5)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy And Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education'Book summary:[A]s long as men kept a sharp disjunction between knowledge and ignorance, science made only slow and accidental advance. Systematic advance in invention and discovery began when men recognized that they could utilize doubt for purposes of inquiry by forming conjectures to guide action in tentative explorations... -from "Experience and Thinking" One of the most influential figures in the progressive education movement of the early 20th century delineated here, in this 1916 volume, his profoundly revolutionary ideas about how best to teach young minds to be vigorous citizens of a truly democratic society. Reconciling classic philosophies of Rousseau and Plato with the needs and demands of the modern world, Dewey emphasizes critical thinking, problem solving, and learning through practical applications of complex concepts to create an integrated, holistic approach not merely to "schooling" but to the training and uplifting of the minds of children. Dewey and his progressive philosophies fell out of favor after World War II, but they are well worth revisiting today, in an era when American schools and their educational processes are again under fire. American educator and philosopher JOHN DEWEY (1859-1952) helped found the American Association of University Professors. He served as professor of philosophy at Columbia University from 1904 to 1930 and authored numerous books, including The School and Society (1899), Experience and Nature (1925), Experience and Education (1938), and Freedom and Culture (1939). 435 cosimo ad 1596054085_int_back 436-438 blank 1596054085_int_back [via]
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The Devil's Dictionaryby Ambrose BierceISBN 1598189921 (1-59818-992-1)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Dictionary'Book summary:The Devil's Dictionary is often considered Ambrose Bierce's most famous work. Portions of it were published in the San Francisco Wasp as a weekly column and in The Cynic's Word Book of 1906. Finally published in its entirety in 1911, the definitions found therein are as apt today as they were nearly a century ago. An example: "HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers." [via]
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himselfby Daniel BoorstinISBN 1842122274 (1-84212-227-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself'Book summary:Perhaps the greatest book by one of our greatest historians, The Discoverers is a volume of sweeping range and majestic interpretation. To call it a history of science is an understatement; this is the story of how humankind has come to know the world, however incompletely ("the eternal mystery of the world," Einstein once said, "is its comprehensibility"). Daniel J. Boorstin first describes the liberating concept of time--"the first grand discovery"--and continues through the age of exploration and the advent of the natural and social sciences. The approach is idiosyncratic, with Boorstin lingering over particular figures and accomplishments rather than rushing on to the next set of names and dates. It's also primarily Western, although Boorstin does ask (and answer) several interesting questions: Why didn't the Chinese "discover" Europe and America? Why didn't the Arabs circumnavigate the planet? His thesis about discovery ultimately turns on what he calls "illusions of knowledge." If we think we know something, then we face an obstacle to innovation. The great discoverers, Boorstin shows, dispel the illusions and reveal something new about the world.
Although The Discoverers easily stands on its own, it is technically the first entry in a trilogy that also includes The Creators and The Seekers. An outstanding book--one of the best works of history to be found anywhere. --John J. Miller [via]
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Diving Through Cloudsby Nicola LindsayISBN 1842230999 (1-84223-099-9)
Hardcover, Poolbeg
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Doctor Pascalby Emile ZolaISBN 1595690514 (1-59569-051-4)
Softcover, Mondial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor Pascal'Book summary:This final volume in Zola's twenty-book Rougon-Macquart cycle serves in many respects as an epilogue to the series -- but it's also a fine tale in its own right. Doctor Pascal, approaching old age, looks back on his life and finds himself asking whether he has made the right choices . . . and the answers he finds aren't always what you'd expect. Those who enjoy Zola's better-known novels will find much to appreciate here as well. [via]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Helen DunmoreISBN 1843910705 (1-84391-070-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 1840681284 (1-84068-128-4)
Softcover, Creation Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:Classic Dracula story in hardcover [via]
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, And Climate Changeby Elizabeth KolbertISBN 1596911301 (1-59691-130-1)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, And Climate Change'Book summary:An argument for the urgent danger of global warming in a book that is sure to be as influential as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.[via]
Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject of global warming. Americans have been warned since the late nineteen-seventies that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to melt the polar ice sheets and irreversibly change our climate. With little done since then to alter this dangerous course, now is the moment to salvage our future. By the end of the century, the world will likely be hotter than it's been in the last two million years, and the sweeping consequences of this change will determine the future of life on earth for generations to come.
In writing that is both clear and unbiased, Kolbert approaches this monumental problem from every angle. She travels to the Arctic, interviews researchers and environmentalists, explains the science and the studies, draws frightening parallels to lost ancient civilizations, unpacks the politics, and presents the personal tales of those who are being affected most--the people who make their homes near the poles and, in an eerie foreshadowing, are watching their worlds disappear. Growing out of a groundbreaking three-part series for the New Yorker, Field Notes from a Catastrophe brings the environment into the consciousness of the American people and asks what, if anything, can be done, and how we can save our planet.More editions of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, And Climate Change:
How the Light Gets inby M. J. HylandISBN 1841955485 (1-84195-548-5)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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I'll Steal You Awayby Niccolo Ammaniti, Jonathan HuntISBN 1841959456 (1-84195-945-6)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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Image of the Beast/Blownby Philip Jose FarmerISBN 1840680288 (1-84068-028-8)
Softcover, Creation Books
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Inside Jobby Connie WillisISBN 1596060247 (1-59606-024-7)
Hardcover, Subterranean
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Intuitionby Allegra GoodmanISBN 1597222631 (1-59722-263-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intuition'Book summary:Hailed as a writer of uncommon clarity by the New Yorker, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman has dazzled readers with her acclaimed works of fiction, including such beloved bestsellers as The Family Markowitz and Kaaterskill Falls. Now she returns with a bracing new novel, at once an intricate mystery and a rich human drama set in the high-stakes atmosphere of a prestigious research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sandy Glass, a charismatic publicity-seeking oncologist, and Marion Mendelssohn, a pure, exacting scientist, are codirectors of a lab at the Philpott Institute dedicated to cancer research and desperately in need of a grant. Both mentors and supervisors of their young postdoctoral protégés, Glass and Mendelssohn demand dedication and obedience in a competitive environment where funding is scarce and results elusive. So when the experiments of Cliff Bannaker, a young postdoc in a rut, begin to work, the entire lab becomes giddy with newfound expectations. But Cliffs rigorous colleagueand girlfriendRobin Decker suspects the unthinkable: that his findings are fraudulent. As Robin makes her private doubts public and Cliff maintains his innocence, a life-changing controversy engulfs the lab and everyone in it.
With extraordinary insight, Allegra Goodman brilliantly explores the intricate mixture of workplace intrigue, scientific ardor, and the moral consequences of a rush to judgment. She has written an unforgettable novel.
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Invitation to the Waltzby Rosamond LehmannISBN 1844083055 (1-84408-305-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invitation to the Waltz'Book summary:[via]A diary for her innermost thoughts, a china ornament, a ten-shilling note, and a roll of flame-coloured silk for her first evening dressthese are the gifts Olivia Curtis receives for her 17th birthday. She anticipates her first dance, the greatest yet most terrifying event of her restricted social life, with tremulous uncertainty and excitement. For her pretty, charming elder sister Kate, the dance is certain to be a triumph, but what will it be for shy, awkward Olivia? Exploring the daydreams and miseries attendant upon even the most innocent of social events, Rosamond Lehmann perfectly captures the emotions of a girl standing poised on the threshold of womanhood.More editions of Invitation to the Waltz:
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Jamaica Innby Lisa Evans, Daphne Du MaurierISBN 1840024097 (1-84002-409-7)
Softcover, Oberon Books, Limited
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Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Seaby Carl Plasa, Nicolas TredellISBN 184046268X (1-84046-268-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea'Book summary:In this Reader's Guide, Carl Plasa provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the most stimulating critical responses to Wide Sargasso Sea. The opening chapter outlines initial reactions to the novel from English and Caribbean critics, charting the differences between them. Chapter Two explores Wide Sargasso Sea 's dialogue with Jane Eyre and the theoretical questions it has raised. Succeeding chapters examine how critics have assessed the racial politics of Rhys's text, discuss the novel's African Caribbean cultural legacy, and explore how critics read the work both in terms of its moment of production and the early Victorian period in which it is set.[via]More editions of Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea:
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King Solomon's Minesby Henry Rider Haggard, Jack Kelly, Pablo MarcosISBN 1596792442 (1-59679-244-2)
Hardcover, Spotlight
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Solomon's Mines'Book summary:The thrilling classic tale of Allan Quatermain as he searches for the fabled Mines of King Solomon, in illustrated form! Will he and his companions find the great treasure rumored to be buried within? Or are they simply chasing a legend? Find out in Great Illustrated Classics King Solomon's Mines! [via]
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu And Other Storiesby Susanna Clarke, Charles VessISBN 1596912510 (1-59691-251-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ladies of Grace Adieu And Other Stories'Book summary:From the author of the award-winning, internationally bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an enchanting collection of stories. Set in versions of England that bear an uncanny resemblance to the world of Strange and Norrell, these stories are brimming with all the ingredients of good fairy tales: petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time in embroidering terrible fates, endless paths in deep, dark woods, and houses that never appear the same way twice. Their heroines and heroes include the Duke of Wellington, a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor, Mary, Queen of Scots, Jonathan Strange, and the Raven King himself. The Ladies of Grace Adieu is the perfect introduction to a world where charm is always tempered by eerieness, and picaresque comedy is always darkened by the disturbing shadow of Faerie. [via]
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Laughin' Boyby Bradley DentonISBN 1596060166 (1-59606-016-6)
Hardcover, Subterranean
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Learning Web Designby Jennifer Niederst RobbinsISBN 160033007X (1-60033-007-X)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle Eastby Sandy TolanISBN 1596913436 (1-59691-343-6)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte Mozart's Poet, Casanova's Friend, and Italian Opera's Impresario in Americaby Rodney BoltISBN 1596911182 (1-59691-118-2)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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Lilithby George MacDonaldISBN 1846373646 (1-84637-364-6)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lilith'Book summary:"Lilith is equal if not superior to the best of Poe," the great 20th-century poet W.H. Auden said of this novel, but the comparison only begins to touch on the richness, density, and wonder of this late 19th-century adult fantasy novel. First published in 1895 (inhabiting a universe with the early Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde--not to mention Thomas Hardy), this is the story of the aptly named Mr. Vane, his magical house, and the journeys into another world into which it leads him.
Meeting up with one mystery after another, including Adam and Eve themselves, he slowly but surely explores the mystery of the human fall from grace, and of our redemption. Instructed into the ways of seeing the deeper realities of this world--seeing, in a sense, by the light of the spirit--the reader and Mr. Vane both sense that MacDonald writes from his own deep experience of radiance, from a bliss so profound that death's darkness itself is utterly eclipsed in its light. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crimeby Oscar WildeISBN 1598188275 (1-59818-827-5)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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Loveless 1by Yun KougaISBN 1598162217 (1-59816-221-7)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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Macbeth: Shakespeare Made Easyby William Shakespeare, Tanya Grosz, Linda WendlerISBN 1599051346 (1-59905-134-6)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth: Shakespeare Made Easy'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fictionby Mike AshleyISBN 1841192872 (1-84119-287-2)
Hardcover, Robinson
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A Map of Glassby Jane UrquhartISBN 1596922133 (1-59692-213-3)
Softcover, Lawson Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Map of Glass'Book summary:In the typical Urquhart mold, A Map of Glass is a novel about the past, the land, and art, subjects found in many of her previous novels. A young artist, Jerome, is alone on Timber Island to take photos of temporary art creations, or "absences," he has dug in the snow. While there, he finds the body of Andrew Woodman, an Alzheimer's sufferer, frozen in the ice of the river. Later, an older woman, Sylvia, searches out Jerome and his girlfriend in Toronto. Slightly autistic, she has fled her doctor husband in rural eastern Ontario because she wants to talk to Jerome about Andrew, her lover. The three sections of the book are intelligently constructed, with the two contemporary sections framing the central section, which recounts the history of the Woodman family, 19th-century shipbuilders and hotelkeepers on Lake Ontario.
Urquhart's writing is extremely resonant and always echoes her larger themes: "How wonderful the snow was; every change of direction, each whim, even the compulsion of hunger was marked on its surface, like memory, for a brief season." Her writing is also highly cerebral--little happens in this novel but there is an enormous quantity of thoughtful reflection. The depiction of the Woodman past, with its near-mythical characters and its grand hotel invaded by sand, is so deeply realized that the present feels amorphous in contrast, its characters infused with the ambiguity of modernism. In the end, however, Urquhart shows how this makes perfect sense for, with profound subtlety, she raises a startling question: In the face of shocking change--in landscapes, in memories that fade to nothing, even in the complete dissolution of the human personality in Alzheimer's--what can still be called reality? Urquhart is a subtle master at work. --Mark Frutkin [via]
Mayan Nightsby Ciar CullenISBN 1599982072 (1-59998-207-2)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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The Message Remix: The Bible In Contemporary Language/Hypercolor Pinkby Eugene H. PetersonISBN 1600060250 (1-60006-025-0)
Softcover, Think Books
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The Message//Remix: The Bible in Contemporary Language Blue Black Editionby Eugene H. PetersonISBN 1600060226 (1-60006-022-6)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Message//Remix: The Bible in Contemporary Language Blue Black Edition'Book summary:The Message//REMIX is The Message Bible with book introductions written specifically in today's language for young adults.[via]
With a black-and-blue, leather-like cover, it features:
" slim size
" black ribbon marker
" expanded intros
" maps of Palestine in the Time of Jesus and Paul's Missionary Journeys
" topical index of subjects important to students
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Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Ladenby Osama Bin Laden, Bruce Lawrence, James HowarthISBN 1844670457 (1-84467-045-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden'Book summary:For the first time, this volume brings together Osama bin Laden's statements in a comprehensive edition, annotated with an introduction by Bruce Lawrence, Professor of Religion, Duke University.
Despite the saturation of global media coverage, Osama bin Laden's own writings have been curiously absent from analysis of the "war on terror." Over the last ten years, bin Laden has issued a series of carefully tailored public statements, from interviews with Western and Arabic journalists to faxes and video recordings. These texts supply evidence crucial to an understanding of the bizarre mix of Quranic scholarship, CIA training, punctual interventions in Gulf politics and messianic anti-imperialism that has formed the programmatic core of Al Qaeda.
In bringing together the various statements issued under bin Laden's name since 1994, this volume forms part of a growing discourse that seeks to demythologize the terrorist network. Newly translated from the Arabic, annotated with a critical introduction by Islamic scholar Bruce Lawrence, this collection places the statements in their religious, historical and political context. It shows how bin Laden's views draw on and differ from other strands of radical Islamic thought; it also demonstrates how his arguments vary in degrees of consistency, and how his evasions concerning the true nature and extent of his own group, and over his own role in terrorist attacks, have contributed to the perpetuation of his personal mythology. [via]More editions of Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden:
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Metamorphosisby Franz Kafka, David Farr, Gisliorn GardarssonISBN 184002688X (1-84002-688-X)
Softcover, Oberon Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metamorphosis'Book summary:[via]In this, his most famous story, Franz Kafka explores the notions of alienation and human loneliness through extraordinary narrative technique and depth of imagination. Gregor Samsa awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a repulsive bug. Trapped inside this hideous form, his mind remains unchangeduntil he sees the shocked reaction of those around him. He begins to question the basis of human love and, indeed, the entire purpose of his existence. But this, it seems, is only the beginning of his ordeal. Franz Kafka is one of the most prominent figures of 20th-century literature; his work, much of which was published posthumously, includes The Trial and The Castle. 
Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets, and Growing Up in the 1970sby Margaret SartorISBN 1596912006 (1-59691-200-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Moonheart Tradeby Charles De Lint, Charles VessISBN 1596060212 (1-59606-021-2)
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Of Human Bondageby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 1598184199 (1-59818-419-9)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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The Old Wine Shades: A Richard Jury Mysteryby Martha GrimesISBN 1597222038 (1-59722-203-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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One Good Turnby Kate AtkinsonISBN 1597224626 (1-59722-462-6)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Good Turn'Book summary:Kate Atkinson began her career with a winner: Behind the Scenes at the Museum, which captured the Whitbread First Novel Award. She followed that success with four other books, the last of which was Case Histories, her first foray into the mystery-suspense-detective genre. In that book she introduced detective Jackson Brodie, who reopened three cold cases and ended up a millionaire. A great deal happened in-between.
In One Good Turn Jackson returns, following his girlfriend, Julia the actress, to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. He manages to fall into all kinds of trouble, starting with witnessing a brutal attack by "Honda Man" on another man stuck in a traffic jam. Is this road rage or something truly sinister? Another witness is Martin Canning, better known as Alex Blake, the writer. Martin is a shy, withdrawn, timid sort who, in a moment of unlikely action, flings a satchel at the attacker and spins him around, away from his victim. Gloria Hatter, wife of Graham, a millionaire property developer who is about to have all his secrets uncovered, is standing in a nearby queue with a friend when the attack takes place. There is nastiness afoot, and everyone is involved. Nothing is coincidental.
Through a labyrinthine plot which is hard to follow because the points of view are constantly changing, the real story is played out, complete with Russians, false and mistaken identities, dead bodies, betrayals, and all manner of violent encounters. Jackson gets pulled in to the investigation by Louise Monroe, a police detective and mother of an errant 14-year-old. There might be yet another novel to follow which will take up the connection those two forge in this book. Or, Jackson might just go back to France and feed apples to the local livestock.
Atkinson has written an enjoyable and lively story of no degrees of separation among the most unlikely cast of characters. Some plot lines have been left to drift, but it does hang together in a satisfying fashion. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Orthodoxyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 1598560514 (1-59856-051-4)
Hardcover, Hendrickson Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orthodoxy'Book summary:If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. This quirky, slender book describes how Chesterton came to view orthodox Catholic Christianity as the way to satisfy his personal emotional needs, in a way that would also allow him to live happily in society. Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. The whole book is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. The final chapter, called "Authority and the Adventurer," is especially persuasive. It's hard to imagine a reader who will not close the book believing, at least for the moment, that the Church will make you free. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Other Side of the Storyby Marian KeyesISBN 1842231499 (1-84223-149-9)
Hardcover, Poolbeg
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Side of the Story'Book summary:Laced with sparkling wit and compassionate insight - nobody does it quite like Marian Keyes. Jojo Harvey is a literary agent whose star is on the rise. In love with both her married boss and her burgeoning career, not much distracts her. Until she finds herself representing two women who used to be best friends. Used to be. One of them, Gemma, has suddenly found herself from a broken home - at the age of thirty-two. Meanwhile, Lily - the woman Gemma has always blamed for stealing her one chance of happiness - is enjoying the overnight success of her debut novel. Set in the world of publishing, "The Other Side of the Story" is about love, loyalty, glass ceilings and survival tactics - and what to do when you get your chance for revenge. [via]
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Paradiseby Fiona FrenchISBN 1845070070 (1-84507-007-0)
Hardcover, Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise'Book summary:Paradise showcases Fiona French's distinctive artwork that combines the flowing organic lines of Art Nouveau with the colorful luminous look of Louis Comfort Tiffany's stained glass. Twelve kaleidoscopic tableaux, accompanied by a straightforward, easy-to-understand narrative, portray the Old Testament story of creation seven momentous days in which God creates the world: light and dark, sky and earth, fishes, birds, animals and finally man and woman. French returns to perhaps the most compelling text of the many available the Authorized King James version of the Bible to bring the Book of Genesis in all of its timeless drama into glowing perspective for young readers.[via]More editions of Paradise:
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The Portrait of Mr. W. H.: Easyread Large Editionby Oscar WildeISBN 1843910314 (1-84391-031-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portrait of Mr. W. H.: Easyread Large Edition'Book summary:[via]In 1609, the first edition of Shakespeares Sonnets was published, featuring the mysterious dedication: To Mr W.H. Ever since, the identity of Mr W.H. has been the subject of a series of fascinating theoriesbut none quite so ingenious as that of Oscar Wildes The Portrait of Mr W.H. Cambridge scholar Cyril Graham spent his days performing in Shakespeares plays, and, being somewhat effeminate in nature, he was cast in the female roles. And then he made a rather startling discoverythe Mr W.H. to whom Shakespeare dedicated his Sonnets could be none other than Will Hughes, the boy-actor of Shakespeares plays! But when no one shares his conviction, he resolves to find another way to convince them.More editions of The Portrait of Mr. W. H.: Easyread Large Edition:
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, W.K. MarriottISBN 1598189360 (1-59818-936-0)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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Putin's Russiaby Anna PolitkovskaiaISBN 1843430509 (1-84343-050-9)
Hardcover, Harvill Press
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Quo Vadisby Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jeremiah CurtinISBN 160312036X (1-60312-036-X)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quo Vadis'Book summary:The Latin phrase, Quo Vadis? means "Whither goest thou?" It is a phrase of great meaning to Christians. The author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1905, and the enduring popularity of Quo Vadis contributed greatly to the award. Set in Rome in the time of Nero, Quo Vadis tells the story of Roman tribune Marcus, who falls in love with a beautiful Christian girl, Ligia. Sienkiewicz studied Roman history extensively before writing the book, and it features real historical figures, including St. Peter, Petronius, and the Emperor Nero. Quo Vadis tells a powerful tale of love and redemption in a time of ultimate danger -- for Christians and Romans alike. [via]
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Red Acesby Edgar WallaceISBN 184232702X (1-84232-702-X)
Softcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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The Romance Of Lustby Not AvailableISBN 159654032X (1-59654-032-X)
Softcover, Disruptive Pub
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The Rule Of Fourby Ian Caldwell, Dustin ThomasonISBN 1844130053 (1-84413-005-3)
Hardcover, Century
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rule Of Four'Book summary:Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death several years earlier of his father, an academic who devoted his life to studying one of the rarest, most complex and most valuable books in the world. Since its publication in 1499, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili has baffled scholars who have tried to understand its many mysteries. Coded in seven languages, the text is at once a passionate love story, an intricate mathematical labyrinth, and a tale of arcane brutality. Paul Harris, Tom's roommate, has deeply personal reasons of his own for wanting to unveil the secrets the book hides. When a long-lost diary surfaces, it seems the two friends have found the key to the labyrinth - but when a fellow researcher is murdered only hours later, they suddenly find themselves in great danger. And what they discover embedded in the text stuns them: the passion of a Renaissance prince, a hidden crypt, and a secret worth dying to protect- [via]
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The Sadeian Womanby Angela CarterISBN 1844083772 (1-84408-377-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sadeian Woman'Book summary:[via]"Sexuality is power," wrote the Marquis de Sade. His virtuous Justine kept to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploited her sexuality. This is a world where all tenderness is false, and all beds are minefields. But now Sade has met his match. With invention and genius, celebrated novelist Angela Carter takes on these figments of his extreme imagination and transforms them into symbols of our timethe Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters, pornography, even the sacred shrines of sex and marriage lie devastatingly exposed before our eyes. Carter delves into the viscera of our distorted sexuality and reveals a stunning vision of love that admits neither the conqueror nor the conquered. It is a dazzling meditation on women's sexual freedom.More editions of The Sadeian Woman:
Sanders of the Riverby Edgar WallaceISBN 1842327054 (1-84232-705-4)
Softcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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Secret Agentby Joseph ConradISBN 159688083X (1-59688-083-X)
Softcover, Large Print Book Co
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The Secret Riverby Kate GrenvilleISBN 1841959146 (1-84195-914-6)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret River'Book summary:The Orange Prize-winning author Kate Grenville recalls her family's history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. Already a best seller in Australia, The Secret River is the story of Grenville's ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people. London, 1806. William Thornhill, a Thames bargeman, is deported to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. In this new world of convicts and charlatans, Thornhill tries to pull his family into a position of power and comfort. When he rounds a bend in the Hawkesbury River and sees a gentle slope of land, he becomes determined to make the place his own. But, as uninhabited as the island appears, Australia is full of native people, and they do not take kindly to Thornhill's theft of their home.[via]
The Secret River is the tale of Thornhill's deep love for his small corner of the new world, and his slow realization that if he wants to settle there, he must ally himself with the most despicable of the white settlers, and to keep his family safe, he must permit terrifying cruelty to come to innocent people. -
Serenity: The Official Visual Companionby Joss WhedonISBN 1845760824 (1-84576-082-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Serenity: The Official Visual Companion'Book summary:Five hundred years in the future, Captain Mal Reynolds and the crew of the transport-for-hire ship Serenity take on two new passengers and soon find themselves in a crossfire between an invincible military force and cannibalistic savages. Writer/director Joss Whedon, creator of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel", makes his long-awaited feature film directorial debut with "Serenity", based on his cult television series "Firefly". This large format, full color companion to the movie features: a special Introduction by Joss Whedon; an in-depth interview with him about the making of the film; the full shooting script, including scenes cut from the final edit; fascinating production and background memos by Whedon, including "A Brief History of the Universe", circa 2507 A.D.; and scores of stunning movie stills, storyboards and pieces of production art. [via]
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Sharp Objectsby Gillian FlynnISBN 1597224588 (1-59722-458-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sharp Objects'Book summary:As loyal Entertainment Weekly subscribers, we have been fans of Gillian Flynn for her smart, funny, and spot-on reviews of books, movies, and TV, but we were not prepared for her stunning debut novel Sharp Objects, a wickedly dark thriller that Stephen King calls a "relentlessly creepy family saga" and an "admirably nasty piece of work." We're calling it a cross between Twin Peaks and Secretary--sinister, sexy, and stylish. Perfect fall reading. --Daphne Durham
10 Second Interview: A Few Words with Gillian Flynn
Q: Do you prefer writing novels or reviewing?
A: I think writing is more pure--and actually a bit easier for me. It's just me and my laptop, not me and my laptop and a TV show that 30 people have worked on. Reviewing keeps you sharp--I can hardly watch or read anything without taking notes now--but plain old writing I find actually relaxing.
Q: Do think your writing is influenced more by books that you have read, or shows/movies that you have seen?
A: My mom spent her career as a reading teacher and my dad is a retired film professor, so I was really steeped in both books and movies growing up. To this day, when I get my dad on the phone, pretty much his first sentence is "Seen anything good lately?" I love putting words together (I've never met a simile I didn't like), but when I write I often think in "scenes"--I want these two people, in a dirty bar, with this song playing in the background.
Q: I hear you are working on your second book...is it is too early to ask what it's about?
A: I'm still playing around with the whole plot--when I wrote Sharp Objects, I wasn't even sure who the killer was for a bit. But I can say [the new book] has to do with family loyalty, false memories, a wrenching murder trial, and a dash of good 'ole 1980s hair metal and devil worship.
Q: What is your writing process like? Have you changed anything about how you work since your first book?
A: My writing process is incredibly inefficient, and hasn't changed between books. I really don't outline: I know basically how I want the story to start, and vaguely how I want it to end (though like I said, with Sharp Objects even that changed!). Then I just write: Some characters I start finding more interesting, some less. I write entire swaths that I pretty much know I'll cut. I have an entire file of "deleted scenes." I guess the one thing that has physically changed is I moved into a new place since my first book--it has a great bathtub, and I'll prop my laptop up and write in the bath for hours. Which is, admittedly, weird.
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The Shepherd of the Hillsby Harold Bell WrightISBN 1598184156 (1-59818-415-6)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 1598185233 (1-59818-523-3)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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Sushi For Beginnersby Marian KeyesISBN 1842230441 (1-84223-044-1)
Hardcover, Poolberg
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sushi For Beginners'Book summary:Sushi For Beginners has all the right ingredients for a thirtysomething novel. The thirtysomething girls are there, looking for a better job, a better man, ANYTHING other than what they've already got; there are men to die for and men you wish would drop dead, preferably in agony. And these "so-real you can pinch 'em" people live their lives in a funny, thrilling, sad world that you wish hadn't just ended when you turn the last page. But there is more, because this one is written by best-selling Irish author Marian Keyes.
Where her previous best-seller, Last Chance Saloon, featured Irish folk living in London, Sushi For Beginners is set in Keyes' hometown, Dublin. The only "foreigner" here is Lisa from London, a real madam whose longed-for promotion to Manhattan magazine is knocked off-course a few thousand miles when she is forced to accept the editorship of Colleen, a new magazine for young women, billed by the publishers as "dumbed-down" but definitely "sexy". Lisa would frankly rather eat one of her freebie Patrick Cox stilettos. Still a job is a job, and anyhow, Irish MD Jack Devine could just turn out to be a major consolation prize. Lisa's deputy at Colleen is Ashling, a Little Miss Fix-It, whose early role reversal with her mother (thanks to the latter's nervous breakdown) has induced an organisational paranoia and a handbag filled with emergency equipment to meet any eventuality. Oh, and a best friend whose motives might not always be in Ashling's best interests.
This is a story of three girls' lives, what's made them what they are and their search for happiness--sometimes found in unlikely places and sometimes lost forever. With Sushi For Beginners, Keyes is fast becoming the undisputed Queen of her genre. She is wincingly accurate and wickedly funny, and while she can tackle big issues like homelessness (no pun intended) with honest feeling devoid of over-sentimentality, her insight into the aspirations of thirtysomething women at the turn of the 21st century sets her high above the competition. --Carey Green This review refers to the hardcover edition of this title. [via]
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hallby Anne BrontëISBN 1846371317 (1-84637-131-7)
Softcover, Echo Library
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Childrenby Melissa Fay GreeneISBN 1596911166 (1-59691-116-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children'Book summary:It didn't take long before it was known that Haregewoin offered a haven for the lost - a baby was left at her doorstep, a grandfather gave up grandchildren he could not afford to feed, a young boy whose mother had died and whose father was terminally ill. Soon, there were sixty children in her care. A mighty task for a middle-aged 4' 8" tall woman. Yet she rose to it and more - she did so gladly, heroically. [via]
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Timewaster Lettersby Robin CooperISBN 1843171082 (1-84317-108-2)
Softcover, O'Mara Books, Limited, Michael
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Timewaster Letters'Book summary:For several years, Robin Cooper has been plaguing department stores, hotels,associations, fan clubs and a certain children's book publisher with his letters. From Prince Charles to the Peanut Council, Harrods to the British Halibut Association - no one is safe. So who is Robin Cooper? Architect, thimble designer, trampoline tester and wasp expert, Robin Cooper is all of these things - it just depends on the person he's writing to... [via]
Turning Angelby Greg IlesISBN 1597221600 (1-59722-160-0)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Undead And Unappreciatedby Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 1597221287 (1-59722-128-7)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Most women would love to live as royalty, but Betsy has found that being vampire queen has more problems than perks - except for always being awake for Midnight Madness sales. But Betsy's "life" takes an interesting turn at a shower for her wicked stepmother, who lets it slip that Betsy has a long-lost half sister . . . who just so happens to be the devil's daughter, destined to rule the world. [via]
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Undead And Unemployedby Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 1597221937 (1-59722-193-7)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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But when a string of vampire murders hits St. Paul, Betsy must enlist the help of the one vamp who makes her blood boil: the oh-so-sexy Sinclair. Now, she's really treading on dangerous ground--high heels and all. [via]More editions of Undead And Unemployed:
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells, Alvim CorreaISBN 1596051671 (1-59605-167-1)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Warlord of Marsby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 1596054808 (1-59605-480-8)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Warlord of Mars'Book summary:Here the trail of Dejah Thoris' abductors led along the mountains' base, across steep and rugged ravines, by the side of appalling precipices, and sometimes out into the valley, where we found fighting aplenty with the members of the various tribes that make up the population of this vale of hopelessness. But through it all we came at last to where the way led up a narrow gorge that grew steeper and more impracticable at every step until before us loomed a mighty fortress buried beneath the side of an overhanging cliff. ~~~ Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public's imagination. The Warlord of Mars, first published in 1919, is the third book in Burroughs' Mars series-this opening trilogy of a series that grew to 11 books is considered among the greatest science fiction ever written. Here, Earthman John Carter, swept by magical means to the Red Planet, embarks on a rescue mission to the frozen polar wastes to save his beloved Martian princess, Dejah Thoris. American novelist EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (1875-1950) wrote dozens of adventure, crime, and science fiction novels that are still beloved today, including Tarzan of the Apes (1912), At the Earth's Core (1914), A Princess of Mars (1917), The Land That Time Forgot (1924), and Pirates of Venus (1934). He is reputed to have been reading a comic book when he died. [via]
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The White Earthby Andrew McGahanISBN 1741141478 (1-74114-147-8)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin
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