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The Adrian Mole Diariesby Sue TownsendISBN 0394552989 (0-394-55298-9)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0395051142 (0-395-05114-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Thingsby Robert FulghumISBN 0394571029 (0-394-57102-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Americanby Henry JamesISBN 0395051630 (0-395-05163-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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A Bear Called Paddingtonby Michael Bond, Peggy FortnumISBN 0395066360 (0-395-06636-0)
Hardcover, University of British Columbia Press
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The Best of Roald Dahlby Roald Dahl, James CameronISBN 0394725492 (0-394-72549-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Bushwhacked Pianoby Thomas McGuaneISBN 0394726421 (0-394-72642-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryby Roald Dahl, Joseph SchindelmanISBN 0394810112 (0-394-81011-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'Book summary:Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, along with Roald Dahl's other tales for younger readers, make him a true star of children's literature. Dahl seems to know just how far to go with his oddball fantasies; in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, for example, nasty Violet Beauregarde blows up into a blueberry from sneaking forbidden chewing gum, and bratty Augustus Gloop is carried away on the river of chocolate he wouldn't resist. In fact, all manner of disasters can happen to the most obnoxiously deserving of children because Dahl portrays each incident with such resourcefulness and humor.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a singular delight, crammed with mad fantasy, childhood justice and revenge, and as much candy as you can eat. The book is also available in Spanish (Charlie y la Fabrica de Chocolate). (The suggested age range for this book is 9-12, but nobody this reviewer has met can resist it, including New York City bellhops, flight attendants, and grumpy teenagers.) [via]
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Comedy: A Critical Anthologyby Robert W. Corrigan, Glenn M. LoneyISBN 0395043255 (0-395-04325-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Cosmic Wisdom of Joe Bob Briggsby Joe Bob BriggsISBN 0394588908 (0-394-58890-8)
Hardcover, Random House, Incorporated
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The Definitive Biography of P. D. Q. Bachby Peter SchickeleISBN 0394734092 (0-394-73409-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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"A musical blight"
"A one-man plague"
"History's most justifiably neglected composer"
"The worst musician ever to trod organ pedals" "A pimple on the face of music"
In this long-awaited hoax, possibly the most unimportant piece of scholarship in over two thousand years, Professor Peter Schickele has finally succeeded in ripping the veil of obscurity from the most unusual -- to put it kindly -- composer in the history of music: P.D.Q. Bach, the last and unquestionably the least of the great Johann Sebastian Bach's many children. [via]More editions of The Definitive Biography of P. D. Q. Bach:
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Der Besuch Der Alten Dameby Friedrich DurrenmattISBN 0395040892 (0-395-04089-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 0394701267 (0-394-70126-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Don Juanby George Gordon Byron, Louis KronenbergerISBN 0394605101 (0-394-60510-1)
Hardcover, Random House, Incorporated
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Don Juanby Leslie A. Marchand, George Gordon Byron ByronISBN 039505138X (0-395-05138-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Duluthby Gore VidalISBN 0394527380 (0-394-52738-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Fellowship of the Ringby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395082544 (0-395-08254-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fellowship of the Ring'Book summary:Part one of The Lord of the Rings, now featuring film art on the cover. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in THE HOBBIT. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.[via]More editions of Fellowship of the Ring:
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Four Films: Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan, Stardust Memoriesby Woody AllenISBN 0394712293 (0-394-71229-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Films: Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan, Stardust Memories'Book summary:Woody Allen's greatness as a director rests squarely on his stupendous talent as a writer. In the glory years from 1977 to 1980 he released his best--and best written--movies. Included in this volume are the scripts of Annie Hall, Allen's first mature film and the winner of the Best Picture Oscar; Interiors, his first serious work, a Bergmanesque treatment of a tortured family; Manhattan, his greatest and most characteristic movie, which concerns a writer's attempt to find true love in the comic wilderness of New York City; and Stardust Memories, his most satiric and personal piece, about the effects of fame on a film director who is standing at a crossroads in his life. [via]
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie FlaggISBN 039456152X (0-394-56152-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Eraby Thomas G. SchatzISBN 0394539796 (0-394-53979-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Green Eggs and Hamby Dr. SeussISBN 0394800168 (0-394-80016-8)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Green Eggs and Ham'Book summary:Young fans of the unflappable Sam-I-am will be pleased as punch to discover the plethora of flaps to lift in this 10-page board book version of the Dr. Seuss classic. Sam-I-am does his very best to convince a more finicky Seuss character to try this rather unusual delicacy.
Would you? Could you? In a car?
To which the exasperated doubter replies:
Eat them! Eat them! Here they are.
You may like them. You will see.
You may like them in a tree!
I would not,
On every page readers will find sturdy, easy-to-lift flaps behind which reside the familiar characters and lines of the unique 1960 classic--except for the last page. Here, blank spaces lurk behind the flaps, just waiting to be filled in with peel-off pictures from the accompanying sheet of silly stickers. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter [via]
could not, in a tree.
Not in a car!
You let me be.
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Grendelby John GardnerISBN 0394740564 (0-394-74056-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writingsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0395051231 (0-395-05123-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings'Book summary:This volume helps readers situate one of the most popular adventure novels ever written, Gulliver's Travels, within the 18th-century process of inventing and resisting Great Britain. Ideas of nationalism--both Irish and British--are questioned and explored. Gulliver's Travels is interpreted as a critique of British colonial aggression, and has special appeal for courses in British literature and Irish studies. Supplemental materials include additional writings by Swift, such as pamphlets (including the famous "A Modest Proposal"), sermons, poems, and letters. A wealth of critical essays adds further context. [via]
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Health and Happinessby Diane JohnsonISBN 0394587170 (0-394-58717-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Heartburnby Nora EphronISBN 0394531809 (0-394-53180-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heartburn'Book summary:Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. The fact that this woman has a 'neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb' is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel is a cookery writer, and between trying to win Mark back and wishing him dead, she offers us some of her favourite recipes. HEARTBURN is a roller coaster of love, betrayal, loss and - most satisfyingly - revenge. This is Nora Ephron's (screenwriter of WHEN HARRY MET SALLY and SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE) roman a clef: 'I always thought during the pain of the marriage that one day it would make a funny book,' she once said - And it is! [via]
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A History of the World in 10 and Half Chaptersby Julian BarnesISBN 0394580613 (0-394-58061-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the World in 10 and Half Chapters'Book summary:This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!
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How to Be a Stand-Up Comicby Richard Belzer, Larry Charles, Rick NewmanISBN 0394562399 (0-394-56239-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0394847245 (0-394-84724-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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I, Claudiusby Robert GravesISBN 0394608119 (0-394-60811-9)
Hardcover, Random House, Incorporated
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If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Groundby Lewis GrizzardISBN 0394587251 (0-394-58725-1)
Hardcover, Random House, Incorporated
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THE ORLANDO SENTINEL
Funny, sad, outrageous, irresistible, and unforgettably true, here is Lewis Grizzard's one-way, non-stop climb to the top of the newspaper heap. Of course, along the way, he drove a train and was a preacher, but the one and only life for this self-proclaimed Promising Young Man from Georgia was that of the ink-stained, stop-the-presses, honest-to-gosh newspaperman. This is his story.
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Lafcadio's Adventuresby Andre GideISBN 0394700961 (0-394-70096-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Derek JamesISBN 0394562798 (0-394-56279-8)
Hardcover, Ariel Books/Knopf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have become a part of this remarkable family and have felt the deep sadness when Meg leaves the circle of sisters to be married at the end of Part I. Part II, chronicles Meg's joys and mishaps as a young wife and mother, Jo's struggle to become a writer, Beth's tragedy, and Amy's artistic pursuits and unexpected romance. Based on Louise May Alcott's childhood, this lively portrait of nineteenth-century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers.
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The Lord of the Ringsby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395272238 (0-395-27223-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings'Book summary:The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth -- home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving "little people," cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the "very few works of genius in recent literature." Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will. Donald Barr has described it as "a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world...especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness." The story of this world is one of high and heroic adventure. Barr compared it to Beowulf, C.S. Lewis to Orlando Furioso, W.H. Auden to The Thirty-nine Steps. In fact the saga is sui generis -- a triumph of imagination which springs to life within its own framework and on its own terms. [via]
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Love Alwaysby Ann BeattieISBN 0394744187 (0-394-74418-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Always'Book summary:A master chronicler of our life and times." Newsday
"A very funny book. . . . If Jane Austen had been crossed with Oscar Wilde and re-crossed with the early Evelyn Waugh, and the result plonked down among the semi-beautiful people of late 20th-century media-fringe America . . . the outcome might have been something like this." Margaret Atwood
"Ferociously funny." The Los Angeles Times
"Beattie's new novel, her third, is a gratifying surprise. Love Always will be welcomed by the large and loyal Beattie readership, but there is much that recommends it to the previously unconverted." Harper's Bazaar
"Beattie's most comicindeed her first satiricwork to date. . . . Much of the book's authenticity derives from the accretion of felt detaila Beattie trademark. She captures 1984 Vermont with right-on references to Cyndi Lauper, Horchow catalogs, and 'pre-Cabbage Patch' Coleco." The Christian Science Monitor [via] 
Love Is Hellby Matt GroeningISBN 0394744543 (0-394-74454-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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More About Paddingtonby Michael Bond, Peggy FortnumISBN 0395066409 (0-395-06640-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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More Ripping Yarnsby Michael PalinISBN 0394748107 (0-394-74810-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Motel of the Mysteriesby David MacaulayISBN 0395284252 (0-395-28425-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Motel of the Mysteries'Book summary:It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.[via] -
My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 0395083567 (0-395-08356-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
Myra Breckinridge and Myronby Gore VidalISBN 0394754441 (0-394-75444-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Niccolo Rising: The First Book of the House of Niccoloby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0394531078 (0-394-53107-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Of Mice and Menby John SteinbeckISBN 0394604725 (0-394-60472-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Paddington at Workby Michael Bond, Peggy FortnumISBN 0395066379 (0-395-06637-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Paddington Helps Outby Michael Bond, Peggy FortnumISBN 0395066395 (0-395-06639-5)
Hardcover, University of British Columbia Press
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Paddington on Screenby Michael Bond, Barry MaceyISBN 0395329507 (0-395-32950-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Paddington on Topby Michael Bond, Peggy FortnumISBN 0395218977 (0-395-21897-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Paddington Takes the Airby Michael Bond, Peggy FortnumISBN 0395109094 (0-395-10909-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Parkinson's Law, and Other Studies in Administrationby Cyril Northcote ParkinsonISBN 0395083737 (0-395-08373-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Phantom Tollboothby Norton Juster, Jules FeifferISBN 0394820371 (0-394-82037-1)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Phantom Tollbooth'Book summary:"It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "[T]here's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored, bored young protagonist who can't see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll, and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull.
Norton Juster received (and continues to receive) enormous praise for this original, witty, and oftentimes hilarious novel, first published in 1961. In an introductory "Appreciation" written by Maurice Sendak for the 35th anniversary edition, he states, "The Phantom Tollbooth leaps, soars, and abounds in right notes all over the place, as any proper masterpiece must." Indeed.
As Milo heads toward Dictionopolis he meets with the Whether Man ("for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be"), passes through The Doldrums (populated by Lethargarians), and picks up a watchdog named Tock (who has a giant alarm clock for a body). The brilliant satire and double entendre intensifies in the Word Market, where after a brief scuffle with Officer Short Shrift, Milo and Tock set off toward the Mountains of Ignorance to rescue the twin Princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Anyone with an appreciation for language, irony, or Alice in Wonderland-style adventure will adore this book for years on end. (Ages 8 and up) [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0394605144 (0-394-60514-4)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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The Pyratesby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0394538374 (0-394-53837-4)
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Race of Scorpions: The Third Book of the House of Niccoloby Dorothy DunnettISBN 039457107X (0-394-57107-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Return of the Kingby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395272211 (0-395-27221-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of the King'Book summary:The standard harcover edition of the concluding volume of The Lord of the Rings includes a large format fold-out map and extensive appendices. As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and takes part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg. Merry and Pippin, captured by Orcs, escape into Fangorn Forest and there encounter the Ents. Gandalf has miraculously returned and defeated the evil wizard, Saruman. Sam has left his master for dead after a battle with the giant spider, Shelob; but Frodo is still alive -- now in the foul hands of the Orcs. And all the while the armies of the Dark Lord are massing as the One Ring draws ever nearer to the Cracks of Doom.[via] 
Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymesby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0394854225 (0-394-85422-5)
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A Room with a Viewby E. M. ForsterISBN 0394743180 (0-394-74318-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Rumors: A Farceby Neil SimonISBN 0394587995 (0-394-58799-5)
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Scales of Goldby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0394586271 (0-394-58627-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Scaramoucheby Rafael SabatiniISBN 0395081424 (0-395-08142-4)
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School Is Hellby Matt GroeningISBN 0394750918 (0-394-75091-8)
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Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 039505110X (0-395-05110-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Edgar Allan Poes works, with their gothic and often obsessive themes, have had a significant influence on American literature.
In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text.
Backgrounds and Contexts includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poes prolific but short career, among them reviews, prefaces, and correspondence by Poe as well as thematic pieces dealing with Transcendentalism and alternative romanticism, sciences of the mind, sensation fiction, and the South and slavery.
Fourteen judiciously selected critical essays address Poes poetry, fiction, politics, and psychology. Contributors include Floyd Stovall, Robert C. McLean, Richard Wilbur, James W. Gargano, Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Paul John Eakin, Grace Farrell, Liahna Klenman Babener, Barton Levi St. Armand, Joseph N. Riddel, J. Gerald Kennedy, John Carlos Rowe, Terence Whalen, and John T. Irwin.
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The Silent Clownsby Walter KerrISBN 0394734505 (0-394-73450-5)
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Spring of the Ramby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0394564375 (0-394-56437-5)
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Tales of the Unexpectedby Roald DahlISBN 0394740815 (0-394-74081-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Talk Radioby Eric BogosianISBN 039475946X (0-394-75946-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talk Radio'Book summary:This play tells the story of Barry Champlain, a radio call-in host, who treats his invisible audience with contempt. The author's play "Drinking in America" won a Drama Desk Award for outstanding solo performance and "Talk Radio" has been made into a film, to be released in May 1989. [via]
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The Throwbackby Tom SharpeISBN 0394724399 (0-394-72439-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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To Lie With Lionsby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0394586298 (0-394-58629-8)
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Tom Stoppard's Playsby Jim HunterISBN 0394624149 (0-394-62414-9)
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Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrerby Tom Lehrer, Ronald SearleISBN 0394749308 (0-394-74930-8)
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The Twitsby Quentin Blake, Roald DahlISBN 0394845994 (0-394-84599-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Twits'Book summary:Roald Dahls thrillingly grotesque book for young readers is now available in a gorgeous new gift edition, featuring the deliciously wicked artwork of Quentin Blake.
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everythingexcept playing mean jokes on each other, catching unsuspecting birds to put in their bird pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. With the help of Roly-Poly Bird, they set out to get some well-deserved revenge. [via]More editions of The Twits:
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The Two Towersby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 039527222X (0-395-27222-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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U and I: A True Storyby Nicholson BakerISBN 0394589947 (0-394-58994-7)
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0394743121 (0-394-74312-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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The Unicorn Huntby Dorothy DunnettISBN 039458628X (0-394-58628-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unicorn Hunt'Book summary:With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolo series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire.
Scotland, 1468: a nation at the edge of Europe, a civilization on the threshold of the Modern Age. Merchants, musicians, politicians, and pageantry fill the court of King James III. In its midst, Nicholas seeks to avenge his bride's claim that she carries the bastard of his archenemy, Simon St. Pol. When she flees before Nicholas can determine whether or not the rumored child is his ownor exists at allNicholas gives chase. So begins the deadly game of cat and mouse that will lead him from the infested cisterns of Cairo to the misted canals of Venice at carnival. Breathlessly paced, sparkling with wit. The Unicorn Hunt confirms Dorothy Dunnett as the genre's finest practitioner.
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Vintage Stuffby Tom SharpeISBN 0394724178 (0-394-72417-8)
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Walt Disney Production Presents 101 Dalmatiansby Disney ProductionsISBN 0394825713 (0-394-82571-3)
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Witch Weekby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 039480600X (0-394-80600-X)
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The Wizard, the Fairy, and the Magic Chickenby Helen Lester, Lynn M. MunsingerISBN 0395479452 (0-395-47945-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Woody Allenby Eric LaxISBN 0394583493 (0-394-58349-3)
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Paddington Marches Onby Michael Bond, Peggy FortnumISBN 0395066425 (0-395-06642-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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