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Absolute Beauty: Radiant Skin and Inner Harmony Through the Ancient Secrets of Ayurvedaby Pratima RaichurISBN 0060929103 (0-06-092910-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Adventures of Ideasby Alfred North WhiteheadISBN 0029351707 (0-02-935170-7)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Ideas'Book summary:This book has soft covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. [via]
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The Art of Makeupby Kevyn AucoinISBN 0062730428 (0-06-273042-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Makeup'Book summary:Featuring clear text and illustrations that provide step-by-step instructions for his techniques, the make-up artist who does all of the famous faces of our era displays his talent in spectacular photographs of Hollywood greats. 30,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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Beauty: The Invisible Embraceby John O'DonohueISBN 0060957263 (0-06-095726-3)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beauty: The Invisible Embrace'Book summary:Beauty does not linger, it only visits.
Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm,
it calls us to feel, think, and act beautifully in the world:
to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful.Beauty is a gentle but urgent call to awaken. Bestselling author John O'Donohueopens our eyes, hearts, and minds to the wonder of our own relationshipwith beauty by exposing the infinity and mystery of its breadth. His wordsreturn us to the dignity of silence, profundity of stillness, power of thought andperception, and the eternal grace and generosity of beauty's presence. In this masterfuland revelatory work, O'Donohue encourages our greater intimacy with beauty andcelebrates it for what it really is: a homecoming of the human spirit.As he focuses on the classical, medieval, and Celtic traditions of art, music, literature,nature, and language, O'Donohue reveals how beauty's invisible embraceinvites us toward new heights of passion and creativity even in these uncertain timesof global conflict and crisis.
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A Circle of Quietby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0062545035 (0-06-254503-5)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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The Complete Book of Herbsby Lesley BremnessISBN 0140238026 (0-14-023802-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsisterby Gregory Maguire, Bill SandersonISBN 0060987529 (0-06-098752-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister'Book summary:Gregory Maguire's chilling, wonderful retelling of Cinderella is a study in contrasts. Love and hate, beauty and ugliness, cruelty and charity--each idea is stripped of its ethical trappings, smashed up against its opposite number, and laid bare for our examination. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister begins in 17th-century Holland, where the two Fisher sisters and their mother have fled to escape a hostile England. Maguire's characters are at once more human and more fanciful than their fairy-tale originals. Plain but smart Iris and her sister, Ruth, a hulking simpleton, are dazed and terrified as their mother, Margarethe, urges them into the strange Dutch streets. Within days, purposeful Margarethe has secured the family a place in the home of an aspiring painter, where for a short time, they find happiness.
But this is Cinderella, after all, and tragedy is inevitable. When a wealthy tulip speculator commissions the painter to capture his blindingly lovely daughter, Clara, on canvas, Margarethe jumps at the chance to better their lot. "Give me room to cast my eel spear, and let follow what may," she crows, and the Fisher family abandons the artist for the upper-crust Van den Meers.
When Van den Meer's wife dies during childbirth, the stage is set for Margarethe to take over the household and for Clara to adopt the role of "Cinderling" in order to survive. What follows is a changeling adventure, and of course a ball, a handsome prince, a lost slipper, and what might even be a fairy godmother. In a single magic night, the exquisite and the ugly swirl around in a heated mix:
Everything about this moment hovers, trembles, all their sweet, unreasonable hopes on view before anything has had the chance to go wrong. A stepsister spins on black and white tiles, in glass slippers and a gold gown, and two stepsisters watch with unrelieved admiration. The light pours in, strengthening in its golden hue as the sun sinks and the evening approaches. Clara is as otherworldly as the Donkeywoman, the Girl-Boy. Extreme beauty is an affliction...
But beyond these familiar elements, Maguire's second novel becomes something else altogether--a morality play, a psychological study, a feminist manifesto, or perhaps a plain explanation of what it is to be human. Villains turn out to be heroes, and heroes disappoint. The story's narrator wryly observes, "In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats." --Therese Littleton [via]More editions of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister:
Critique of Judgmentby Immanuel KantISBN 0028475003 (0-02-847500-3)
Softcover, Free Pr
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Edmond RostandISBN 0028179897 (0-02-817989-7)
Hardcover, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub Co
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The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptationby Paulo Coelho, Nick Caistor, Amanda HopkinsonISBN 0060527994 (0-06-052799-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation'Book summary:A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path. Will they choose good or evil?
In the remote village of Viscos -- a village too small to be on any map, a place where time seems to stand still -- a stranger arrives, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives.
Paulo Coelho's stunning novel explores the timeless struggle between good and evil, and brings to our everyday dilemmas fresh perspective: incentive to master the fear that prevents us from following our dreams, from being different, from truly living.
The Devil and Miss Prym is a story charged with emotion, in which the integrity of being human meets a terrifying test.
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novelby Rebecca WellsISBN 0060502258 (0-06-050225-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood'Book summary:Wells is a Louisiana-born Seattle actress and playwright; her loopy saga of a 40-year-old player in Seattle's hot theater scene who must come to terms with her mama's past in steamy Thornton City, Louisiana, reads like a lengthy episode of Designing Women written under the influence of mint juleps and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. The Ya-Yas are the wild circle of girls who swirl around the narrator Siddalee's mama, Vivi, whose vivid voice is "part Scarlett, part Katharine Hepburn, part Tallulah." The Ya-Yas broke the no-booze rule at the cotillion, skinny-dipped their way to jail in the town water tower, disrupted the Shirley Temple look-alike contest, and bonded for life because, as one says, "It's so much fun being a bad girl!"
Siddalee must repair her busted relationship with Vivi by reading a half-century's worth of letters and clippings contained in the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's packet of "Divine Secrets." It's a contrived premise, but the secrets are really fun to learn. [via]
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Softcover, Harpercollins - Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel: ISBN 0060173289 (0-06-017328-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: ISBN 006019345X (0-06-019345-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood: A Novel: ISBN 0060928336 (0-06-092833-6)
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Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hillby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0140374566 (0-14-037456-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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El Demonio Y LA Senorita Prymby Paulo Coelho, M. Dolors VentosISBN 0061124257 (0-06-112425-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Erotic Poems: The Amores, the Art of Love, Cures for Love, on Facial Treatment for Ladiesby Peter Green, OvidISBN 0140443606 (0-14-044360-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Erotic Poems: The Amores, the Art of Love, Cures for Love, on Facial Treatment for Ladies'Book summary:This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the "Amores", Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The intimate and vulnerable nature of the poet revealed in these early poems vanishes in the notorious Art of Love, in which he provides a knowing and witty guide to sexual conquest - a work whose alleged obscenity led to Ovid's banishment from Rome in AD 8. This volume also includes the "Cures for Love", with instructions on how to terminate a love affair, and "On Facial Treatment for Ladies", an incomplete poem on the art of cosmetics. [via]
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The Eyebrowby Robyn Cosio, Cynthia RobinsISBN 0060393262 (0-06-039326-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Fat Is a Feminist Issue: How to Lose Weight Permanently without Dietingby Susie OrbachISBN 0099388308 (0-09-938830-8)
Hardcover, Arrow Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fat Is a Feminist Issue: How to Lose Weight Permanently without Dieting'Book summary:Orbach's non-dieting approach to weight loss shows women how to get off the diet/binge merry-go-round and lose weight through self acceptance. "It is more essential than ever that (it) be read by every American woman".--Susan Faludi, bestselling author of Backlash. [via]
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Faustby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Philip WayneISBN 0140440127 (0-14-044012-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:A brief analysis of the development, style, and protagonists of "Faust" is included with Goethe's classic tale about a troubled man who sells his soul to the devil. [via]
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Faust Part 1by Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0023917601 (0-02-391760-1)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Flatter Your Figureby Jan LarkeyISBN 0133217957 (0-13-321795-7)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall Press
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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wondersby Neil GaimanISBN 0061252026 (0-06-125202-6)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders'Book summary:A prodigiously imaginative collection.
New York Times Book Review, Editors Choice
Dazzling tales from a master of the fantastic.
Washington Post Book WorldFragile Things is a sterling collection of exceptional tales from Neil Gaiman, multiple award-winning (the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Newberry, and Eisner Awards, to name just a few), #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Graveyard Book, Anansi Boys, Coraline, and the groundbreaking Sandman graphic novel series. A uniquely imaginative creator of wonders whose unique storytelling genius has been acclaimed by a host of literary luminaries from Norman Mailer to Stephen King, Gaimans astonishing powers are on glorious displays in Fragile Things. Enter and be amazed!
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Girl in Hyacinth Blueby Susan VreelandISBN 014029628X (0-14-029628-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Gone With the Windby Margaret MitchellISBN 0024894400 (0-02-489440-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone With the Wind'Book summary:Set in Georgia at the time of the American Civil War, this is the story of headstrong Scarlett O'Hara, her three marriages and her determination to keep her father's property of Tara, despite the vicissitudes of war and passion. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize. [via]
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A Guide to Elegance: For Every Woman Who Wants to Be Well and Properly Dressed on All Occasionsby Genevieve Antoine-Dariaux, Geneviere Antonine DariauxISBN 0060757345 (0-06-075734-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Guide to Elegance: For Every Woman Who Wants to Be Well and Properly Dressed on All Occasions'Book summary:The original
What Not to Wear
from one of fashion's
most enduringly
stylish women ...Written by French style guru Madame Genevieve Antoine Dariaux, Elegance is a classic style bible for timeless chic, grace, and poise -- every tidbit of advice today's woman could possibly need, all at the tips of her (perfectly manicured) fingers.From Accessories to Zippers, Madame Dariaux imparts her pearls of wisdom on all things fashion-related -- and also offers advice on other crucial areas in life from shopping with girlfriends (don't) to marriage and sex.
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How to Be Beautiful: The Thinking Woman's Guideby Kathleen Baird-MurrayISBN 0091884314 (0-09-188431-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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In the Skin of a Lionby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0140113096 (0-14-011309-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Skin of a Lion'Book summary:Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion uses its Toronto setting in the way that Martin Amis's London Fields uses London or Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz uses Montreal. In Skin, Toronto is a main character, although it's a character few of us have seen before. Set in the 1920s and '30s, the novel replaces the official history of Toronto's industrial adolescence, a history of commissioned architecture and suited politicians with ceremonial shovels, with an immigrant's history of crushing labour, repressive laws, a new language gleaned from matinee plays, and crowded apartment buildings where "a bottle of fruit whiskey" could often be found on summer nights dangling on "a long piece of twine" from fire escape to fire escape for all to share.
A quartet of vibrant characters animates Ondaatje's reclaimed Toronto. Farm-boy Patrick Lewis relocates to Toronto with a dual inheritance: a habit of solitude and a marketable skill with dynamite. Nicholas Temelcoff is a daredevil builder on the Bloor St. Viaduct eager for the most dangerous and acrobatic jobs. Alice Gull transforms the dedication of an early vocation into the passions of an actress and a political revolutionary. Italian thief David Caravaggio robs "the mean rich, the soft rich" and (literally) paints his way out of prison.
Virtuosos in isolation, the characters are beset by forces beyond their control. Ondaatje's tale ends up questioning the very abilities that it so delights in depicting: might the "solitary" strength of a hero be a curse rather than a blessing? Rewriting as it does the history of a growing, multicultural metropolis, In the Skin of a Lion plays with public history and private passion to examine the very fabric of community. --Darryl Whetter [via]
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The Lions Of Al-rassanby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0060733497 (0-06-073349-7)
Softcover, Eos
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lions Of Al-rassan'Book summary:A Master Storyteller Creates an Enduring Legend of His Own
Over the centuries, the once stern rulers of Al-Rassan have been seduced by sensuous pleasures. Now King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy, adding city after city to his realm, aided by his friend and advisor, the notorious Ammar ibn Khairan--poet, diplomat, soldier--until a summer day of savage brutality changes their relationship forever. Meanwhile, in the north, the Jaddite's most celebrated--and feared--military leader, Rodrigo Belmonte, and Ammar meet. Sharing the interwoven fate of both men is Jehane, the beautiful, accomplished court physician, whose own skills play an increasing role as Al-Rassan is swept to the brink of holy war, and beyond....
In a magnificent setting, hauntingly evocative of medieval Spain, The Lions of Al-Rassan is both a brilliant adventure and a deeply moving story of love, divided loyalties, and what happens to men and women when hardening beliefs begin to remake--or destroy--a world. [via]
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Living Beauty Detox Program: The Revolutionary Diet for Each and Every Season of a Woman's Lifeby Ann Louise GittlemanISBN 0062516280 (0-06-251628-0)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Living Beauty Detox Program: The Revolutionary Diet for Each and Every Season of a Woman's Life'Book summary:"Protecting our beauty begins in our youth and continues throughout every age and stage of life," says Anne Louise Gittleman, author of Beyond Pritikin, Super Nutrition for Menopause, and several other books. The answer, however, isn't anything you can buy at the cosmetics counter. "The right nutrition, internal cleansing, and hormonal harmony are the pathways to attaining natural beauty and vitality," says Gittleman. Following her program is not an easy task--you'll be carting supplements from the health food store and warily reading ingredient labels on every item that comes into your house or near your face. Her Living Beauty regimen is based on seven "beauty fundamentals":
- a cleansed, detoxed system
- purified water
- powerful proteins
- beautifying oils
- energizing, immune-boosting veggies and fruits
- revitalizing vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants
- balanced hormones
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The Man of Propertyby John GalsworthyISBN 0140031960 (0-14-003196-0)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Middlemarchby George Eliot, Rosemary AshtonISBN 0140433880 (0-14-043388-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:In a panoramic sweep of the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, George Eliot explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamund Vincy, beautiful and egoistic; Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar; Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally flawed physician; the passionate artist, Will Ladislaw; and Fred Vincy and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's comic vein. [via]
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Modern Book of Estheticsby Melvin RaderISBN 0030193311 (0-03-019331-1)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Necklace of Kisses: A Novelby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0060777524 (0-06-077752-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Necklace of Kisses: A Novel'Book summary:Where are the kisses?
Weetzie Bat wondered. When her relationship with Secret Agent Lover Man turns cold, the forty-year-old post-punk pixie packs up, jumps into her mint-green '65 Thunderbird, and leaves to take refuge in L.A.'s enchanted Pink Hotel—with its blue-skinned receptionist, invisible cleaning lady, seductive faun, and sushi-eating mermaid who gives Weetzie the first kiss that sets the wheel of self-discovery spinning madly in motion. Though she faces some very adult problems, anything is still possible in Weetzie's world—angels, magic . . . even true love.
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The New Age Herbalist: How to Use Herbs for Healing, Nutrition, Body Care, and Relaxationby Michael McIntyre, Richard MbeyISBN 0025771809 (0-02-577180-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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The New Age Herbalist: How to Use Herbs for Healing, Nutrition, Body Care, and Relaxationby Richard MbeyISBN 0020633505 (0-02-063350-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Nude: A Study of Ideal Artby Kenneth ClarkISBN 0140204849 (0-14-020484-9)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art'Book summary:The author traces the history of the depiction of the human body from the earliest civilized times to the present day. Starting with the Greeks who used the nude to express certain fundamental human needs, such as the need for harmony and order (Apollo), and the need to sublimate desire (Venus), he shows how these types of bodily expression were revived in 15th-century Italy and given new urgency by Michelangelo, whose genius almost exhausted the possibilities of the male nude. The female body, however, through Titian, Rubens, Ingres and Renoir has continued to be a source of pictorial inspiration, and the author examines the uneasy relationship with the nude of such moderns as Matisse and Picasso. [via]
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The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slendernessby Kim CherninISBN 0060925051 (0-06-092505-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Perricone Prescription: A Physician's 28-Day Program for Total Body and Face Rejuvenationby Nicholas PerriconeISBN 0060934352 (0-06-093435-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Peter Panby J. M. Barrie, Elisa TrimbyISBN 0140366741 (0-14-036674-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:There never was a simpler, more ordinary family than the Darlings--until the coming of Peter Pan. One Friday night, when Mr. and Mrs. Darling are dining out, Peter drops in, and in no time at all Wendy, John, and Michael have been taught to fly! And then Peter takes them to the enchanted Neverland, for the wildest adventure of their lives. [via]
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- Peter Pan: Library Edition: ISBN 0060791497 (0-06-079149-7)
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Softcover, Puffin - Peter Pan: ISBN 0140350667 (0-14-035066-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Peter Pan: ISBN 0060554126 (0-06-055412-6)
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Peter Pan: The Original Storyby J. M. BarrieISBN 0060563079 (0-06-056307-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan: The Original Story'Book summary:"All children, except one, grow up." Thus begins a great classic of children's literature that we all remember as magical. What we tend to forget, because the tale of Peter Pan and Neverland has been so relentlessly boiled down, hashed up, and coated in saccharine, is that J.M. Barrie's original version is also witty, sophisticated, and delightfully odd. The Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, live a very proper middle-class life in Edwardian London, but they also happen to have a Newfoundland for a nurse. The text is full of such throwaway gems as "Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter Pan when she was tidying up her children's minds," and is peppered with deliberately obscure vocabulary including "embonpoint," "quietus," and "pluperfect." Lest we forget, it was written in 1904, a relatively innocent age in which a plot about abducted children must have seemed more safely fanciful. Also, perhaps, it was an age that expected more of its children's books, for Peter Pan has a suppleness, lightness, and intelligence that are "literary" in the best sense. In a typical exchange with the dastardly Captain Hook, Peter Pan describes himself as "youth... joy... a little bird that has broken out of the egg," and the author interjects: "This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form." A book for adult readers-aloud to revel in--and it just might teach young listeners to fly. (Ages 5 and older) --Richard Farr [via]
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Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkinsby W.H. GardnerISBN 0140420150 (0-14-042015-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins'Book summary:Dazzling in its prosodic innovations, such as the 'sprung rhythm' he pioneered, and wide-ranging in its complexity and metaphysical interest. The "Penguin Classics" edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Poems and Prose" is selected and edited with an introduction by W.H. Gardner. Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Jesuit order the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wishes of my superiors'. The poems, letters and journal entries selected for this edition were written in the following twenty years of his life, and published posthumously in 1918. His verse is wrought from the creative tensions and paradoxes of a poet-priest who wanted to evoke the spiritual essence of nature sensuously, and to communicate this revelation in natural language and speech-rhythms while using condensed, innovative diction and all the skills of poetic artifice. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was born in Essex, the eldest son of a prosperous middle-class family. He was educated at Highgate School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Classics and began his lifelong friendship with Robert Bridges. In 1866 he entered the Roman Catholic Church and two years later he became a member of the Society of Jesus. In 1877 he was ordained and was priest in a number of parishes including a slum district in Liverpool. From 1882 to 1884 he taught at Stonyhurst College and in 1884 he became Classics Professor at University College, Dublin. In his lifetime Hopkins was hardly known as a poet, except to one or two friends; his poems were not published until 1918, in a volume edited by Robert Bridges. If you enjoyed Hopkins' "Poems and Prose", you might like John Clare's "Selected Poems", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060512822 (0-06-051282-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Raintree County : A Great American Novel about Love, Tragedy, and the American Dreamby Lockridge, Ross, Jr.ISBN 014023666X (0-14-023666-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Lifeby Thomas MooreISBN 0060928247 (0-06-092824-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life'Book summary:The best-selling author of Care of the Soul explains how readers can relate to the world around and to nature in a more meaningful way by finding the spiritual and soulful heart of ordinary life. $250,000 ad/promo. BOMC & QPB Dual Main. Tour. [via]
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Rose and the Beastby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0064407454 (0-06-440745-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rose and the Beast'Book summary:Francesca Lia Block, whose Weetzie Bat novels have often been called pop fairy tales, here turns to the real thing for some very different imaginings of Snow White, Thumbelina, Cinderella, Rose Red and Rose White, and other tales. Block's stories are more resonance than retelling, fevered dreams behind which the outlines of the traditional tales move fitfully like figures glimpsed now and then through a summer fog. Veiled references to Block's own Los Angeles appear in the twisty house of the seven dwarfs built into a canyon like Laurel or Topanga, the redwood forest on a seaside cliff through which Beauty travels to her Beast, the tree-darkened canyon houses with French doors that open onto exuberant neglected gardens lush with irises and roses. In these evocations Bluebeard becomes an aging blue-haired producer, Sleeping Beauty pricks her arm with a heroin needle, Red Riding Hood's wolf is a lecherous stepfather, and the Snow Queen is a sex goddess who lives in a marble mansion with her boy toy, possibly in Beverly Hills. Sensuous images enrich these languid and darkly ironic visions: jasmine-scented night gardens, leopard couches with velvet pillows, luscious food flavored with mint, coconut milk, or pomegranate sauce, cool candlelit baths. As always, Block's poetic allegories of adolescence are strikingly original and a bit dangerous, a feast for connoisseurs of YA fiction and savvy older teens. (Ages 14 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retoldby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0060281294 (0-06-028129-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rose and the Beast : Fairy Tales Retold'Book summary:Francesca Lia Block, whose Weetzie Bat novels have often been called pop fairy tales, here turns to the real thing for some very different imaginings of Snow White, Thumbelina, Cinderella, Rose Red and Rose White, and other tales. Block's stories are more resonance than retelling, fevered dreams behind which the outlines of the traditional tales move fitfully like figures glimpsed now and then through a summer fog. Veiled references to Block's own Los Angeles appear in the twisty house of the seven dwarfs built into a canyon like Laurel or Topanga, the redwood forest on a seaside cliff through which Beauty travels to her Beast, the tree-darkened canyon houses with French doors that open onto exuberant neglected gardens lush with irises and roses. In these evocations Bluebeard becomes an aging blue-haired producer, Sleeping Beauty pricks her arm with a heroin needle, Red Riding Hood's wolf is a lecherous stepfather, and the Snow Queen is a sex goddess who lives in a marble mansion with her boy toy, possibly in Beverly Hills. Sensuous images enrich these languid and darkly ironic visions: jasmine-scented night gardens, leopard couches with velvet pillows, luscious food flavored with mint, coconut milk, or pomegranate sauce, cool candlelit baths. As always, Block's poetic allegories of adolescence are strikingly original and a bit dangerous, a feast for connoisseurs of YA fiction and savvy older teens. (Ages 14 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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A Severe Mercyby Sheldon VanaukenISBN 0060688246 (0-06-068824-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Severe Mercy'Book summary:A Severe Mercy, by Sheldon Vanauken, is a heart-rending love story described by its author as "the spiritual autobiography of a love rather than of the lovers." Vanauken chronicles the birth of a powerful pagan love borne out of the relationship he shares with his wife, Davy, and describes the growth of their relationship and the dreams that they share. As a symbol of their love, they name their dream schooner the Grey Goose, "for the grey goose, if its mate is killed flies on alone and never takes another."
While studying at Oxford, Sheldon and Davy develop a friendship with C.S. Lewis, under whose influence and with much intellectual scrutiny they accept the Christian doctrine. As their devotion to God intensifies, Sheldon realizes that he is no longer Davy's primary love--God is. Within this discovery begins a brewing jealousy.
Shortly after, Davy acquires a fatal illness. After her death Sheldon embarks on an intense experience of grief, "to find the meaning of it, taste the whole of it ... to learn from sorrow whatever it had to teach." Through painstaking reveries, he comes to discover the meaning of "a mercy as severe as death, a severity as merciful as love." He learns that her death "had these results: It brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealously of God. It saved her faith from assault. ...And it saved our love from perishing."
Replete with 18 letters from C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy addresses some of the universal questions that surround faith--the existence of God and the reasons behind tragedy. --Jacque Holthusen [via]
Shelter for the Spirit: Create Your Own Haven in a Hectic Worldby Victoria MoranISBN 0060929227 (0-06-092922-7)
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Shelter for the Spirit: How to Make Your Home a Haven in a Hectic Worldby Victoria MoranISBN 0060174153 (0-06-017415-3)
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The Summer of the Great-Grandmotherby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 006254506X (0-06-254506-X)
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Swann's Wayby Marcel ProustISBN 0075536471 (0-07-553647-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way'Book summary:Swann's Way begins with one of the most famous incidents in all of literature -- the taste of a madeleine and tea that reawakens the elusive childhood memories of the narrator, Marcel. An image of Charles Swann, a wealthy and fashionable neighbor, precipitates Marcel's recollection of Swann's marriage to Odette de Crecy, a beautiful, manipulative woman far beneath him in social standing, and of the jealousy, aroused by Odette's many affairs with both men and women, that eventually destroys Swarm. Marcel recounts, too, his own initiation into the aesthetic pleasures and sexual intrigues of belle-epoque Paris. The themes introduced in Swann's Way -- the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories -- form the threads that unite all the volumes of Remembrance of Things Past. [via]
Take Care of Your Skinby Elaine BrumbergISBN 0060157933 (0-06-015793-3)
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Things I Want My Daughters to Know: A Small Book About the Big Issues in Lifeby Alexandra StoddardISBN 006128436X (0-06-128436-X)
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Time Alive: Celebrate Your Life Every Dayby Alexandra StoddardISBN 0060796642 (0-06-079664-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Alive: Celebrate Your Life Every Day'Book summary:In seven sections representing essential domains of lifeTime, Home, Style, Enthusiasm, Caring, Purpose, and SpiritAlexandra Stoddard shows us how to celebrate every moment of life. This treasury of brief essays is chock-full of the wise ideas, personal anecdotes, and practical strategies that have inspired millions of her readers and audiences to live more beautifully and meaningfully every day. She helps readers form their own personal philosophy for living as well as discover specific, small actions that build tranquil time into the most hectic day, add lightness and energy when needed most, elevate a passing moment into a vivid memory. She encourages readers to "take stock, and rethink everything. We need to make the connection between how we spend our time and how well we live our lives."
With each essay offering a memorable mindset for living, Alexandra's observations are searching ("What is your deepest desire?"), surprising ("Lower your standards"), encouraging ("You have 8,766 hours a year to act wisely"), and whimsical ("You've gotta have a look") and are certain to spur readers to new levels of insight and joy.
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Truth & Beauty: A Friendshipby Ann PatchettISBN 0060572159 (0-06-057215-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Truth & Beauty: A Friendship'Book summary:What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person you promise to love and to honor for the rest of your life is not your lover, but your best friend? In Truth & Beauty, her frank and startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction, Ann Patchett shines a fresh, revealing light on the world of women's friendships and shows us what it means to stand together. Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work was. In her critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir, Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, the years of chemotherapy and radiation, and then the endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life, but the parts of their lives they shared. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long, cold winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this book shows us what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined. This is a tender, brutal book about loving a person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and about being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest. [via]
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Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriageby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0062505017 (0-06-250501-7)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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Violet & Clareby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0064472531 (0-06-447253-1)
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Walden and Other Writingsby Henry David Thoreau, William L. HowarthISBN 0075542676 (0-07-554267-6)
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimiaby Marya HornbacherISBN 0060858796 (0-06-085879-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia And Bulimia'Book summary:"I fell for the great American dream, female version, hook, line, and sinker," Marya Hornbacher writes. "I, as many young women do, honest-to-God believed that once I Just Lost a Few Pounds, suddenly I would be a New You, I would have Ken-doll men chasing my thin legs down with bouquets of flowers on the street, I would become rich and famous and glamorous and lose my freckles and become blond and five foot ten." Hornbacher describes in shocking detail her lifelong quest to starve herself to death, to force her short, athletic body to fade away. She remembers telling a friend, at age 4, that she was on a diet. Her bizarre tale includes not only the usual puking and starving, but also being confined to mental hospitals and growing fur (a phenomenon called lanugo, which nature imposes to keep a body from freezing to death during periods of famine). [via]
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The Way of a Pilgrim: And the Pilgrim Continues His Wayby R. M. FrenchISBN 0060630175 (0-06-063017-5)
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Whole Child, Whole Parentby Polly BerendsISBN 0060928182 (0-06-092818-2)
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Whole Child/Whole Parentby Polly Berrien BerendsISBN 0060909498 (0-06-090949-8)
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Younger By The Day: 365 Ways To Rejuvenate Your Body And Revitalize Your Spiritby Victoria MoranISBN 006081618X (0-06-081618-X)
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