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10 Lb. Penaltyby Dick FrancisISBN 0515123471 (0-515-12347-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Aeneidby Virgil, Charles James BillsonISBN 0486287491 (0-486-28749-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:Considered the greatest Roman poet, Vergil spent over a decade working on this monumental epic poem, which has been a source of inspiration for more than 2,000 years. Its twelve books tell the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.
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The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonISBN 0486298035 (0-486-29803-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis CarrollISBN 0486416585 (0-486-41658-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:This hardcover edition of the classic tale of ALICE IN WONDERLAND has been read and loved by children for generations. Start a new tradition of reading this timeless tale in your home today!
"Fully illustrated in color, bringing each tale to life
"Filled with humor, adventure and imagination for children of all ages
"Great first-time reading for children as well as reading again for parents and grandparents
"Beautiful story and unforgettable characters [via]More editions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0517223627 (0-517-22362-7)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Outlet Book Company StaffISBN 0517255162 (0-517-25516-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Robert Blaisdell, Lewis Carroll, Marty NobleISBN 0486403459 (0-486-40345-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters. [via]
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Annotated Alice : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Martin GardnerISBN 0517029626 (0-517-02962-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Alice : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass'Book summary:A fully annotated and illustrated version of both ALICE IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS that contains all of the original John Tenniel illustrations. From "down the rabbit hole" to the Jabberwocky, from the Looking-Glass House to the Lion and the Unicorn, discover the secret meanings hidden in Lewis Carroll's classics. [via]
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Black Beautyby Anna SewellISBN 0486407888 (0-486-40788-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Beauty'Book summary:"A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.
Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12)" [via]
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Bloody Bonesby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134465 (0-515-13446-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bloody Bones'Book summary:When Anita Blake's boss at Animators, Inc., informs her that she's expected to raise 300-year-old zombies from a field of jumbled bones just to settle a land dispute, she's understandably annoyed. But as soon as she arrives in Branson, Missouri, to do the deed, the job gets more interesting. A psychotic sword-wielding vampire starts committing multiple murders in the area, and Anita must call on Jean-Claude, her powerful fanged suitor, for help. As always, Anita prevails over the undead, keeping Jean-Claude at arm's length, clearing the cemetery land of an ancient enchantment, and nailing the vampiric killer in one fell swoop. [via]
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Blue Moonby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134457 (0-515-13445-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Moon'Book summary:Anita Blake makes a living raising the dead. She also executes rogue vampires and villains among the local were-folk. Marks bind her to Jean-Claude, the Master vampire of St. Louis and her lover, and to her ex-fiancé, a powerful werewolf who heads up the local pack. Anita shares some of their magic, and her own power over the dead keeps growing. But so does the body count and the situations that force Anita to bend or break her own rules.
In Blue Moon, Anita's ex Richard is jailed in Tennessee, accused of rape. When Anita arrives with a lawyer and an entourage of vampires and 'weres' supplied by Jean-Claude, it's clear that something is rotten in Myerton. The local cops are corrupt, and the trolls Richard was studying are threatened. But if she sticks around to investigate, the local Master vampire will attack her and her friends. The local werewolf clan isn't rushing to welcome her either, and her self-control is going to the, um, wolves.
Blue Moon is the eighth book in Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series; newcomers should start with earlier books. The protagonists' development and their relationships to each other and to the large cast of continuing secondary characters are what make these books so compelling. Be warned--there's steamy sex and graphic violence here, though Anita does reflect on her moral position. But if dark urban fantasy featuring those who hunt the night appeals, pounce on this series. --Nona Vero [via]
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Break Inby Dick FrancisISBN 0515131008 (0-515-13100-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Burnt Offeringsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134473 (0-515-13447-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burnt Offerings'Book summary:In Laurell K. Hamilton's New York Times bestselling novels, it's often hard to tell the good from the evil. Just ask Anita Blake. She seems to be developing a soft spot in her heart for vampires-one in particular. So, when an arsonist's flames begin licking at St. Louis's undead, it's up to Anita to save the very monsters she's sworn to destroy... [via]
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Cerulean Sinsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515136816 (0-515-13681-6)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cerulean Sins'Book summary:Laurell K. Hamilton's legions of eager fans will be pleased to see Cerulean Sins, the eleventh novel in her Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, which is set on an alternate Earth where magic works and vampires and werewolves are real. When a sinister stranger tries to hire the magically potent Anita Blake to raise the dead, she finds herself embroiled in the search for a vicious, supernatural serial killer, and also in the clandestine international politics of the vampires. And as she becomes more deeply enmeshed in cruel plots and counterplots, her tangled personal life only becomes more demanding, more wrenching, and more erotically fraught.
With ten previous books in the Anita Blake series, Cerulean Sins is not the place to start. Though author Hamilton artfully reveals the backstory in small doses, the numerous returning characters and the complex history will overwhelm most newcomers (and even the most devoted fans may find that the backfilling slows the pace). Also, the characters frequently stand around talking and psychoanalyzing one another, which makes for static stretches unlikely to hold a new reader's attention. Newcomers should start with the first book, Guilty Pleasures. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Circus Of The Damnedby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134481 (0-515-13448-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Circus Of The Damned'Book summary:The third novel of Hamilton's Anita Blake series has the petite necromancer fighting a giant cobra and a rogue vampire, Alejandro, who wants her for his human servant. Anita is still resisting the advances of Jean-Claude, St. Louis's master vampire, but she does need him on her side, if not in her bed. Anita's reluctant involvement in the odd goings-on at the supernatural Circus of the Damned introduces her to Richard, the werewolf of her dreams, and Larry, her powerful but nervous partner in zombie-raising.
Mystery fans will love the tightly plotted, Paretsky-esque action, and horror fans will love just about everything in this unusual series. [via]
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The Complete Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0517220784 (0-517-22078-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:Over one hundred years have passed since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle intoduced his inimitable sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, to the world--and his popularity has never waned. This oversized commemorative volume contains the entire canon of Holmes adventures, both before and after his creator's attempt to dispatch him in print. Just as the character, Holmes, prevails and defies even death, these detective stories featuring him and Dr. Watson have withstood more than the test of time: they defined and changed the way modern crime writers approached detective fiction. [via]
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Danse Macabreby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515142816 (0-515-14281-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danse Macabre'Book summary:In the thralls of supernatural passion, Anita Blake faces a most human dilemma.[via]More editions of Danse Macabre:
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 0486436659 (0-486-43665-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'David Copperfield'Book summary:Based on the author's own tumultuous journey from boy to man, this epic traces young David's progress from his mother's sheltering arms to the miseries of boarding-school and sweatshop and the rewards of friendship, romance, and self-discovery in his vocation as a writer. A cherished favorite with generations of readers.[via]More editions of David Copperfield:
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Deciderby Dick FrancisISBN 0515116173 (0-515-11617-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decider'Book summary:Architect Lee Morris inherits partial ownership of the Stratton Park racecourse and finds himself embroiled in a deadly battle among its wealthy owners, members of his own estranged family. Reprint. K. NYT. PW. [via]
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Demianby Hermann Hesse, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486414132 (0-486-41413-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Demian'Book summary:First major novel by Nobel Prizewinning author explores the fundamental duality of existence through the tale of a troubled young man's confusion about life's conflicting values. Recounted in engaging prose, this brilliant psychological portrait offers a poignant statement of the terrors and torments of adolescence.[via] 
Disclosureby Michael CrichtonISBN 0517157624 (0-517-15762-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Edgeby Dick FrancisISBN 051513113X (0-515-13113-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Edge'Book summary:Tor Kelsey, an undercover agent for the Jockey Club's security service is involved in the attempt to rid racing of one of its most notorious villains, Julius Apollo Filmer. The court however, does not go along with their beliefs, but Tor knows that to let Julius even suspect the service are still on his tail would mean certain death for a number of witnesses. Meanwhile, several racehorse owners have planned a luxurious train trip across Canada, with race meetings fixed for every major city. Julius Apollo Filmer and Tor are on the passenger list. The beautiful journey through the Rockies gets uglier by the minute and Tor finds himself pushed to dangerous limits to defeat Filmer's wily scheming. [via]
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The Elements of Styleby William StrunkISBN 0486447987 (0-486-44798-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Style'Book summary:This classic reference is a must-have for any student or writer. In this brief handbook, Strunk identifies the principal requirements of proper American English style and concentrates on the most often violated rules of composition. Authoritative and engagingly written, this is simply the greatest book of its kind.[via]More editions of The Elements of Style:
The Essential Frankensteinby Robert JamesonISBN 0517069741 (0-517-06974-1)
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Exodusby Leon UrisISBN 0517207982 (0-517-20798-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exodus'Book summary:Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era. Here is Exodus --one of the great best-selling novels of all time.
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Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas HardyISBN 051722786X (0-517-22786-X)
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Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainmentsby Richard F. BurtonISBN 0486419177 (0-486-41917-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments'Book summary:Six enchanting tales, told by an Arabian princess to delay her execution, teem with giants, magnificent palaces, and beautiful princesses. Includes "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman;" "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp;" "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves;" "The Fisherman and the Jinni;" "Judar and His Brethren;" and "Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad."[via]More editions of Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments:
Field of Thirteenby Dick FrancisISBN 0515126098 (0-515-12609-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0486415627 (0-486-41562-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'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]
Glinda of Ozby L. Frank Baum, John R. NeillISBN 0486410188 (0-486-41018-8)
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A Gothic Treasury of the Supernatural: The Castle of Otranto/Frankenstein/the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde/the Picture of Dorian Gray/DraISBN 051714641X (0-517-14641-X)
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The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient Americaby Brian M. FaganISBN 0500275157 (0-500-27515-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America'Book summary:[via]From reviews of the first edition:
"Most of us are acquainted with the European discovery of America, but how and when did American Indians occupy the continent? That's the fascinating puzzle Fagan discusses here--and he reveals himself as a meticulous, skeptical researcher. . . . The upshot is an informative, balanced, and often exciting account."--Kirkus"This is an admirable introduction to questions that have exercised men ever since the discovery of the Americas."--New York Times Book Review
"For fans of Jean M. Auel's best-selling novels, Fagan's book provides a much-needed and up-to-date summary of the facts on which her books about Ice Age humans are loosely based."--Los Angeles Times
How, where, when, and why did human beings take the first steps in their journey to populate North America? First published in 1987, The Great Journey tells the story of the search for the first Americans--one of archaeology's great controversies. An enhanced edition of this dramatic narrative and real-life mystery follows the trail of evidence from the Old World to the New, beginning with an update on the debates and discoveries that have taken place since the late 1980s. Fagan presents the latest archaeological findings on both sides of the Bering Strait, new genetic and linguistic research that amplifies earlier theories, and he assesses the importance of global warming to first settlement.
The saga of how Asians came across the Bering Sea land bridge begins with the emergence of modern humans in tropical Africa some 150,000 years ago. Fagan describes the great Homo sapiens diaspora, which included the settlement of America, during the late Ice Age. He evaluates the various routes that brought Stone Age hunter-gatherers from Siberia into North America and beyond.
This magnificently readable book, widely regarded as a classic of archaeological writing, sets forth different scenarios for first settlement, the controversies over the extinction of large Ice Age animals, and a brief overview of cultural developments since the time of the Paleo-Indians. Lavishly illustrated with maps, photographs, and line drawings, the updated edition of The Great Journey offers an entertaining yet sober assessment of what we know about the first
Americans.Brian M. Fagan is emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 0486419207 (0-486-41920-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:Classic 1845 novel offers a powerful indictment of the dehumanizing effects of mid-19th-century industrialization. Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a sterile atmosphere of strict practicality. With no guiding principles, the young Gradgrinds sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out against the grim backdrop of Coketown, a wretched industrial community.[via]More editions of Hard Times:
Incubus Dreamsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515139750 (0-515-13975-0)
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0486417220 (0-486-41722-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:A dozen fables by one of the world's great storytellers propose whimsical explanations of how certain animals acquired their distinctive physical characteristics: "How the Camel Got His Hump," "How the Whale Got His Throat," "How the Leopard Got His Spots," "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," "The Elephant's Child," and 7 others. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Just So Stories:
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0486410269 (0-486-41026-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kidnapped'Book summary:In a tale of high adventure and gripping drama, young David Balfour struggles to regain his rightful inheritance after being kidnapped, sent to sea, and shipwrecked. The story of his harrowing experiences and dangerous relationship with a Scottish rebel who has a price on his head has thrilled countless readers. Abridged.[via] 
The Killing Danceby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134511 (0-515-13451-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Killing Dance'Book summary:The famous vampire hunter, Anita Blake, continues her hunt for rogue vampires - but she finds herself uncomfortable mixing business with pleasure. The city's most powerful, wealthy, and definitely most attractive vampire has set his sights on her - and Anita is finding him hard to resist. Is this a conflict of interest, or a conflict of the heart? [via]
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0486445089 (0-486-44508-9)
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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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King Richard III: The Tragedy ofby William ShakespeareISBN 0486287475 (0-486-28747-5)
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0486452344 (0-486-45234-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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The Laughing Corpseby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134449 (0-515-13444-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Laughing Corpse'Book summary:Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it. Notice to Hollywood: forget Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Anita Blake is the real thing. [via]
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Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 0517147815 (0-517-14781-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Hunting of the Snark'Book summary:This beautiful, 868-page leather-bound volume contains a delightful collection of stories from one of history's most beloved children's authors. Lewis Carroll's stories are still as fresh and appealing as when they were first published more than a century ago. John Tenniel's original illustrations accompany the Alice stories and bring to life the wildly popular characters so well known to us all: the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and a passel of others.
Carroll, one of 11 children, knows his audience well. His stories--clever, provocative, and bizarre--capture the imaginations of children worldwide. Though a prolific storyteller from childhood, he went on to become a mathematician, a fact evidenced by the Tangled Tales serial, which contains a mathematical equation in each installment.
Other stories included in this collection are "The Hunting of the Snark," which was composed backward, in a sense, when inspiration for the tale came by way of the last line; "Rhyme? And Reason?"; the Sylvie and Bruno books; and the original Alice story, "Alice's Adventures Underground," penned and illustrated in Carroll's own hand. Two never-before-printed poems, originally inscribed in two storybooks and presented as mementos to a little girl and boy, conclude this enchanting collection. [via]
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Looking Backwardby Edward BellamyISBN 0486290387 (0-486-29038-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking Backward'Book summary:Stimulating, thought-provoking utopian fantasy about a young man who's put into a hypnotic sleep in the late 19th century and awakens in the year 2000 to find a vastly changed world where crime, war, and want no longer exist. A provocative study of human society as it is and as it might be. [via]
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Lord Jimby Joseph ConradISBN 0486406504 (0-486-40650-4)
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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 Lunatic Cafeby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 051513452X (0-515-13452-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lunatic Cafe'Book summary:The zombie-raising business gets slow in December, so Anita Blake is starting to see some oddball cases. She's got a neatly typed list of eight missing lycanthropes given to her by Marcus, the leader of the local werewolf pack, who wants her to find them. The trouble is, Anita's occasionally furry boyfriend Richard is locked in a power struggle with Marcus. Jean-Claude, master vampire of the city and Anita's other love interest, is getting jealous as well. To top it off, Anita has to solve some horrific murders and keep her bounty-hunting friend Edward from killing Richard and Jean-Claude. Hamilton alternates between funny and fearsome in this larky series about a monster hunter with a few dark secrets. [via]
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The Mabinogionby Charlotte Schreiber, Charlotte E. GuestISBN 0486295419 (0-486-29541-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mabinogion'Book summary:Collection of 12 medieval Welsh stories considered a masterpiece of European literature. Includes Kilhwch and Olwen, one of the earliest Arthurian tales in Welsh; The Dream of Rhonabwy; 3 Arthurian romances: The Lady of the Fountain, Peredur the Son of Evrawc and Geraint the Son of Erbin, and more.[via]More editions of The Mabinogion:
Micahby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515140872 (0-515-14087-2)
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The Mill on the Flossby George EliotISBN 0486426807 (0-486-42680-7)
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Modern Chinese: A Basic Course by the Faculty of Peking University/3 Records and Manualby Pei-Ching Ta Hsueh Wai Kuo Liu Hsueh Sheng Chung-Kuo Yu Wen Chuan Hsiu, Pei-Ching Ta Hs÷Ueh. Wai Kuo Liu Hs÷Ueh ShOEng Chung-Kuo Y÷U WOEn ChuaISBN 0486988325 (0-486-98832-5)
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Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 048629093X (0-486-29093-X)
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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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Museum Of Early American Toolsby Eric SloaneISBN 0486425606 (0-486-42560-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'MUSEUM OF EARLY AMERICAN TOOLS'Book summary:Absorbing book describes, in detail, farm tools and kitchen implements and how they were made. Includes devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, loggers, tanners, coachmakers, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. An informal, expressively written book for cultural historians, woodcrafters, and Americana enthusiasts. 184 black-and-white illustrations.[via]More editions of Museum Of Early American Tools:
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Narcissus in Chainsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515133876 (0-515-13387-6)
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On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of FAvoured RAces in the Struggle for Lifeby Charles DarwinISBN 0486450066 (0-486-45006-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of FAvoured RAces in the Struggle for Life'Book summary:Published amid a firestorm of controversy in 1859, this is a book that changed the world. Reasoned and well-documented in its arguments, it offers coherent views of natural selection, adaptation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest, and other concepts that form the foundation of evolutionary theory.[via]More editions of On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of FAvoured RAces in the Struggle for Life:
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Charles Robert Darwin, Greg SurianoISBN 0517123207 (0-517-12320-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Species: Library Edition'Book summary:The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century, and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination.
The Origin of Species was the first mature and persuasive work to explain how species change through the process of natural selection. Upon its publication, the book began to transform attitudes about society and religion, and was soon used to justify the philosophies of communists, socialists, capitalists, and even Germany's National Socialists. But the most quoted response came from Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin's friend and also a renowned naturalist, who exclaimed, "How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!" [via]More editions of The Origin of Species: Library Edition:
Peter Panby J. M. BarrieISBN 0486407837 (0-486-40783-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:Peter, Wendy, Captain Hook, the lost boys, and Tinker Bell have filled the hearts of children ever since Barrie's play first opened in London in 1904 and became an immediate sensation. Now this funny, haunting modern myth is presented with Bedford's wonderful illustrations, which first appeared in the author's own day, have long been out of print, and have never been equaled. [via]
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Peter Pan and Wendyby J. M. BarrieISBN 051722366X (0-517-22366-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan and Wendy'Book summary:This hardcover edition of the classic tale of PETER PAN AND WENDY has been read and loved by children for generations. Start a new tradition of reading this timeless tale in your home today!
"Fully illustrated in color, bringing each tale to life
"Filled with humor, adventure and imagination for children of all ages
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The Problems of Philosophyby Russell, Bertrand Russell, 3d EarlISBN 0486406741 (0-486-40674-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Problems of Philosophy'Book summary:Immensely intelligible, thought-provoking guide by Nobel prize-winner considers such topics as the distinction between appearance and reality, the existence and nature of matter, idealism, inductive logic, intuitive knowledge, many other subjects. For students and general readers, there is no finer introduction to philosophy than this informative, affordable and highly readable edition.[via]More editions of The Problems of Philosophy:
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0486434222 (0-486-43422-2)
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The Republicby Plato, Benjamin JowettISBN 0486411214 (0-486-41121-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic'Book summary:Famous philosophical treatise of the 4th century BC concerns itself chiefly with the idea of justice, as well as such Platonic theories as that of ideas, the criticism of poetry, and the philosopher's role. Source of the famous cave myth and prototype for other imaginary commonwealths, including those of Cicero, St. Augustine, and More. Benjamin Jowett translation. [via]
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The Return of the Nativeby Thomas HardyISBN 0486431657 (0-486-43165-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of the Native'Book summary:Passionate Eustacia Vye detests her life amid the dreary environs of Egdon Heath and spies her escape when Clym Yeobright returns from Paris. Hardy's timeless tale of a romantic misalliance embodies his view of character as fate and underscores the tragic nature of ordinary human lives. The Return of the Native ranks among the author's greatest works.[via]More editions of The Return of the Native:
Riptideby Catherine CoulterISBN 0515130966 (0-515-13096-6)
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Room With a Viewby Foester. E.M.ISBN 0486284670 (0-486-28467-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room With a View'Book summary:British social comedy examines a young heroine's struggle against strait-laced Victorian attitudes as she rejects the man her family has encouraged her to marry and chooses, instead, a socially unsuitable fellow she met on holiday in Italy. Classic exploration of passion, human nature and social convention.[via]More editions of Room With a View:
Running Blindby Lee ChildISBN 0515130974 (0-515-13097-4)
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Second Wind: Library Editionby Dick FrancisISBN 0515129232 (0-515-12923-2)
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Shatteredby Dick FrancisISBN 0515131210 (0-515-13121-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shattered'Book summary:After 41 novels, most writers run out of energy before the final gallop. But Dick Francis's latest thriller is as good as his earliest. Perhaps it's because this one is dedicated to the Queen Mother, who celebrated her centennial in 2000, and who, like her famously horsey daughter, shares Francis's passion for the races. Or maybe he's just found his stride again, after a few less-than-outstanding starts. Here he does one of his best tricks: lures you into a somewhat arcane area you might know little about and explicates it so brilliantly that you don't even realize how much you've learned (in this case, about glass blowing) while a mystery is unraveled, a crime is solved, and the hero gets the girl.
This time the mise en scène is the glass blowing studio owned by Gerard Logan, friend of the late Martin Stukely, a jockey who takes a fatal fall at the Cheltenham steeplechase during the last race of the century. Still mourning Martin, Gerard is savagely beaten, his workshop ransacked, and his life threatened by a gang of thugs. Investigating, Gerard discovers that the gang includes a domineering woman who's the daughter of Martin's valet and a scientist who's stolen valuable data from the laboratory that formerly employed him. They believe Gerard has possession of a videotape entrusted to him by Martin before his death and that the secrets on the tape are worth Gerard's life.
It's a good set up, with just enough of the usual horse lore and a pleasant love story involving Gerard and a pretty policewoman, neither of which overshadow the taut pacing and the well-worked-out plot. Francis's protagonists may be accidental heroes, but they're not antiheroes; they're usually eminently decent, likable men, and their sense of self is always interesting. Here's Gerard at home, in a break from the action, thinking about the new woman in his heart in a typical Francis love scene:
I walked deliberately through all the rooms, thinking about Catherine, wondering both if she would like the place, and whether the house would accept her in return. Once in the past the house had delivered a definite thumbs-down, and once I'd been given an ultimatum to smother the pale plain walls with brightly patterned paper as a condition of marriage, but to the horror of her family I'd backed out of the whole deal, and, as a result, I now used the house as arbiter and had disentangled myself from a later young woman who'd begun to refer to her and me as "an item" and to reply to questions as "we." We think. No, we don't think.
And, a few pages later,The speed of development of strong feeling for one another didn't seem to me to be shocking but natural, and if I thought about the future it unequivocally included Catherine Dodd. "If you want to cover the pale plain walls with brightly patterned paper, go ahead," I said.
It may be Francis's English reticence that keeps him, mercifully, from spoiling a good mystery with what other writers consider the obligatory sex scene, or it just may be the mastery of his form that few of his peers approach. In every page of this terrific new book, he's at the top of it. --Jane Adams [via]She laughed. "I like the peace of pale walls. Why should I want to change them?"
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Siddharthaby Hermann Hesse, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486404374 (0-486-40437-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Siddhartha'Book summary:With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse's Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's quest for the ultimate reality. Steeped in the tenets of both psychoanalysis and Eastern mysticism, Siddhartha presents an original view of man and culture, and the arduous process of self-discovery that leads to reconciliation, harmony, and peace. [via]
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Sons and Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 048642121X (0-486-42121-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons and Lovers'Book summary:[via]Torn between his passion for two women as well as his abiding attachment to his mother, Paul Morel struggles with his desire to please everyone particularly himself. Lawrence's highly autobiographical novel unfolds against the backdrop of his native Nottinghamshire coal fields, amidst a working-class family dominated by a brutish father and a loving but overbearing mother.More editions of Sons and Lovers:
Straightby Dick FrancisISBN 0515134651 (0-515-13465-1)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0486406512 (0-486-40651-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tale of Two Cities'Book summary:"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" it was the tumultuous era of the French Revolution. Rich in drama and romance, this deftly plotted tale of adventure and courage by the most popular of English novelists bristles with suspense, culminating in a daring prison escape in the shadow of the guillotine.[via]More editions of A Tale of Two Cities:
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The Tempestby William ShakespeareISBN 048640658X (0-486-40658-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown", appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.
However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Theory of Thermal Stressesby Bruno A. Boley, Jerome Harris WeinerISBN 0486695794 (0-486-69579-4)
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Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dogby Jerome K. JeromeISBN 0486451100 (0-486-45110-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog'Book summary:Jerome's comic masterpiece and one of the best-known classics of English humor follows the misadventures of 3 bungling, Victorian-era bachelors who take off on a rowing excursion up the Thames. Their disastrous struggles with camping equipment, meal preparation, and rampant hypochondria trumpet simple truths that still resonate today.[via]More editions of Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog:
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Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0486408787 (0-486-40878-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Through the Looking Glass'Book summary:The 1872 sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll's inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Alice encounters talking flowers, madcap kings and queens, and becomes a pawn in a bizarre chess game involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and other amusing nursery-rhyme characters. Features 50 illustrations by Sir John Tenniel.[via]More editions of Through the Looking Glass:
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis CarrollISBN 0517033461 (0-517-03346-1)
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The Trail of Tearsby Gloria JahodaISBN 0517146770 (0-517-14677-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trail of Tears'Book summary:Insightful, rarely told history of Indian courage in the face of White expansionism in the 19th century. Truth-telling tale of the ruthless brutality that forced the Native American population into resettlement camps and reservations, with a look at the few white Americans who fought to help them. [via]
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A Treasury of American Poetryby Allen Mandelbaum, Robert D. RichardsonISBN 0517221535 (0-517-22153-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Treasury of American Poetry'Book summary:A comprehensive overview of America's vast poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American Poetry features the work of some 150 of our nation's finest writers. It includes selections from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Gertrude Stein, as well as significant works of lesser-known American poets.
From the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to the Romantic Era and the Gilded and Modern Ages, this unrivaled anthology also presents a memorable array of rare ballads, songs, hymns, spirituals, and carols that echo through our nation's history. Highlights include Native American poems, African American writings, and the works of Quakers, colonists, Huguenots, transcendentalists, scholars, slaves, politicians, journalists, and clergymen.
These discerning selections demonstrate that the American canon of poetry is as diverse as the nation itself, and constantly evolving as we pass through time. Most important, this collection strongly reflects the peerless stylings that mark the American poetic experience as unique. Here, in one distinguished volume, are the many voices of the New World. [via]More editions of A Treasury of American Poetry:
Truce at Bakuraby Kathleen M. TyersISBN 0517154803 (0-517-15480-3)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0486440281 (0-486-44028-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'Book summary:The moving abolitionist novel that fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852 and melodramatically condemned the institution of slavery through such powerfully realized characters as Tom, Eliza, Topsy, Eva, and Simon Legree. First published more than 150 years ago, this monumental work is today being reexamined by critics, scholars, and students.[via]More editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
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The Waning of the Middle Agesby Johan HuizingaISBN 0486404439 (0-486-40443-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waning of the Middle Ages'Book summary:In 1919, Johan Huizinga revealed in the original version of this book that the ideals, aspirations, and behaviors of humanity in history were dramatically different from those in present day. In Herfsttjj der Middeleeuwen, he recalled the waning years of the Middle Ages--the low countries in northern Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries--and argued against those who claimed that human belief systems remain the same even if contexts change. His account rested not on historical fact, but on the emotions and ambitions of the people as expressed through the art and literature of their culture. Many people treated the book as groundbreaking work, and it was translated into English in 1924. This new translation is a complete, more direct version of the original and allows modern readers a full appreciation of life in an era rarely revisited. [via]
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The Water Babiesby Charles Kingsley, Warwick GobleISBN 0486450007 (0-486-45000-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Water Babies'Book summary:A young chimney sweep enters a magical waterworld where he meets creatures that teach him the difference between right and wrong. Delightful characters such as Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby will enchant today's young readers just as they did well over a century ago. A lavish edition of a children's classic. 32 illustrations.[via]More editions of The Water Babies:
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Whip Handby Dick FrancisISBN 0515125040 (0-515-12504-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whip Hand'Book summary:This "convincing and memorable"mystery is "among Dick Francis's best," says the Cincinnati Post. And we're sure readers will agree.
Ex-jockey and private investigator Sid Halley is approached by the wife of an elite racehorse trainer, begging his help in figuring out why her husband's most promising horses have been performing so poorly. At first Halley thinks she's overreacting and the losing streak is just dumb luck. But now he's beginning to think it's something far more dangerous...
* A New York Times bestselling author whose reputation is virtually unmatched among modern mystery writers
Another "first class"* thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Field Of Thirteen.--Baltimore Sun [via]More editions of Whip Hand:
Wild Horsesby Dick FrancisISBN 0515117234 (0-515-11723-4)
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Without Failby Lee ChildISBN 0515135283 (0-515-13528-3)
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