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Alice 19th: Blindnessby Yu Watase, Lance CaselmanISBN 1591162157 (1-59116-215-7)
Softcover, Viz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice 19th: Blindness'Book summary:Jealousy makes the heart grow darker and Mayura's envy of Alice and Kyo's developing relationship makes her vulnerable to being devoured by Darva, dark mistress of the Maram words. Neo Lotis Masters, Alice and Kyo are the only ones who have even a chance against Darva, but are they strong enough to go up against this most formidable of enemies? [via]
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All Around the Townby Mary Higgins ClarkISBN 1581650620 (1-58165-062-0)
Hardcover, Literary Express
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At Home in Mitfordby Jan KaronISBN 1589190629 (1-58919-062-9)
Softcover, David C Cook
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Home in Mitford'Book summary:A Light in the Window is the second installment in this enormously popular series about a small-town rector, Father Tim, and the heartwarming cast of characters surrounding him. This time Father Tim, a lifelong bachelor, finds his heart distracted by his free-spirited neighbor Cynthia, but his stomach and the rectory cash box are distracted by Edith, a wealthy widow who is wooing the rector with love potion casseroles. At every turn, including when a brooding Irish cousin decides to move in, Father Tim must decide whether he will practice what he preaches.
Fans of the series say they long to buy real estate in Mitford, just so they can live next door to these funny and endearing characters and feel the embrace of such a loving community. But what author Jan Karon probably knows, and many readers are starting to figure out, is that the integrity and solid Christian values that these characters possess can be found in just about every neighborhood, and with inspiration like this book, anyone can build their own Mitford community. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Battle Royale 1by Masayuki TaguchiISBN 1591823145 (1-59182-314-5)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Battle Royale 1'Book summary:In the near future, a random class of 9th graders has been chosen to compete on The Program, a popular game show that requires its contestants to battle to the death on a top-secret island. Included in this class are Shuuya Nanahara, Noriko Nakagawa, Shogo Kawada, Kazuo Kiriyama, and Mitsuko Souma. Five students that couldn't be more different, yet now find themselves sharing a common plight. Abandoned, and with no hope of escape, they must kill each other and the rest of their class, until only one of them is left living. Unwilling to slaughter his fellow classmates for the amusement of others, Shuuya forms an alliance to fight back and deliver a counter-punch to the government that ruined their lives. However, he must be careful, for there are some students who are determined to "win" this cruel game. [via]
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Blue Shoeby Anne LamottISBN 1573223425 (1-57322-342-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Shoe'Book summary:One of the few progressive Christian writers with a national voice, Anne Lamott's work (Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions) ranges from the meditative to the hilarious. Blue Shoe falls somewhere in the middle of that range. A slow, thoughtful novel, rooted in the domestic routines of child-raising, Blue Shoe follows the newly separated Mattie Ryder as she moves back into her childhood home, recently vacated by her elderly mother, and undertakes the renovation of her entire life. Her best friend Angela has left the San Francisco Bay area to move in with her new lover, Julie. Mattie's ex-husband, Nicky, has settled so quickly into a steady relationship with a young woman named Lee that it is clear they were involved during his marriage to Mattie. Nicky and Mattie's two children are displaying signs of emotional disturbance (Lamott is at her best in describing the quietly weird behavior of young children). And to add to the mix, Mattie's mother is falling into a senile dementia characterized by pleading phone calls and wacky assertions of independence. All Mattie wants is a little more money, a decent boyfriend, and for her philandering father to rise from his grave and solve all her problems. Is that so much to ask? Some of the action in this novel could have been compressed, and the major subplot involving Mattie's father fails to excite, but the strengths of Blue Shoe--humor, unflinching characterization, and keen observation--more than compensate for its weaknesses. --Regina Marler [via]
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Boys over Flowers 5 Hana Yori Dangoby Gerard Jones, Yoko KamioISBN 159116141X (1-59116-141-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boys over Flowers 5 Hana Yori Dango'Book summary:Tsukushi endures innumerable ups and downs in this entry in Yoko Kamio's acclaimed series. Domyoji Tsukasa is as jealous as ever with the arrival of Thomas, while lurid and embarrassing photos of Tsukushi and Thomas emerge. Just when she thought things couldn't get any worse, Tsukushi's tormentors up the ante of cruelty and violence. Only one boy comes to her rescue. Which one will it be? [via]
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Boys over Flowers 5 Hana Yori Dangoby Yoko KamioISBN 1591168015 (1-59116-801-5)
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Boys over Flowers 6: Hana Yori Dangoby Yoko KamioISBN 1591163714 (1-59116-371-4)
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Boys over Flowers 6: Hana Yori Dangoby Gerard Jones, Yoko KamioISBN 1591163706 (1-59116-370-6)
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Cardcaptor Sakuraby Clamp, Carol Fox, Anita SenguptaISBN 159182883X (1-59182-883-X)
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Club Deadby Charlaine HarrisISBN 1587249936 (1-58724-993-6)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Club Dead'Book summary:A New York Times Bestselling Author
An Anthony Award-winning AuthorThere's only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with (at least voluntarily) and that's Bill. But recently he's been a little distant - in another state, distant. His sinister and sexy boss has an idea where to look. But when Sookie finally finds Bill - caught in an act of serious betrayal - she's not sure whether to save him . . . or sharpen some stakes. [via]
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Dead Until Darkby Charlaine HarrisISBN 1587246309 (1-58724-630-9)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Visit our Sookie Stackhouse series feature page.
For years, Charlaine Harris has delighted fans with her mystery series featuring small-town waitress-turned- paranormal sleuth Sookie Stackhouse. Now, we are pleased to offer her first novel in the series in a special hardcover edition.
And with HBO launching an all-new show, True Blood, based on the Southern Vampire novels, the demand for Charlaine Harris and Sookie Stackhouse will be bigger than ever.More editions of Dead Until Dark:
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Depth Takes a Holiday : Essays from Lesser Los Angelesby Sandra T. LohISBN 1573226114 (1-57322-611-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Depth Takes a Holiday : Essays from Lesser Los Angeles'Book summary:A smart, sassy woman who's not afraid to show it, Sandra Tsing Loh chronicles California's San Fernando Valley, the "other" Los Angeles, for Buzz magazine. In this collection of her essays, she pays homage to "the futon dwellers," skillfully dissects bohemian life in L.A., and makes some outrageously incisive comments about dating. Her essays are very funny, and, best of all, Loh is a diligent reporter. She gives you the facts, screwy as they may be, as she details lovingly the Los Angeles that she admits is "America's cultural scapegoat." [via]
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Depth Takes a Holiday: Essays from Lesser Los Angelesby Sandra Tsing LohISBN 1573220310 (1-57322-031-0)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books
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The Dream of Scipioby Iain PearsISBN 1573229865 (1-57322-986-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dream of Scipio'Book summary:"May well be the best historical mystery ever written," proclaimed The Sunday Boston Globe about Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost, while Booklist called its publication "a major literary event." Iain Pears's international bestseller was greeted with front-page reviews ("A crafty, utterly mesmerizing intellectual thriller"-The Washington Post Book World), named a New York Times Notable Book, and hailed as a Book to Remember by the New York Public Library. Now he returns with a greatly anticipated novel that is so brilliantly constructed, the author himself describes it as "a complexity."
The centuries are the fifth (the final days of the Roman Empire); the fourteenth (the years of the Black Death); and the twentieth (World War II). The setting for each is the same-Provence-and each has at its heart a love story. The narratives intertwine seamlessly, but what joins them thematically is an ancient text-"The Dream of Scipio"-a work of neo-Platonism that poses timeless philosophical questions. What is the obligation of the individual in a society under siege? What is the role of learning when civilization itself is threatened, whether by acts of man or nature? Does virtue lie more in engagement or in neutrality? "Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless," warns one of Pears's characters. [via] -
East of Eden: An Easy Guide to Car Maintenance And Repairby John SteinbeckISBN 1587245620 (1-58724-562-0)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families -- the Trasks and the Hamiltons -- whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. [via]
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuationby Lynne TrussISBN 1592402038 (1-59240-203-8)
Softcover, Gotham Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation'Book summary:We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.[via]More editions of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation:
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Elizabeth Costelloby J. M. CoetzeeISBN 1587246678 (1-58724-667-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabeth Costello'Book summary:For South African writer J.M. Coetzee, winner of two Booker Prizes and the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature, the world of receiving literary awards and giving speeches must be such a commonplace that he has put the circuit at the center of his book, Elizabeth Costello. As the work opens, in fact, the eponymous Elizabeth, a fictional novelist, is in Williamstown, Pennsylvania, to receive the Stowe Award. For her speech at the Williamstown's Altona College she chooses the tired topic, "What Is Realism?" and quickly loses her audience in her unfocused discussion of Kafka. From there, readers follow her to a cruise ship where she is virtually imprisoned as a celebrity lecturer to the ship's guests. Next, she is off to Appleton College where she delivers the annual Gates Lecture. Later, she will even attend a graduation speech.
Coetzee has made this project difficult for himself. Occasional writing--writing that includes graduation speeches, acceptance speeches, or even academic lectures--is a less than auspicious form around which to build a long work of fiction. A powerful central character engaged in a challenging stage of life might sustain such a work. Yet, at the start, Coetzee declares that Elizabeth is "old and tired," and her best book, The House on Eccles Street is long in her past. Elizabeth Costello lacks a progressive plot and offers little development over the course of each new performance at the lectern. Readers are given Elizabeth fully formed with only brief glimpses of her past sexual dalliances and literary efforts.
In the end, Elizabeth Costello seems undecided about its own direction. When Elizabeth is brought to a final reckoning at the gates of the afterlife, she begins to suspect that she is actually in hell, "or at least purgatory: a purgatory of clichés." Perhaps Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello, which can be read as an extended critique of clichéd writing, is a portrait of this purgatory. While some readers may find Coetzee's philosophical prose sustenance enough on the journey, some will turn back at the gate. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Faerie Warsby Herbie BrennanISBN 1582349436 (1-58234-943-6)
Softcover, Bloomsbury USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faerie Wars'Book summary:Faerie Wars, by Herbie Brennan follows in the footsteps of Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl with its tale of fairy-folk and derring-do. But whereas Colfer's little people have a thoroughly modern edge throughout, Brennan comes at them from a slightly different angle in a highly original novel that weaves modern science with a good, old-fashioned fantasy story.
Henry, an ordinary boy, is thrown into turmoil when his mother apparently has an affair with his father's secretary and it looks as if his hitherto safe, if a little dull, world is about to fall to pieces. To avoid the arguments and the tense silences he heads for the haven of Mr Fogarty's house to spend time with the old man whose passion lies in scientific experiments and the accompanying paraphernalia.
Meanwhile, on an altogether different plane, Pyrgus Malvae, son of an emperor, has fallen out with his father and sets about making mischief. What he doesn't realise is that there are greater forces at work than his teenage tantrums, and not only his life, but that of his family's, is under serious threat. To save his life he transports, accidentally ending up in Mr Fogarty's back garden (where he appears as a tiny fairy--bizarre but true!). Before long, Pyrgus Malvae, Henry and Mr Fogarty are trapped in battle between distant worlds and dark forces, the result of which will change all their lives forever.
The aforementioned Eoin Colfer reckons that Herbie Brennan is a master of mythology, science and fantasy. Indeed he is, and despite a few hiccups in the handling of Henry's situation which seem somehow ill at ease with the rest of the book, he pulls off his first major work of fiction with admirable poise in a pleasingly challenging fantasy for older readers. (Includes some strong language and subject matter). Recommend for ages 11 and over. --Susan Harrison [via]
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Fruits Basket 1by Jake Forbes, Natsuki Takaya, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Alethea Nibley, Athena NibleyISBN 1591826039 (1-59182-603-9)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fruits Basket 1'Book summary:Tohru Honda was an orphan when one day fate kicked her out of the house and on to land belonging to the mysterious Sohma family. After stumbling upon the teenage squatter, the Sohmas invite Tohru to stay in their house in exchange for cooking and cleaning. Everything goes well until she discovers the Sohma family's secret, when hugged by members of the opposite sex, they turn into their Chinese Zodiac animal! [via]
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Fruits Basket 2by Natsuki Takaya, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Alethea Nibley, Athena NibleyISBN 1591826047 (1-59182-604-7)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fruits Basket 2'Book summary:Ever since Tohru Honda discovered the Zodiac secret of the Sohma clan, her eyes have been opened to a world of magic and wonder. But with such a great secret comes great responsibility. When her best friends Hana-chan and Uo-chan come to the Sohma house for a sleepover, Tohru has her work cut out for her keeping the "Cat" in the bag and the "Dog" on a leash. [via]
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Fruits Basket 3: Ultimate Editionby Natsuki TakayaISBN 1591826055 (1-59182-605-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fruits Basket 3: Ultimate Edition'Book summary:Fruit Basket Vol. 3 [via]
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Fruits Basket 4by Natsuki TakayaISBN 1591826063 (1-59182-606-3)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fruits Basket 4'Book summary:*Peaking at #1 in sales and consistently a strong seller, according to BookScan *Inspired the Hit Anime available on DVD! *The #1 Selling Shojo Manga in Japan! *The best-selling shojo in America *Part of YALSA's 2005 top ten Quick picks for Reluctant Young Adult ReadersElist!
When the infamous Akito makes an in-class appearance at the start of the school year, the Sohma family worries that his arrival will be an uncensored exercise of show-and-tell about Yuki's past. Meanwhile, when Ayame vows to rekindle his brothers' lost friendship, he begins to realize that you can choose your friends but you can't choose your family--especially when they're acting like animals! [via]
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A Gesture Lifeby Chang-Rae LeeISBN 1573228281 (1-57322-828-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Gesture Life'Book summary:Never judge a book by its cover--or, for that matter, by its name. Otherwise you might overlook A Gesture Life, Chang-rae Lee's fine if awkwardly entitled follow-up to Native Speaker. As he did in his debut, the author explores the dilemma of being an outsider--and the corrupt, heartbreaking bargains an outsider will make to adapt to his surroundings. The protagonist, Franklin Hata, has actually spent his whole life donning one variety or another of existential camouflage. First, as a native-born Korean, he bends over backwards to fit into Japanese culture, circa 1944. Then he attempts a similar bit of environmental adaptation in postwar America--more specifically, in the slumbering New York suburb of Bedley Run. But in neither case does he quite succeed, which gives the novel its peculiar, faltering sense of tragedy.
"There is something exemplary to the sensation of near perfect lightness," confesses this resident alien, "of being in a place and not being there, which seems of course a chronic condition of my life but then, too, its everyday unction, the trouble finding a remedy but not quite a cure, so that the problem naturally proliferates until it has become you through and through. Such is the cast of my belonging, molding to whatever is at hand."
A Gesture Life presents this chronic condition in two different time frames. In one, delivered via flashback, Hata is a medical officer in Japan's Imperial Army. Posted to a tiny installation in rural Burma, he's ordered to oversee a fresh detachment of Korean "comfort women"--i.e., victims of institutionalized gang rape. At first he maintains his professional distance, not to mention his erotic appetite: "It was the notion of what lay beneath the crumpled cotton of their poor clothes that shook me like an air-raid siren." But soon enough he's drawn into a relationship with one of the women, whose bloody and horrific denouement leaves a permanent mark on the "unblissed detachment" of his existence.
The present-tense, American half of the story revolves around Hata's life in Bedley Run, where he adopts, alienates, and finally forms a shaky rapport with his daughter, Sunny. We might expect this sort of material to pale in comparison with his wartime trauma. But oddly enough, Hata's suburban melancholia is much more compelling--and the gradual disclosure of his past, which is supposed to ratchet up the tension, seems too crude a mechanism for a writer of Lee's superlative talents. (His truest tutelary spirit, in fact, might be John Cheever, who gets an explicit nod at one point.) None of this is to dismiss A Gesture Life, whose dual narratives are written with a rare, unhurried elegance. And if Lee's splice job lacks the absolute adhesion we expect from a great work of art, he nonetheless pulls off a remarkable, moving feat: he puts us inside the skin of a man who, "if he could choose, might always go silent and unseen." --James Marcus [via]
God-Shaped Hole: A Novelby Tiffanie DebartoloISBN 1570719586 (1-57071-958-6)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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The Healerby Dee HendersonISBN 1576739252 (1-57673-925-2)
Softcover, Multnomah Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Healer'Book summary:Rachel O'Malley works disasters for a living. Her specialty is helping children through trauma. For years Rachel has touched grief as she helps others through it, but now grief is something very personal -- she is losing her own sister to cancer. Helping the other O'Malleys through the crisis is taking everything Rachel has to give. When a school shooting rips through her community, she must lean hard against God to find the strength to help the children. For there is more than just sorrow confronting her, there's a secret. One of the students was there. One of them witnessed the shooting. And the murder weapon is still missing . . . [via]
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Thingsby J. T. LeroyISBN 1582342113 (1-58234-211-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things'Book summary:The extraordinary stories that brought the author a cult following at the age of sixteen.[via]
Circulated copies of LeRoy's handwritten notebook pages brought early attention to the then unpublished author. In print for the first time, these loosely connected autobiographical stories describe the harrowing experiences of a young boy's life on the run. From the heartbreaking "Meteor," where he struggles for the attention of his wandering mother, to the paranoia of "Coal"-'Whenever things feel out of control I know the black coal is doing it, and I know what to do, my mom taught me'-to living on the streets of San Francisco in "Natoma Street," JT LeRoy's voice is as lyrical and nuanced as the readers of his acclaimed debut novel Sarah have come to expect. Fresh, raw, and absolutely unforgettable, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things is sure to establish LeRoy as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary fiction.More editions of The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things:
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Hot Bloodedby Maggie Shayne, Angela Knight, Emma Holly, Christine FeehanISBN 1587247631 (1-58724-763-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hot Blooded'Book summary:A New York Times Bestseller
Four New York Times bestselling authors offer a fiction quartet featuring four hot predators and four hot women: A bound man with a voracious appetite . . . A werewolf with human desires . . . A shape-shifter with one basic need . . . An immortal lover with a passion for mortal women . . . These are the stories of Hot Blooded. [via]
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If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Nowby Sandra Tsing LohISBN 1573226955 (1-57322-695-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Now : A Novel'Book summary:A couple of twentysomethings dreaming of the fame and fortune awaiting them in not-too-close Los Angeles shack up in a dreary tract house, until good luck finds them. A first novel. 15,000 first printing." [via]
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An Instance of the Fingerpostby Iain PearsISBN 1573227951 (1-57322-795-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'Book summary:An Instance of the Fingerpost is that rarest of all possible literary beasts--a mystery powered as much by ideas as by suspects, autopsies, and smoking guns. Hefty, intricately plotted, and intellectually ambitious, Fingerpost has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and, for once, the comparison is apt.
The year is 1663, and the setting is Oxford, England, during the height of Restoration political intrigue. When Dr. Robert Grove is found dead in his Oxford room, hands clenched and face frozen in a rictus of pain, all the signs point to poison. Rashomon-like, the narrative circles around Grove's murder as four different characters give their version of events: Marco da Cola, a visiting Italian physician--or so he would like the reader to believe; Jack Prestcott, the son of a traitor who fled the country to avoid execution; Dr. John Wallis, a mathematician and cryptographer with a predilection for conspiracy theories; and Anthony Wood, a mild-mannered Oxford antiquarian whose tale proves to be the book's "instance of the fingerpost." (The quote comes from the philosopher Bacon, who, while asserting that all evidence is ultimately fallible, allows for "one instance of a fingerpost that points in one direction only, and allows of no other possibility.")
Like The Name of the Rose, this is one whodunit in which the principal mystery is the nature of truth itself. Along the way, Pears displays a keen eye for period details as diverse as the early days of medicine, the convoluted politics of the English Civil War, and the newfangled fashion for wigs. Yet Pears never loses sight of his characters, who manage to be both utterly authentic denizens of the 17th century and utterly authentic human beings. As a mystery, An Instance of the Fingerpost is entertainment of the most intelligent sort; as a novel of ideas, it proves equally satisfying. [via]
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Kokoroby Natsume SosekiISBN 1576465853 (1-57646-585-3)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kokoro'Book summary:It was during the Meiji era, which lasted from 1868 to 1912, that Japan emerged as a modern nation; and it was towards the latter part of this period that the modern Japanese novel reached its maturity, and true masters of what was essentially a western literary form began to appear.Of these novelists, Natsume Soseki was perhaps the most profound and the most versatile.
Soseki was born in Tokyo in 1867, when the city was still known as Yedo. He was educated at the Imperial University, where he studied English literature. In 1896, he joined the staff of the Fifth National College in Kumamoto, and in 1900, he was sent to England as a government scholar. He returned to Japan in 1903 as lecturer in English literature at the Imperial University. He was dissatisfied with academic life, and in 1907 decided to devote all his time to writing novels and essays. [via]
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A Light in the Windowby Jan KaronISBN 1574902555 (1-57490-255-5)
Softcover, Thomas t Beeler
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Light in the Window'Book summary:A Light in the Window is the second installment in this enormously popular series about a small-town rector, Father Tim, and the heartwarming cast of characters surrounding him. This time Father Tim, a lifelong bachelor, finds his heart distracted by his free-spirited neighbor Cynthia, but his stomach and the rectory cash box are distracted by Edith, a wealthy widow who is wooing the rector with love potion casseroles. At every turn, including when a brooding Irish cousin decides to move in, Father Tim must decide whether he will practice what he preaches.
Fans of the series say they long to buy real estate in Mitford, just so they can live next door to these funny and endearing characters and feel the embrace of such a loving community. But what author Jan Karon probably knows, and many readers are starting to figure out, is that the integrity and solid Christian values that these characters possess can be found in just about every neighborhood, and with inspiration like this book, anyone can build their own Mitford community. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Living Dead in Dallasby Charlaine HarrisISBN 1587249359 (1-58724-935-9)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living Dead in Dallas'Book summary:Book 2 in The Southern Vampire Series
A New York Times Bestselling Author
Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is on a streak of bad luck. First, her coworker is murdered. Then, she's face-to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins. But they saved her life, so when one of the bloodsuckers asks for a favor, Sookie complies - and soon she's in Dallas using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. [via]
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The Lord of the Ringsby J. R. R. Tolkien, SparkNotes StaffISBN 1586637908 (1-58663-790-8)
Softcover, Spark Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings'Book summary:Featuring explanations of key themes, Motifs, and Symbols including: The ambiguity of evil Fellowship Redemption Songs of singing The natural world The ring And detailed analysis of these important characters: Fordo baggings Sam Gamgee Gandalf Aragorn Pippin took Gollum [via]
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Marmalade Boyby Wataru YoshizumiISBN 1591820715 (1-59182-071-5)
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Marsby Fuyumi SoryoISBN 1591820545 (1-59182-054-5)
Softcover, TOKYOPOP, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mars'Book summary:Kira is a lonesome waif who cares more about her art than anything else. Rei is an arrogant, rebellious and tough playboy who wears his delinquency like a badge. When these two opposites find each other, the sparks fly, but they also attract some unwanted attention. While Kira deals with Reis jealous suitors, Rei has to confront demons from his past. [via]
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The Masterby Colm ToibinISBN 1587248255 (1-58724-825-5)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master'Book summary:A New York Times Bestseller
Brilliant and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. In stunningly resonant prose, Toibin captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. [via]
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The Message: The New Testament in Contemporary Languageby Eugene PetersonISBN 1576834506 (1-57683-450-6)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Message: The New Testament in Contemporary Language'Book summary:Gods Word was meant to be read. But more than that, it was meant to be understood. It was first written in the language of the peopleof fishermen, shopkeepers, and carpenters. The Message Remix gets back to that: You can read it and understand it.
In The Message Remix, there are new verse-numbered paragraphs that will help you study and find favorite passages. Or, you can just read it like a book and let the narrative speak to you. After all, it is Gods story, with its heroes and villains, conflicts and resolutions. Either way, its Gods Wordthe Truthin a user-friendly form. [via]
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The Message Remix: New Testament In Contemporary Language, Redby Eugene H. PetersonISBN 1576838641 (1-57683-864-1)
Softcover, Think
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The Message Remix: Bible in Contemporary language Duo Tone Red and Beigeby Eugene PetersonISBN 1576837971 (1-57683-797-1)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Message Remix: Bible in Contemporary language Duo Tone Red and Beige'Book summary:Gods Word was meant to be read. But more than that, it was meant to be understood. It was first written in the language of the peopleof fishermen, shopkeepers, and carpenters. The Message Remix gets back to that: You can read it and understand it.
In The Message Remix, there are new verse-numbered paragraphs that will help you study and find favorite passages. Or, you can just read it like a book and let the narrative speak to you. After all, it is Gods story, with its heroes and villains, conflicts and resolutions. Either way, its Gods Wordthe Truthin a user-friendly form. [via]
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The Message Remix: Purple Pocket Editionby Eugene H. PetersonISBN 1576838676 (1-57683-867-6)
Softcover, Think
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Message Remix: Purple Pocket Edition'Book summary:Gods Word was meant to be read. But more than that, it was meant to be understood. It was first written in the language of the peopleof fishermen, shopkeepers, and carpenters. The Message Remix gets back to that: You can read it and understand it.
In The Message Remix, there are new verse-numbered paragraphs that will help you study and find favorite passages. Or, you can just read it like a book and let the narrative speak to you. After all, it is Gods story, with its heroes and villains, conflicts and resolutions. Either way, its Gods Wordthe Truthin a user-friendly form. [via]
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The Message Remix: The Bible in Contemporary Languageby Eugene H. PetersonISBN 1576834344 (1-57683-434-4)
Hardcover, NavPress Publishing Group
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The Message Remix: Vintage Brown & Navyby Eugene PetersonISBN 157683798X (1-57683-798-X)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
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The Message the Bible in Contemporary Language: Genuineleather/Dark Navy/Slimline Editionby Eugene PetersonISBN 1576834808 (1-57683-480-8)
Softcover, Navpress
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The Message// Remix: The Bible in Contemporary Language, Mustardby Eugene H. PetersonISBN 1576838242 (1-57683-824-2)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
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The Message//Remix: Pause A Daily Reading Bibleby Eugene H. Peterson, Mark TabbISBN 1576838439 (1-57683-843-9)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Message//Remix: Pause A Daily Reading Bible'Book summary:This Book is God's Word. Experience Him more deeply through daily readings that will take you through the Bible in one year, two years, or four years.With a book-at-a-time reading plan that immerses you in an Old Testament and a New Testament passage daily, this daily reading Bible also gives you time to pause with a time of reflection on the seventh day.Includes reflection questions as well as Eugene H. Peterson's introduction to the Bible and to each individual book. These introductions set the stage for the book and help you understand that book's unique message.Text taken from the best-selling The Message//REMIX. [via]
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The Message//Remix: The Bible In Contemporary Language, Pink, Hypercolor!by Gugene H. PetersonISBN 1576838811 (1-57683-881-1)
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The Message//Remix, The Bible in Contemporary Language: Hypercolor Blue Bubbleby Eugene PetersonISBN 1576839192 (1-57683-919-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Message//Remix, The Bible in Contemporary Language: Hypercolor Blue Bubble'Book summary:The Message//REMIX is The Message with book introductions written in today's language for today's students.[via]
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Ouran High School Host Club 2by Gary Leach, Bisco HatoriISBN 1591169909 (1-59116-990-9)
Softcover, Viz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ouran High School Host Club 2'Book summary:In this screwball romantic comedy, Haruhi, a poor girl at a rich kids' school, is forced to repay an $80,000 debt by working for the school's swankiest, all-male club - as a boy! There, she discovers just how wealthy the six members are and how different the rich are from everybody else...The school-wide physical exam has thrown the members of the elegant Host Club for a loop. How can the doctor not discover that Haruhi is a girl?! And once the female customers learn the truth, Haruhi can kiss her job goodbye. But then life at the club will be unbearably boring if she leaves! So the guys wrack their brains for a solution... [via]
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Piercing the Darknessby Frank PerettiISBN 1581345275 (1-58134-527-5)
Softcover, Good News Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Piercing the Darkness'Book summary:The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:5 (ESV)It all begins in Bacons corner, a tiny farming community far from the interstate. An attempted murder, a suspicious case of mistaken identity, and a ruthless lawsuit against a struggling Christian school threaten the peace of the small town. Sally Beth Roe, a young loner, finds herself in the middle of events beyond her control, fleeing for her life while trying to recall her dark past. She doesnt realize that a demonic army is growing in power and that a spiritual battle is rapidly approaching.
This companion volume to This Present Darkness offers readers a new perspective on spiritual warfare, prayer, and the seemingly coincidental events of our lives. It has sold over 2 million copies.
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The Portraitby Iain PearsISBN 1573222984 (1-57322-298-4)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books
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Siddharthaby Hermann Hesse, Sherab Chodzin Kohn, Paul W. MorrisISBN 1590302273 (1-59030-227-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Siddhartha'Book summary:In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gotama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. Born the son of a Brahmin, Siddhartha was blessed in appearance, intelligence, and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual gains until he was just like all the other "child people," dragged around by his desires. Like Hermann Hesse's other creations of struggling young men, Siddhartha has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism. His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating nor reciting, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader's ear down to hear answers from the river. In this translation Sherab Chodzin Kohn captures the slow, spare lyricism of Siddhartha's search, putting her version on par with Hilda Rosner's standard edition. --Brian Bruya [via]
The Silence of the Lambsby Thomas HarrisISBN 1585471100 (1-58547-110-0)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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Song of the Westby RobertsISBN 158724697X (1-58724-697-X)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Speaking With the Angelby Nick HornbyISBN 1573228583 (1-57322-858-3)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Speaking With the Angel'Book summary:There are lots of reasons to buy Speaking with the Angel, an anthology of first-person narratives by bright, young, mostly British literati: these are smart and original stories, none of them previously published elsewhere. What's more, it's for a good cause. Nick Hornby, editor of the collection and author of one of the pieces, has an autistic son, and in a raw and wrenching introduction he stresses the importance of educational institutions to serve such children, who "have no language, and no particular compulsion to acquire it, who are born without the need to explore the world." Accordingly, a portion of each sale benefits autism charities around the world.
Still, this is a collection that stands on its own merits, and requires no act of charity to purchase. In Roddy Doyle's "The Slave," for example, a 42-year-old family man discovers a dead rat on his kitchen floor, and this unwelcome incursion from the natural world plunges him into a midlife crisis. In "Last Requests," Giles Smith introduces us to a prison cook who specializes in, well, last suppers. It's both hilarious and shocking to encounter this egomaniacal chef on the job:
They can have what they like, within reason, up to a maximum of three courses, with coffee or tea and a piece of confectionary or a biscuit if they want it. No alcohol, for obvious reasons. Obviously, you'll get the jokers, like the one who said he wanted a whole roast pig with an apple in its mouth. Or the governor's head, one of them said he wanted.
Elsewhere, in Hornby's own "NippleJesus," a skinhead bouncer becomes a museum guard and falls for the painting he's charged to protect, a crucifixion collage made up of thousands of tiny breasts cut out of porn magazines. The stories in Speaking with the Angel all feel up to the minute, abounding with references to politics and popular culture. Yet the obscenity and slang ultimately amount to a form of bluster, an acknowledgement of the intrinsic fragility that all 12 of these narrators share. --Victoria Jenkins [via]More editions of Speaking With the Angel:
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Sukiby Clamp, Carol Fox, Ray YoshimotoISBN 1591827612 (1-59182-761-2)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Suki'Book summary:With friends like Hina's, who needs enemies? When Emi learns of Hina's wealthy background, she hatches a dastardly plot to kidnap her and Asou-sensei. Fortunately Hina's teacher has a few tricks up his sleeve to foil Emi's sinister scheme, but not without a price. Secrets about Asou-sensei's past are revealed, forcing Hina to question why she was ever hot for teacher. But when Asou-sensei contemplates early retirement from the school, will Hina ever become the teacher's pet? Or will Asou simply say sayonara after the final school bell rings? [via]
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Suki: A Like Storyby Carol Fox, Clamp, Ray YoshimotoISBN 1591827604 (1-59182-760-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Suki: A Like Story'Book summary:Hinata Asahi is a high school student who lives alone with only her teddy bears to keep her company. Her life becomes much more exciting when the handsome Shirou Asou moves in next door. Not only is he really cute, but he's also her new teacher! Hina has a bit of a crush on him, but when the older man seems to take an interest in her as well, is it forbidden love or something else? [via]
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Summer at Willow Lakeby Susan WiggsISBN 1585478326 (1-58547-832-6)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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Summer in Eclipse Bayby Jayne Ann KrentzISBN 1587246694 (1-58724-669-4)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Taylor's Temptationby Suzanne BrockmannISBN 1585474568 (1-58547-456-8)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Taylor's Temptation'Book summary:When it came to protecting the innocent, Bobby Taylor was your man. But when his best friend, Wes, asked him to keep an eye on his little sister, Bobby desperately wanted to pass. Because to him, gorgeous redhead Colleen Skelly didn't look like anyone's kid sister. He doubted she was innocent. And he wanted to keep more than just his eye on her....
After years of trying to get magnificent Navy SEAL Bobby Taylor to herself--and away from the prying eyes of her meddling brother--Colleen had finally succeeded. Bobby was hers, if only for a few days. And she had her work cut out for her. She had to prove that she was a grown woman--and that he was all she would ever need in a man....
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This Present Darknessby Frank E. PerettiISBN 1581345283 (1-58134-528-3)
Softcover, Good News Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Present Darkness'Book summary:This Present Darkness, by Frank Peretti, is among the classic novels of the Christian thriller genre. First published in 1986, Peretti's book set a suspenseful standard in spiritual warfare story-telling that has rarely been met by his contemporaries. Set in the apparently innocent small town of Ashton, This Present Darkness follows an intrepid born-again Christian preacher and newspaper reporter as they unearth a New Age plot to take over the local community and eventually the entire world. Nearly every page of the book describes sulfur-breathing, black-winged, slobbering demons battling with tall, handsome, angelic warriors on a level of reality that is just beyond the senses. However, Christian believers and New Age demon-worshippers are able to influence unseen clashes between good and evil by the power of prayer. Peretti's violent descriptions of exorcisms are especially vivid: "There were fifteen [demons], packed into Carmen's body like crawling, superimposed maggots, boiling, writhing, a tangle of hideous arms, legs, talons, and heads." This book is not for the squeamish. But for page-turning spiritual suspense, it's hard to beat. [via]
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Through Our Enemie's Eyes: Osama Bin Laden, Radical Islam and the Future of Americaby AliasISBN 1574885537 (1-57488-553-7)
Softcover, Potomac Books Inc
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Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama Bin Laden, Radical Islam and the Future of Americaby AnonymousISBN 1574885529 (1-57488-552-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama Bin Laden, Radical Islam and the Future of America'Book summary:All Americans must read this book in order to truly understand the reasons why radical Muslims like Osama bin Laden and his followers have declared war on America and the West. Furthermore, only this book accurately describes the severity of the threat they will continue to pose, with or without bin Ladens leadership, to our national security.
To win the war against terrorism, the author argues that we must first stop dismissing militant Muslims as extremists or religious fanatics. Formulating a successful military strategy requires that we must see the enemy as they perceive themselveshighly trained and motivated soldiers who fervently believe their cause is righteous. The author describes how militants throughout the Islamic world are enraged by what they believe is Western aggression against their people, religion, and culture. Though bin Laden declared war on America years agonot once but twicethe author argues that American complacence in the face of such violent threats stems from the increasing secularization and moral relativism of American society and culture. Even if bin Laden is brought to justice, the author warns, the dangers posed by radical Islamic militants will not disappear, and we must be prepared for a protracted war against terrorism. This important book will make a major impact on how America thinks about its enemy and itself. [via]More editions of Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama Bin Laden, Radical Islam and the Future of America:
Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama Bin Laden, Radical Islam, And the Future of Americaby Michael F. Scheuer, Bruce HoffmanISBN 1574889672 (1-57488-967-2)
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Tipping the Velvetby Sarah WatersISBN 1573221368 (1-57322-136-8)
Softcover, Tarcher/Putnam
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tipping the Velvet: A Novel'Book summary:The heroine of Sarah Waters's audacious first novel knows her destiny, and seems content with it. Her place is in her father's seaside restaurant, shucking shellfish and stirring soup, singing all the while. "Although I didn't long believe the story told to me by Mother--that they had found me as a baby in an oyster-shell, and a greedy customer had almost eaten me for lunch--for eighteen years I never doubted my own oysterish sympathies, never looked far beyond my father's kitchen for occupation, or for love." At night Nancy Astley often ventures to the nearby music hall, not that she has illusions of being more than an audience member. But the moment she spies a new male impersonator--still something of a curiosity in England circa 1888--her years of innocence come to an end and a life of transformations begins.
Tipping the Velvet, all 472 pages of it, is as saucy, as tantalizing, and as touching as the narrator's first encounter with the seductive but shame-ridden Miss Kitty Butler. And at first even Nancy's family is thrilled with her gender-bending pal, all but her sister, best friend, and bedmate, Alice, "her eyes shining cold and dull, with starlight and suspicion." Not to worry. Soon Nancy and Kitty are off to London, their relationship close though (alas for our heroine) sisterly. We know that bliss will come, and it does, in an exceptionally charged moment. A lesser author would have been content to stop her story there, but Waters has much more in mind for her buttonholing heroine, and for us. In brief, her Everywoman with a sexual difference goes from success onstage to heartbreak to a stint as a male prostitute (necessity truly is the mother of invention) to keeping house for a brother and sister in the Labour movement. And did I mention her long stint as a plaything in the pleasure palace of a rich Sapphist extraordinaire? Diana Lethaby is as cruel as she is carnal, and even the well-concealed Cavendish Ladies' Club isn't outré enough for her. Kitting Nancy out in full, elegant drag, she dares the front desk to turn them away. "We are here," she mocks, "for the sake of the irregular."
Only after some seven years of hard twists and sensual turns does Nancy conclude that a life of sensation is not enough. Still, Tipping the Velvet is so entertaining that readers will wish her sentimental--and hedonistic--education had taken twice as long. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Tokyo Babylonby Carol Fox, Clamp, Mokona Apapa, Ray Yoshimoto, Nanase OkawaISBN 1591828716 (1-59182-871-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tokyo Babylon'Book summary:Tokyo Babylon is a modern-day fantasy that follows Subaru Sumeragi, a young onmyouji (spiritual medium) on his quest to protect Tokyo from the evil spirits that have secretly taken residence in the city. Subaru is the 13th head of the Sumeragi clan, and together with his twin sister Hokuto and the mysterious veterinarian Seishirou, they risk life and limb as they hunt down the ghosts that threaten to destroy the city. Combining CLAMP's legendary storytelling and artwork, this introspective, character-driven series is a perfect dose of imaginative intrigue and mind-blowing adventure. [via]
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Tokyo Babylonby ClampISBN 1591828724 (1-59182-872-4)
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W Juliet 1by Joe Smith, William Flanagan, EmuraISBN 1591165989 (1-59116-598-9)
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W Juliet 6by William Flanagan, EmuraISBN 1591166004 (1-59116-600-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'W Juliet 6'Book summary:Sixteen-year-old tomboy Ito Miura has become fast friends with her schoolmate and fellow drama enthusiast Makoto Amano. The problem? Makoto's a boy who must pass as a female drama student in order for his family to approve of his acting ambitions. Just as Ito and Makoto begin to feel the impact of their strong attraction to each other, Takayo, a fiancee imposed on Makoto from childhood, and her sinister brother Takashi, have decided to transfer into Makoto's new school! Add a college-age lothario and a spoiled rich-girl actress, and what chance can gender-bending true-love possibly have? [via]
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Yuyu Hakusho 10: Fairy Tales Don't Come Trueby Yoshihiro TogashiISBN 1591163625 (1-59116-362-5)
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