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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0590451790 (0-590-45179-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:When a huge, glowing sea monster attacks and wrecks several ships, Professor Arronaz joins a mission, headed by the mysterious Captain Nemo, to explore the ocean depths and suddenly finds himself a prisoner. Reprint. [via]
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3001by Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 060618984X (0-606-18984-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Age of Aristocracy, 1688 to 1830by William B. Willcox, Walter L. ArnsteinISBN 0618001034 (0-618-00103-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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- The Age of Aristocracy, 1688 to 1830: ISBN 0669043796 (0-669-04379-6)
Softcover, D.C. Heath - The Age of Aristocracy, 1688 to 1830: ISBN 0669134236 (0-669-13423-6)
Softcover, D.C. Heath - The Age of Aristocracy, 1688 to 1830: ISBN 0669244597 (0-669-24459-7)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co - The Age of Aristocracy 1688-1830: ISBN 0618001034 (0-618-00103-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
- The Age of Aristocracy, 1688 to 1830: ISBN 0669043796 (0-669-04379-6)
The Ampersand Papersby Michael InnesISBN 0575025212 (0-575-02521-2)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Angevin England: 1154-1258by Richard MortimerISBN 0631202846 (0-631-20284-6)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Appleby at Allingtonby Michael InnesISBN 0575000783 (0-575-00078-3)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Appleby's Other Storyby Michael InnesISBN 0575013958 (0-575-01395-8)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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The Arctic Incidentby Eoin ColferISBN 0613629272 (0-613-62927-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arctic Incident'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. With two trusty sidekicks in tow, he hatches a cunning plot to divest the fairyfolk of their pot of gold. [via]
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Blackeyesby Dennis PotterISBN 0571150160 (0-571-15016-0)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Book of the Supernaturalby M. R. James, Peter HainingISBN 0572010486 (0-572-01048-6)
Hardcover, Foulsham
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Brief History of Timeby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0613074041 (0-613-07404-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brief History of Time'Book summary:Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God." --Therese Littleton [via]
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Britain Yesterday and Todayby Smith, ArnsteinISBN 0669244600 (0-669-24460-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Presentby Walter L. ArnsteinISBN 0618001042 (0-618-00104-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Present'Book summary:This text, which is the fourth volume in the best-selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions. This is the only comprehensive text available for the History of England survey course that has been revised and updated to include coverage of the entire 20th century. [via]
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Softcover, D.C. Heath - Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Present: ISBN 0669134244 (0-669-13424-4)
Hardcover, D.C. Health - Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Present: ISBN 0618001042 (0-618-00104-2)
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Cart and Cwidderby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0613359143 (0-613-35914-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cart and Cwidder'Book summary:First in the "Dalemark" series, this book follows the adventures of Clennen and his family as they earn their living as itinerant musicians. When a stranger joins them, they seem bound together in terror and flight. [via]
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Cart and Cwidderby Jones Diana W.ISBN 0614044596 (0-614-04459-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bangby Ian FlemingISBN 0590034286 (0-590-03428-6)
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Chronicles of Chrestomanciby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0613310705 (0-613-31070-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicles of Chrestomanci'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The Chants are a family strong in magic, but neither Christopher nor Cat can work even the simplest of spells. Combines two of the author's previous titles: The Lives of Christopher Chant and Charmed Life. [via]
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Circle of Friendsby Maeve BinchyISBN 0613185048 (0-613-18504-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Circle of Friends'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. From Knockglen to Dublin, heartbreak and betrayal follow three extraordinary and unforgettable women as an explosive confrontation brings hidden lies to the surface and tests the meaning of love and the bonds of friendship. A major motion picture release [via]
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Collected Poemsby Thom GunnISBN 0571171958 (0-571-17195-8)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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Dark Lord of Derkholmby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0613359259 (0-613-35925-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Lord of Derkholm'Book summary:If, next door to our ordinary world, there existed a world full of magic, wouldn't you want to visit it? That's the situation that Diana Wynne Jones explores in Dark Lord of Derkholm, and she makes an effective and comical tale of it.
Groups of tourists, called Pilgrim Parties and organized by the cold-hearted profiteer Mr. Chesney, take a portal to the magical realm, where they are shepherded about the countryside by a wizard guide. Mr. Chesney sets the rules, such as that all wizard guides must have long white beards--even 14-year-old Blade--and every Party gets to "slay" the Dark Lord. No wizard wants to be chosen as the year's Dark Lord, because Mr. Chesney demands large battles that cause great devastation in the local villages and farms, and he doesn't pay very well, but he does have a captive demon to enforce his will. This year, things are going especially badly for the chosen Dark Lord, Derk. He can't seem to keep his evil forces on the right track, despite help from his son Blade, his daughter Shona the bard, and his griffin sons and daughters. His chief aide, Barnabas, is drinking heavily and muddling his spells. And the dwarfs are taking their baskets of gold as tribute to the one they say is the real Dark Lord--Mr. Chesney.
Jones spoofs many of the trappings of fantasy epics, while at the same time portraying a family, with its surface squabbles and underlying love, through a rollicking and somewhat unwieldy story. Her messages about exploitation and responsibility come through clearly. Although not as tightly focused as some of her earlier novels, the galloping pace makes Dark Lord of Derkholm a quick, fun read for her numerous fans. --Blaise Selby [via]
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The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfishby Neil GaimanISBN 0613789369 (0-613-78936-9)
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Eagle Of The Ninthby Rosemary SutcliffISBN 0613718593 (0-613-71859-3)
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The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the Englishby Marjorie ChibnallISBN 0631190287 (0-631-19028-7)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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Fire from Heavenby Mary RenaultISBN 0582101344 (0-582-10134-4)
Hardcover, Longmans
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Fred and Edieby Jill DawsonISBN 0618197281 (0-618-19728-1)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fred and Edie'Book summary:In a dazzling act of literary license, the novelist and poet Jill Dawson has transformed the sensational true story of Britains infamous condemned adulteress into a dramatic novel of passion, murder, and scandal, as seductive as it is shocking. One night in London in 1922, a clerk named Percy Thompson is stabbed to death as he walks home from the theater. The spectacular case that follows captures the imagination of an entire nation, as Percys wife, Edith, and her young lover, Frederick Bywaters, are imprisoned, summarily tried, and hanged for murder, even as a petition to spare their lives receives more than one million signatures.[via]
Stylish, tantalizing, with descriptions of the sex act from a womans viewpoint [that] are both lyrical and sublime (Daily Mail), FRED & EDIE is a hauntingly authentic portrait of a woman whose passio ultimately leads to her destruction. Reminiscent of both Lady Chatterley and Emma Bovary, Jill Dawsons Edie falls into the category of the unforgettable.More editions of Fred and Edie:
From London Farby Michael InnesISBN 0575015144 (0-575-01514-4)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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The Grass Is Singingby Doris May LessingISBN 0582417899 (0-582-41789-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Grimusby Salman RushdieISBN 0575018712 (0-575-01871-2)
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Hare Sitting Upby Michael InnesISBN 0575015381 (0-575-01538-1)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Harrierby Bill GunstonISBN 0668060697 (0-668-06069-7)
Hardcover, Arco Pub
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The High Kingby Lloyd AlexanderISBN 0606035303 (0-606-03530-3)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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A History of Englandby C. Warren HollisterISBN 066904377X (0-669-04377-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Honeybath's Havenby Michael InnesISBN 0575023643 (0-575-02364-3)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Hons and Rebelsby Jessica MitfordISBN 0575400048 (0-575-40004-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hons and Rebels'Book summary:[via]First published in 1960, Jessica Mitford's autobiography is an account of the enclosed and eccentric childhood through which Nancy, Diana, Pam, Unity, Decca, and Debo lived. In writing of their upbringing between the wars, she also writes of her own commitment to communism and of her elopement to the Spanish Civil War with Esmond Romilly.More editions of Hons and Rebels:
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J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biographyby Humphrey CarpenterISBN 0618057021 (0-618-05702-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography'Book summary:There may be a corner of the world where the name J.R.R. Tolkien is unknown, but you would be hard-pressed to find it. Since their publication, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have been published in every major language of the world. And though he single-handedly gave a mythology to the English and was beloved by millions, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien remained refreshingly unchanged by his fame and fortune, living out his days simply and modestly among the familiar surroundings of Oxford College. Humphrey Carpenter, who was given unrestricted access to Tolkien's papers, brilliantly puts meat to the bones of the Tolkien legend in J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, offering a well-rounded portrayal of this quiet, bookish man who always saw himself first and foremost as a philologist, uncovering rather than creating the peoples, languages, and adventures of Middle-Earth.
Carpenter chronicles Tolkien's early life with a special sensitivity; after losing both parents, Tolkien and his brother Hilary were taken from their idyllic life in the English countryside to a poverty-ridden existence in dark and sooty Birmingham. There were bright points, however. A social and cheerful lad, Tolkien enjoyed rugby and was proud of his gift for languages. It was also at this time that he met Edith Bratt, who would later become his wife. Academic life--both as a student and professor--is where this biography shines. Friendship with other men played a huge part in Tolkien's life, and Carpenter deftly reveals the importance these relationships--his complex friendship with C.S. Lewis, membership in the Inklings and the T.C.B.S.--had on the development of his writing.
The only criticism one can make about this book is that Carpenter tends to gloss over Tolkien's contributions to comparative philology. True, there is a chapter devoted to Tolkien's academic pursuits, but it tends to skim too lightly over the surface for this reviewer's tastes. Philology is a terribly methodical science, and the author clearly did not want to alienate readers who were primarily interested in Tolkien as a storyteller. Still, it would be nice to understand why Tolkien was held in such high esteem by his fellow academics. As it stands, Tolkien comes off as a slightly eccentric etymologist.
Fans who want to delve even deeper into Tolkien's life should pick up a copy of Carpenter's The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. --P.M. Atterberry [via]
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Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around The Coast Of Great Britainby Paul TherouxISBN 0618658955 (0-618-65895-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around The Coast Of Great Britain'Book summary:After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like. The result is this perceptive, hilarious record of the journey. Whether in Cornwall or Wales, Ulster or Scotland, the people he encountered along the way revealed far more of themselves than they perhaps intended to display to a stranger. Theroux captured their rich and varied conversational commentary with caustic wit and penetrating insight.[via]More editions of Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around The Coast Of Great Britain:
Life of Our Lordby Charles DickensISBN 0664256805 (0-664-25680-5)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Life of Piby Yann MartelISBN 0606284001 (0-606-28400-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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London:the Biography of a City: The Biography of a Cityby Christopher HibbertISBN 0582107962 (0-582-10796-2)
Hardcover, Longmans
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A Long Long Wayby Sebastian BarryISBN 0571218008 (0-571-21800-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Long Long Way'Book summary:Sebastian Barry (born July 5, 1955) is an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. He has been shortlisted twice for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and has won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year. Barry's work in fiction came to the fore during the 1990s. His novel A Long Long Way was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize, and was selected for Dublin's 2007 One City One Book event. [3] The novel tells the story of Willie Dunne, a young recruit to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers during the First World War. It brings to life the divided loyalties that many Irish soldiers felt at the time following the Easter Rising in 1916. [Willie Dunne, son of the fictional Thomas Dunne, first appears as a minor but important character in "The Steward of Christendom."] [via]
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The Making of England: 55 B C to 1399by C. Warren Hollister, Lacey B. SmithISBN 0669244570 (0-669-24457-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Making of England to 1399by C. Warren Hollister, Robert C. Stacey, Robin Chapman StaceyISBN 0618001018 (0-618-00101-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Moorby Laurie R. KingISBN 0613150090 (0-613-15009-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moor'Book summary:Longtime fans of Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, might think that their favorite sleuth met his fate at the hands of Dr. Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Anyone who believes that, however, obviously hasn't read Laurie R. King's delightful series featuring Holmes and his wife(!), Mary Russell. In The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Holmes succumbs to the Oxford scholar's charms; now, in The Moor, fourth in the series, Holmes and Russell are summoned to Devonshire to solve a tin miner's mysterious death. Lonely Dartmoor provides plenty of opportunities for King to both relate the haunting legends of that part of the world and offer some amusing revisions to one of Holmes's most famous cases, The Hound of the Baskervilles. Though Holmes purists might resent the liberties taken with their hero, readers in search of a strong female protagonist, some fascinating local history, and spooky ambience will enjoy The Moor. [via]
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Not All Tarts Are Appleby Pip GrangerISBN 0593047958 (0-593-04795-8)
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The Observationsby Jane HarrisISBN 0571223354 (0-571-22335-4)
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One Perfect Roseby Mary Jo PutneyISBN 061323748X (0-613-23748-X)
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Operation Paxby Michael InnesISBN 0575015322 (0-575-01532-2)
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Outlanderby Diana GabaldonISBN 0613237501 (0-613-23750-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Outlander'Book summary:In Outlander, a 600-page time-travel romance, strong-willed and sensual Claire Randall leads a double life with a husband in one century, and a lover in another. Torn between fidelity and desire, she struggles to understand the pure intent of her heart. But don't let the number of pages and the Scottish dialect scare you. It's one of the fastest reads you'll have in your library.
While on her second honeymoon in the British Isles, Claire touches a boulder that hurls her back in time to the forbidden Castle Leoch with the MacKenzie clan. Not understanding the forces that brought her there, she becomes ensnared in life-threatening situations with a Scots warrior named James Fraser. But it isn't all spies and drudgery that she must endure. For amid her new surroundings and the terrors she faces, she is lured into love and passion like she's never known before.
I was lame and sore in every muscle when I woke next morning. I shuffled to the privy closet, then to the wash basin. My innards felt like churned butter. It felt as though I had been beaten with a blunt object, I reflected, then thought that that was very near the truth. The blunt object in question was visible as I came back to bed, looking now relatively harmless. Its possessor [Jamie] woke as I sat next to him, and examined me with something that looked very much like male smugness."
Gabaldon creates characters that you'll remember, laugh with, cry with, and cheer for long after you've finished the book. --Candy Paape [via]More editions of Outlander:
The Passion of New Eveby CarterISBN 0575022477 (0-575-02247-7)
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Personalityby Andrew O'HaganISBN 0571217753 (0-571-21775-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Personality'Book summary:Andrew O'Hagan's Personality opens on Scotland's Isle of Bute with three generations of the Tambini family struggling for success in their adopted home. The blanket of charm that envelops the Tambini's gradually discloses many secrets: forgotten children, torrid affairs, closeted homosexuality, and suppressed ethnic tension. Thirteen-year-old singer Maria Tambini seems to be everybody's antidote to past failures. After she leaves Bute for and audition with the television show Opportunity Knocks in London, she rapidly achieves both fame and fortune buoyed by a voice "like Barbara Streisand['s]" and charisma beyond her years. Friends and family mourn her loss to stardom while taking solace that someone has escaped Bute and achieved success as they imagine it must be on television.
But Maria's abrupt transformation into a personality leads to obsession with body image, clothes, hairstyles, and make-up; she sees herself as only an object for other people's entertainment: "Her body was apart from her. The person with thoughts was different from the person with arms and legs, a stomach and a face." For Maria, a life of surfaces, a life of pleasing, means self-annihilation. As her self fades into the image that others project on her, her body literally withers away.
O'Hagan experiments with virtually every narrative form in Personality (even including an epistolary chapter). Not all of these attempts work, and the story--driven by its strong characters and not plot--occasionally bogs down in details unnecessary to the development of either. But even in these rare lapses O'Hagan, whose previous work has been short-listed for the Booker Prize, carries his reader through his finesse with Scottish dialect and the wit of his rich supporting characters. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
Plays Twoby Harold PinterISBN 0571177441 (0-571-17744-1)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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Popcornby Ben EltonISBN 0573018693 (0-573-01869-3)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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Princess and Curdieby George MacDonaldISBN 0613639804 (0-613-63980-4)
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The Real Inspector Hound: And Other Entertainmentsby Tom StoppardISBN 0571165710 (0-571-16571-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Rule Britanniaby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 0575015985 (0-575-01598-5)
Hardcover, V. Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rule Britannia'Book summary:Emma, who lives in Cornwall with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, wakes one morning to find that the world has apparently gone mad: no post, no telephone, no radio, a warship in the bay and American soldiers advancing across the field towards the house. The time is a few years in the future. England has withdrawn from the Common Market and, on the brink of bankruptcy, has decided that salvation lies in a union - political, military and economic - with the United States. Theoretically it is to be an equal partnership; but to some people it soon begins to look like a takeover bid. Daphne du Maurier is concerned not only with what would happen to this country under what is virtually occupation, but also with the effect on human relationships. In Emma, looking at it all with clear young eyes, Daphne du Maurier has drawn one of her most enchanting heroines; and this engrossing book shows once again what a versatile and perceptive writer she is. [via]
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The Saxon and Norman Kingsby Christopher N. L. BrookeISBN 0631231315 (0-631-23131-5)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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Serious Concernsby Wendy CopeISBN 0571167055 (0-571-16705-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Sherlock Holmes Short Storiesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0582529115 (0-582-52911-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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Shogunby James ClavellISBN 061301328X (0-613-01328-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shogun'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A narrative of conflicting cultures, loyalties, motivations, and traditions in early 17th-century Japan, involving the power-hungry Lord Toranaga, the Lady Mariko, and the ambitious Englishman, Blackthorne. [via]
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The Singing Detectiveby Dennis PotterISBN 0571146317 (0-571-14631-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Snowman Storybookby Raymond BriggsISBN 061305895X (0-613-05895-X)
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The Tale of Peter Rabbitby Beatrix PotterISBN 0590411012 (0-590-41101-2)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit'Book summary:The quintessential cautionary tale, Peter Rabbit warns naughty children about the grave consequences of misbehaving. When Mrs. Rabbit beseeches her four furry children not to go into Mr. McGregor's garden, the impish Peter naturally takes this as an open invitation to create mischief. He quickly gets in over his head, when he is spotted by farmer McGregor himself. Any child with a spark of sass will find Peter's adventures remarkably familiar. And they'll see in Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail that bane of their existence: the "good" sibling who always does the right thing. One earns bread and milk and blackberries for supper, while the obstinate folly of the other warrants medicine and an early bedtime.
Beatrix Potter's animal stories have been a joy to generations of young readers. Her warm, playful illustrations in soft colors invite children into the world of words and flights of fancy. Once there, she gently and humorously guides readers along the path of righteousness, leaving just enough room for children to wonder if that incorrigible Peter will be back in McGregor's garden tomorrow. (Ages Baby to Preschool) [via]
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Tale of Time Cityby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0606244549 (0-606-24454-9)
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Tara Roadby Maeve BinchyISBN 0613271785 (0-613-27178-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tara Road'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1999: Against all odds, two newlyweds manage to buy the house of their dreams. In 1982, property speculation is beginning to be a big, big thing in Dublin--and their street is very much in an up-and-coming part of town. "They laughed and hugged each other. Danny Lynch from the broken-down cottage in the back of beyond and Ria Johnson from the corner house in the big, shabby estate were not only living like gentry in a big Tara Road mansion, they were actually debating what style of dining table to buy." But for its various inhabitants, the street is to become a boulevard of dreams--some broken, others created anew. Maeve Binchy has long proved herself a secure hand at multiple story lines, and over the course of 500 satisfying pages she focuses on Ria; her best friend, Rosemary Ryan, a beautiful, endlessly selfish career woman; Gertie, the battered wife of a drunkard; and several other intriguing women, each of whom has secrets not to be shared. There is even an all-knowing fortune teller who early on hints that Ria will travel and start a successful business--two things she knows are definitely not in the offing.
Yet after our supposedly happy housewife and mother of two is confronted by some inexorable home truths, a chance phone call from America will change her life, forcing her to discard her illusions about men, women, and marriage and start all over again. At the same time, the Connecticut caller, Marilyn Vine, has her own lessons to learn when she and Ria swap houses for the summer. Yet there's nothing remotely preachy about this novel--even the bad guys (and yes, they're usually guys) and beautiful mistresses get to maintain some appeal. Instead, Tara Road is a stirring look at the reality behind our consuming fantasies, and a page-turner to boot. --Siobhan Carson [via]
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Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925by Vera BrittainISBN 0575024674 (0-575-02467-4)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925'Book summary:When war broke out in August 1914, 21-year-old Vera Brittain was planning on enrolling at Somerville College, Oxford. Her father told her she wouldn't be able to go: "In a few months' time we should probably all find ourselves in the Workhouse!" he opined. Brittain had hoped to escape the Northern provinces, but the war seemingly dashed her plans. "It is not, perhaps, so very surprising that the War at first seemed to me an infuriating personal interruption rather than a world-wide catastrophe."
Her father eventually relented, however, and she was allowed to attend. By the end of her first year, she had fallen in love with a young soldier and resolved to become active in the war effort by volunteering as a nurse--turning her back on what she called her "provincial young-ladyhood." Brittain suffered through 12-hour days by reminding herself that nothing she endured was worse than what her fiancé, Roland, experienced in the trenches. Roland was expected home on leave for Christmas 1915; on December 26, Brittain received news that he had been killed at the front. Ten months later Brittain herself was sent to Malta and then to France to serve in the hospitals nearer the front, where she witnessed firsthand the horrors of battle. When peace finally came, Brittain had also lost her brother Edward and two close friends. As she walked the streets of London on November 11, 1918--Armistice Day--she felt alone in the crowds:
For the first time I realised, with all that full realisation meant, how completely everything that had hitherto made up my life had vanished with Edward and Roland, with Victor and Geoffrey. The War was over; a new age was beginning; but the dead were dead and would never return.
First published in 1933, Testament of Youth established Brittain as one of the best-loved authors of her time. Her crisp, clear prose and searing honesty make this unsentimental memoir of a generation scarred by war a classic. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Theater Shoesby Noel StreatfeildISBN 0613013379 (0-613-01337-9)
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There Came Both Mist and Snowby Michael InnesISBN 0575013168 (0-575-01316-8)
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Things Fall Apartby Fred HeiserISBN 0595232795 (0-595-23279-5)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Things Fall Apart'Book summary:The unthinkable happens when nuclear brinksmanship spirals off into to Armageddon. Billions die as governments disintegrate, great cities are annihilated and deeply laid plans to seize unlimited power swing into action.Tom McArthur: Once a carefree individualist, he was coaxed into a position of influence and leadership by unexpected opportunity and kept there by his sense of honor. He finds himself far from home and family, separated by hundreds of miles of impossible terrain, gangs of armed bandits and a hostile government.Lynn, his wife: Beautiful and intelligent, strong willed and voluptuous, she resents Tom's abandonment of her and their children for a distant political career. Now, with nothing but her courage, wits and willpower to work with, she must fight to keep herself and her children alive.Lance: Young, handsome and lonely, trained as the ultimate warrior, he drove himself into poverty and alcohol with the memory of an unspeakable evil he was party to. Will he find love and redemption or destroy those around him? Who will live? Who will die? What will emerge when things fall apart? [via]
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Thomas Hardy Selected Poemsby Thomas Hardy, Tim ArmstrongISBN 0582040612 (0-582-04061-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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The Tin Princessby Philip PullmanISBN 0606099794 (0-606-09979-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Tough Guide to Fantasylandby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 057560106X (0-575-60106-X)
Softcover, Vista
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tough Guide to Fantasyland'Book summary:Suffering from a bit of deja vu after reading your umpteenth fantasy trilogy? Seen too many magic swords, musical elves and warring wizards? Then you're ready for the funniest and most complete "tourist's" guide to Fantasyland's standard character types, plot elements, and settings ever devised.
Diana Wynne Jones describes (starting, of course, with a map) every sword-and-sorcery cliché in wickedly accurate detail, arranged alphabetically. Elves sing in beautiful, unearthly voices about how much better things used to be. Swords with Runes may kill dragons or demons, or have powers like storm-raising, but they are not much use when you're attacked by bandits. You can only have an Axe if you're a Northern Barbarian, a Dwarf, or a Blacksmith. Jones also tackles hard-hitting questions: how does Fantasyland's ecology work when there are few or no bacteria and insects and vast tracts of magically irradiated wastelands? Why doesn't the economy collapse when pirates and bandits are so active and there is no perceptible industry?
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland (U.K. Edition) was a 1997 Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominee. It's a good companion to Jones's Dark Lord of Derkholm, a fantasy about what happens when your land is turned into a theme park for questing tourist parties. Fans of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books will enjoy both. --Nona Vero [via]
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The Trick of Itby Michael FraynISBN 0571204295 (0-571-20429-5)
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Turn of the Screw and in the Cageby Henry JamesISBN 0613501373 (0-613-50137-3)
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: Level 1, Penguin Readersby Jules VerneISBN 0582854946 (0-582-85494-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Unadulterated Cat: A Campaign for Real Catsby Terry Pratchett, Gray JolliffeISBN 0575061049 (0-575-06104-9)
Softcover, Victor Gollancz
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Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhoodby Oliver W. SacksISBN 0606286683 (0-606-28668-3)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Deathby D. B. C. PierreISBN 0571216420 (0-571-21642-0)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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The Weight of the Evidenceby Michael InnesISBN 057501539X (0-575-01539-X)
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White Moutainsby John ChristopherISBN 0613733851 (0-613-73385-1)
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Who's Afraid of Beowulf?by Tom HoltISBN 0614136040 (0-614-13604-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Witches of Chiswickby Robert RankinISBN 0575075457 (0-575-07545-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Witches of Chiswick'Book summary:Robert Rankin's fondness for demented conspiracy theories is complicated by time travel in The Witches of Chiswick--which demonstrates again that everything you know is wrong, that Brentford is the true centre of the multiverse, and that nobody is quite as weird as Robert Rankin.
Will Starling lives in a dystopian 23rd century where Brentford Utility Conurbation is crammed with 303-storey tower blocks and synthetic food has made everyone vastly obese. Except for Will, who's mocked for morbid slimness and eccentric tastes--art, for example. When he notices the digital watch in a well-known Victorian painting, a murderous cover-up begins. The sinister Witches of Chiswick are determined to erase all traces of the other past.
Time-travelling Terminator-style automata keep arriving, not from the future but from that lost Victorian age of Babbage supercomputers, flying cabs running on beamed power from Tesla transmitters and the imminent launch of Her Majesty's Moonship Victoria. Thanks to the convenient time machine of a Mr Wells, Will finds himself in that other 19th century, complicating the stories of his own ancestors.
There he's tutored by the flamboyant guru or conman Hugo Rune. He stands in for Sherlock Holmes--called away to a Dartmoor case--and investigates the Jack-the-Ripper murders. As tends to happen in the Rankin universe, he acquires a Holy Guardian Sprout called Barry. Will even meets himself, another Will from a very different future. Even aided by his best friend Tim, by the Brentford Snail Boy (raised like Tarzan by wild animals, not apes but snails), and by the deadly martial art Dimac, can Will hope to foil a witchy plan to reprogram time and send high-tech Britain back to gaslight as midnight strikes on December 31, 1899?
Other walk-ons include Queen Victoria, the Elephant Man, William McGonagall (Poet Laureate), Doctor Watson, the Invisible Man, Oscar Wilde (a notorious womaniser), Wells' Martians, and--in unfamiliar guise--Satan. It's all suitably dotty, larded with running gags and bursts of disarming frankness:
... Perhaps both futures always existed. I don't know. This is very complicated, Tim, and I don't understand it. I'm just making it up as I go along. Like the author," said Tim.
But rather than wrap-up this novel with any of a dozen deus ex machina possibilities, Rankin leaves his hero with a very tough decision indeed. The insane, goonish humour made more effective by a touch of grimness. --David Langford [via]
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Writing Homeby Alan BennettISBN 0571232418 (0-571-23241-8)
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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writingsby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0613501438 (0-613-50143-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings'Book summary:"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver."--Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), a leading figure in the women's movement of the early twentieth century, is a pillar of the American feminist canon. This edition of her work includes her best-known story, "The Yellow Wall-paper," a terrifying tale about a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the "rest cure" she is ordered to follow by her doctor to relieve her postpartum depression. Also included is a wide range of other short stories; an abridged version of her little-known but brilliant utopian novel, Herland, about a peaceful all-female world; and selections from her landmark treatise, Women and Economics, first published in 1898 to universal acclaim. [via]More editions of The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings:
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El Dedo Magico/the Magic Fingerby Roald DahlISBN 0606104070 (0-606-10407-0)
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Montanas Blancas/White Mountainsby John ChristopherISBN 0613070348 (0-613-07034-8)
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