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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules Verne, Bruce CovilleISBN 0531169626 (0-531-16962-6)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:The futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, takes the reader through dangerously adventurous voyages and introduces many interesting, distinctive characters. Includes colorful illustrations, notes to readers and an author profile. [via]
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Abbey's Roadby Edward AbbeyISBN 0525030018 (0-525-03001-8)
Softcover, Dutton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abbey's Road'Book summary:Curmudgeon, environmental brawler, and literary desert rat, Edward Abbey nursed dreams of one day walking out into the wild "to become one with the landscape. To just... disappear." He made valiant efforts to make good on that dream of escape in sometimes harebrained, often dangerous expeditions to difficult places, adventures some of which are recounted in this lively collection of essays.
The first part of Abbey's Road is given to a walkabout in the outback of Australia, whose scattered human settlements remind Abbey of towns in the American West, "although not so blatantly ugly." Having ignored good advice not to stray too far afield in that waterless place and lived to tell the tale, Abbey turns later in the book to other desert landscapes (islands in the Gulf of California, remote corners of the Grand Canyon, and the like) before delivering a series of trademark yawps against the forces that would just as soon bulldoze such places as protect them. Along the way Abbey recalls his work as a seasonal park ranger (which yielded his incomparable memoir, Desert Solitaire) and fire lookout, offers a few tongue-in-cheek words in defense of rednecks, and muses on the effects of hallucinogenic drugs and the virtues of his "slapstick, slapdash, sex-crazed manner"--all good and generally good-natured pieces, even if a few of them are now showing signs of age.
If you're new to Abbey's work, Abbey's Road is not the best place to start; have a look at The Best of Edward Abbey or The Serpents of Paradise, two sturdy, career-spanning collections. But if you've read his better-known books and want to have a closer look at the man behind them, Abbey's Road is the one to follow. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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AEgyptby John CrowleyISBN 0553051946 (0-553-05194-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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After Deloresby Sarah SchulmanISBN 052524641X (0-525-24641-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Always Coming Homeby Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, Todd Barton, George HershISBN 0520227352 (0-520-22735-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Always Coming Home'Book summary:Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.[via]More editions of Always Coming Home:
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Anne of Green Gablesby L. M. Montgomery, Troy HowellISBN 0517659581 (0-517-65958-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Banana Roseby Natalie GoldbergISBN 0553095277 (0-553-09527-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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The Book of Reubenby Tabitha KingISBN 0525937668 (0-525-93766-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Book of the Goons: Incorporating a New Selection of Spike Milligan's Goon Show Scripts And, by Courtesy of Whacklow, Futtle & Crun, (Commissioners for Oaths, Threats Issued), the Authentic, Unexpurgated Inter-Goonal Correspondence of Certain...by Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry SecombeISBN 0552999563 (0-552-99956-3)
Hardcover, Corgi
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The Call of the Wild and White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 0553127144 (0-553-12714-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Cambridge Companion to Hemingwayby Scott DonaldsonISBN 052145574X (0-521-45574-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Cambridge Companion to Henry Jamesby Jonathan FreedmanISBN 0521499240 (0-521-49924-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Cat on the Scentby Rita Mae Brown, Itoko Maeno, Sneaky Pie BrownISBN 055309971X (0-553-09971-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat on the Scent'Book summary:The animals in Crozet, Virginia, are a lot smarter than the humans, which will come as no surprise to the devoted fans of Rita Mae Brown's mysteries featuring Mrs. Murphy the tiger cat, the luxury-loving feline known as Pewter, and Tee Tucker, a curious corgi. In their seventh outing, they're leaps and bounds ahead of Harry Haristeen, the spunky postmistress they call Mom. Long before anyone else knows what's going on, they've figured out the connection between the shot fired at wealthy Sir Henry Vane-Tempest during the reenactment of a Civil War battle and a missing airplane hidden in Tally Urquhart's barn. They're better at finding evidence trampled underfoot at a crime scene than any detective is, and they know just whose lap to drop it in. While they might not understand exactly why county commissioner Archie Ingram is so exercised about Vane-Tempest's plans for development in Albemarle County--particularly when it promises to make him as wealthy as the husband of the woman he loves--they've sniffed out the sexual shenanigans that threaten to derail the private pact between Crozet's leading citizens. If Harry and her friends knew what the animals know, there'd be no mystery about it; there'd only be a charming and lighthearted story of chicanery in the new Old South with plenty of local color, the scent of lilacs wafting through every page, and the deft prose of a writer on top of her game. But then, there'd be no raison d'etre for the liveliest scene in the book, wherein Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tee take a turbo-charged Porsche for a breakneck ride through Virginia's verdant hills and dales. By the end of the book, the only mystery is whether Harry and Fair, her favorite ex-husband, will manage to get back together again in the next installment--or the one after that--of this popular series. --Jane Adams [via]
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Cavedwellerby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0525941673 (0-525-94167-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cavedweller'Book summary:"Death changes everything." So begins Dorothy Allison's sprawling, ambitious, and deeply satisfying second novel, Cavedweller. For Delia Byrd, Randall Pritchard's death in a motorcycle accident launches a journey of several thousand miles and almost two decades, a rebirth of sorts that's also a return to her roots. Years before, the handsome but untrustworthy rock star Randall helped Delia flee an abusive husband; Delia escapes physical danger but leaves her two small children behind. In California, her abandoned daughters haunt her dreams and preoccupy her waking hours, even as she sings in Randall's band and gives birth to another daughter, Cissy. But when Randall is killed in a motorcycle accident, Delia packs rebellious Cissy into a broken-down Datsun, bound for Cayro, Georgia, and the one thing that suddenly matters more than anything else: her abandoned children and the chance to be a mother to them once again.
Cayro's poverty is emotional as well as material; the town is a hard place, full of hard people. To them, Delia will always be "that bitch" who abandoned her babies, "that hippie" living a life of sin. Nonetheless, Delia forges a cruel bargain with her former husband: in exchange for Delia's agreeing to care for him as he dies, he gives her a chance to reclaim her daughters. Like Bastard out of Carolina, Allison's acclaimed debut novel, Cavedweller is a chronicle of rage, strength, and survival. Here, however, Allison is equally concerned with the redemptive power of love and forgiveness, and a novel that began with death ends on an unexpectedly sanguine note: "'Yes, it's time for some new songs.'" There are no victims in Dorothy Allison's work; Delia triumphs through sheer force of will, bringing her family together despite the contempt of almost everyone around her.
The novel has its flaws--including occasionally flat-footed prose--but it is in the end compulsively readable, and it's populated by some of the most memorable characters in recent fiction: tough, prickly, flawed, and deeply human, Delia and Cissy are literary creations of the first rank. In describing the complicated emotions that bind and divide them, Allison demonstrates a profoundly unsentimental understanding of the way the human heart works. Cavedweller is the work of a mature artist, her best fiction to date. [via]
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China Boyby Gus LeeISBN 052524994X (0-525-24994-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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A Companion to the Cantos of Ezra Poundby Carroll E. TerrellISBN 0520082877 (0-520-08287-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Daemonomaniaby John CrowleyISBN 0553100041 (0-553-10004-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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Dark Force Risingby Timothy ZahnISBN 0553085743 (0-553-08574-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Force Rising'Book summary:With Luke trapped by the Dark Jedi, Han pursuing a missing battle fleet, and Princess Leia occupied with influencing an alien race heretofore loyal to Thrawn, the fate of the Republic is threatened. 250,000 first printing. [via]
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Dicteeby Theresa Hak Kyung ChaISBN 0520231120 (0-520-23112-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Down The Riverby Edward AbbeyISBN 0525476768 (0-525-47676-8)
Softcover, Dutton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Down The River'Book summary:"Be of good cheer," the war-horse Edward Abbey advises, "the military-industrial state will soon collapse." This sparkling book, which takes us up and down rivers and across mountains and deserts, is the perfect antidote to despair.
Along the way, Abbey makes time for Thoreau while he takes a hard look at the MX missile system, slated for the American West. "For 23 years now I've been floating rivers. Always downstream, the easy and natural way. The way Huck Finn and Jim did it, LaSalle and Marquette, the mountain men, and Major Powell."
"Abbey's the original fly in the ointment. Give him money and prizes. Don't let anything happen to him." --Thomas McGuane [via]
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Dying for Chocolateby Diane Mott DavidsonISBN 055308576X (0-553-08576-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dying for Chocolate'Book summary:Fleeing an abusive ex, caterer Goldy Bear moves herself, her son, and her business out to the ritzy Aspen Meadow Country Club area, where she witnesses the bizarre death of Philip Miller, a handsome local shrink. [via]
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Empathyby Sarah SchulmanISBN 0525935215 (0-525-93521-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Flowering of New Englandby Van Wyck BrooksISBN 0525026452 (0-525-02645-2)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Fudge-a-Maniaby Judy BlumeISBN 0525469273 (0-525-46927-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fudge-A-Mania'Book summary:[via]Fudge is backand driving his brother Peter crazy, as usual. This five-year-old human hurricane is more trouble than ever. His latest plan is to marry Peters sworn enemy, Sheila Tubman (how disgusting!).
But Peters problems are about to get worse. His parents have decided to share a summer house with the Tubmans. And Peter will be stuck with Fudge and Sheila the Cootie Queen for three whole weeks!
Its going to be an unforgettable (and hilarious) trip for both families, filled with old friends and new ones, plenty of surprises and lots of laughs. It may not be the vacation of Peters dreams. But as millions of Judy Blume fans know, it wont be dull. Because with Fudge around, anything can happen&and does!
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Hauntedby Carol Joyce OatesISBN 0525936556 (0-525-93655-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Heat and Other Storiesby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0525933301 (0-525-93330-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Heir to the Empireby Timothy ZahnISBN 0553073273 (0-553-07327-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heir to the Empire'Book summary:Here is a special 20th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel that reignited the entire Star Wars publishing phenomenonfeaturing an Introduction and annotations from award-winning author Timothy Zahn, exclusive commentary from Lucasfilm and Del Rey Books, and a brand-new novella starring the ever-popular Grand Admiral Thrawn. The biggest event in the history of Star Wars books, Heir to the Empire follows the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia after they led the Rebel Alliance to victory in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.
Five years after the Death Star was destroyed and Darth Vader and the Emperor were defeated, the galaxy is struggling to heal the wounds of war, Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting twins, and Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of new Jedi Knights.
But thousands of light-years away, the last of the Emperors warlordsthe brilliant and deadly Grand Admiral Thrawnhas taken command of the shattered Imperial fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the New Republic. For this dark warrior has made two vital discoveries that could destroy everything the courageous men and women of the Rebel Alliance fought so hard to create.
The explosive confrontation that results is a towering epic of action, invention, mystery, and spectacle on a galactic scalein short, a story worthy of the name Star Wars. [via]More editions of Heir to the Empire:
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The Hotel New Hampshireby John IrvingISBN 052512800X (0-525-12800-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hotel New Hampshire'Book summary:The first of my fathers illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels. So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they dream on in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.
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The Hundred Brothersby Donald AntrimISBN 0517703106 (0-517-70310-6)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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In the Heart of the Valley of Loveby Cynthia KadohataISBN 0520207289 (0-520-20728-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Heart of the Valley of Love'Book summary:Cynthia Kadohata explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, and gas, not to mention education, cannot be taken for granted. There is an intimate, understated, even gentle quality to Kadohata's writing--this is not an apocalyptic dystopia--that makes it difficult to shrug off the version of the future embodied in her book.[via]More editions of In the Heart of the Valley of Love:
It's Not the End of the Worldby Judy BlumeISBN 0553136283 (0-553-13628-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Jane and the Man of the Clothby Stephanie BarronISBN 0553102036 (0-553-10203-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manorby Stephanie BarronISBN 055310196X (0-553-10196-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American Westby Edward AbbeyISBN 052513753X (0-525-13753-X)
Softcover, Dutton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West'Book summary:"I am not a naturalist. I never was and never will be a naturalist." So Ed Abbey opens The Journey Home, a collection of essays that turns every page or two to some aspect of the natural history of the desert West. Abbey had recently been compared to Henry Thoreau as a writer who had made a home both literary and real in the wild, and he was having none of it: he wanted to be thought of as a novelist and environmental activist, not as the author of gentle essays on self-sufficiency and the turn of the seasons. The Journey Home is thus full of politically charged, often enraged essays on such matters as urban growth ("The Blob Comes to Arizona"), the gentrification of the small-town West ("Telluride Blues--A Hatchet Job"), and wilderness preservation ("Let Us Now Praise Mountain Lions"). He raised a few hackles with this book, but he also found many devoted readers, fans who wanted and got an update of and rejoinder to Abbey's Desert Solitaire. Agree with him or not, you can't fault Abbey for his honest self-assessment: "I am--really am--an extremist," he wrote, "one who lives and loves by choice far out on the very verge of things, on the edge of the abyss, where this world falls into the depths of the other. That's the way I like it." --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Kon-Tikiby Thor HeyerdahlISBN 0528810359 (0-528-81035-9)
Hardcover, Rand McNally
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kon-Tiki'Book summary:Six men on a small raft sail four thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean, from Peru to the Polynesian Islands. [via]
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Last Commandby Timothy ZahnISBN 0553091867 (0-553-09186-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Command'Book summary:This story begins five years after the events of the "Star Wars" film "Return of the Jedi". Hopes are dim in the fragile New Republic as Grand Admiral Thrawn and his clone soldiers mount a final siege, threatening the Republic's ruin. [via]
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Lawrence : Sons and Loversby Michael H. Black, J. P. SternISBN 052136924X (0-521-36924-X)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lawrence : Sons and Lovers'Book summary:This is the first critical study of Sons and Lovers to engage with the new Cambridge edition, which prints for the first time the whole text that Lawrence wrote, restoring the sustantial cuts made by the first editor. Michael Black gives special attention to the genesis of the book--the writing and editing processes, where Jessie Chambers and then Edward Garnett made decisive interventions. He analyzes Sons and Lovers in detail, relates it to Lawrence's other works, and traces the history of its reception. Historical context and a guide to further reading are also provided. [via]
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Le Divorceby Diane JohnsonISBN 0525942386 (0-525-94238-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Divorce'Book summary:Diane Johnson updates the transatlantic novel so gorgeously rendered by Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, and Nathaniel Hawthorne; evokes the spirit of such expatriates sojourning in Paris as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald; and mines the pathos of modern fiction in creating this wonderful and important novel. Isabel Walker, eerily reminiscent of James's Isabel Archer, is a young film-school dropout who travels to Paris to aid her stepsister, who is going through a divorce. Isabel's California cool, American freedoms, and feminist slants comingle, successfully and fractiously, with the customs, biases, and complex sexuality of modern Europe. The result modulates between introspection and hilarity, and a quick, Hollywood-inspired sweep of violent action in the end doesn't undermine the author's mastery of Old World vs. New--in fact, it provides an ironic scrim. [via]
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Le Mariageby Diane JohnsonISBN 0525945180 (0-525-94518-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Legacy of the Darkswordby Margaret Weis, Tracy HickmanISBN 0553099655 (0-553-09965-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Liar's Diaryby Patry FrancisISBN 0525949909 (0-525-94990-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Long Quiet Highway : Waking up in Americaby Natalie GoldbergISBN 0553072455 (0-553-07245-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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Love and Sleepby John CrowleyISBN 0553096427 (0-553-09642-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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Man Crazyby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0525942327 (0-525-94232-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Monkeysby Susan MinotISBN 0525243429 (0-525-24342-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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In this luminous story of family life--the first novel by Susan Minot, author of the highly acclaimed Evening--the seven Vincent children follow their Catholic mother to Mass and spend Thanksgiving with their father's aging parents who come from a world of New England priviledge. As they grow older, they meet with the perplexing lives of adults. Susan Minot writes with delicacy and a tremendous gift for the details that decorate domestic life, and when tragedy strikes she beautifully mines the children's tenderness for each other, and their aching guardianship of what they have. [via]More editions of Monkeys:
Murder on the Prowlby Rita Mae Brown, Wendy Wray, Sneaky Pie BrownISBN 0553099701 (0-553-09970-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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Murder She Meowedby Sneaky Pie Brown, Rita Mae Brown, Wendy WrayISBN 0553096044 (0-553-09604-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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My Side of the Mountainby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0525463461 (0-525-46346-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Side of the Mountain'Book summary:Every kid thinks about running away at one point or another; few get farther than the end of the block. Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going--all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. There he sets up house in a huge hollowed-out tree, with a falcon and a weasel for companions and his wits as his tool for survival. In a spellbinding, touching, funny account, Sam learns to live off the land, and grows up a little in the process. Blizzards, hunters, loneliness, and fear all battle to drive Sam back to city life. But his desire for freedom, independence, and adventure is stronger. No reader will be immune to the compulsion to go right out and start whittling fishhooks and befriending raccoons.
Jean Craighead George, author of more than 80 children's books, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves, created another prizewinner with My Side of the Mountain--a Newbery Honor Book, an ALA Notable Book, and a Hans Christian Andersen Award Honor Book. Astonishingly, she wrote its sequel, On the Far Side of the Mountain, 30 years later, and a decade after that penned the final book in the trilogy, Frightful's Mountain, told from the falcon's point of view. George has no doubt shaped generations of young readers with her outdoor adventures of the mind and spirit. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Softcover, Dutton - My Side of the Mountain: ISBN 0525355308 (0-525-35530-8)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slaveby Frederick DouglassISBN 0534521185 (0-534-52118-5)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave'Book summary:Recounting his life in and his escape out of slavery, the autobiography of the inspirational abolitionist Frederick Douglass is a powerful and insightful narration that has made a significant impact in America's history. [via]
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Natural State: A Literary Anthology of California Nature Writingby Steven GilbarISBN 0520212096 (0-520-21209-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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On the Far Side of the Mountainby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0525463488 (0-525-46348-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Far Side of the Mountain'Book summary:Life in the wilderness has just become a lot thornier for young Sam Gribley. For the last two years he's been living in a hollowed-out tree in the Catskill Mountains, hunting and gathering his food supply and befriending the critters in his "neighborhood." Sam's peaceful existence is abruptly shattered when an environmental conservation officer confiscates his peregrine falcon, Frightful. To make matters worse, Sam's sister Alice, who has been living with him for the past year, has disappeared. This double blow quickly puts Sam on the trail to the far side of his mountain, pursuing a multifaceted mystery that, ultimately, will force him to make the biggest decision of his life.
Thirty years after the publication of her Newbery Honor Book, My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George rewarded her many fans with an exciting sequel. This remarkable author of over 80 books and recipient of more than 20 literary awards (including the Newbery Medal for Julie of the Wolves) is a passionate advocate for the environment. Her knack for naturalist writing that crackles with life will have readers of all ages chomping at the bit for the third novel in her trilogy, Frightful's Mountain. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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One on Oneby Tabitha KingISBN 0525935908 (0-525-93590-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One on One'Book summary:Two high-school students--Sam, a born leader, and Deanie, a rebel--fall in love, in a bittersweet coming-of-age story set in a rural town in western Maine. By the author of Small World. 50,000 first printing. 50,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Our Town: A Play in Three Actsby Thornton Niven WilderISBN 0531003159 (0-531-00315-9)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Rat Bohemiaby Sarah SchulmanISBN 0525937900 (0-525-93790-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rat Bohemia'Book summary:Sarah Schulman's Rat Bohemia is a witty, moving and sometimes shocking look at how lesbians and gay men are treated by their biological families. Set in contemporary New York, Schulman's characters--Rita, a rat exterminator who works for the city, Killer, a lesbian bohemian, and David, a gay writer with AIDS--are all trying to figure out how to live in a city that is falling apart and how to make peace with the families who ignore them or treat them badly. Schulman's eye for urban detail and her wicked, ironic sense of humor all contribute to making this a profoundly affecting and deeply disturbing look at lesbian and gay life today. [via]
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Red Dragonby Thomas HarrisISBN 0525945563 (0-525-94556-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Dragon'Book summary:Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas's Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs. As in Silence, the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist Lecter for clues to catching a killer on the loose.
The sleuth, Will Graham, actually quit the FBI after nearly getting killed by Lecter while nabbing him, but fear isn't what bugs him about crime busting. It's just too creepy to get inside a killer's twisted mind. But he comes back to stop a madman who's been butchering entire families. The FBI needs Graham's insight, and Graham needs Lecter's genius. But Lecter is a clever fiend, and he manipulates both Graham and the killer at large from his cell.
That killer, Francis Dolarhyde, works in a film lab, where he picks his victims by studying their home movies. He's obsessed with William Blake's bizarre painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, believing there's a red dragon within him, the personification of his demonic drives. Flashbacks to Dolarhyde's terrifying childhood and superb stream-of-consciousness prose get us right there inside his head. When Dolarhyde does weird things, we understand why. We sympathize when the voice of the cruel dead grandma who raised and crazed him urges him to mayhem--she's way scarier than that old bat in Psycho. When he falls in love with a blind girl at the lab, we hope he doesn't give in to Grandma's violent advice.
This book is awesomely detailed, ingeniously plotted, judiciously gory, and fantastically imagined. If you haven't read it, you've never had the creeps. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore EvansISBN 0521532531 (0-521-53253-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Roughing Itby Mark Twain, Paul Baender, Franklin R. RogersISBN 0520020189 (0-520-02018-9)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Centuryby Michael DavidsonISBN 052142304X (0-521-42304-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Sixty Storiesby Donald BarthelmeISBN 0525480188 (0-525-48018-8)
Softcover, Dutton
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Some Girlsby Kristin McCloyISBN 0525938370 (0-525-93837-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Sons and Loversby D. H. Lawrence, Helen Baron, Carl BaronISBN 0521242762 (0-521-24276-2)
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Stanley Elkin's the Magic Kingdomby Stanley ElkinISBN 0525482113 (0-525-48211-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Stars My Destinationby Alfred BesterISBN 053115050X (0-531-15050-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stars My Destination'Book summary:When it comes to pop culture, Alfred Bester (1913-1987) is something of an unsung hero. He wrote radio scripts, screenplays, and comic books (in which capacity he created the original Green Lantern Oath). But Bester is best known for his science-fiction novels, and The Stars My Destination may be his finest creation. First published in 1956 (as Tiger! Tiger!), the novel revolves around a hero named Gulliver Foyle, who teleports himself out of a tight spot and creates a great deal of consternation in the process. With its sly potshotting at corporate skullduggery, The Stars My Destination seems utterly contemporary, and has maintained its status as an underground classic for forty years. (Bester fans should also note that Vintage has reprinted The Demolished Man, which won the very first Hugo Award in 1953.) [via]
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Superfudgeby Judy BlumeISBN 0525469303 (0-525-46930-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Superfudge'Book summary:Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother Fudge. [via]
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothingby Judy Blume, Roy DotyISBN 0525469311 (0-525-46931-1)
Hardcover, Dutton Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing'Book summary:Passed on from babysitters to their young charges, from big sisters to little brothers, and from parents to children, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and its cousins (Superfudge, Fudge-a-mania, and Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great) have entertained children since they first appeared in the early 1970s. The books follow Peter Hatcher, his little brother Fudgie, baby sister Tootsie, their neighbor Sheila Tubman, various pets, and minor characters through New York City and on treks to suburbs and camps.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is the first of these entertaining yarns. Peter, because he's the oldest, must deal with Fudgie's disgusting cuteness, his constant meddling with Peter's stuff, and other grave offenses, one of which is almost too much to bear. All these incidents are presented with the unfailing ear and big-hearted humor of the masterful Judy Blume. Though some of her books for older kids have aroused controversy, the Hatcher brothers and their adventures remain above the fray, where they belong. (Peter's in fourth grade, so the book is suitable for kids ages 8 and older.) [via]
This Is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Parisby James CampbellISBN 0520230337 (0-520-23033-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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To Say Nothing of the Dogby Connie WillisISBN 0553099957 (0-553-09995-7)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Say Nothing of the Dog'Book summary:To Say Nothing of the Dog is a science-fiction fantasy in the guise of an old-fashioned Victorian novel, complete with epigraphs, brief outlines, and a rather ugly boxer in three-quarters profile at the start of each chapter. Or is it a Victorian novel in the guise of a time-traveling tale, or a highly comic romp, or a great, allusive literary game, complete with spry references to Dorothy L. Sayers, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Conan Doyle? Its title is the subtitle of Jerome K. Jerome's singular, and hilarious, Three Men in a Boat. In one scene the hero, Ned Henry, and his friends come upon Jerome, two men, and the dog Montmorency in--you guessed it--a boat. Jerome will later immortalize Ned's fumbling. (Or, more accurately, Jerome will earlier immortalize Ned's fumbling, because Ned is from the 21st century and Jerome from the 19th.)
What Connie Willis soon makes clear is that genre can go to the dogs. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a fine, and fun, romance--an amused examination of conceptions and misconceptions about other eras, other people. When we first meet Ned, in 1940, he and five other time jumpers are searching bombed-out Coventry Cathedral for the bishop's bird stump, an object about which neither he nor the reader will be clear for hundreds of pages. All he knows is that if they don't find it, the powerful Lady Schrapnell will keep sending them back in time, again and again and again. Once he's been whisked through the rather quaint Net back to the Oxford future, Ned is in a state of super time-lag. (Willis is happily unconcerned with futuristic vraisemblance, though Ned makes some obligatory references to "vids," "interactives," and "headrigs.") The only way Ned can get the necessary two weeks' R and R is to perform one more drop and recuperate in the past, away from Lady Schrapnell. Once he returns something to someone (he's too exhausted to understand what or to whom) on June 7, 1888, he's free.
Willis is concerned, however, as is her confused character, with getting Victoriana right, and Ned makes a good amateur anthropologist--entering one crowded room, he realizes that "the reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over." Though he's still not sure what he's supposed to bring back, various of his confederates keep popping back to set him to rights. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a shaggy-dog tale complete with a preternaturally quiet, time-traveling cat, Princess Arjumand, who might well be the cause of some serious temporal incongruities--for even a mouser might change the course of European history. In the end, readers might well be more interested in Ned's romance with a fellow historian than in the bishop's bird stump, and who will not rejoice in their first Net kiss, which lasts 169 years! [via]
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Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Redby Harry KemelmanISBN 0525630074 (0-525-63007-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sureby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0525939210 (0-525-93921-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two or Three Things I Know for Sure'Book summary:An autobiographical narrative by the author of Bastard out of Carolina explores such topics as love and loss, beauty and terror, and the intricacies of family love and hatred while illuminating the rural poverty of the South. 50,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
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Valisby Philip K. Dick, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0553141562 (0-553-14156-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Valis'Book summary:The first of Dick's three final novels (the others are Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). Known as science fiction only for lack of a better category, "Valis" takes place in our world and may even be semi-autobiographical. It is a fool's search for God, who turns out to be a virus, a joke, and a mental hologram transmitted from an orbiting satellite.
The proponent of the novel, Horselover Fat, is thrust into a theological quest when he receives communion in a burst of pink laser light. From the cancer ward of a bay area hospital to the ranch of a fraudulent charismatic religious figure who turns out to have a direct com link with God, Dick leads us down the twisted paths of Gnostic belief, mixed with his own bizarre and compelling philosophy. Truly an eye opening look at the nature of consciousness and divinity. [via]
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The Westing Gameby Ellen RaskinISBN 0525423206 (0-525-42320-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Westing Game'Book summary:For twenty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite and is now being reissued with a brand-new jacket by Kevin Hawkes and an introduction by Ann Durell.[via]
This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, which involves blizzards, burglaries, and bombings. Ellen Raskin has entangled a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense. 
Will You Always Love Me? and Other Storiesby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0525939725 (0-525-93972-5)
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The World According to Garpby John IrvingISBN 0525237704 (0-525-23770-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World According to Garp'Book summary:"Garp was a natural storyteller," says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. "He could make things up one right after the other, and they seemed to fit."
Irving packs wild characters and weird events into his classic--officially recognized as such in a Modern Library edition with a new introduction by the author--while amazingly maintaining the rough feel of realism in every scene and the pulse of life in every heart. Many novelists of his time might have populated a novel with a novelist protagonist whose life and books comment on each other and the novel we're reading. Transsexual football players, ball turret gunners lobotomized in battle, multiple adultery, unicycling bears, mad feminists who amputate their tongues in sympathy with the celebrated victim of a horrifying rape--Irving made them all people. Even the bear is a fitting character.
In a crucial episode, Garp's wife's seduction of a young man coincidentally occurs at the moment when Garp is delighting their young sons with a reckless car trick (one of the few scenes beautifully, eerily, heartbreakingly captured in the film version as well). Many authors would have been content with the harsh comedy of the scene, but Irving respects its integrity, and he builds the rest of the book on the consequences of the event. How does he get away with his killer cocktail of slapstick and horror? Because it's simply what we all face daily, rearranged into soul-satisfying art. "Life is an X-rated soap opera," according to Garp, and who can contradict him?
Rereading Garp 20 years later, one is struck by how elegantly Irving structures his bizarre and complex story. Take the two most celebrated bits in the book, the Under Toad and Garp's story "The Pension Grillparzer," which shimmers like an exquisite Kafkaesque insect in the amber of the novel. When Garp warns his son about the "undertow" at the beach, the boy imagines a monster out of Beowulf who lurks beneath the waves to suck you under: the "Under Toad." It's funny at first, but we soon find that the Under Toad is a metaphor with teeth--he connects with a prophetic dream of death in "The Pension Grillparzer," set in Vienna. Garp's son's last words are, "It's like a dream!" And as Irving--who studied at the University of Vienna--can certainly tell you, the German word for "death" sounds precisely like the English word "toad."
All that death, and yet Garp is mainly exuberant. This story is, as Garp's stuttering writing teacher puts it, "rich with lu-lu-lunacy and sorrow." It enriches literature, and our lives. --Tim Appelo [via]
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