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Across the Miles : Tales of Correspondenceby L. M. Montgomery, Rea WilmshurstISBN 0553571036 (0-553-57103-6)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Across the Miles : Tales of Correspondence'Book summary:Love notes, marriage proposals, heartfelt promises, honest admissions, cruel deceptions--these are the many variations on the theme of this collection, in which each story hinges on the writing or receiving of a letter. These stories, filled with all the wit and wisdom of L.M. Montgomery, take us back to a time when letters held not only news of friends and family, but the power to change lives. [via]
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The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909by Pierre BertonISBN 0385658451 (0-385-65845-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909'Book summary:The polar north has always lured the passionate mind, the eccentric, and the damned. Pierre Bertons The Arctic Grail is a substantial chronicle of these explorers, some of whom sought an economical northern route to the East and others adventure and fame, not to mention the backers who supported their primarily marine expeditions. Bertons prose reads like good fiction, providing insight into the lives of the men who journeyed north--and those left behind hoping for their safe return. I would not recall you, wrote Isabella Parry to her absent husband in her diary. Your path leads to glory and honour and never would I turn you from that path when I feel it is the path you ought to go....
The obstinate pride of the planners and leaders of these expeditions commanded respect from their peers despite a recurring failure to learn from past, often fatal errors. The icon of the north, John Franklin, who through his disappearance became the symbol of nineteenth-century Arctic exploration, is but one of the players. Other less familiar names figure in. Theres John Ross, whose 1818 expedition was one of the earliest. And William Edward Parry, whose failed 1824-1825 voyage to find the Northwest Passage resulted in the wrecking of his vessel The Fury. And first officer W. Parker Snow, who specialized in tall tales of the murder of John Franklin by Eskimos. Each contributes to The Arctic Grail a sense of adventure, passion, and perseverance in the face of all that nature can unleash. --Tim Tokaryk [via]
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Baby Belugaby Ashley WolffISBN 0517583623 (0-517-58362-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baby Beluga'Book summary:Raffi's signature song and the top seller in his Songs to Read series, Baby Beluga is now available in a quality board book edition perfect for his youngest fans. [via]
Baby Belugaby Raffi, Ashley WolffISBN 0517578409 (0-517-57840-9)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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The Bass Saxophoneby Josef Skvorecky, Kaca Polackvoa-HenleyISBN 0394502671 (0-394-50267-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Book of Mercyby Leonard CohenISBN 0394539494 (0-394-53949-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Mercy'Book summary:Popular since its original publication more than 25 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is now beautifully repackaged.
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now beautifully repackaged, the poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.
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Broken: Library Editionby Kelley ArmstrongISBN 0553588184 (0-553-58818-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Broken: Library Edition'Book summary:In this thrilling new novel from the author of Industrial Magic, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on twenty-first-centuryand become his next target.
Ever since she discovered shes pregnant, Elena Michaels has been on edge. After all, shes never heard of another living female werewolf, let alone one whos given birth. But thankfully, her expertise is needed to retrieve a stolen letter allegedly written by Jack the Ripper. As a distraction, the job seems simple enoughonly the letter contains a portal to Victorian Londons underworld, which Elena inadvertently triggersunleashing a vicious killer and a pair of zombie thugs.
Now Elena must find a way to seal the portal before the unwelcome visitors get what theyre looking forwhich, for some unknown reason, is Elena. [via]More editions of Broken: Library Edition:
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Buried in Iceby Shelley Tanaka, Owen Beattie, John GeigerISBN 0590438492 (0-590-43849-2)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Buried in Ice'Book summary:Luke Smith, a fictional stoker on board one of the ships looking for the fabled Northwest Passage in 1845, tells of the events that befell the two ships, while, 135 years later, an anthropologist unravels the mystery of what happened. [via]
The Burning Timeby Carol MatasISBN 0440219787 (0-440-21978-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwoodby Coral Ann HowellsISBN 0521548519 (0-521-54851-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Canadian History for Dummiesby Will FergusonISBN 0470836563 (0-470-83656-3)
Softcover, For Dummies
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Cloud Nineby Caryl ChurchillISBN 0415901359 (0-415-90135-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Delicate Stormby Giles BluntISBN 042519678X (0-425-19678-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Delicate Storm'Book summary:A stunningly inventive crime thriller featuring homicide detectives John Cardinal and Lise Delorme from Forty Words for Sorrow.
Algonquin Bay, northern Ontario: A freak warm front has moved in, rousing hungry bears from hibernation--and spurring a smart and powerful killer to commit the perfect crime...over and over again. [via] -
The Difference Engineby Bruce Sterling, William GibsonISBN 055329461X (0-553-29461-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Difference Engine'Book summary:A collaborative novel from the premier cyberpunk authors, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine takes us not forward but back, to an imagined 1885: the Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven, cybernetic engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. [via]
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The Difference Engineby William GibsonISBN 055307346X (0-553-07346-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Difference Engine'Book summary:A collaborative novel from the premier cyberpunk authors, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine takes us not forward but back, to an imagined 1885: the Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven, cybernetic engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. [via]
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The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodramaby Pierre BertonISBN 039307529X (0-393-07529-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Discovery of Strangersby Rudy Henry WiebeISBN 0394280830 (0-394-28083-0)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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The Doctor's Sweetheartby L. M. MontgomeryISBN 0553563300 (0-553-56330-0)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Don't Care Highby Gordon KormanISBN 0590431293 (0-590-43129-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Don't Get Too Comfortableby David RakoffISBN 0385510365 (0-385-51036-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Dreaming Placeby Charles De Lint, Brian FroudISBN 0446362875 (0-446-36287-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dreaming Place'Book summary:Drawn into the Otherworld of totems and dryads, Ash must help her cousin Nina, who is being stalked by an Otherworld manitou that can force Nina's mind into the bodies of beasts. By the author of The Little Country. Reprint. AB. VY. LJ. [via]
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Dreams of Millennium: Report from a Culture on the Brinkby Mark KingwellISBN 057119902X (0-571-19902-X)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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End of an Eraby Robert J. SawyerISBN 0441001149 (0-441-00114-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'End of an Era'Book summary:Don't pick up End of an Era unless you're prepared to have a good time. Robert J. Sawyer's novel is a lively mix of time travel, dinosaurs, and a classic love triangle. It's a lot of fun, a bit like listening to a musician who you know is playing for the sheer joy of it. End of an Era pays tribute to those old time-travelling dinosaur-hunter stories where one misstep changes the course of history. Sawyer updates the science, both physics and paleontology, and adds an old-fashioned career/romance rivalry between the two time travellers. When he throws in a mystery regarding the gravity of Earth in the distant past, along with some fairly strange Martians, the whole thing becomes the SF equivalent of a new roller-coaster ride, made up of familiar parts but shinier and more thrilling than the old one. End of an Era is the kind of book with pleasures for both the new and experienced SF reader. The story on its own terms is entertainingly written, and for the reader of the classics can enjoy spotting the references and tributes to stories past. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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The Fencepost Chroniclesby W.P. KinsellaISBN 0395453933 (0-395-45393-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Flames across the Border: 1813-1814by Pierre BertonISBN 0385658389 (0-385-65838-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Forty Words For Sorrowby Giles BluntISBN 0425206920 (0-425-20692-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Franklin Goes to Schoolby Paulette Bourgeois, Brenda ClarkISBN 0590254677 (0-590-25467-7)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Franklin in the Darkby Paulette Bourgeois, Bonnie Bader, Brenda ClarkISBN 0439194253 (0-439-19425-3)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Franklin's First Day of Schoolby Paulette Bourgeois, Eva Moore, Brenda ClarkISBN 0439202981 (0-439-20298-1)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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From the Fifteenth District: A Novella and Eight Short Storiesby Mavis GallantISBN 0394507193 (0-394-50719-3)
Hardcover, Random House
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Frozen in Time: Unlocking the Secrets of the Franklin Expeditionby Owen Beattie, John GeigerISBN 0452265371 (0-452-26537-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frozen in Time: Unlocking the Secrets of the Franklin Expedition'Book summary:Sir John Franklin's ill fated Arctic Expedition of 1845-48 has been a mystery for nearly 140 years. In l981 things began to change... [via]
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Further Adventures of Slugger McBattby W.P. KinsellaISBN 0395475937 (0-395-47593-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Gallows Viewby Peter RobinsonISBN 0425156729 (0-425-15672-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Golden Fleeceby Robert J. SawyerISBN 0445210788 (0-445-21078-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Fleece'Book summary:Aboard Argo, a colonization ship bound for Eta Cephei IV, people are very close--there's no other choice. So when Aaron Rossman's ex-wife dies in what seems to be a bizarre accident, everyone offers their sympathy, politely keeping their suspicions of suicide to themselves. But Aaron cannot simply accept her death. He must know the truth: Was it an accident, or did she commit suicide? When Aaron discovers the truth behind her death, he is faced with a terrible secret--a secret that could cost him his life.[via]More editions of Golden Fleece:
Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, And Greedby John VaillantISBN 0393328643 (0-393-32864-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Great And Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story Of The Expulsion Of The French Acadians From Their American Homelandby John MacK FaragherISBN 0393328279 (0-393-32827-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Have You Seen the Birdsby Joanne Oppenheim, Barbara ReidISBN 0590270303 (0-590-27030-3)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Idoruby William GibsonISBN 0425158640 (0-425-15864-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Idoru'Book summary:Colin Laney is a data analyst with a talent for seeing patterns, or nodes, as he calls them, in the flow of information that is cyberspace. Chia McKenzie is a young member of the fan club for the Japanese pop supergroup Lo/Rez. When a rumour involving the lead singer of Lo/Rez and an idoru, a Japanese virtual-reality singing idol, brings both Laney and Chia to Tokyo, the resulting web of events involves Russian criminals, Japanese schoolgirls, and illegal nanotechnology. And it's all set in a Tokyo that is literally growing and changing around the characters, rising from the rubble of a major earthquake.
Idoru is not William Gibson's best novel, but it is a good example of his primary strength: creating worlds that don't so much show the future as expose the world we already live in, a world of computers, information, mega-corporations, pop art, tabloids, and rock & roll. Idoru works not only on its own terms but also as a set-up for Gibson's next novel, All Tomorrow's Parties. Gibson broadens his perspective by including a wider range of characters than in his earlier novels, but mainly Idoru moves Gibson's work forward by pushing further into his familiar territory. It is the work not of a writer who is discovering new topics, but of one who is re-examining his old ones, bringing greater depth and maturity to his art in the process. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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The Incredible Journeyby Sheila BurnfordISBN 0440226708 (0-440-22670-8)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Incredible Journey'Book summary:Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness. Separately, they would soon have died. But, together, the three house pets faced starvation, exposure, and wild forest animals to make their way home to the family they love. The Incredible Journey is one of the great children's stories of all time--and has been popular ever since its debut in 1961. [via]
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Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Incredible Journey: ISBN 0553274422 (0-553-27442-2)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books - Incredible Journey: ISBN 0553058746 (0-553-05874-6)
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Industrial Magic: Library Editionby Kelley ArmstrongISBN 0553587072 (0-553-58707-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Industrial Magic: Library Edition'Book summary:Meet the smart, sexy supernatural women of the otherworld. This is not your mothers coven...
Kelley Armstrong returns with the eagerly awaited follow-up to Dime Store Magic. Paige Winterbourne, a headstrong young woman haunted by a dark legacy, is now put to the ultimate test as she fights to save innocents from the most insidious evil of all.. . .
In the aftermath of her mothers murder, Paige broke with the elite, ultraconservative American Coven of Witches. Now her goal is to start a new Coven for a new generation. But while Paige pitches her vision to uptight thirty-something witches in business suits, a more urgent matter commands her attention.
Someone is murdering the teenage offspring of the underworlds most influential Cabals a circle of families that makes the mob look like amateurs. And none is more powerful than the Cortez Cabal, a faction Paige is intimately acquainted with. Lucas Cortez, the rebel son and unwilling heir, is none other than her boyfriend. But love isnt blind, and Paige has her eyes wide open as she is drawn into a hunt for an unnatural-born killer. Pitted against shamans, demons, and goons, its a battle chilling enough to make a wild young woman grow up in a hurry. If she gets the chance. [via]More editions of Industrial Magic: Library Edition:
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The Iowa Baseball Confederacyby W.P. KinsellaISBN 0395389526 (0-395-38952-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iowa Baseball Confederacy'Book summary:Gideon Clarke is a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world, as his father tried before him, that the world-champion Chicago Cubs traveled to Onamata, Iowa, in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against all-stars from the Iowa Baseball Confederacy, an amateur league. The game, which was to be short, pleasant, and, the Cubs thought, one-sided, turned into a titanic battle of over two thousand innings, played mostly in the pouring rain. This game is not on the record books. No one remembers it or the Confederacy. But Gideon Clarke knows it happened, and he is determined to set the record straight. [via]
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The Joy of Writing: A Guide for Writers, Disguised as a Literary Memoirby Pierre BertonISBN 0385659970 (0-385-65997-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joy of Writing: A Guide for Writers, Disguised as a Literary Memoir'Book summary:Pierre Berton's The Joy of Writing is a joy to read. Breezy, humourous, and surprisingly blunt in its appraisal of the author's own shortcomings--right down to a savage critique of an early draft of The Mysterious North by Berton's editor--the book feels like a return to form, especially on the heels of the curveball that was Cats I Have Known and Loved. Yet as its subtitle suggests, the book is intended as much for students of Berton's work as those yearning for a professional writing career. Berton scavenges his bibliography for examples of dos and don'ts, and fans of titles like Klondike, Vimy, and The Last Spike are rewarded with juicy insights into his inimitable research process, his labyrinthine filing system, and how exactly he makes long-dead politicians seem so darn interesting. Berton even includes sample pages of early drafts and other tidbits, some in his own hand. But whether his 30 rules for triumphant nonfiction writing--which form the book's narrative arc--will transform wannabes into winners is debatable. Really, you've either got it or you don't, as any beleaguered editor will attest. Still, Berton's tips--"know and understand your audience," "don't give up your day job," "read some good stuff before you begin," "don't use a ten-dollar word when a 50 cent one will do"--are sound. And with some exceptions (how to handle an autograph session for instance) they're universal enough to be relevant to everyone from students to secretaries. In fact, The Joy of Writing celebrates one of its own tenets--"master the art of recycling"--a necessary skill for an author who is as wildly prolific and versatile as Berton. --Kim Hughes [via]
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The Keeper of the Isis Lightby Monica HughesISBN 0553233211 (0-553-23321-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899by Pierre BertonISBN 0385658443 (0-385-65844-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885by Pierre BertonISBN 0385658419 (0-385-65841-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Leavingby Budge WilsonISBN 0399218785 (0-399-21878-5)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchenby Kate TaylorISBN 0385658346 (0-385-65834-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
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Mulengroby Charles De LintISBN 0441544843 (0-441-54484-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The New Baby Calfby Barbara Reid, Edith Newlin ChaseISBN 0590404571 (0-590-40457-1)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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No Coins, Pleaseby Gordon KormanISBN 0590442082 (0-590-44208-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Omnifixby Scott MacKayISBN 0451459601 (0-451-45960-1)
Softcover, Roc
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Our Man Westonby Gordon KormanISBN 0590437550 (0-590-43755-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Book Service
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Past Reason Hatedby Peter RobinsonISBN 0425144895 (0-425-14489-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Past Reason Hated'Book summary:In the fifth novel of the British detective series, Chief Inspector Alan Banks explores the turbulent life of a cafe manager and amateur actress who becomes the victim of a crime of passion. Reprint. AB. K. NYT. PW. [via]
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Petty Details of So-And-So Lifeby Camilla GibbISBN 0385658036 (0-385-65803-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Salt Roadsby Nalo HopkinsonISBN 0446677132 (0-446-67713-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Sand Castle Contestby Robert Munsch, Michael MartchenkoISBN 0439748658 (0-439-74865-8)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Scotchby John Kenneth GalbraithISBN 0395393825 (0-395-39382-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Selected Works of Jack Londonby Jack LondonISBN 0517053594 (0-517-05359-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Shakespeare's Dogby Leon RookeISBN 0394530314 (0-394-53031-4)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Skin Folkby Nalo HopkinsonISBN 0446678031 (0-446-67803-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skin Folk'Book summary:Award-winning author Nalo Hopkinson's first collection is Skin Folk, and its 15 stories are as strong and beautiful as her novels.
"The Glass Bottle Trick" retells the Bluebeard legend in a Caribbean setting and rhythms, for a sharp, chilling examination of love, gender, race, and class. In the myth-tinged "Money Tree," a Canadian immigrant's greed sends him back to Jamaica in pursuit of an accursed pirate treasure. In "Slow Cold Chick," a woman must confront the deadly cockatrice that embodies her suppressed desires. In the postapocalyptic science fantasy "Under Glass," events in one world affect those in another, and a child's carelessness may doom them both. The lightest of fantastic imagery touches "Fisherman," a tropically hot tale of sexual awakening, and one of the five original stories in Skin Folk. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Testamentby Nino RicciISBN 0385658540 (0-385-65854-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
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There Will Be Wolvesby Karleen BradfordISBN 0525675396 (0-525-67539-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Under the Volcanoby Malcolm LowryISBN 0451132130 (0-451-13213-0)
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Warchildby Karin LowacheeISBN 0446610771 (0-446-61077-1)
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The Way We Areby Margaret VisserISBN 0571198856 (0-571-19885-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way We Are'Book summary:In his foreword to Margaret Visser's The Way We Are, John Fraser offers definitions for a new coinage. "Visserism: A concise anthropological insight; an entertainment in which points are made by identifying and skewering absurdities; the doctrine that all scholarship exists to prove that life is rich, funny and meaningful." Fraser edits Saturday Night magazine, which hired Visser in 1988 to write a column called "The Way We Are." The book of the same name collects 60 of these pithy essays, teeming with Visserisms, that explore the cultural significance of everyday objects and phenomena such as jelly, offal, high heels, beards, baked beans, the colour red, tap-dancing, sour tastes, wigs, and the Easter bunny.
Visser traces her interest in "the anthropology of everyday life" to a plastic packet of mustard she encountered when she first arrived in North America from Britain in 1964. She and her companion "sat and looked at the mustard missile, and knew that we had reached a foreign place, an unpredictable and infinitely weird environment." Since then, Visser has produced a string of best-selling, award-winning books including Much Depends on Dinner, The Rituals of Dinner, and The Geometry of Love, "focusing on small humble objects" to "tease out of them philosophies, choices, prejudices, causes, contradictions, tragedies, absurdities." Thus, in The Way We Are Visser re-envisions the heart--"a terrifying, bloody, pumping muscle that throbs and shudders inside us"--as a "multivalent metaphor": seat of courage for the ancient Greeks, of compassion for the modern North American, something that can be, depending on circumstances, "in the right place," "broken," "eaten out" or "worn on the sleeve." She exposes Santa Claus as a phallic symbol: "dressed in red, coming down the chimney, and leaving a present in the stocking." And in chewing gum she sees "an arresting symbol of modernity": "gum is cud-like and primitive, yet it is now impeccably technological." --Russell Prather [via]
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White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 0439236193 (0-439-23619-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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White Fang and Call of the Wildby Jack LondonISBN 0451525582 (0-451-52558-2)
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The World According to Garpby John IrvingISBN 0525237704 (0-525-23770-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World According to Garp'Book summary:"Garp was a natural storyteller," says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. "He could make things up one right after the other, and they seemed to fit."
Irving packs wild characters and weird events into his classic--officially recognized as such in a Modern Library edition with a new introduction by the author--while amazingly maintaining the rough feel of realism in every scene and the pulse of life in every heart. Many novelists of his time might have populated a novel with a novelist protagonist whose life and books comment on each other and the novel we're reading. Transsexual football players, ball turret gunners lobotomized in battle, multiple adultery, unicycling bears, mad feminists who amputate their tongues in sympathy with the celebrated victim of a horrifying rape--Irving made them all people. Even the bear is a fitting character.
In a crucial episode, Garp's wife's seduction of a young man coincidentally occurs at the moment when Garp is delighting their young sons with a reckless car trick (one of the few scenes beautifully, eerily, heartbreakingly captured in the film version as well). Many authors would have been content with the harsh comedy of the scene, but Irving respects its integrity, and he builds the rest of the book on the consequences of the event. How does he get away with his killer cocktail of slapstick and horror? Because it's simply what we all face daily, rearranged into soul-satisfying art. "Life is an X-rated soap opera," according to Garp, and who can contradict him?
Rereading Garp 20 years later, one is struck by how elegantly Irving structures his bizarre and complex story. Take the two most celebrated bits in the book, the Under Toad and Garp's story "The Pension Grillparzer," which shimmers like an exquisite Kafkaesque insect in the amber of the novel. When Garp warns his son about the "undertow" at the beach, the boy imagines a monster out of Beowulf who lurks beneath the waves to suck you under: the "Under Toad." It's funny at first, but we soon find that the Under Toad is a metaphor with teeth--he connects with a prophetic dream of death in "The Pension Grillparzer," set in Vienna. Garp's son's last words are, "It's like a dream!" And as Irving--who studied at the University of Vienna--can certainly tell you, the German word for "death" sounds precisely like the English word "toad."
All that death, and yet Garp is mainly exuberant. This story is, as Garp's stuttering writing teacher puts it, "rich with lu-lu-lunacy and sorrow." It enriches literature, and our lives. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Wreckage: A Novelby Michael CrummeyISBN 038566060X (0-385-66060-X)
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