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The Advancement of Learningby Francis Bacon, Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0375758461 (0-375-75846-1)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Advancement of Learning'Book summary:While he didn't exactly invent science, Francis Bacon is its best-known early promoter. The Advancement of Learning is his 1605 argument in favour of natural philosophy and inductive reasoning, and is just as vigorous and cogent today. Though using the language of Shakespeare, the book is still largely accessible to modern readers--still, a bit of classical knowledge is helpful. Shaking off the centuries-old domination of Aristotle, Bacon advocated building scientific theories on facts and observations rather than pure reason; little has changed in our approach to understanding the world since then. Of greatest interest to historians and philosophers of science, the book will also appeal to those curious about the underpinnings of today's naturalistic thinking. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Almayer's Follyby Joseph Conrad, Peter Lancelot Mallios, Nadine GordimerISBN 0375760148 (0-375-76014-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Animals' Merry Christmasby Kathryn B. Jackson, Richard ScarryISBN 0375833412 (0-375-83341-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Animals' Merry Christmas'Book summary:Golden Books is proud to reissue this beloved Christmas collection, chock-full of funny animal stories and poems. This oversize format features Scarrys earlier, more painterly style and makes a perfect gift. A true holiday treat for Scarry fans! [via]
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Appointment in Samarraby John O'HaraISBN 0375719202 (0-375-71920-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Appointment in Samarra'Book summary:A twentieth-century classic, Appointment in Samarra is the first and most widely read book by the writer Fran Leibowitz called the real F. Scott Fitzgerald.
In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville social circuit is electrified with parties and dances, where the music plays late into the night and the liquor flows freely. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline Englishthe envy of friends and strangers alike. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction. Appointment in Samarra brilliantly captures the personal politics and easy bitterness of small-town life. It is John OHaras crowning achievement, and a lasting testament to the keen social intelligence of a major American novelist. [via]More editions of Appointment in Samarra:
Bilbo's Last Song: (at the Grey Havens)by J. R. R. Tolkien, Pauline BaynesISBN 0375823735 (0-375-82373-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Black No Moreby George S. SchuylerISBN 037575380X (0-375-75380-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black No More'Book summary:This satirical Harlem Renaissance-era novel by black conservative intellectual George S. Schuyler (1895-1977), who wrote for the Pittsburgh Courier and contributed to the NAACP's influential Crisis magazine, is a hilariously insightful treatise on the absurdities of racial identity. Dr. Junius Crookman, a Harlem-based African American physician, mysteriously returns from Germany with a formula that can transform black people into whites. "It looked," Schuyler deadpans, "as though science was to succeed where the Civil War failed." One of the first to enlist Dr. Crookman's services is an insurance salesman named Max Disher, who as the white Matthew Fisher is now free to pursue the white women who once rejected him and otherwise bask in Euro-American social privilege (including a top position in a hate group called the Knights of Nordica). Schuyler unveils the futility of this electro-chemical form of "passing" through the emptiness the Disher/Fisher character encounters in the white cultural world, which doesn't measure up to the Harlem nightlife--revealing the poison behind the notion of wanting to be something you're not. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Born Freeby Joy AdamsonISBN 0375714383 (0-375-71438-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Born Free'Book summary:First published in 1960 and closely followed by a hit movie of the same name, Joy Adamson's now classic memoir Born Free continues to introduce countless young people to the wildlife of Africa. Adamson recounts her adventures as the surrogate mother of an orphaned lion cub named Elsa (with parenting duties shared by her husband George and by a delightfully imperturbable rock hyrax named Pati), whom she raised as a welcome member of her human and animal family while painstakingly teaching Elsa the skills she would need to survive in the wild. Her teaching, against all odds, was effective: three years later, the Adamsons took Elsa to a place near that of her birth and set her loose, hoping that she would find her "real pride" among other lions of the Kenya grasslands--as she soon did.
Long targeted to preteen readers, Born Free is in fact a sophisticated work of environmental consciousness-raising, for Joy Adamson believed that any relationship between humans and wild animals had to be conditioned by an attitude "of absolute equality quite different from that between a dog and his master." Although Elsa's story had an ultimately tragic ending--the young lioness died of disease and, in separate incidents, Joy and George Adamson were both murdered--Joy Adamson's book continues to instruct and entertain readers of all ages. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang, & to Build a Fireby Jack LondonISBN 037575251X (0-375-75251-X)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild, White Fang, & to Build a Fire'Book summary:Fiction U.S.A. $7.95
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To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world," E. L. Doctorow wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Generally considered to be London's greatest achievement, The Call of the Wild brought him international acclaim when it was published in 1903. His story of the dog Buck, who learns to survive in the bleak Yukon wilderness, is viewed by many as his symbolic autobiography. "No other popular writer of his time did any better writing than you will find in The Call of the Wild," said H. L. Mencken. "Here, indeed, are all the elements of sound fiction."
White Fang (1906), which London conceived as a "complete antithesis and companion piece to The Call of the Wild," is the tale of an abused wolf-dog tamed by exposure to civilization. Also included in this volume is "To Build a Fire," a marvelously desolate short story set in the Klondike, but containing all the elements of a classic Greek tragedy.
"The quintessential Jack London is in the on-rushing compulsive-ness of his northern stories," noted James Dickey. "Few men have more convincingly examined the connection between the creative powers of the individual writer and the unconscious drive to breed and to survive, found in the natural world. . . . London is in and committed to his creations to a degree very nearly unparalleled in the composition of fiction." [via]More editions of The Call of the Wild, White Fang, & to Build a Fire:
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The Cat in the Hat Comes Backby Dr. SeussISBN 0375875387 (0-375-87538-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat in the Hat Comes Back'Book summary:That behatted and bow-tied cat from Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat is back, and, not surprisingly, is up to all sorts of mischief. This time, Sally and her brother are stuck shoveling snow: "This was no time for play./ This was no time for fun./ This was no time for games./ There was work to be done." But--you guessed it--the laughing Hat Cat has other ideas, as he lets himself in to eat cake in their tub. He leaves behind "a big long pink cat ring," which he then handily cleans with "MOTHER'S WHITE DRESS!" The dress then loses its pink stain to the wall, then Dad's shoes, then the rug in the hall, until finally the Cat must call in some assistance: from inside his hat comes Little Cat A, then Littler Cats B, C, D, E, and so on, nested like dolls in ever tinier hats. With this pack of felines, Sally and her brother may get rid of those stains, but they'll likely never be rid of that rascally cat. As should be expected from the good doctor, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back provides an excellent reader (and alphabet primer) for those just learning, not to mention ample laughs for everyone else. (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Charioteer: A Novelby Mary RenaultISBN 0375714189 (0-375-71418-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Charioteer: A Novel'Book summary:After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly. As they find solace and companionship together in the idyllic surroundings of the hospital, their friendship blooms into a discreet, chaste romance. Then one day, Ralph Lanyon, a mentor from Lauries schoolboy days, suddenly reappears in Lauries life, and draws him into a tight-knit social circle of world-weary gay men. Laurie is forced to choose between the sweet ideals of innocence and the distinct pleasures of experience.
Originally published in the United States in 1959, The Charioteer is a bold, unapologetic portrayal of male homosexuality during World War II that stands with Gore Vidals The City and the Pillar and Christopher Isherwoods Berlin Stories as a monumental work in gay literature. [via]More editions of The Charioteer: A Novel:
Childhood, Boyhood and Youthby Leo Tolstoy, Michael ScammellISBN 0375759441 (0-375-75944-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0375758887 (0-375-75888-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:An immediate bestseller when it was first published in December 1843, A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial Yuletide favorite. Charles Dickens's beloved tale about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who comes to know the meaning of kindness, charity, and goodwill through a haunting Christmas Eve encounter with four ghosts, is a heartwarming celebration of the spirit of Christmas.
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition also includes two other popular Christmas stories by Dickens: The Chimes,in which a man, persuaded by hypocritical cant that the poor deserve their misery, is shown what his pessimistic resignation might lead to in a vision conjured by the pealing of bells, and The Haunted Man, Dickens's last Christmas tale, which features one of his great comic families, the Tetterbys. [via]More editions of A Christmas Carol:
Cinderella - As If You Didn't Already Know the Story: As If Everyone Does Not Already Know the Story of Cinderellaby Barbara EnsorISBN 0375836209 (0-375-83620-9)
Hardcover, Schwartz & Wade Books
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A Color of His Ownby Leo LionniISBN 0375810919 (0-375-81091-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Color of His Own'Book summary:Every animal has a color of its own. "Parrots are green, elephants are gray, pigs are pink." But chameleons change color wherever they go. "On lemons they are yellow. In the heather they are purple." One chameleon is not pleased with his changeable appearance. He thinks, "If I remain on a leaf, I shall be green forever, and so I too will have a color of my own." Of course, what he doesn't take into account is the changes wrought by autumn, and soon the green chameleon is yellow, then red, and then tumbled to the ground for the long black winter night. It isn't until he befriends another older, wiser chameleon that our hero begins to find inner peace, even as his outer surface is transformed again and again.
Leo Lionni, children's book creator extraordinaire, author of such beloved picture books as Frederick, Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, Swimmy, and Inch by Inch, all Caldecott Honor winners, introduces color concepts in an exquisite and touching story. This small board book edition of the classic tale of self-acceptance and friendship will be a favorite for toddlers and parents alike. (Baby to preschool) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Common Sense and Other Writingsby Thomas Paine, Gordon S. WoodISBN 0375760113 (0-375-76011-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donneby John Donne, Charles M. CoffinISBN 0375757341 (0-375-75734-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her," and "To His Mistris Going to Bed." Presented as well are Donne's satires, epigrams, verse letters, and holy sonnets, along with his most ambitious and important poems, the Anniversaries. In addition, there is a generous sampling of Donne's prose, including many of his private letters; Ignatius His Conclave, a satiric onslaught on the Jesuits; excerpts from Biathanatos, his celebrated defense of suicide; and his most famous sermons, concluding with the final "Death's Duell." "We have only to read [Donne]," wrote Virginia Woolf, "to submit to the sound of that passionate and penetrating voice, and his figure rises again across the waste of the years more erect, more imperious, more inscrutable than any of his time." [via]More editions of The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne:
Crossing to Safetyby Wallace Earle Stegner, Watkins, T. H. (AFT), Terry Tempest WilliamsISBN 037575931X (0-375-75931-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Dawnby Elie WieselISBN 0380011328 (0-380-01132-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Democracy: An American Novelby Henry Adams, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 037576058X (0-375-76058-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernicanby Galileo Galilei, Stillman Drake, Albert Einstein, J. L. HeilbronISBN 037575766X (0-375-75766-X)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican'Book summary:Galileos Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the earth revolves around the sun. Its influence is incalculable. The Dialogue is not only one of the most important scientific treatises ever written, but a work of supreme clarity and accessibility, remaining as readable now as when it was first published. This edition uses the definitive text established by the University of California Press, in Stillman Drakes translation, and includes a Foreword by Albert Einstein and a new Introduction by J. L. Heilbron. [via]
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The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth and Other Storiesby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0380011468 (0-380-01146-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Dr. Bloodmoneyby Philip K. DickISBN 0375719296 (0-375-71929-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Bloodmoney'Book summary:Dr. Bloodmoney is a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dicks most memorable characters: Hoppy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers; Walt Dangerfield, a selfless disc jockey stranded in a satellite circling the globe; Dr. Bluthgeld, the megalomaniac physicist largely responsible for the decimated state of the world; and Stuart McConchie and Bonnie Keller, two unremarkable people bent the survival of goodness in a world devastated by evil. Epic and alluring, this brilliant novel is a mesmerizing depiction of Dicks undying hope in humanity. [via]
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Edwardiansby Vita Sackville-WestISBN 0380003260 (0-380-00326-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edwardians'Book summary:It is July 1905, Chevron is the site of a lavish house party. The guests include Lady Roehampton, a great beauty and seductress, and the explorer Leonard Anquetil. It is Lady Roehampton who will initiate Sebastian in the art of love, but it is Anquetil, rough but humane, who opens for both brother and sister the gateway to another world. [via]
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Enduranceby Alfred LansingISBN 0380006707 (0-380-00670-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Endurance'Book summary:You can't really fail with a book about the Endurance. Although Ernest Shackleton's attempt to make the first Trans-Antarctic crossing barely made it out of base camp, his expedition has gone into the history books as one of the great epics of polar travel. Endurance left England in August 1914 and reached the pack-ice off Antarctica in January the following year. It sank in November, crushed by the weight of the ice, leaving Shackleton and his 27 men stranded in one of the most desolate areas of the world with no hope of rescue. Undaunted, Shackleton led his team to the edge of the ice, dragging three open life-boats that had been salvaged from the Endurance every step of the way. They then sailed to Elephant Island, a remote uninhabited outcrop of rock, where they lived off penguins and seagull. By April 1916, Shackleton realised there was no chance of them being spotted by a passing ship and he and five men set sail in the open-decked 20-foot boat, the James Caird, across 650 miles of the stormiest seas of the southern oceans for South Georgia. After narrowly surviving being shipwrecked on the reefs surrounding the western coast of South Georgia, Shackleton then proceeded to make the first-ever crossing of the mountainous island before reaching the sanctuary of the whaling station at Stromness. And it was Shackleton, in person, who led the rescue mission to Elephant Island to pick up the rest of his men. Miraculously, all 28 men survived.
Alfred Lansing's book, first published in 1957, tells it as it was. He draws heavily on the diaries and other first-person memoirs of those involved, and he writes with both style and pace. As such it is the classic tale of derring-do. What Lansing misses, though, is the social context. He provides little sense of history; in August 1914, when the Endurance left England, World War One was starting. By the time he returned home two years later, thousands of young men of his generation were lying dead on the battlefields of the Somme. The contrast is almost unbearable but Lansing makes nothing of it. Similarly he does not explain how someone like Scott, whose South Pole expedition several years earlier had been an unmitigated disaster of incompetence and bad planning, should go down in British history as one of our all-time heroes, while Shackleton, whose exploits were indeed truly heroic, has lived for so long in Scott's shadow. --John Crace [via]
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The Essential Playsby Michael Henry Heim, Anton ChekhovISBN 0375761349 (0-375-76134-9)
Softcover, Modern Library
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Ethan Frome and Summerby Edith Wharton, Elizabeth StroutISBN 0375757287 (0-375-75728-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome and Summer'Book summary:This edition presents Wharton's two most controversial stories, which she considered inseperable, in one volume for the first time. Set in frigid New England, both deal with sexual awakening and appetite and their devastating consequences. This text includes newly commissioned notes. [via]
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Fantastic Mr. Foxby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0375822070 (0-375-82207-0)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'Book summary:In the tradition of The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, this is a "garden tale" of farmer versus vermin, or vice versa. The farmers in this case are a vaguely criminal team of three stooges: "Boggis and Bunce and Bean / One fat, one short, one lean. / These horrible crooks / So different in looks / Were nonetheless equally mean." Whatever their prowess as poultry farmers, within these pages their sole objective is the extermination of our hero--the noble, the clever, the Fantastic Mr. Fox. Our loyalties are defined from the start; after all, how could you cheer for a man named Bunce who eats his doughnuts stuffed with mashed goose livers? As one might expect, the farmers in this story come out smelling like ... well, what farmers occasionally do smell like.
This early Roald Dahl adventure is great for reading aloud to three- to seven-year-olds, who will be delighted to hear that Mr. Fox keeps his family one step ahead of the obsessed farmers. When they try to dig him out, he digs faster; when they lay siege to his den, he tunnels to where the farmers least expect him--their own larders! In the end, Mr. Fox not only survives, but also helps the whole community of burrowing creatures live happily ever after. With his usual flourish, Dahl evokes a magical animal world that, as children, we always knew existed, had we only known where or how to look for it. (Great read aloud for any age; written at a 9- to 12-year-old reading level) [via]
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Finn Family Moomintrollby Tove JanssonISBN 0380003503 (0-380-00350-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Fletchby Gregory McDonaldISBN 0375713549 (0-375-71354-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Hes an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently hes living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find to the source of the drugs they live for.
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Hes taking more than a little flack from his editor. She doesnt appreciate his style. Or the expense account items hes racking up. Or his definition of the word deadline. Or the divorce lawyers who keep showing up at the office.
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So when multimillionaire Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch the job of a lifetime, which could be worth a fortune, hes intrigued and decides to do a little investigation. What he discovers is that the proposition is anything but what it seems. [via]-
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamonby Jorge AmadoISBN 0380012057 (0-380-01205-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon'Book summary:One bright spring day in 1925, Gabriela arrives from the poverty-stricken backwoods of Brazil to the lively seaside port of IlhÉus amid a flock of filthy migrant workers. Though wearing rags and covered in dirt, she attracts the attention of Nacib, a cafe owner, who is in desperate need of a new cook. So dire is his situation that he hires the disheveled girl. The savvy young woman quickly proves to be an excellent chef and--once well-scrubbed and decently dressed--an eye-catching beauty. Nacib quickly finds himself the owner of the most prosperous business in town--and the employer of its most sought-after woman. One bright spring day in 1925, Gabriela arrives from the poverty-stricken backwoods of Brazil to the lively seaside port of IlhEus amid a flock of filthy migrant workers. Though wearing rags and covered in dirt, she attracts the attention of Nacib, a cafe owner, who is in desperate need of a new cook. So dire is his situation that he hires the disheveled girl. The savvy young woman quickly proves to be an excellent chef and --once well-scrubbed and decently dressed--an eye-catching beauty. Nacib quickly finds himself the owner of the most prosperous business in town--and the employer of its most sought-after woman. [via]
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Gates of the Forestby Elie WieselISBN 0380012065 (0-380-01206-5)
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Gaudy Nightby Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 0380012073 (0-380-01207-3)
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The Golden Egg Bookby Margaret Wise Brown, Leonard WeisgardISBN 037582717X (0-375-82717-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Egg Book'Book summary:Once there was a little bunny. He was all alone. One day he found an egg. He could hear something moving inside the egg. What was it?
So begins the Golden Easter classic about a bunnyand a little duck that is about to hatch! [via]More editions of The Golden Egg Book:
The Halloween Treeby Ray Bradbury, Joseph MugnainiISBN 0375803017 (0-375-80301-7)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Happy Birthday to You!by Dr. SeussISBN 0375823115 (0-375-82311-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Have His Carcaseby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0380009390 (0-380-00939-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Have His Carcase'Book summary:A young woman falls asleep on a deserted beach and wakes to discover the body of a man whose throat has been slashed from ear to ear ...The young woman is the celebrated detective novelist Harriet Vane, once again drawn against her will into a murder investigation in which she herself could be a suspect. Lord Peter Wimsey is only too eager to help her clear her name. 'She combined literary prose with powerful suspense, and it takes a rare talent to achieve that. A truly great storyteller.' Minette Walters [via]
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Hazard of New Fortunesby William Dean Howells, David J. Nordloh, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0375759271 (0-375-75927-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hazard of New Fortunes'Book summary:Centering on a conflict between a self-made millionaire and an idealistic reformer in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York, A Hazard of New Fortunes insightfully renders the complexities of the American experience at a time of great social and economic upheaval and transformation. In its depiction of wealth, poverty, and New York City life, it remains a strikingly contemporary work.
Reproduced here is the authoritative Indiana University Press Edition edited and annotated by David J. Nordloh, with full scholarly commentary and extensive textual apparatus. [via]More editions of Hazard of New Fortunes:
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History of the Conquest of Mexicoby James Lockhart, William H. PrescottISBN 0375758038 (0-375-75803-8)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Conquest of Mexico'Book summary:"It is a magnificent epic," said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico in 1843. Since then, his sweeping account of Cortés's subjugation of the Aztec people has endured as a landmark work of scholarship and dramatic storytelling. This pioneering study presents a compelling view of the clash of civilizations that reverberates in Latin America to this day.
"Regarded simply from the standpoint of literary criticism, the Conquest of Mexico is Prescott's masterpiece," judged his biographer Harry Thurston Peck. "More than that, it is one of the most brilliant examples which the English language possesses of literary art applied to historical narration. . . . Here, as nowhere else, has Prescott succeeded in delineating character. All the chief actors of his great historic drama not only live and breathe, but they are as distinctly differentiated as they must have been in life. Cortés and his lieutenants are persons whom we actually come to know in the pages of Pres-cott. . . . Over against these brilliant figures stands the melancholy form of Montezuma, around whom, even from the first, one feels gathering the darkness of his coming fate. He reminds one of some hero of Greek tragedy, doomed to destruction and intensely conscious of it, yet striving in vain against the decree of an inexorable destiny. . . . [Prescott] transmuted the acquisitions of laborious research into an enduring monument of pure literature."
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The House on the Strandby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 038000643X (0-380-00643-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House on the Strand'Book summary:One of Daphne Du Maurier's Cornish novels. Dick Young experiments with a new drug and is transported back to the 14th century. After witnessing the vivid life of the manor of Tywardreath, and becoming obsessed with the magnetic Isolda - he resents the time he must spend in the modern world. [via]
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Hungry Hillby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 038000044X (0-380-00044-X)
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The Iceman Comethby Eugene O'NeillISBN 0375709177 (0-375-70917-7)
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The Iron Giantby Ted Hughes, Andrew DavidsonISBN 0375801537 (0-375-80153-7)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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John Barleycornby Jack LondonISBN 0375757929 (0-375-75792-9)
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Lady Sings the Bluesby Billie HolidayISBN 0380004917 (0-380-00491-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Little Autoby Lois LenskiISBN 0375810730 (0-375-81073-0)
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Maggie, a Girl of the Streetsby Stephen CraneISBN 0375756892 (0-375-75689-2)
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The Man in the Mazeby Robert SilverbergISBN 0380001985 (0-380-00198-5)
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The Man Who Japedby Philip K. DickISBN 0375719350 (0-375-71935-0)
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Mediaby Noam Chomsky, Edward S. HermanISBN 0375714499 (0-375-71449-9)
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Mary Reillyby Valerie MartinISBN 0375725997 (0-375-72599-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Faithfully weaving in details from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Martin introduces an original and captivating character: Mary is a survivorscarred but still strongfamiliar with evil, yet brimming with devotion and love. As a bond grows between Mary and her tortured employer, she is sent on errands to unsavory districts of London and entrusted with secrets she would rather not know. Unable to confront her hideous suspicions about Dr. Jekyll, Mary ultimately proves the lengths to which she'll go to protect him. Through her astute reflections, we hear the rest of the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, and this familiar tale is made more terrifying than we remember it, more complex than we imagined possible. [via]More editions of Mary Reilly:
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The Monkey Wrench Gangby Edward AbbeyISBN 038000741X (0-380-00741-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Monkey Wrench Gang'Book summary:Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension of disbelief. The story centers on Vietnam veteran George Washington Hayduke III, who returns to the desert to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development. On a rafting trip down the Colorado River, Hayduke joins forces with feminist saboteur Bonnie Abbzug, wilderness guide Seldom Seen Smith, and billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., and together they wander off to wage war on the big yellow machines, on dam builders and road builders and strip miners. As they do, his characters voice Abbey's concerns about wilderness preservation ("Hell of a place to lose a cow," Smith thinks to himself while roaming through the canyonlands of southern Utah. "Hell of a place to lose your heart. Hell of a place... to lose. Period"). Moving from one improbable situation to the next, packing more adventure into the space of a few weeks than most real people do in a lifetime, the motley gang puts fear into the hearts of their enemies, laughing all the while. It's comic, yes, and required reading for anyone who has come to love the desert. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Monster at the End of This Bookby Jon Stone, Michael SmollinISBN 0375805613 (0-375-80561-3)
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Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - The Monster at the End of This Book: ISBN 0375805613 (0-375-80561-3)
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My Name Is Redby Orhan Pamuk, Erdag M. GoknarISBN 0375706852 (0-375-70685-2)
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The Mysterious Visitorby Julie CampbellISBN 0375825789 (0-375-82578-9)
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The Mysterious Visitorby Michael Koelsch, Julie Campbell, Mary StevensISBN 0375925783 (0-375-92578-3)
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Mystery in Arizonaby Julie CampbellISBN 0375927417 (0-375-92741-7)
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Mystery in Arizonaby Michael Koelsch, Julie Campbell, Mary StevensISBN 0375827412 (0-375-82741-2)
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National Parks of the WestISBN 0376055820 (0-376-05582-0)
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Novaby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0375706704 (0-375-70670-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nova'Book summary:Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor of the 32nd century. And since Illyrion is the element most needed for space travel, Lorq von Ray is plenty willing to fly through the core of a recently imploded sun in order to obtain seven tons of it. The potential for profit is so great that Lorq has little difficulty cobbling together an alluring crew that includes a gypsy musician and a moon-obsessed scholar interested in the ancient art of writing a novel. What the crew doesnt know, though, is that Lorqs quest is actually fueled by a private revenge so consuming that hell stop at nothing to achieve it. In the grandest manner of speculative fiction, Nova is a wise and witty classic that casts a fascinating new light on some of humanitys oldest truths and enduring myths. [via]
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Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulzby Charles M. Schulz, Geoff SpearISBN 0375714634 (0-375-71463-4)
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Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0375757295 (0-375-75729-5)
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The Practical Heartby Allan GurganusISBN 0375727639 (0-375-72763-9)
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark Twain, Christopher Paul CurtisISBN 0375761128 (0-375-76112-8)
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Ramonaby Helen H. JacksonISBN 038000383X (0-380-00383-X)
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Redburnby Herman Melville, Elizabeth HardwickISBN 0375760040 (0-375-76004-0)
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Revolutionary Roadby Richard YatesISBN 0375708448 (0-375-70844-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revolutionary Road'Book summary:The rediscovery and rejuvenation of Richard Yates's 1961 novel Revolutionary Road is due in large part to its continuing emotional and moral resonance for an early 21st-century readership. April and Frank Wheeler are a young, ostensibly thriving couple living with their two children in a prosperous Connecticut suburb in the mid-1950s. However, like the characters in John Updike's similarly themed Couples, the self-assured exterior masks a creeping frustration at their inability to feel fulfilled in their relationships or careers. Frank is mired in a well-paying but boring office job and April is a housewife still mourning the demise of her hoped-for acting career. Determined to identify themselves as superior to the mediocre sprawl of suburbanites who surround them, they decide to move to France where they will be better able to develop their true artistic sensibilities, free of the consumerist demands of capitalist America. As their relationship deteriorates into an endless cycle of squabbling, jealousy and recriminations, their trip and their dreams of self-fulfillment are thrown into jeopardy.
Yates's incisive, moving, and often very funny prose weaves a tale that is at once a fascinating period piece and a prescient anticipation of the way we live now. Many of the cultural motifs seem quaintly dated--the early-evening cocktails, Frank's illicit lunch breaks with his secretary, the way Frank isn't averse to knocking April around when she speaks out of turn--and yet the quiet desperation at thwarted dreams reverberates as much now as it did years ago. Like F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, this novel conveys, with brilliant erudition, the exacting cost of chasing the American dream. --Jane Morris, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Rise of Theodore Rooseveltby Edmund MorrisISBN 0375756787 (0-375-75678-7)
Softcover, Modern Library
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Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymesby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0375815562 (0-375-81556-2)
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You dont. The real ones much more gory.
The phoney one, the one you know,
Was cooked up years and years ago. . . .
With his famous wicked humor and the cunning of a big bad wolf, master storyteller and satirist Roald Dahl retells his six favorite fairy tales. Get ready for Dahls diabolical version of what really happened to Cinderella, Goldilocks, the Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White, and Little Red Riding Hood.
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: A Colorful Holidayby Golden Books, Linda KarlISBN 0375825304 (0-375-82530-4)
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Samuel Pepysby Claire TomalinISBN 0375725539 (0-375-72553-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Samuel Pepys'Book summary:For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist in the English language.
Against the backdrop of plague, civil war, and regicide, with John Milton composing diplomatic correspondence for Oliver Cromwell, Christopher Wren drawing up plans to rebuild London, and Isaac Newton advancing the empirical study of the world around us, Tomalin weaves a breathtaking account of a figure who has passed on to us much of what we know about seventeenth-century London. We witness Pepyss early life and education, see him advising King Charles II before running to watch the great fire consume London, learn about the great events of the day as well as the most intimate personal details that Pepys encrypted in the Diary, follow him through his later years as a powerful naval administrator, and come to appreciate how Pepyss singular literary enterprise would in many ways prefigure our modern selves. With exquisite insight and compassion, Samuel Pepys captures the uniquely fascinating figure whose legacy lives on more than three hundred years after his death. [via]More editions of Samuel Pepys:
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millayby Nancy MilfordISBN 0375760814 (0-375-76081-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay'Book summary:Fans of Zelda, Nancy Milford's groundbreaking (and bestselling) biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald's tortured wife and muse, have been waiting impatiently since 1970 for Milford's promised follow-up about poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). It's finally here, and they will not be disappointed. Milford's vivid narrative limns an electric personality with psychological acuity while capturing the freewheeling atmosphere of America in the turbulent years following World War I. After "Renascence" was published (when she was only 20) and she moved to Greenwich Village, Millay was the queen of bohemia, taking lovers with zest and voicing the reckless gaiety of a generation in her famous lyric, "My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends-- / It gives a lovely light." With her flame-red hair, milk-white skin, and a voice that thrilled audiences (making her poetry readings a welcome source of income), Millay was the archetypal "new woman": powerful, passionate, and not to be ignored. But Milford makes it clear that her first loyalty was to her mother and sisters, and her deepest commitment to her writing. This juicy chronicle has famous names aplenty--critic Edmund Wilson and Masses editor Floyd Dell were among the men devastated by her refusal to be faithful--and lots of dissipation: Millay drank heavily and became addicted to morphine. It also takes a perceptive look at how an artist draws material from her life and at the strategies she uses to protect the wellsprings of creativity. Brief passages interspersed throughout delineating Milford's interactions with Norma Millay, the poet's younger sister and literary executor, might have been self-indulgent and self-aggrandizing; instead they offer intriguing snapshots of the complex process by which biography is made. The resulting book is a tour de force, and wildly entertaining as well. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame: The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas Of All Time Chosen By The Members Of The Science Fiction Writers Of Americaby Ben BovaISBN 0380000547 (0-380-00054-7)
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Scuffy the Tugboatby Gertrude Crampton, Tibor GergelyISBN 0375875379 (0-375-87537-9)
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Selected Dialogues of Platoby Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Hayden PellicciaISBN 0375758402 (0-375-75840-2)
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The Simulacraby Philip K. DickISBN 0375719261 (0-375-71926-1)
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knightby W.S. MerwinISBN 0375709924 (0-375-70992-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'Book summary:A splendid new translation of the classic Arthurian tale of enchantment, adventure, and romance, presented alongside the original Middle English text.
It is the height of Christmas and New Years revelry when an enormous knight with brilliant green clothes and skin descends upon King Arthurs court. He presents a sinister challenge: he will endure a blow of the axe to his neck without offering any resistance, but whoever gives the blow must promise to take the same in exactly a year and a days time. The young Sir Gawain quickly rises to the challenge, and the poem tells of the adventures he findsan almost irresistible seduction, shockingly brutal hunts, and terrifyingly powerful villainsas he endeavors to fulfill his promise.
Capturing the pace, impact, and richly alliterative language of the original text, W. S. Merwin has imparted a new immediacy to a spellbinding narrative, written centuries ago by a poet whose name is now unknown, lost to time. Of the Green Knight, Merwin notes in his foreword: We seem to recognize himhis splendor, the awe that surrounds him, his menace and his gracewithout being able to place him . . . We will never know who the Green Knight is except in our own response to him.
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Snowmanby Raymond BriggsISBN 0375810676 (0-375-81067-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snowman'Book summary:Who needs words to tell a story? In Raymond Briggs's charming tale, told with 175 softly hued, artfully composed frames, a little boy makes friends with a snowman. He wakes up on a snowy day, tells his mother he's going outside, then begins a flurry of snowman-building. That night, he can't sleep, so he opens the front door and lo! the snowman has come to life. The amiable yet frosty fellow enjoys his tour of the boy's cozy home; he admires the cat, but is disturbed by the fire. The boy shows him other wonders--the TV and a lamp and running water. Predictably perhaps, he is disturbed by the stove, but likes ice cubes quite a bit. Soon it is the snowman's turn to introduce the boy to his wintry world. They join hands, rise up into the blizzardy air--presumably over Russia and into the Middle East--and then safely back to home sweet home. The boy pops into bed before his parents get up... but when he wakes up the next morning he races outside only to find his new buddy's melted remains, scattered with a few forlorn lumps of coal. Since the book is wordless, you can make up any ending you want... like "Then, in a puff of pink smoke, the snowman recomposed himself and went to live in the boy's garage freezer." Or you could just resign yourself to a peaceful "And that was that." Raymond Briggs's The Snowman won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and this wintertime classic continues to win the hearts of kids every year. (Preschool and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Snowman Shaped Board Bookby Raymond BriggsISBN 0375800859 (0-375-80085-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Snowman Shaped Board Book'Book summary:Who needs words to tell a story? In Raymond Briggs's charming tale, told with 175 softly hued, artfully composed frames, a little boy makes friends with a snowman. He wakes up on a snowy day, tells his mother he's going outside, then begins a flurry of snowman-building. That night, he can't sleep, so he opens the front door and lo! the snowman has come to life. The amiable yet frosty fellow enjoys his tour of the boy's cozy home; he admires the cat, but is disturbed by the fire. The boy shows him other wonders--the TV and a lamp and running water. Predictably perhaps, he is disturbed by the stove, but likes ice cubes quite a bit. Soon it is the snowman's turn to introduce the boy to his wintry world. They join hands, rise up into the blizzardy air--presumably over Russia and into the Middle East--and then safely back to home sweet home. The boy pops into bed before his parents get up... but when he wakes up the next morning he races outside only to find his new buddy's melted remains, scattered with a few forlorn lumps of coal. Since the book is wordless, you can make up any ending you want... like "Then, in a puff of pink smoke, the snowman recomposed himself and went to live in the boy's garage freezer." Or you could just resign yourself to a peaceful "And that was that." Raymond Briggs's The Snowman won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and this wintertime classic continues to win the hearts of kids every year. (Preschool and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Tales Of Terror From Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan Poe, Michael McCurdyISBN 0375833056 (0-375-83305-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales Of Terror From Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Six of Poes most macabre tales are presented in this powerfully illustrated edition that comes with an unabridged CD narration of four of the shorter tales. The classic tales included on the 75 minute CD and read by Edward Blake are The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Cask of Amontillado. The two longer tales in the collection are the heart-stopping The Pit and the Pendulum and the chilling The Fall of the House of Usher. In addition to his striking woodcut-type illustrations, Michael McCurdy has written fascinating headnotes about the origin of each tale and an introduction about Poe. [via]
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Tales, Poems, and Other Writingsby Herman Melville, John BryantISBN 0375757120 (0-375-75712-0)
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The Temptation of Saint Anthonyby Gustave Flaubert, Michel Foucault, Lafcadio HearnISBN 0375759123 (0-375-75912-3)
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Theophilus Northby Thornton WilderISBN 0380001608 (0-380-00160-8)
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Travels in Alaskaby John Muir, Edward HoaglandISBN 0375760490 (0-375-76049-0)
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Trixie Belden the Red Trailer Mysteryby Julie Campbell, Michael Koelsch, Mary StevensISBN 0375824111 (0-375-82411-1)
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Turn of the Screw and in the Cageby Henry James, Hortense CalisherISBN 0375757406 (0-375-75740-6)
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The Ugly Ducklingby Kevin Crossley-Holland, Meilo So, Hans Christian AndersenISBN 0375813195 (0-375-81319-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ugly Duckling'Book summary:A timeless story deftly retold, this adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling shines under the storytelling skills of Carnegie-winner Kevin Crossley-Holland (The Seeing Stone) and the playful watercolors of Meilo So (The 20th-Century Children's Poetry Treasury).
This all-star pair of Brits captures the personality of the poor persecuted duckling perfectly, as he's shunned by his fellow farm animals, his family, and even by a hunting party: "'Mercy!' cheeped the little duckling. 'I'm so ugly not even the dog wants me.'" He then begins a year-long journey through an inhospitable world, further rejected by an old woman and her cruel cat and hen ("'Can't you lay eggs?' asked the hen. 'No,' said the duckling. 'Shut up, then!'").
The beauty of So's delicate strokes only grows as the story reaches its time-honored climax, the reunion of the "duckling" with a flock of regal swans. And just as Andersen's story is likely semiautobiographical, more than a few kids (and grownups, too) will be particularly pleased when our handsome hero finds his home. (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Victimby Saul BellowISBN 0380003341 (0-380-00334-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Wild Partyby Joseph Moncure March, Art SpiegelmanISBN 0375706437 (0-375-70643-7)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wild Party'Book summary:"Spiegelman's drawings are like demonic woodcuts: every angle, line, and curve jumps out at you. Stylishness and brutishness are in perfect accord."
-- The New York Times
Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's Wild Party, a lost classic from 1928. The inventive and varied page designs offer perfect counterpoint to the staccato tempo of this hard-boiled jazz-age tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets.
Here is a poem that can make even readers with no time for poetry stop dead in their tracks. Once read, large shards of this story of one night of debauchery will become permanently lodged in the brain. When The Wild Party was first published, Louis Untermeyer declared: "It is repulsive and fascinating, vicious and vivacious, uncompromising, unashamed . . . and unremittingly powerful. It is an amazing tour de force." [via]More editions of Wild Party:
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Charles SantoreISBN 0375811370 (0-375-81137-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In the 100 years since L. Frank Baum first published his Wonderful Wizard of Oz, countless authors and illustrators have adapted, interpreted, and retold this story of Dorothy and her unusual companions, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. But for sheer opulence and sumptuous color, award-winning artist Charles Santore's 100th anniversary edition takes the cake. Santore's large, fairy-tale style watercolors feature ominous, shadowy forests, magnificent but deadly poppies, the whimsical, green-tinted landscapes of Oz, and the golden gray fields of Kansas. Each page is awash in color; many of the two-page spreads have no text to distract readers from the illustrations' myriad details--not-yet-blooming poppy buds, the Tin Woodman's watering can head, and the radiant good witch, Glinda, posing on her ruby-encrusted throne. The text is condensed rather than adapted; so virtually every word is Baum's own. Although some scenes have been left out, Baum's classic story rings through, loud and clear. Sharing this lush edition with a favorite child would be the perfect way to celebrate a century of Oz. (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six Moreby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 037581423X (0-375-81423-X)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More'Book summary:If you could see with your eyes closed, how would you use your power? Thats what Henry has to decide in "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,"one of the seven stories in this extra-ordinary collection. In addition to imaginative and magical tales, this book also contains the true story of how Roald Dahl became a writer, as well as a copy of the very first nonfiction story he wrote for The Saturday Evening Post. Packed with wit and adventure, the collection is a clever mix of fantasy and reality and a stunning showcase of Dahls prose. [via]
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Odes : With the Latin Textby Horace, James Michie, Gregson DavisISBN 0375759026 (0-375-75902-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Odes : With the Latin Text'Book summary:Timeless meditations on the subjects of wine, parties, birthdays, love, and friendship, Horaces Odes, in the words of classicist Donald Carne-Ross, make the commonplace notable, even luminous. This edition reproduces the highly lauded translation by James Michie. For almost forty years, poet and literary critic John Hollander notes, James Michies brilliant translations of Horace have remained fresh as well as strong, and responsive to the varying lights and darks of the originals. It is a pleasure to have them newly available. [via]
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