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Aberration of Starlightby Gilbert SorrentinoISBN 0140058796 (0-14-005879-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Adventures in a TV Nationby Michael Moore, Kathleen GlynnISBN 0060988096 (0-06-098809-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Angelsby Denis JohnsonISBN 0060988827 (0-06-098882-7)
Softcover, Perennial
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Autobiography of a Faceby Lucy GrealyISBN 006097673X (0-06-097673-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography of a Face'Book summary:At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasure of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect [via]
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The Basketball Diariesby Jim CarrollISBN 0140100180 (0-14-010018-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Beet Queen: A Novelby Louise ErdrichISBN 0060977507 (0-06-097750-7)
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Black Girl / White Girlby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0061125644 (0-06-112564-4)
Hardcover, Ecco Pr
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The Blessing Wayby Tony HillermanISBN 0061000019 (0-06-100001-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Breastby Philip RothISBN 0140076794 (0-14-007679-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Breast'Book summary:Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafkas protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roths richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of Kepeshs metamorphosisa daring, heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity. The Breast is terrific . . . inventive and sane and very funny. The trick which is the heart of the book is brilliant . . . and rich with meaning. John Gardner, The New York Times Book Review Hilarious, serious, visionary, logical, sexual-philosophical; the ending amazesthe joke takes three steps beyond savagery and satire and turns into a sublimeness of pity. One knows when one is reading something that will permanently enter the culture. Cynthia Ozick [via]
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Storiesby Jack London, Andrew SinclairISBN 0140186514 (0-14-018651-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories'Book summary:[via]This collection includes The Call of the Wild and its companion novel, White Fang, as well as all of Jack London's famous dog stories"Batard," "Moon-Face," "Brown Wolf," "That Spot," and "To Build a Fire."
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Cape Codby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0140170022 (0-14-017002-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cape Cod'Book summary:Thoreau's classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea[via]
Cape Cod chronicles Henry David Thoreaus journey of discovery along this evocative stretch of Massachusetts coastline, during which time he came to understand the complex relationship between the sea and the shore. He spent his nights in lighthouses, in fishing huts, and on isolated farms. He passed his days wandering the beaches, where he observed the wide variety of life and death offered up by the ocean. Through these observations, Thoreau discovered that the only way to truly know the seaits depth, its wildness, and the natural life it containedwas to study it from the shore. Like his most famous work, Walden, Cape Cod is full of Thoreaus unique perceptions and precise descriptions. But it is also full of his own joy and wonder at having stumbled across a new frontier so close to home, where a man may stand and put all America behind him.
Part of the Penguin Nature Library
Series Editor: Edward Hoagland
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Carpenter's Gothicby William GaddisISBN 0140089934 (0-14-008993-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carpenter's Gothic'Book summary:This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vietnam veteran. From their "carpenter gothic" rented house, Paul sets himself up as a media consultant for Reverend Ude, an evangelist mounting a grand crusade that conveniently suits a mining combine bidding to take over an ore strike on the site of Ude's African mission. At the still center of the breakneck action is Paul's wife, Liz, and over it all looms the shadowy figure of McCandless, a geologist from whom Paul and Liz rent their house. As Paul mishandles the situation, his wife takes the geologist to her bed and a fire and aborted assassination occur; Ude issues a call to arms as harrowing as any Jeremiad -- and Armageddon comes rapidly closer. Displaying Gaddis's inimitable virtuoso dialogue, and his startling treatments of violence and sexuality, Carpenter's Gothic "shows again that Gaddis is among the first rank of contemporary American writers (Malcolm Bradbury, The Washington Post Book World). [via]
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Catherine, Called Birdyby Karen CushmanISBN 0064405842 (0-06-440584-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to arich man--any rich man, no matter how awful.
But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call--by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all.
Unfortunately, he is also the richest.
Can a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of a father?
Deus! Not if Catherine has anything to say about it!
Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man--any rich man, no mater how awful.
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But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call--by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all.
Unfortunately, he is also the richest.
Can a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actualy lose the battle against an ill-mannared, piglike lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of a father?
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The Company She Keepsby Mary McCarthyISBN 0140023275 (0-14-002327-5)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Company She Keeps'Book summary:These six brilliantly written episodes, brought together in Mary McCarthy's first novel, create a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle. Based loosely on the author's own life, the book follows a young bohemian woman, Margaret Sargent, through her experiences and lost loves in a time of coming war. On publication in 1942, its bold insight, sly wit and virtuoso style won Mary McCarthy immediate recogntion as one of the most accomplished, versatile and penetrating writers in America. [via]
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Complete Storiesby Dorothy Parker, Colleen BreeseISBN 0140189394 (0-14-018939-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Stories'Book summary:Dorothy Parker's quips and light verse have become part of the American literary landscape, but, as this new collection of her complete short stories demonstrates, Parker's talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Many of the stories, originally written for magazines, have never been collected before. [via]
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Connecting: A User-Friendly Guide to Assembling Your Own Audio-Video Home Entertainment Centerby Tom MyersISBN 006096023X (0-06-096023-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Daisy Miller and Other Storiesby Henry JamesISBN 0140067213 (0-14-006721-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dangerous Angelsby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0064406970 (0-06-440697-0)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dangerous Angels'Book summary:Lanky lizards! The slinkster-cool novels in Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat series have finally been compiled into one delicious volume. All of the ethereal, mesmerizing titles are here--Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan, and Baby Be-Bop--together like the big, beautiful family described on their pages. Block's unique, poetic style immediately draws readers into an intoxicating magical-realist world populated by empathetic, original characters (as well as a few ghosts, fairies, and genies): "He kissed her. A kiss about apple pie à la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs."
We cheer for these young women and men as they struggle with the universal trials of growing up, finding love, and letting go--all within the vivid, glittering, urban embrace of Los Angeles. Block's stories about finding yourself, being true to your dreams, and believing in what might seem impossible will inspire teens and adults alike with the resounding messages of hope and the transformative power of love. --Brangien Davis [via]
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Death at La Feniceby Donna LeonISBN 0061043370 (0-06-104337-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death at La Fenice'Book summary:Beautiful and serene Venice is a city almost devoid of crime. But that is little comfort to Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor whose intermission refreshment comes one night with a little something extra in it-cyanide. For Guido Brunetti, vice-commissario of police and detective genius, finding a suspect isn't a problem; narrowing the large and unconventional group of enemies down to one is. As the suave and pithy Brunetti pieces together clues, a shocking picture of depravity and revenge emerges, leaving him torn between what is and what should be right -- and questioning what the law can do, and what needs to be done.
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Death Be Not Proudby John GuntherISBN 0061230979 (0-06-123097-9)
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The Diaries of Adam and Eveby Mark TwainISBN 007065610X (0-07-065610-X)
Hardcover, American Heritage Press
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Dorothy Parker, What Fresh Hell Is This?by Marion MeadeISBN 0140116168 (0-14-011616-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Eleanor Rooselvelt 1933-1938by Blanche Wiesen CookISBN 0140178945 (0-14-017894-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleanor Rooselvelt 1933-1938'Book summary:With its gripping tale of a privileged ugly duckling turned socially conscious swan with the help of strong female friends--many of whom were lesbians and one of whom was probably her lover--the first volume of Blanche Wiesen Cook's biography of Eleanor Roosevelt won awards and made headlines. That book followed its subject from her birth in 1884 through her husband Franklin's election to the presidency in 1933. Volume 2, which chronicles Roosevelt's first six years as America's most controversial first lady (Hillary Clinton doesn't even come close), maps her contributions to the New Deal, which Cook convincingly argues was primarily the fulfillment of a political agenda promoted by female reformers as early as 1912. Eleanor's turbulent relationship with journalist Lorena Hickok gets more space here than it probably deserves, and the story isn't as inherently exciting as the first volume's drama of a woman's coming of age. Nonetheless, Cook's subtle analyses of everything from Roosevelt's exceedingly complex marriage to her role as warm-up act for the New Deal's most radical programs are bracingly intelligent, her evocation of a remarkable personality rivetingly vivid. Eleanor emerges as neither the liberals' saint nor the conservatives' Satan, but an entirely human bundle of contradictions: warm-hearted, yet ice-cold when hurt; happiest in the public arena, yet needing the comfort of private relationships. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Empire Express: Building the 1st Transcontinental Railroadby David Haward BainISBN 0140084991 (0-14-008499-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire Express: Building the 1st Transcontinental Railroad'Book summary:On the morning of May 10, 1869, a gang of Irish immigrants met a party of Chinese laborers on a windy bluff northwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. Tired to the bone, the two groups laid down the last of countless wooden ties, bought at the exorbitant cost of six dollars apiece, and thus joined two great rail lines, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific, to form a single transcontinental route. That rail line made possible the mass settlement of the West, and, as those who conceived it well knew, it changed the course of American history.
David Haward Bain's superb narrative of westward rail history, weighing in at 800 pages, ends not with this great achievement but with the political and financial scandal that would almost overshadow it. Along the way Bain looks closely at the entrepreneurial men who foresaw the possibilities of a vast nation joined by a steel ribbon--most memorably the hit-and-miss businessman Asa Whitney, who proposed to Congress an ingenious scheme to fund the building of the railroad through commercializing the right of way. Some of the men who came after Whitney, such as Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington, and Leland Stanford, amassed great fortunes in realizing this dream. Others died penniless and nearly forgotten in the wake of political maneuverings and bad deals. Bain's vigorous, well-written narrative does much to restore those overlooked actors to history. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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End Zoneby Don DelilloISBN 0140085688 (0-14-008568-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fault Linesby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0061093343 (0-06-109334-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Four Soulsby Louise ErdrichISBN 0066209757 (0-06-620975-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Souls'Book summary:A strange and compelling unkillable woman decides to leave home, and the story begins. Fleur Pillager takes her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength and walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her reservation. But revenge is never simple, and she quickly finds her intentions complicated by her own dangerous compassion for the man who wronged her.
The two narrators of Four Souls are from utterly different worlds. Nanapush, a "smart man and a fool," is both Fleur's savior and her conscience. He tells Fleur's story and tells his own. He would like a calm and discriminating love with his sweetheart, Margaret. He is old and would like to face death with his love beside him. Instead the two find themselves battling out their last years. When the childhood nemesis of Nanapush appears and casts his eye toward Margaret, Nanapush acts out an absurd revenge of his own and nearly ends up destroying everything. The other narrator, Polly Elizabeth Gheen, is a pretentious and vulnerable upper-crust fringe element, a hanger-on in a wealthy Minneapolis family, a woman aware of her precarious hold on those around her. To her own great surprise the entrance of Fleur Pillager into her household and her life effects a transformation she could never have predicted.
In the world of interconnected novels by Louise Erdrich, Four Souls is most closely linked to Tracks. All these works continue and elaborate the intricate story of life on a reservation peopled by saints and false saints, heroes and sinners, clever fools and tenacious women. Four Souls reminds us of the deep spirituality and the ordinary humanity of this world, and is as beautiful and lyrical as anything Louise Erdrich has written.
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Frecklesby Gene Stratton-PorterISBN 0140351442 (0-14-035144-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freckles'Book summary:When orphaned Freckles gets a job watching Mr. McLean's valuable Limberlost timber, he thinks that he has at last found a home. But the Limberlost gives him much more than that--a lasting knowledge of nature, a woman who loves him, and the secret of his noble birth. [via]
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondesby Anita LoosISBN 0140184872 (0-14-018487-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Ghostwayby Tony HillermanISBN 006100345X (0-06-100345-X)
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Girlfriend in a Comaby Douglas CouplandISBN 0060987324 (0-06-098732-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girlfriend in a Coma'Book summary:In this latest novel from the poet laureate of Gen X--who is himself now a dangerously mature 36--boy does indeed meet girl. The year is 1979, and the lovers get right down to business in a very Couplandian bit of plein air intercourse: "Karen and I deflowered each other atop Grouse Mountain, among the cedars beside a ski slope, atop crystal snow shards beneath penlight stars. It was a December night so cold and clear that the air felt like the air of the Moon--lung-burning; mentholated and pure; hint of ozone, zinc, ski wax, and Karen's strawberry shampoo." Are we in for an archetypal '80s romance, played out against a pop-cultural backdrop? Nope. Only hours after losing her virginity, Karen loses consciousness as well--for almost two decades. The narrator and his circle soldier on, making the slow progression from debauched Vancouver youths to semiresponsible adults. Several end up working on a television series that bears a suspicious resemblance to The X-Files (surely a self-referential wink on the author's part). And then ... Karen wakes up. Her astonishment--which suggests a 20th-century, substance-abusing Rip Van Winkle--dominates the second half of the novel, and gives Coupland free reign to muse about time, identity, and the meaning (if any) of the impending millennium. Alas, he also slaps a concluding apocalypse onto the novel. As sleeping sickness overwhelms the populace, the world ends with neither a bang nor a whimper, but a universal yawn--which doesn't, fortunately, outweigh the sweetness, oddity, and ironic smarts of everything that has preceded it. [via]
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The Gold Bug Variationsby Richard PowersISBN 0060975008 (0-06-097500-8)
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The Grim Grottoby Lemony Snicket, Brett HelquistISBN 0064410145 (0-06-441014-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grim Grotto'Book summary:It's tough when the things that stand between you and your desired sugar bowl are a host of deadly mushrooms and an uncomfortable diving suit. The unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves in deep (once again) in this eleventh book in Lemony Snicket's odd-and-full-of-woe-but-quite-funny Series of Unfortunate Events. In The Grim Grotto, the siblings find themselves headed down Stricken Stream on a broken toboggan when they are spotted by the submarine Queequeg, carrying Captain Widdershins, his somewhat volatile stepdaughter Fiona, and optimistic Phil from Lucky Smells Lumbermill. The adventures that follow as the crew tries to get to the aforementioned sugar bowl before Count Olaf are so horrible that the narrator inserts factual information about the water cycle so that readers will get bored and stop reading the book. It doesn't work. As per usual, readers will want to soak up every awful detail and follow the Baudelaires all the way back to the place we first metthem--Briny Beach. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson
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Hill Townsby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0061099694 (0-06-109969-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The House Behind the Cedarsby Charles W. Chesnutt, Donald B. GibsonISBN 0140186859 (0-14-018685-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House Behind the Cedars'Book summary:Explores the lives and fates of two young African-Americans who decide to pass for white in order to claim their share of the American dream. By the author of "The Marrow of Tradition". [via]
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I Married a Dead Manby Cornell WoolrichISBN 0140234276 (0-14-023427-6)
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookieby Laura Joffe Numeroff, Felicia BondISBN 0064434095 (0-06-443409-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie'Book summary:"If you give a mouse a cookie..." you'll never be able to resist any future requests, especially if he's as cute as the diminutive plush ornament included with this special miniature edition of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Decked out in removable red overalls with a detachable Santa hat and candy-cane-covered boxer shorts, the life-sized mouse holds a big (for him), detachable chocolate chip cookie in his paw. The tiny hardcover book is just the right size for small human hands, and loses none of its appeal in miniature. What a perfect holiday gift for devotees of Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond's delightfully silly If You... series! And while you're celebrating the holidays, don't miss their popular Christmas title, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Jack and Jillby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140351280 (0-14-035128-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jack and Jill'Book summary:Written by the author of "Little Women", "Rose in Bloom", "Eight Cousins", this is a story that evokes rural life in turn of the century New England. [via]
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Jacob Have I Lovedby Katherine PatersonISBN 0064403688 (0-06-440368-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jacob Have I Loved'Book summary:Esau have I hated . . . Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline. Ever since they were born, Caroline has been the pretty one, the talented one, the better sister. Even now, Caroline seems to take everything: Louise's friends, their parents' love, her dreams for the future.For once in her life, Louise wants to be the special one. But in order to do that, she must first figure out who she is . . . and find a way to make a place for herself outside her sister's shadow. [via]
Jennie Gerhardtby Theodore Dreiser, West, James L. W., IIIISBN 0140187103 (0-14-018710-3)
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Jesus' Son: Storiesby Denis JohnsonISBN 0060975776 (0-06-097577-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jesus' Son: Stories'Book summary:The unnamed narrator in Jesus' Son lives through a car wreck and a heroin overdose. Is he blessed? He cheats, lies, steals--but possesses a child's (or a mystic's) uncanny way of expressing the bare essence of things around him. In its own strange and luminous way, this linked collection of short fiction does the same. The stories follow characters who are seemingly marginalized beyond hope, drifting through a narcotic haze of ennui, failed relationships, and petty crime. In "Dundun" the narrator decides to take a shooting victim to the hospital, though not for the usual reasons: "I wanted to be the one who saw it through and got McInnes to the doctor without a wreck. People would talk about it, and I hoped I would be liked." Later he takes his own pathetic stab at violence in "The Other Man," attempting to avenge a drug rip-off but succeeding only at terrorizing an innocent family. Each meandering story--some utterly lacking in the usual elements of plot, including a beginning and an end--nonetheless demands compulsive reading, with Denis Johnson's first calling as a poet apparent in the off-kilter beauty of his prose. Open to any page and gems spill forth: "I knew every raindrop by its name. I sensed everything before it happened. I knew a certain Oldsmobile would stop for me even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside that we'd have an accident in the storm."
The most successful stories in the collection offer moments of startling clarity. In "Car Crash While Hitchhiking," for instance, the narrator feels most alive while in the presence of another's loss: "Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead.... What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere." In "Work," while "salvaging" copper wire from a flooded house to fund their habits, the narrator and an acquaintance stop to watch the nearly unfathomable sight of a beautiful, naked woman paragliding up the river. Later the narrator learns that the house once belonged to his down-and-out accomplice and that the woman is his estranged wife. "As nearly as I could tell, I'd wandered into some sort of dream that Wayne was having about his wife, and his house," he reasons. Such is the experience for the reader. More Genet than Bukowski, Denis Johnson lures us into a misfit soul's dream from which he can't awake. --Langdon Cook [via]
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Julie of the Wolvesby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0064400581 (0-06-440058-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julie of the Wolves'Book summary:Miyax, like many adolescents, is torn. But unlike most, her choices may determine whether she lives or dies. At 13, an orphan, and unhappily married, Miyax runs away from her husband's parents' home, hoping to reach San Francisco and her pen pal. But she becomes lost in the vast Alaskan tundra, with no food, no shelter, and no idea which is the way to safety. Now, more than ever, she must look hard at who she really is. Is she Miyax, Eskimo girl of the old ways? Or is she Julie (her "gussak"-white people-name), the modernized teenager who must mock the traditional customs? And when a pack of wolves begins to accept her into their community, Miyax must learn to think like a wolf as well. If she trusts her Eskimo instincts, will she stand a chance of surviving? John Schoenherr's line drawings suggest rather than tell about the compelling experiences of a girl searching for answers in a bleak landscape that at first glance would seem to hold nothing. Fans of Jean Craighead George's stunning, Newberry Medal-winning coming-of-age story won't want to miss Julie (1994) and Julie's Wolf Pack (1998). (Ages 10 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Laughter in the Darkby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0140019324 (0-14-001932-4)
Hardcover, Penguin
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The Liar's Clubby Mary KarrISBN 0140179836 (0-14-017983-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Liar's Club'Book summary:In this funny, razor-edged memoir, Mary Karr, a prize-winning poet and critic, looks back at her upbringing in a swampy East Texas refinery town with a volatile, defiantly loving family. She recalls her painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip into psychosis; a fist swinging father who spun tales with his cronies - dubbed the Liars' Club; and a neighborhood rape when she was eight. An inheritance was squandered, endless bottles emptied, and guns leveled at the deserving and undeserving. With a row authenticity stripped of self pity,and a poet's eye for the lyrical detail, Karr shows us a "terrific family of liars and drunks...redeemed by a slow unearthing of truth." [via]
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A Light in the Windowby Jan KaronISBN 0140254544 (0-14-025454-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Light in the Window'Book summary:A Light in the Window is the second installment in this enormously popular series about a small-town rector, Father Tim, and the heartwarming cast of characters surrounding him. This time Father Tim, a lifelong bachelor, finds his heart distracted by his free-spirited neighbor Cynthia, but his stomach and the rectory cash box are distracted by Edith, a wealthy widow who is wooing the rector with love potion casseroles. At every turn, including when a brooding Irish cousin decides to move in, Father Tim must decide whether he will practice what he preaches.
Fans of the series say they long to buy real estate in Mitford, just so they can live next door to these funny and endearing characters and feel the embrace of such a loving community. But what author Jan Karon probably knows, and many readers are starting to figure out, is that the integrity and solid Christian values that these characters possess can be found in just about every neighborhood, and with inspiration like this book, anyone can build their own Mitford community. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Linden Hillsby Gloria NaylorISBN 0140088296 (0-14-008829-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Linden Hills'Book summary:Linden Hills is an exclusive private residential estate in America. Intended as a symbol of black equality, it is in fact an infernal place, and the layers of hypocrisy and self-destruction which are its foundation become exposed. The author's other novels include "The Women of Brewster Place". [via]
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Little Altars Everywhereby Rebecca WellsISBN 0060976845 (0-06-097684-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Altars Everywhere'Book summary:"We are swinging high flying way up, higher than in real life.And when I look down, I see all the ordinary stuff -- our brick house, the porch the tool shed, the oil drum barbecue pit, the clothesline, the chinaberry tree.But they are all lit up from inside so their everyday selves have holy sparks in them, and if only people could see those sparks, they'd go and kneel in front of them and pray and just feel good. Somehow the whole world looks like little altars everywhere."Little Altars Everywhere is a national best-seller, a companion to Rebecca Wells's celebrated novel Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Originally published in 1992, Little Altars introduces Sidda, Vivi, the rest of the spirited walker clan, and the indomitable Ya-Yas. It is now available for the first time in hardcover.Told in alternating voices of Vivi and her husband, Big Shep, along with Sidda, her siblings Little Shep, Lulu, Baylor, and Cheney and Willetta--the black couple who impact the Walkers' lives in ways they never fully comprehend--Little Altars embraces nearly thirty years of life on the plantation in Thorton, Louisiana, where the cloying air of the bayou and a web of family secrets at once shelter, trap and define an utterly original community of souls.Who can resist such cadences of Sidda Walker and her flamboyant, secretive mother, ViVi? Here the young Sidda -- a precocious reader and an eloquent observer of the fault lines that divide her family -- leads us on a mischievous adventures at Our Lady of Divine Compassion parochial school and beyond. A Catholic girl of pristine manners, devotion, and provocative ideas, Sidda is the very essence of childhood sorrow and joy and sorrow.In a series of Luminous reminiscences, we also hear Little Shep's stories of his eccentric grandmother, Lulu's matter-of-fact account of her shoplifting skills, and Baylor's memories of Vivi and her friends, the Ya-Yas. [via]
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heavenby Sherman AlexieISBN 007243418X (0-07-243418-X)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Education
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven'Book summary:In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who tells his stories long after people stop listening, and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationary that reads "From the Death Bed of Jimmy Many Horses III," even though he actually writes then on his kitchen table. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and mostly poetically between modern Indians and the traditions of the past. [via]
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The Marrow of Traditionby Eric J. Sundquist, Charles Waddell ChesnuttISBN 0140186867 (0-14-018686-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marrow of Tradition'Book summary:One of the most significant novels in American literature, "The Marrow of Tradition" is based on the Wilmington, North Carolina, Massacre of 1898. Called a "race riot" by the inflammatory Southern press and engineered by white Democrats who had seen their political slip into the hands of Republicans, many of whom were black, it was in fact a coup that restored power to the Democrats by subverting the principles of free democratic election. Some of Charles Chestnutt's relatives lived through the violence, and their accounts inspired this powerful and passionate novel. [via]
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The Mosquito Coastby Paul TherouxISBN 0140060898 (0-14-006089-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mosquito Coast'Book summary:"The Mosquito Coast" - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness. "Stunning...exciting, intelligent, meticulously realised, artful". (Victoria Glendinning, "Sunday Times"). "An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror". (Christopher Wordsworth, "Guardian"). "Magnificently stimulating and exciting". (Anthony Burgess). American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, "My Other Life", "The Collected Stories", "My Secret History", "The Lower River", "The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro", "A Dead Hand", "Millroy the Magician", "The Elephanta Suite", "Saint Jack", "The Consul's File", "The Family Arsenal", and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic "The Great Railway Bazaar" are available from Penguin. [via]
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My Educationby William S. BurroughsISBN 0140094547 (0-14-009454-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Education'Book summary:In his latest book, Burroughs pushes into new territory, once again committing the unspeakable crime of questioning the reality structure. Dreams, always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs' works, here become a direct and powerful force. My Education, direct, honest, humorous and subversive, is a truly original work. [via]
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My Year of Meatsby Ruth L. OzekiISBN 0140280464 (0-14-028046-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Year of Meats'Book summary:At first glance, a novel that promises to expose the unethical practices of the American meat industry may not be at the top of your reading list, but Ruth Ozeki's debut, My Year of Meats is well worth a second look. Like the author, the novel's protagonist, Jane Takagi-Little, is a Japanese-American documentary filmmaker; like Ozeki, who was once commissioned by a beef lobbying group to make television shows for the Japanese market, Jane is invited to work on a Japanese television show meant to encourage beef consumption via the not-so-subliminal suggestion that prime rib equals a perfect family:
TO: AMERICAN RESEARCH STAFF
FROM: Tokyo Office
DATE: January 5, 1991
RE: My American Wife!...
Here is list of IMPORTANT THINGS for My American Wife!
DESIRABLE THINGS:
1. Attractiveness, wholesomeness, warm personality
2. Delicious meat recipe (NOTE: Pork and other meats is second class meats, so please remember this easy motto: "Pork is Possible, but Beef is Best!")
3. Attractive, docile husband
4. Attractive, obedient children
5. Attractive, wholesome lifestyle
6. Attractive, clean house...
UNDESIRABLE THINGS:
1. Physical imperfections
2. Obesity
3. Squalor
4. Second class peoples
The series, My American Wife!, initally seems like a dream come true for Jane as she criss-crosses the United States filming a different American family each week for her Japanese audience. Naturally, the emphasis is on meat, and Ozeki has fun with out-there recipes such as rump roast in coke and beef fudge; but as Jane becomes more familiar with her subject, she becomes increasingly aware of the beef industry's widespread practice of using synthetic estrogens on their cattle and determines to sabotage the program.
Cut to Tokyo where Akiko Ueno struggles through the dull misery of life with her brutish husband, who happens to be in charge of the show's advertising. After seeing one of Jane's subversive episodes about a vegetarian lesbian couple, Akiko gets in touch and the two women plot to expose the meat industry's hazardous practices. Romance, humor, intrigue, and even a message--My Year of Meats has it all. This is a book that even a vegetarian would love. [via]
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Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647by William BradfordISBN 0075542811 (0-07-554281-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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On the Way Homeby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0064400808 (0-06-440080-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Way Home'Book summary:In 1894, Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, Almanzo, and their daughter, Rose, packed their belongings into their covered wagon and set out on a journey from De Smet, South Dakota, to Mansfield, Missouri. They heard that the soil there was rich and the crops were bountiful -- it was even called "the Land of the Big Red Apple." With hopes of beginning a new life, the Wilders made their way to the Ozarks of Missouri.
During their journey, Laura kept a detailed diary of events: the cities they passed through, the travelers they encountered on the way, the changing countryside and the trials of an often difficult voyage. Laura's words, preserved in this book, reveal her inner thoughts as she traveled with her family in search of a new home in Mansfield, where Rose would spend her childhood, where Laura would write her Little House books, and where she and Almanzo would remain all the rest of their happy days together.
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One More for the Roadby Ray BradburyISBN 0061032034 (0-06-103203-4)
Softcover, Avon Books
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Operation Wandering Soulby Richard PowersISBN 006097611X (0-06-097611-X)
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Outer Banksby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0061099732 (0-06-109973-2)
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The Pastures of Heavenby John Steinbeck, James NagelISBN 0140187480 (0-14-018748-0)
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The Penultimate Perilby Lemony Snicket, Brett HelquistISBN 0064410153 (0-06-441015-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penultimate Peril'Book summary:Lemony Snicket returns with the last book before the last book of his bestselling Series of Unfortunate Events. Scream and run away before the secrets of the series are revealed! Very little is known about Lemony Snicket and A Series of Unfortunate Events. What we do know is contained in the following brief list: o The books have inexplicably sold millions and millions of copies worldwide o People in more than 40 countries are consumed by consuming Snicket o The movie was as sad as the books, if not more so o Like unrefrigerated butter and fungus, the popularity of these books keeps spreading Even less is known about book the twelfth in this alarming phenomenon. What we do know is contained in the following brief list: o In this book, things only get worse o Count Olaf is still evil o The Baudelaire orphans do not win a contest o The title begins with the word, ?The? Sometimes, ignorance is bliss. Ages 10+ [via]
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Pierre, or the Ambiguities: The Kraken Editionby Herman Melville, Hershel Parker, Maurice SendakISBN 0061180092 (0-06-118009-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pierre, or the Ambiguities: The Kraken Edition'Book summary:HarperCollins is proud to present this controversial masterpiece of American literature, now restored to its original form and illuminated with 30 full-color pictures by Maurice Sendak. [via]
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The Portable Arthur Millerby Arthur MillerISBN 0140150714 (0-14-015071-4)
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The Portable Arthur Millerby Christopher W. Bigsby, Arthur Miller, Harold ClurmanISBN 0140247092 (0-14-024709-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Arthur Miller'Book summary:A rich cross section of 60 years of writing from one of this century's most influential playwrights, this classic collection contains in full the masterpieces The Crucible and Death of a Salesman. It is now expanded to include his most recent play, Broken Glass, as well as previously unpublished early works and a radio play thought lost for years. [via]
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The Portable Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan Poe, Philip Van Doren SternISBN 0140150129 (0-14-015012-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:This text includes all of Poe's best-known tales and poems, with representative articles, criticism, letters and opinions. [via]
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The Portable Faulknerby William Faulkner, Malcolm CowleyISBN 0140150188 (0-14-015018-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Faulkner'Book summary:This is a collection of stories and episodes from novels forming a history of life in William Faulkner's metaphorical kingdom, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. It includes three longer stories: "The Bear", "Spotted Horses" and "Old Man", and Malcolm Cowley's acclaimed 1946 introduction. [via]
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The Portable Henry Jamesby Henry James, Morton D. Zabel, Lyall H. P. PowersISBN 0140150552 (0-14-015055-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Henry James'Book summary:DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: THREE NOUVELLES: THE TURN OF THE SCREW, THE BEAST IN THEJUNGLE, AND THE PUPIL. THREE SHORTSTORIES. CRITICAL ESSAYS, INCLUDING THE FAMOUS "THE ART OF FICTION". TRAVEL SKETCHES. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SELECTIONS. A CROSS SECTION OF LETTERS. "BOLDLY ORIGINAL IN CONCEPTION AND MASTERLY IN EXECUTION...STANDSOUT AS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL VOLUMES IN A SERIES NOTABLE FOR EXPERTEDITING". - NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE. [via]
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The Portable Mark Twainby Mark Twain, Bernard Augustine De VotoISBN 014015020X (0-14-015020-X)
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The Portable Stephen Craneby Stephen CraneISBN 0140150684 (0-14-015068-4)
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Princess in Loveby Meg CabotISBN 0064472809 (0-06-447280-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess in Love'Book summary:It would seem that 14-year-old Mia Thermopolis ("five foot nine inches tall, with no visible breasts, feet the size of snowshoes") has the kind of life every Manhattan teenager could only dream of: She is, in her spare time, the princess of the European country of Genovia. Alas, the Royal Privilege is more like a Predicament. Not only does she have to endure daily princess lessons from her critical Grandmère ("It isn't as if I'm going to show up at the castle and start hurling olives at the ladies-in-waiting"), but her new stepfather is also her algebra teacher, her mother is pregnant and vomiting, she doesn't like her boyfriend very much, and she's convinced the real love of her life--her best friend's older brother--thinks of her as a kid.
Written in diary form like Louise Rennison's award-winning Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, Meg Cabot's endearing and often hilarious novel Princess in Love--third in the series after The Princess Diaries and Princess in the Spotlight--is sure to appeal to teen readers who will be able to relate to Mia--a young woman who would like people to know that "behind this mutant facade beats the heart of a person who is striving, just like everybody else in this world, to find self-actualization." (Ages 12 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Reefby Edith WhartonISBN 0140187316 (0-14-018731-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reef'Book summary:"I put most of myself into that opus, " Edith Wharton said of "The Reef, " possibly her most autobiographical novel. Published in 1912, it was, Bernard Berenson told Henry Adams, "better than any previous work excepting "Ethan Frome." [via]
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Rembrandt's Hatby Bernard MalamudISBN 0140040692 (0-14-004069-2)
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Rip Van Winkle and Other Storiesby Washington IrvingISBN 0140350519 (0-14-035051-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories'Book summary:You are probably familiar with the popularized stories of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but have you read the original unabridged versions by Washington Irving? His skillfully written and colorful tales have much more meaning and depth. In Rip Van Winkle he makes a profound social comment about the changes happening in his America, and Sleepy Hollow isn't just a chilling tale about the Headless Horseman but an enchanting story about two rival suitors.[via]
Equally enjoyable tales of suspense and supernatural included in this collection are: The Spectre Bridegroom, The Adventure of the German Student, The Devil and Tom Walker, The Adventure of the Mason, Legend of the Rose of Alhambra, The Governor and the Notary, and Governor Manco and the Soldier.
This collection will demonstrate just why Washington Irving is widely recognized as the "Father of American Literature.More editions of Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories:
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A Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generationby Malcolm CowleyISBN 0140054987 (0-14-005498-7)
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Selected Writings of Emersonby Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 007554265X (0-07-554265-X)
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The Snow Leopardby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0140255087 (0-14-025508-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Snow Leopard'Book summary:In the autumn of 1973, the writer Peter Matthiessen set out in the company of zoologist George Schaller on a hike that would take them 250 miles into the heart of the Himalayan region of Dolpo, "the last enclave of pure Tibetan culture on earth." Their voyage was in quest of one of the world's most elusive big cats, the snow leopard of high Asia, a creature so rarely spotted as to be nearly mythical; Schaller was one of only two Westerners known to have seen a snow leopard in the wild since 1950.
Published in 1978, The Snow Leopard is rightly regarded as a classic of modern nature writing. Guiding his readers through steep-walled canyons and over tall mountains, Matthiessen offers a narrative that is shot through with metaphor and mysticism, and his arduous search for the snow leopard becomes a vehicle for reflections on all manner of matters of life and death. In the process, The Snow Leopard evolves from an already exquisite book of natural history and travel into a grand, Buddhist-tinged parable of our search for meaning. By the end of their expedition, having seen wolves, foxes, rare mountain sheep, and other denizens of the Himalayas, and having seen many signs of the snow leopard but not the cat itself, Schaller muses, "We've seen so much, maybe it's better if there are some things that we don't see."
That sentiment, as well as the sense of wonder at the world's beauty that pervades Matthiessen's book, ought to inform any journey into the wild. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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State of Fearby Michael CrichtonISBN 0061015733 (0-06-101573-3)
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Talking Godby Tony HillermanISBN 006109918X (0-06-109918-X)
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Tarzan of the Apesby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0140184643 (0-14-018464-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan of the Apes'Book summary:First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest. Tarzan of the Apes is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring, and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle). Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less than a nightmare.
The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"! And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled; and smiles are the foundation of beauty." [via]
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This Boy's Lifeby Tobias WolffISBN 0060972777 (0-06-097277-7)
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The Tie That Bindsby Kent HarufISBN 0140084665 (0-14-008466-5)
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Time Out of Jointby Philip K. DickISBN 0140171738 (0-14-017173-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Out of Joint'Book summary:Ragle Gumm has a unique job: every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isnt consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town in 1959. At least, thats what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous starlet named Marilyn Monroe, whom hes never heard of. Plus, everyday objects are beginning to disappear and are replaced by strips of paper with words written on them, like bowl of flowers and soft-drink stand. When Ragle skips town to try to find the cause of these bizarre occurrences, his discovery could make him question everything he has ever known. [via]
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We Are Still Marriedby Garrison KeillorISBN 0140131566 (0-14-013156-6)
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Websters New World Dictionaryby David B. GuralnikISBN 0139479465 (0-13-947946-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Hardcover, Collins World - Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language: ISBN 0139446788 (0-13-944678-8)
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Weetzie Batby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0064408183 (0-06-440818-3)
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When She Was Goodby Philip RothISBN 014007676X (0-14-007676-X)
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Where the Wild Things Areby Maurice SendakISBN 0064431789 (0-06-443178-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Wild Things Are'Book summary:Where the Wild Things Are is one of those truly rare books that can be enjoyed equally by a child and a grown-up. If you disagree, then it's been too long since you've attended a wild rumpus. Max dons his wolf suit in pursuit of some mischief and gets sent to bed without supper. Fortuitously, a forest grows in his room, allowing his wild rampage to continue unimpaired. Sendak's color illustrations (perhaps his finest) are beautiful, and each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder.
The wild things--with their mismatched parts and giant eyes--manage somehow to be scary-looking without ever really being scary; at times they're downright hilarious. Sendak's defiantly run-on sentences--one of his trademarks--lend the perfect touch of stream of consciousness to the tale, which floats between the land of dreams and a child's imagination.
This Sendak classic is more fun than you've ever had in a wolf suit, and it manages to reaffirm the notion that there's no place like home. [via]
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Donde Viven Los Monstruos/ Where the Wild Things Areby Maurice Sendak, Teresa MlawerISBN 0064434222 (0-06-443422-2)
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