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Angle of Reposeby Wallace StegnerISBN 0606218971 (0-606-21897-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angle of Repose'Book summary:Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1971, Angle of Repose has also been selected by the editorial board of the Modern Library as one of the hundred best novels of the twentieth century.
Wallace Stegner's uniquely American classic centers on Lyman Ward, a noted historian who relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family. Through a combination of research, memory, and exaggeration, Ward voices ideas concerning the relationship between history and the present, art and life, parents and children, husbands and wives. Set in many parts of the West, Angle of Repose is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and geographical--that endures as Wallace Stegner's masterwork: an illumination of yesterday's reality that speaks to today's.
"Angle of Repose is a long, intricate, deeply rewarding novel," wrote William Abrahams in the Atlantic Monthly. "[It] is neither the predictable historical-regional Western epic, nor the equally predictable four-decker family saga, the Forsytes in California, so to speak. . . . For all [its] breadth and sweep, Angle of Repose achieves an effect of intimacy, hence of immediacy, and, though much of the material is 'historical,' an effect of discovery also, of experience newly minted rather than a pageantlike re-creation. . . . Wallace Stegner has written a superb novel, with an amplitude of scale and richness of detail altogether uncommon in contemporary fiction."
"Angle of Repose is a novel about Time, as much as anything--about people who live through time, who believe in both a past and a future. . . . It reveals how even the most rebellious crusades of our time follow paths that our great-grandfathers' feet beat dusty."
--Wallace Stegner [via]-
The Blithedale Romanceby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0140390286 (0-14-039028-6)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blithedale Romance'Book summary:Renowned 19th-century author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes fully in his own time, not haunting his characters with the American past as in his more famous works THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES and THE SCARLET LETTER. Published in 1852, THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE remains a captivating work about politics, love, the supernatural, and idealism, written with Hawthorne's sharp wit and deep intelligence. [via]
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Charlotte's Web: Library Editionby E. B. WhiteISBN 059030271X (0-590-30271-X)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlotte's Web: Library Edition'Book summary:In his classic and beloved novel, E. B. White tells the memorable story of Wilbur, a little pig who becomes famous with the help of his clever friend Charlotte and their chatty animal neighbors. As the runt of the litter, Wilbur struggles to survive from the very beginning. Fern fights her father, Mr. Arable, to raise Wilbur and nurse him to health. Fern succeeds and Wilbur moves to the Zuckerman farm, where he learns the true meaning of friendship from the wise grey spider Charlotte. When it becomes apparent that Wilbur is being well fed for a reason, Charlotte and Wilbur are determined to foil Mr. Zuckerman's plans. With the help of Charlotte and her "terrific" webs, Templeton the rat, and other colorful barnyard friends, Wilbur becomes the prizewinning pig of the County Fair and the most famous pig ever.
Lessons of friendship, loyalty, and truth bind this story together and show readers that friends come in all shapes and sizes.
Illustrations by the artist Garth Williams bring to life these lovable characters. He is also the illustrator of E. B. White's Stuart Little.
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Charlotte's Web: Full color Editionby E. B. White, Garth Williams, Rosemary WellsISBN 0613816897 (0-613-81689-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlotte's Web: Full color Edition'Book summary:An affectionate, sometimes bashful pig named Wilbur befriends a spider named Charlotte, who lives in the rafters above his pen. A prancing, playful bloke, Wilbur is devastated when he learns of the destiny that befalls all those of porcine persuasion. Determined to save her friend, Charlotte spins a web that reads "Some Pig," convincing the farmer and surrounding community that Wilbur is no ordinary animal and should be saved. In this story of friendship, hardship, and the passing on into time, E.B. White reminds us to open our eyes to the wonder and miracle often found in the simplest of things. [via]
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Collected Poems of Wallace Stevensby Wallace StevensISBN 0679726691 (0-679-72669-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Desolation Angelsby John KerouacISBN 1573225053 (1-57322-505-3)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desolation Angels'Book summary:With the publication of On the Road in 1957, Jack Kerouac became at once the spokesman and hero of the Beat Generation. Along with such visionaries as William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac changed the face of American literature, igniting a counterculture revolution that even now, decades later, burns brighter than ever in Desolation Angels.[via]
In one of the major cinematic events of 2012, Jack Kerouac's legendary Beat classic, On the Road, finally hits the big screen. Directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries; Paris, Je T'Aime) and with a cast of some of Hollywood's biggest young stars, including Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga), Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams (Julie & Julia, The Fighter), Tom Sturridge, and Viggo Mortensen (the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Road), the film will attract new fans who will be inspired by Kerouac's revolutionary writing.More editions of Desolation Angels:
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Dude, Where's My Country?by Michael MooreISBN 0786263008 (0-7862-6300-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dude, Where's My Country?'Book summary:he people of the United States, according to author and filmmaker Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine, Stupid White Men), have been hoodwinked. Tricked, he says, by Republican lawmakers and their wealthy corporate pals who use a combination of concocted bogeymen and lies to stay rich and in control. But while plenty of liberal scholars, entertainers, and pundits have made similar arguments in book form, Moore's Dude, Where's My Country? stands out for its thoroughly positive perspective. Granted, Moore is angry and has harsh words for George W. Bush and his fellow conservatives concerning the reasoning behind going to war in Iraq, the collapse of Enron and other companies, and the relationship between the Bushes, the Saudi Arabian government, and Osama bin Laden. But his book is intended to serve as a handbook for how people with liberal opinions (which is most of America, Moore contends, whether they call themselves "liberals" or not) can take back their country from the conservative forces in power. Moore uses his trademark brand of confrontational, exasperated humor skillfully as he offers a primer on how to change the worldview of one's annoying conservative blowhard brother-in-law, and he crafts a surprisingly thorough "Draft Oprah for President" movement. Refreshingly, Dude, Where's My Country? avoids being completely one-sided, offering up areas where Moore believes Republicans get it right as well as some cutting criticisms of his fellow lefties. Such allowances, brief though they may be, make one long for a political climate where the shouting polemicists on both sides would see a few more shades of gray. Dude, Where's My Country? is a little bit scattered, as Moore tries to cram opinions on Iraq, tax cuts, corporate welfare, Wesley Clark, and the Patriot Act into one slim volume--and the penchant to go for a laugh sometimes gets in the way of clear arguments. But such variety also gives the reader more Moore, providing a broader range of his bewildered, enraged, yet stalwartly upbeat point of view. --John Moe [via]
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El Dadorby Lois Lowry, Maria Luisa BalseiroISBN 8424159535 (84-241-5953-5)
Softcover, Everest De Ediciones Y distribucion
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Dador'Book summary:Así se describe el incierto futuro de un nino que habita un mundo supuestamente ideal: sin conflictos, pobreza, desempleo. divorcio. injusticia ni desigualdades. Una sociedad en la que los valores de familia son de máxima importancia, la rebelión juvenil es algo desconocido y la educación es casi una forma de vida. Contado con una sencillez que engana, esta es la provocativa historia de un nino que experimenta algo increíble y emprende algo imposible. Este libro cuestiona todos los valores que siempre hemos dado por supuestos y vuelve a examinar nuestras creencias mas profundas. Diciembre es le mes en el que se celebre la Ceremonia anual, en el que los Doce reciben sus asignaciones vitalicias determinadas por el Comité de Ancianos. Pero Jonas, un nino que cumple sus doce anos, ha sido elegido para algo muy especial. Cuando su selecciona le lleva ante el mas honorable de los Ancianos - el Dador -, Jonas comienza a darse cuenta de los oscuros secretos que subyacen bajo la frágil perfección de su mundo. [via]
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Testby Tom WolfeISBN 0553380648 (0-553-38064-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'Book summary:They say if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. But, fortunately, Tom Wolfe was there, notebook in hand, politely declining LSD while Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters fomented revolution, turning America on to a dangerously playful way of thinking as their Day-Glo conveyance, Further, made the most influential bus ride since Rosa Parks's. By taking On the Road's hero Neal Cassady as his driver on the cross-country revival tour and drawing on his own training as a magician, Kesey made Further into a bully pulpit, and linked the beat epoch with hippiedom. Paul McCartney's Many Years from Now cites Kesey as a key influence on his trippy Magical Mystery Tour film. Kesey temporarily renounced his literary magic for the cause of "tootling the multitudes"--making a spectacle of himself--and Prankster Robert Stone had to flee Kesey's wild party to get his life's work done. But in those years, Kesey's life was his work, and Wolfe infinitely multiplied the multitudes who got tootled by writing this major literary-journalistic monument to a resonant pop-culture moment.
Kesey's theatrical metamorphosis from the distinguished author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest to the abominable shaman of the "Acid Test" soirees that launched The Grateful Dead required Wolfe's Day-Glo prose account to endure (though Kesey's own musings in Demon Box are no slouch either). Even now, Wolfe's book gives what Wolfe clearly got from Kesey: a contact high. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Estimating Applied to Buildingby Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, W. AttonISBN 0855000015 (0-85500-001-5)
Hardcover, Published for The Builder by George Godwin Ltd
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Farmer Boyby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400034 (0-06-440003-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farmer Boy'Book summary:While laura ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, almanzo wilder is living on a big farm in new york state. Here almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Time for fun comes when the jolly tin peddler visits, or best of all, when the fair comes to town. This is laura ingalls wilder's beloved story of how her husband almanzo grew up as a farmer boy far from the little house where laura lived [via]
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Foreign Direct Investment and the Challenge of Development/With OverviewISBN 9211124409 (92-1-112440-9)
Softcover, United Nations Pubns
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie FlaggISBN 0070212570 (0-07-021257-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe'Book summary:The day IdgieThreadgoode and Ruth Jamison opened the Whistle Stop Cafe, the town took a turn for the better. It was the Depression and that cafe was a home from home for many of us. You could get eggs, grits, bacon, ham, coffee and a smile for 25 cents. Ruth was just the sweetest girl you ever met. And Idgie, she was a character, all right. You never saw anyone so headstrong. But how anybody could have thought she murdered that man is beyond me. "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" is a mouth-watering tale of love, laughter and mystery. It will lift your spirits and above all it'll remind you of the secret to life: friends and best friends. [via]
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Giovanni's Roomby James BaldwinISBN 0679642196 (0-679-64219-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Giovanni's Room'Book summary:Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself After meeting and proposing to a young woman, he falls into a lengthy affair with an Italian bartender and is confounded and tortured by his sexual identity as he oscillates between the two.
Examining the mystery of love and passion in an intensely imagined narrative, Baldwin creates a moving and complex story of death and desire that is revelatory in its insight.
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The Giverby Lois LowryISBN 0553571338 (0-553-57133-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Giver'Book summary:In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of Brave New World, in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to create a more stable society. Gradually Jonas learns just how costly this ordered and pain-free society can be, and boldly decides he cannot pay the price. [via]
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find: And Other Storiesby Flannery O'Connor, Frederick AsalsISBN 0813519772 (0-8135-1977-2)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Grendelby John Champlin GardnerISBN 0808566482 (0-8085-6648-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grendel'Book summary:Grendel is a beautiful and heartbreaking modern retelling of the Beowulf epic from the point of view of the monster, Grendel, the villain of the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon epic. This book benefits from both of Gardner's careers: in addition to his work as a novelist, Gardner was a noted professor of medieval literature and a scholar of ancient languages. [via]
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Grendelby Emil Antonucci, John Champlin GardnerISBN 0679723110 (0-679-72311-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grendel'Book summary:Grendel is a beautiful and heartbreaking modern retelling of the Beowulf epic from the point of view of the monster, Grendel, the villain of the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon epic. This book benefits from both of Gardner's careers: in addition to his work as a novelist, Gardner was a noted professor of medieval literature and a scholar of ancient languages. [via]
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis ChildISBN 1406510017 (1-4065-1001-7)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'Book summary:Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" was one of the first of the personal slave narratives. At the time this book was first published Harriet Jacobs was living as an escaped slave in the North, a precarious position given the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Originally published under the pseudonym Linda Brent, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is a gripping first hand account of the brutality endured by slaves and one of the few ever written by a woman. [via]
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Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself: ISBN 067444745X (0-674-44745-X)
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herselfby John Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin, John S. JacobsISBN 0674002717 (0-674-00271-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself'Book summary:THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION.
This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative now completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs's short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's own autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents additional historical information about family life so well described already by his sister. Importantly, it presents the people, places, and events Harriet Jacobs wrote about from the different perspective of a male narrator. Once more, Jean Yellin, who discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and authentication. She has also brought her Introduction up to date.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself: Written by Herselfby L.Maria Child, Harriet A. Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin, Lydia Maria Francis ChildISBN 0674447468 (0-674-44746-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Jonathan Livingston Seagullby Richard Bach, Russell MunsonISBN 0743278909 (0-7432-7890-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull'Book summary:"Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again," writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. "For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight." Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes the story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds your ambition threatening. (At one point our beloved gull is even banished from his flock.) By not compromising his higher vision, Jonathan gets the ultimate payoff: transcendence. Ultimately, he learns the meaning of love and kindness. The dreamy seagull photographs by Russell Munson provide just the right illustrations--although the overall packaging does seem a bit dated (keep in mind that it was first published in 1970). Nonetheless, this is a spirituality classic, and an especially engaging parable for adolescents. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Juan Salvador Gaviotaby Richard BachISBN 846661639X (84-666-1639-X)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Juan Salvador Gaviota'Book summary:Una de las mas bellas fábulas escritas por estos tiempos ha sido Juan Salvador Gaviota. Richard Bach ha vendido mas de 30 millones de copias de esta producción. El valor de la libertad, de la amistad, el despego de lo material; tales son los elementos que forman esta fábula. [via]
Lake Wobegon Daysby Garrison KeillorISBN 0140131612 (0-14-013161-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lake Wobegon Days'Book summary:One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. Keillor's tales present a wryly affectionate and humorous chronicle of an imaginary town in the American Midwest. [via]
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The Last Tycoonby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0684153114 (0-684-15311-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Tycoon'Book summary:F. Scott Fitzgerald died before he could finish this novel, better known as "The Last Tycoon". Its central character, the great film producer Monroe Stahr, is based on Irving Thalberg and, like Fitzgerald, is a desperately sick man, disenchanted with life, but striving still to work. [via]
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Less Than Zeroby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0679781498 (0-679-78149-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Less Than Zero'Book summary:Clay comes home to L.A. for Christmas vacation and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs. Morally barren, ethically bereft and tinged with implicit violence, "Less Than Zero" is a shocking coming-of-age novel about the casual nihilism that comes with youth and money. "An extraordinarily accomplished first novel." - "New Yorker." "One of the most disturbing novels I've read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." - Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times." "The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation." - "USA Today." "Remarkable. A killer - sexy, sassy, sad." - "Village Voice." [via]
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Little House in the Big Woodsby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0060522364 (0-06-052236-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little House in the Big Woods'Book summary:Although the Little House stories are traditionally seen as "girl" books, boys might be happily surprised if they take another peek at their sisters' shelves. Little House in the Big Woods--the first book of the series and Laura Ingalls Wilder's first children's book--is full of the thrills, chills, and spills typically associated with "boy" books. Any boy or girl who has fantasized about running off to live in the woods will find ample information in these pages to manage a Wisconsin snowstorm, a panther attack, or a wild sled ride with a pig as an uninvited guest. Every chapter divulges fascinatingly intricate, yet easy-to-read, details about pioneer life in the Midwest in the late 1800s, from bear-meat curing to maple-tree sapping to homemade bullet making.
Wilder's autobiographical tales ring with truth and excitement. Readers will receive a perfectly painless history lesson, and in fact will clamor for more. Beloved illustrator Garth Williams spent years researching young Laura's pioneering family. His soft-line illustrations bring to life the full, simple days and nights in the family's log cabin. No one can read just one Little House book! (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Little House in the Big Woods: ISBN 0064400018 (0-06-440001-8)
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Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Little House in the Big Woods: ISBN 0060264314 (0-06-026431-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Little House in the Big Woods: ISBN 006029647X (0-06-029647-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Little House in the Big Woods: ISBN 0060296488 (0-06-029648-8)
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Little Menby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140367136 (0-14-036713-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Men'Book summary:Little Men (published 1871) is considered the second book of the Little Women trilogy written by Louisa May Alcott. (The book Good Wives (1869) was originally the sequel to the novel Little Women (1868), however those two novels are now usually published as a single volume.) This book was inspired by the death of her brother-in-law, which reveals itself in one of the last chapters, when a beloved character from Little Women passes away, affecting the entire cast of characters. The final book of the trilogy is Jo's Boys (1886).
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Love of the Last Tycoonby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0833502352 (0-8335-0235-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Manhattan Transferby John DOS PassosISBN 0618381864 (0-618-38186-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manhattan Transfer'Book summary:Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles the lives of characters struggling to become a part of modernity before they are destroyed by it.[via]
More than seventy-five years after its first publication, Manhattan Transfer still stands as "a novel of the very first importance" (Sinclair Lewis). It is a masterpeice of modern fiction and a lasting tribute to the dual-edged nature of the American dream. -
Mr. Vertigoby Paul AusterISBN 0670852090 (0-670-85209-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Vertigo'Book summary:An octogenarian narrator recounts his extraordinary childhood during the second quarter of the century--the era of Prohibition, Babe Ruth, and Lindbergh--when Master Yehudi rescued him from the streets and taught him to fly and walk on water. 35,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creekby Annie DillardISBN 1568497067 (1-56849-706-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'Book summary:Through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, Annie Dillard shares her keen observations, poetic sensibilities, introspective reflections, and reverence for her surroundings to show us the world outside as we have never seen it before, in this winner of the 1975 Pulitizer Prize for nonfiction.. [via]
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Post Officeby Charles BukowskiISBN 0876850867 (0-87685-086-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Post Office'Book summary:Henry Chinaski is a low-life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and race tracks. First published in 1971, this was Charles Bukowski's debut novel. [via]
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Secret Life of Beesby Sue Monk KiddISBN 0142001740 (0-14-200174-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Life of Bees'Book summary:In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic. --Regina Marler [via]
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Seize The Dayby Saul Bellow, Cynthia OzickISBN 0606310924 (0-606-31092-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seize The Day'Book summary:[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.]
Can one man come to terms with his past in one of the greatest short novels ever written?
Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children; at odds with his vain, successful father; failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as ''the type that loses the girl''); and in a financial mess. In the course of one climactic day he reviews his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, until a mysterious, philosophizing con man grants him a glorious, illuminating moment of truth and understanding and offers him one last hope. [via]More editions of Seize The Day:
Seize the Day, With Three Short Stories and a One-Act Play.by Saul BellowISBN 0670000914 (0-670-00091-4)
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Selected Poemsby Charles Tomlinson, William Carlos WilliamsISBN 0140421904 (0-14-042190-4)
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The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingwayby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0020518609 (0-02-051860-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Storiesby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0020518307 (0-02-051830-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories'Book summary:Returning from a Kenyan safari in 1932, Ernest Hemingway quickly devised a literary trophy to add to his stash of buffalo hides and rhino horns. To this day, Green Hills of Africa seems an almost perverse paean to the thrills of bloodshed, in which the author cuts one notch after another in his gun barrel and declares, "I did not mind killing anything." Four years later, however, Hemingway came up with a more accomplished spin on his African experiences--a pair of them, in fact, which he collected with eight other tales in The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The title story is a meditation on corruption and mortality, two subjects that were already beginning to preoccupy the 37-year-old author. As the protagonist perishes of gangrene out in the bush, he recognizes his own failure of nerve as a writer:
Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
In the story, at least, the hero gets some points for stoic acceptance, as well as an epiphanic vision of Kilimanjaro's summit, "wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun." (The movie version is another matter: Gregory Peck makes it back to the hospital, loses a leg, and is a better person for it.) But Hemingway's other great white hunter, in "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," is granted a less dignified exit. This time the issue is cowardice, another of Papa's bugaboos: poor Francis is too wimpy to face down a wounded lion, let alone satisfy his treacherous wife in bed. Yet he does manage a last-minute triumph before dying--an absolute assertion of courage--which makes the title a hair less ironic than it initially seems. No wonder these are two of the highest-caliber (so to speak) tales in the Hemingway canon. --Bob Brandeis [via]More editions of The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories:
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Something Wicked This Way Comesby Ray Bradbury, Joe MuznainiISBN 188736823X (1-887368-23-X)
Hardcover, Gauntlet Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'Book summary:A masterpiece of modern Gothic literature, Something Wicked This Way Comes is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small Midwestern town with the arrival of a "dark carnival" one Autumn midnight. How these two innocents, both age 13, save the souls of the town (as well as their own), makes for compelling reading on timeless themes. What would you do if your secret wishes could be granted by the mysterious ringmaster Mr. Dark? Bradbury excels in revealing the dark side that exists in us all, teaching us ultimately to celebrate the shadows rather than fear them. In many ways, this is a companion piece to his joyful, nostalgia-drenched Dandelion Wine, in which Bradbury presented us with one perfect summer as seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old. In Something Wicked This Way Comes, he deftly explores the fearsome delights of one perfectly terrifying, unforgettable autumn. --Stanley Wiater [via]
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Spoon River Anthologyby Edgar Lee MastersISBN 0020700105 (0-02-070010-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Sulaby Toni MorrisonISBN 1400033438 (1-4000-3343-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sula'Book summary:In Sula, Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, tells the story of two women--friends since childhood, separated in young adulthood, and reunited as grown women. Nel Wright grows up to become a wife and mother, happy to remain in her hometown of Medallion, Ohio. Sula Peace leaves Medallion to experience college, men, and life in the big city, an exceptional choice for a black woman to make in the late 1920s.
As girls, Nel and Sula are the best of friends, only children who find in each other a kindred spirit to share in each girl's loneliness and imagination. When they meet again as adults, it's clear that Nel has chosen a life of acceptance and accommodation, while Sula must fight to defend her seemingly unconventional choices and beliefs. But regardless of the physical and emotional distance that threatens this extraordinary friendship, the bond between the women remains unbreakable: "Her old friend had come home.... Sula, whose past she had lived through and with whom the present was a constant sharing of perceptions. Talking to Sula had always been a conversation with herself."
Lyrical and gripping, Sula is an honest look at the power of friendship amid a backdrop of family, love, race, and the human condition. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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Thousand Acresby Jane SmileyISBN 1400033837 (1-4000-3383-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thousand Acres'Book summary:Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm--one of the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa--to his three daughters, Caroline, Ginny and Rose. A man of harsh sensibilities, he carves Caroline out of the deal because she has the nerve to be less than enthusiastic about her father's generosity. While Larry Cook deteriorates into a pathetic drunk, his daughters are left to cope with the often grim realities of life on a family farm--from battering husbands to cutthroat lenders. In this winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Smiley captures the essence of such a life with stark, painful detail. [via]
What Maisie Knewby Henry James, Paul TherouxISBN 0140432485 (0-14-043248-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Maisie Knew'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...Mrs. Wix's, during these hours, Sir Claude was--and most of all through long pauses--the perpetual, the insurmountable theme. It all took them back to the first flush of his marriage and to the place he held in the schoolroom at that crisis of love and pain; only he had himself blown to a much bigger balloon the large consciousness he then filled out. They went through it all again, and indeed while the interval dragged by the very weight of its charm they went, in spite of defences and suspicions, through everything. Their intensified clutch of the future throbbed like a clock ticking seconds; but this was a timepiece that inevitably, as well, at the best, rang occasionally a portentous hour. Oh there were several of these, and two or three of the worst on the old city-wall where everything else so made for peace. There was nothing in the world Maisie more wanted than to be as nice to Mrs. Wix as Sir Claude had desired; but it was exactly because this fell in with her inveterate instinct of keeping the peace that the instinct itself was quickened. From the moment it was quickened, however, it found other work, and that was how, to begin with, she produced the very complication she most sought to avert. What she had essentially done, these days, had been to read the unspoken into the spoken; so that thus, with accumulations, it had become more definite to her that the unspoken was, unspeakably, the completeness of the sacrifice of Mrs. Beale. There were times when every minute that Sir Claude stayed away was like a nail in Mrs. Beale's coffin. That brought back to Maisie--it was a roundabout way--the beauty and antiquity of her connexion with the flower of the Overmores as well as that lady's own grace and charm, her peculiar prettiness and... [via]
A Wrinkle in Time: Library Editionby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 1557360596 (1-55736-059-6)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wrinkle in Time: Library Edition'Book summary:Everyone in town thinks Meg is volatile and dull-witted and that her younger brother Charles Wallace is dumb. People are also saying that their father has run off and left their brilliant scientist mother. Spurred on by these rumors, Meg and Charles Wallace, along with their new friend Calvin, embark on a perilous quest through space to find their father. In doing so they must travel behind the shadow of an evil power that is darkening the cosmos, one planet at a time.
Young people who have trouble finding their place in the world will connect with the "misfit" characters in this provocative story. This is no superhero tale, nor is it science fiction, although it shares elements of both. The travelers must rely on their individual and collective strengths, delving deep into their characters to find answers.
A classic since 1962, Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is sophisticated in concept yet warm in tone, with mystery and love coursing through its pages. Meg's shattering yet ultimately freeing discovery that her father is not omnipotent provides a satisfying coming-of-age element. Readers will feel a sense of power as they travel with these three children, challenging concepts of time, space, and the power of good over evil. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Juan Salvador Gaviotaby Richard Bach, Carol Howell, Frederick Howell, Russell MunsonISBN 8466612491 (84-666-1249-1)
Hardcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Juan Salvador Gaviota'Book summary:For most seagulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes the story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds your ambition threatening. (At one point our beloved gull is even banished from his flock.) By not compromising his higher vision, Juan Salvador gets the ultimate payoff: transcendence. Ultimately, he learns the meaning of love and kindness.
Blurb in Spanish:"Hay quien obedece sus propias reglas porque se sabe en lo cierto; quien cosecha un especial placer en hacer algo bien; quien adivina algo más que lo que sus ojos ven; quien prefiere volar a dormir y comer; todos ellos harán duradera amistad con Juan Salvador Gaviota. Habrá también quienes volarán con Juan Gaviota por lugares de encanto y aventura, y de luminosa libertad. Pero para unos y otros será una experiencia que jamas olvidarán". Richard Bach [via]
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Que le Hicieron a mi Pais, Man? / Dude, Where's My Country?by Michael MooreISBN 8466616845 (84-666-1684-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Que le Hicieron a mi Pais, Man? / Dude, Where's My Country?'Book summary:[via]Intended to serve as a handbook for people with liberal opinions to take back their country from the conservative forces in power, this book skillfully makes use of Michael Moore's trademark brand of confrontational, exasperated humor to lambast the concocted threats and lies designed by the conservative right to stay rich and in control. On these pages no one is safe from Moore's sharp-tongued critiques: corporate barons who have bilked millions out of their employees' lifetime savings, legislators who have stripped away our civil liberties in the name of "homeland security," and even the ever-present right-wing brother-in-law who manages, year after year, through his babbling idiocy, to ruin Thanksgiving dinner.
Una sarcástica y despiadada cruzada, este libro tiene una clara misión: acabar de una vez por todas con el mandato de George W. Bush, el hombre que se coló en la Casa Blanca gracias a los compinches de su papá. Moore no deja títere con cabeza a invitar al lector a ponerse manos a la obra para tratar de salvar al mundo de uno de los hombres más poderosos y nocivos del planeta. Llena de su humor característica, nadie escape de sus críticas: ni los negociantes, ni los legisladores, ni el cuñado que maneja a arruinar cada cena de familia con sus opiniones idiotas e conservadoras.
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Las Telaranas de Carlota/Charlottes Webby E. B. WhiteISBN 8427933886 (84-279-3388-6)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Las Telaranas de Carlota/Charlottes Web'Book summary:Spanish translation of the touching story about the friendship between a young pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte. [via]
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Una Arruga En El Tiempo / A Wrinkle in Timeby Madeleine L'Engle, Hector SilvaISBN 8420440744 (84-204-4074-4)
Softcover, Alfaguara
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Una Arruga En El Tiempo / A Wrinkle in Time'Book summary:Una fantasía de niños. [via]
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La Vida Secreta De Las Abejas / The Secret Life of Beesby Sue Monk Kidd, LAURA PAREDESISBN 0143035797 (0-14-303579-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Vida Secreta De Las Abejas / The Secret Life of Bees'Book summary:[via]Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Cuando Rosaleen, la bravía madre postiza negra de Lily, insulta a tres de las personas más racistas del pueblo, Lily decide que ambas deben ser libres. Ellas escapan a Tiburón, Carolina del Sur, un pueblo que guarda el secreto del pasado de su madre. Alojadas por un excéntrico trío de hermanas negras apicultoras, Lily es introducida al fascinante mundo de las abejas y la miel, y a la Virgen Negra. Esta es una novela notable sobre el poder divino femenino, una historia que las mujeres compartirán y pasarán a sus hijas por generaciones.
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La Toile de Charlotteby E. B. WhiteISBN 221102288X (2-211-02288-X)
Softcover, Archimede Editions
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