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The Amber Spyglassby Philip PullmanISBN 0786241225 (0-7862-4122-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amber Spyglass'Book summary:From the very start of its very first scene, The Amber Spyglass will set hearts fluttering and minds racing. All we'll say here is that we immediately discover who captured Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife, though we've yet to discern whether this individual's intent is good, evil, or somewhere in between. We also learn that Will still possesses the blade that allows him to cut between worlds, and has been joined by two winged companions who are determined to escort him to Lord Asriel's mountain redoubt. The boy, however, has only one goal in mind--to rescue his friend and return to her the alethiometer, an instrument that has revealed so much to her and to readers of The Golden Compass and its follow-up. Within a short time, too, we get to experience the "tingle of the starlight" on Serafina Pekkala's skin as she seeks out a famished Iorek Byrnison and enlists him in Lord Asriel's crusade:
A complex web of thoughts was weaving itself in the bear king's mind, with more strands in it than hunger and satisfaction. There was the memory of the little girl Lyra, whom he had named Silvertongue, and whom he had last seen crossing the fragile snow bridge across a crevasse in his own island of Svalbard. Then there was the agitation among the witches, the rumors of pacts and alliances and war; and then there was the surpassingly strange fact of this new world itself, and the witch's insistence that there were many more such worlds, and that the fate of them all hung somehow on the fate of the child.
Meanwhile, two factions of the Church are vying to reach Lyra first. One is even prepared to give a priest "preemptive absolution" should he succeed in committing mortal sin. For these tyrants, killing this girl is no less than "a sacred task."In the final installment of his trilogy, Philip Pullman has set himself the highest hurdles. He must match its predecessors in terms of sheer action and originality and resolve the enigmas he already created. The good news is that there is no critical bad news--not that The Amber Spyglass doesn't contain standoffs and close calls galore. (Who would have it otherwise?) But Pullman brings his audacious revision of Paradise Lost to a conclusion that is both serene and devastating. In prose that is transparent yet lyrical and 3-D, the author weaves in and out of his principals' thoughts. He also offers up several additional worlds. In one, Dr. Mary Malone is welcomed into an apparently simple society. The environment of the mulefa (again, we'll reveal nothing more) makes them rich in consciousness while their lives possess a slow and stately rhythm. These strange creatures can, however, be very fast on their feet (or on other things entirely) when necessary. Alas, they are on the verge of dying as Dust streams out of their idyllic landscape. Will the Oxford dark-matter researcher see her way to saving them, or does this require our young heroes? And while Mary is puzzling out a cure, Will and Lyra undertake a pilgrimage to a realm devoid of all light and hope, after having been forced into the cruelest of sacrifices--or betrayals.
Throughout his galvanizing epic, Pullman sustains scenes of fierce beauty and tenderness. He also allows us a moment or two of comic respite. At one point, for instance, Lyra's mother bullies a series of ecclesiastical underlings: "The man bowed helplessly and led her away. The guard behind her blew out his cheeks with relief." Needless to say, Mrs. Coulter is as intoxicating and fluid as ever. And can it be that we will come to admire her as she plays out her desperate endgame? In this respect, as in many others, The Amber Spyglass is truly a book of revelations, moving from darkness visible to radiant truth. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensionsby Ian Stewart, Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 0738205419 (0-7382-0541-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions'Book summary:The product of an agreeably dotty cleric named Edwin Abbott Abbott and first published in 1884, Flatland distills all that the Victorian era knew of higher mathematics--and then some--into a witty, complex novel of ideas.
Ian Stewart, the author of the equally witty sequel, Flatterland--which adds to Abbott's store of science the key discoveries made since--does a superb job of explaining the original book's enigmas, allusions, ironies, implausibilities, and what Douglas Hofstadter would call "metamagical themas." Among other things, Stewart comments on Abbott's comments on such things as the nature/nurture controversy, the fourth dimension and beyond, the role of multidimensional spaces in economic systems, infinite series and perfect squares, celestial mechanics, and other matters close to the hearts of cosmologists and science buffs alike.
Stewart's notes make an entertaining and learned addition to an already classic bit of writing--one that has never been out of print since its first publication. For both devoted Abbott fans and newcomers to his work, this is the edition to have. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Aspects of the Novel, and Related Writingsby E. M. ForsterISBN 0713157690 (0-7131-5769-0)
Hardcover, Edward Arnold
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Beggar's Operaby John GayISBN 0803253613 (0-8032-5361-3)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beggar's Opera'Book summary:[via]The Beggar's Opera introduced to theater the ballad-opera and an immortal cast of characters. The Peachums, employers of a company of pickpockets, shoplifters, and thieves, raised their daughter Polly for finer things, but she has done a dreadful deed. She has married for love. Her husband is Macheath, so exquisite a robber he might have been a lawyer or lord, and so devoted to matrimony that he has two or three wives already.
Black Swan Greenby David MitchellISBN 0812974018 (0-8129-7401-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Swan Green'Book summary:David Mitchell comes home - to England, 1982, and the cusp of adolescence. Jason Taylor is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring family in the deadest village ("Black Swan Green") in the dullest county (Worcestershire) in the most tedious nation (England) on earth. And he stammers. 13 chapters, each as self-contained as a short story, follow 13 months in his life as he negotiates the pitfalls of school and home and contends with bullies, girls and family politics. In the distance, the Falklands conflict breaks out; close at hand, the village mobilises against a gypsy camp. And through Jason's eyes, we see what he doesn't know he knows - and watch unfold what will make him wish his life had been as uneventful as he had believed. Vividly capturing the mood of the times - high unemployment, Cold War politics and the sunset of agrarian England - this is at once a portrait of an era and of an age: the black hole between childhood and teenagerdom. [via]
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Captains Courageousby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0770508804 (0-7705-0880-4)
Softcover, Nelson Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captains Courageous'Book summary:Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each titleoffering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.[via]
This edition of Captains Courageous includes an Introduction, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R.L. Fisher.
Harvey Cheyne fell oveboard off a luxury liner and was saved by the schooner We're Here. But instead of thanking his rescuers, the filthy rich, spoiled rotten kid demanded the Gloucester fishermen sail back to New York. Then Harvey got the shock of his life.
A punch in the mouth.
Capt. Disko Troop didn't know who Harvey's millionaire dad was. And didn't care. His ship would return to port when her holds were full--in about six months.
The world of Disko and Dan Troop, Long Jack, Salters and mad Penn. A world of struggle and backbreaking challenge, where honor meant more than money, and trust meant more than fame. Where men's minds, hearts, and strong muscles were pitted against the awesome majesty, fury, and terror of the unending depths: the world of wooden ships and high seas.
And if Harvey Cheyne survived, his life would never be the same. 
The Charioteer: A Novelby Mary RenaultISBN 0713905379 (0-7139-0537-9)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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The Dark Is Risingby Susan CooperISBN 0689829892 (0-689-82989-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dark Is Rising'Book summary:"When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back,
With these mysterious words, Will Stanton discovers on his 11th birthday that he is no mere boy. He is the Sign-Seeker, last of the immortal Old Ones, destined to battle the powers of evil that trouble the land. His task is monumental: he must find and guard the six great Signs of the Light, which, when joined, will create a force strong enough to match and perhaps overcome that of the Dark. Embarking on this endeavor is dangerous as well as deeply rewarding; Will must work within a continuum of time and space much broader than he ever imagined.
Three from the circle, three from the track;
Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone;
Five will return, and one go alone."Susan Cooper, in her five-title Dark Is Rising sequence, creates a world where the conflict between good and evil reaches epic proportions. She ranks with C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien in her ability to deliver a moral vision in the context of breathtaking adventure. No one can stop at just one of her thrilling fantasy novels. Among many other prestigious awards, The Dark Is Rising is a Newbery Honor Book and a Carnegie Medal Honor Book. (Ages 8 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
Darkness at Noonby Arthur KoestlerISBN 0808576364 (0-8085-7636-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Desolation Islandby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0786219262 (0-7862-1926-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desolation Island'Book summary:Captain Bligh (yes, the guy from the Bounty) needs to be rescued, and the Royal Navy has the perfect man for the job: Captain Jack Aubrey. With his friend and cloak-and-dagger expert Stephen Maturin in tow, Aubrey sets off for Australia. Several factors, including an attractive spy and a small-scale epidemic, conspire to change his plans, and before long his frigate is being pursued into Antarctic waters by a Dutch man-of-war. Five installments into the series, the Aubrey-Maturin story remains (to quote The Observer) "the best thing afloat since Horatio Hornblower." [via]
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Doctor Thorneby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0701112514 (0-7011-1251-4)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novelsby Walter Scott, David HewittISBN 0748605711 (0-7486-0571-1)
Hardcover, Edinburgh University Press
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Empire of the Sunby J.G. BallardISBN 0743265238 (0-7432-6523-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire of the Sun'Book summary:The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.
Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world.
Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint. [via]
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End of the Affairby Graham GreeneISBN 0783895283 (0-7838-9528-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'End of the Affair'Book summary:Set in London during and just after World War II, Graham Greene's The End of the Affair is a pathos-laden examination of a three-way collision between love of self, love of another, and love of God. The affair in question involves Maurice Bendrix, a solipsistic novelist, and a dutifully married woman, Sarah Miles. The lovers meet at a party thrown by Sarah's dreary civil-servant husband, and proceed to liberate each other from boredom and routine unhappiness. Reflecting on the ebullient beginnings of their romance, Bendrix recalls: "There was never any question in those days of who wanted whom--we were together in desire." Indeed, the affair goes on unchecked for several years until, during an afternoon tryst, Bendrix goes downstairs to look for intruders in his basement and a bomb falls on the building. Sarah rushes down to find him lying under a fallen door, and immediately makes a deal with God, whom she has never particularly cared for. "I love him and I'll do anything if you'll make him alive.... I'll give him up forever, only let him be alive with a chance.... People can love each other without seeing each other, can't they, they love You all their lives without seeing You."
Bendrix, as evidenced by his ability to tell the story, is not dead, merely unconscious, and so Sarah must keep her promise. She breaks off the relationship without giving a reason, leaving Bendrix mystified and angry. The only explanation he can think of is that she's left him for another man. It isn't until years later, when he hires a private detective to ascertain the truth, that he learns of her impassioned vow. Sarah herself comes to understand her move through a strange rationalization. Writing to God in her journal, she says:
You willed our separation, but he [Bendrix] willed it too. He worked for it with his anger and his jealousy, and he worked for it with his love. For he gave me so much love, and I gave him so much love that soon there wasn't anything left, when we'd finished, but You.
It's as though the pull toward faith were inevitable, if incomprehensible--perhaps as punishment for her sin of adultery. In her final years, Sarah's faith only deepens, even as she remains haunted by the bombing and the power of her own attraction to God. Set against the backdrop of a war-ravaged city, The End of the Affair is equally haunting as it lays forth the question of what constitutes love in troubling, unequivocal terms. --Melanie Rehak [via]More editions of End of the Affair:
The Expedition of Humphry Clinkerby Tobias Smollett, T.R. PrestonISBN 0820315370 (0-8203-1537-0)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 0691025258 (0-691-02525-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:Over a hundred years ago, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite. By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, the author fully exploited the power of the analogy between the limitations of humans and those of his two-dimensional characters.
A first-rate fictional guide to the concept of multiple dimensions of space, the book will also appeal to those who are interested in computer graphics. This field, which literally makes higher dimensions seeable, has aroused a new interest in visualization. We can now manipulate objects in four dimensions and observe their three-dimensional slices tumbling on the computer screen. But how do we interpret these images? In his introduction, Thomas Banchoff points out that there is no better way to begin exploring the problem of understanding higher-dimensional slicing phenomena than reading this classic novel of the Victorian era.
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Greenwitchby Susan CooperISBN 0689840349 (0-689-84034-9)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greenwitch'Book summary:The third book in THE DARK IS RISING sequence, built around legends from the myth-haunted West Country, a story of the unpredictable Wild Magic of the earth embodied in the Greenwitch. [via]
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The Grey Kingby Susan Cooper, Michael HeslopISBN 0701150718 (0-7011-5071-8)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Heart of Mid-Lothianby Walter Scott, David Hewitt, Alison LumsdenISBN 0748605703 (0-7486-0570-3)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Mid-Lothian'Book summary:The Heart of Mid-Lothian is precisely focused on the murder trials of John Porteous and Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737. Scott's chronicle spans the eighty years of David Dean's life. A complex and challenging narrative that acutely raises the problem of a judicial system that does not produce justice. Placed within its immediate political context, history is represented through the life of the Deans, accompanied by the justice of Providence as perceived by his daughter Jeanie, the greatest of Scott's heroines.
This edition of The Heart of Mid-Lothian provides a new text established in accordance with the tired policies and practices of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels. Its annotation comprehensively treats the novel's historical, legal, religious and cultural sources.
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Helenaby Evelyn Waugh, George WeigelISBN 082942122X (0-8294-2122-X)
Softcover, Loyola Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Helena'Book summary:[via]In Helena, the play of words and the fireworks, the exquisite descriptions of landscapes, and even the finished portraits of the heroine, her husband, and her son, are always subordinate to the authors broad vision of the mixed anguish and hope with which the world of Constantines time was filled.
New York Herald Tribune
[Helena] may be read on two levels of appreciation: As bright entertainment, or as deceptively profound commentary. On both levels its a superlatively well done book.
Chicago Tribune
Evelyn Waugh, author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller Brideshead Revisited and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, considered Helena to be perhaps his finest novel. Based on the life of St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine and finder of the true cross, this spiritual adventure brings to life the political intrigues of ancient Rome and the early years of Christianity.More editions of Helena:
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The Horse's Mouthby Joyce CaryISBN 0809436833 (0-8094-3683-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Horse's Mouth'Book summary:Joyce Cary wrote two trilogies, or triptychs as he later preferred to call them. The first comprises: Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse's Mouth. The Horse's Mouth is a portrait of an artistic temperament. Its principal character, Gulley Gimson, is an impoverished painter who scorns conventional good behaviour. He may be a bad citizen, but he is a good artist, so wholly preoccupied with his art that he is willing to endure any privation for its sake. Such is his contempt for orthodox mores, he takes a delight in cocking a snook at them. For him there is only one morality: to be a painter. 'Mr Joyce Cary is an important and exciting writer; there's no doubt about that. To use Tennyson's phrase, he is a Lord of Language ... if you like rich writing full of gusto and accurate original character drawing, you will get it from The Horse's Mouth.' John Betjeman, Daily Herald [via]
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 068983571X (0-689-83571-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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Softcover, Random House Inc - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 082220536X (0-8222-0536-X)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0763630640 (0-7636-3064-0)
Hardcover, Candlewick Pr - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0848812867 (0-8488-1286-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0804900620 (0-8049-0062-0)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0805236023 (0-8052-3602-3)
Softcover, Schocken Books - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0719529484 (0-7195-2948-4)
Hardcover, J. Murray : Cape - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0831745851 (0-8317-4585-1)
Hardcover, Gallery Books - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 068983571X (0-689-83571-X)
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Idylls of the Kingby Alfred Tennyson TennysonISBN 0804901805 (0-8049-0180-5)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Lady Audley's Secretby Mary E. BraddonISBN 0760763046 (0-7607-6304-6)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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Le Morte Darthur 1898by Thomas MaloryISBN 0766165175 (0-7661-6517-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Nancy BondISBN 0689844077 (0-689-84407-7)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:This very special Charming Classics bookandcharm package includes a paperback edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess and a goldtone oval locket and necklace. The perfect gift for every little girl who wants to be a princess!
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A Little Princessby Susanna Davidson, Kate AldousISBN 0794511236 (0-7945-1123-6)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:Rich little Sara Crewe loves to imagine things. At her English boarding school, surrounded by luxury, she sees herself as a princess. But then disaster strikes as Sara is forced to work as a servant. Only her imagination can make life bearable, until something truly incredible happens. Ages 5+. [via]
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A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Actsby Robert BoltISBN 0808508687 (0-8085-0868-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Consciences of Sir Thomas More and Henry VIII are poles apart in the religious conflict over the king's marriage to Anne Boleyn. [via]
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Midnight's Childrenby Salman RushdieISBN 0812976533 (0-8129-7653-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight's Children'Book summary:Anyone who has spent time in the developing world will know that one of Bombay's claims to fame is the enormous film industry that churns out hundreds of musical fantasies each year. The other, of course, is native son Salman Rushdie--less prolific, perhaps than Bollywood, but in his own way just as fantastical. Though Rushdie's novels lack the requisite six musical numbers that punctuate every Bombay talkie, they often share basic plot points with their cinematic counterparts. Take, for example, his 1980 Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children: two children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947--the moment at which India became an independent nation--are switched in the hospital. The infant scion of a wealthy Muslim family is sent to be raised in a Hindu tenement, while the legitimate heir to such squalor ends up establishing squatters' rights to his unlucky hospital mate's luxurious bassinet. Switched babies are standard fare for a Hindi film, and one can't help but feel that Rushdie's world-view--and certainly his sense of the fantastical--has been shaped by the films of his childhood. But whereas the movies, while entertaining, are markedly mediocre, Midnight's Children is a masterpiece, brilliant written, wildly unpredictable, hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure.
Rushdie's narrator, Saleem Sinai, is the Hindu child raised by wealthy Muslims. Near the beginning of the novel, he informs us that he is falling apart--literally:
I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug--that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams. In short, I am literally disintegrating, slowly for the moment, although there are signs of an acceleration.
In light of this unfortunate physical degeneration, Saleem has decided to write his life story, and, incidentally, that of India's, before he crumbles into "(approximately) six hundred and thirty million particles of anonymous, and necessarily oblivious, dust." It seems that within one hour of midnight on India's independence day, 1,001 children were born. All of those children were endowed with special powers: some can travel through time, for example; one can change gender. Saleem's gift is telepathy, and it is via this power that he discovers the truth of his birth: that he is, in fact, the product of the illicit coupling of an Indian mother and an English father, and has usurped another's place. His gift also reveals the identities of all the other children and the fact that it is in his power to gather them for a "midnight parliament" to save the nation. To do so, however, would lay him open to that other child, christened Shiva, who has grown up to be a brutish killer. Saleem's dilemma plays out against the backdrop of the first years of independence: the partition of India and Pakistan, the ascendancy of "The Widow" Indira Gandhi, war, and, eventually, the imposition of martial law.We've seen this mix of magical thinking and political reality before in the works of Günter Grass and Gabriel García Márquez. What sets Rushdie apart is his mad prose pyrotechnics, the exuberant acrobatics of rhyme and alliteration, pun, wordplay, proper and "Babu" English chasing each other across the page in a dizzying, exhilarating cataract of words. Rushdie can be laugh-out-loud funny, but make no mistake--this is an angry book, and its author's outrage lends his language wings. Midnight's Children is Salman Rushdie's irate, affectionate love song to his native land--not so different from a Bombay talkie, after all. --Alix Wilber [via]
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My Family and Other Animalsby Gerald DurrellISBN 0755111974 (0-7551-1197-4)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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My Family and Other Animalsby Gerald Malcolm DurrellISBN 0844660736 (0-8446-6073-6)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Family and Other Animals'Book summary:As a self-described "champion of small uglies," Gerald Durrell (1925-1995) devoted his life to writing and the preservation of wildlife, from the Mauritius pink pigeon to the Rodriques fruit bat. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the Greek island of Corfu, but ended up as a delightful account of his family's experiences that were, according to him, "rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas".
As a 10-year-old boy, Gerry left England for Corfu with "all those items that I thought necessary to relieve the tedium of a long journey: four books on natural history, a butterfly net, a dog, and a jam-jar full of caterpillars all in imminent danger of turning into chrysalids". Durrell's descriptions of his family and its many eccentric hangers-on (he stresses that "all the anecdotes about the island and the islanders are absolutely true") are highly entertaining, as is the procession of toads, scorpions, geckos, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, the puppies Widdle and Puke, and the Magenpies. This is a lovely book. --Christine Buttery [via]
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The Napoleon of Notting Hillby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0755100174 (0-7551-0017-4)
Softcover, House of Stratus Ltd
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Never Let Me Goby Kazuo IshiguroISBN 0786278374 (0-7862-7837-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Never Let Me Go'Book summary:All children should believe they are special. But the students of Hailsham, an elite school in the English countryside, are so special that visitors shun them, and only by rumor and the occasional fleeting remark by a teacher do they discover their unconventional origins and strange destiny. Kazuo Ishiguro's sixth novel, Never Let Me Go, is a masterpiece of indirection. Like the students of Hailsham, readers are "told but not told" what is going on and should be allowed to discover the secrets of Hailsham and the truth about these children on their own.
Offsetting the bizarreness of these revelations is the placid, measured voice of the narrator, Kathy H., a 31-year-old Hailsham alumna who, at the close of the 1990s, is consciously ending one phase of her life and beginning another. She is in a reflective mood, and recounts not only her childhood memories, but her quest in adulthood to find out more about Hailsham and the idealistic women who ran it. Although often poignant, Kathy's matter-of-fact narration blunts the sharper emotional effects you might expect in a novel that deals with illness, self-sacrifice, and the severe restriction of personal freedoms. As in Ishiguro's best-known work, The Remains of the Day, only after closing the book do you absorb the magnitude of what his characters endure. --Regina Marler [via]
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Out of the Silent Planetby C. S. LewisISBN 0743234901 (0-7432-3490-1)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of the Silent Planet'Book summary:[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]
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Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel from Lewis's Space Trilogy, (also called the Space Trilogy,the Cosmic Trilogy and the Ransom Trilogy,) considered to be his chief contribution to the science-fiction genre. A planetary romance with elements of medieval mythology, the trilogy concerns Dr. Ransom, a linguist who, like Christ, is offered as a ransom for mankind. On a walking tour of the English countryside, Ransom falls in with some slightly shady characters from his old University and wakes up suddenly to find himself naked in a metal ball in the middle of the light-filled heavens. He learns that he is on his way to a world called Malacandra by its natives, who also call our world Thulcandra...the Silent Planet. The Malacandrans see planets as having a tutelary spirit: those of the other planets are good and accessible, but that of Earth is fallen and twisted. [via]More editions of Out of the Silent Planet:
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Pearlby AnonymousISBN 078670294X (0-7867-0294-X)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Private Memoirs And Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James Hogg, Peter D. GarsideISBN 0748663150 (0-7486-6315-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Private Memoirs And Confessions of a Justified Sinner'Book summary:In the 1920s the eminent French novelist and critic André Gide was given a copy of James Hogg's neglected masterpiece, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, and went on to record how he had read 'this astounding book [...] with a stupefaction and admiration that increased at every page'. Many readers have subsequently shared Gide's enthusiasm, and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is now widely recognized as one of the outstanding British novels of the Romantic era. It has also been acclaimed as one of the defining texts of Scotland, with Iain Crichton Smith recently applauding 'a towering Scottish novel, one of the very greatest of all Scottish books'. Peter Garside's new edition excitingly opens out our understanding of Hogg's work, disclosing new levels of previously undected references. It also throws fresh light on the remarkable story of the novel's genesis, while providing the first full and accessible charting of its diverse cultural, theological, geographical, and historical contexts.
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Rob Royby Walter ScottISBN 0812580435 (0-8125-8043-5)
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Roxana the Fortunate Mistress 1931by Daniel Defoe, John Alan MaxwellISBN 0766141608 (0-7661-4160-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Roxana, the Fortunate Mistress, Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle De Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess Deby Daniel DefoeISBN 0783891482 (0-7838-9148-2)
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Roxana is a fascinatinating novel named after the protagonist, Roxana. It is about a beautiful and ambitious woman who suffers a calamity from which she must recover. Left with the care of her five children, she fights against fate and raises her economic stature by flirting with well-connected men. Captivating!
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Edward Fitzgerald, Christopher DeckerISBN 0813916895 (0-8139-1689-5)
Hardcover, University Press of Virginia
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Decker supplies a rich interpretive context for the Rubáiyát that reveals how its composition was so often a collaborative enterprise. His view of poetic creativity comprehends recent theories of the sociology of texts and challenges the common assumption that the desired product of a critical edition is a single unified text of a literary work. He illuminates the complex process of revision by providing a textual appendix in which a comparative printing lays down each stratum of FitzGeralds composition. Biographical and textual introductions, making imaginative use of FitzGeralds correspondence, trace the history of the poem and pay special attention to FitzGeralds motives for revising, for creating a variously beautiful work in verse.
This definitive edition of the Rubáiyát will be of special interest to scholars and students of Victorian poetry, publishing history, verse translation, literary imitation, and revision. And readers for whom the poem is an old acquaintance will here find fresh ways to appreciate its strengths and finesse.
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby John Heath-Stubbs, Peter Avery, Omar KhayyamISBN 0713911344 (0-7139-1134-4)
Hardcover, A. Lane
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Omar KhayyamISBN 0690713886 (0-690-71388-6)
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyamby Richard Le Gallienne, Omar KhayyamISBN 0841457565 (0-8414-5756-5)
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1899by Edward FitzgeraldISBN 0766176673 (0-7661-7667-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1899'Book summary:This volume contains an English rendering in quatrains of the first, second and fifth editions of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, together with notes indicating the minor variants found in the third and fourth editions. [via]
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The Secret Garden/Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jan Burridge, Louise HillISBN 0831712139 (0-8317-1213-9)
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A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italyby Laurence SterneISBN 0809567326 (0-8095-6732-6)
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Sheby H. Rider HaggardISBN 0760752400 (0-7607-5240-0)
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She Stoops to Conquerby Oliver Goldsmith, James OgdenISBN 071366794X (0-7136-6794-X)
Softcover, Methuen Drama
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Silver on the Treeby Susan CooperISBN 0689840330 (0-689-84033-0)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silver on the Tree'Book summary:The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton -- last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to keeping the world free -- must join forces with this ageless master Merriman and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties him to the Light. Drawn in with them are the three Drew children, who are mortal, but have their own vital part in the story. These six fight fear and death in the darkly brooding Welsh hills, in a quest through time and space that touches the most ancient myths of the British Isles, and that brings Susan Cooper's masterful sequence of novels to a satysfying close. [via]
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Sir Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0706415663 (0-7064-1566-3)
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Sketches by Boz and Other Early Papers 1833-39by Charles Dickens, Michael Slater, George CruikshankISBN 0814206298 (0-8142-0629-8)
Hardcover, Ohio State Univ Pr
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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day Peopleby Charles DickensISBN 0749308699 (0-7493-0869-9)
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That Hideous Strengthby C. S. LewisISBN 0743234928 (0-7432-3492-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'That Hideous Strength'Book summary:The final book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to "recondition" society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science. The two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close. [via]
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Three Men in a Boatby Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 0765341611 (0-7653-4161-1)
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Three Men in a Boat: (to Say Nothing of the Dog)by Jerome K. JeromeISBN 0760757569 (0-7607-5756-9)
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Three Men in a Boat: (to Say Nothing of the Dog)by Jerome Klapka JeromeISBN 0826400183 (0-8264-0018-3)
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyby John Le CarreISBN 0743457900 (0-7434-5790-0)
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Travestiesby Tom StoppardISBN 0802150896 (0-8021-5089-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travesties'Book summary:Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr.[via]More editions of Travesties:
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Vicar of Wakefieldby Oliver GoldsmithISBN 0804900523 (0-8049-0052-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Virgin in the Gardenby A. S. ByattISBN 0701122617 (0-7011-2261-7)
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The Wine Dark Seaby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0786201339 (0-7862-0133-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Works of Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queenby Edmund Spenser, Edwin Greenlaw, Charles Grosvenor OsgoodISBN 0801869846 (0-8018-6984-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Works of Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queen'Book summary:Originally published between 1932 and 1945, the eleven-volume Works of Edmund Spenser collects The Faerie Queene along with Spenser's minor poems, prose works, and Alexander C. Judson's The Life of Edmund Spenser.
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The Yearsby Hogarth PressISBN 0701202815 (0-7012-0281-5)
Hardcover, Pub. by L. and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press
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