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3, 2, 1... Married!by Sharon Sala, Marie Ferrarella, Beverly BartonISBN 0373483856 (0-373-48385-6)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: '3, 2, 1... Married!'Book summary:The countdown has begun. Three marriage-minded women have set their sights on becoming brides. And they're following Prominence magazine's surefire list of ways to meet the grooms of their dreams. How to hook a husband when time is of the essence? Prominence says...
"Catch a Cowboy!"
Bestselling author SHARON SALA takes her heroine way out West, where the men are plentiful...and more than willing to make some lucky lady "Miracle Bride."
"Collide with a Single Daddy!"
Award-winning author MARIE FERRARELLA tells the story of a single gal searching for any excuse to visit the playground and catch sight of "a member of 'The Single Daddy Club.'"
"Get Personal!"
Beloved author BEVERLY BARTON creates a heroine who discovers that personal ads are a bit like opening Door Number 3--the prize for "Getting Personal" may just be more than worth the risk!
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40 Short Storiesby Beverly LawnISBN 031241305X (0-312-41305-X)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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All I Want for Christmasby Lori Foster, Dee Holmes, Eileen Wilks, Kinley MacGregorISBN 0312976801 (0-312-97680-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Alpha 4.by Robert SilverbergISBN 0345235649 (0-345-23564-9)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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The Best Horror Stories from the Magazines of Fantasy and Science Fictionby Edward L. Ferman, Anne JordanISBN 0312914997 (0-312-91499-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Best of John W. Campbellby Campbell, John W., Jr.ISBN 0345249607 (0-345-24960-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best of John W. Campbell'Book summary:THE VISIONS OF JOHN W. CAMPBELL
Here are the finest stories by the man who almost single-handedly created modern science fiction--the writer who taught a generation to dream...and to write of all possible futures.
TWILIGHT
He was a mere hitchhiker now, but he had once seen the far, far future...and had returned to mourn what he had seen!
THE MACHINE
The machine was ultimately benevolent...so benevolent that it gave mankind the ultimate but most unwanted gift!
FORGETFULNESS
They were like children in the museum of Earth's glorious past...children who had forgotten so much, but whose powers were those of gods!
And the classic that was to become the movie THE THING: WHO GOES THERE?
The Thing was the most dreadful threat men had ever faced...a creature that could be any one--or all--of them!
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The Best of Outside: The First 20 Yearsby Edward Abbey, OutsideISBN 0375703136 (0-375-70313-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best of Outside: The First 20 Years'Book summary:For two decades Outside magazine has remained committed to good writing, publishing feature articles from well-known authors on a variety of topics connected (in sometimes obscure yet fascinating ways) to the outdoors, adventure, travel, and just about anything else that happens beyond the confines of the mall. The most memorableof these pieces are collected in a single anthology, The Best of Outside: Tom McGuane offers compelling reasons to hunt; Jonathan Raban discusses life on the open ocean; Barry Lopez considers the graceful and beleaguered flocks of snow geese that once filled the skies. Also included are the original articles from Jon Krakauer and Sebastian Junger that would expand into their bestselling books Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, respectively. [via]
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The Best of Outside : The First 20 Yearsby Outside Magazine Editors, Edward AbbeyISBN 0375500642 (0-375-50064-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best of Outside : The First 20 Years'Book summary:For two decades Outside magazine has remained committed to good writing, publishing feature articles from well-known authors on a variety of topics connected (in sometimes obscure yet fascinating ways) to the outdoors, adventure, travel, and just about anything else that happens beyond the confines of the mall. The most memorableof these pieces are collected in a single anthology, The Best of Outside: Tom McGuane offers compelling reasons to hunt; Jonathan Raban discusses life on the open ocean; Barry Lopez considers the graceful and beleaguered flocks of snow geese that once filled the skies. Also included are the original articles from Jon Krakauer and Sebastian Junger that would expand into their bestselling books Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, respectively. [via]
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The Best Science Fiction of the Yearby Terry CarrISBN 0345286014 (0-345-28601-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Centuryby Harry Turtledove, Martin Harry GreenbergISBN 0345460944 (0-345-46094-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtinessby Berke BreathedISBN 0316103098 (0-316-10309-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness'Book summary:This first big "bible" of Bloom County includes comics from the earlier collections: Loose Tails, 'Toons for Our Times and Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things. Eighty full-color pages including the wonderful Opus "hairy fishnuts/Hare Krishnas" strip and the first Bill-the-Cat appearance. If you hurt yourself laughing (like when you read about Bill freebasing Friskies), don't blame me; I warned you. [via]
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The Bodyby Not AvailableISBN 0333765346 (0-333-76534-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Christmas Visitby Terri Brisbin, Gail Ranstrom, Margaret MooreISBN 0373293275 (0-373-29327-5)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Counting Up, Counting Downby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345477987 (0-345-47798-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Counting Up, Counting Down'Book summary:From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author and critically acclaimed master of the short story, comes a classic collection of science fiction tales and what-if scenarios. In narratives ranging from fantastic to oddly familiar to eerily prescient, this compelling volume illustrates Turtledoves literary skill and unbridled imagination.
FORTY, COUNTING DOWN: With the help of his time travel software, computer genius Justin Kloster returns to the past to stop himself from making a terrible mistakebut all actions have their consequences.
THE MALTESE ELEPHANT: A legendary detective finds himself in grave danger when a noir masterpiece takes a stunning new twist.
GODDESS FOR A DAY: Taking a page from history, a young girl dares to challenge the godsand is richly rewarded for her efforts.
DECONSTRUCTION GANG: Mired in unemployment and despair, an academic finds happiness and intellectual fulfillment in a most unexpected place.
TWENTY-ONE, COUNTING UP: Justin Klosters college life and romantic dreams are rudely interruptedand irreversibly disruptedwhen forty-year-old Justin arrives from the future to save him from himself.
Plus twelve more thrilling, unforgettable tales of wonder! [via]
Daughters of Africa : An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent and from the Ancient Egyptian to the Presentby Margaret BusbyISBN 0345382684 (0-345-38268-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Doom That Came to Sarnathby H. P. LovecraftISBN 0345331052 (0-345-33105-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Dragonflightby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345335465 (0-345-33546-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragonflight'Book summary:How can one girl save an entire world?to the nobles who live in benden weyr, lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for lessa to shed her disguise-and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, lessa's world is threatened by thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches. Dragons and their riders once protected the planet from thread, but there are very few of them left these days. Now brave lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world [via]
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Dragonriders of Pernby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345340248 (0-345-34024-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragonriders of Pern'Book summary:Anne McCaffrey's Pern is one of the most memorable worlds in science fiction and fantasy. Humans and their flying dragon companions live in fear of thread, a caustic, deadly material that falls sporadically from space. But when the thread doesn't fall for a long time, people become complacent, forgetting that it is the brave dragonriders who can save them from the periodic threat. But when the thread falls, human and dragon heroes must fight the scourge. This edition encompasses the first three unforgettable novels of McCaffrey's epic series: Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and The White Dragon. [via]
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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadathby H. P. LovecraftISBN 0345337794 (0-345-33779-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'Book summary:Six bone-chilling tales of bizarre beauty and awesome horror lurk in the dark of the soul, waiting to be called upon by the demons of nightmares, and let loose in the frightened mind. Only H.P. Lovecraft could conjure up these testaments to evil that will live inside of you forever.... [via]
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Elements of Argumentby Annette T. Rottenberg, Donna Haisty WinchellISBN 0312453809 (0-312-45380-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elements of Argument'Book summary:[via]When first published in 1985, Elements of Argument changed the way that argument was taught in college composition courses through its pioneering emphasis on the easy-to-teach Toulmin model of argument. The book quickly became the best-seller in its market and has maintained its popularity with a mix of accessible instruction, lively examples, and compelling readings. Thorough but not intimidating, Elements of Argument presents everything students need to learn about, research, and write arguments. A new coauthor, Donna Haisty Winchell, draws on her own experience teaching with Elements of Argument to enhance the writing instruction and bring in a fresh group of readings and topics that will appeal to a new generation of students. 
The Flight of the Horseby Larry NivenISBN 0345334183 (0-345-33418-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Folk of the Fringeby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312876637 (0-312-87663-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Future Primitiveby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0312863500 (0-312-86350-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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I Am Legendby Richard MathesonISBN 031286504X (0-312-86504-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Am Legend'Book summary:One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century, I Am Legend regularly appears on the "10 Best" lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson's third novel, it was first marketed as science fiction (for although written in 1954, the story takes place in a future 1976). A terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive have been transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night. Except, that is, for Robert Neville. He alone appears to be immune to this disease, but the grim irony is that now he is the outsider. He is the legendary monster who must be destroyed because he is different from everyone else. Employing a stark, almost documentary style, Richard Matheson was one of the first writers to convince us that the undead can lurk in a local supermarket freezer as well as a remote Gothic castle. His influence on a generation of bestselling authors--including Stephen King and Dean Koontz--who first read him in their youth is, well, legendary. --Stanley Wiater [via]
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Japanese Talesby Royall TylerISBN 0375714510 (0-375-71451-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Kaleidoscopeby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345364775 (0-345-36477-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Lays of Beleriandby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345388186 (0-345-38818-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales, Or, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentby Washington IrvingISBN 037575721X (0-375-75721-X)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales, Or, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent'Book summary:With his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the most memorable characters in fiction, from Rip Van Winkle to Ichabod Crane, his gifts were not confined to the short story alone. He was also a master of satire, essay, travelogue, and folktale, as evidenced in this classic collection.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, "Every reader has a first book.... which, in early youth, first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me, this first book was The Sketch Book of Washington Irving... The charm of The Sketch Book remains unbroken; the old fascination still lingers about it." [via]More editions of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales, Or, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent:
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Legends II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasyby Anne McCaffrey, Neil Gaiman, Tad Williams, Robert Silverberg, Robin Hobb, Raymond E. FeistISBN 0345475771 (0-345-47577-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Legends II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy'Book summary:Fantasy fans, rejoice! Seven years after writer and editor Robert Silverberg made publishing history with Legends, his acclaimed anthology of original short novels by some of the greatest writers in fantasy fiction, the long-awaited second volume is here. Legends II picks up where its illustrious predecessor left off. All of the bestselling writers represented in Legends II return to the special universe of the imagination that its author has made famous throughout the world. Whether set before or after events already recounted elsewhere, whether featuring beloved characters or compelling new creations, these masterful short novels are both mesmerizing stand-alonesperfect introductions to the work of their authorsand indispensable additions to the epics on which they are based. Beyond any doubt, Legends II is the fantasy event of the season.
ROBIN HOBB returns to the Realm of the Elderlings with Homecoming, a powerful tale in which exiles sent to colonize the Cursed Shores find themselves sinking into an intoxicating but deadly dream . . . or is it a memory?
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN continues the adventures of Dunk, a young hedge knight, and his unusual squire, Egg, in The Sworn Sword, set a generation before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire.
ORSON SCOTT CARD tells a tale of Alvin Maker and the mighty Mississippi, featuring a couple of neer-do-wells named Jim Bowie and Abe Lincoln, in The Yazoo Queen.
DIANE GABALDON turns to an important character from her Outlander sagaLord John Greyin Lord John and the Succubus, a supernatural thriller set in the early days of the Seven Years War.
ROBERT SILVERBERG spins an enthralling tale of Majipoors early historyand remote futureas seen through the eyes of a dilettantish poet who discovers an unexpected destiny in The Book of Changes.
TAD WILLIAMS explores the strange afterlife of Orlando Gardiner, from his Otherland saga, in The Happiest Dead Boy in the World.
ANNE McCAFFREY shines a light into the most mysterious and wondrous of all places on Pern in the heartwarming Beyond Between.
RAYMOND E. FEIST turns from the great battles of the Riftwar to the story of one soldier, a young man about to embark on the ride of his life, in The Messenger.
ELIZABETH HAYDON tells of the destruction of Serendair and the fate of its last defenders in Threshold, set at the end of the Third Age of her Symphony of Ages series.
NEIL GAIMAN gives us a glimpse into what befalls the man called Shadow after the events of his Hugo Awardwinning novel American Gods in The Monarch of the Glen.
TERRY BROOKS adds an exciting epilogue to The Wishsong of Shannara in Indomitable, the tale of Jair Ohmsfords desperate quest to complete the destruction of the evil Ildatch . . . armed only with the magic of illusion.
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Literature And Ourselves: A Thematic Introduction For Readers And Writersby Bill Day, Gloria Henderson, Sandra WallerISBN 0321027493 (0-321-02749-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Literature And Ourselves: A Thematic Introduction For Readers And Writersby Gloria Henderson, William Day, Sandra Stevenson WallerISBN 0321277139 (0-321-27713-9)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Literature: Reading and Writing the Human Experienceby Richard Abcarian, Marvin KlotzISBN 0312436513 (0-312-43651-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literature: Reading and Writing the Human Experience'Book summary:[via]A proven classroom favorite for more than three decades, this anthology continues to appeal to students and instructors with its broad range of enticing stories, poems, plays, and essays and its flexible structure. The arrangement by both theme and genre encourages students to think deeply about crucial topics while they learn about the four main genres of literature. The new edition provides a broader selection of works -- including many from non-Western traditions -- and more help for reading literature.More editions of Literature: Reading and Writing the Human Experience:
Literature, Class, and Culture: An Anthologyby Paul Lauter, Ann FitzgeraldISBN 0321011635 (0-321-01163-5)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Literature, the Human Experienceby Marvin Klotz, Richard AbcarianISBN 0312487959 (0-312-48795-9)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Longman Anthology of British Literature: The Early Modern Periodby Constance Jordan, Clare CarrollISBN 0321067630 (0-321-06763-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Longman Anthology of British Literature: The Early Modern Period'Book summary:Volume 1B (Early Modern Period) of 6-volume splits of parent volumes. [via]
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Me Talk Pretty One Dayby David SedarisISBN 0316776963 (0-316-77696-3)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Me Talk Pretty One Day'Book summary:David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of "SantaLand Diaries," a scathing, hilarious account of his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy's. (It's in two separate collections, both worth owning, Barrel Fever and the Christmas-themed Holidays on Ice.) Sedaris's caustic gift has not deserted him in his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path, and his move with his lover to France. Though his anarchic inclination to digress is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these reminiscences: the inability of humans to communicate. The title is his rendition in transliterated English of how he and his fellow students of French in Paris mangle the Gallic language. In the essay "Jesus Shaves," he and his classmates from many nations try to convey the concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim. "It is a party for the little boy of God," says one. "Then he be die one day on two... morsels of... lumber," says another. Sedaris muses on the disputes between his Protestant mother and his father, a Greek Orthodox guy whose Easter fell on a different day. Other essays explicate his deep kinship with his eccentric mom and absurd alienation from his IBM-exec dad: "To me, the greatest mystery of science continues to be that a man could father six children who shared absolutely none of his interests."
Every glimpse we get of Sedaris's family and acquaintances delivers laughs and insights. He thwarts his North Carolina speech therapist ("for whom the word pen had two syllables") by cleverly avoiding all words with s sounds, which reveal the lisp she sought to correct. His midget guitar teacher, Mister Mancini, is unaware that Sedaris doesn't share his obsession with breasts, and sings "Light My Fire" all wrong--"as if he were a Webelo scout demanding a match." As a remarkably unqualified teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sedaris had his class watch soap operas and assign "guessays" on what would happen in the next day's episode.
It all adds up to the most distinctively skewed autobiography since Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia. The only possible reason not to read this book is if you'd rather hear the author's intrinsically funny speaking voice narrating his story. In that case, get Me Talk Pretty One Day on audio. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Men of Courage II: An Honorable Man Blown Away Perilous Watersby Lori Foster, Donna Kauffman, Jill ShalvisISBN 0373836422 (0-373-83642-2)
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Moonsinger's Friendsby Susan Shwartz, Andre NortonISBN 0312943261 (0-312-94326-1)
Softcover, Bluejay Books
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Nakedby David SedarisISBN 0316777730 (0-316-77773-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked'Book summary:Hip radio comedy fans and theater folks who belong to the cult of Obie-winning playwright/performer David Sedaris must kill to get this book. These would be fans of the scaldingly snide Sedaris's hilariously described personal misadventures like The Santaland Diaries (a monologue about his work as an elf to a department store Santa) seen off-Broadway in 1997. In a series of similarly textured essays, Sedaris takes us along on his catastrophic detours through a nudist colony, a fruit-packing plant, his own childhood, and a dozen more of the world's little purgatories. [via]
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The New Gilded Ageby David RemnickISBN 0375757155 (0-375-75715-5)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Gilded Age'Book summary:The New Yorker caters to America's upper classes; it's the kind of magazine meant to be accompanied by a glass of pricey Merlot. Over the years its elitism has waxed and waned. Ex-editor Tina Brown worked valiantly to inject a dose of pop-cultural crassness into its ivory-tower sensibilities: profiling celebrities and publishing fashion issues where models stared out from every page, looking chilly. When David Remnick took over in the late '90s, the magazine shifted, grew quieter and more circumspect, and the old guard breathed a collective sigh of relief.
The New Gilded Age collects essays and profiles from 1999 and 2000 and reveals Remnick's New Yorker to be obsessed with money and business--arguably less interesting than celebrity, but also deeper ways of looking at America and power. The title refers to the period of technological revolution symbolized by the rise of Microsoft, the booming of Silicon Valley, and the end of the belief that an Ivy League education will get you anywhere.
What's admirable about this New Yorker is its timeliness; the way, without seeming like a panicked "edge" magazine, it managed to document and acknowledge the shifting sands of the millennial moment. Standouts in this regard: William Finnegan on the protesters behind the 1999 WTO riots in Seattle; Ken Auletta following Bill Gates through various meltdowns as he comes to terms with the federal government's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. These are painstakingly reported pieces in which style is submerged. The more audacious writers tend to be women. In "Everywoman.com," Joan Didion describes Martha Stewart in a flood of rapt lyricism:
This is not a story about a woman who made the best of traditional skills. This is a story about a woman who did her own I.P.O. This is the "woman's pluck" story, the dust-bowl story, the burying-your-child-on-the-trail story, the I-will-never-go-hungry-again story, the Mildred Pierce story, the story about how the sheer nerve of even professionally unskilled women can prevail, show the men; the story that has historically encouraged women in this country, even as it has threatened men.
In "Landing from the Sky," Adrian Nicole LeBlanc creates a portrait of a young Puerto Rican woman with too many kids and too much trouble. The writing here is exquisite and passionate: "Jessica created an aura of intimacy wherever she went. You could be talking to her in the middle of Tremont and feel as if a confidence were being exchanged beneath a tent of sheets."Jessica's story seems far from the world of The New Yorker's target audience. When in "My Misspent Youth" Meghan Daum laments her poverty and credit card debt, then reveals she lives alone in a $1,500-a-month apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, you have to wonder: Did the poor thing ever hear of roommates? As both a document and celebration of such rarefied and privileged attitudes, The New Gilded Age is a rich, informative glimpse into America at the turn of the millennium--before the NASDAQ crashed and the dot-com kids went home to count their losses. --Emily White [via]
Once upon a Crimeby Janet HutchingsISBN 0312954158 (0-312-95415-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Other Nineteenth Centuryby Avram DavidsonISBN 0312874928 (0-312-87492-8)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Nineteenth Century'Book summary:A New Collection of Long Out-of-Print Stories From One of the Greatest Fantasists of the Twentieth Century[via]
Avram Davidson, who died in 1993, was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. This collection comprises his distinctive historical fantasies-tales of strange Mitteleuropas, of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier. Here are "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire," "Traveller from an Antique Land," and "What Strange Stars and Skies"; here are dragons, cameras, and "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach." Witty, whimsical, dark, and strange, these tales of times and places that almost were will leave even the most jaded readers amazed. No one has ever written like Avram Davidson, before or since. -
The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Roomsby Paris Review, Richard PowersISBN 0312422407 (0-312-42240-7)
Softcover, Picador USA
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The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms is the ultimate, and perfect, theme-anthology. It's theme is the reader. Everyday we must live through moments of waiting--to get from one place to the next, from one appointment to another, for something to happen. This ingeniously useful compendium offers reading material to fill those gray moments with beauty, wonder, insight, and emotion. Organized by the time that the reader has available at that moment, the anthology provides a poem for that elevator ride to the lawyer's office; a short story for the thirty-minute commute; a novella for the three-hour plane ride. As ever, The Paris Review provides work from only the best writers of the last three generations.
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- Mary Robison
- Denis Johnson
- Michael Chabon
- Marilyn Hacker
- Robert Pinsky
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The Private Eye and Beguiledby Jayne Ann Krentz, Lori FosterISBN 0373834128 (0-373-83412-8)
Softcover, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Limited
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The Private Eye: The Private Eye/Keegan's Bluff/Cop Next Doorby Jayne Ann Krentz, Dani Sinclair, Julie MillerISBN 0373835981 (0-373-83598-1)
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Reach for Tomorrowby Arthur Charles ClarkeISBN 0345353765 (0-345-35376-5)
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Red Hot Santa: Snowball's Chance, Santa Slave, Big, Bad Santa, Killer Christmasby Cherry Adair, Leanne Banks, Kelsey Roberts, Pamela BrittonISBN 0345483499 (0-345-48349-9)
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Rereading Americaby Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, Bonnie LisleISBN 0312405545 (0-312-40554-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writingby Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, Bonnie LisleISBN 0312249179 (0-312-24917-9)
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Scare Careby Graham MastertonISBN 0312931565 (0-312-93156-5)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Selected Stories of Philip K. Dickby Philip K. Dick, Jonathan LethemISBN 0375421513 (0-375-42151-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Sfwa Grand Mastersby Frederik PohlISBN 0312868766 (0-312-86876-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The SFWA Grand Masters Vol. 2: Robert A. Heinlein, Jack Williamson, Clifford D. Simak, L. Sprague de Camp, and Fritz Leiberby Frederik PohlISBN 0312868790 (0-312-86879-0)
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The SFWA Grand Masters Vol. 3: Robert A. Heinlein, Jack Williamson, Clifford D. Simak, L. Sprague de Camp, and Fritz Leiberby Frederik PohlISBN 0312868774 (0-312-86877-4)
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The Ship Who Sangby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345334310 (0-345-33431-0)
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Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writersby Sonia Maasik, J. Fisher SolomonISBN 0312431333 (0-312-43133-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Signs of Life in the U.S.A.: Readings on Popular Culture for Writersby Jack Solomon, Sonia MaasikISBN 0312397844 (0-312-39784-4)
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Skies of Pernby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345434692 (0-345-43469-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skies of Pern'Book summary:Anne McCaffrey's Pern series has been running successfully for so long that most of the Dragonriders' original problems have been solved. In The Skies of Pern, she confronts her standard cast of characters with the consequences of those solutions, consequences that are a whole new set of problems. Now that the Red Star has been pushed to another orbit, there will only be a few more ravenous Threads descending from it for them and their dragons to fight--and what role will that leave for them? They have successfully reclaimed Earth's lost technology--and suddenly everyone with a craft that might be outmoded, or who is phobic about surgery, is on the rampage, sabotaging and smashing and making up rumors. These fundamentalist Abominators are sure that something terrible will happen if the old ways are not gone back to--and sure enough, fire descends, on cue, from the skies.
Anne McCaffrey's tales of genetically engineered dragons and a lost colony that has declined into feudalism are ultimately SF rather than fantasy because they are about finding solutions to problems, solutions that involve working with what you are given to start off with; The Skies of Pern is all about elegant solutions to credible problems. --Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Hamby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345336062 (0-345-33606-2)
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Strange Travelersby Gene WolfeISBN 031287278X (0-312-87278-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strange Travelers'Book summary:Strange Travelers is a rich and exciting tapestry of eclectic tales sure to please, whether this is your first foray into the worlds of Gene Wolfe or a return journey. The story lines run the gamut from traditional science fiction with a twist to a delightful retelling of a Russian folk tale.
"To the Seventh" is a classic science fiction story about a chess game between God and the Devil. The pieces on the cosmic chessboard are represented by beings scattered across the universe. The hero of the story, Mack Chance, is asked by God, in the guise of a tactical war computer, to undertake a suicidal mission. His ship has the capability and fuel to jump 300,000 parsecs in two jumps of 150,000 parsecs each, but God asks him to accept an assignment 900,000 parsecs away, in the heart of enemy territory on the belief that miracles can happen:
"You answered without reflection. This time I want you to reflect, Captain Chance. Do you believe in miracles?"
Mack reflected, tussling with successive layers deceptively labeled "soul," "core," and "innermost being"--tearing each to bits and throwing each aside, only to find that it kept creeping back. At length he said, "Where you're concerned, yes sir. I do, sir. I mean--"
Those six jumps equate to the six moves a chess pawn would have to move forward to arrive at the last row of a chessboard and be subsequently "Queened." If you're familiar with chess and know the difficulty of queening a pawn you can almost guess the outcome of the story. But the path Chance takes, which meanders through the universe with a stop near Portland, Oregon, is one that will delight and titillate.
"And When They Appear" is a tale of a young boy who is being cared for by his parents' computerized house in a post-apocalypse world. Sherby, too young really to understand the evil in the world, is kept entertained by computer-generated holograms while a roving band of looters steadily approaches the house. With the power to override the house program, Sherby innocently creates a situation in which the house is destroyed and Sherby himself is "rescued" by a rather seedy and degenerate character. Thankfully, Wolfe spares the reader most of the details of Sherby's future.
The other strange tales in Wolfe's collection include a thought-provoking campfire horror story set in the far future; the story of the "mother" of intelligent robots being pursued by one of the beings she unwittingly helped create; and the adventures of three female time travelers, castaways on the shores of Earth. There's another horror yarn about a human boy who runs with ghouls and a tale about a boy who gets trapped in his sister's dollhouse each time he sleeps.
Strange Travelers is a broad and deep book by a master wordsmith. Like Wolfe's Castle of Days, Strange Travelers contains a few unclassifiable stories. This only enhances the rich landscape of this collection. Strange Travelers reaffirms Wolfe's adroitness and mastery in the short story genre. It's well worth losing a little sleep over. --Robert Gately [via]
Study War No Moreby Joe W. HaldemanISBN 0312773153 (0-312-77315-3)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Tales of Known Spaceby Larry NivenISBN 0345334698 (0-345-33469-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Tales of the Witch World 1by Andre NortonISBN 0312944756 (0-312-94475-6)
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Tales of the Witch World 2by Andre NortonISBN 031293078X (0-312-93078-X)
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Telling Talesby Nadine GordimerISBN 0312424043 (0-312-42404-3)
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Terry's Universeby Beth MeachamISBN 0312930585 (0-312-93058-5)
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Turning Pointsby Raymond E. Feist, Dennis L. McKiernan, Lynn Abbey, Robert AsprinISBN 0312875177 (0-312-87517-7)
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Velvet, Leather & Laceby Donna Kauffman, Jill ShalvisISBN 0373836546 (0-373-83654-6)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Wizards' Worldsby Andre Norton, Ingried ZierhutISBN 0312931913 (0-312-93191-3)
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The World Treasury of Children's Literatureby Clifton FadimanISBN 0316273023 (0-316-27302-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Storiesby Ed GormanISBN 0312874790 (0-312-87479-0)
Softcover, Forge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories'Book summary:In the tradition of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and The Year's Best Science Fiction, The World's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, First Annual Edition finally fills the void for those with a hunger for the best mystery and suspense stories of the past year.[via]
Including such bestselling authors as Jeffrey Deaver, Elizabeth George, Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman, Ed McBain, Anne Perry, and Ruth Rendell, plus many, many others, this volume will positively blow the competition away. For, unlike the other various mystery anthologies, The World's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories collects stories from writers around the globe, including Britain's Silver Dagger short-fiction award winners. It will also be almost twice as big, weighing in at more than 200,000 words, and will arrive two months before the competition.
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A Writer's Readerby D. L. Emblen, Donald HallISBN 0316339873 (0-316-33987-3)
Softcover, Little, Brown
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A Writer's Readerby Donald Hall, D. L. EmblenISBN 0321087488 (0-321-08748-8)
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Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric With Readingsby John C. Bean, John D. Ramage, June JohnsonISBN 0321163389 (0-321-16338-9)
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Writing Homeby Alan BennettISBN 0312422571 (0-312-42257-1)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Xanaduby Jane YolenISBN 0312863039 (0-312-86303-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Year's Best Science Fictionby Gardner DozoisISBN 0312944829 (0-312-94482-9)
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