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Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Scott McKowenISBN 1402726007 (1-4027-2600-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Oliver Ho, Dan AndreasenISBN 1402724993 (1-4027-2499-3)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:[via]We said there was no home like a raft. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery but you feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. Sail down the Mississippi with Huck Finn and the runaway slave, Jim. Twains beloved tale, with its folksy language, creates an indelible image of antebellum America with its sleepy river towns, con men, family feuds, and a variety of colorful characters.
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After the Snooterby Eddie CampbellISBN 0957789661 (0-9577896-6-1)
Softcover, Top Shelf Productions
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Alecby Eddie CampbellISBN 0957789637 (0-9577896-3-7)
Softcover, Top Shelf Productions
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All Fishermen Are Liars: True Tales From The Dry Dock Barby Linda GreenlawISBN 1401300707 (1-4013-0070-7)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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And the Journey Beginsby Cyril AxelrodISBN 0946252556 (0-946252-55-6)
Softcover, Gallaudet Univ Pr
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An Anecdoted Topography of Chanceby Robert Filliou, Dieter Roth, Daniel Spoerri, Topor, Emmett WilliamsISBN 0947757880 (0-947757-88-0)
Softcover, Atlas Pr
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Black Beautyby Anna SewellISBN 1414213220 (1-4142-1322-0)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Black Beautyby Scott McKowenISBN 1402714521 (1-4027-1452-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Storyby Timothy B. TysonISBN 1400083117 (1-4000-8311-7)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story'Book summary:"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger." Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by a playmate, heralded a ?restorm that would forever transform the tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina.
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased and beat Marrow, then killed him in public as he pleaded for his life.
Like many small Southern towns, Oxford had barely been touched by the civil rights movement. But in the wake of the killing, young African Americans took to the streets. While lawyers battled in the courthouse, the Klan raged in the shadows and black Vietnam veterans torched the town's tobacco warehouses. Tyson's father, the pastor of Oxford's all-white Methodist church, urged the town to come to terms with its bloody racial history. In the end, however, the Tyson family was forced to move away.
Tim Tyson's riveting narrative of that fiery summer brings gritty blues truth, soaring gospel vision, and down-home humor to a shocking episode of our history. Like To Kill a Mockingbird, Blood Done Sign My Name is a classic portrait of an unforgettable time and place. [via]More editions of Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story:
Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography As Told to Dr. Ben L. Reitmanby Ben L. Reitman, Box-Car BerthaISBN 0941693066 (0-941693-06-6)
Softcover, Amok Pr
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Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Lifeby Hilary Liftin, Teri HatcherISBN 1401302629 (1-4013-0262-9)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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By Bread Alone: The Story of A-4685by Mel MermelsteinISBN 0960653406 (0-9606534-0-6)
Softcover, Auschwitz Study Fndn
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The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Lettersby Donald Murdoch Frame, Michel Montaigne, Stuart HampshireISBN 1400040213 (1-4000-4021-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Confessions of a Disloyal Europeanby Jan MyrdalISBN 094170226X (0-941702-26-X)
Softcover, Lake View Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of a Disloyal European'Book summary:The sixties classic by the author of Report from a Chinese Village was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of ten books 'of particular significance an excellence in 1968.' In a new edition, Myrdal, one of Sweden's most prominent intellectuals, looks back on the Myrdal of 1968 and his rebel generation. [via]
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Confessions of a Sex Kittenby Eartha KittISBN 094263733X (0-942637-33-X)
Hardcover, Barricade Books Inc
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Confieso Que He Vividoby Pablo Neruda, Hernan LoyolaISBN 1400087619 (1-4000-8761-9)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Cover Meby Mariko TamakiISBN 0969806493 (0-9698064-9-3)
Softcover, McGilligan Books Inc
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David Copperfield, V1by Charles DickensISBN 1421906163 (1-4219-0616-3)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Days from a Different World: A Memoir of Childhoodby John SimpsonISBN 1405055774 (1-4050-5577-4)
Softcover, Macmillan
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Definitionby Ariel SchragISBN 0943151147 (0-943151-14-7)
Softcover, Slave Labor Graphics
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The Diary of Alice Jamesby Leon Edel, Alice JamesISBN 1555533973 (1-55553-397-3)
Softcover, Northeastern Univ Pr
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Dicteeby Theresa Hak Kyung ChaISBN 0943219124 (0-943219-12-4)
Softcover, Third Women Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dictee'Book summary:Cha's groundbreaking image/text work back in print [via]
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Drifting Home: A Family's Voyage of Discover Down the Wild Yukon Riverby Pierre BertonISBN 1550549510 (1-55054-951-0)
Softcover, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd
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Elizabeth & Her German Gardenby Elizabeth Von ArnimISBN 1419117564 (1-4191-1756-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Elizabeth and Her German Gardenby Elizabeth Von ArnimISBN 1406807184 (1-4068-0718-4)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Far Away And Long Ago: A History of My Early Lifeby W. H. HudsonISBN 141793445X (1-4179-3445-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writingsby Guy MaddinISBN 1552451313 (1-55245-131-3)
Softcover, Coach House Books
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Ghosting: A Double Lifeby Jennie ErdalISBN 1400079551 (1-4000-7955-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Good Women of China: Hidden Voicesby Xinran Xue, Esther TyldesleyISBN 1400030803 (1-4000-3080-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices'Book summary:When Deng Xiaopings efforts to open up China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show, she barely anticipated the enthusiasm it would quickly generate. Operating within the constraints imposed by government censors, Words on the Night Breeze sparked a tremendous outpouring, and the hours of tape on her answering machines were soon filled every night. Whether angry or muted, posing questions or simply relating experiences, these anonymous women bore witness to decades of civil strife, and of halting attempts at self-understanding in a painfully restrictive society. In this collection, by turns heartrending and inspiring, Xinran brings us the stories that affected her most, and offers a graphically detailed, altogether unprecedented work of oral history. [via]
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Grace Like a Riverby Kathy Tyers, Christopher ParkeningISBN 1414300468 (1-4143-0046-8)
Hardcover, Tyndale House Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grace Like a River'Book summary:This book details Christopher Parkening's rise to fame as one of the world's preeminent virtuosos of the classical guitarand everything it cost him to get there. In spite of his enormous success, he discovered that without true meaning and purpose, all his worldly accomplishments were empty and unsatisfying. Grace Like a River is the story of a young man, filled with determination and drive, who was willing to sacrifice everything in order to achieve the highest level of excellence. It is also the story of how God pursued Christopher Parkening in order to give him eternal hope.
Special limited-time value: CD of guitar selections by Mr. Parkening included in book. [via]More editions of Grace Like a River:
Heartbreak & Triumph: The Shawn Michaels Storyby Aaron Feigenbaum, Shawn MichaelsISBN 1416516867 (1-4165-1686-7)
Softcover, World Wrestling Entertainment
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Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carrby Emily Carr, Gerta MorayISBN 1553651723 (1-55365-172-3)
Softcover, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd
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I Was Seven in '75by Ellen ForneyISBN 0966025881 (0-9660258-8-1)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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It's a Birdby Steve Seagle, Teddy KristiansenISBN 1401203116 (1-4012-0311-6)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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It's a Birdby Teddy H. Kristiansen, Steve Seagle, Teddy KristiansenISBN 1401201091 (1-4012-0109-1)
Hardcover, Vertigo
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A Journal Of The Plague Yearby Daniel DefoeISBN 1419101803 (1-4191-0180-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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The Journals: 1949-1965by John Fowles, Charles DrazinISBN 1400044316 (1-4000-4431-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Journals of Arnold Bennettby Newman FlowerISBN 1406732087 (1-4067-3208-7)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of Arnold Bennett'Book summary:Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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Journey from the Land of Noby Ruya HakkakiyanISBN 1400046114 (1-4000-4611-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey from the Land of No'Book summary:We stormed every classroom, inscribed our slogans on the blackboard . . . Never had mayhem brought more peace. All our lives we had been taught the virtues of behaving, and now we were discovering the importance of misbehaving. Too much fear had tainted our days. Too many afternoons had passed in silence, listening to a fanatics diatribes. We were rebelling because we were not evil, we had not sinned, and we knew nothing of the apocalypse. . . . This was 1979, the year that showed us we could make our own destinies. We were rebelling because rebelling was all we could do to quell the rage in our teenage veins. Together as girls we found the courage we had been told was not in us.
In Journey from the Land of No Roya Hakakian recalls her childhood and adolescence in prerevolutionary Iran with candor and verve. The result is a beautifully written coming-of-age story about one deeply intelligent and perceptive girls attempt to nd an authentic voice of her own at a time of cultural closing and repression. Remarkably, she manages to re-create
a time and place dominated by religious fanaticism, violence, and fear with an open heart and often with great humor.
Hakakian was twelve years old in 1979 when the revolution swept through Tehran. The daughter of an esteemed poet, she grew up in a household that hummed with intellectual life. Family gatherings were punctuated by witty, satirical exchanges and spontaneous recitations of poetry. But the Hakakians were also part of the very small Jewish population in Iran who witnessed the iron fist of the Islamic fundamentalists increasingly tightening its grip. It is with the innocent confusion of youth that Roya describes her discovery of a swastika a plus sign gone awry, a dark reptile with four hungry claws painted on the wall near her home. As a schoolgirl she watched as friends accused of reading blasphemous books were escorted from class by Islamic Society guards, never to return. Only much later did Roya learn that she was spared a similar fate because her teacher admired her writing.
Hakakian relates in the most poignant, and at times painful, ways what life was like for women after the country fell into the hands of Islamic fundamentalists who had declared an insidious war against them, but we see it all through the eyes of a strong, youthful optimist who somehow came up in the world believing that she was different, knowing she was special. At her loneliest, Roya discovers the consolations of writing while sitting on the rooftop of her house late at night. There, pen in hand, I led my own chorus of words, with a melody of my own making. And she discovers the craft that would ultimately enable her to find her own voice and become her own person.
A wonderfully evocative story, Journey from the Land of No reveals an Iran most readers have not encountered and marks the debut of a stunning new talent. [via]More editions of Journey from the Land of No:
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Letters from a Lost Generation: The First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlowby Vera Brittain, Mark Bostridge, Alan BishopISBN 1555533795 (1-55553-379-5)
Hardcover, Northeastern Univ Pr
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Letters from a Lost Generation, a collection of previously unpublished correspondence between Brittain and these young men--all public schoolboys at the start of the war--chronicles her relationship with them, and reveals "the old lie," the idealized glory of patriotic duty that was soon overtaken by the grim reality of the Flanders trenches. The letters are lively, dramatic, immediate and, despite the awfulness of war, curiously optimistic: "Somehow I feel the end is not destined to be here and now. We have not fulfilled ourselves--and someday we shall live our roseate poem through," wrote Vera in one of her last letters to Roland in December 1915, just days before he was killed by a sniper's bullet. Following his death, and later those of their mutual friends Victor and Geoffrey, Vera's letters take on a new, raw intensity as she concentrates all her emotions on her brother--a hero awarded the Military Cross--until his death on the Italian Front in June 1918. These letters formed the basis of Vera Brittain's remarkable autobiography, Testament of Youth, and vividly bring to life the voices of the lost generation whose words threaten to be lost forever as the First World War recedes even further from living memory. --Catherine Taylor, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Letters From An American Farmerby J. Hector John de CrevecoeurISBN 1419129805 (1-4191-2980-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters From An American Farmer'Book summary:Who would have thought that because I received you with hospitality and kindness, you should imagine me capable of writing with propriety and perspicuity? Your gratitude misleads your judgment. The knowledge which I acquired from your conversation has amply repaid me for your five weeks' entertainment. I gave you nothing more than what common hospitality dictated; but could any other guest have instructed me as you did? [via]
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Letters of a Woman Homesteaderby Elinore Pruitt Stewart, N. C. WyethISBN 1417934344 (1-4179-3434-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters of a Woman Homesteader'Book summary:1914. Pruitt, a widow and mother who washed clothes for a living in Denver, planned to work as a housekeeper for some rancher while learning all she'd need to know about homesteading a place for herself. In 1909 she went to work for Clyde Stewart, whose ranch was near Burnt Fork, Wyoming, and within six weeks she married him. Her delightful letters written from the time of her arrival until 1913, authentically depict an Old West that has been progressively obscured by those who portray it most often. [via]
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, And What I Listened toby Rob SheffieldISBN 1400083028 (1-4000-8302-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961-1963by Gail Godwin, Rob NeufeldISBN 1400064325 (1-4000-6432-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hatby Oliver SacksISBN 1555042651 (1-55504-265-1)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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Mark Twainby Mark TwainISBN 0940450070 (0-940450-07-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mark Twain'Book summary:Here for the first time in one volume are the most famous and characteristic of Mark Twain's works. Through each of them runs the powerful and majestic Mississippi. The river represented for Twain the complex and contradictory possibilities in his own and the nation's life: the place where civilization's comforts meet the violence and promise of freedom of the frontier. It was the place, too, where Twain's youthful innocence confronted the grim reality of slavery. The nostalgic re-creation of childhood in "Tom Sawyer"--"simply a hymn put into prose form to give it a worldly air," said Twain--and the richly anecdotal memoir of his days as a riverboat pilot in "Life on the Mississippi" give way to the realism and often dark comedy of "Huckleberry Finn" and the troubled exploration of slavery in his mystery, "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Together, these four books trace the central trajectory of his life and career, and they can be read as a single masterpiece. [via]
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Memoirs of a Geishaby Arthur GoldenISBN 1400096898 (1-4000-9689-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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From start to finish, the listener is absorbed in the elegant spirit of Davis's performance, eager to hear the next chapter of Sayuri's transformation into one of the most famous geishas of the century. How unfortunate, then, to learn that book readers not only get the basic story, but a fascinating look at the intricate rules and rituals of geisha culture. Here, for example, is one of the many revelations omitted from the cassette: "Japanese men, as a rule, feel about a woman's neck and throat the same way that men in the West might feel about a woman's legs.... In fact, a geisha leaves a tiny margin of skin bare all around the hairline, causing her makeup to look even more artificial.... When a man sits beside her, he becomes that much more aware of the bare skin beneath."
We're also denied several subplots--the aborted friendship between Sayuri and a geisha named Pumpkin, for example, or much of the story involving the man Sayuri is secretly in love with. But what remains is as precious as a traditional Japanese kimono--at once artistic, suggestive, and moving. --Ann Senechal [via]
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Memoirs of a Geisha: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack, Piano Soloby John WilliamsISBN 1423412206 (1-4234-1220-6)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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My Bondage and My Freedomby Frederick DouglassISBN 1421927330 (1-4219-2733-0)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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My Dog Tulipby AckerleyISBN 0940322110 (0-940322-11-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Dog Tulip'Book summary:My Dog Tulip is the ultimate bitch session--in the canine sense of the phrase, of course. In 1947, J.R. Ackerley rescued an 18-month-old German shepherd, and from the start her every look and move were to undo him. "Tulip never let me down. She is nothing if not consistent. She knows where to draw the line, and it is always in the same place, a circle around us both. Indeed, she is a good girl, but--and this is the point--she would not care for it to be generally known." As he anatomizes her from head to toe with the awe-struck precision of a medieval courtier, Ackerley instantly turns us into Tulipomanes. Alas, many of the mere mortals she encounters feel differently, for there are indeed two Tulips. One is highly strung but heroic, flirtatious but true. The other is a four-legged rejoinder to authority: a biter, a barker, and a dab hand at defecating her way around London. Not that any of these are her fault. "You're the trouble," Tulip's one good vet tells Ackerley as she banishes him from the surgery. "She's in love with you, that's obvious. And so life's full of worries for her."
In many ways this 1956 memoir is an intimate saga of human idealism and doggish realism. Or is it the other way around? In any case, this odd couple undertakes a series of adventures, which bring them into contact with a gallery of strange, mostly martial players. There's the taunting Colonel Finch, owner of Gunner, an Alsatian suitor that Tulip finds wanting--and Captain Pugh, who had served with Ackerley in World War I and who even then was a bizarre mixture of efficiency and indolence. Decades later, in "those rare moments when he was not horizontal he would stalk about the farm buildings with great vigor, making pertinent remarks in his military voice and spreading consternation among the cows."
Ackerley stints no detail when it comes to the varieties of Tulip's urinary and anal experience. But he is concerned above all with the canine heart, and the perils of conception and whelping are at his book's center. Tulip's vita amorosa truly is a via dolorosa as she scorns and scants her aristocratic paramours. Finally, "this exquisite creature in the midst of her desire" hears of the call of-- But we shall reveal no more! My Dog Tulip should instantly make its way onto the shelves of lovers of fine dogs (of whichever bloodlines) and finer literature--and doesn't that cover most of humanity? --Kerry Fried [via]
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My Face for the World to See: The Diaries, Letters and Drawings of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstarby Candy Darling, Francesca Passalacqua, D. E. HardyISBN 094536721X (0-945367-21-X)
Hardcover, Hardy Marks Pubns
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My Fight for Irish Freedomby Dan BreenISBN 0947962336 (0-947962-33-6)
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My Life As an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman And a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeetby James W. Schultz, George Bird GrinnellISBN 1417955279 (1-4179-5527-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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My Life: The Presidential Yearsby Bill ClintonISBN 1400096731 (1-4000-9673-1)
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The New Lifeby Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rossetti Dante, Michael Palmer, Gabriel DanteISBN 0940322870 (0-940322-87-0)
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Nobody's Ever Cried for Meby Dave Roever, Karen C. CrumpISBN 0964814811 (0-9648148-1-1)
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Not a Genuine Black Man: Or, How I Claimed My Piece of Ground in the Lily-White Suburbsby Brian CopelandISBN 1401302335 (1-4013-0233-5)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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Our Nigby Henry Louis Gates, Harriet E. WilsonISBN 1400031206 (1-4000-3120-6)
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The Personal History of David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens, Frederick BarnardISBN 1551114291 (1-55111-429-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Personal History of David Copperfield'Book summary:Beginning in 1854 up through to his death in 1870, Charles Dickens abridged and adapted many of his more popular works and performed them as staged readings. This version, each page illustrated with lovely watercolor paintings, is a beautiful example of one of these adaptations.
Because it is quite seriously abridged, the story concentrates primarily on the extended family of Mr. Peggotty: his orphaned nephew, Ham; his adopted niece, Little Emily; and Mrs. Gummidge, self-described as "a lone lorn creetur and everythink went contrairy with her." When Little Emily runs away with Copperfield's former schoolmate, leaving Mr. Peggotty completely brokenhearted, the whole family is thrown into turmoil. But Dickens weaves some comic relief throughout the story with the introduction of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, and David's love for his pretty, silly "child-wife," Dora. Dark nights, mysterious locations, and the final destructive storm provide classic Dickensian drama. Although this is not David Copperfield in its entirety, it is a great introduction to the world and the language of Charles Dickens. [via]
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Pihkal: A Chemical Love Storyby Alexander ShulgonISBN 0963009605 (0-9630096-0-5)
Softcover, Transform Pr
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Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramonesby Dee Dee Ramone, Veronica KofmanISBN 0946719195 (0-946719-19-5)
Softcover, S A F Pub Ltd
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Positively Page: The Diamond Dallas Page Journeyby Diamond Dallas Page, Larry GentaISBN 0967992206 (0-9679922-0-6)
Hardcover, Positive Pubns Ltd
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Potentialby Ariel SchragISBN 094315104X (0-943151-04-X)
Softcover, Slave Labor Graphics
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Princess Sultana's Circleby Jean P. SassonISBN 0967673763 (0-9676737-6-3)
Softcover, Windsor Brooke Books
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Princess Sultana's Daughters: A Saudi Arabian Woman's Intimate Revelations About Sex, Love, Marriage-And the Fate of Her Beautiful Daughters-Behind the Veilby Jean P. SassonISBN 0967673755 (0-9676737-5-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Princess Sultana's Daughters: A Saudi Arabian Woman's Intimate Revelations About Sex, Love, Marriage-And the Fate of Her Beautiful Daughters-Behind the Veil'Book summary:Reader's of Princess Sultana's true story, Princess, were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. Now, the princess and Jean Sasson turn the spotlight on Sultana's two teenage daughters, Maha and Amani. During her own youth, Sultana chafed under the harsh social system into which she was born. Today, despite untold wealth and privilege, Princess Sultana cannot buy the rights and freedoms women in other cultures possess, for herself, or for her daughters. Although Sultana lives with a constant fear of retribution--even death at the hand of her own father or brother, her passion to provide her two daughters with a better life transcends her fear and fuels her desire for change.As second-generation members of the royal family who have benefited from Saudi oil wealth, Maha and Amani have known nothing but opulence and wealth from the moment of their birth. Yet, stilled by the unbearable restrictive lifestyle imposed on them, Maha and Amani have reacted in equally desperate ways.Maha is a headstrong beauty driven by fear and isolation due to Saudi Arabia's feudal justice. Described by her father as a "girl of brilliant fragments," Maha's gifted mind cannot focus on one goal. When Maha becomes involved in a lesbian relationship, she ends having an emotional breakdown and requires psychiatric treatment in London. Amani, the youngest daughter, rebels in her way during the religious frenzy of Haj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Makkah. Once a sweet and placid animal-lover, Amani emerges "almost overnight from her dormant religious faith and embraces Islamic beliefs with unnerving intensity." Amani's fundamental fanaticism threatens to destroy her mother's personal quest to imporove women's lot in her native land. With candor and humility, Sultana shares the joy, frustration, and "dark intervals of my fear" of Saudi Arabian motherhood and marriage. She details the difficulties inherent in raising d [via]
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Prison Memoirs of an Anarchistby Alexander BerkmanISBN 094032234X (0-940322-34-X)
Softcover, New York Review of Books
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Lessby Terry Ryan, Suze OrmanISBN 1416510818 (1-4165-1081-8)
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Stepping back into a time when fledgling advertising agencies were active partners with consumers, Terry Ryan tells how her mother kept the family afloat by writing jingles and contest entries. Mom's winning ways defied the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated views of housewives. To her, flouting convention was a small price to pay when it come to securing a happy home for her six sons and four daughters. Evelyn, who would surely be a Madison Avenue executive if she were working today, composed her jingles not in the boardroom, but at the ironing board.
Evelyn Ryan won every appliance her family ever owned by entering contests. It wasn't just the winning that was miraculous; it was the timing. If a toaster died, one was sure to arrive in the mail from a forgotten contest. Graced with a rare appreciation for life's inherent hilarity, Evelyn turned every financial challenge into an opportunity for fun and profit.
From her frenetic supermarket shopping spree -- worth $3,000 today -- to her clever entries worthy of Erma Bombeck, Dorothy Parker, and Ogden Nash, Evelyn Ryan's story shows how a winning spirit will triumph over the poverty of circumstance. [via]
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The Quitterby Harvey Pekar, Lee Loughridge, Pat Brosseau, Dean HaspielISBN 1401204007 (1-4012-0400-7)
Softcover, Vertigo
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Reading & Writing: A Personal Accountby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0940322382 (0-940322-38-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Resident Alien: The New York Diariesby Quentin CrispISBN 1555834663 (1-55583-466-3)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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Roughing It In The Bushby Susanna MoodieISBN 1414282281 (1-4142-8228-1)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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Sacred Hoopsby Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty, Bill BradleyISBN 1401308813 (1-4013-0881-3)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacred Hoops'Book summary:An inside look at the higher wisdom of teamwork from Chicago Bulls' head coach Phil Jackson. At the heart of the book is Jackson's philosophy of mindful basketball -- and his lifelong quest to bring enlightenment to the competitive world of professional sports, beginning with a focus on selfless team play rather than "winning through intimidation". Sacred Hoops is not just for sports fans, but for anyone interested in the potential of the human spirit. [via]
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Saturdayby Ian McEwanISBN 1400076196 (1-4000-7619-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saturday'Book summary:In his triumphant new novel, Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement, follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish. Henry Perowne-a neurosurgeon, urbane, privileged, deeply in love with his wife and grown-up children-plans to play a game of squash, visit his elderly mother, and cook dinner for his family. But after a minor traffic accident leads to an unsettling confrontation, Perowne must set aside his plans and summon a strength greater than he knew he had in order to preserve the life that is dear to him. [via]
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Scarredby Dave RoeverISBN 0964814803 (0-9648148-0-3)
Softcover, Roever Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scarred'Book summary:Scarred is a strong, energetic account of Dave Roever's life. He tells an explosive story of triumph. Reflecting on his youth, his injury in Vietnam, & his continuing recovery, you'll feel like you're there with Dave as his faith carries him through. [via]
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Skywriting : A Life Out of the Blueby Jane PauleyISBN 140006192X (1-4000-6192-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Starby Pamela AndersonISBN 1416513248 (1-4165-1324-8)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Stepping Heavenwardby Elizabeth PrentissISBN 1404330887 (1-4043-3088-7)
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Success Never Smelled So Sweet: How I Followed My Nose and Found My Passionby Lisa Price, Hilary BeardISBN 1400061091 (1-4000-6109-1)
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Sugar and Slateby Charlotte WilliamsISBN 0954088107 (0-9540881-0-7)
Hardcover, Planet
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Superstud: Or How I Became A 24-Year-Old Virginby Paul FeigISBN 1400051754 (1-4000-5175-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Superstud: Or How I Became A 24-Year-Old Virgin'Book summary:Lost in love and don't know much? Paul Feig knew even less...
Like any other red-blooded, straight young man, Paul Feig spent much of his teenage years trying to solve the mystery of women. Unlike most red-blooded, straight teenage boys, however, Paul Feig was sadly at a considerable disadvantage. He was tall and gangly. He had a love for musical theater. And, perhaps the death knell for his burgeoning sex life, Paul was a tap dance student. (And we have the pictures to prove itsee the front cover.)
Infused with the same witty and infectiously readable style of his first book, Kick Me, Superstud chronicles the trials and tribulations of Feigs young dating life with all the same excruciating detail as an on-air gastric bypassand you just wont be able to tear yourself away. Feigs series of shudder-to-think but oddly familiar (come onweve all been dumped by someone we didnt even like that much) anecdotes include: his first date, at an REO Speedwagon concert with the most endowed girl in school, who leaves him sitting next to a puddle of puke; his first breakup, accomplished by moving across the country; his mortifying date with his secretly bigoted girlfriend; his discovery of a new self-love technique that almost lands him in the hospital; and his less-than-idealistic first time, which he nevertheless elevates to biblical proportions.
In Superstud, Paul Feig tells all in a hilarious but true testament to geekdom, love, and growing up. [via]More editions of Superstud: Or How I Became A 24-Year-Old Virgin:
Tales of an Empty Cabinby Grey OwlISBN 1552630307 (1-55263-030-7)
Softcover, Key Porter Books
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This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me: An Autobiographyby Norman JewisonISBN 1552632113 (1-55263-211-3)
Hardcover, Key Porter Books
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Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New Yorkby Adam GopnikISBN 1400041813 (1-4000-4181-3)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York'Book summary:Following the best-selling Paris to the Moon, the continuation of the Gopniks adventures against the panorama of a different though no less storied city as they attempt to make a new home for themselves.
Autumn 2000: After five years in Paris, Adam Gopnik moves his family back to a New York that seems, at first, safer and shinier than ever. Here in the wondrously strange neighborhood of Manhattan we observe the triumphs and travails of father, mother, son, and daughter; and of the teachers, coaches, therapists, adversaries, and friends who round out the extended urban family. From Bluie, a goldfish fated to meet a Hitchcockian end, to Charlie Ravioli, an imaginary playmate who, being a New Yorker, is too busy to play, the Gopniks new home is under the spell of the sort of characters only the citys unique civilization of childhood could produce.
Not long after their return, the fabric of living will be rent by the events of 9/11, but like a magic garment will reweave itself, reviving normalcy in a world where Jewish jokes mingle with debates about the problem of consciousness, the price of real estate, and the meaning of modern art. Along the way, the impermanence and transcendence of life will be embodied in the person of a beloved teacher and coach who, even facing death, radiates a distinctively local light.
Written with Gopniks signature mix of mind and heart, elegant and exultantly alert to the minute miracles that bring a place to life, Through the Childrens Gate is a chronicle, by turns tender and hilarious, of a family taking root in the unlikeliest patch of earth. [via]More editions of Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York:
Tihkal: The Continuationby Alexander ShulginISBN 0963009699 (0-9630096-9-9)
Softcover, Transform Pr
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To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novelby Siena Cherson Siegel, Mark SiegelISBN 1416926879 (1-4169-2687-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Veeck As in Wreckby B. VeeckISBN 094137209X (0-941372-09-X)
Hardcover, Holtzman Pr
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Walk Worthy Of Your Calling: Quakers And The Traveling Ministryby Margery Post Abbott, Pegger Senger ParsonsISBN 0944350666 (0-944350-66-6)
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaningby Chris HedgesISBN 1400034639 (1-4000-3463-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning'Book summary:As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, has seen war at its worst and knows too well that to those who pass through it, war can be exhilarating and even addictive: It gives us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.
Drawing on his own experience and on the literature of combat from Homer to Michael Herr, Hedges shows how war seduces not just those on the front lines but entire societies, corrupting politics, destroying culture, and perverting the most basic human desires. Mixing hard-nosed realism with profound moral and philosophical insight, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning is a work of terrible power and redemptive clarity whose truths have never been more necessary. [via]More editions of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning:
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The Way of All Fleshby Samuel ButlerISBN 1406800090 (1-4068-0009-0)
Softcover, Echo Library
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