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The Arab-israeli Warsby Chaim Herzog, Shlomo GazitISBN 1400079632 (1-4000-7963-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arab-israeli Wars'Book summary:Now in its third edition, this classic study has been updated for the first time in more than twenty years.
Chaim Herzog, former President of Israel, was involved in every conflict involving Israel and its Arab neighbors from before the 1948 War of Independence. The Arab-Israeli Wars is Herzogs acclaimed history of Israels fight since 1947 to preserve her existence against repeated attacks. Revised after his death by friend and colleague General Shomo Gazit, this new edition also covers the events of the past twenty years, including the pullout from Lebanon, both intifadas, the first Gulf War, the Oslo Process, and beyond. Riveting, informative, and comprehensive, this authoritative account tells the story of Israels struggle to survive but gives a clear picture of the people and politics that continue to shape the destiny of this crucial region. [via]More editions of The Arab-israeli Wars:
Attention Deficit Democracyby James BovardISBN 1403971080 (1-4039-7108-0)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Banquet Bugby Geling YanISBN 1401366651 (1-4013-6665-1)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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Bartleby, the Scrivenerby Herman MelvilleISBN 1406509884 (1-4065-0988-4)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bartleby, the Scrivener'Book summary:By the American novelist, essayist and poet, widely esteemed as one of the most important figures in American literature and best remembered today for his masterpiece Moby-Dick (1851). His short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1856) is among his most important pieces, and has been considered a precursor to Existentialist and Absurdist literature. [via]
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Birds Without Wingsby Louis de BernieresISBN 1400079322 (1-4000-7932-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Center of Everythingby Laura MoriartyISBN 1401300316 (1-4013-0031-6)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Center of Everything'Book summary:Laura Moriarty's debut novel is a simple story, but effectively told. Ten-year-old Evelyn Bucknow lives with her not very responsible young mother, Tina, on the outskirts of a small Kansas town. The Center of Everything follows a clean arc: How Evelyn, a gifted but poor student, negotiates the pitfalls of her background to become a college student. The book shows the scary tenuousness of poverty. When Tina's car breaks down, their life falls apart like a flimsy cardboard edifice. Evelyn can't get to school, Tina can't get to work, and unseemly relationships with men who own cars develop. The novel's other theme is the importance of teaching; when one of her teachers tells her she's gifted, Evelyn's life is changed. "She takes off her glasses, still looking at me. I take off my glasses too, because for a moment I think she is going to place them on my eyes, the way you place a crown on someone's head when they become queen. Welcome to being smart." As she heads into adolescence, Evelyn sees her best friend fall in love and become pregnant, just as Tina did when she was a teenager. Evelyn resists these traps, not without some lovelorn, lonely moments. The Center of Everything careens dangerously near fingerwagging at times, but the book's salvation comes from unexpected quarters: Evelyn's mom Tina. At the outset, she seems beleaguered and lost, but as the book progresses she develops a wry resiliency. We get to watch Evelyn and Tina grow up together, and it's a rare sight. --Claire Dederer [via]
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The Crushby Sandra BrownISBN 141040160X (1-4104-0160-X)
Softcover, Large Print Pr
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Day Watchby Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Vasiliev, Andrew BromfieldISBN 1401360203 (1-4013-6020-3)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Day Watch'Book summary:The second book in the internationally bestselling fantasy series, Day Watch begins where Night Watch left off, set in a modern-day Moscow where the 1,000-year-old treaty between Light and Dark maintains its uneasy balance through careful vigilance from the Others. The forces of darkness keep an eye during the day, the Day Watch, while the agents of Light monitor the nighttime. Very senior Others called the Inquisitors are the impartial judges insisting on the essential compact. When a very potent artifact is stolen from them, the consequences are dire and drastic for all sides. Day Watch introduces the perspective of the Dark Ones, as it is told in part by a young witch who bolsters her evil power by leeching fear from childrens nightmares as a counselor at a girls summer camp. When she falls in love with a handsome young Light One, the balance is threatened and a death must be avenged.
Day Watch is replete with the thrilling action and intricate plotting of the first tale, fuelled by cunning, cruelty, violence, and magic. It is a fast paced, darkly humorous, haunting world that will take root in the shadows of your mind and live there forever. [via]
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Desert Queenby Janet WallachISBN 1400096197 (1-4000-9619-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desert Queen'Book summary:A biography of the woman who, indirectly, was the catalyst for many of the troubles in the Middle East, including the Gulf War. In 1918, Gertrude Bell drew the region's proposed boundaries on a piece of tracing paper. Her qualifications for doing so were her extensive travel, her fluency in both Persian and Arabic, and her relationships with sheiks and tribal and religious leaders. She also possessed an ability to understand the subtle and indirect politeness of the culture, something many of her colonialist comrades were oblivious to. As a self-made statesman her sex was an asset, enabling her to bypass the ladder of protocol and dive into the business of building an Empire. [via]
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The Devil Does Existby Mitsuba TakanashiISBN 140120547X (1-4012-0547-X)
Softcover, DC Comics
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The Devil Does Exist 1by takahashi Mitsuba, Takanashi Mitsuba, Michael NiyamaISBN 1401205453 (1-4012-0545-3)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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The Devil Does Exist 2by Michael Niyama, Takanashi MitsubaISBN 1401205461 (1-4012-0546-1)
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The Devil Does Exist 4by Takanashi Mitsuba, Michael NiyamaISBN 1401205488 (1-4012-0548-8)
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The Devil Does Exist 6by Takanashi Mitsuba, Michael NiyamaISBN 1401210201 (1-4012-1020-1)
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Dingley Fallsby Michael MaloneISBN 1402200072 (1-4022-0007-2)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dingley Falls'Book summary:In the sleepy town of Dingley Falls, Connecticut, something funny is going on. Strange forces are pulling together the oddest of couples: a mild-mannered matron and a lascivious avant-garde poet; a sleek headmaster and a shy young curate; a hippie librarian and the wayward daughter of a local tycoon. What's more, mailboxes are being stuffed with shockingly violent hate letters, even as a mysterious ailment takes the lives of perfectly healthy people. Not to mention the strange lights flashing in the depths of the forest...
With a sparkling range of characters who hurtle through an intricate and often hilarious journey, Michael Malone offers a sublime joyride in his classic novel.
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Disordered Mindsby Minette WaltersISBN 1405034173 (1-4050-3417-3)
Softcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disordered Minds'Book summary:Slowly but surely, Minette Walters has been building up her reputation as one of the UK's most penetrating and distinctive purveyors of the psychological thriller. Disordered Minds will add even more lustre to her name. Such books as Fox Evil and Acid Row demonstrated Walters' reluctance to repeat herself in terms of narrative, and her easy command of the various social groups in her novels (upper middle or council estate) is more sure than that of her colleagues and peers.
Disordered Minds builds on her rich mélange of gifts and continues to strip-mine darker areas of the human psyche than most contemporary novelists--literary or otherwise--are keen to tackle. It's the 1970s: a man dies in prison after a controversial conviction for killing his grandmother. Howard Stamp, an educationally subnormal young man, takes his own life, and the case generates movements claiming Stamp's innocence. Anthropologist Jonathan Hughes digs deeper than the police had originally done, and when Jonathan's path crosses that of the elderly George Gardener, long an advocate of the hapless Stamp's innocence, Gardener co-opts Jonathan in an attempt to clear the dead man's name. But there are some frightening consequences, such as the fact that the real killer will not like being put in the frame again.
As always, Walters is interested in far more than the simple mechanics of crime-novel plotting: Despite their differences, Jonathan Hughes finds that the backward Stamp is still something of a doppelganger of himself, mirroring his own disturbed childhood and sense of alienation, while the background of a pending conflict in Iraq throws the personal dramas sharply into relief. This is Walters at her disturbing best. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritanceby Barack ObamaISBN 1400082773 (1-4000-8277-3)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance'Book summary:In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black african father and a white american mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black american. It begins in new york, where barack obama learns that his father-a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man-has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey-first to a small town in kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to hawaii, and then to kenya, where he meets the african side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: habiba akumu hussein and barack obama, sr. (president obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: stanley dunham and ann dunham (president obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl [via]
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Fatelessnessby Imre Kertesz, Tim WilkinsonISBN 1400078636 (1-4000-7863-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fatelessness'Book summary:At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesnt particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, You are no Jew. In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider.
The genius of Imre Kerteszs unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is Georgs dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnessesor pretending that what he witnesses makes sense. Haunting, evocative, and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of sentiment, Fatelessness is a masterpiece in the traditions of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Tadeusz Borowski. [via]More editions of Fatelessness:
Flamethrower: A Ruby Murphy Mysteryby Maggie EstepISBN 1400082730 (1-4000-8273-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Forever Momentsby David A. LewisISBN 1413761151 (1-4137-6115-1)
Softcover, Publishamerica Inc
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The Forsyte Sagaby John GalsworthyISBN 1404350578 (1-4043-5057-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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Free Burning: A Novelby Bayo OjikutuISBN 1400082897 (1-4000-8289-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Friend From Englandby Anita BrooknerISBN 1400095212 (1-4000-9521-2)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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A Girl of the Limberlostby Gene S. PorterISBN 1404305092 (1-4043-0509-2)
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The Greenlandersby Jane SmileyISBN 1400095468 (1-4000-9546-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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How to Kill a Rock Starby Tiffanie DeBartoloISBN 140220521X (1-4022-0521-X)
Softcover, Sourcebooks, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Kill a Rock Star'Book summary:Written in her wonderfully honest, edgy, passionate and often hilarious voice, Tiffanie DeBartolo tells the story of Eliza Caelum, a young music journalist, and Paul Hudson, a talented songwriter and lead singer of the band Bananafish. Eliza's reverence for rock is equaled only by Paul's, and the two fall wildly in love.
When Bananafish is signed by a big corporate label, and Paul is on his way to becoming a major rock star, Eliza must make a heartbreaking decision that leads to Paul's sudden disappearance and a surprise knock-your-socks-off ending.
Praise for Tiffanie DeBartolo's God-Shaped Hole
"From highs to heartbreak, DeBartolo conjures an affair to remember."--People
"Honest, raw, and engaging."--Booklist
"This generation's Love Story."--Kirkus Reviews
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Howards Endby E. M. ForsterISBN 1406728713 (1-4067-2871-3)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howards End'Book summary:HOWARDS ENDBY E. M. FORSTERCHAPTER I"ONE may as well begin with Helens letters to her sister,Howards End,Dearest Meg,It isnt going to be what we expected. It is old and little, andaltogether delightful red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is,and the dear knows what will happen when Paul younger sonarrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroomor drawingroom. Hall itself is practically a room. You openanother door in it, and there are the stairs going up in a sort oftunnel to the fast floor. Three bedrooms in a row there, and threeattics in a row above. That isnt all the house really, but it9s allthat one notices nine windows as you look up from the frontgarden.Then there's a very big wychelm to the left as you look upleaning a little over the house, and standing on the boundarybetween the garden and meadow. I quite love that tree already.Also ordinary elms, oaks no nastier than ordinary oaks peartrees, appletrees, and a vine. No silver birches, though. However,I must get on to my host and hostess. I only wanted to show that itisnt the least what we expected. Why did we settle that their housewould be all gables and wiggles, and their garden all gambogecoloured paths? I believe simply because we associate them withexpensive hotels Mrs Wilcox trailing in beautiful dresses downlong corridors, Mr Wilcox bullying porters, etc We fnales arethat unjust.I shall be back Saturday I will let you know train later.They are as angry as I am that you did not come too really Tibbyis too tiresome, he starts a new mortal disease tvery month. Howcould he have got hay fever in London? and even if he could, Useems hard that you should give up a visit to hear a schoolboysneeze. Tell him that Charles Wilcox the son who is here has hayfever too, but ke9s brave and gets quite cross when we inquire afterit. Men like the Wilcoxes would do Tibby a power of good. Butyou wont agree andI'd better change the subject."............. [via]
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I and Thouby Martin BuberISBN 140672730X (1-4067-2730-X)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I and Thou'Book summary:I and Thou, Martin Buber's classic philosophical work, is among the 20th century's foundational documents of religious ethics. "The close association of the relation to God with the relation to one's fellow-men ... is my most essential concern," Buber explains in the Afterword. Before discussing that relationship, in the book's final chapter, Buber explains at length the range and ramifications of the ways people treat one another, and the ways they bear themselves in the natural world. "One should beware altogether of understanding the conversation with God ... as something that occurs merely apart from or above the everyday," Buber explains. "God's address to man penetrates the events in all our lives and all the events in the world around us, everything biographical and everything historical, and turns it into instruction, into demands for you and me." Throughout I and Thou, Buber argues for an ethic that does not use other people (or books, or trees, or God), and does not consider them objects of one's own personal experience. Instead, Buber writes, we must learn to consider everything around us as "You" speaking to "me," and requiring a response. Buber's dense arguments can be rough going at times, but Walter Kaufmann's definitive 1970 translation contains hundreds of helpful footnotes providing Buber's own explanations of the book's most difficult passages. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Icarus Girlby Helen OyeyemiISBN 140007875X (1-4000-7875-X)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Icarus Girl'Book summary:Jessamy Jess Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Possessed of an extraordinary imagination, she has a hard time fitting in at school. It is only when she visits Nigeria for the first time that she makes a friend who understands her: a ragged little girl named TillyTilly. But soon TillyTillys visits become more disturbing, until Jess realizes she doesnt actually know who her friend is at all. Drawing on Nigerian mythology, Helen Oyeyemi presents a striking variation on the classic literary theme of doubles both real and spiritual in this lyrical and bold debut. [via]
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis ChildISBN 1406510017 (1-4065-1001-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'Book summary:By the American abolitionist and writer who was born to slaves in North Carolina. Her autobiographical accounts started being published in serial form in the New York Tribune. However, her reports of sexual abuse were considered too shocking to the average newspaper reader of the day, and publication ceased before the completion of the narrative. In 1861, she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, under the pseudonym Linda Brent. Much of the book is devoted to her struggle to free her two children. She changed the names of all characters, including her own, in order to conceal true identities. Jacobs argued that the cruelty of slavery destroyed the virtue of an entire society, and "is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks". [via]
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Islam and the West: Conflict or Cooperation?by Amin SaikalISBN 1403903581 (1-4039-0358-1)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Islam and the West: Conflict or Cooperation?'Book summary:A broad-ranging assessment of relations between the Muslim and Western worlds in the contemporary era set in the context of the way these have evolved historically. Arguing that the relations have been marked by long periods of peaceful coexistence, but also by many instances of tension, hostility, and mutual recrimination, Amin Saikal assesses the impact of the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict, the consequences of the Iranian revolution and of the wars in the Gulf and Afghanistan, and charts a course for future co-existence.[via]More editions of Islam and the West: Conflict or Cooperation?:
It's All Relativeby J. M. SnyderISBN 1411615131 (1-4116-1513-1)
Softcover, Lulu.Com
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 140436806X (1-4043-6806-X)
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The Jungleby Upton SinclairISBN 1404311572 (1-4043-1157-2)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Kaddish for an Unborn Childby Imre Kertesz, Tim WilkinsonISBN 1400078628 (1-4000-7862-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Kamikaze Kaito Jeanneby SHELDON DRZKA, Arina Tanemura, Tanemura ArinaISBN 1401205550 (1-4012-0555-0)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne'Book summary:The battle continues against demon-possessed paintingsas the competition between Kaito Jeanne and Sinbad heats up! Meanwhile, life at school grows complicated for Maron, as she must deal with her growing feelings for Chiaki and her guilt over being kissed by Sinbadnot realizing theyre one and the same! And Chiaki hides a dark secret that could shatter everything. [via]
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Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne 3by Tanemura ArinaISBN 1401205577 (1-4012-0557-7)
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The Lake, the River & the Other Lakeby Steve AmickISBN 1400079942 (1-4000-7994-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lake, the River & the Other Lake'Book summary:The resort town of Weneshkeen, nestled along Michigans Gold Coast, has become a complex melting pot: townies and old timers mix with ritzy summer folk, migrant cherry pickers, wily river guides, and a few Ojibwe Indians. As the summer blooms, these lives mingle in surprising waysa lifelong resident and Vietnam Vet pursues the take-no-guff deputy sheriff, while plotting revenge against the jet-skiers polluting his beloved lake; a summer kid from downstate stumbles into a romance with the sexiest rich girl in town; the towns retired reverend discovers the Internet and a new friend in his computer tutor. A resonant social comedy with richly-drawn characters and quirky charm, The Lake, the River & the Other Lake welcomes you into a world that you may never want to leave. [via]
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Land Of The Blindfolded 2by TSUKUBA SAKURA, SHELDON DRZKAISBN 1401205240 (1-4012-0524-0)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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Land of the Blindfolded 3by TSUKUBA SAKURAISBN 1401205267 (1-4012-0526-7)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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Land Of The Blindfolded 4by TSUKUBA SAKURAISBN 1401205275 (1-4012-0527-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Land Of The Blindfolded 4'Book summary:Just when everything seems to be going Kanades and Arous way, Someya, the beautiful but cool student council president, walks into their lives. The trouble begins when Kanade catches a glimpse of the girls near future, in which Someya confesses her love to an enigmatically silent Arou. Until now, future seers Kanade and Namiki and past seer Arou have used their powers to prevent people from getting hurt. Now, however, the cursed aspect of their abilities comes to light as Kanade is tortured by her vision and feels unable to do anything to prevent it. Arou, who learns that Kanade is holding back something shes seen, is hurt by her lack of trust and fearful of the vision itself. And Namiki, who wants Kanade as his girlfriend, takes advantage of the situation to ensure the future of her vision will occur. Will anything be the same when the foreseen future becomes the present? [via]
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Land of the Blindfolded 5by TSUKUBA SAKURAISBN 1401205283 (1-4012-0528-3)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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Land of the Blindfolded 6by TSUKUBA SAKURAISBN 1401210163 (1-4012-1016-3)
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Land of the Blindfolded 7by TSUKUBA SAKURAISBN 1401210171 (1-4012-1017-1)
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Land of the Blindfolded 8by SHELDON DRZKA, Sakura TsukubaISBN 140121018X (1-4012-1018-X)
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Land of the Blindfolded 9by SHELDON DRZKA, Sakura TsukubaISBN 140121052X (1-4012-1052-X)
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The Last Man - Paper Dollsby Pia Guerra, Brian K. VaughanISBN 1401210090 (1-4012-1009-0)
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The Last Man Bk. 2,Vol. 2 : Cyclesby Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Jose MarzanISBN 1401200761 (1-4012-0076-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Man Bk. 2,Vol. 2 : Cycles'Book summary:WINNER OF THREE EISNER AWARDS
As Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, begins to make his way across the country to California, he and his companions are forced to make an unscheduled stop in Marrisville, Ohioa small town with a big secret. Collects issues #6-10 of the runaway hit Vertigo series by Brian K. Vaughan (EX-MACHINA, RUNAWAYS) and Pia Guerra.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemanby Alan Moore, Kevin O'NeillISBN 1401201180 (1-4012-0118-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'Book summary:Alan Moore and Kevin ONeills epic Victorian adventure continues in grand fashion as our intrepid band of heroesMina Murray, Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Mr. Edward Hyde, Dr. Thomas Jekyll and the Invisible Man (a.k.a. Hawley Griffin)once again must face a most dire threatbut this time its not just the fate of an empire that hangs in the balance, but that of the entire world! The first volume contains the thrilling graphic novel, complete with the Almanac of fantastic places, and the second contains Alan Moores entire script for the graphic novel, a rare and wonderful treat for any fan of sequential storytelling. This two-volume hardcover set is enclosed within an attractive slipcase. [via]
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemenby Kevin O'Neill, Alan Moore, William Oakley, Ben DimagmaliwISBN 1401201172 (1-4012-0117-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'Book summary:The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume II finds cocreators Alan Moore (writer) and Kevin O'Neill (artist) back on familiar ground, revisiting the classic Victorian-era characters that they used to such effect in the bestselling and rightfully acclaimed first volume. It's a superhero tale, but--as expected from Moore--a rather unconventional one. This League is drawn from some of the classic characters from English literature: Alan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Hawley Griffin (the Invisible Man), Mr Hyde and Miss Mina Murray (formerly Harker, the heroine of Dracula). And this tale is taken directly from HG Wells' classic War of the Worlds, as Martian invaders (complete with tripods and heat rays) begin to land in England, bent on conquest. They seem unstoppable as they rage across the countryside towards London, but they hadn't counted on the League, or the eccentric genius of Dr Alphonse Moreau.
As with the first League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it's the meticulous sense of era and place that makes volume II a success. The minutia of Victorian England is set seamlessly alongside objects and ideas that never appeared outside of myth and legend, while references to other famous fictional characters and events are casually introduced, then quickly tossed aside. And, of course, it's a ripping yarn, in the classic Boys' Own style (right down to the cliff hanger-style, end of chapter narrations). However, unlike volume I, there are several scenes that aren't suitable for all readers (particularly "those of a delicate disposition"). It's almost as if Moore and O'Neill, anticipating the heightened interest that 2003's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film would bring, have willingly set out to shock and even alienate newer readers. So there's a fairly explicit sex scene, some rather brutal violence and, perhaps most unnerving, it's almost inevitable that no reader will ever look at Rupert the Bear in the same way again. --Robert Burrow [via]
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Loveby Toni MorrisonISBN 1400078474 (1-4000-7847-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Moon Child 1by Shimizu ReikoISBN 1401208258 (1-4012-0825-8)
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Moon Child 2by Shimizu ReikoISBN 1401208266 (1-4012-0826-6)
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Moon Child 3by Shimizu ReikoISBN 1401208274 (1-4012-0827-4)
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Myths, Lies And Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel--why Everything You Know Is Wrongby John StosselISBN 1401302548 (1-4013-0254-8)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Myths, Lies And Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel--why Everything You Know Is Wrong'Book summary:A mericas favorite investigative reporter, John Stossel, tackles our favorite myths in his characteristic style and challenges us to look at life differently. Myths and Misconceptions covered in the book include: lIs the media unbiased? lAre our schools helping or hurting our kids? lDo singles have a better sex life than married people? lDo we have less free time than we used to? lIs outsourcing bad for American workers? lSuburban sprawl is ruining America. lMoney makes people happier. lThe world is too crowded. lWere drowning in garbage. lProfiteering is evil. lSweatshops exploit people. John Stossel takes on these and many more misconceptions, misunderstandings, and plain old stupidity in this collection that will offer much to love for Give Me a Break fans, and show everyone why conventional wisdomeconomic, political, or socialis often wrong. [via]
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One Small Stepby Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Jose MarzanISBN 1401202012 (1-4012-0201-2)
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Operating Instructions: A Journal Of My Son's First Yearby Anne LamottISBN 1400079098 (1-4000-7909-8)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Operating Instructions: A Journal Of My Son's First Year'Book summary:The most honest, wildly enjoyable book written about motherhood is surely Anne Lamott's account of her son Sam's first year. A gifted writer and teacher, Lamott (Crooked Little Heart) is a single mother and ex-alcoholic with a pleasingly warped social circle and a remarkably tolerant religion to lean on. She responds to the changes, exhaustion, and love Sam brings with aplomb or outright insanity. The book rocks from hilarious to unbearably poignant when Sam's burgeoning life is played out against a very close friend's illness. No saccharine paean to becoming a parent, this touches on the rage and befuddlement that dog sweeter emotions during this sea change in one's life. [via]
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Paradiseby A. L. KennedyISBN 1400079454 (1-4000-7945-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise'Book summary:Hannah Luckraft sells cardboard boxes for a living. Her family is so frustrated by her behavior they can barely stand to keep in touch with her. Each day is fueled by the promise of annihilation, the promise of a reprieve, the paradise that can only be found in a bottle. When Hannah meets Robert, a kindred spirit, the two become constant companions. Together and alone Hannah and Robert spiral through the beauty and depravity of a love affair with alcohol. Paradise is a spectacular novel of desire and oblivion. [via]
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Pieces of a Spiral 2by Tachibana KaimuISBN 1401207472 (1-4012-0747-2)
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Pieces of a Spiral 4by Tachibana KaimuISBN 1401207499 (1-4012-0749-9)
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Pride of Baghdadby Brian K. Vaughan, Niko HenrichonISBN 1401203140 (1-4012-0314-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride of Baghdad'Book summary:From one of Americas most critically acclaimed graphic novel writers inspired by true events, a startlingly original look at life on the streets of Baghdad during the Iraq War.
In his award-winning work on Y THE LAST MAN and EX MACHINA (one of Entertainment Weeklys 2005 Ten Best Fiction titles), writer Brian K. Vaughan has displayed an understanding of both the cost of survival and the political nuances of the modern world. Now, in this provocative graphic novel, Vaughan examines life on the streets of war-torn Iraq.
In the spring of 2003, a pride of lions escaped from the Baghdad zoo during an American bombing raid. Lost and confused, hungry but finally free, the four lions roamed the decimated streets of Baghdad in a desperate struggle for their lives. In documenting the plight of the lions, PRIDE OF BAGHDAD raises questions about the true meaning of liberation can it be given or is it earned only through self-determination and sacrifice? And in the end, is it truly better to die free than to live life in captivity?
Based on a true story, VAUGHAN and artist NIKO HENRICHON (Barnum!) have created a unique and heartbreaking window into the nature of life during wartime, illuminating this struggle as only the graphic novel can. [via]
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Ps, I Love Youby Cecelia AhernISBN 140130916X (1-4013-0916-X)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ps, I Love You'Book summary:Cecelia Ahern's debut novel, PS, I Love You, follows the engaging, witty, and occasionally sappy reawakening of Holly, a young Irish widow who must put her life back together after she loses her husband Gerry to a brain tumor. Ahern, the twentysomething daughter of Ireland's prime minister, has discovered a clever and original twist to the Moving On After Death concept made famous by novelists and screenwriters alike--Gerry has left Holly a series of letters designed to help her face the year ahead and carry on with her life. As the novel takes readers through the seasons (and through Gerry's monthly directives), we watch as Holly finds a new job, takes a holiday to Spain with her girlfriends, and sorts through her beloved husband's belongings. Accompanying Holly throughout the healing process is a cast of friends and family members who add as much to the novel's success as Holly's own tale of survival. In fact, it is these supporting character's mini-dramas that make PS, I Love You more than just another superficial tearjerker with the obligatory episode at a karaoke bar. Ahern shows real talent for capturing the essence of an interaction between friends and foes alike; even if Holly's circle of friends does resemble the gang from Bridget Jones a bit too neatly to ignore (her best friend is even called Sharon).
While her style can be at times repetitive and her delivery is occasionally amateurish, Ahern deserves credit for a spirited first effort. If PS, I Love You is any indication of this author's talent, readers have much to look forward to as Ahern matures as a novelist and a storyteller. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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Quentinsby Maeve BinchyISBN 1410401626 (1-4104-0162-6)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quentins'Book summary:Maeve Binchy delivers a timely and topical tale on the fickle nature of docu-soaps in Quentins. In an age where everyday people are becoming overnight celebrities via the medium of television, Ella Brady is a documentary filmmaker who wants to bring the tale of the eponymous Dublin restaurant to the screen. Quentin's has had its fair share of ups and downs over the years and has become the meeting point for a lot of characters, including some familiar faces from previous Binchy novels. As Ella makes more and more headway with her documentary, the secrets, betrayals and stories of love that emerge make her question whether or not she wants to bring the tale of Quentin's to the screen after all; especially as she is also forced to confront a devastating dilemma from her own past.
Regarded by many as the true queen of the romantic Irish drama, Binchy has once again produced another fine page-turner that will please her army of loyal fans and hopefully win her many more. She has a real eye for character and exploring the often painful choices people are forced to make in their everyday lives. This is a tale of normal people, ordinary folk and the heartaches that have made them who they are. Fans will welcome the return of some familiar Binchy characters and Ella is a strong, likeable heroine, a woman who, in exploring the lives of these people, is forced to consider some choices she has made in her own life. So make a reservation at Quentin's, sit back and relax--you'll be in very good company. --Jane Warren [via]
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Recipes for a Perfect Marriageby Morag PruntyISBN 1401308872 (1-4013-0887-2)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Red Anne in the Ghost Forestby Zlatko EnevISBN 1413477054 (1-4134-7705-4)
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Rosie Dunneby Cecelia AhernISBN 140130091X (1-4013-0091-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rosie Dunne'Book summary:Cecelia Ahearn's Rosie Dunne is the amusing story of Alex and Rosie, best friends who grow up together in Ireland and stay close throughout cross-continental moves, marriages, parenthood, family dramas. and professional triumphs. Friends for close to 50 years, the potential for romance between the pair is always under the surface, yet never seems to find the right time or place to become a reality.
Twenty-three year old Ahern, whose debut novel, PS, I Love You, was a modest hit with critics and readers alike, does not deviate much from the witty yet sentimental style she seems to naturally posses. Rosie Dunne is written through a series of notes, letters, IMs, e-mails, and text messages between the two protagonists and their various friends and family members. While this style is engaging at first, readers may eventually long for more substantial dialogue and fewer choppy exchanges. In fact, about halfway into the story, some may even feel the urge to skip ahead to what is almost an inevitable conclusion. However, the addition of entertaining secondary characters (such as Rosie's best friend Ruby and her overweight, yet oddly talented, salsa-dancing son) help keep the momentum going through one-to-many near misses between Rosie and Alex.
Overall, Rosie Dunne is a touching look at what happens when "the one" always seems to be just a tad bit out of reach. Still, one can't help wondering if this novel may have been better suited to a short but sweet episode of a half-hour sitcom. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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A Scanner Darklyby Philip K. DickISBN 1400096901 (1-4000-9690-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Scanner Darkly'Book summary:Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely influential SF stories. A Scanner Darkly cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. Nevertheless, it's blackly farcical, full of comic-surreal conversations between people whose synapses are partly fried, sudden flights of paranoid logic, and bad trips like the one whose victim spends a subjective eternity having all his sins read to him, in shifts, by compound-eyed aliens. (It takes 11,000 years of this to reach the time when as a boy he discovered masturbation.) The antihero Bob Arctor is forced by his double life into warring double personalities: as futuristic narcotics agent "Fred," face blurred by a high-tech scrambler, he must spy on and entrap suspected drug dealer Bob Arctor. His disintegration under the influence of the insidious Substance D is genuine tragicomedy. For Arctor there's no way off the addict's downward escalator, but what awaits at the bottom is a kind of redemption--there are more wheels within wheels than we suspected, and his life is not entirely wasted. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticityby Geoffrey HartmanISBN 1403965587 (1-4039-6558-7)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Secret Gardenby Martha Hailey, Lucy Corvino, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Arthur PoberISBN 1402713193 (1-4027-1319-3)
Hardcover, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Garden'Book summary:Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price.[via]
The discovery of a neglected garden transforms the life of a sullen and unloved little girl-and everyone around her, too. When the newly orphaned Mary Lennox leaves her native India and arrives at her uncle's mansion in Yorkshire, everything seems strange to her. Then Mary hears of a mysterious garden where no one has set foot in 10 years. With the help of some new friends, she plans to uncover its secrets...and make it blossom once again.More editions of The Secret Garden:
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The Secret Gardenby Scott McKowenISBN 1402714599 (1-4027-1459-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Spartans: THE WORLD OF THE WARRIOR-HEROES OF ANCIENT GREECEby Paul CartledgeISBN 1400078857 (1-4000-7885-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spartans: THE WORLD OF THE WARRIOR-HEROES OF ANCIENT GREECE'Book summary:Send the SAS to pick flowers and the Marines to knit mittens, because the Spartans could have 'em for breakfast. In The Spartans: An Epic History, the book of the Channel 4 series, Paul Cartledge paints a vivid picture of one of the most extreme civilisations ever known--one whose ethos married the highest levels of societal and philosophical advancement with the most repressive and warlike of regimes. These ancient Greeks lived, breathed and slept "hard". They also happened to influence much of subsequent Western civilisation.
The perfect warriors, they lived to fight, and when they weren't fighting, they were training to fight. Their male children were brutally raised, and weak or deformed infants were mercilessly cast from cliff tops. Yet they were unusually egalitarian in their treatment of women, and embraced an intensely partisan social ethic. They enslaved much of the rest of Greece, yet provided the spark for Athenian Democracy. It is this apparently contradictory duality that continues to fascinate and that has since engendered concepts as diverse as Hitler's system of negative eugenics and Thomas More's notion of Utopia.
The Spartans, though accessible, is an accomplished academic work--you'd hardly expect anything else, Cartledge having already written 20 books on the subject. But without the window dressing of the TV show's stunning Grecian locations and its thinking-man's eye-candy presenter Bettany Hughes, this can seem a little dry--anyone expecting the latest glossy picture-filled Time Team-style coffee-table book is likely to be disappointed. If you're partial to a bit of accessible erudition, however, then it would be foolish to look this gift horse in the mouth. --Paul Eisinger [via]
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Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Timesby Neil AstleyISBN 1401359264 (1-4013-5926-4)
Softcover, Miramax
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times'Book summary:Assembling a diverse mix of contemporary poets-Mary Oliver, W.H. Auden, Maya Angelou, Billy Collins, Louise Gluck, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Rita Dove, and hundreds more-Staying Alive is a unique anthology that illuminates the vital force of our humanity, the passion of our aspirations, the power of our spirituality. From the enigma of death to the sweetness of friendship, these poems speak to life's mysteries and consolations and help us navigate the most trying times in recent memory. Staying Alive is already an astonishing best-seller in the United Kingdom, where it has gained a wide-ranging audience. This new edition, specially revised for its American readership, reconnects acionados and newcomers alike to the force of poetry, helping us stay alive to the world and stay true to ourselves. [via]
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The Strangerby Albert CamusISBN 1406711284 (1-4067-1128-4)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stranger'Book summary:The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its time. Alienation, the fear of anonymity, spiritual doubt--all could have been given a purely modern inflection in the hands of a lesser talent than Camus, who won the Nobel Prize in 1957 and was noted for his existentialist aesthetic. The remarkable trick of The Stranger, however, is that it's not mired in period philosophy.
The plot is simple. A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. The trial's proceedings are absurd, a parsing of incidental trivialities--that Meursault, for instance, seemed unmoved by his own mother's death and then attended a comic movie the evening after her funeral are two ostensibly damning facts--so that the eventual sentence the jury issues is both ridiculous and inevitable.
Meursault remains a cipher nearly to the story's end--dispassionate, clinical, disengaged from his own emotions. "She wanted to know if I loved her," he says of his girlfriend. "I answered the same way I had the last time, that it didn't mean anything but that I probably didn't." There's a latent ominousness in such observations, a sense that devotion is nothing more than self-delusion. It's undoubtedly true that Meursault exhibits an extreme of resignation; however, his confrontation with "the gentle indifference of the world" remains as compelling as it was when Camus first recounted it. --Ben Guterson [via]
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The Tender Bar: A Memoirby J. R. MoehringerISBN 1401300642 (1-4013-0064-2)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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This Side of Paradiseby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 1404333517 (1-4043-3351-7)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Side of Paradise'Book summary:Fitzgerald's first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman's Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920. [via]
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Tomorrow StoriesISBN 1401201652 (1-4012-0165-2)
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Tomorrow Stories 2by Alan MooreISBN 1401201660 (1-4012-0166-0)
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Watchmen : The Absolute Editionby Alan Moore, Dave GibbonsISBN 1401207138 (1-4012-0713-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watchmen : The Absolute Edition'Book summary:Has any comic been as lauded as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns but Watchmen remains the critics' favourite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga of the Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, and recently From Hell, with Eddie Campbell) first put out Watchmen in 12 issues for DC in 1986-87. It won a comic award at the time (the 1987 Jack Kirby Comics Industry Awards for Best Writer/Artist combination) and has continued to garner praise since.
The story concerns a group called the Crimebusters and a plot to kill and discredit them. Moore's characterisation is as sophisticated as any novel's. Importantly the costumes do not get in the way of the storytelling, rather they allow Moore to investigate issues of power and control--indeed it was Watchmen, and to a lesser extent Dark Knight, that propelled the comic genre forward, making "adult" comics a reality. The artwork of Gibbons (best known for 2000AD's Rogue Trooper and DC's Green Lantern) is very fine too, echoing Moore's paranoid mood perfectly throughout. Packed with symbolism, some of the overlying themes (arms control, nuclear threat, vigilantes) have dated but the intelligent social and political commentary, the structure of the story itself, its intertextuality (chapters appended with excerpts from other "works" and "studies" on Moore's characters, or with excerpts from another comic book being read by a child within the story), the fine pace of the writing and its humanity mean that Watchmen more than stands up--it retains its crown as the best the genre has yet produced. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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Who Moved My Blackberry?by Lucy KellawayISBN 1401308910 (1-4013-0891-0)
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Whores On The Hillby Colleen CurranISBN 1400079950 (1-4000-7995-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds Of Questions You'd Only Ask A Doctor After Your Third Martiniby Mark Leyner, Billy GoldbergISBN 1400082315 (1-4000-8231-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds Of Questions You'd Only Ask A Doctor After Your Third Martini'Book summary:Is There a Doctor in the House?Say you're at a party. You've had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly you're introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions you'd like to ask during an office visit with your own doctor but haven't had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. You're filled with liquid courage . . . now is your chance! If you've ever wanted to ask a doctor . . .?How do people in wheelchairs have sex??Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast??Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever??Why does asparagus make my pee smell??Why do old people grow hair on their ears??Is the old adage "beer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer . . ." really true? . . . then Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for you.Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician, and Mark Leyner, bestselling author and well-known satirist, Why Do Men Have Nipples? offers real factual and really funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies. [via]
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The Wind In The Willowsby Kenneth Grahame, Scott McKowen, Arthur PoberISBN 1402725051 (1-4027-2505-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Windows on the Worldby Frederic BeigbederISBN 1401359884 (1-4013-5988-4)
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Wise Childrenby Angela CarterISBN 140583563X (1-4058-3563-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wise Children'Book summary:Do you want a better understanding of the text? Do you want to know what the critics say? Do you want to know how to improve your grade? Whatever you want, York Notes can help. York Notes Advanced offers a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts. Key Features: *Summaries with detailed commentaries *Extended commentaries on key passages *Discussion of themes and literary techniques *Author biography *Historical and literary background *Check the net/film/book features *Glossary of literary terms *Self-test questions [via]
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Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hearby Frank LuntzISBN 1401302599 (1-4013-0259-9)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear'Book summary:The nation's premier communications expert shares his wisdom on how the words we choose can change the course of business, of politics, and of life in this country
In Words That Work, Luntz offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the tactical use of words and phrases affects what we buy, who we vote for, and even what we believe in. With chapters like "The Ten Rules of Successful Communication" and "The 21 Words and Phrases for the 21st Century," he examines how choosing the right words is essential.
Nobody is in a better position to explain than Frank Luntz: He has used his knowledge of words to help more than two dozen Fortune 500 companies grow. Hell tell us why Rupert Murdoch's six-billion-dollar decision to buy DirectTV was smart because satellite was more cutting edge than "digital cable," and why pharmaceutical companies transitioned their message from "treatment" to "prevention" and "wellness."
If you ever wanted to learn how to talk your way out of a traffic ticket or talk your way into a raise, this book's for you.
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Y:The Last Man 4: Safewordby Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Goran ParlovISBN 1401202322 (1-4012-0232-2)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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After a devastating plague, Yorrick Brown is the last man left alive in a world of women. On the run from Amazon extremists who would be happy to see him dead, his friends leave him in the care of Agent 711. But 711 is not the tragic woman she seems to be and Yorrick is propelled into a drug-fuelled nightmare of blood and sadism. Collects issues #18-23 of the runaway hit Vertigo series by Brian K. Vaughan (EX-MACHINA, RUNAWAYS) and Pia Guerra.
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Y:The Last Man 5: Ring of Truthby Brian K. Vaughan, Jose Marzan, Pia GuerraISBN 1401204872 (1-4012-0487-2)
Softcover, Vertigo
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Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, finally makes it to San Francisco where his unbalanced sister, Hero, finds him seemingly succumbing to the male-killing plague after losing his still-unused engagement ring to the burqa-clad agents of the Setauket Ring. But is the ring really the key to his survival? And what does it have to do with the mysterious Amulet of Helene, which the Setauket leader is determined to take from Agent 355 by any means necessary. Collects issues #24-31 of the runaway hit Vertigo series by Brian K. Vaughan (EX-MACHINA, ASTONISHING X-MEN, RUNAWAYS) and Pia Guerra.
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Y:The Last Man 6: Girl on Girlby Brian K. Vaughan, Jose Marzan, Pia Guerra, Goran SudzukaISBN 1401205011 (1-4012-0501-1)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and discover why he is the last man on Earth. This volume finds Yorick, Agent 355 and Dr. Mann traveling across the Pacific to Japan in pursuit of Yorick's stolen monkey Ampersand, whose innards may hold the key to mankind's future. Collects issues #32-36 of the runaway hit Vertigo series by Brian K. Vaughan (EX-MACHINA, ASTONISHING X-MEN, RUNAWAYS) and Pia Guerra.
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