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Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Societyby Peter McWilliamsISBN 192976717X (1-929767-17-X)
Softcover, Mary Book / Prelude Pr
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The American Spirit: Meeting the Challenge of September 11by Life Books, George W. BushISBN 1929049889 (1-929049-88-9)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Andy Grant's Pluckby Horatio AlgerISBN 1931927707 (1-931927-70-7)
Softcover, Polyglot Press
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Anne of Avonleaby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 1905432151 (1-905432-15-1)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Avonlea'Book summary:Large format paper back for easy reading. One of a series of fictional, semi-historical novels. [via]
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Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944-1961by Arthur MillerISBN 193108291X (1-931082-91-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Asterix and the Great Crossingby GoscinnyISBN 2205069217 (2-205-06921-7)
Softcover, Charles River Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asterix and the Great Crossing'Book summary:Land ho! Asterix and Obelix had been lost at sea, but they've finally reached what they think is a Roman colony. Then the Vikings turn up on a voyage of discovery, and the two Gauls realize that they've done something greater and more important: they've discovered a strange New World.[via]More editions of Asterix and the Great Crossing:
Bostonby Henry Cabot LodgeISBN 192915416X (1-929154-16-X)
Hardcover, Levenger Pr
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Breakfast after Noonby Andi WatsonISBN 1929998147 (1-929998-14-7)
Softcover, Oni Press, Incorporated
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 2010028813 (2-01-002881-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. [via]
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Softcover, Distribooks Inc - Candide: ISBN 2266029266 (2-266-02926-6)
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Candide Ou L'Optimismeby VoltaireISBN 2070302393 (2-07-030239-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide Ou L'Optimisme'Book summary:228pages. poche. Poche. [via]
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Carlson Architects: Expanding Northwestern Regionalismby John Pastier, Donald CarlsonISBN 1931536120 (1-931536-12-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Collected Stories & Later Writingsby Paul BowlesISBN 1931082200 (1-931082-20-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Collected Travel Writingsby Henry James, Myra JehlenISBN 1931082308 (1-931082-30-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Complete Novelsby Carson McCullers, C. L. Barney DewsISBN 1931082030 (1-931082-03-0)
Hardcover, Library of America
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Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Realityby Olaf GersemannISBN 1930865783 (1-930865-78-3)
Softcover, Cato Inst
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Crossing over: The Stories Behind the Storiesby John EdwardISBN 193212800X (1-932128-00-X)
Softcover, Hay House Inc
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Deathworldby Harry HarrisonISBN 1932100415 (1-932100-41-5)
Softcover, BenBella Books
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Drugs Are Nice : A Post-Punk Memoirby Lisa Crystal CarverISBN 1932360948 (1-932360-94-8)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drugs Are Nice : A Post-Punk Memoir'Book summary:In this eye-opening memoir, Lisa Crystal Carver recalls her extraordinary youth and charts the late-80s, early-90s punk subculture that she helped shape. She recounts how her band Suckdog was born in 1987 and the wild events that followed: leaving small-town New Hampshire to tour Europe at 18, becoming a teen publisher of fanzines, a teen bride, and a teen prostitute. Spin has called Suckdog's album Drugs Are Nice one of the best of the '90s, and the book includes photos of infamous European shows. Yet the book also tells of how Lisa saw the need for change in 1994, when her baby was born with a chromosomal deletion and his father became violent. With lasting lightness and surprising gravity, Drugs Are Nice is a definitive account of the generation that wanted to break every rule, but also a story of an artist and a mother becoming an adult on her own terms.[via]More editions of Drugs Are Nice : A Post-Punk Memoir:
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Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poemsby J.D. McClatchyISBN 1931082359 (1-931082-35-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems'Book summary:A lively selection by J. D. McClatchy, the distinguished poet, critic, and editor, casts Millay's career in a new light. Here are familiar favorites alongside neglected gems: translations, a verse play, songs from her opera libretto The King's Henchman, and the complete sonnet sequence Fatal Interview. [via]
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The Facts of Winterby Paul Lafarge, Paul PoisselISBN 1932416161 (1-932416-16-1)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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A Fortnight in the Wildernessby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 1929154135 (1-929154-13-5)
Hardcover, Levenger Pr
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Frecklesby Gene Stratton-PorterISBN 1934169331 (1-934169-33-1)
Softcover, Norilana Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freckles'Book summary:Freckles (1904) by Gene Stratton Porter is the uplifting story of a plucky waif without a name and without one hand, disabled since infancy. Raised in a Chicago orphanage, he survives abuse and harsh circumstances and grows up a brave, loyal, and hardworking young man with a true capacity for self-sacrifice.
Freckles becomes a timber guard in the Limberlost swamp in Indiana and exhibits extraordinary courage and resourcefulness on the job. He also falls in love with the Swamp Angel, a young girl whose beauty and kindness bring out the best in others.
A beloved turn-of-the-century Indiana classic for all ages. [via]
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The Future Dictionary of Americaby Dave Eggers, Nicole KraussISBN 1932416420 (1-932416-42-0)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future Dictionary of America'Book summary:This book was conceived by Safran Foer Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Dave Eggers as a way to bring over a hundred authors together to promote progressive causes in the November 2004 election. The book is an imagining of what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current president is a distant memory. The book is by turns funny, outraged, utopian, and dyspeptic.
Over 150 writers contributed to the book, including: Stephen King, Robert Olen Butler, Glen David Gold, Richard Powers, Susan Straight, Sarah Vowell, Billy Collins, C.K. Williams, Colson Whitehead, Donald Antrim, Jonathan Franzen, Edwidge Danticat, Edward Hirsch, Joyce Carol Oates, Katha Pollitt, Padgett Powell, Paul Auster, Anthony Swofford, Julia Alvarez, Susan Choi, Jim Shepard, Aimee Bender, and Art Spiegelman.
Hardcover editions of the book will also include a CD compilation, with all new songs by the best musicians working. Among them: David Byrne, R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie, Moby, Sleater-Kinney, Flaming Lips, Tom Waits, Yo La Tengo, Bright Eyes, They Might Be Giants, Elliott Smith, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. [via]
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Going Postal: Rage, Murder, And Rebellion, From Reagan's Workplaces To Clinton's Columbine And Beyondby Mark AmesISBN 1932360824 (1-932360-82-4)
Softcover, Soft Skull Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Going Postal: Rage, Murder, And Rebellion, From Reagan's Workplaces To Clinton's Columbine And Beyond'Book summary:An eye-opening look at the phenomenon of school and workplace shootings in America, Going Postal explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has plagued and baffled America for the last three decades, and offers some provocative answers to the oft-asked question, "Why?" By juxtaposing the historical place of rage in America with the social climate that has existed since the 1980s when Reaganomics began to widen the gap between executive and average-worker earnings the author crafts a convincing argument that these schoolyard and office massacres can be seen as modern-day slave rebellions. He presents many fascinating and unexpected cases in detail. Like slave rebellions, these massacres are doomed, gory, sometimes even inadvertently comic, and grossly misunderstood. Taking up where Bowling for Columbine left off, this book seeks to set these murders in their proper context and thereby reveal their meaning.[via]More editions of Going Postal: Rage, Murder, And Rebellion, From Reagan's Workplaces To Clinton's Columbine And Beyond:
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Granta 84: Over There How America Sees the World Winter 2003by Ian JackISBN 1929001142 (1-929001-14-2)
Softcover, Granta Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Granta 84: Over There How America Sees the World Winter 2003'Book summary:The USA is the world¹s newest, greatest, and only empire. Some would say it is the world¹s most insular state as well as the most powerful, never troubling to correct its ignorance of the people and places beyond its borders. Is it a slander? In this issue of Granta, American writers describe their encounters abroad and how they were affected by them. In reportage and fiction, outsiders to America come upon the strangeness of the place itself. Included are James Buchan in America's Hometown, Edmund White meeting his first European, Paul Theroux as a sexual prisoner in Africa, Nell Freudenberger making a mistake in Laos, Luc Sante getting that old-time religion, and James Kelman in trouble with the natives. There are also recollections and forecasts from Eric Schlosser, A. M. Homes, Chris Hedges, Paula Fox, Gary Shteyngart, Paul Fussell, Adam Hochschild, J. Robert Lennon, Studs Terkel, Jacki Lyden, Chalmers Johnson and many more. Surprising new maps of America by Martin Rowson, a photographic essay by Anthony Suau, and new stories by Judith Hermann and Julian Barnes are also featured.[via]More editions of Granta 84: Over There How America Sees the World Winter 2003:
Gray Horsesby Hope LarsonISBN 193266436X (1-932664-36-X)
Softcover, Oni Pr
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H.P. Lovecraft: Talesby H. P. Lovecraft, Peter StraubISBN 1931082723 (1-931082-72-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hamilton: Writingsby Alexander Hamilton, Joanne B. FreemanISBN 1931082049 (1-931082-04-9)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamilton: Writings'Book summary:One of the most vivid, influential, and controversial figures of the American founding, Alexander Hamilton was an unusually prolific and vigorous writer. As a military aide to George Washington, forceful critic of the Articles of Confederation, persuasive proponent of ratification of the Constitution, first Secretary of the Treasury, and leader of the Federalist party, Hamilton devoted himself to the creation of a militarily and economically powerful American nation guided by a strong republican government. His public and private writings demonstrate the perceptive intelligence, confident advocacy, driving ambition, and profound concern for honor and reputation that contributed both to his rise to fame and to his tragic early death.
Arranged chronologically, Writings contains more than 170 letters, speeches, essays, reports, and memoranda written between 1769 and 1804. Included are all 51 of Hamilton's contributions to The Federalist, as well as subsequent writing calling for a broad construction of federal power under the Constitution; his famous speech to the Constitutional Convention, which gave rise to accusations that he favored monarchy; early writings supporting the Revolutionary cause and a stronger central government; his visionary reports as Treasury secretary on the public credit, a national bank, and the encouragement of American manufactures; a detailed confession of adultery made by Hamilton in order to defend himself against charges of official misconduct; and his self- destructive attack on John Adams during the 1800 campaign. An extensive selection of private letters illuminates Hamilton's complex relationship with George Washington, his deep affection for his wife and children, his mounting fears during the 1790s regarding the Jeffersonian opposition and the French Revolution, and his profound distrust of Aaron Burr. Included in an appendix are conflicting eyewitness accounts of the Hamilton-Burr duel.
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The Hedge Knightby George R.R. Martin, Ben AveryISBN 1932796061 (1-932796-06-1)
Softcover, Diamond Comic Distributors
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hedge Knight'Book summary:Contains an all new exclusive short story by George R. R. Martin! An adaptation of Martin's hit novel, bringing the world of A Song of Ice and Fire to life in comic book form. Night falls over the life of one noble knight and brings the dawn of his squire's knighthood. Dubbing himself "Ser Duncan the Tall," "The Hedge Knight" sets forth to the tourney at Ashford Meadow in search of fame and glory and the honor of upholding his oath as a knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Unfortunately for him, the world isn't ready for a knight who keeps his oaths, and his chivalrous methods could be the very cause of his demise. [via]
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How Many Miles to Babylon?by Paula FoxISBN 193242539X (1-932425-39-X)
Softcover, Boyds Mills Pr
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How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-Politics, Un-Boring Guide to Powerby William Upski Wimsatt, Davey DISBN 1932360085 (1-932360-08-5)
Softcover, Soft Skull Pr
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How We Are Hungryby Dave EggersISBN 1932416137 (1-932416-13-7)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Are Hungry'Book summary:How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical, and always intensely soulful group of stories written over the past four years. Though they range from a doomed Irish setter's tales of running and jumping ("After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned") to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide and friendship ("Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance"), the stories share a haunting and haunted sense of mortality. Though full of bursts of levity and humor, the book is deeply informed by the troubled times in which it was written. How We Are Hungry includes many never-before-published stories, along with a number of pieces that first appeared in magazines, both well known (Zoetrope, The New Yorker) and small and independent (h2s04, Ninth Letter). All previously published stories have been significantly revised. The urgency and experimentalism of Eggers's earlier work are still present, but are brought to a new level of precision and craft, injecting fresh life into traditional forms. Narratives are often linear, told by distinct and varied voices, and settings stretch from Egypt to Interstate 5.[via]More editions of How We Are Hungry:
I See By My Outfitby Peter BeagleISBN 1933572078 (1-933572-07-8)
Softcover, Centro Books
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Ibid: A Lifeby Mark DunnISBN 1931561656 (1-931561-65-6)
Hardcover, Macadam Cage Pub
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LA Reine Des Damnesby Anne RiceISBN 2266044591 (2-266-04459-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Lestat Le Vampire/the Vampire Lestatby Anne RiceISBN 2266032119 (2-266-03211-9)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lestat Le Vampire/the Vampire Lestat'Book summary:Lestat Le Vampire/the Vampire Lestat [Mass Market Paperback] Anne Rice (Author) Anne Rice was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds a Master of Arts Degree in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, as well as a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. [via]
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Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchistsby Bill KauffmanISBN 1932236872 (1-932236-87-2)
Hardcover, Isi Books
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The Lost Thoughts of Soldiersby Delia FalconerISBN 1933368179 (1-933368-17-9)
Hardcover, Soft Skull Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers'Book summary:Georgia, 1898: On what may be the last day of his life, Captain Frederick Benteen the man who saved Custers Seventh Cavalry from almost certain death at Little Bighorn receives a letter from an ambitious boy offering to restore his reputation. For over 23 years Benteen has silently watched Custers legend grow. His General has been dead for more than 20 years, killed in action, considered a hero, while the public has never forgiven Benteen for surviving. Now, at last, he begins to put down some account of those two horrific days pinned down on a ridge. What follows is an exquisite eulogy for his fellow soldiers, both alive and dead. Funny, moving, rich in character and incident, this acclaimed novel avoids the bloody battle scenes and maudlin romance that characterize much Civil War-based fiction in favor of an unsparing and poetic story that explores what it means to be a soldier then and now.[via]More editions of The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers:
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Love All The People: Letters, Lyrics, Routinesby Bill Hicks, John LahrISBN 1932360654 (1-932360-65-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love All The People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines'Book summary:In 1993, network executives abruptly cut the final appearance of comedian Bill Hicks a scathing tirade of digs on the Pope and the pro-life movement from an episode of The Late Show with David Letterman. His banning from the show, along with a profile in The New Yorker by veteran writer John Lahr, catapulted Hicks to national prominence. Just months later, at age 32, he died of pancreatic cancer.
Now available for the first time are Hick's most critical and comic observations, gathered from his stand-up routines, diaries, notebooks, letters, and final writings. This collection features his controversial humor and witheringly funny attacks on American culture, from its worship of celebrity and material goods to its involvement in the first Gulf War. Love All the People faithfully traces Hicks's evolution from a funny but conventional stand-up comedian into a fearless and brilliant iconoclast. [via]
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The Making of America: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of A Nation How 13 Fragile Colonies United to Defy an Empire and Create the World's First great Democracyby Time MagazineISBN 1932994084 (1-932994-08-4)
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The Man Behind the Rosenbergs: By the KGB Spymaster who was the case officer of Julius Rosenberg, Klaus Fuchs, and helped resolve the Cuban Missile Crisisby Aleksandr Feklisov, Sergei KostinISBN 1929631081 (1-929631-08-1)
Hardcover, Enigma Books
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Mary: A Novelby Janis Cooke NewmanISBN 193156163X (1-931561-63-X)
Hardcover, Macadam Cage Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary: A Novel'Book summary:Mary is a novel written in the first person, comprised of notes composed by Mary Todd Lincoln when she was an inmate of a lunatic asylum. She takes up her pen to block out the screams and moans of the other inmates and to save her own sanity. According to these notes, although she held séances in the White House and drove her family deeply into debt because of compulsive shopping, she was perfectly sane. She makes a good case for herself, despite occasional manic behavior and often uncontrollable grief.
Mary was born to southern slaveholders in Kentucky, moved to Illinois when she was 20 to live with her sister and met Abe at a cotillion. His opening line was "Miss Todd, I want to dance with you the worst way." Their relationship was odd, to say the least. Lincoln, as portrayed by Janis Cooke Newman, was sexually repressed and feared Mary's passion. She was in an almost constant state of trying to seduce him, usually without success. Despite his gawky, angular, unlovely looks, she adored him--even when she had an affair with another to defuse some of her heat. How much of the bedroom scene is fact and how much fancy must be left to the reader to decide, but it does give credence to Mary's very forward manner and her later "passionate" approach to shopping.
She used her shopping expeditions to accumulate things that would "protect" her family--and finally herself, when she felt her son Robert's growing disapproval of her. In his statement to the "insanity" lawyer, Robert said, "I have no doubt my mother is insane. She has long been a source of great anxiety to me. She has no home and no reason to make these purchases." Mary saw them as talismans against disaster, and she certainly had suffered disasters in abundance. She buried three sons and was holding her husband's hand when he was assassinated by a bullet to the head. Her eldest son, Robert, was a cold, unfeeling, haughty shell of a man to whom Mary did not speak after she was released from the asylum to her sister's care. She spent four years in Europe and, when her health failed, returned to her sister's house, where she received her son once before she died.
"First Lady" is a term that was coined to describe Mary Todd Lincoln, while she was the President's wife. It was meant as a backhanded compliment, because she was front and center during much of Lincoln's term. Presidential wives usually stuck to their knitting, but not Mary. Her unconventional ways did her husband a great deal of good; indeed, it was her ambition for him that finally ignited his own ambition. She also helped him to become a great orator. Ultimately, her "unsexed" manner contributed to her being judged insane in 1865 and committed to Bellevue Place, an asylum in Batavia, Illinois, outside Chicago. No President has been more praised nor any first lady more vilified than Abraham and Mary Lincoln. Janis Cooke Newman brings a time, a place and a person to life in a wholly believable and compelling manner. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Mcsweeney's 18by Eggers, Dave (Ed)ISBN 1932416382 (1-932416-38-2)
Softcover, McSweeneys Books
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McSweeney's Issue 12by Dave EggersISBN 1932416064 (1-932416-06-4)
Softcover, McSweeneys Books
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Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue Number 13by Chris Ware, Eli HorowitzISBN 1932416080 (1-932416-08-0)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue Number 13'Book summary:McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13 is all comics. It is edited by Chris Ware (author of Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth), and features so many artists to know and love: R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Lynda Barry, Los Bros Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, Julie Doucet, and on and on. The issue also includes essays from Michael Chabon, Ira Glass, John Updike, Chip Kidd, and others. A hardcover, clothbound edition, this quarterly comes with an enormous dust jacket that does much more than guard against dust. This one makes our throats go tight.[via]More editions of Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue Number 13:
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Michelin New England/Hudson ValleyISBN 2067004735 (2-06-700473-5)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 1934169196 (1-934169-19-6)
Softcover, Norilana Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moll Flanders'Book summary:The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c. (1722) by Daniel Defoe is a picaresque adventure-filled life story of a tenacious, smart, beautiful, and charismatic woman who aspires to be a lady but who begins her life as the daughter of a convict in Newgate prison.
At various points engaging in prostitution, incest, theft, cons and machinations, and ultimately finding penitence, security, and true love, is Moll Flanders an amoral criminal or a sympathetic woman trying to survive harsh circumstances and better her life? [via]
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New Yorkby Theodore RooseveltISBN 1929154151 (1-929154-15-1)
Hardcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, And One Other Stories We Coulby McSweeney's, Eli HorowitzISBN 1932416358 (1-932416-35-8)
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Novels, 1942-1952by John Steinbeck, Robert DemottISBN 1931082073 (1-931082-07-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Novels, 1942-1952'Book summary:This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling.[via]
The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders. In Cannery Row (1945) Steinbeck paid tribute to his closest friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, in the central character of Doc, proprietor of the Western Biological Laboratory and spiritual and financial mainstay of a cast of philosophical drifters and hangers-on. The comic and bawdy evocation of the main street of Monterey's sardine-canning district has made this one of the most popular of all Steinbeck's novels. Steinbeck's long involvement with Mexican culture is distilled in The Pearl (1947). Expanding on an anecdote he had heard about a boy who found a pearl of unusual size, Steinbeck turned it into an allegory of the corrupting influence of sudden wealth. The Pearl appears here with the original illustrations by José Clemente Orozco.
Ambitious in scale and original in structure, East of Eden (1952) recounts the violent and emotionally turbulent history of a Salinas Valley family through several generations. Drawing on Biblical parallels, East of Eden is an epic that explores the writer's deepest and most anguished concerns within a landscape that for him had mythic resonance.More editions of Novels, 1942-1952:
Our Nation Under Godby Michael McHughISBN 1930092873 (1-930092-87-3)
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The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001by Louis Aston Marantz SimpsonISBN 1929918399 (1-929918-39-9)
Softcover, Boa Editions
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Philip Roth: Novels And Stories, 1959-1962by Philip RothISBN 1931082790 (1-931082-79-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Political Behavior of the American Electorateby William H Flanigan, Nancy H. ZingaleISBN 1933116676 (1-933116-67-6)
Softcover, Cq Pr
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The Pornographer's Poemby Michael TurnerISBN 1932360239 (1-932360-23-9)
Softcover, Soft Skull Pr
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A.R. Ammons: Selected Poemsby David LehmanISBN 1931082936 (1-931082-93-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A.R. Ammons: Selected Poems'Book summary:Meditative, comic, emotionally wrenching, steeped in both the natural world and the life of the mind, the poetry of A. R. Ammons is at once cosmic in scope and intimate in its moment-to-moment transformations. With his mastery of description and cadence, his roiling wit and fearless gaze, Ammons was a philosopher of the everyday who found surprise everywhere he looked. "He is often witty, sometimes bawdy," writes editor David Lehman, "on a perpetual quest to find forms capacious enough for an imagination intent on finding a place for everything."
A compound, in editor David Lehman's words, of "wisdom, pathos, humor, mortal longing, and intimations of immortality," the work of A. R. Ammons is like nothing else in modern American poetry. Ammons's tireless formal invention and restless curiosity about every aspect of nature and of the mind are embodied in poetry that is effortlessly accessible and generous in its impulses. Whether spreading out in the long forms of Tape for the Turn of the Year or Garbage, or honing his perceptions down to the extreme brevity of his shorter lyrics, he holds tight to his vision of the way "all day / life itself is bending, / weaving, changing, / adapting, failing, / succeeding."
This new selection covering the whole range of Ammons's career offers a superb introduction to the pleasures and surprises of his work. His uncanny ability to balance wide-ranging abstract speculation with meticulous observation of natural phenomena, in poetry that encompasses moods of tragic pathos, low comedy, and seemingly casual profundity marks him as one of the preeminent figures in our recent literature [via]More editions of A.R. Ammons: Selected Poems:
Republic Sublimeby Christopher CessacISBN 1932023062 (1-932023-06-2)
Softcover, University of Nebraska Press
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Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom, and Urgent Meansby William T. VollmannISBN 1932416021 (1-932416-02-1)
Hardcover, McSweeney's Publishing
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The Roots of American Orderby Russell KirkISBN 1932236082 (1-932236-08-2)
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Sex In The South: Unbuckling The Bible Beltby Suzi ParkerISBN 1932112340 (1-932112-34-0)
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The Sheltering Skyby Paul Bowles, Daniel HalpernISBN 1931082197 (1-931082-19-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sheltering Sky'Book summary:Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important composer when at age 39 he published The Sheltering Sky and became recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period. From his base in Tangier he produced globally ranging novels, stories, and travel writings that set exquisite surfaces over violent undercurrents. His elegantly spare novels chart the unpredictable collisions between "civilized" exiles and a Morocco they never grasp, achieving effects of extreme horror and dislocation.
This Library of America Bowles set, the first annotated edition, offers the full range of his achievement: the portrait of an outsider who was one of the essential American writers of the last century. In addition to his novels-The Sheltering Sky (1949), Let It Come Down (1952), The Spider's House (1955), Up Above the World (1966)-and his collected stories-including such classics as "A Distant Episode" and "Pages from Cold Point"-they contain his masterpiece of travel writing, Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963). Throughout, Bowles shows himself a master of gothic terror and a diabolically funny observer of manners as well as a prescient guide to everything from the roots of Islamist politics to the world of Moghrebi music. With a hallucinatory clarity as dry and unforgiving as the desert air, Bowles sends his characters toward encounters with unknown and terrifying forces both outside them and within them. [via]More editions of The Sheltering Sky:
The Silverado Squattersby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 1929154097 (1-929154-09-7)
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Sin-a-rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks Of The Sixtiesby Adam Parfrey, Hedi El Kholti, Earl KempISBN 1932595058 (1-932595-05-8)
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Sir William Blackstone and the Common Law: Blackstone's Legacy to Americaby Robert D. StaceyISBN 1932124144 (1-932124-14-4)
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Skipping Towards Armageddon: The Politics And Propaganda Of The Left Behind Novels And The Lahaye Empireby Michael StandaertISBN 1932360964 (1-932360-96-4)
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Stranger Things Happenby Kelly LinkISBN 1931520003 (1-931520-00-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stranger Things Happen'Book summary:[via]An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Salon.com (Best of the Year)
A delightful collection. Cleveland Plain Dealer
My favorite fantasy writer. Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered
"Link's stories defy explanation, or at least, brief summary, instead working on the plane between dream and cognitive dissonance. They are true to themselves: witty, beautiful, funny, and startling."Rain Taxi
"Link uses the nonsensical to illuminate truth, blurring the distinctions between the mundane and the fantastic to tease out the underlying meanings of modern life."Booklist
"The 11 fantasies in this first collection from rising star Link are so quirky and exuberantly imagined that one is easily distracted from their surprisingly serious underpinnings of private pain and emotional estrangement."
Publishers WeeklyKelly Link's collection of stories, Stranger Things Happen, really scores.
Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Magazine
"A tremendously appealing book, and lovers of short fiction should fall over themselves getting out the door to find a copy."
Washington Post Book World
"Stylistic pyrotechnics light up a bizarre but emotionally truthful landscape. Link's a writer to watch."
Kirkus Reviews
"A set of stories that are by turns dazzling, funny, scary, and sexy, but only when they're not all of these at once. Kelly Link has strangeness, charm and spin to spare. Writers better than this don't happen."
Karen Joy Fowler
"Kelly Link is probably the best short story writer currently out there, in any genre or none. She puts one word after another and makes real magic with them-funny, moving, tender, brave and dangerous. She is unique, and should be declared a national treasure, and possibly surrounded at all times by a cordon of armed marines."
Neil Gaiman
"Kelly Link is the exact best and strangest and funniest short story writer on earth that you have never heard of at the exact moment you are reading these words and making them slightly inexact. Now pay for the book."
Jonathan LethemThe eleven stories in Kelly Links debut collection are funny, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. They were all especially written for you. A Best of the Year pick from Salon.com, Locus, The Village Voice, and San Francisco Chronicle. Includes Nebula, World Fantasy, and Tiptree award-winning stories.
Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short fiction Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebula, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question Why do you want to go through the world? ( Because you cant go through it. )
Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press, co-edit the fantasy half of The Years Best Fantasy and Horror, and play ping-pong. In 1996 they startd the occasional zine Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet.
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Studs Loniganby James T. FarrellISBN 1931082553 (1-931082-55-3)
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Taltosby Anne RiceISBN 2266074776 (2-266-07477-6)
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Time Goes to War: From World War II to the War on Terror, Stories of America in Battle and on the Home Frontby Kelly Knauer, Time Magazine StaffISBN 1931933227 (1-931933-22-7)
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The Touchby Daniel KeyesISBN 1929519028 (1-929519-02-8)
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This new edition of Keyes' second novel includes a preface and additional material by the author. [via]
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Tristes Tropiquesby Claude Levi-StraussISBN 2266013947 (2-266-01394-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tristes Tropiques'Book summary:"Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs" : la première phrase de Tristes tropiques donne le ton. Claude Lévi-Strauss, philosophe de formation, n'est ni un marchand d'exotisme ni un amateur d'anecdotes ; la longue confession qu'il nous livre ici relate l'histoire d'une conversion à l'ethnologie. Quelle est cette étrange passion pour l'altérité qui pousse un jeune homme, tout frais émoulu de l'université, à abandonner son "chez soi" pour aller s'immerger dans celui des autres ? Au-delà des pittoresques récits de voyages au Brésil mais aussi aux Antilles et en Asie, les chapitres sont hantés par cette interrogation sur l'exil volontaire et sur la solitude du voyageur au milieu d'autres peuples.
Réflexion sur le pouvoir et l'écriture, sur l'irréversibilité du temps qui emporte avec lui, aidé par l'Occident, des civilisations entières, sur le dur métier d'ethnologue... le domaine d'investigation de l'ouvrage est vaste. Le regard de Lévi-Strauss est sans concession mais jamais désabusé ni amer. La passion pour la vérité fait la force de l'explorateur intérieur. --Emilio Balturi [via]
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Walt Whitmanby Walt Whitman, Harold BloomISBN 1931082324 (1-931082-32-4)
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Woodrow Wilson: The Man, His Times and His Taskby William Allen WhiteISBN 1931541329 (1-931541-32-9)
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Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985 the Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, the Anatomy Lesson, the Prague Orgyby Philip RothISBN 1931082804 (1-931082-80-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985 the Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, the Anatomy Lesson, the Prague Orgy'Book summary:For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities. Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assaults on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time. By special arrangement with the author, The Library of America now inaugurates the definitive edition of Roth's collected works. This second volume presents four extraordinarily diverse works displaying the range and originality of his fictional art.
When She Was Good (1967) is the trenchant portrait of Lucy Nelson, a young midwestern woman whose perception of her own suffering turns her into a ferocious force, "enemy-ridden and unforgivingly defiant," as Roth would later describe her. A small-town 1940s America of restrictive social pressures and foreclosed opportunities provides the novel's background.
The publication of the hilarious Portnoy's Complaint (1969) was a cultural event that turned Roth into a reluctant celebrity. The confession of a bewildered psychoanalytic patient thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality yet held back by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood, Portnoy unleashed Roth's comic virtuosity and opened new avenues for American fiction.
In Our Gang (1971), described by Anthony Burgess as a "brilliant satire in the real Swift tradition," Roth effects a savage takedown of the administration of Richard Nixon (who figures here as Trick E. Dixon). Written before the revelations of the Watergate scandal, Our Gang continues to resonate as a broad and outraged response to the clownish hypocrisy and moral theatrics of the American political scene.
The Kafkaesque excursion The Breast (1972) introduces David Kepesh in the first volume of a trilogy that continues with The Professor of Desire (1977) and The Dying Animal (2001). The Breast prompted Cynthia Ozick to remark, "One knows when one is reading something that will permanently enter the culture." [via]More editions of Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985 the Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, the Anatomy Lesson, the Prague Orgy:
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Apres L'empire: Essai Sur La Decomposition Du Systeme Americainby Emmanuel ToddISBN 2070767108 (2-07-076710-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apres L'empire: Essai Sur La Decomposition Du Systeme Americain'Book summary:Le déclin de l'Empire américain aura-t-il lieu ? Oui, répond le démographe Emmanuel Todd dans ce brillant essai à contre-courant des idées reçues sur "l'hyper-puissance" de l'Amérique. Cette hypothèse est fondée sur le constat suivant : les États-Unis ne peuvent plus vivre de leur seule production : "Au moment même où le monde [...] est sur le point de découvrir qu'il peut se passer de l'Amérique, l'Amérique s'aperçoit qu'elle ne peut plus se passer du monde." Et le chercheur de s'appuyer avec brio sur une batterie de données empruntées aussi bien à l'économie qu'à la démographie, à l'anthropologie qu'à la géostratégie pour étayer sa thèse.
Dépendance économique, affaiblissement démocratique, tels sont donc les principaux symptômes de déclin identifiés par l'historien qui, en 1976, avait prévu l'effondrement soviétique uniquement sur des observations démographiques. Des signes qui permettent de comprendre dans un mouvement qui n'est paradoxal qu'en apparence pourquoi les États-Unis sont aussi actifs sur la scène internationale. Pour conserver symboliquement le statut de superpuissance qu'elle s'est, de fait, acquise depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale jusqu'à l'effondrement de l'empire soviétique, l'Amérique doit mettre en scène sa puissance sur le terrain géostratégique. Selon trois principes : ne jamais résoudre définitivement un problème ; se focaliser sur des micropuissances ; développer un arsenal militaire censé être indépassable. La lutte contre le terrorisme, les menaces contre "l'axe du mal" et l'Irak apparaissent ainsi pour ce qu'ils sont : des prétextes.
Bien sûr, il ne s'agit pas pour Emmanuel Todd de négliger les dangers du terrorisme international et les menaces qu'il fait peser sur le monde. Il s'agit de comprendre comment les États-Unis sont devenus en moins de dix ans un obstacle à la paix dans le monde. Et de dessiner les contours d'un monde dans lequel l'Amérique sera certes toujours une grande puissance mais une parmi d'autres.--Yves Fraillont [via]More editions of Apres L'empire: Essai Sur La Decomposition Du Systeme Americain:
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Candideby VoltaireISBN 2253098086 (2-253-09808-6)
Softcover, Le Livre de poche
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Candide Ou l'Optimismeby VoltaireISBN 2070389065 (2-07-038906-5)
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Charlie Et LA Grand Ascenseurby Roald DahlISBN 2070515176 (2-07-051517-6)
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De Gaulle 1944: Victoire De La Legitimiteby Rene HostacheISBN 2259003591 (2-259-00359-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'De Gaulle 1944: Victoire De La Legitimite'Book summary:"Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs" : la première phrase de Tristes tropiques donne le ton. Claude Lévi-Strauss, philosophe de formation, n'est ni un marchand d'exotisme ni un amateur d'anecdotes ; la longue confession qu'il nous livre ici relate l'histoire d'une conversion à l'ethnologie. Quelle est cette étrange passion pour l'altérité qui pousse un jeune homme, tout frais émoulu de l'université, à abandonner son "chez soi" pour aller s'immerger dans celui des autres ? Au-delà des pittoresques récits de voyages au Brésil mais aussi aux Antilles et en Asie, les chapitres sont hantés par cette interrogation sur l'exil volontaire et sur la solitude du voyageur au milieu d'autres peuples.
Réflexion sur le pouvoir et l'écriture, sur l'irréversibilité du temps qui emporte avec lui, aidé par l'Occident, des civilisations entières, sur le dur métier d'ethnologue... le domaine d'investigation de l'ouvrage est vaste. Le regard de Lévi-Strauss est sans concession mais jamais désabusé ni amer. La passion pour la vérité fait la force de l'explorateur intérieur. --Emilio Balturi [via]
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Eleazar, Ou, La Source Et Le Buisson: Romanby Michel TournierISBN 2070746925 (2-07-074692-5)
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La Grande Traverseeby Goscinny, UderzoISBN 220500896X (2-205-00896-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Grande Traversee'Book summary:Nous sommes en 1959, en plein mois d'août. Dans une cité HLM de Bobigny, aux portes de Paris, deux auteurs de bande dessinée s'épongent le front. Pas seulement à cause de la chaleur estivale : les deux compères suent sang et eau pour trouver une idée de personnage. Il leur faut être prêts pour le premier numéro de Pilote, un nouveau magazine pour les jeunes dont la parution doit intervenir trois mois plus tard. Le scénariste s'appelle René Goscinny. Son copain dessinateur, c'est Albert Uderzo. Ils avaient bien pensé à adapter Le Roman de Renart, mais un autre y a songé avant eux. Alors, ils cherchent. Mais ne trouvent rien& Jusqu'à ce que Goscinny ait l'idée d'un petit Gaulois teigneux et moustachu. Banco : Astérix est né. Et, avec lui, un formidable succès d'édition doublé d'un phénomène de société.
Il fait sa première apparition le 29 octobre 1959 dans les pages de Pilote. Puis l'album Astérix le Gaulois sort en librairie en 1961. Tirage modeste : 6 000 exemplaires. Mais la courbe des ventes ne va cesser de grimper. En 1966, 600 000 exemplaires d'Astérix chez les Bretons s'envolent en quinze jours. Le petit Gaulois est en couverture de l'hebdomadaire L'Express. Du jamais vu. L'année précédente, il a même donné son nom au premier satellite français. Les intellectuels mêlent leur grain de sel, certains trouvant à Astérix une ressemblance avec le Général de Gaulle& Goscinny et Uderzo n'en ont cure. Eux continuent à s'amuser, à faire vivre une galerie de personnages pittoresques, à réécrire l'Histoire et à régaler leurs lecteurs de gags subtils et de trouvailles visuelles. La disparition de Goscinny, en 1977, ne mettra pas fin à l'aventure. Uderzo continue seul et fonde les Éditions Albert-René. Désormais, c'est lui qui écrira les scénarios, sans toutefois faire preuve du même talent que son prédécesseur. Au total, les aventures d'Astérix et de son copain Obélix se sont vendues à plus de 280 millions d'exemplaires. Une réussite exceptionnelle dans la bande dessinée. --Gilbert Jacques [via]More editions of La Grande Traversee:
Je Suis Vivant Et Vous etes Morts: Philip K. Dick, 1928-1982by Emmanuel CarrereISBN 2020201739 (2-02-020173-9)
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Le Laboratoire Aux Serpentsby Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist, Rose-Marie VassalloISBN 2092110349 (2-09-211034-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Laboratoire Aux Serpents'Book summary:192pages. in8. Broché. Les Baudelaire, ce sont trois orphelins: Violette, 14 ans, à l'intelligence scientifique; Klaus, 12 ans, lecteur insatiable; et Prunille, la petite dernière qui mord tout ce qui se passe. A la suite de la mort de leurs parents dans un incendie, ils se retrouvent à la tête d'une immense fortune mais ne pourront en jouir qu'à la majorité de Violette. M. Poe, l'exécuteur testamentaire, banquier austère, se charge de les placer chez divers membres de la famille. C'est ainsi que les trois orphelins vont parcourir le monde avec, sans cesse à leurs trousses, l'odieux et cupide Comte Olaf, qui n'a plus qu'une obsession en tête: mettre la main sur le magot des orphelins Baudelaire. Une saga en 13 tomes plébiscitée dès le premier volume par les lecteurs américains (3 millions d'exemplaires vendus depuis la parution du premier tome aux Etats-Unis en 1999). Dans ce pastiche tragi-comique des mélos anglo-saxons du XIX° siècle, les malheurs succèdent aux malheurs. Le ton reste cependant celui de l'aventure, du suspense et de l'humour en toutes circonstances. Car l'auteur cultive l'ironie et un humour pince-sans-rire à l'anglaise: un jeu auquel se prend le lecteur. [via]
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Laurier Blancby Janet FitchISBN 2253152897 (2-253-15289-7)
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L'Oeuvre De Dieu, LA Part Du Diableby John IrvingISBN 2020257807 (2-02-025780-7)
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