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Aidaby Leontyne Price, Leo Dillon, Diane DillonISBN 0152015469 (0-15-201546-9)
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All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922-1927by C. S. LewisISBN 0156027968 (0-15-602796-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Aristophanes: Four Comediesby AristophanesISBN 0156079003 (0-15-607900-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristophanes: Four Comedies'Book summary:New English versions of Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and Ladies' Day. "Thanks to Dudley Fitts...we can appreciate Aristophanes' vigor, his robust style, his scorching wit, his earthy humor, his devotion to honesty and his poetic imagination" (Brooks Atkinson, New York Times). Index.[via]More editions of Aristophanes: Four Comedies:
Barren Groundby Ellen GlasgowISBN 015610685X (0-15-610685-X)
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Between the Actsby Virginia WoolfISBN 015611870X (0-15-611870-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between the Acts'Book summary:In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart of England, where the villagers are presenting their annual pageant. A lyrical, moving valedictory.
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Book of Enchantmentsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0152055088 (0-15-205508-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Enchantments'Book summary:This witty and charming collection of ten short fantasies includes a story, set in the Enchanted Forest, about Queen Cimorene's Frying Pan of Doom; a zany yarn about a magical blue chipmunk with a passion for chestnuts; and an eerie tale of a caliph who turns his vizier's daughter into a wolf.[via]More editions of Book of Enchantments:
The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C.S. Lewisby C. S. Lewis, Walter HooperISBN 0156148633 (0-15-614863-3)
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The Call of the Toadby Günter Grass, Ralph ManheimISBN 0156153408 (0-15-615340-8)
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Calling on Dragonsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0152046925 (0-15-204692-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Calling on Dragons'Book summary:Those wicked wizards are back--and they've become very smart. (Sort of.) They intend to take over the Enchanted Forest once and for all . . . unless Cimorene finds a way to stop them. And some people think being queen is easy.[via] 
Cat and Mouseby Gunter GrassISBN 0156028220 (0-15-602822-0)
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The Charioteer: A Novelby Mary RenaultISBN 0156167689 (0-15-616768-9)
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospectsby Lewis MumfordISBN 0156180359 (0-15-618035-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects'Book summary:Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence--from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the modern centers of commerce (as well as dozens of black-and-white illustrations)--to show how the urban form has changed throughout human civilization. His tone is ultimately somewhat pessimistic: Mumford was deeply concerned with what he viewed as the dehumanizing aspects of the metropolitan trend, which he deemed "a world of professional illusionists and their credulous victims." (In another typically unrestrained criticism, he dubbed the Pentagon a Bronze Age monument to humanity's basest impulses, as well as an "effete and worthless baroque conceit.") Mumford hoped for a rediscovery of urban principles that emphasized humanity's organic relationship to its environment. The City in History remains a powerfully influential work, one that has shaped the agendas of urban planners, sociologists, and social critics since its publication in the 1960s. [via]
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Classics of Western Thought: The Ancient Worldby Donald S. GochbergISBN 0155076825 (0-15-507682-5)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Clergyman's Daughterby George OrwellISBN 0156180650 (0-15-618065-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clergyman's Daughter'Book summary:At the distance of a half-century, this satiric social fiction is both a treasure and a disappointment. Orwell's wit is priceless--and ruthless--as he describes rural Church of England parish life; the transitory culture of the hops harvest; a brothel's soiled linen; not to mention when his heroine hobnobs with the Trafalgar Square homeless of a bitter winter's night or bullies bored students in a fourth-rate private school: "Last term the girls had behaved badly, because she had started by treating them as human beings, and later on, when the lessons that interested them were discontinued, they had rebelled like human beings. But if you are obliged to teach children rubbish, you must not treat them as human beings.... Before all else, you must teach them it is more painful to rebel than to obey."
Orwell's compassion for Dorothy Hare, ensnared by faith, birth, and gender to toil thanklessly as her minister father's unpaid curate, is admirable, and his evocation, early in the novel, of a woman's consciousness totally subsumed by the mostly trivial demands of others stands shoulder to shoulder with the best feminist fiction. The dialogues between Dorothy and her dissolute middle-aged suitor, Mr. Warburton, concerning human nature, faith, and morality, are smart and fun to read. The problem (and here Orwell commits the sort of sin he denounces in Dickens) is that the novel's plot--Dorothy's picaresque amnesiac travels through the seamy side of English life--feels manufactured for the author's satiric purposes. Orwell never relinquishes his cleverness, or his maleness, to become his heroine, with the result that the reader never surrenders wholly to the fiction. Thus A Clergyman's Daughter, while a pleasure to pick up, is not quite a book one can't put down. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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The Clown of Godby Tomie De PaolaISBN 0156181924 (0-15-618192-4)
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedyby T. S. EliotISBN 0156182890 (0-15-618289-0)
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A Collection of Essaysby George OrwellISBN 0156186004 (0-15-618600-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Collection of Essays'Book summary:Imagine any of today's writers of "creative nonfiction" dispatching a rogue elephant before an audience of several thousand. Now, imagine the essay that would result. Can we say "narcissism"? As part of the Imperial Police in Burma, George Orwell actually found himself aiming the gun, and his record--first published in 1936--comprises eight of the highest voltage pages of English prose you'll ever read. In "Shooting an Elephant," Orwell illumines the shoddy recesses of his own character, illustrates the morally corrupting nature of imperialism, and indicts you, the reader, in the creature's death, a process so vividly reported it's likely to show up in your nightmares ever after. "The owner was furious, but he was only an Indian and could do nothing.... Among the Europeans opinion was divided. The older men said I was right, the younger men said it was a damn shame to shoot an elephant for killing a coolie, because an elephant was worth much more than any damn Coringhee coolie."
This essay alone would be worth the cover price, and the dozen other pieces collected here prove that, given the right thinker/writer, today's journalism actually can become tomorrow's literature. "The Art of Donald McGill," ostensibly an appreciation of the jokey, vaguely obscene illustrated postcards beloved of the working classes, uses the lens of popular culture to examine the battle lines and rules of engagement in the war of the sexes, circa 1941. "Politics and the English Language" is a prose working-out of Orwell's perceptions about the slippery relationship of word and thought that becomes a key premise of 1984. "Looking Back on the Spanish War" is as clear-eyed a veteran's memoir of the nature of war as you're likely to find, and Orwell's long ruminations on the wildly popular "good bad" writers Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling showcase his singular virtues--searing honesty and independent thinking. From English boarding schools to Gandhi's character to an early appreciation of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, these pieces give an idiosyncratic tour of the first half of the passing century in the company of an articulate and engaged guide. Don't let the idea that Orwell is an "important" writer put you off reading him. He's really too good, and too human, to miss. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Coming Up for Airby George OrwellISBN 0156196255 (0-15-619625-5)
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The Common Readerby Virginia WoolfISBN 015602778X (0-15-602778-X)
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Complete Poems 1913-1962by E. E. CummingsISBN 0156210622 (0-15-621062-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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The Crimson Petal and the Whiteby Michel FaberISBN 0156028778 (0-15-602877-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crimson Petal and the White'Book summary:Although it's billed as "the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century," The Crimson Petal and the White is anything but Victorian. It's the story of a well-read London prostitute named Sugar, who spends her free hours composing a violent, pornographic screed against men. Michel Faber's dazzling second novel dares to go where George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and the works of Charles Dickens could not. We learn about the positions and orifices that Sugar and her clients favour, about her lingering skin condition, and about the suspect ingredients of her prophylactic douches. Still, Sugar believes she can make a better life for herself.
When she is taken up by a wealthy man, the perfumer William Rackham, her wings are clipped and she must balance financial security against the obvious servitude of her position. The physical risks and hardships of Sugar's life (and the even harder "honest" life she would have led as a factory worker) contrast--yet not entirely--with the medical mistreatment of her benefactor's wife, Agnes, and beautifully underscore Faber's emphasis on class and sexual politics.
In theme and treatment, this is a novel that Virginia Woolf might have written, had she been born 70 years later. The language, however, is Faber's own--brisk and elastic--and, after an awkward opening, the plethora of detail he offers (costume, food, manners, cheap stage performances, the London streets) slides effortlessly into his forward-moving sentences. When Agnes goes mad, for instance, "she sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a naked duck, limp and faintly steaming, spreads its pimpled legs on a draining board." Despite its 800-plus pages, The Crimson Petal and the White turns out to be a quick read, since it is truly impossible to put down. --Regina Marler, Amazon.com [via]
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Cyberiadby Stanislaw LemISBN 0156027593 (0-15-602759-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cyberiad'Book summary:Trurl and Klaupacius are constructor robots who try to out-invent each other. They travel to the far corners of the cosmos to take on freelance problem-solving jobs, with dire consequences for their employers. The most completely successful of his books... here Lem comes closest to inventing a real universe (Boston Globe). Illustrations by Daniel Mrz. Translated by Michael Kandel.[via] 
Data Analysis: A Model-Comparison Approachby Charles M. Judd, Gary H. McClellandISBN 0155167650 (0-15-516765-0)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Dealing With Dragonsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 015204566X (0-15-204566-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dealing With Dragons'Book summary:Cimorene, princess of Linderwall, is a classic tomboy heroine with classic tomboy strengths--all of which are perceived by those around her as defects: "As for the girl's disposition--well, when people were being polite, they said she was strong-minded. When they were angry or annoyed with her, they said she was as stubborn as a pig." Cimorene, tired of etiquette and embroidery, runs away from home and finds herself in a nest of dragons. Now, in Cimorene's world--a world cleverly built by author Patricia C. Wrede on the shifting sands of myriad fairy tales--princesses are forever being captured by dragons. The difference here is that Cimorene goes willingly. She would rather keep house for the dragon Kazul than be bored in her parents' castle. With her quick wit and her stubborn courage, Cimorene saves the mostly kind dragons from a wicked plot hatched by the local wizards, and worms her way into the hearts of young girls everywhere.
While the characters are sometimes simplistically drawn, adults and children will have fun tracing the sources of the various fairy tales Wrede plunders for her story. Dealing with Dragons is the first book in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, and most young readers will want to devour the entire series. (Ages 10 and older) --Claire Dederer [via]
The Enchanted Forest Chroniclesby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0152050523 (0-15-205052-3)
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Enormous Turnipby Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Scott GotoISBN 015204843X (0-15-204843-X)
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Friendly Persuasionby Jessamyn WestISBN 015602909X (0-15-602909-X)
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Ginger Pyeby Eleanor EstesISBN 0152025057 (0-15-202505-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ginger Pye'Book summary:Meet Ginger Pye, the smartest dog you'll ever know. Jerry Pye and his sister, Rachel, feel pretty smart themselves for buying Ginger. It was the best dollar they ever spent. Ginger steals everybody's heart . . . until someone steals him![via]More editions of Ginger Pye:
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The Great Code: The Bible and Literatureby Northrop FryeISBN 0156027801 (0-15-602780-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Code: The Bible and Literature'Book summary:The subject of Northrop Frye's The Great Code is "a huge, sprawling, tactless book inscrutably in the middle of our cultural heritage": the Bible. And though literary critic Frye insists on approaching this monumental book only as a "unified structure of narrative and imagery," he acknowledges that the Bible is somehow "more" than a work of literature. The Great Code tries to track down that sense of "more." The Bible, according to Frye, is at the centre of our mythical universe, establishing "the imaginative framework within which Western Literature has operated down to the eighteenth century and is to a large extent still operating."
Arranged in two parts, the first setting forth critical principles under the headings of "language," "myth," "metaphor" and "typology," and the second focusing primarily on the application of those principles, The Great Code adopts the "double mirror" structure of the Bible's Old and New Testaments. The book grew out of a course Frye taught at the University of Toronto for half a century, and so, he insists, it addresses not the Biblical or even the literary scholar so much as the general reader, including those without much prior knowledge of the Bible or any particular religious faith. With its successor, Words with Power, The Great Code forms perhaps the most ambitious and most personal project of this great literary man's career. Though he was himself ordained in the United Church of Canada in his early 20s, Frye decided to leave the religious for the academic life; what he took with him was a fierce fascination with this sacred text and a deep sense of its literary and cultural importance. It is the one book that, Frye says, "all my critical work has revolved" around. --Russell Prather [via]
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Half Magicby Edward Eager, N. M. BodeckerISBN 0152020683 (0-15-202068-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Half Magic'Book summary:Edward Eager's hilarious and heartwarming Half Magic has been working wizardry on young readers for fifty years. To celebrate the golden anniversary of this enduringly popular story, a deluxe edition of the book has been created. It features the original jacket and a new introduction by Jack Gantos, the award-winning author of Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key.
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Harris and Meby Gary PaulsenISBN 0152928774 (0-15-292877-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harris and Me'Book summary:A young boy spends his tenth summer on his aunt and uncles farm, where he is constantly involved in crazy escapades with his cousin Harris. On the Larson farm, readers will experience hearts as large as farmers appetites, humor as broad as the country landscape and adventures as wild as boyhood imaginations. All this adds up to a hearty helping of old-fashioned, rip-roaring entertainment. --Publishers Weekly[via]More editions of Harris and Me:
Harris and Me: A Summer Rememberedby Gary PaulsenISBN 015205880X (0-15-205880-X)
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Highwaymanby Alfred Noyes, Neil WaldmanISBN 0152343407 (0-15-234340-7)
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Lanarkby Alasdair GrayISBN 0156003619 (0-15-600361-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lanark'Book summary:Written under the influence of World War II, the British welfare state, the Scottish education system, Poe, Carroll, Joyce, Kafka, Pinocchio, and the Bible, this cult classic paints a surreal portrait of the modern world. "It should be widely read" (New York Times). Illustrated by the Author.[via]More editions of Lanark:
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Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayerby C. S. LewisISBN 0156027666 (0-15-602766-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer'Book summary:"We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are."
What are we doing when we pray? What is at the heart of this most intimate conversation, the dialogue between a person and God? How does prayerits form, its regularity, its content, its insistenceshape who we are and how we believe? In this collection of letters from C. S. Lewis to a close friend, Malcolm, we see an intimate side of Lewis as he considers all aspects of prayer and how this singular ritual impacts the lives and souls of the faithful. With depth, wit, and intelligence, as well as his sincere sense of a continued spiritual journey, Lewis brings us closer to understanding the role of prayer in our lives and the ways in which we might better imagine our relationship with God."A beautifully executed and deeply moving little book." Saturday Review
"[Lewis] is writing about a path that he had to find, and the reader feels not so much that he is listening to what C.S. Lewis has to say but that he is making his own search with a humorous, sensible friend beside him." Times Literary SupplementC. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898-1963), one of the great writers of the twentieth century, also continues to be one of our most influential Christian thinkers. He wrote more than thirty books, both popular and scholarly, including The Chronicles of Narnia series, The Screwtape Letters, The Four Loves, Mere Christianity, and Surprised by Joy.
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Light Princessby Robin McKinley, George MacDonald, Katie Thamer TreherneISBN 0152453008 (0-15-245300-8)
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Mary Poppinsby Pamela L. TraversISBN 0152524088 (0-15-252408-8)
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Mortal Lessons : Notes on the Art of Surgeryby Richard SelzerISBN 0156004003 (0-15-600400-3)
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No Man Is an Islandby Thomas MertonISBN 0156027739 (0-15-602773-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Man Is an Island'Book summary:A recapitulation of his earlier work Seeds of Contemplation, this collection of sixteen essays plumbs aspects of human spirituality. Merton addresses those in search of enduring values, fulfillment, and salvation in prose that is, as always, inspiring and compassionate. A stimulating series of spiritual reflections which will prove helpful for all struggling to...live the richest, fullest and noblest life (Chicago Tribune).[via]More editions of No Man Is an Island:
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North to Freedomby Anne Holm, L. W. KingslandISBN 0152051600 (0-15-205160-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North to Freedom'Book summary:David's entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources are a compass, a few crusts of bread, his two aching feet, and some vague advice to seek refuge in Denmark. Is that enough to survive?[via]
David's extraordinary odyssey is dramatically chronicled in Anne Holm's classic about the meaning of freedom and the power of hope. 
The Owl Serviceby Alan GarnerISBN 0152017984 (0-15-201798-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Owl Service'Book summary:Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a stack of grimy old plates. Alison and her stepbrother, Roger, discover that the flowery patterns on the plates, when traced onto paper, can be fitted together to create owls--owls that disappear when no one is watching. With each vanished owl, strange events begin to happen . As the kids uncover the mystery of the owl service, they become trapped within a local legend, playing out roles in a tragic love story that has repeated itself for generations . . . and has always ended in disaster.[via]
The Pied Piper of Hamelinby Robert Browning, Terry SmallISBN 0152005668 (0-15-200566-8)
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Pinky Pyeby Eleanor Estes, Edward ArdizzoneISBN 0152025650 (0-15-202565-0)
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Poemsby C. S. LewisISBN 0156027690 (0-15-602769-0)
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Primer of Chessby Jose R. CapablancaISBN 0156028077 (0-15-602807-7)
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The Psychology of Consciousnessby Robert Evans OrnsteinISBN 0155730827 (0-15-573082-7)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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The Quangle Wangle's Hatby Edward LearISBN 0152014780 (0-15-201478-0)
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Queen Victoriaby Lytton StracheyISBN 0156027569 (0-15-602756-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen Victoria'Book summary:This is the definitive biography of Britains greatest monarch, who was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness. One of the surpassingly beautiful prose achievements of our time (Chicago Daily News). Index; illustrations.[via]More editions of Queen Victoria:
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Ritualsby Cees Nooteboom, Adrienne DixonISBN 0156003945 (0-15-600394-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rituals'Book summary:An "intelligent, incisive" (Washington Post) parable about order and chaos by "one of the greatest modern novelists" (A. S. Byatt), Rituals tells the story of Inni Wintrop, a dabbler who floats comfortably on the open possibilities of life and in the flow of time meets two men who do not. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature. Translated by Adrienne Dixon. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. Harvest in Translation series[via]More editions of Rituals:
Rootabaga Storiesby Carl Sandburg, Miska Petersham, Maud Fuller PetershamISBN 015204714X (0-15-204714-X)
Softcover, Odyssey Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rootabaga Stories'Book summary:Joyful, humorous, and zany, these classic stories are unique Americana. Rootabaga Stories, Part One includes all the material originally published as Rootabaga Stories in 1922. A second volume, to be published in Spring 1989, will include all the stories published as Rootabaga Pigeons in 1923. [via]
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Hardcover, Harcourt Children's Books - Rootabaga Stories: ISBN 015269062X (0-15-269062-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Children's Books - Rootabaga Stories: ISBN 0152690638 (0-15-269063-8)
Softcover, Odyssey Classics - Rootabaga Stories: ISBN 015204714X (0-15-204714-X)
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- Rootabaga Stories: ISBN 0152690654 (0-15-269065-4)
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Searching for Dragonsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0152045651 (0-15-204565-1)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Searching for Dragons'Book summary:Cimorene, the princess who refuses to be proper, meets her match in the not-quite-kingly Mendanbar. With the aid of a broken-down magic carpet and a leaky magical sword, the two tackle a series of dragon-nappings.[via]More editions of Searching for Dragons:
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Seventeenth-Century Prose and Poetryby Alexander M. WitherspoonISBN 0155802372 (0-15-580237-2)
Hardcover, Cengage Learning
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Soldier of the Great Warby Mark HelprinISBN 0156031132 (0-15-603113-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Spireby William Gerald GoldingISBN 0156027828 (0-15-602782-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Stellalunaby Janell CannonISBN 015201540X (0-15-201540-X)
Softcover, Voyager Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stellaluna'Book summary:Stellaluna is the tender story of a lost young bat who finally finds her way safely home to her mother and friends. This award-winning book by Janell Cannon has sold more than 500,000 copies and was on the bestseller list for more than two years. Multiple Grammy nominee and master storyteller, David Holt, is heard in live concerts throughout the country, on television and on his many award-winning recordings. (Ages 3+)
Side One: 1. Stellaluna. 11:50. Told by David Holt. Original music by Steven Heller. 2. Why the Bat Flies at Night. 6:36. Around the world there are stories about bats and how they came to fly at night. This is David's version.
Side Two: 1. Hattie, the Backstage Bat. 6:17. This story is by Don Freeman, the author of "Corduroy." 2. Amazing Bat Facts. 8:25. What you never knew about bats! 3. Stellaluna's Theme. 1:14. [via]
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Talking to Dragonsby Patricia C. WredeISBN 0152046917 (0-15-204691-7)
Softcover, Magic Carpet Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talking to Dragons'Book summary:The Enchanted Forest Chronicles conclude as Daystar, unaware of his magical heritage and of the sorcerous power of his sword, is sent by his mother Cimorene to rescue his father Mendanbar, King of the Enchanted Forest, from wicked wizards. [via]
Ten Tales Tall & True: Social Realism, Sexual Comedy, Science Fiction, and Satireby Alasdair Gray, Diane SterlingISBN 0156001969 (0-15-600196-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Time Gardenby Edward Eager, N. M. BodeckerISBN 0152020705 (0-15-202070-5)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich - Time Garden: ISBN 015288193X (0-15-288193-X)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - The Time Garden: ISBN 0152020756 (0-15-202075-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt Children's Books - Time Garden: ISBN 0152020705 (0-15-202070-5)
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Troyby Adele GerasISBN 0152045708 (0-15-204570-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Troy'Book summary:Homer's mighty epic poem, The Iliad, is the earliest written literature of Western civilization. Adele Geras, best known for her trilogy based on Sleeping Beauty, takes on the seemingly impertinent task of retelling the siege of Troy as a young adult novel, but manages to carry it off without trivializing the original. The great battles of the bronze-clad warriors and the clashes between Achilles and Hector and Odysseus are seen at a distance from the walls of the city, where the Trojan townsfolk gather to sit each day and cheer the action like spectators at some archaic football game.
The passion of Helen and Paris, Hector's farewell to his ill-fated infant son, and other familiar domestic scenes are seen from a closer perspective, through the eyes of the four teenage protagonists. Marpessa is Helen's young servant, and her sister Xanthe is nursemaid to Hector's baby son, while Iason, who is secretly beloved by their friend Polyxena, tends the horses and yearns for Xanthe, who has a crush on Alastor, who has impregnated Marpessa. These complicated, interlocking infatuations and love affairs work themselves out against a background of siege and bloodshed watched over by the gods. Artemis, Mars, Poseidon, and Pallas Athene appear in visions to reveal their plans to the characters (and to us), but their words blow away like mist as soon as they are gone. Meanwhile, the bawdy gossip of three old serving maids in the kitchen emulates a Greek chorus. The story winds to its inevitable destination with the emergence of the Greeks from the wooden horse and the bloody sack of the city--a suitably violent end to an ancient and violent tale. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
The Waste Landby T. S. Eliot, Christopher RicksISBN 0156005344 (0-15-600534-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Weirdstone of Brisingamenby Alan GarnerISBN 015205636X (0-15-205636-X)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Weirdstone of Brisingamen'Book summary:Readers who love E. Nesbit or Susan Cooper may discover a new favorite in Alan Garner, winner of many awards for literary excellence including the Carnegie Medal. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, first published in 1960, is the story of two children, Susan and Colin, who are sent to rural England to stay with Bess Mossock, their mother's childhood nurse. The Mossocks' farm is delightfully old-fashioned, and the Alderley area is dotted with interesting woods to explore as well as treacherous disused mines. Susan and Colin encounter a frightening local woman, and feel they are being watched by crows. The air of menace quickly becomes acute danger as the children are pursued by small goblinlike beings, who truss them in cobwebby ropes. An ancient wizard named Cadellin comes to their rescue. As they learn more of the dark forces that threaten Alderley, Susan and Colin find themselves on the run through the abandoned mine tunnels, aided by a pair of heroic dwarfs.
Garner's knowledge of folklore and the Alderley area--his characters' dialect sounds realistic instead of like rote fantasy-speak--imbues his story with a thoughtful depth. His writing is as clear as poetry: "And they passed between the stones, only to stop short a couple of paces later, with despair in their hearts, cold as the east wind." There is a sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, called The Moon of Gomrath, and both books are superbly written, absorbing tales of wizardry and adventure. --Blaise Selby [via]
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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderleyby Alan GarnerISBN 0152017666 (0-15-201766-6)
Softcover, Harcourt Children's Books
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Winter's Taleby Mark HelprinISBN 0156031191 (0-15-603119-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winter's Tale'Book summary:A bestseller that takes readers on a journey to New York of the Belle Epoque, where Peter Lake attempts to rob a Manhattan mansion only to find the daughter of the house at home. Thus begins the love between the middle-aged Irishman and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying. This novel...is a gifted writers love affair with the language (Newsday).[via]
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