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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 1555760910 (1-55576-091-0)
Softcover, Edcon Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:Bring The Classics To Life. This novel has been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Key words are defined and used in context. Multiple-choice questions require the student to recall specific details sequence the events draw inferences from story context develop another name for the chapter and choose the main idea. Let the Classics introduce Kipling Stevenson and H.G. Wells. Your students will embrace the notion of Crusoe s lonely reflections the psychological reactions of a Civil War soldier at Chancellorsville and the tragedy of the Jacobite Cause in 18th Century Scotland. In our society knowledge of these Classics is a cultural necessity. Improves fluency vocabulary and comprehension. [via]
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton, Michael Everett NowlinISBN 1551113368 (1-55111-336-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:The Age of Innocence marks the pinnacle of Edith Wharton s career as one of the finest American novelists of her era. The narrative follows Newland Archer, of upper-crust 1870s New York, whose passion for the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska leads him to question the very foundations of his way of life. Written in the aftermath of World War I, the novel explores the psychological and cultural paradoxes of desire in a world undergoing unprecedented transformations. This edition includes a critical introduction and a range of appendices that contextualize the novel in terms of its modernist themes and tensions. [via]
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Alice's Adventure in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Ralph SteadmanISBN 1554072034 (1-55407-203-4)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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- Alice's Adventure in Wonderland: ISBN 1421808420 (1-4218-0842-0)
Hardcover, 1st World Library - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 1552977544 (1-55297-754-4)
Hardcover, Firefly Books Ltd - Alice's Adventure in Wonderland: ISBN 1561381004 (1-56138-100-4)
Hardcover, Courage Books - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 1554072034 (1-55407-203-4)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
- Alice's Adventure in Wonderland: ISBN 1421808420 (1-4218-0842-0)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby David Blair, Lewis Carroll, Graham EverndenISBN 1561382469 (1-56138-246-9)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:Our Miniature Edition "TM" collection continues to grow! Since 1989, when the first minis appeared, Running Press has offered an astonishing range of subjects, sure to find a place in any booklover's library! Visit the golf course for nine holes, head to the kitchen with the Silver Palate chefs, travel to the heavens above, or rediscover the wonders of nature in your own backyard. [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Richard Kelly, Lewis CarrollISBN 155111223X (1-55111-223-X)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Anne of the Islandby L.M. Montgomery, Genevieve WigginsISBN 1561383694 (1-56138-369-4)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of the Island'Book summary:Continues the adventures of Anne Shirley and her friends at college. [via]
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Artemis Fowlby Eoin ColferISBN 1423103998 (1-4231-0399-8)
Softcover, Miramax
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Artemis Fowl'Book summary:After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis Fowl had his mind wiped of his memories of the world belowground. Any goodness he had grudgingly learned is now gone, and the young genius has reverted to his criminal lifestyle.
Artemis is in Berlin preparing to steal a famously well-guarded painting from a German bank. Little does he know that his every move is being watched by his cunning old rival, Opal Koboi. The evil pixie has spent the last year in a self-induced coma, plotting her revenge on all those who foiled her attempt to destroy the LEPrecon fairy police. And Artemis is at the top of her list. In a brilliant move, Opal escapes by cloning herself and masquerading as a human in order to carry out her schemes. Her first act is to lure Captain Holly Short and Commander Root into a deadly trap. Her next step is to destroy Artemis by turning his own genius against him.
Once again, its up to Artemis Fowl to stop the human and fairy worlds from colliding -- only this time, Artemis faces an enemy who may have finally outsmarted him . . . [via]
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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesmanby Arthur MillerISBN 1555460615 (1-55546-061-5)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman'Book summary:Arthur Miller's 1949 Death of a Salesman has sold 11 million copies, and Willy Loman didn't make all those sales on a smile and a shoeshine. This play is the genuine article--it's got the goods on the human condition, all packed into a day in the life of one self-deluded, self-promoting, self-defeating soul. It's a sturdy bridge between kitchen-sink realism and spectral abstraction, the facts of particular hard times and universal themes. As Christopher Bigsby's mildly interesting afterword in this 50th-anniversary edition points out (as does Miller in his memoir, Timebends), Willy is closely based on the playwright's sad, absurd salesman uncle, Manny. But of course Miller made Manny into Everyman, and gave him the name of the crime commissioner Lohmann in Fritz Lang's angst-ridden 1932 Nazi parable, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
The tragedy of Loman the all-American dreamer and loser works eternally, on the page as on the stage. A lot of plays made history around 1949, but none have stepped out of history into the classic canon as Salesman has. Great as it was, Tennessee Williams's work can't be revived as vividly as this play still is, all over the world. (This edition has edifying pictures of Lee J. Cobb's 1949 and Brian Dennehy's 1999 performances.) It connects Aristotle, The Great Gatsby, On the Waterfront, David Mamet, and the archetypal American movie antihero. It even transcends its author's tragic flaw of pious preachiness (which undoes his snoozy The Crucible, unfortunately his most-produced play).
No doubt you've seen Willy Loman's story at least once. It's still worth reading. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Bridge to Terabithiaby Katherine Paterson, Donna DiamondISBN 1557360103 (1-55736-010-3)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Cat : Seventeenth Anniversary Editionby B. KlibanISBN 1563052849 (1-56305-284-9)
Softcover, Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat : Seventeenth Anniversary Edition'Book summary:Sporting a 16-page color insert of calendar art and a fresh new full-color jacket, here is the lovingly prepared 17th Anniversary Edition of the mother of all cat books, the one that gave new meaning to wacka-wacka and forever redefined it.
Cat is the classic that started it all. It gave a voice to catmaniacs around the country, launched an entire genre in publishing and licensing, and made everyone go cat crazy. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. 985,000 copies in print.
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A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Surviveby Dave PelzerISBN 1558743669 (1-55874-366-9)
Softcover, Hci
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive'Book summary:David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, whom she referred to as "an It." This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a spoonful of ammonia, and burned over a gas stove by a maniacal, alcoholic mom. Sometimes she claimed he had violated some rule--no walking on the grass at school!--but mostly it was pure sadism. Inexplicably, his father didn't protect him; only an alert schoolteacher saved David. One wants to learn more about his ordeal and its aftermath, and now he's written a sequel, The Lost Boy, detailing his life in the foster-care system.
Though it's a grim story, A Child Called "It" is very much in the tradition of Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul and the many books in that upbeat series, whose author Pelzer thanks for helping get his book going. It's all about weathering adversity to find love, and Pelzer is an expert witness. [via]
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Cotillionby Georgette HeyerISBN 1560541989 (1-56054-198-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 1561797618 (1-56179-761-8)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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David Copperfield, V1by Charles DickensISBN 1421906163 (1-4219-0616-3)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Dragon Tearsby Dean R. KoontzISBN 1560548819 (1-56054-881-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Dragonflightby Anne McCaffreyISBN 1560600748 (1-56060-074-8)
Softcover, Eclipse Books
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Early Autumnby Robert B. ParkerISBN 1560542861 (1-56054-286-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Ender's Gameby Tami J. StregeISBN 1560778024 (1-56077-802-4)
Softcover, Center for Learning
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Epilepsy You're Not Aloneby Stacey ChillemiISBN 1430300108 (1-4303-0010-8)
Softcover, Lulu.Com
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Fall of the House of Usher and Other Talesby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 156000536X (1-56000-536-X)
Hardcover, Transaction Pub Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales'Book summary:Collected in these two volumes are roe's legendary tales of terror that attest to his stylistic brilliance in evoking an atmosphere of gloom and obsession. Creatures, eyes, coffins, walls-all are symbols in roe's efforts to create an aura of evil. What reader would not share the anxiety of the traveler in The Fall of the House of Usher, who upon his first glimpse of the house, finds an "insufferable gloom pervading my spirit... an utter depression of the soul... an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart"? In volume 2 his nightmarish visions take us down untraveled paths revealing the dark side of the human experience.
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1561561428 (1-56156-142-8)
Softcover, Kidsbooks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:AGS Illustrated Classics (IC)
Students with lower reading abilities can enjoy some of the most important literature of our culture. This seventy-two book collection features easy-reading texts with extensive artwork on every page to capture students attention.
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Frankensteinby Mary . ShelleyISBN 1562548980 (1-56254-898-0)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation as it destroys everything Victor loves is a powerful story of love friendship and horror. Grades: 4 - 12. Level(s): Intermediate Middle School High School. Author: Mary Shelly. Binding: Paperback. Publishing Date: Jan 2005. Number of Pages: 61. Language: English. [via]
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Frankenstein (Original 1818 Text)by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1551113082 (1-55111-308-2)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein (Original 1818 Text)'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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From The Mixed-up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweilerby E. L. KonigsburgISBN 1557360367 (1-55736-036-7)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From The Mixed-up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler'Book summary:After reading this book, I guarantee that you will never visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or any wonderful, old cavern of a museum) without sneaking into the bathrooms to look for Claudia and her brother Jamie. They're standing on the toilets, still, hiding until the museum closes and their adventure begins. Such is the impact of timeless novels . . . they never leave us. E. L. Konigsburg won the 1967 Newbery Medal for this tale of how Claudia and her brother run away to the museum in order to teach their parents a lesson. Little do they know that mystery awaits! [via]
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A Game of Youby Neil Gaiman, Bob Kahan, Dick Giordano, Shawn MacManusISBN 1563890895 (1-56389-089-5)
Softcover, DC Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Game of You'Book summary:You may have heard somewhere that Neil Gaiman's Sandman series consisted of cool, hip, edgy, smart comic books. And you may have thought, "What the hell does that mean?" Enter A Game of You to confound the issue even more, while at the same time standing as a fine example of such a description. This is not an easy book. The characters are dense and unique, while their observations are, as always with Gaiman, refreshingly familiar. Then there's the plot, which grinds along like a coffee mill, in the process breaking down the two worlds of this series, that of the dream and that of the dreamer. Gaiman pushes these worlds to their very extremes--one is a fantasy world with talking animals, a missing princess, and a mysterious villain called the Cuckoo; the other is an urban microcosm inhabited by a drag queen, a punk lesbian couple, and a New York doll named Barbie. In almost every way this book sits at 180 degrees from the earlier four volumes of the Sandman series--although the less it seems to belong to the series, the more it shows its heart. --Jim Pascoe [via]
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Glinda of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 1421817861 (1-4218-1786-1)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 1551113945 (1-55111-394-5)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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Hard Timesby Charles Dickens, Graham LawISBN 155111075X (1-55111-075-X)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:Despite the title, Dickens's portrayal of early industrial society here is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or Charles Kingsley. Hard Times weaves the tale of Thomas Gradgrind, a hard-headed politician who raises his children Louisa and Tom without love, of Sissy the circus girl with love to spare who is deserted and adopted into their family, and of the honest mill worker Stephen Blackpool and the bombastic mill owner Josiah Bounderby. The key contrasts created are finally less those between wealth and poverty, or capitalists and workers, than those between the head and the heart, between "Fact"the cold, rationalistic approach to life that Dickens associates with utilitarianismand "Fancy"a warmth of the imagination and of the feelings, which values individuals above ideas. Concentrated and compressed in its narrative form, Hard Times is at once a fable, a novel of ideas, and a social novel that seeks to engage directly and analytically with political issues. The central conflicts raised in the text, between government's duty not to intervene to guarantee the liberty of the subject, and between quantitative and qualitative assessments of progress, remain unresolved today in the late or post industrial stages of liberal democracies. [via]
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The Haunted Bookshopby Christopher MorleyISBN 1426411170 (1-4264-1117-0)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Haunted Bookshop'Book summary:Short excerpt: If you are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and magnificent vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, it is to be hoped you may chance upon a quiet by-street where there is a very remarkable bookshop. [via]
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Jacob Have I Lovedby Katherine PatersonISBN 1557361673 (1-55736-167-3)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Jewelby Bret LottISBN 1560543981 (1-56054-398-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Joseph Conrad's Lord Jimby Harold BloomISBN 155546016X (1-55546-016-X)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules Verne, Walter James Miller, Frederick Paul WalterISBN 1557508771 (1-55750-877-1)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:Based solely on the original French version, this edition contains "the lost 23%" of Verne's original manuscript and corrects hundreds of errors and mistranslations. [via]
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Julie of the Wolvesby Jean Craighead George, John SchoenherrISBN 1557360537 (1-55736-053-7)
Hardcover, Abc-Clio Inc
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1560005017 (1-56000-501-7)
Hardcover, Transaction Pub Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:These wonderful and fanciful stories delight adult and child alike with their amusing and clever responses to such questions as how the leopard got his spots or why an elephant has a trunk. Kipling was born in India of English parents, and the impressions that exotic and fascinating country left on him in his early years would influence his writing in later years. Even in the deceptively simple Just So Stories, the reader recognizes Kipling's gifted ear for language and his vivid imagery.
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 1421808552 (1-4218-0855-2)
Hardcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kidnapped'Book summary:Incomparable editions combining classic tales with magnificent fullcolor N.C. Wyeth illustrations. Beautifully produced and offered at an unbeatable price, these volumes are classics that belong in any book lover's library. [via]
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Kimby Maire Fhlathuin, Marie Ni FhlathuinISBN 1551115212 (1-55111-521-2)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Kitchen God's Wifeby Amy TanISBN 1560549483 (1-56054-948-3)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kitchen God's Wife'Book summary:Tan follows up the success of The Joy Luck Club with this moving story of two women who have kept each other's secrets for 40 years. 12 cassettes. [via]
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The Legacyby R. A. SalvatoreISBN 1560765291 (1-56076-529-1)
Hardcover, Wizards of the Coast
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The Legacy : Legacy of the Drowby R. A. SalvatoreISBN 1560766409 (1-56076-640-9)
Softcover, Wizards of the Coast
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Listening Womanby Tony HillermanISBN 1562870599 (1-56287-059-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Looking Backwardby Edward Bellamy, Alex MacdonaldISBN 1551114062 (1-55111-406-2)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking Backward'Book summary:Set in Boston on December 26, 2000, but written before the turn of the nineteenth century, this classic Utopian novel is more significant and relevant than ever with its reappearance this millennium. Addressing moral and material concerns of late nineteenth century industrial America through romantic narrative, Bellamy suggests a fictionalized society in which war, poverty, and malice do not exist.[via] -
Lord Jimby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 1551111721 (1-55111-172-1)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim'Book summary:This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero. A classic novel. [via]
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The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Familyby Dave PelzerISBN 1558745157 (1-55874-515-7)
Softcover, Hci
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family'Book summary:Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possesions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother, his real hurt is just begining -- he has no place to call home.
This is Dave Pelzer's long-awaited sequel to A Child Called "It". In The Lost Boy, he answers questions and reveals new adventures through the compelling story of his life as an adolescent. Now considered an F-Child (Foster Child), Dave is moved in and out of five different homes. He suffers shame and experiences resentment from those who feel that all foster kids are trouble and unworthy of being loved just because they are not part of a "real" family.
Tears, laughter, devastation and hope create the journey of this little lost boy who searches desperately for just one thing -- the love of a family.
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The Mabinogionby R. Williams, Charlotte E. GuestISBN 1425490956 (1-4254-9095-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mabinogion'Book summary:This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. [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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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of a Geisha: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack, Piano Solo'Book summary:(Piano Solo Songbook). Six instrumental themes by John Williams from this Oscar-winning film, arranged for piano solo. Includes: As the Water * Becoming a Geisha * The Chairman's Waltz * Going to School * Sayuri's Theme * Sayuri's Theme and End Credits. [via]
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Moll Flandersby Paul A. Scanlon, Paul Ed ScanlonISBN 1551114518 (1-55111-451-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moll Flanders'Book summary:The recent adaptation of Moll Flanders for Masterpiece Theater is a book-lover's dream: the dialogue and scene arrangement are close enough to allow the viewer to follow along in the book. The liberties taken with the tale are few (some years of childhood between the gypsies and the wealthy family are elided; Moll is Moll throughout the tale, rather than Mrs. Betty; Robert becomes Rowland, etc.) and the sets avoid the careless anachronism of the movie version released earlier this year.
The breasts, raised skirts, tumbling hair and heavy breathing on the small screen might catch you by surprise if you don't read the book carefully (as might Moll's abandonment of her children on more than one occasion). Unlike his near-contemporary John Cleland (_Fanny Hill_), Defoe was trying to keep out of jail, and so didn't dwell on the details of "correspondence" between Moll and her varied lovers. But on the page and on the screen, Moll comes across quite clearly as a woman who might bend, but refuses to break, and who is intent on having as good a life as she can get.
E. M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel considers Moll and her creator's art in some detail. While he finds much to criticize in Defoe's ability to plot (where did those last two children go, anyway?), he is as besotted with Moll as I am. Immoral? Sure -- but immortal, and never, ever dull. We hope at least a few of the viewers of the recent adaptation take a couple hours to discover the original, inimitable Moll Flanders. [via]
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On the Origin of Speciesby Joseph CarrollISBN 1551113376 (1-55111-337-6)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Origin of Species'Book summary:It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that is truly readable.
To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now clichés, but which Darwin was the first to pen. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here.
Darwin's friend and "bulldog" T.H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution Darwin did, but it was Darwin who gathered the mass of supporting evidence--on domestic animals and plants, on variability, on sexual selection, on dispersal--that swept most scientists before it. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in his conclusion that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" is surely the pinnacle of British understatement. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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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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Peter Panby J. M. BarrieISBN 1561563056 (1-56156-305-6)
Hardcover, Kidsbooks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:Recounts the adventures of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, Norman PageISBN 1551111268 (1-55111-126-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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The Princeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 142181174X (1-4218-1174-X)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Nicolo Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer of some repute, and of Bartolo-mmea di Stefano Nelli, his wife. Both parents were members of the old Florentine nobility. His life falls naturally into three periods, each of which singularly enough constitutes a distinct and important era in the history of Florence. His youth was concurrent with the greatness of Florence as an Italian power under the guidance of Lorenzo de' Medici, Il Magnifico. The downfall of the Medici in Florence occurred in 1494, in which year Machiavelli entered the public service. During his official career Florence was free under the government of a Republic, which lasted until 1512, when the Medici returned to power, and Machiavelli lost his office. The Medici again ruled Florence from 1512 until 1527, when they were once more driven out. This was the period of Machiavelli's literary activity and increasing influence; but he died, within a few weeks of the expulsion of the Medici, on 22nd June 1527, in his fifty-eighth year, without having regained office. [via]
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The Problems of Philosophyby Russell, Bertrand Russell, 3d EarlISBN 1421903679 (1-4219-0367-9)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Problems of Philosophy'Book summary:One of his great works, and a must-read for any student of philosophy, The Problems of Philosophy was written in 1912 as an introduction to Russell's thought. As an empiricist, Russell starts at the beginning with this question: Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? This, according to Russell, is where the work of philosophy begins. He covers topics such as reality, the nature of matter, inductive reasoning, truth, and the limits of philosophical knowledge. As one of the greatest minds in Western philosophy, Russell's thoughts are profoundly informative and provocative and suitable for anyone wishing to expand his mind. British philosopher and mathematician BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM RUSSELL (1872-1970) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Among his many works are Why I Am Not a Christian (1927), Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), and My Philosophical Development (1959). [via]
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 1561381152 (1-56138-115-2)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Doorby Rick StevesISBN 1562611933 (1-56261-193-3)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 1996by Rick StevesISBN 1562612603 (1-56261-260-3)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 1996'Book summary:A personal handbook of European travel describes some of the finest, least-visited places in Europe, offering an economical guide to Moscow nightlife, Irish bicycle trips, French chateaus, Greek islands, and more. Original. 30,000 first printing. Tour. IP. [via]
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Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 1997by Rick StevesISBN 1562613332 (1-56261-333-2)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 1997'Book summary:"The more money you spend, the bigger the wall you build between yourself and the culture you traveled so far to visit. Stay in the small inns, eat in family-style restaurants, visit out-of-the-way places, rub elbows with the locals. You'll spend less money and have a great time in the process."
This is Rick Steves's "back door" travel philosophy. For more than 25 years, he has traveled and led tours around Europe, finding and sharing the joy of simplicity and openness.
Along with tried-and-true tips on packing, transport, sleeping and eating well on a budget, and meeting the locals, Steves reveals more than 30 "back doors" found throughout Europe, from a tiny lake town in Austria to the narrowest gorge in the world, which winds through Crete. If Europe is your destination, this book is more important than your luggage. --Kathryn True [via]
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Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 1998by Rick StevesISBN 1562613928 (1-56261-392-8)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 1998'Book summary:Rick Steves has a singular travel philosophy: travel light, travel economically, and when in Europe, do as the Europeans do. In Europe Through the Back Door, Steves offers travel tips and practical information drawn from more than 20 years spent on the road, both as traveler and tour guide. Though Steves has produced a series of guidebooks that specifically target individual countries, Europe Through the Back Door serves as a guide to the world of travel in general. Within its pages you'll find a wealth of information about the nuts and bolts of travel: guided tour versus independent travel, car versus train, how and where to get rail passes, what to pack, how to plan, etc. There are tips for choosing a hotel, eating well on a budget, getting the most out of museum visits, and--best of all--making friends wherever you go. But just in case you're one of those guidebook junkies who just isn't satisfied unless there's an itinerary to follow, Steves includes a section at the back that highlights the best "back doors" in Europe and beyond. From Italy's Cinque Terre to the best medieval castles--plus information on Turkey, Morocco, and Egypt--Rick Steves's Europe Through the Back Door provides the inspiration and practical how-to information necessary to make your European adventure a dream come true. [via]
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Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 1999by Rick StevesISBN 1562614606 (1-56261-460-6)
Softcover, John Muir Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 1999'Book summary:"The more money you spend, the bigger the wall you build between yourself and the culture you traveled so far to visit. Stay in the small inns, eat in family-style restaurants, visit out-of-the-way places, rub elbows with the locals. You'll spend less money and have a great time in the process."
This is Rick Steves's "back door" travel philosophy. For more than 25 years, he has traveled and led tours around Europe, finding and sharing the joy of simplicity and openness.
Along with tried-and-true tips on packing, transport, sleeping and eating well on a budget, and meeting the locals, Steves reveals more than 30 "back doors" found throughout Europe, from a tiny lake town in Austria to the narrowest gorge in the world, which winds through Crete. If Europe is your destination, this book is more important than your luggage. --Kathryn True [via]
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Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2000by Rick StevesISBN 1562614959 (1-56261-495-9)
Softcover, Avalon Travel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2000'Book summary:"The more money you spend, the bigger the wall you build between yourself and the culture you traveled so far to visit. Stay in the small inns, eat in family-style restaurants, visit out-of-the-way places, rub elbows with the locals. You'll spend less money and have a great time in the process."
This is Rick Steves's "back door" travel philosophy. For more than 25 years, he has traveled and led tours around Europe, finding and sharing the joy of simplicity and openness.
Along with tried-and-true tips on packing, transport, sleeping and eating well on a budget, and meeting the locals, Steves reveals more than 30 "back doors" found throughout Europe, from a tiny lake town in Austria to the narrowest gorge in the world, which winds through Crete. If Europe is your destination, this book is more important than your luggage. --Kathryn True [via]
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The Sand Pebblesby Richard McKenna, Robert ShenkISBN 1557504466 (1-55750-446-6)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr
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The Sandman Libraryby Neil Gaiman, Kelley JonesISBN 1563890410 (1-56389-041-0)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sandman Library'Book summary:In many ways, Season of Mists is the pinnacle of the Sandman experience. After a brief intermission of four short stories (collected as Dream Country) Gaiman continued the story of the Dream King that he began in the first two volumes. Here in volume 4, we find out about the rest of Dream's Endless family (Desire, Despair, Destiny, Delirium, Death, and a seventh missing sibling). We find out the story behind Nada, Dream's first love, whom we met only in passing during Dream's visit to hell in the first book. When Dream goes back to hell to resolve unfinished business with Nada, he finds her missing along with all of the other dead souls. The answer to this mystery lies in Lucifer's most uncharacteristic decision--a delicious surprise.
There is something grandiose about this story, in which each chapter ends with such suspense and drive to read the next. This book is best summed up by a toast taken from the second chapter: "To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due." --Jim Pascoe [via]
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. LewisISBN 1557481423 (1-55748-142-3)
Softcover, Spring Arbor Distributors
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Screwtape Letters'Book summary:This adaptation of C.S. Lewis's biting satire received a 1999 Grammy nomination for best spoken-word performance, and it's easy to see why--the story fits the format perfectly. It's relatively brief (the unabridged reading takes a mere four hours), and contains only one character--the demon Screwtape, who writes letters to his novice nephew Wormwood, instructing him on how to best tempt his "patient" (a wayward soul on earth) into the bosom of "our Lord below."
Obviously, the book wasn't written with former Monty Python John Cleese in mind, but it's hard to imagine a better Screwtape. Cleese's voice provides the perfect vehicle for Lewis's dry, razor-edged wit. His uncanny comic timing and ability to milk each phrase for maximum effect betray an infectious enthusiasm for the story. It's clear that he's having a great time reading, and it's impossible not to laugh along with him. This inspired pairing of two of the 20th century's greatest wits makes for a meditation on the dark side of spiritual guidance that's as relevant and funny today as it was in Lewis's war-torn England. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --Andrew Neiland [via]
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Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc - The Screwtape Letters: ISBN 1557482403 (1-55748-240-3)
Hardcover, Barbour Pub Inc - The Screwtape Letters: ISBN 1557486220 (1-55748-622-0)
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The Semantics of Biblical Languageby James BarrISBN 1563380234 (1-56338-023-4)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Semantics of Biblical Language'Book summary:Behind the academic and innocently descriptive title of this book is to be found one of the most explosive works of biblical scholarship to be published this century. Certainly many of those who read it on its firs appearance were never the same again, and it signalled the end of what had hitherto been a flourishing literature on 'biblical theology'. 'In recent years,' Professor Bar wrote in his Preface, have come to believe that one of the greatest dangers to sound and adequate interpretation of the Bible comes from the prevailing use of procedu, which, while claiming to rest upon a knowledge of the Israelite and Greek ways of thinking, constantly mishandle and distort the linguistic evidence of the Hebrew and Greek languages as they are used in the Bible. The increasing sense of dependence upon the Bib h. the mode:a church only makes this danger more serious. The fact that these procedures have never to my knowledge been collected, analysed and criticized in detail was the chief stimulus to my undertaking of this task myself.' His conclusions were devastating and drew down on him a good deal of often hurt criticism: however, twenty years later, they still stand and the passage of time has made them more widely accepted Certainly this book, issued for the first time in a paperback edition, ' essential reading for any student of the Bible, if he is to learn from the mistakes of others. [via]
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Siege of Darknessby R. A. Salvatore, Fred FieldsISBN 1560768886 (1-56076-888-6)
Hardcover, Wizards of the Coast
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Siege of Darkness'Book summary:In the subterranean city of Menzoberranzan, Drizzt Do'Urden faces his ultimate challenge, as the matron of a powerful ruling house prepares an assault on Mithril Hall and Lloth, the Spider Queen, is unleashed on the metropolis. 120,000 first printing. [via]
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Starless Nightby R. A. SalvatoreISBN 1560768800 (1-56076-880-0)
Softcover, Wizards of the Coast
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 156254277X (1-56254-277-X)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tale of Two Cities'Book summary:The spectre of the French Revolution--the rumbling of the death carts, thethud of the guillotine, the ferocious mobs and the storming of the Bastille--isvividly portrayed in this lavish BBC production, complete with a full cast andstirring music. Dickens' epic tale is a listening experience to betreasured. [via]
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothingby Judy Blume, Roy DotyISBN 1557360154 (1-55736-015-4)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, John Russell BrownISBN 1557831823 (1-55783-182-3)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'Book summary:(Applause Books). If there has ever been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be THE APPLAUSE FOLIO TEXTS. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. Prepared and annotated by Neil Freeman, Head, Graduate Directing Program, University of British Columbia. [via]
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Thomas the Rhymerby Ellen KushnerISBN 1557100462 (1-55710-046-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thomas the Rhymer'Book summary:Based on an old English ballad, this book tells the story of the minstrel, Thomas, who is abducted by the Queen of Elfland and lives for years in her realm - a kingdom concealing many perils he must overcome - until one day he is returned to the land of passing time. The author wrote "Swordspoint". [via]
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre DumasISBN 1562549421 (1-56254-942-1)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequel'Book summary:This series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educators using the Dale-Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70-page, softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. [via]
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Tragedy of Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 1421813572 (1-4218-1357-2)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tragedy of Macbeth'Book summary:If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances. [via]
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The Tragedy of Richard the Third: With the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battel at Bosworth Fieldby William Shakespeare, Neil FreemanISBN 1557834229 (1-55783-422-9)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Richard the Third: With the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battel at Bosworth Field'Book summary:If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan 'look' none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances. [via]
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Vanity Fair: Bringing Thackeray's Timeless Novel to the Screenby Julian Fellowes, Mira Nair, Matthew Faulk, Mark SkeetISBN 1557046379 (1-55704-637-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair: Bringing Thackeray's Timeless Novel to the Screen'Book summary:The full-color companion to the new film version of the Thackeray novel starring Reese Witherspoon and directed by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay!).
Reese Witherspoon stars as Becky Sharp, one of the greatest female characters ever created. Born into the lower class, Becky can rely only on her wit, guile, and sexuality as she makes her way up through London society circa 1820, alongside her best friend Amelia. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battlesmilitary and domesticare fought, fortunes made and lost.
In addition to the complete screenplay by Oscar®-winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) and Matthew Faulk & Mark Skeet (NBC's Jason and the Argonauts), this Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook features over 150 full-color illustrations, extracts from Thackeray's novel, interviews with the cast and crew, notes by director Mira Nair, and sidebars on the film's costume, set, and production design. 150 color photos.
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Watchersby Dean R. KoontzISBN 1560549580 (1-56054-958-0)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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