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66 Days Adrift: A True Story Of Disaster And Survival On The Open Seaby William ButlerISBN 0071438742 (0-07-143874-2)
Softcover, Intl Marine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: '66 Days Adrift: A True Story Of Disaster And Survival On The Open Sea'Book summary:The lure of paradise was unmistakable, and Bill Butler was on a quest to find it with his wife Simonne - riding the Pacific currents on their sloop Siboney, with a world of possibilities ahead. This title tells a tale of their battles against nature, despair, and their own demons. [via]
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Abaratby Clive BarkerISBN 0064407330 (0-06-440733-0)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
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The Angel's Commandby Brian Jacques, David Elliot, Ian SchoenherrISBN 0142402850 (0-14-240285-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Battle Flagby Bernard CornwellISBN 0061091979 (0-06-109197-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beastby Robin McKinleyISBN 0064404773 (0-06-440477-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast'Book summary:This much-loved retelling of the classic French tale Beauty and the Beast elicits the familiar magical charm, but is more believable and complex than the traditional story. In this version, Beauty is not as beautiful as her older sisters, who are both lovely and kind. Here, in fact, Beauty has no confidence in her appearance but takes pride in her own intelligence, her love of learning and books, and her talent in riding. She is the most competent of the three sisters, which proves essential when they are forced to retire to the country because of their father's financial ruin.
The plot follows that of the renowned legend: Beauty selflessly agrees to inhabit the Beast's castle to spare her father's life. Beauty's gradual acceptance of the Beast and the couple's deepening trust and affection are amplified in novel form. Robin McKinley's writing has the flavor of another century, and Beauty heightens the authenticity as a reliable and competent narrator.
This was McKinley's first book, written almost 20 years ago. Since that time she has been awarded the Newbery Medal for The Hero and the Crown and has delighted her fans with another retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fable, Rose Daughter. Still, McKinley's first novel has a special place in the hearts of her devoted readers, many of whom attest to relishing Beauty time and again. (Ages 11 to Adult) [via]
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Beowulfby Michael AlexanderISBN 0140449310 (0-14-044931-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:A translation of the first epic poem in the English language. [via]
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Beowulfby Frederick Rebsamen, Fredrick R. RebsamenISBN 0064302121 (0-06-430212-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Beowulfby David WrightISBN 0140440704 (0-14-044070-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:Beowulf stands at the head of English literature; a poem of historical interest and epic scope. Although the first manuscript of Beowulf dates from around the year 1000 CE, it is thought that the poem existed in its present form from the year 850. Beowulf's adventures themselves stand in front of the wide historical canvas of 5th and 6th century Scandinavia. Against this heroic background of feuding and feasting, Beowulf first kills the monster Grendel and her mother, and later defends his people against a dragon in a battle that leaves them both mortally wounded.
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@Eazy-B Uh oh. Grendel's mom showed up. She is really pissed. Wait. Monsters have feelings?
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Beowulfby Not AvailableISBN 0141026391 (0-14-102639-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:When an evil monster terrorizes the land, only one man can stop him. A new horror stalks the ancient kingdom of the Danes. Grendel, a hideous beast, has crawled from hell to lay waste to the country and devour its people. His reign of slaughter seems unstoppable. The mighty warrior Beowulf comes forward to fight this demonic enemy. But Grendel has a powerful and deadly ally. Can Beowulf survive the rage of a fiendish mother who will destroy anyone who harms her child? [via]
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The Bounty: The True Story of the mutiny on the Bountyby Caroline AlexanderISBN 0142004693 (0-14-200469-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bounty: The True Story of the mutiny on the Bounty'Book summary:Few episodes in the history of British sea-faring are as gripping and sensational as The Bounty--an account of a mutiny of 1789. While the French were having a revolution in Paris, in the South Pacific a very English coup took place when Master's mate Fletcher Christian deposed Captain Bligh, the ruler of his ship, and set off with his fellow mutineers for a new life in the paradise of Tahiti. The tale has all the ingredients of an adventure--Robinson Crusoe, Captain Cook, Robert Louis Stevenson and Lord of the Flies all rolled into one. And, as Caroline Alexander points out, myth and legend have often got in the way of the real truth of why the mutiny took place. She sets out to find out what really happened, and does so by not only reconstructing the fateful voyage of the ship, but also by focusing in on all the principal and minor characters in the drama.
The trouble with this book is that there seems to be too many different tales to tell and the author struggles to keep up with her narrative. Like a lost ship we set sail in one direction only to back-track and recover the same course over again. The promised treasure--why Christian really did it--is never found. Readers wanting a clearer and simpler chart might be better advised to read Captain Bligh's own famous account, and Edward Christian's defence of his brother The Bounty Mutiny and then follow-up with Greg Dening's book, Mr Bligh's Bad Language. --Miles Taylor [via]
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Brothers Lionheartby Astrid Lindgren, J. K. LambertISBN 0140319557 (0-14-031955-7)
Softcover, Viking Childrens Books
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Coralineby Neil Gaiman, Dave McKeanISBN 0061139378 (0-06-113937-8)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coraline'Book summary:Coraline lives with her preoccupied parents in part of a huge old house--a house so huge that other people live in it, too... round, old former actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and their aging Highland terriers ("We trod the boards, luvvy") and the mustachioed old man under the roof ("'The reason you cannot see the mouse circus,' said the man upstairs, 'is that the mice are not yet ready and rehearsed.'") Coraline contents herself for weeks with exploring the vast garden and grounds. But with a little rain she becomes bored--so bored that she begins to count everything blue (153), the windows (21), and the doors (14). And it is the 14th door that--sometimes blocked with a wall of bricks--opens up for Coraline into an entirely alternate universe. Now, if you're thinking fondly of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, you're on the wrong track. Neil Gaiman's Coraline is far darker, far stranger, playing on our deepest fears. And, like Roald Dahl's work, it is delicious.
What's on the other side of the door? A distorted-mirror world, containing presumably everything Coraline has ever dreamed of... people who pronounce her name correctly (not "Caroline"), delicious meals (not like her father's overblown "recipes"), an unusually pink and green bedroom (not like her dull one), and plenty of horrible (very un-boring) marvels, like a man made out of live rats. The creepiest part, however, is her mirrored parents, her "other mother" and her "other father"--people who look just like her own parents, but with big, shiny, black button eyes, paper-white skin... and a keen desire to keep her on their side of the door. To make creepy creepier, Coraline has been illustrated masterfully in scritchy, terrifying ink drawings by British mixed-media artist and Sandman cover illustrator Dave McKean. This delightful, funny, haunting, scary as heck, fairy-tale novel is about as fine as they come. Highly recommended. (Ages 11 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Robin WaterfieldISBN 0140373535 (0-14-037353-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:The Count of Monte Cristo was inspired by an anecdote from the Parisian police archives, a pearl of a story, Dumas called it, 'A rough, shapeless pearl, of no value, waiting for its jeweller'. Edmond Dantè's betrayal, his incarceration in the fortress-prison of If, his search for Abbé Faria's hidden treasure, and his reappearance, now fabulously rich, as the brooding, Byronic and vengeful Count of Monte-Cristo - these are the bare outlines of a book which Thackeray, for one, found impossible to put down. Dumas set his magnificent novel of L'action et l'amour in nineteenth-century metropolitan Paris with interludes in Marseilles and Rome. In it he gave free rein to the sensational - hashish-smoking, vampirism and sex - and to his interest in travel, classical myth, the orient, human psychology and disguises. The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-46) is one of the great popular novels of all time, and a landmark in the development of modern popular fiction.[via]More editions of Count of Monte Cristo:
The Cruise of the Snarkby Jack London, R. D. MadisonISBN 0142437735 (0-14-243773-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Curse of Chalionby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0061134244 (0-06-113424-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Dharma Bumsby Jack KerouacISBN 0140042520 (0-14-004252-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dharma Bums'Book summary:One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac. This book is a must-read for any serious Kerouac fan. [via]
Dragon Hunter : Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditionsby Charles Gallenkamp, Michael J. NovacekISBN 0142000760 (0-14-200076-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Ella Enchantedby Gail Carson LevineISBN 0064407055 (0-06-440705-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ella Enchanted'Book summary:That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying child." [via]
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Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyonsby John Wesley PowellISBN 0142437522 (0-14-243752-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons'Book summary:[via]One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of the most dangerous rapids known to man remains as fresh and exciting today as it was in 1874.
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, recently ranked number four on Adventure magazines list of top 100 classics, is legendary pioneer John Wesley Powells first-person account of his crews unprecedented odyssey along the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon. A bold foray into the heart of the American Wests final frontier, the expedition was achieved without benefit of modern river-running equipment, supplies, or a firm sense of the regions perilous topography and the attitudes of the native inhabitants towards whites.
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Five Children and Itby Edith Nesbit, H.R. MillarISBN 0140367357 (0-14-036735-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Children and It'Book summary:This title is an entrancing combination of magic with the everyday trials of childhood. 'It' is a Psammead, an ancient, ugly and irritable sand-fairy the children find one day in a gravel pit. It grants them one wish a day, lasting until sunset. But they soon learn it is very hard to think of really sensible wishes, and each one gets them into unexpected difficulties. Magic, the children find, can be as awkward as it is enticing. [via]
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Five Children and Itby E. Nesbit, H.R. Millar, Gillian AveryISBN 0143039156 (0-14-303915-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Children and It'Book summary:[via]While exploring the environs of their summer home, five brothers and sisters find a Psammead, or Sand-fairy, in a nearby gravel pit: Its eyes were on long horns like a snails eyes, and it could move them in and out like telescopes; it had ears like a bats ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spiders and covered with thick soft fur; its legs and arms were furry too, and it had hands and feet like a monkeys. The Psammead is magical and, every day, the ancient and irritable creature grants each of them a wish that lasts until sunset. Soon, though, they find their wishes never seem to turn out right and often have unexpectedand humorousconsequences. But when an accidental wish goes terribly wrong, the children learn that magic, like life, can be as complicated as it is exciting.
- First time in Penguin Classics
- Soon to be a feature film starring Kenneth Branagh with Eddie Izzard as the voice of the Psammead
- Contains an enchanting introduction by children's literature scholar Gillian Avery about the complex and unconventional Nesbit
- Includes all of the original illustrations, suggestions for further reading, and explanatory notes
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Form Line of Battleby Alexander KentISBN 0090950801 (0-09-095080-1)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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The Geographer's Libraryby Jon FasmanISBN 0143036629 (0-14-303662-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Geographer's Library'Book summary:The literary history suspense novel has long been a genre appreciated by a small subset of general readers. It is currently enjoying a new vogue and a wider readership with the publication of such novels as The Da Vinci Code, The Rule of Four, and Codex. What these books have in common, and what The Geographer's Library can also claim, is a set of characters in the here and now grappling with questions about things that went on a very long time ago. Another characteristic is the unearthing or explanation of objects of great value. The trick is to weave these two realities together in a compelling way, one that will keep the reader involved in both stories.
Jon Fasman has taken a big chance with The Geographer's Library, his debut novel, setting out a complicated scenario in which a collection of priceless objects is stolen from the titular library and, eventually, scattered and re-collected a thousand years later--with very bad results for the final collector. The geographer is a real person, Al-Idrisi, a Spanish-Muslim philosopher, cartographer, linguist, and scholar who served in the court of King Roger of Sicily in Palermo in the year 1154. For the most part, Fasman's risk pays off, although there is a lot of meandering before we finally get to the final revelation.
The "wraparound" story is about a young journalist, Paul Tomm, who sets out to write a simple obituary about a professor who died in his office at Paul's Alma Mater. The man is Jaan Puhapaev, an Estonian perhaps, who is a terrible teacher, fires his gun out his office window twice, is odd, unavailable, and reclusive and yet is allowed to stay on for unknown reasons. He also collects only $1.00 a year in salary and has no other visible means of support. The core narrative is a description of the provenance and travels of each of the 15 objects--some or all of which may hold the secret of eternal life--stolen from Al-Idrisi.
A professor friend of Paul's, a policemen and a curious editor all get an investigation rolling regarding what really happened to Jaan, who is he, and is he perhaps much, much older than they think? Paul meets and falls for a neighbor and putative friend of Jaan's, a music teacher named Hannah Rowe, which moves the information curve upward. This is the least believable part of the story: it's easier to accept the alchemical power of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes than Hannah. That said, Fasman does bring it all home at the end with an expository chapter and two letters. A bit of a cheat, but at least the reader is neatly taken off the literary hook he has dangled on for 380 pages. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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The Golden Gobletby Eloise Jarvis McGrawISBN 0140303359 (0-14-030335-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Goblet'Book summary:Ranofer struggles to thwart the plottings of his evil brother, Gebu, so he can become master goldsmith like their father in this exciting tale of ancient Egyptian mystery and intrigue.[via]
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The Great Railway Bazaar : By Train Through Asiaby Paul TherouxISBN 014024980X (0-14-024980-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Railway Bazaar : By Train Through Asia'Book summary:The Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur and the Trans-Siberian Express are just a few of the evocative names that fill this, the story of Paul Theroux's epic journey by rail through India and Asia. It is a journey on which he encounters a huge variety of places and people, foods, faiths and cultures, and which has at its heart an enduring fascination with trains and railways. [via]
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High Standby Hammond InnesISBN 0070317380 (0-07-031738-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Book Co
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundlingby Henry Fielding, Tom Keymer, Alice WakelyISBN 0140436227 (0-14-043622-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling'Book summary:Tom Jones isn't a bad guy, but boys just want to have fun. Nearly two and a half centuries after its publication, the adventures of the rambunctious and randy Tom Jones still makes for great reading. I'm not in the habit of using words like bawdy or rollicking, but if you look them up in the dictionary, you should see a picture of this book. [via]
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The Hounds of the Morriganby Pat O'SheaISBN 0064472051 (0-06-447205-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hounds of the Morrigan'Book summary:An Ancient Manuscript...
When ten-year-old Pidge finds the crumbling pages of an old manuscript in a second-hand bookshop in Galway, he unwittingly releases the serpent Olc-Glas--and the forces of good and evil gather to do battle. The MÓrrÍgan, Goddess of Death and Destruction, has set her evil heart on gaining Olc-Glas and adding its poison to her own, thereby casting her shadow over the world.
A Lost Stone...
To thwart The MÓrrÍgan, Pidge and his little sister Brigit are sent by The Dagda, Lord of Great Knowledge, on a quest to find a stone that has been lost for countless years--th only means of destroying the serpent.
A Perilous Adventure...
Pidge and Brigit's journey begins in Ireland...their destination is unknown. All true creatures help where they can, but ultimately, it is up to steadfast Pidge and courageous Brigit to find their own way. And always at their heels are the terrible hellhounds--the hounds of The MÓrrÍgan....
When ten-year-old Pidge finds an ancient manuscript in a secondhand bookshop, he unwittingly sets into motion an epic battle between Good and Evil. In order to save the world from the Mrrgan, the Goddess of Death and Destruction, Pidge and his little sister, Brigit, go on a quest to find a stone that has been lost for countless years. And always at their heels are the terrible hellhoundsthe hounds of the Mrrgan. . . .A classic tale that has been unavailable in paperback for almost ten years, The Hounds of the Mrrgan is a book to treasure and to keep alongside the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Philip Pullman.A splendid fantasy . . . rich and satisfying. Starred Review/The Horn Book[A] brilliant tapestry. Starred Review/ALA BooklistSpellbinding . . . entirely original. Publishers WeeklyMore editions of The Hounds of the Morrigan:
The Inshore Squadronby Alexander KentISBN 0091345804 (0-09-134580-4)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Into the Wildby Erin HunterISBN 0061284203 (0-06-128420-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into the Wild'Book summary:For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their warrior ancestors. But the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger, and the sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. Noble warriors are dyingand some deaths are more mysterious than others.
In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary house cat named Rusty . . . who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all.
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Island of Dr Moreauby H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder, Steve Maclean, Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 014144102X (0-14-144102-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Island of Dr Moreau'Book summary:A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]
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Jingoby Terry PratchettISBN 0061059064 (0-06-105906-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jingo'Book summary:Terry Pratchett is a phenomenon unto himself. Never read a Discworld book? The closest comparison might be Monty Python and the Holy Grail, with its uniquely British sense of the absurd, and side-splitting, smart humor. Jingo is the 20th of Pratchett's Discworld novels, and the fourth to feature the City Guard of Ankh-Morpork. As Jingo begins, an island suddenly rises between Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali, capital of Klatch. Both cities claim it. Lord Vetinari, the Patrician, has failed to convince the Ruling Council that force is a bad idea, despite reminding them that they have no army, and "I believe one of those is generally considered vital to the successful prosecution of a war." Samuel Vimes, Commander of the City Watch, has to find out who shot the Klatchian envoy, Prince Khufurah, and set fire to their embassy, before war breaks out.
Pratchett's characters are both sympathetic and outrageously entertaining, from Captain Carrot, who always finds the best in people and puts it to work playing football, to Sergeant Colon and his sidekick, Corporal Nobbs, who have "an ability to get out of their depth on a wet pavement." Then there is the mysterious D'reg, 71-hour Ahmed. What is his part in all this, and why 71 hours? Anyone who doesn't mind laughing themselves silly at the idiocy of people in general and governments in particular will enjoy Jingo. --Nona Vero [via]
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Julie's Wolf Packby Jean Craighead George, Wendell MinorISBN 0064407217 (0-06-440721-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Peter LeviISBN 0140183515 (0-14-018351-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the Armadillo Happened, and other animal How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to amuse his eldest daughter--and they have served ever since as a source of laughter for children everywhere. [via]
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The Kestrelby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 0141310693 (0-14-131069-3)
Softcover, Firebird
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kestrel'Book summary:Theo is traveling Westmark, learning about the country of which he will soon be Prince Consort. He is not surprised to find great poverty-Mickle (now known as Princess Augusta) could have told him that from her years on the street. His friend Florian could have told him about the aristocracy's graft and corruption. But neither could have foreseen a loaded pistol in the practiced hand of the assassin Skeit. The echoes of that shot ring from the muskets and cannons of a Westmark suddenly at war-a war that turns simple, honest men into cold-blooded killers, Mickle into a military commander, and Theo himself into a stranger. . . .
"The plot is magnificent, the characterizations are excellent, and the issues are compelling." (Children's Literature) [via]More editions of The Kestrel:
The Last Grain Raceby Eric NewbyISBN 0140095713 (0-14-009571-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Lionboy: The Truthby Zizou Corder, Fred Van DeelenISBN 0142404543 (0-14-240454-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Little Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0151528209 (0-15-152820-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little Prince'Book summary:An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little man from a small planet who describes his adventures in the universe seeking the secret of what is really important in life. [via]
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Loamhedgeby Brian Jacques, David ElliotISBN 0142403776 (0-14-240377-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Lords and Ladiesby Terry PratchettISBN 0061056928 (0-06-105692-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lords and Ladies'Book summary:Although they may feature witches and wizards, vampires and dwarves, along with the occasional odd human, Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld novels are grounded firmly in the modern world. Taking humorous aim at all our foibles, each novel reveals our true character and nature.
It's a dreamy midsummer's night in the Kingdom of Lancre. But music and romance aren't the only things filling the air. Magic and mischief are afoot, threatening to spoil the royal wedding of King Verence and his favorite witch, Magrat Garlick. Invaded by some Fairie Trash, soon it won't be only champagne that's flowing through the streets ...
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The Magusby John FowlesISBN 0099743914 (0-09-974391-4)
Hardcover, Vintage
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magus'Book summary:A novel which explores the complexities of the human mind. On a remote Greek island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. Surreal threads weave ever tighter as reality and illusion intertwine in a bizarre psychological game. [via]
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmareby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0140183884 (0-14-018388-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare'Book summary:In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon."
But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare:
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Miss Pickerell Goes to Marsby Ellen MacGregorISBN 0070445591 (0-07-044559-1)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Momoby Michael EndeISBN 0140079165 (0-14-007916-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Monkey Planetby Pierre BoulleISBN 0140024018 (0-14-002401-8)
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The Mummy Caseby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0061429783 (0-06-142978-3)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mummy Case'Book summary:The third in the popular series charting the adventures of Amelia Peabody, this novel follows the Victorian lady sleuth to the "pyramids" of Mazghunah. On her arrival, it seems that the barren area can be of no interest, but a murder in Cairo soon persuades her otherwise. [via]
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Nimitz Classby Patrick RobinsonISBN 006109594X (0-06-109594-X)
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The Oregon Trailby David Levin, Francis ParkmanISBN 0140390421 (0-14-039042-1)
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Ozma of Ozby L. Frank Baum, John R. NeillISBN 0064409627 (0-06-440962-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ozma of Oz'Book summary:Dorothy is blown overboard from her uncle's ship and lands in the realm of Ev, where, with her old friends, she meets Hungry Tiger, Tik-Tok the mechanical man, Billina the talking chicken and Princess Langwidere who has thirty heads. Join Dorothy and her friends as they try to free the Queen of Ev from the cruel Nome King's enchantment. [via]
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The Penultimate Perilby Lemony Snicket, Brett HelquistISBN 0064410153 (0-06-441015-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penultimate Peril'Book summary:Lemony Snicket returns with the last book before the last book of his bestselling Series of Unfortunate Events. Scream and run away before the secrets of the series are revealed! Very little is known about Lemony Snicket and A Series of Unfortunate Events. What we do know is contained in the following brief list: o The books have inexplicably sold millions and millions of copies worldwide o People in more than 40 countries are consumed by consuming Snicket o The movie was as sad as the books, if not more so o Like unrefrigerated butter and fungus, the popularity of these books keeps spreading Even less is known about book the twelfth in this alarming phenomenon. What we do know is contained in the following brief list: o In this book, things only get worse o Count Olaf is still evil o The Baudelaire orphans do not win a contest o The title begins with the word, ?The? Sometimes, ignorance is bliss. Ages 10+ [via]
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Raffles : The Amateur Cracksmanby E. W. Hornung, Richard Lancelyn GreenISBN 0141439335 (0-14-143933-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Road to Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0140351213 (0-14-035121-3)
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Sabrielby Garth NixISBN 0064471837 (0-06-447183-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sabriel'Book summary:After receiving a cryptic message from her father, Abhorsen, a necromancer trapped in Death, 18-year-old Sabriel sets off into the Old Kingdom. Fraught with peril and deadly trickery, her journey takes her to a world filled with parasitical spirits, Mordicants, and Shadow Hands. Unlike other necromancers, who raise the dead, Abhorsen lays the disturbed dead back to rest. This obliges him--and now Sabriel, who has taken on her father's title and duties--to slip over the border into the icy river of Death, sometimes battling the evil forces that lurk there, waiting for an opportunity to escape into the realm of the living. Desperate to find her father, and grimly determined to help save the Old Kingdom from destruction by the horrible forces of the evil undead, Sabriel endures almost impossible exhaustion, violent confrontations, and terrifying challenges to her supernatural abilities--and her destiny.
Garth Nix delves deep into the mystical underworld of necromancy, magic, and the monstrous undead. This tale is not for the faint of heart; imbedded in the classic good-versus-evil story line are subplots of grisly ghouls hungry for human life to perpetuate their stay in the world of the living, and dark, devastating secrets of betrayal and loss. Just try to put this book down. For more along this line, try Nix's later novel: Shade's Children. (Ages 12 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Sands of Timeby Michael HoeyeISBN 014250176X (0-14-250176-X)
Softcover, Speak
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Sharpe's Companyby Bernard CornwellISBN 0140294325 (0-14-029432-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sharpe's Swordby Bernard CornwellISBN 0140294333 (0-14-029433-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sharpe's Sword'Book summary:The bitter rivalry of Richard Sharpe and the ruthless French swordsman, Colonel Leroux are brought to life against the vivid canvas of the Peninsula War. Richard Sharpe is once again at war. But, this time, his enemy is a single man - the ruthless, sadistic Colonel Leroux. Sharpe's mission is to safeguard El Mirador, the spy whose network of agents is vital to the British victory. So, Sharpe must enter a new world of political and military intrigue. And, in the unfamiliar surroundings of aristocratic Spanish society, his only guide is the beautiful Marquesa - a woman with her own secrets to conceal! [via]
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby Bernard O'DonoghueISBN 0140424539 (0-14-042453-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'Book summary:One of the greatest works of the Middle Ages, in a marvelous new verse translation[via]
Composed in the fourteenth century, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is as beloved as it is venerable, combining the hallmarks of medieval romancepageantry, chivalry, and courtly lovewith the charm of fairy tales and heroic sagas.
When a mysterious green knight rides on horseback into King Arthurs court, interrupting a New Years feast, he issues a challenge: if any of King Arthurs men can behead him and he survives, then a year later he is entitled to return the strike. Sir Gawain takes up the challenge and decapitates the green knight, only to see him pick up his severed head and ride away, leaving Gawain to seek him out to fulfill their pact. Blending Celtic myth and Christian faith, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a Middle English masterpiece of magic, chivalry, and seduction.
@GawainsWorld So listen here, some green man came to the hall and wants someone to cut his head off. Some sort of dare? Could be fun, right?
The deal is I cut off his head now, and he cuts off mine a year later. What a jester, doesnt he know hell be dead?
This goblin fellow is totally dead.
All seemed fine until Ichabod Crane here fell to the floor, stood up, and picked up his head. His head, in his hands. In HIS HANDS!
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby J.A. BurrowISBN 0140422951 (0-14-042295-1)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'Book summary:Although the date of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is uncertain, and we know nothing about the author, its composition is roughly contemporary with Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in the latter part of the fourteenth century.[via]It is a remarkably subtle and accomplished poem, in which the hero's knightly virtues of courage, courtesy and fidelity are put to the test in a strange adventure involving a huge green knight on a green horse, a winter journey, a lady in a mysterious castle and a challenge answered. It ranks as one of the greatest works of the English Middle Ages and perhaps the greatest triumph of the English alliterative tradition.
Unlike The Canterbury Tales, however, Sir Gawain is written in a dialect belonging to Cheshire, Lancashire or Staffordshire, and this seems more remote to the modern reader than Chaucer's London language. The aim of this edition has been to remove unnecessary impediments while retaining the integrity of the original. Notes and a glossary have been provided to assist an informed, critical reading of the text.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby W. R. J. Barron, Brian StoneISBN 0140440925 (0-14-044092-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'Book summary:'Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain; Seek faithfully till you find me ...' A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men to behead him, provided that if he survives he can return the blow a year later. Sir Gawain accepts the challenge and decapitates the knight - but the mysterious warrior cheats death and vanishes, bearing his head with him. The following winter Gawain sets out to find the Knight in the wild Northern lands and to keep his side of the bargain. One of the great masterpieces of Middle English poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight magically combines elements of fairy tale and heroic sagas with the pageantry, chivalry and courtly love of medieval Romance. Brian Stone's evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction that examines the Romance genre, and the poem's epic and pagan sources. This edition also includes essays discussing the central characters and themes, theories about authorship and Arthurian legends, and suggestions for further reading and notes. @GawainsWorld So listen here, some green man came to the hall and wants someone to cut his head off. Some sort of dare? Could be fun, right? The deal is I cut off his head now, and he cuts off mine a year later. What a jester, doesn't he know he'll be dead? This goblin fellow is totally dead. All seemed fine until Ichabod Crane here fell to the floor, stood up, and picked up his head. His head, in his hands. In HIS HANDS! From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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Song of Rolandby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0140440755 (0-14-044075-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Song of Rolandby Glyn S. Burgess, Glyn BurgessISBN 0140445323 (0-14-044532-3)
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Stone Foxby John Reynolds GardinerISBN 0064471489 (0-06-447148-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Stone Foxby Marcia Sewall, John Reynolds GardinerISBN 0064401324 (0-06-440132-4)
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Story of the Treasure Seekersby E. Nesbit, Cecil LeslieISBN 0140367063 (0-14-036706-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneoby Eric HansenISBN 0140095861 (0-14-009586-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo'Book summary:Eric Hansen was the first westerner ever to walk across the island of Borneo. Completely cut off from the outside world for seven months, he traveled nearly 1,500 miles with small bands of nomadic hunters known as Penan. Beneath the rain forest canopy, they trekked through a hauntingly beautiful jungle where snakes and frogs fly, pigs climb trees, giant carnivorous plants eat mice, and mushrooms glow at night.
At once a modern classic of travel literature and a gripping adventure story, Stranger in the Forest provides a rare and intimate look at the vanishing way of life of one of the last surviving groups of rain forest dwellers. Hansen's absorbing, and often chilling, account of his exploits is tempered with the humor and humanity that prompted the Penan to take him into their world and to share their secrets. [via]More editions of Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo:
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Tales from Watership Downby Richard Adams, John LawrenceISBN 0091801664 (0-09-180166-4)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales from Watership Down'Book summary:The original Watership Down is one of those wonderful works that appeals to readers both young and old. The story of a group of rabbits on an adventure into unfamiliar yards, farms, and fields made for an imaginative, captivating journey. This latest work follows the aftermath of the original's climactic ending and includes the rabbits' retelling of various myths associated with their rabbit-hood, plus some new twists and developments. This is a captivating introduction to Adams's warren for first-time visitors, and those who loved the original Watership Down won't be disappointed. [via]
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The Thief Who Couldn't Sleepby Lawrence BlockISBN 0061258067 (0-06-125806-7)
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To Glory We Steerby Alexander KentISBN 0090854608 (0-09-085460-8)
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Victoryby Joseph ConradISBN 0140189785 (0-14-018978-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Victory'Book summary:This is a story of a man's attempt to detach himself from the central current of life. He becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay archipelago. When that fails he turns his back on humanity until, once again, he is drawn into contact with the world. [via]
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Waterlooby Bernard CornwellISBN 0140294392 (0-14-029439-2)
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Wickedby Gregory MaguireISBN 0061350966 (0-06-135096-6)
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Wild Boy: A Tale of Rowan Hoodby Nancy SpringerISBN 0142403954 (0-14-240395-4)
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The Xanadu Adventureby Alexander LloydISBN 0142407860 (0-14-240786-0)
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Year of the Griffinby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 006447335X (0-06-447335-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Year of the Griffin'Book summary:In the very strange Pilgrim Parties of Diana Wynne Jones's Dark Lord of Derkholm, tourists from the next universe would come to wizards' lands expecting to have exciting battles with dwarfs, dragons, and the powers of darkness. Sadly, wizards were forced to host these hokey yet horrific pseudoadventures, and in the process, laid waste to their lands. But as its sequel Year of the Griffin begins, we learn with some relief that the mercenary Mr. Chesney's magic tours had ended eight years previous. While that is excellent news, the Wizards' University is now decidedly short of funds.
Wavy-blond-haired Professor Corkoran has plenty of schemes for extracting money from his students' families. But he always has plenty of ideas, and none of them work. Besides, he is too busy researching how to be the first man to walk on the moon to do much of anything else. As his new crop of students shows up, Corkoran is in for a surprise. Not only do none of them have any money, but one is a huge griffin, "brightly golden in fur and crest and feathers, so sharply curved of beak, and so fiercely alert in her round orange eyes that at first sight she seemed to fill a room." (Meet Elda, softhearted yet gigantic daughter of Wizard Derk.)
The hilarious goings-on begin when Corkoran's moneymaking schemes backfire horribly, and the motley crew of would-be wizards begin their studies. Comical tableaux involving spells that create deep pits and smelly winged monkeys alternate with suspenseful (yet always amusing) scenes involving tiny assassins who mean business. Jones's satirical pokes at academia, racial intolerance (the greenish and jinxed Claudia has mixed blood), and hierarchical societies (Ruskin is bucking the tyranny of the forgemasters to become the first dwarf wizard) keep the story lively, as do the realistic portrayals of her very odd and endearing cast of characters. You definitely don't have to have read Dark Lord to enjoy this wonderful sequel, but you may not be able to resist going back to it. (Ages 12 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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