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Access California Wine Countryby Donna Peck, Richard Saul WurmanISBN 0060530774 (0-06-053077-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Access California Wine Country'Book summary:With Access California Wine Country, your visit will be an easy, enjoyable experience -- the vineyard excursions and tours, restaurants, inns, spas, and much more are at your fingertips.
California wine country has been divided and organized into wine districts, so you know where you are and where you're headed.
Unique color-coded and numbered entries allow you to discover the best:
hotels " restaurants " Attractions " Shopping sights " Parks and Outdoor Spaces
Large, easy-to-read maps with entry numbers keyed to text ensure that you will instantly find what you must not miss.
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Access California Wine Countryby Richard Saul WurmanISBN 006079139X (0-06-079139-X)
Softcover, Harper Resource
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Access California Wine Country'Book summary:With Access California Wine Country, your visit will be an easy, enjoyable experience -- the best of Napa, Sonoma, and the Russian River are at your fingertips.
California Wine Country has been divided and organized into neighborhoods, so you know where you are and where you're headed.
Unique color-coded and numbered entries allow you to discover the best:
hotels " restaurants " Attractions " Shopping sights " Parks and Outdoor Spaces
Large, easy-to-read maps with entry numbers keyed to text ensure that you will instantly find what you must not miss.
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Babycakesby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060924837 (0-06-092483-7)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babycakes'Book summary:"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco."
--New York Times Book ReviewWhen an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.
[via]"Armistead is a true original. His tales are bang up-to-date. They will surprise and maybe even shock you, but, I promise, they will make you laugh."
--Ian McKellen"Maupin has a genius for observation. His characters have the timing of vaudeville comics, flawed by human frailty and fueled by blind hop."
--Denver Post"Armistead Maupin's San Francisco saga careens beautifully on."
-- New York Times Book Review 
Back Roads of Californiaby Earl ThollanderISBN 0376050152 (0-376-05015-2)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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Back Roads of California: Sketches and Trip Notesby Earl ThollanderISBN 037605011X (0-376-05011-X)
Hardcover, Lane Magazine & Book Co
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Back to Barbary Lane: The Final Tales of the City Omnibusby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060166495 (0-06-016649-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Back to Barbary Lane: The Final Tales of the City Omnibus'Book summary:"An old fashioned pleasure... there's been nothing like it since the heyday of the serial novel 100 years ago... Tearing through [the tales] one after the other, as I did, allows instant gratification; it also lets you appreciate how masterfully they're constructed. No matter what Maupin writes next, he can look back on the rare achievement of having built a little world and made it run."
--Walter Kendrick, Village Voice Literary SupplementBy turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City series stands as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary. These six classic comedies, some of which originally appeared as serials in San Francisco newspapers, have won Maupin critical acclaim around the world and enthralled legions of devoted fans.
Back to Barbary Lane comprises the second trilogy of the series--Babycakes (1984), Significant Others (1987), and Sure of You (1989) -- concluding the saga of the tenants, past and present, of Mrs. Madrigal's beloved apartment house on Russian Hill. While the first trilogy celebrated the carefree excesses of the seventies, this volume tracks its hapless, all-to-human cast across a decade troubled by plague, deceit and overweening ambition.
Like its companion volume, 28 Barbary Lane, Back to Barbary Lane is distinguished by what The Guardian of London has called "some of the sharpest and most speakable dialogue you are ever likely to read." It promises hours of literate entertainment for readers old and new.
With a foreword by the author. [via]
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Bitter Melon: Stories from the Last Rural Chinese Town in Americaby Jeff Gillenkirk, James MotlowISBN 0295965622 (0-295-96562-2)
Softcover, University of Washington Press
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The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angelesby Don WolfeISBN 0060582502 (0-06-058250-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Boneby Fae Myenne NgISBN 006097592X (0-06-097592-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Bonesetter's Daughterby Amy TanISBN 0345457374 (0-345-45737-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Budding Prospectsby T. C. BoyleISBN 0140299963 (0-14-029996-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Budding Prospects'Book summary:All Felix Nasmyth and friends have to do is harvest a crop of Cannabis Sativa...[via]...and half a million tax-free dollars will be theirs. But they haven't reckoned on nosy Northern California-style neighbors, torrential rain, demands of the flesh, and Felix's improbable new love, a wayward sculptress on whose behalf he undertakes a one-man vendetta against a drug-busting state trooper named Jerpbak. As their deal escalates through crises into nightmare, their dreams of easy money get nipped in the bud.
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California Geologyby Deborah R. HardenISBN 013100218X (0-13-100218-X)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'California Geology'Book summary:This interesting book uses plate tectonics as its central theme; it acquaints readers with California geology. Basic principles in the beginning of the book and tables of highlights for each province enable the reader to understand the whole picture of catastrophic national disasters, California history, mining methods, and societal impacts; it brings the lessons of geology closer to the everyday context of California life. After a comprehensive overview of the basic principles of geology, this book then focuses on the geological highlights of California (young volcanoes, deserts, the Mojave Desert, the Sierra Nevada, the Klamath Mountains, water, the Great Valley, the coast Ranges, earthquakes, faults, and seismic safety, the transverse ranges, and the peninsular ranges). The inside back and front covers of the book contain a wealth of readily available information, with comprehensive geologic, fault, relief, and mountain range maps. A handy desk reference for geologists, this book is also a source of information for anyone interested in the evolution of California's terrain.
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Crimen Y Castigo / Crime and Punishmentby Fedor DostoievskiISBN 8420634808 (84-206-3480-8)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crimen Y Castigo / Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Una visita de Balzac a San Petersburgo le sugirio al joven alferez ingeniero Fiodor Dostoievski la idea de traducir «Eugenie Grandet». La traduccion hizo mucho mas que sacarle de un apuro economico; desperto su fiebre creativa y su vocacion. Entonces, decidio solicitar la excedencia y dedicarse a la literatura.Obra realmente genial, «Crimen y castigo» es una de las mas grandes creaciones de la literatura mundial. Todo el dolor humano palpita y nos contempla desde los estremecedores cuadros de miseria, de vejacion personal, de soledad y de asfixia moral propios de una gran ciudad. Contradiciendo su propia teoria de que no existen motivos sociales para justificar el crimen, se diria que Dostoievski ha puesto en esta novela todo su afan de acumular y sacar a la luz precisamente las circunstancias sociales que, a cada paso, empujan a la persona a llegar al crimen, aunque sea para afirmar su yo y probarse a si mismo que es un hombre. [via]
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D Is for Deadbeatby Sue GraftonISBN 0312939027 (0-312-93902-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'D Is for Deadbeat'Book summary:When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhone's office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. It's a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesn't deliver the money himself. She's almost certain something is off. But with rent due, Kinsey accepts Limardo's retainer against her better judgment&[via]
When Limardo's check bounces, Kinsey discovers she's been had big time. Alvin Limardo is really John Daggett--an ex-con with a drinking problem, two wives to boot, and a slew of people who would like to see him dead. Now Kinsey is out four hundred dollars and in hot pursuit of Daggett.
When Daggett's corpse shows up floating in the Santa Teresa surf, the cops rule the death an accident. Kinsey thinks it's murder. But seeking justice for a man who everyone seemed to despise is going to be a lot tougher than she bargained for--and what awaits her at the end of the road is much more disturbing than she could've ever imagined&More editions of D Is for Deadbeat:
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Dangerous Angelsby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0064406970 (0-06-440697-0)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dangerous Angels'Book summary:Lanky lizards! The slinkster-cool novels in Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat series have finally been compiled into one delicious volume. All of the ethereal, mesmerizing titles are here--Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan, and Baby Be-Bop--together like the big, beautiful family described on their pages. Block's unique, poetic style immediately draws readers into an intoxicating magical-realist world populated by empathetic, original characters (as well as a few ghosts, fairies, and genies): "He kissed her. A kiss about apple pie à la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs."
We cheer for these young women and men as they struggle with the universal trials of growing up, finding love, and letting go--all within the vivid, glittering, urban embrace of Los Angeles. Block's stories about finding yourself, being true to your dreams, and believing in what might seem impossible will inspire teens and adults alike with the resounding messages of hope and the transformative power of love. --Brangien Davis [via]
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Dharma Bumsby Jack KerouacISBN 0140042520 (0-14-004252-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dharma Bums'Book summary:One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac. This book is a must-read for any serious Kerouac fan. [via]
Earthquake Countryby Robert L. IacopiISBN 0376061421 (0-376-06142-1)
Hardcover, Lane Books
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El Halcon Maltesby Dashiell HammettISBN 8420666890 (84-206-6689-0)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farmby David Mas MasumotoISBN 0062510258 (0-06-251025-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm'Book summary:An eloquent piece of nature writing by a young author with a farmer-s calluses and a poet-s soul, Epitaph for a Peach is about saving a peach (Sun Crest variety), saving a farm, saving a family, saving a way of life--it is a story about finding -home.- [via]
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Expiration Dateby Tim PowersISBN 0312860862 (0-312-86086-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Expiration Date'Book summary:Koot Parganas has stolen the ghost of Thomas Edison, preserved in a hidden glass vial. Now he's on the run through the dark underside of Los Angeles, among characters who extend their lives and enhance their power by catching and absorbing the ghosts of the recently dead. Like The Anubis Gates and On Stranger Tides, this fantasy has an astonishing power that remains long after the last page is turned. [via]
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Generation Xby Douglas CouplandISBN 031205436X (0-312-05436-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Generation X'Book summary:A riotous, raunchy tale about three 'twenty somethings' who inhabit adjoining bungalows in Palm Springs. [via]
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Grievous Sinby Faye KellermanISBN 0061159182 (0-06-115918-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grievous Sin'Book summary:The birth of their baby girl has filled Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker, with joy mingled with sorrow, since complications have ensured that they can have no more children. But the situation is grim at the hospital, which has been devastated by severe budget cutbacks and staff shortages. And when a respected nurse vanishes along with a newborn from the nursery, Peter and Rina fear for the safety of their own precious childespecially when the missing nurse's car is found at the bottom of a cliff . . . with a corpse inside.
A most grievous sin has been committed. In pursuit of justice, Deckerwith the help of his tough-as-nails partner, Marge, and an able assist from his teenage daughter, Cindyfollows a twisted path that winds through a sinister maze of hospital politics, misplaced passions, and torturous mind games that can all too easily lead to murder.
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Hauntedby Meg CabotISBN 0064472787 (0-06-447278-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Haunted'Book summary:My name is Susannah Simon, and I am a mediator -- a liason between the living and the dead. If you think this gets in the way of my attempt at a normal sixteen-year-old life, you'd be right. You try going to the mall while constantly being accosted by the undead.
Not that this is a bad thing all the time. Like, for example, when I discovered my bedroom is haunted by Jesse, the ghost of a nineteenth-century hottie. While I haven't made much progress with him (only one kiss so far), I remain optimistic. Jesse's inexplicable resistance to my charms is not my only obstacle, though: there's this other guy. A live one, who has the same gift of gab with the undead I have. In the same way I'm after Jesse, this guy is after me. And he knows how to send Jesse to the Great Beyond. For good.
So I guess you could say I'm haunted. I just never thought it would be by someone who isn't dead.
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Haunted: A Tale Of The Mediatorby Meg CabotISBN 0060751649 (0-06-075164-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Hundred Secret Sensesby Amy TanISBN 0375701524 (0-375-70152-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hundred Secret Senses'Book summary:The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. And no one in Olivia's family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. For Kwan speaks mangled English, is cheerfully deaf to Olivia's sarcasm, and sees the dead with her "yin eyes."
Even as Olivia details the particulars of her decades-long grudge against her sister (who, among other things, is a source of infuriatingly good advice), Kwan Li is telling her own story, one that sweeps us into the splendor, squalor, and violence of Manchu China. And out of the friction between her narrators, Amy Tan creates a work that illuminates both the present and the past sweetly, sadly, hilariously, with searing and vivid prose.
"Truly magical...unforgettable...this novel...shimmer[s] with meaning."--San Diego Tribune
"The Hundred Secret Senses doesn't simply return to a world but burrows more deeply into it, following new trails to fresh revelations."--Newsweek [via]More editions of The Hundred Secret Senses:
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La Perla / The Pearlby John Steinbeck, David ShannonISBN 8431634790 (84-316-3479-0)
Softcover, Vicens-Vives Editorial S.A.
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The Lady in the Lakeby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0345251202 (0-345-25120-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady in the Lake'Book summary:A beautiful, historically accurate edition of the modern classic first published in 1943 reproduces the original and offers an alternative for those who love great old books and want to relive Philip Marlowe's strange and puzzling search for the missing woman. [via]
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The Lincoln Lawyer: Library Editionby Michael ConnellyISBN 0316154741 (0-316-15474-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Los hermanos Karamazov / The Brothers Karamazovby Fiodor M. Dostoievski, Juan Cano BallestaISBN 8497930770 (84-9793-077-0)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Lost in the Forestby Sue MillerISBN 0345469593 (0-345-46959-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in the Forest'Book summary:For nearly two decades, since the publication of her iconic first novel, The Good Mother, Sue Miller has distinguished herself as one of our most elegant and widely celebrated chroniclers of family life, with a singular gift for laying bare the interior lives of her characters. In each of her novels, Miller has written with exquisite precision about the experience of grace in daily lifethe sudden, epiphanic recognition of the extraordinary amid the ordinaryas well as the sharp and unexpected motions of the human heart away from it, toward an unruly netherworld of upheaval and desire. But never before have Millers powers been keener or more transfixing than they are in Lost in the Forest, a novel set in the vineyards of Northern California that tells the story of a young girl who, in the wake of a tragic accident, seeks solace in a damaging love affair with a much older man.
Eva, a divorced and happily remarried mother of three, runs a small bookstore in a town north of San Francisco. When her second husband, John, is killed in a car accident, her familys fragile peace is once again overtaken by loss. Emily, the eldest, must grapple with newfound independence and responsibility. Theo, the youngest, can only begin to fathom his fathers death. But for Daisy, the middle child, Johns absence opens up a world of bewilderment, exposing her at the onset of adolescence to the chaos and instability that hover just beyond the safety of parental love. In her sorrow, Daisy embarks on a harrowing sexual odyssey, a journey that will cast her even farther out onto the harsh promontory of adulthood and lost hope.
With astonishing sensuality and immediacy, Lost in the Forest moves through the most intimate realms of domestic life, from grief and sex to adolescence and marriage. It is a stunning, kaleidoscopic evocation of a family in crisis, written with delicacy and masterful care. For her lifelong fans and those just discovering Sue Miller for the first time, here is a rich and gorgeously layered tale of a family breaking apart and coming back together again: Sue Miller at her inimitable best. [via]
Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920'sby Kevin StarrISBN 019507260X (0-19-507260-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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McTeagueby Frank NorrisISBN 0030092507 (0-03-009250-7)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'McTeague'Book summary:The novelist Frank Norris is almost forgotten today, but in books like "McTeague," published in 1899, he paved the way for a whole generation of American writers--a generation that included Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis and, less directly, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. McTeague is a dentist saddled with a grasping wife, and the book chronicles his rise and fall in awkward but powerful prose. This type of social realism, so contrary to the uplifting entertainment of the day (and to Mark Twain's more fanciful, comic novels), provided turn-of-the-century America a disturbing mirror in which to view itself. [via]
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Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - McTeague: ISBN 0140390170 (0-14-039017-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA - McTeague: ISBN 0192823566 (0-19-282356-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - McTeague : A Story of San Francisco: ISBN 0375761292 (0-375-76129-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - McTeague: ISBN 0393091368 (0-393-09136-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - McTeague: ISBN 0393044602 (0-393-04460-2)
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Microserfsby Douglas CouplandISBN 0060987049 (0-06-098704-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Microserfs'Book summary:Microserfs is not about Microsoft--it's about programmers who are searching for lives. A hilarious but frighteningly real look at geek life in the '90's, Coupland's book manifests a peculiar sense of how technology affects the human race and how it will continue to affect all of us. Microserfs is the hilarious journal of Dan, an ex-Microsoft programmer who, with his coder comrades, is on a quest to find purpose in life. This isn't just fodder for techies. The thoughts and fears of the not-so-stereotypical characters are easy for any of us to relate to, and their witty conversations and quirky view of the world make this a surprisingly thought-provoking book.
" ... just think about the way high-tech cultures purposefully protract out the adolescence of their employees well into their late 20s, if not their early 30s," muses one programmer. "I mean, all those Nerf toys and free beverages! And the way tech firms won't even call work 'the office,' but instead, 'the campus.' It's sick and evil." [via]
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Gameby Michael LewisISBN 0393324818 (0-393-32481-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game'Book summary:Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs. Given this information and a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans.
Lewis was in the room with the A's top management as they spent the summer of 2002 adding and subtracting players and he provides outstanding play-by-play. In the June player draft, Beane acquired nearly every prospect he coveted (few of whom were coveted by other teams) and at the July trading deadline he engaged in a tense battle of nerves to acquire a lefty reliever. Besides being one of the most insider accounts ever written about baseball, Moneyball is populated with fascinating characters. We meet Jeremy Brown, an overweight college catcher who most teams project to be a 15th round draft pick (Beane takes him in the first). Sidearm pitcher Chad Bradford is plucked from the White Sox triple-A club to be a key set-up man and catcher Scott Hatteberg is rebuilt as a first baseman. But the most interesting character is Beane himself. A speedy athletic can't-miss prospect who somehow missed, Beane reinvents himself as a front-office guru, relying on players completely unlike, say, Billy Beane. Lewis, one of the top nonfiction writers of his era (Liar's Poker, The New New Thing), offers highly accessible explanations of baseball stats and his roadmap of Beane's economic approach makes Moneyball an appealing reading experience for business people and sports fans alike. --John Moe [via]
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My 1st Summer in the Sierraby John MuirISBN 0140170014 (0-14-017001-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My 1st Summer in the Sierra'Book summary:John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become the famed conservationist whom he liked to call "John o' the Mountains" when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada not long after the end of the Civil War. Having caught a glimpse of such magical places as Tuolumne Meadows and El Capitan, Muir ached to return, and in the summer of 1869 he signed on with a crew of shepherds and drove a flock of 2,500 woolly critters toward the headwaters of the Merced River.
The diary he kept while tending sheep forms the heart of My First Summer in the Sierra; published in 1911, it enticed thousands of Americans to visit the Yosemite country. The book is full of the concerns Muir would later voice as America's foremost preservationist and wildlands advocate, which would bear fruit in the creation of several national parks and monuments. And it resounds with Muir's nearly pantheistic regard for the natural world: with celebrations of the Sierra's lizards that "dart about on the hot rocks, swift as dragonflies," its mountain lions and tall trees and fierce thunderstorms and bears; with Muir's overarching awe for places that civilization had yet to tame. Though perhaps a little purple by modern standards, Muir's book continues to inspire readers to seek out such places for themselves and make them their own--and as such it stands among the enduring classics of environmental literature. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Of Mice and Men/Cannery Rowby John SteinbeckISBN 014004891X (0-14-004891-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Prayers for the Deadby Faye KellermanISBN 0380726246 (0-380-72624-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Queen of Dreamsby Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniISBN 0385506821 (0-385-50682-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Red Ponyby John SteinbeckISBN 0140177361 (0-14-017736-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Pony'Book summary:This cycle of coming-of-age stories tells of a spirited adolescent boy whose encounters with birth and death teach him about loss and profound emptiness, instead of giving him the more conventional hero's pragmatic "maturity."[via] -
Retrato En Sepiaby Isabel AllendeISBN 9500718863 (950-07-1886-3)
Softcover, Downtown Book Center Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Retrato En Sepia'Book summary:A finales del siglo XIX en Chile, Aurora del Valle sufre de un trauma brutal que borra de su mente los primeros cinco años de su vida. Criada por su ambiciosa abuela, Paulina del Valle, crece en un ambiente privilegiado, pero se ve atormentada por horribles pesadillas. Cuando debe afrontar la traición del hombre que ama, y la soledad, decide explorar el misterio de su pasado.
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San Franciscoby Jack McDowell, Dorothy KrellISBN 0376056622 (0-376-05662-2)
Hardcover, Lane Pub Co
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San Franciscoby Sunset EditorsISBN 0376056665 (0-376-05666-5)
Softcover, Leisure Arts
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Seabiscuit: An American Legendby Laura HillenbrandISBN 0345465083 (0-345-46508-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seabiscuit: An American Legend'Book summary:He didn't look like much. With his smallish stature, knobby knees, and slightly crooked forelegs, he looked more like a cow pony than a thoroughbred. But looks aren't everything; his quality, an admirer once wrote, "was mostly in his heart." Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of the horse who became a cultural icon in Seabiscuit: An American Legend.
Seabiscuit rose to prominence with the help of an unlikely triumvirate: owner Charles Howard, an automobile baron who once declared that "the day of the horse is past"; trainer Tom Smith, a man who "had cultivated an almost mystical communication with horses"; and jockey Red Pollard, who was down on his luck when he charmed a then-surly horse with his calm demeanor and a sugar cube. Hillenbrand details the ups and downs of "team Seabiscuit," from early training sessions to record-breaking victories, and from serious injury to "Horse of the Year"--as well as the Biscuit's fabled rivalry with War Admiral. She also describes the world of horseracing in the 1930s, from the snobbery of Eastern journalists regarding Western horses and public fascination with the great thoroughbreds to the jockeys' torturous weight-loss regimens, including saunas in rubber suits, strong purgatives, even tapeworms.
Along the way, Hillenbrand paints wonderful images: tears in Tom Smith's eyes as his hero, legendary trainer James Fitzsimmons, asked to hold Seabiscuit's bridle while the horse was saddled; critically injured Red Pollard, whose chest was crushed in a racing accident a few weeks before, listening to the San Antonio Handicap from his hospital bed, cheering "Get going, Biscuit! Get 'em, you old devil!"; Seabiscuit happily posing for photographers for several minutes on end; other horses refusing to work out with Seabiscuit because he teased and taunted them with his blistering speed.
Though sometimes her prose takes on a distinctly purple hue ("His history had the ethereal quality of hoofprints in windblown snow"; "The California sunlight had the pewter cast of a declining season"), Hillenbrand has crafted a delightful book. Wire to wire, Seabiscuit is a winner. Highly recommended. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Significant Othersby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060924810 (0-06-092481-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Significant Others'Book summary:Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp downriver from an all-male retreat for the ruling class. Among those entangled in the ensuing mayhem are a lovesick nurseryman, a panic-stricken philanderer, and the worlds most beautiful fat woman. Significant Others is Armistead Maupins cunningly observed meditation on marriage, friendship, and sexual nostalgia.
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Sister of My Heartby Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniISBN 038548951X (0-385-48951-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister of My Heart'Book summary:From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart.Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences, since the day on which the two girls were born, the same day their fathers died--mysteriously and violently--Sudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart. Bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend, the two girls grow into womanhood as if their fates as well as their hearts were merged. But, when Sudha learns a dark family secret, that connection is shattered. For the first time in their lives, the girls know what it is to feel suspicion and distrust. Urged into arranged marriages, Sudha and Anju's lives take opposite turns. Sudha becomes the dutiful daughter-in-law of a rigid small-town household. Anju goes to America with her new husband and learns to live her own life of secrets. When tragedy strikes each of them, however, they discover that despite distance and marriage, they have only each other to turn to. Set in the two worlds of San Francisco and India, this exceptionally moving novel tells a story at once familiar and exotic, seducing readers from the first page with the lush prose we have come to expect from Divakaruni. Sister of My Heart is a novel destined to become as widely beloved as it is acclaimed. [via]
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Sure of Youby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060924845 (0-06-092484-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sure of You'Book summary:A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate, yet subversively funny, Sure of You could only come from Armistead Maupin.
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Weetzie Batby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0060736259 (0-06-073625-9)
Softcover, Harper Torch
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Weetzie Bat'Book summary:Ten years ago Francesca Lia Block made a dazzling entrance into the literary scene with what would become one of the most talked-about books of the decade: Weetzie Bat. This poetic roller coaster swoop has been repackaged with a sleek new design and is available in both hardcover and paperback editions. Rediscover the magic of Weetzie Bat, Ms. Blocks sophisticated, slinkster-cool love song to L.A.the book that shattered the standard, captivated readers of all generations, and made Francesca Lia Block one of the most heralded authors of the last decade. [via]
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Carter Engana Al Diabloby David Gold GlenISBN 842533814X (84-253-3814-X)
Hardcover, Random House Mondadori
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La Confidentialby Carlos Gardini, Not AvailableISBN 8466617795 (84-666-1779-5)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Confidential'Book summary:In the tradition of Raymond Chandler's crime fiction comes this story of three tortured souls in the 1950s LAPD: a clean-cut cop who lives shivering in the shadow of his dad, his colleague who busts movie stars for payoffs from a sleazy magazine; and a detective haunted by the sight of his mother's murder. Intensity mounts as the novel's various plots intertwine more and more tightly, yet the narrative never veers too far from its core theme of cops competing with crooks to see who can be more corrupt and violent.[via]More editions of La Confidential:
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Crimen y castigo/ Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 8426156029 (84-261-5602-9)
Softcover, Juventud
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crimen y Castigo/ Crime and Punishment'Book summary:[via]For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres including theater, novels, poems, and essays.Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde el teatro, la narrativa, la poesía y el ensayo.More editions of Crimen y castigo/ Crime and Punishment:
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Fiodor Dostoievski / Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crimen Y Castigo Los Hermanos Karamazov / Crime and Punishment, The Brothers of Karamazovby Fiodor DostoievskiISBN 8484036464 (84-8403-646-4)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fiodor Dostoievski / Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crimen Y Castigo Los Hermanos Karamazov / Crime and Punishment, The Brothers of Karamazov'Book summary:The classic works of literature contained in each of these volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. A wonderful introduction to world literature, this finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience. Includes The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment.
Las obras clásicas de literatura en cada volumen son una representación de los mejores y más famosos escritos de los autores. Una introducción maravillosa a la literatura universal, esta serie hermosamente diseñada pone las obras de los autores mundialmente conocidos al alcance de todos. [via]
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Los Hermanos Karamasov/the Karamasov Brothersby Fedor DostoievskiISBN 9871150075 (987-1150-07-5)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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Los hermanos Karamazov / The Brothers Karamazovby Fiodor M. DostoievskiISBN 8437606381 (84-376-0638-1)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Los hermanos Karamazov / The Brothers Karamazov'Book summary:Fiódor Dostoyevski es uno de los principales escritores de su época en la Rusia Zarista; la literatura de Dostoyevski explora la psicología humana en el complejo contexto político, social y espiritual de la sociedad rusa del siglo XIX. Walter Kaufmann citó las Memorias del subsuelo (1864), escritas con la amarga voz del anónimo «hombre subterráneo», como «la mejor obertura para el existencialismo jamás escrita». En el mismo sentido, el prestigioso intelectual y escritor austriaco Stefan Zweig consideró al escritor ruso como «el mejor conocedor del alma humana de todos los tiempos». Su obra, aunque escrita en el siglo XIX, refleja al hombre y la sociedad de hoy. Sigmund Freud dijo en su obra Dostoievski y el parricidio que el capítulo de «El gran inquisidor», de la novela Los hermanos Karamazov, era una de las cumbres de la literatura universal. Cabe resaltar, asimismo, la influencia ejercida sobre Nietzsche, quien afirmó: Dostoyevski, el único psicólogo, por cierto, del cual se podía aprender algo, es uno de los accidentes más felices de mi vida, más incluso que el descubrimiento de Stendhal. [via]
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El Hombre En El Castilloby Philip K. DickISBN 8445072420 (84-450-7242-0)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Misterio En El Castillo Del Terror/the Secret of Terror Castleby Robert ArthurISBN 8427249012 (84-272-4901-2)
Hardcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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El Plan Infinito / the Infinite Planby Isabel AllendeISBN 9500707241 (950-07-0724-1)
Softcover, Aims Intl Books Corp
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La Ventana Altaby Raymond ChandlerISBN 8420673323 (84-206-7332-3)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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