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Airframeby Michael CrichtonISBN 0679446486 (0-679-44648-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Airframe'Book summary:Cruising 35,000 feet above the earth, a twin-engine commercial jet encounters an accident that leaves 3 dead, 56 wounded, and the cabin in shambles. What happened? With a multi-billion-dollar company-saving deal on the line, Casey Singleton is sent by her hard-driving boss to uncover the mysterious circumstances that led to the disaster before more people die. But someone doesn't want her to find the truth. Airframe bristles with authentic information, technical jargon, and the command of detail Crichton's readers have come to expect. Check out Amazon.com's Airframe feature and read an excerpt from the book! [via]
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The Amber Spyglassby Philip PullmanISBN 0679879269 (0-679-87926-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amber Spyglass'Book summary:From the very start of its very first scene, The Amber Spyglass will set hearts fluttering and minds racing. All we'll say here is that we immediately discover who captured Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife, though we've yet to discern whether this individual's intent is good, evil, or somewhere in between. We also learn that Will still possesses the blade that allows him to cut between worlds, and has been joined by two winged companions who are determined to escort him to Lord Asriel's mountain redoubt. The boy, however, has only one goal in mind--to rescue his friend and return to her the alethiometer, an instrument that has revealed so much to her and to readers of The Golden Compass and its follow-up. Within a short time, too, we get to experience the "tingle of the starlight" on Serafina Pekkala's skin as she seeks out a famished Iorek Byrnison and enlists him in Lord Asriel's crusade:
A complex web of thoughts was weaving itself in the bear king's mind, with more strands in it than hunger and satisfaction. There was the memory of the little girl Lyra, whom he had named Silvertongue, and whom he had last seen crossing the fragile snow bridge across a crevasse in his own island of Svalbard. Then there was the agitation among the witches, the rumors of pacts and alliances and war; and then there was the surpassingly strange fact of this new world itself, and the witch's insistence that there were many more such worlds, and that the fate of them all hung somehow on the fate of the child.
Meanwhile, two factions of the Church are vying to reach Lyra first. One is even prepared to give a priest "preemptive absolution" should he succeed in committing mortal sin. For these tyrants, killing this girl is no less than "a sacred task."In the final installment of his trilogy, Philip Pullman has set himself the highest hurdles. He must match its predecessors in terms of sheer action and originality and resolve the enigmas he already created. The good news is that there is no critical bad news--not that The Amber Spyglass doesn't contain standoffs and close calls galore. (Who would have it otherwise?) But Pullman brings his audacious revision of Paradise Lost to a conclusion that is both serene and devastating. In prose that is transparent yet lyrical and 3-D, the author weaves in and out of his principals' thoughts. He also offers up several additional worlds. In one, Dr. Mary Malone is welcomed into an apparently simple society. The environment of the mulefa (again, we'll reveal nothing more) makes them rich in consciousness while their lives possess a slow and stately rhythm. These strange creatures can, however, be very fast on their feet (or on other things entirely) when necessary. Alas, they are on the verge of dying as Dust streams out of their idyllic landscape. Will the Oxford dark-matter researcher see her way to saving them, or does this require our young heroes? And while Mary is puzzling out a cure, Will and Lyra undertake a pilgrimage to a realm devoid of all light and hope, after having been forced into the cruelest of sacrifices--or betrayals.
Throughout his galvanizing epic, Pullman sustains scenes of fierce beauty and tenderness. He also allows us a moment or two of comic respite. At one point, for instance, Lyra's mother bullies a series of ecclesiastical underlings: "The man bowed helplessly and led her away. The guard behind her blew out his cheeks with relief." Needless to say, Mrs. Coulter is as intoxicating and fluid as ever. And can it be that we will come to admire her as she plays out her desperate endgame? In this respect, as in many others, The Amber Spyglass is truly a book of revelations, moving from darkness visible to radiant truth. --Kerry Fried [via]
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American Heroby Larry BeinhartISBN 0679427260 (0-679-42726-0)
Hardcover, Pantheon
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Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0679420398 (0-679-42039-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Area 7by Matthew ReillyISBN 0732910854 (0-7329-1085-4)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan Australia
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Assassination Vacationby Sarah VowellISBN 074326004X (0-7432-6004-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Assassination Vacation'Book summary:A New York Times Bestseller
Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, she visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically important blood. The resulting narrative is the disturbing and fascinating story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture. [via]
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Big Secretsby William PoundstoneISBN 0688048307 (0-688-04830-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Secrets'Book summary:The Book That Gives the Inside Story on Hundreds of Secrets of American Life --Big Secrets.
Are there really secret backward messages in rock music, or is somebody nuts? We tested suspect tunes at a recording studio to find out.
What goes on at Freemason initiations? Here's the whole story, including -- yes! -- the electric carpet.
Colonel Sanders boasted that Kentucky Fried Chicken's eleven secret herbs and spices "stand on everybody's shelf." We got a sample of the seasoning mix and sent it to a food chemist for analysis.
Feverish rumor has it that Walt Disney's body was frozen and now lies in a secret cryonic vault somewhere beneath the Pirates of the Caribbean exhibit at Disneyland. Read the certified stranger-than-fiction truth.
Don't bother trying to figure out how Doug Henning, David Copperfield, and Harry Blackstone, Jr., perform their illusions. "Big Secrets" has complete explanations and diagrams, nothing left to the imagination.
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Blowback : A Thrillerby Brad ThorISBN 0743271157 (0-7432-7115-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blowback : A Thriller'Book summary:When a mysterious new weapon tips the balance against American and Allied forces throughout the Middle East, the only person the president can call for help is the man the administration has just fired - Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative, Scot Harvath. Caught live on Al Jazeera in an off-the-books operation, Harvath is forced to go to ground as a senator, with presidential aspirations, turns her sights on the White House and forces President Jack Rutledge to publicly end the career of America's number one counter-terrorism operative. But when the tide in the war against terror suddenly turns against the West, the president has no choice but to bring Harvath back inside. Ducking a congressional subpoena, Harvath travels to Cyprus where he learns about a weapon called The Sword of Allah, which terrorists intend to use to rid all Muslim lands of Western infidels. As the layers of truth unfold, Harvath is witness to realities more menacing than he ever could have imagined and must rely solely on his instincts to confront a new evil closing in on the United States. With his characteristic precision in describing military technology, high-voltage action, and sweeping international sensibility, Brad Thor has created another supercharged novel that is sure to thrill. [via]
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Brave New Worldby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0701107928 (0-7011-0792-8)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFKby Gerald L. PosnerISBN 0679418253 (0-679-41825-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK'Book summary:The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book, reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination, Gerald Posner examines all of the available evidence and reaches the only possible conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. There was no second gunman on the grassy knoll. The CIA was not involved. And although more than four million pages of documents have been released since Posner first made his case, they have served only to corroborate his findings. Case Closed remains the classic account against which all books about JFKs death must be measured.
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Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina: The Troublesome Reign of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Emperor of the Romans (Born 10 B.C., Died A.D. 54), as Described by Himself, Also His Murder at the Hands of the Notorious Agrippina (Mother of the Emperor Nero) and His Subsequent Deification, as Describby Robert GravesISBN 0679725733 (0-679-72573-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, U.F.O.s and the Conference at M.I.T.by C. D. BryanISBN 0679429751 (0-679-42975-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Confessions of a Crap Artist-Jack Isidoreby Philip K. DickISBN 0679741143 (0-679-74114-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Cultureby Paul KrassnerISBN 0671898434 (0-671-89843-4)
Softcover, Fireside
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Culture'Book summary:The outrageous and shocking autobiography of Paul Krassner, publisher of The Realist. From his notorious parody of William Manchester's book on Kennedy--reprinted here in full--to his descent into paranoia in the '70s and reemergence in the '80s, Krassner gives a highly irreverent look at life in the "alternate lane". 16-page photo insert. [via]
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Conversations with Lord Byron on Perversion, 163 Years after His Lordship's Deathby Amanda PranteraISBN 0689118821 (0-689-11882-1)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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Cuckoo's Eggby Clifford StollISBN 0743411463 (0-7434-1146-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cuckoo's Egg'Book summary:A sentimental favorite, The Cuckoo's Egg seems to have inspired a whole category of books exploring the quest to capture computer criminals. Still, even several years after its initial publication and after much imitation, the book remains a good read with an engaging story line and a critical outlook, as Clifford Stoll becomes, almost unwillingly, a one-man security force trying to track down faceless criminals who've invaded the university computer lab he stewards. What first appears as a 75-cent accounting error in a computer log is eventually revealed to be a ring of industrial espionage, primarily thanks to Stoll's persistence and intellectual tenacity. [via]
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Inside the World of Computer Espionageby Clifford Stoll, Julie RubensteinISBN 0671726889 (0-671-72688-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cuckoo's Egg: Inside the World of Computer Espionage'Book summary:Cliff stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at lawrence berkeley lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized users on his system. The hacker's code name was "hunter"-- a mystery invader hiding inside a twisting electronic labyrinth, breaking into u.s. Computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own, spying on the spy-- and plunging into an incredible international probe that finally gained the attention of top u.s. Counter-intelligence agents. "the cuckoo's egg" is his wild and suspenseful true story-- a year of deception, broken codes, satellites, missile bases and the ultimate sting operation-- and how one ingenious american trapped a spy ring paid in cash and cocaine, and reporting to the kgb [via]
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Divine Invasionby Philip K. DickISBN 0679734457 (0-679-73445-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Divine Invasion'Book summary:God is not dead: he has merely been exiled to an extraterrestrial planet. And it is on this planet that God meets Herb Asher and persuades him to help retake Earth from the demonic Belial. Featuring virtual reality, parallel worlds, and interstellar travel, The Divine Invasion blends philosophy and adventure in a way few authors can achieve. As the middle novel of Dicks VALIS trilogy, The Divine Invasion plays a pivotal role in answering the questions raised by the first novel, expanding that world while exploring just how much anyone can really know even God himself. [via]
Doomsday Conspiracyby Sidney SheldonISBN 0688104444 (0-688-10444-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Earth in Upheavalby Immanuel VelikovskyISBN 0671524658 (0-671-52465-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth in Upheaval'Book summary:In this epochal book, Immanuel Velikovsky, one of the great scientists of modern times, puts the complete histories of our Earth and of humanity on a new basis. He presents the results of his 10-year-long interdisciplinary research in an easily understandable, even entertaining manner. Inspite - or even because - of the disgraceful hostility, provoked by his theories, this book keeps being of ardent topicality, which in the light of recent scientific research is even growing. Earth in Upheaval - a very exactly investigated and easily understandable book - contains material that completely revolutionizes our view of the history of the earth. For all those who have ever wondered about the evolution of the earth, the formation of mountains and oceans, the origin of coal or fossils, the question of the ice ages and the history of animal and plant species, Earth in Upheaval is a MUST-READ! [via]
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Empower the People: Overthrow the Conspiracy That Is Stealing Your Money and Freedomby Tony BrownISBN 0688169740 (0-688-16974-0)
Softcover, Quill
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Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisisby Scott RitterISBN 0743247728 (0-7432-4772-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Scott Ritter spent seven years in Iraq as an arms inspector for the United Nations. His 1998 resignation as the U.N.'s chief weapons inspector there made front-page headlines around the world. In Endgame, Ritter draws on his experiences to take us inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq and to explain where U.S. policy in Iraq went wrong.
Ritter describes in detail the ways that Saddam tried to foil inspectors by concealing his weapons programs. He brings readers with him inside some of Iraq's most carefully guarded sites and shows us dramatic face-offs between U.N. inspectors and hostile Iraqi guards and officials. But Ritter criticizes the U.S. for squandering an international consensus on Iraq and trying to use the inspections process for uniquely American goals. He argues strongly against the proposed American military strike against Iraq, suggesting instead a bold and innovative solution to the long-standing crisis. [via]
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Endgame : Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and for Allby Scott RitterISBN 0684864851 (0-684-86485-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Endgame : Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and for All'Book summary:The resignation of Scott Ritter as chief weapons inspector for UNSCOM in August, 1998, made front-page news around the world. Now Scott Ritter draws on his seven years' experience hunting Saddam's weapons of mass destruction to take readers inside Iraq and show that country as it's never been seen by outsiders before. In "Endgame," he dissects the failure of U.S. policy in Iraq and reveals a bold new approach to ending the ongoing Iraq crisis. [via]
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Escape from the CIAby Ronald KesslerISBN 067172665X (0-671-72665-X)
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Flame Warby Joshua Quittner, Michelle SlatallaISBN 0688143660 (0-688-14366-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flame War'Book summary:When a cracked genius invents a perfect encryption code for private communication on the internet, a tool that also allows him to control all of the world's computers, a law student and a professor's daughter take up the challenge to stop the evil technowizard's plot [via]
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Saidby Philip K. DickISBN 067974066X (0-679-74066-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said'Book summary:>On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonyms with loss of life.
Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center. [via]More editions of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said:
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Fountainheadby Ayn RandISBN 0684869713 (0-684-86971-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fountainhead'Book summary:The Fountainhead is an unprecedented phenomenon in modern literature. Arguably the century's most challenging novel of ideas, when first published in 1943 it created a public furor and worldwide interest in its brilliant author, Ayn Rand.
On the surface, it is a story of a gifted young architect, his violent battle with conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with the beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. In his fight for success, he first discovers then rejects the seductive power of fame and money, finding that creative genius must ultimately triumph.
This novel also addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of these themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give The Fountainhead its enduring influence. Indeed, it is as relevant today as it was when written. [via]
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Fronteraby Lewis ShinerISBN 0671558994 (0-671-55899-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Gnostic Gospelsby Elaine PagelsISBN 0679724532 (0-679-72453-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gnostic Gospels'Book summary:Gnosticism's Christian form grew to prominence in the 2nd century A.D. Ultimately denounced as heretical by the early church, Gnosticism proposed a revealed knowledge of God ("gnosis" meaning "knowledge" in Greek), held as a secret tradition of the apostles. In The Gnostic Gospels, author Elaine Pagels suggests that Christianity could have developed quite differently if Gnostic texts had become part of the Christian canon. Without a doubt: Gnosticism celebrates God as both Mother and Father, shows a very human Jesus's relationship to Mary Magdalene, suggests the Resurrection is better understood symbolically, and speaks to self-knowledge as the route to union with God. Pagels argues that Christian orthodoxy grew out of the political considerations of the day, serving to legitimize and consolidate early church leadership. Her contrast of that developing orthodoxy with Gnostic teachings presents an intriguing trajectory on a world faith as it "might have become." The Gnostic Gospels provides engaging reading for those seeking a broader perspective on the early development of Christianity. --F. Hall [via]
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Golden Compassby Philip PullmanISBN 0679879242 (0-679-87924-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Compass'Book summary:Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal dæmon, the manifestation of their soul in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied:
As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had dæmons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them.
Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war." But Lyra's carefree existence changes forever when she and her dæmon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey dæmon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.In The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children's book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn't speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel, The Subtle Knife, will help put off that inevitability for a while longer. --Alix Wilber [via]
The Grass Crownby Colleen McCulloughISBN 0688093698 (0-688-09369-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Grass For His Pillowby Lian HearnISBN 073361566X (0-7336-1566-X)
Softcover, Hodder
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grass For His Pillow'Book summary:Lian Hearn's second novel in the Tales of the Otori, Grass For His Pillow continues to enrich and expand his mystical imaginings of feudal Japan. Picking up where Across the Nightingale Floor left off, Takeo fulfills his debt of honor and accepts his heritage as a member of the superhuman cabal of assassins known as "The Tribe," and is thus ingested into their plots. But his heart yearns for Kaede, his one true love, and secretly wishes to fulfill the final wishes of his adopted father, Otori Shigaru. Meanwhile, Kaede returns to her homeland to find her father's estate in ruin and her inheritance in jeopardy. The two each encounter vast political machinations and deadly consequences as they unconsciously move toward their overwhelming urges to reunite and defy (or perhaps embrace) fate.
Hearn's second book into the Tales of the Otori series is a more poignant tale than the first, painfully examining the lines between honor, duty, and love. With its calming and satisfying conclusion, the landscape of Hearn's mythical vision of Japan braces for a dazzling storm in the book to come. --Jeremy Pugh [via]
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 0671463969 (0-671-46396-9)
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I, Claudiusby Robert GravesISBN 067972477X (0-679-72477-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Claudius'Book summary:Having never seen the famous 1970s television series based on Graves' historical novel of ancient Rome and being generally uneducated about matters both ancient and Roman, I wasn't prepared for such an engaging book. But it's a ripping good read, this fictional autobiography set in the Roman Empire's days of glory and decadence. As a history lesson, it's fabulous; as a novel it's also wonderful. Best is Claudius himself, the stutterer who let everyone think he was an idiot (to avoid getting poisoned) but who reveals himself in the narrative to be a wry and likable observer. His story continues in Claudius the God. [via]
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolutionby Bernard BailynISBN 0674443020 (0-674-44302-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution'Book summary:The leaders of the American Revolution, writes the distinguished historian Bernard Bailyn, were radicals. But their concern was not to correct inequalities of class or income, not to remake the social order, but to "purify a corrupt constitution and fight off the apparent growth of prerogative power." They wished, in other words, to mend a broken system and improve upon it. In doing so they drew on many traditions of political and social thought, ranging from English conservative philosophers to exponents of the continental Enlightenment, from backward-looking interpretations of ancient Roman civilization to forward-looking views of a new American people. Bailyn carefully examines these sources of sometimes conflicting ideas and considers how the framers of the Constitution resolved them in their inventive doctrine of federalism. [via]
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The Illuminoidsby WilgusISBN 0671819496 (0-671-81949-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Joust of Honorby Paul Stewart, Chris RiddellISBN 0689872402 (0-689-87240-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The Last Days of Marilyn Monroeby Donald H. WolfeISBN 0688162886 (0-688-16288-6)
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Centuryby Greil MarcusISBN 0674535812 (0-674-53581-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century'Book summary:Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the emergence of the culture called punk. "I am an antichrist!" shouted singer Johnny Rotten--where in the world of pop music did that come from? Looking for an answer, with a high sense of the drama of the journey, Marcus takes us down the dark paths of counterhistory, a route of blasphemy, adventure, and surprise.
This is no mere search for cultural antecedents. Instead, what Marcus so brilliantly shows is that various kinds of angry, absolute demands--demands on society, art, and all the governing structures of everyday life--seem to be coded in phrases, images, and actions passed on invisibly, but inevitably, by people quite unaware of each other. Marcus lets us hear strange yet familiar voices: of such heretics as the Brethren of the Free Spirit in medieval Europe and the Ranters in seventeenth-century England; the dadaists in Zurich in 1916 and Berlin in 1918, wearing death masks, chanting glossolalia; one Michel Mourre, who in 1950 took over Easter Mass at Notre-Dame to proclaim the death of God; the Lettrist International and the Situationist International, small groups of Paris--based artists and writers surrounding Guy Debord, who produced blank-screen films, prophetic graffiti, and perhaps the most provocative social criticism of the 1950s and '60s; the rioting students and workers of May '68, scrawling cryptic slogans on city walls and bringing France to a halt; the Sex Pistols in London, recording the savage "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen."
Although the Sex Pistols shape the beginning and the end of the story, Lipstick Traces is not a book about music; it is about a common voice, discovered and transmitted in many forms. Working from scores of previously unexamined and untranslated essays, manifestos, and filmscripts, from old photographs, dada sound poetry, punk songs, collages, and classic texts from Marx to Henri Lefebvre, Marcus takes us deep behind the acknowledged events of our era, into a hidden tradition of moments that would seem imaginary except for the fact that they are real: a tradition of shared utopias, solitary refusals, impossible demands, and unexplained disappearances. Written with grace and force, humor and an insistent sense of tragedy and danger, Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself.
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Centuryby Greil MarcusISBN 0674535804 (0-674-53580-4)
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This is no mere search for cultural antecedents. Instead, what Marcus so brilliantly shows is that various kinds of angry, absolute demands--demands on society, art, and all the governing structures of everyday life--seem to be coded in phrases, images, and actions passed on invisibly, but inevitably, by people quite unaware of each other. Marcus lets us hear strange yet familiar voices: of such heretics as the Brethren of the Free Spirit in medieval Europe and the Ranters in seventeenth-century England; the dadaists in Zurich in 1916 and Berlin in 1918, wearing death masks, chanting glossolalia; one Michel Mourre, who in 1950 took over Easter Mass at Notre-Dame to proclaim the death of God; the Lettrist International and the Situationist International, small groups of Paris--based artists and writers surrounding Guy Debord, who produced blank-screen films, prophetic graffiti, and perhaps the most provocative social criticism of the 1950s and '60s; the rioting students and workers of May '68, scrawling cryptic slogans on city walls and bringing France to a halt; the Sex Pistols in London, recording the savage "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen."
Although the Sex Pistols shape the beginning and the end of the story, Lipstick Traces is not a book about music; it is about a common voice, discovered and transmitted in many forms. Working from scores of previously unexamined and untranslated essays, manifestos, and filmscripts, from old photographs, dada sound poetry, punk songs, collages, and classic texts from Marx to Henri Lefebvre, Marcus takes us deep behind the acknowledged events of our era, into a hidden tradition of moments that would seem imaginary except for the fact that they are real: a tradition of shared utopias, solitary refusals, impossible demands, and unexplained disappearances. Written with grace and force, humor and an insistent sense of tragedy and danger, Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself.
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Little Green Menby Christopher BuckleyISBN 0679452931 (0-679-45293-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722751 (0-671-72275-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of key passages. [via]
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The Marilyn Conspiracyby Milo A. SperiglioISBN 0671626124 (0-671-62612-4)
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Master Of Space And Timeby Rudy RuckerISBN 0671559974 (0-671-55997-4)
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Memorial Dayby Vince FlynnISBN 0743453980 (0-7434-5398-0)
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MEMORIAL DAY
CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States, just as the nation's capital prepares for a grand Memorial Day tribute to the veterans of World War II. Racing to Afghanistan, Mitch Rapp leads a commando raid on an al Queda stronghold in a remote border village -- and defuses plans for a nuclear strike on Washington. The crisis averted, the special ops work is done. But Rapp knows, in the face of a new kind of enemy, nothing is as it seems -- and it's up to him alone to avert a disaster of unimaginable proportions. [via]
The Missing Timesby Terry HansenISBN 0738836125 (0-7388-3612-5)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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Murder in the Calais Coachby Agatha ChristieISBN 0671774484 (0-671-77448-4)
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The Night Churchby Whitley StrieberISBN 067146955X (0-671-46955-X)
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The Origin of Satanby Elaine PagelsISBN 0679731180 (0-679-73118-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Satan'Book summary:. . . ground-breaking . . . Many times in the course of reading her explications I found myself saying, "Of course, why hasn't someone said this before?" By showing how the sectarian demonization of the "intimate enemies"--Jews and heretics--shaped early Christianity, the book helps us to understand the power of irrational forces that still need to be confronted in contemporary society. -- S. David Sperling, professor of Bible, Hebrew Union College [via]
Oswald's Tale : An American Mysteryby Norman MailerISBN 0679425357 (0-679-42535-7)
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Prayers for the Assassin: A Novel of the Futureby Robert FerrignoISBN 0743272897 (0-7432-7289-7)
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Primary Colors : A Novel of Politicsby AnonymousISBN 0679448594 (0-679-44859-4)
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The Quiet Americanby Graham GreeneISBN 0679600140 (0-679-60014-0)
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Radio Free Albemuthby Philip K. DickISBN 0679781374 (0-679-78137-4)
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Resolvedby Robert K. TanenbaumISBN 0743452879 (0-7434-5287-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Resolved'Book summary:Manhattan assistant district attorney Butch Karp returns in The Resolved, the 15th outing in Robert Tanenbaum's popular series. This time he's the hunted as well as the hunter and he's being stalked by a man he sent to prison over a decade ago--a psychopath who supposedly died in prison. But Felix Tighe is very much alive and now he's the paid assassin of a group of Islamic fundamentalists whose terrorist goals will make 9/11 look like a training exercise. Tighe has his own violent score to settle with Karp, his estranged wife Marlene and their three children--particularly Lucy, who's no stranger to demons like Felix.
Tanenbaum's plotting is confident and his pacing assured--he's a master of the legal thriller, as good if not better than Grisham and his peers, and he works from an insider's knowledge of Manhattan's criminal justice milieu. But what makes this series remarkable is the author's ability to keep his characters fresh and interesting by putting them in circumstances that reveal more of their emotional, spiritual and marital dimensions with every new adventure. The Resolved is a terrific read. --Jane Adams, Amazon.com [via]
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Running Out of Timeby Margaret Peterson Haddix, Dan CraigISBN 0689812361 (0-689-81236-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Running Out Of Time'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, 13-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists. [via]
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Saharaby Clive CusslerISBN 0671521101 (0-671-52110-1)
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Search the Skyby Frederik Pohl, C. M. KornbluthISBN 0671720120 (0-671-72012-0)
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Secret Messages: Concealment, Codes, and Other Types of Ingenious Communicationby William Butler, L. Douglas KeeneyISBN 0684869985 (0-684-86998-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Secret Supperby Alberto Manguel, Javier SierraISBN 0743287649 (0-7432-8764-9)
Hardcover, Atria Books
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The Secret Supperby Javier Sierra, Alberto ManguelISBN 0743287657 (0-7432-8765-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Supper'Book summary:The Da Vinci juggernaut rolls on, this time in the capable hands of a bestselling author in the Spanish-speaking world. The Secret Supper has been ably translated by Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading, that delightful revelation that squiggles on a page are words, and words make stories. Set in 1497 Milan, at the time of the painting of the Cenacolo, or The Last Supper, in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Sierra has created a tale of religious fanaticism, betrayal, murder, Church politics, artistic chicanery and mystery to confound the reader.
Fra Agostino Leyre, a Papal Inquisitor, is sent to Milan to confirm--or not--the messages of the "Soothsayer," who alleges that Leonardo Da Vinci is a heretic and has hidden heretical messages in his painting of The Last Supper. Leonardo is a figure larger than life, literally. A blue-eyed, tall, handsome man, always dressed in white, he is surrounded by faithful students and friends who are his acolytes. His brilliant mind, ranging over a multitude of ideas, has gained him a reputation for "hiding heterodox ideas in paintings apparently pious."
What Father Agostino follows is a labyrinthine path through alliances and rivalries, differences of opinion about Leonardo and a discussion of the heresy of the Cathars. They are a fascinating sect, more extra-Christianity than Christian heretics. Their practices are based on a belief that certain deprivations--primarily food and sex--will purify and make them worthy. Sierra is a very fine guide, taking the reader through palaces and monasteries rife with intrigue and typical of the flowering of intellect that came after the Dark Ages. It is a time when "Suddenly, from one day to the next, Plato's Greece, Cleopatra's Egypt and even the extravagant curiosities of the Chinese Empire that Marco Polo discovered seemed to deserve greater praise than our own Scriptural stories." Dangerous for the incumbency.
A compelling case is made that Leonardo's heretical beliefs are there for all to see in The Last Supper, if only we know how to find them. Sierra gives us the key--and keeps the suspense going right up to the end of the book. It isn't necessary to believe any of it, or even care if it's true, to enjoy this pilgrimage through another time and place. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dickby Philip K. Dick, Lawrence SutinISBN 0679747877 (0-679-74787-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick : Selected Literary and Philosophical Writingsby Philip K. Dick, Lawrence Sutin, Sutin LawrenceISBN 0679426442 (0-679-42644-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Sightings: Ufosby Susan MichaelsISBN 0684836300 (0-684-83630-0)
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The Sion Revelation: The Truth About the Guardians of Christ's Sacred Bloodlineby Clive Prince, Lynn PicknettISBN 0743263030 (0-7432-6303-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sion Revelation: The Truth About the Guardians of Christ's Sacred Bloodline'Book summary:An essential notion in the #1 New York Times bestseller The Da Vinci Code is the existence of an age-old French society, the Priory of Sion, whose task it is to protect Christ's sacred bloodline. In The Sion Revelation, Picknett and Prince reveal the story of the Priory, taking readers on a highly significant, disturbing, and even alarming ride through history into an intriguing world where a great many uncomfortable facts will have to be faced, both religious and political.
Drawing on a wealth of astonishing evidence, they answer numerous questions that shroud this society, including:
" Does the Priory actually exist or is the group's entire history an elaborate hoax?
" Was Leonardo da Vinci really one of the Priory's Grand Masters?
" What is the truth behind Pierre Plantard, the enigmatic French aristocrat who claimed to be a Priory Grand Master -- and who some claim was a Nazi sympathizer?
" Could the Priory be a front for other occult societies in Europe with religious or even political agendas?
By carefully untangling centuries of obfuscation, rumor, and documented fact, The Sion Revelation unravels the great intricacies of this secret society and takes us on a historical journey that is as groundbreaking in its explanation as it is riveting in its telling.
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Starkby Ben EltonISBN 0718133021 (0-7181-3302-1)
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The Stepford Wivesby Ira LevinISBN 0718110676 (0-7181-1067-6)
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Strange Death of Vincent Fosterby Christopher RuddyISBN 074324253X (0-7432-4253-X)
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Strange Secrets: Real Government Files on the Unknownby Andy Roberts, Nick RedfernISBN 0743469763 (0-7434-6976-3)
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A Sudden Wild Magicby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0688118828 (0-688-11882-8)
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Taltosby Anne RiceISBN 067942573X (0-679-42573-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Taltos'Book summary:Ash at once is propelled into de world of Rowan Mayfair, and into the mysteries of the Mayfair family_the New Orleansdynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and the dizzying powers of his own species... [via]
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That Hideous Strengthby C. S. LewisISBN 0743234928 (0-7432-3492-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'That Hideous Strength'Book summary:Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which That Hideous Strength is the third volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of its moral concerns. For the trilogy's central figure, C. S. Lewis created perhaps the most memorable character of his career, the brilliant, clear-eyed, and fiercely brave philologist Dr. Elwin Ransom. Appropriately, Lewis modeled Dr. Ransom on his dear friend J. R. R. Tolkien, for in the scope of its imaginative achievement and the totality of its vision of not one but two imaginary worlds, the Space Trilogy is rivaled in this century only by Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Readers who fall in love with Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia as children unfailingly cherish his Space Trilogy as adults; it, too, brings to life strange and magical realms in which epic battles are fought between the forces of light and those of darkness. But in the many layers of its allegory, and the sophistication and piercing brilliance of its insights into the human condition, it occupies a place among the English language's most extraordinary works for any age, and for all time.
In That Hideous Strength, the final installment of the Space Trilogy, the dark forces that have been repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for the force that can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization that is gaining force throughout England, N.I.C.E. (the National Institute of Coordinated Experiments), secretly controlled by humanity's mortal enemies, plans to use Merlin in their plot to "recondition" society. Dr. Ransom forms a countervailing group, Logres, in opposition, and the two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close. [via]
Total Recallby Piers AnthonyISBN 0688052096 (0-688-05209-6)
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 067172262X (0-671-72262-X)
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The Transmigration of Timothy Archerby Philip K. DickISBN 0679734449 (0-679-73444-9)
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The Trialby Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin MuirISBN 0679409947 (0-679-40994-7)
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Ufo's the Final Answer?: Ufology for the 21st Centuryby David Barclay, Therese Marie BarclayISBN 0713723629 (0-7137-2362-9)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Under Western Eyes: Library Editionby Joseph ConradISBN 0679405542 (0-679-40554-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a Presidentby Jeffrey ToobinISBN 0743204131 (0-7432-0413-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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