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The Amber Spyglassby Philip PullmanISBN 0613719271 (0-613-71927-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amber Spyglass'Book summary:From the very start of its very first scene, The Amber Spyglass will set hearts fluttering and minds racing. All we'll say here is that we immediately discover who captured Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife, though we've yet to discern whether this individual's intent is good, evil, or somewhere in between. We also learn that Will still possesses the blade that allows him to cut between worlds, and has been joined by two winged companions who are determined to escort him to Lord Asriel's mountain redoubt. The boy, however, has only one goal in mind--to rescue his friend and return to her the alethiometer, an instrument that has revealed so much to her and to readers of The Golden Compass and its follow-up. Within a short time, too, we get to experience the "tingle of the starlight" on Serafina Pekkala's skin as she seeks out a famished Iorek Byrnison and enlists him in Lord Asriel's crusade:
A complex web of thoughts was weaving itself in the bear king's mind, with more strands in it than hunger and satisfaction. There was the memory of the little girl Lyra, whom he had named Silvertongue, and whom he had last seen crossing the fragile snow bridge across a crevasse in his own island of Svalbard. Then there was the agitation among the witches, the rumors of pacts and alliances and war; and then there was the surpassingly strange fact of this new world itself, and the witch's insistence that there were many more such worlds, and that the fate of them all hung somehow on the fate of the child.
Meanwhile, two factions of the Church are vying to reach Lyra first. One is even prepared to give a priest "preemptive absolution" should he succeed in committing mortal sin. For these tyrants, killing this girl is no less than "a sacred task."In the final installment of his trilogy, Philip Pullman has set himself the highest hurdles. He must match its predecessors in terms of sheer action and originality and resolve the enigmas he already created. The good news is that there is no critical bad news--not that The Amber Spyglass doesn't contain standoffs and close calls galore. (Who would have it otherwise?) But Pullman brings his audacious revision of Paradise Lost to a conclusion that is both serene and devastating. In prose that is transparent yet lyrical and 3-D, the author weaves in and out of his principals' thoughts. He also offers up several additional worlds. In one, Dr. Mary Malone is welcomed into an apparently simple society. The environment of the mulefa (again, we'll reveal nothing more) makes them rich in consciousness while their lives possess a slow and stately rhythm. These strange creatures can, however, be very fast on their feet (or on other things entirely) when necessary. Alas, they are on the verge of dying as Dust streams out of their idyllic landscape. Will the Oxford dark-matter researcher see her way to saving them, or does this require our young heroes? And while Mary is puzzling out a cure, Will and Lyra undertake a pilgrimage to a realm devoid of all light and hope, after having been forced into the cruelest of sacrifices--or betrayals.
Throughout his galvanizing epic, Pullman sustains scenes of fierce beauty and tenderness. He also allows us a moment or two of comic respite. At one point, for instance, Lyra's mother bullies a series of ecclesiastical underlings: "The man bowed helplessly and led her away. The guard behind her blew out his cheeks with relief." Needless to say, Mrs. Coulter is as intoxicating and fluid as ever. And can it be that we will come to admire her as she plays out her desperate endgame? In this respect, as in many others, The Amber Spyglass is truly a book of revelations, moving from darkness visible to radiant truth. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Angel Chroniclesby Nancy HolderISBN 0671021338 (0-671-02133-8)
Softcover, Simon Spotlight Entertainment
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angel Chronicles'Book summary:Angelus
BORN: Ireland DIED: Ireland
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Sunnydale, CA
AGE: 242 years and counting
""Things used to be pretty simple. Hundred years, just hanging out, feeling guilty. Really honed my brooding skills. Then she comes along.""
After a century of killing without a care, the vampire Angelus was cursed with a conscience and eventually fled to Sunnydale, where he restricted his feeding to blood banks.
Until 16-year-old Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer, arrived in town to battle vampires, demons and the Forces of Darkness. First, he has to convince her not to kill him. Then, he has to convince himself not to fall in love with her.
Now, collected for the first time, are three stories from the cult-hit TV series chronicling the beginning of this star crossed love story.
Can Buffy and Angel survive life, death...and beyond? [via]
Awakeningby John RussoISBN 0671452592 (0-671-45259-2)
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The Awakeningby L. J. SmithISBN 061396179X (0-613-96179-X)
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Bag of Bonesby Stephen KingISBN 067102423X (0-671-02423-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bag of Bones'Book summary:Bag of Bones is partly inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, but there's more than homage in this novel of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary old place (on the shore of Maine's remote Dark Score Lake) is haunted by the late lady of the manor. There are many gory ghosts afoot, though: men, women, and wailing kids. The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's plenty of angry shades while investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake. As in King's previous book, Wizard and Glass, the fabric of reality is thin, and nosy narrators are in peril of plunging right out of this world and into a rather hostile otherworld.
Bag of Bones is a writer-haunted book, too. The spirits of Herman Melville and Ray Bradbury are deeply felt, and so are the tale's two romances (the hero muses on his marriage and falls for a young single mom with a marvelous, psychic daughter). There is also good-humored satire of the real bestseller book world--the hero complains that "the publicity process is like going to a sushi bar where you're the sushi." In its deep concerns with love, sprawling families, the writer's life, endangered children, and good old-fashioned storytelling, the book resembles a John Irving novel. It is also absolutely classic Stephen King, packed with nifty turns of phrase, irreverent wit, and lurid ghouls who grab you from beneath the bed while you cower under the covers. --Tim Appelo [via]
Black As Bloodby Rob ChilsonISBN 0671878832 (0-671-87883-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Black Thorn, White Roseby Ellen Datlow, Terri WindlingISBN 068813713X (0-688-13713-X)
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Bloodby Michael MoorcockISBN 0688143628 (0-688-14362-8)
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Blood and Goldby Anne RiceISBN 0679454497 (0-679-45449-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood and Gold'Book summary:Time heals all wounds, unless, of course, you're a vampire. Cuts may heal, burns vanish, limbs reattach, but for the "blood god," the wounds of the heart sometimes stay open and raw for centuries. So it is for Marius, Anne Rice's oft-mentioned and beloved scholar. We've heard parts of his tale in past volumes of the Vampire Chronicles, but never so completely and never from his own lips. In Blood and Gold, Rice mostly (but not entirely) avoids the danger of treading worn ground as she fills out the life and character of Marius the Lonely, the Disenchanted, the Heartsick--a 2,000-year-old vampire "with all the conviction of a mortal man."
Plucked from his beloved Rome in the prime of his life and forced into solitude as keeper of the vampire queen and king, Marius has never forgiven the injustice of his mortal death. Thousands of years later, he still seethes over his losses. Immortality for Marius is both a blessing and a curse--he bears "witness to all splendid and beautiful things human," yet is unable to engage in relationships for fear of revealing his burden.
New readers to the Chronicles may wish for a more fleshed-out, less introspective hero, but Rice's legions of devoted fans will recognize Blood and Gold for what it is: a love song to Marius the Wanderer, whose story reveals the complexities and limitations of eternal existence. --Daphne Durham [via]
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Blood Is Not Enoughby Ellen DatlowISBN 0688085261 (0-688-08526-1)
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Bloodedby Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder, Joss WhedonISBN 0671021346 (0-671-02134-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blooded'Book summary:Chirayoju, a vampire of Chinese lore, and Sanno, the legendary Japanese Mountain King, have been locked in deadly battle for centuries. Literally. An ancient curse imprisoned the spirits of these two warriors in an antique sword. Until the sword arrives in Sunnydale. Freed by accident, Chirayoju searches for a host body that will allow him to continue wreaking havoc among the living and the dead. Now Buffy's on the trail of this legendary vampire . . a bloody trail that leads straight through the heart of the Buffy-Xander-Willow triangle." [via]
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Blue Worldby Robert R. McCammonISBN 0671695185 (0-671-69518-5)
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The Book of Skullsby Robert SilverbergISBN 0684125900 (0-684-12590-0)
Hardcover, Scribner
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The Citadel of the Autarchby Gene WolfeISBN 0671496662 (0-671-49666-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Claw of the Conciliatorby Gene WolfeISBN 0671474251 (0-671-47425-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Claw of the Conciliator'Book summary:"Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wonderful ways. Severian is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and now journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est." [via]
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Coffey's Handsby Stephen KingISBN 0613095472 (0-613-09547-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coffey's Hands'Book summary:Harking back to the early days of the novel, The Green Mile is being published in six monthly installments. It's a great idea for a writer like Stephen King, famous for page-turning, nail-biting suspense. Like his earlier book The Shawshank Redemption, which became a hit movie, this one is set inside a prison; the title refers to the green-linoleum-covered corridor leading from death row to the electric chair. The narrator is an appealing prison superintendent, puzzled by the arrival of the enigmatic John Coffey, a huge, gentle, silent man accused of a double child rape-murder. Did he do it? Is the vicious guard going to do something awful, or have something done to him? Read the next installment. [via]
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Companions of the Nightby Vivian Vande VeldeISBN 0613011953 (0-613-01195-3)
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Courtney Crumrin And the Night Thingsby Ted NaifehISBN 0606333657 (0-606-33365-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Courtney Crumrin And the Night Things'Book summary:Courtney's parents have dragged her out to a high-to-do suburb to live with her creepy Great Uncle Aloysius in his spooky old house. She's not only the new kid in school, but she also discovers strange things lurking under her bed. [via]
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Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdomby Ted NaifehISBN 0606347429 (0-606-34742-9)
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Coyote Moonby John VornholtISBN 0671017144 (0-671-01714-4)
Softcover, Simon Spotlight Entertainment
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coyote Moon'Book summary:The seedy carnival looks like just the thing to give Buffy and her best buds, Xander and Willow, a break from staking bloodsuckers. Some greasy food, a few cheap thrills--what more could a Slayer ask for? [via]
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Desperationby Stephen KingISBN 0670868361 (0-670-86836-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desperation'Book summary:A notice to those who feel that Stephen King has lost his magic touch: Desperation is the genuine goods. The ensemble cast of ordinary Americans thrown together by chance, including a disgruntled alcoholic writer and a child who is wise beyond his years, may be a bit too familiar. But the nearly deserted Nevada mining town with an enormous haunted mine pit and an abandoned movie theatre where the survivors hang out makes for a striking battleground, and the grisly action rarely flags. Best of all, though, are the characters of Tak, the ancient body-hopping evil who emerges from the mine, and of "God"--whom the New York Times describes as "the edgiest creation in Desperation. Remote, isolated, ironic, shrouded behind disguises, perhaps 'another legendary shadow,' this deity forms a sly foil, and an icy mirror, to Tak." [via]
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Enchanted Night : A Novellaby Steven MillhauserISBN 060960516X (0-609-60516-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Firestarterby Stephen KingISBN 0670315419 (0-670-31541-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Firestarter'Book summary:Mass market paperback. [via]
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The Gatekeeper Trilogy Book 3 : Sons of Entropyby Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder, Joss WhedonISBN 0671027506 (0-671-02750-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Ghost Roadsby Christopher GoldenISBN 0671027492 (0-671-02749-2)
Softcover, Simon Spotlight Entertainment
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost Roads'Book summary:Buffy, Oz and Angel are Europe-bound, only they're not flying any airlines. They're travelling the 'ghost roads' of limbo in search of Jacques Regnier, sole heir of the dying Gatekeeper whose Boston mansion is the supernatural barrier restraining thousands of the otherworld's most nightmarish monsters. The evil Sons of Entropy will do anything to destroy the gate - even if it means trading the power-laden Spear of Longinus to the vampires who are holding Jacques. Back home, the ghost ship Flying Dutchman has set sail for Sunnydale, determined to shanghai new crewmen - dead or alive. For Willow, Xander, Cordelia and Giles, it's an ocean of trouble; especially when the monstrous Kraken reemerges with a vengeance... [via]
Ghost Storyby Peter StraubISBN 0671685635 (0-671-68563-5)
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Golden Compassby Philip PullmanISBN 0679879242 (0-679-87924-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Compass'Book summary:Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal dæmon, the manifestation of their soul in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied:
As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had dæmons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them.
Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war." But Lyra's carefree existence changes forever when she and her dæmon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey dæmon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.In The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children's book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn't speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel, The Subtle Knife, will help put off that inevitability for a while longer. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Green Manby Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, Charles VessISBN 0670035262 (0-670-03526-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Man'Book summary:One of our most enduring, universal myths is that of the Green Man-the spirit who stands for Nature in its most wild and untamed form, a man with leaves for hair who dwells deep within the mythic forest. Through the ages and around the world, the Green Man and other nature spirits have appeared in stories, songs, and artwork, as well as many beloved fantasy novels, including Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
Now Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, the acclaimed editors of over twenty anthologies, have gathered some of today's finest writers of magical fiction to interpret the spirits of nature in short stories and poetry. Charles Vess (Stardust) brings his stellar eye and brush to the decorations, and Windling provides an introduction exploring Green Man symbolism and forest myth.
The Green Man will become required reading for teenagers and adults alike-not only for fans of fantasy fiction, but for anyone interested in mythology and the mysteries of the wilderness. [via]More editions of The Green Man:
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Halloween Rainby Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder, Joss WhedonISBN 0671017136 (0-671-01713-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Halloween Rain'Book summary:As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in the all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. Around Sunnydale, they say a scarecrow saturated with Halloween rain will come alive and slaughter anyone in sight. (Lovely place, Sunnydale.) Buffy's best friends, Xander and Willow, used to think the tale was nonsense -- but after a few adventures with Buffy, they're not so sure. Even without a maniacal scarecrow, a Sunnydale Halloween is a truly horrific happening. There are enough zombies and vampires about, ready to party hearty and eat some brains, to keep the Slayer and her friends up all night. And then rain starts to fall.... [via]
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stoneby J. K. RowlingISBN 0613206339 (0-613-20633-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'Book summary:Say you've spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and jellybeans that come in every flavor, including strawberry, curry, grass, and sardine. Not only that, but you discover that you are a wizard yourself! This is exactly what happens to young Harry Potter in J.K. Rowling's enchanting, funny debut novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. In the nonmagic human world--the world of "Muggles"--Harry is a nobody, treated like dirt by the aunt and uncle who begrudgingly inherited him when his parents were killed by the evil Voldemort. But in the world of wizards, small, skinny Harry is famous as a survivor of the wizard who tried to kill him. He is left only with a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead, curiously refined sensibilities, and a host of mysterious powers to remind him that he's quite, yes, altogether different from his aunt, uncle, and spoiled, piglike cousin Dudley.
A mysterious letter, delivered by the friendly giant Hagrid, wrenches Harry from his dreary, Muggle-ridden existence: "We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." Of course, Uncle Vernon yells most unpleasantly, "I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" Soon enough, however, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts with his owl Hedwig... and that's where the real adventure--humorous, haunting, and suspenseful--begins. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, first published in England as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, continues to win major awards in England. So far it has won the National Book Award, the Smarties Prize, the Children's Book Award, and is short-listed for the Carnegie Medal, the U.K. version of the Newbery Medal. This magical, gripping, brilliant book--a future classic to be sure--will leave kids clamoring for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (Ages 8 to 13) --Karin Snelson [via]
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His Father's Sonby Nigel Bennett, P. N. ElrodISBN 0671319817 (0-671-31981-7)
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In the Fleshby Clive BarkerISBN 0671612700 (0-671-61270-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Flesh'Book summary:Terrifying and forbidding, subversive and insightful, Clive Barker's groundbreaking stories revolutionized the worlds of horrific and fantastical fiction and established Barker's dominance over the otherworldly and the all-too-real. Here, as two businessmen encounter beautiful and seductive women and an earnest young woman researches a city slum, Barker maps the boundless vistas of the unfettered imagination -- only to uncover a profound sense of terror and overwhelming dread. [via]
Indigoby Graham JoyceISBN 0671039385 (0-671-03938-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Inhuman Conditionby Clive BarkerISBN 0671742892 (0-671-74289-2)
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Island of Dr Moreauby H. G. WellsISBN 0679602305 (0-679-60230-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island of Dr. Moreau'Book summary:A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]
Islands in the Skyby Tanith LeeISBN 0679891277 (0-679-89127-7)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Itby Stephen KingISBN 0670813028 (0-670-81302-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'It'Book summary:Stephen King's idea for It came from a favorite childhood image: the entire cast of the Bugs Bunny Show coming on at the beginning. He thought of bringing on all the monsters, one last time: Dracula, Frankenstein's creature, the Werewolf, the Crawling Eye, Rodan, It Came from Outer Space.
It is about a group of adults who were once troubled children in the late '50s--"The Losers." One of them is a best selling horror writer much like Stephen King (or his friend and collaborator Peter Straub). In order to defeat the protean "It" that threatens their hometown, they have to go back- -not only to the town itself, but deep into their childhood memories, to regain the talent for magic they once had. King says It is for "the buried child in us, but I'm writing for the grown-up, too. I want grown-ups to look at the child long enough to be able to give him up."
This huge, baggy beast of a novel is a favorite of Stephen King fans--second in popularity only to The Stand. Perhaps longtime fans develop mental filters for King's sloppy storytelling to tune out the repetitions and silliness. King is like the pointillist painter Seurat: if you stand too close to the little dots, the picture falls apart, and it looks meaningless. That's why he makes the storyscape so big--to take you up to that macro-level where you like the book in spite of its flaws. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Keeper of the Kingby Nigel Bennett, P. N. Elrod, Shannon BennettISBN 067187862X (0-671-87862-X)
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The Knife Thrower and Other Storiesby Steven MillhauserISBN 0679781633 (0-679-78163-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Knife Thrower and Other Stories'Book summary:The Knife Thrower introduces a series of distinctively Millhauserian worlds: tiny, fabulous, self-enclosed, like Fabergé eggs or like the short-story genre itself. Flying carpets; subterranean amusement parks; a band of teenage girls who meet secretly in the night in order to do "nothing at all"; a store with departments of Moorish courtyards, volcanoes, and Aztec temples: these are Millhauser's stock-in-trade as a storyteller, and he employs them to characteristically magical effect. As in Millhauser's other books, including Edwin Mullhouse and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Dressler, his subject is nothing less than the faculty of imagination itself. Here, however, the flights of fancy are unencumbered by Martin Dressler's wealth of period detail, and the result is fun-house prose whose pleasures and terrors are equally gossamer. Millhauser possesses the unique ability to render the quotidian strange, so that, emerging from his stories, the reader often feels the world itself an unfamiliar place--as do the shoppers at his department store, that marketplace of skillful illusion: "As we hurry along the sidewalk, we have the absurd sensation that we have entered still another department, composed of ingeniously lifelike streets with artful shadows and reflections--that our destinations lie in a far corner of the same department--that we are condemned to hurry forever through these artificial halls, bright with late afternoon light, in search of the way out." [via]
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The Knight and Knave of Swordsby Fritz LeiberISBN 068808530X (0-688-08530-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Knight and Knave of Swords'Book summary:Ramsey Campbell, the highly regarded British horror author called him, "the greatest living writer of supernatural horror fiction". Drawing many of his own themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P Lovecraft, master manipulator Franz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the Fantasy genre, actually coining the term "Sword and Sorcery" that would describe the sub-genre he would more than help create. While Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leibers fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Grey Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwons grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar, is Leibers fully realized, vivid, incarnation of urban decay and civilizations corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery. "Fritz Leiber's tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are virtually a genre unto themselves. Urbane, idiosyncratic, comic, erotic and human, spiked with believable action of a master fantasist!" William Gibson "After too long a wait, the master story teller of us all returns with a huge, anecdotal adventure in the magic-drenched lives of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Glowing imagination melds with gorgeous language to make this one of Leiber's very best...which is a better best than this poor world usually has to offer. Leiber's back: rejoice!" -Harlan Ellison "It's all Fritz Leiber's fault. If he weren't such a deadly fine fantasist I wouldn't be stopping everything to read his tales. And if he weren't such a master I wouldn't occasionally look out of the window and wish he'd interrupt my routine again, as he doesn't do it often enough. The Knight and Knave of Swords came into my life and took over an otherwise fully programmed afternoon. I stop everything when a new Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story comes into my hands." Roger Zelazny [via]
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LA Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girlby David HuddleISBN 0618340777 (0-618-34077-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Land of Laughsby Jonathan CarrollISBN 0670417556 (0-670-41755-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Last Callby Tim PowersISBN 068810732X (0-688-10732-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Call'Book summary:Retired gambler Scott Crane is forced back into the ""game"" by the legacy of his father, who had seized control of the Las Vegas gambling empire in the 1940s. By the author of The Anubis Gates. 20,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Legacy of Bloodby Richard A. KnaakISBN 067104155X (0-671-04155-X)
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The Leper's Companionby Julia BlackburnISBN 0679758380 (0-679-75838-0)
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Little Kingdomsby Steven MillhauserISBN 067186890X (0-671-86890-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Kingdoms'Book summary:Three distinct, imaginative worlds are created in three novellas by the author of In the Penny Arcade, each one serving as a fantastic mirror to the real world. [via]
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Long Walkby Stephen KingISBN 0613173503 (0-613-17350-3)
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The Man in the High Castleby Philip K. DickISBN 0679740678 (0-679-74067-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man in the High Castle'Book summary:It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.
This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake. [via]More editions of The Man in the High Castle:
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Martin Dresslerby Steven MillhauserISBN 0679781277 (0-679-78127-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Martin Dressler'Book summary:Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters--one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vision becomes bolder and bolder he walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry, a sense of doom builds piece-by-hypnotic piece until this mesmerizing journey into the heart of an American dreamer reaches its bitter-sweet conclusion. [via]
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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Storiesby Tim BurtonISBN 0688156819 (0-688-15681-9)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories'Book summary:This unassuming hardcover in black buckram with a dark lavender title plate is the door into a world of twisted pleasures. Filmmaker Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas) tells 23 winsomely macabre stories about boys and girls who don't fit in. Their bodies are misshapen, their habits are odd, and their parents are appalled by them. But they do try hard to be human, like poor unwanted Mummy Boy, who's "a bundle of gauze": he goes for a walk in the park with his mummy dog. Some kids are having "a birthday party for a Mexican girl." They think Mummy Boy is a piñata: "They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes." For all its simple humor, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a peculiarly disturbing book about the violence that children suffer. It is illustrated in pen and ink, watercolor, and crayon. The themes and imagery are at a young-adult to adult level. [via]
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Merrickby Anne RiceISBN 0679454489 (0-679-45448-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Merrick'Book summary:In her mesmerizing new novel, the author of The Vampire Chronicles and the saga of the Mayfair Witchea demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic. [via]
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Night of the Living Rerunby Arthur Byron Cover, Joss WhedonISBN 0671017152 (0-671-01715-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night of the Living Rerun'Book summary:"A History Lesson?
"As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. one girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers.
As if real life wasn't already overflowing with vampire-staking, now Buffy has begun to "dream about slaying! Night after night, it's the same thing. She's back with the Puritans, a Slayer on the trail of a witch. What can it mean?
Buffy gets a clue when Xander and Giles start acting like "they have ancient alter egos. Now the stage is set for a symbolic replay of the night the Master was accidentally trapped in the other dimension.
Only this time, the Master wants a happy ending -- for himself. Buffy and her friends must pervent the Master from rewriting the script and escaping his supernatural prison before Sunnydale becomes history! [via]
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Night of the Living Rerun #4by Byron CoverISBN 0613084411 (0-613-08441-1)
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Night of the Wolfby Alice BorchardtISBN 0613279999 (0-613-27999-9)
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Nightmares and Dreamscapesby Stephen KingISBN 0670851086 (0-670-85108-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nightmares and Dreamscapes'Book summary:Many people who write about horror literature maintain that mood is its most important element. Stephen King disagrees: "My deeply held conviction is that story must be paramount.... All other considerations are secondary--theme, mood, even characterization and language."
These fine stories, each written in what King calls "a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism," prove his point. The theme, mood, characters, and language vary, but throughout, a sense of story reigns supreme. Nightmares & Dreamscapes contains 20 short tales--including several never before published--plus one teleplay, one poem, and one nonfiction piece about kids and baseball that appeared in the New Yorker. The subjects include vampires, zombies, an evil toy, man-eating frogs, the burial of a Cadillac, a disembodied finger, and a wicked stepfather. The style ranges from King's well-honed horror to a Ray Bradbury-like fantasy voice to an ambitious pastiche of Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald. And like a compact disc with a bonus track, the book ends with a charming little tale not listed in the table of contents--a parable called "The Beggar and the Diamond." --Fiona Webster [via]
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Quincey Morris, Vampireby P.N. ElrodISBN 0671319884 (0-671-31988-4)
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Realm of Chaosby Marc Gascoigne, Andy JonesISBN 0671784056 (0-671-78405-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Realm of Chaos'Book summary:In the dark and gothic world of Warhammer, the ravaging armies of the Ruinous Powers sweep down from the savage north to assail the lands of men. Realm of Chaos is a searing collection of a dozen all-action fantasy short stories set in those desperate times. [via]
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Resurrecting Ravanaby Ray Garton, Joss WhedonISBN 0671026364 (0-671-02636-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Resurrecting Ravana'Book summary:RAISING THE DEAD
With midterms looming, the students at Sunnydale High are predictably stressed-out. Even super-student Willow is feeling the pressure to succeed. And when her usual study buddies -- Buffy, Xander, and Oz -- decide they don't need her tutorial sessions, Willow wonders if "she's" really what they don't need. But her hurt feelings don't explain her sudden antagonism toward Buffy -- or the strange dreams they've both been having.
As tensions in the school escalate into brutal acts of violence -- and the perpetrators turn up horribly mutilated -- Buffy and the gang search for a supernatural source. The evidence indicates that someone is attempting to resurrect a powerful Hindu demon. Willow's new con?dante, guidance counselor Promila Daruwalla, becomes the prime suspect...until Giles runs into an old "friend" who is always causing trouble. It will take all of the Slayer's resources...and the help of "all" her friends...to find the culprit and destroy the key to the demon's resurrection. [via]
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Return to Chaosby Craig Shaw Gardner, Joss WhedonISBN 0671021362 (0-671-02136-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Return to Chaos'Book summary:Old Magic, New Problem The Hellmouth (a.k.a. Sunnydale, CA) has drawn vampires, witches, and other demons to its powerful vortex. Now it has also drawn the attention of an ancient set of Druids -- allies in Buffy Summers' battle against the Undead. Clocked in Darkness, wrapped in mystery, the Druids descend on Sunnydale ready to perform new rituals to summon forth a new world order, free from the evil that shapes Buffy's nights. But the Slayer's concerns are more immediate -- someone is stalking her friends. Cordelia, Xander, and Oz -- all are falling victim to this spell. And now it's up to Willow and Giles to find the cause, while Buffy stands between the Mouth of Hell and the New Dawn. [via]
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Rose Madderby Stephen KingISBN 0670858692 (0-670-85869-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rose Madder'Book summary:After 14 years of being beaten, Rose Daniels wakes up one morning and leaves her husband -- but she keeps looking over her shoulder, because Norman has the instincts of a predator. And what is the strange work of art that has Rose in a kind of spell? In this brilliant dark-hued fable of the gender wars, Stephen King has fashioned yet another suspense thriller to keep readers right at the edge. [via]
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Sleeping In Flameby Jonathan CarrollISBN 0679727779 (0-679-72777-9)
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Smoking Poppyby Graham JoyceISBN 0671039407 (0-671-03940-7)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smoking Poppy'Book summary:Graham Joyce
travels to an enthralling, suspense-charged landscape in this hallucinatory novel of a father's quest to save his daughter -- without destroying himself.
Dan Innes has received shattering news from the British Embassy in Bangkok: his daughter, Charlie, whom he hasn't seen or spoken to in two years, has been imprisoned in a Thai jail for drug smuggling. Angry, terrified, seething with reprimands and questions, Dan leaves for Thailand. But the jail at Chiang Mai marks the beginning of his search rather than the end. Following the faintest of trails up into the lawless, dangerous mountain region near Myanmar, where opium grows abundantly, Dan must retrace Charlie's steps -- and brave the same traps that have swallowed her...on a terrifying mission of self-discovery, blind faith, and salvation. [via]
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Snow White, Blood Redby Ellen Datlow, Terri WindlingISBN 0688109136 (0-688-10913-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow White, Blood Red'Book summary:A collection of charming childhood stories featuring such fairy tale characters as Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and Puss in Boots takes on a darker, more sinister edge at the hands of such writers as Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and Jane Yolen. [via]
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Sons of Entropyby Christopher GoldenISBN 0613730739 (0-613-73073-9)
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The Sword of the Lictorby Gene WolfeISBN 0671499459 (0-671-49945-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sword of the Lictor'Book summary:Science Fiction and fantasy combined, Set a million years in the furure of our Earth on a planet transformed in ways we can even image. [via]
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Sympathy for the Devilby Holly LisleISBN 0671877038 (0-671-87703-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sympathy for the Devil'Book summary:Nurse Dayne Kuttner puts her soul on the line to bargain with God for amnesty for Hell's damned. But when God not only listens, but takes the deal she offers literally, her world turns upside-down.
Plagued by pushy reporters, devilish doctors, desperate colleagues, bewildered friends, an imp named Earwax, and pursued by the Netherworld's hottest guy, Dayne stands her ground...and pushes Heaven itself for an accounting of how love and Hell can coexist. [via]More editions of Sympathy for the Devil:
Tours Of The Black Clockby Steve EricksonISBN 0671649213 (0-671-64921-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Two Dead Girlsby Stephen KingISBN 0613096487 (0-613-09648-7)
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The Vampire Tapestryby Suzy McKee CharnasISBN 0671254154 (0-671-25415-4)
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War for the Oaksby Emma BullISBN 0606343296 (0-606-34329-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War for the Oaks'Book summary:Emma Bull's debut novel, War for the Oaks, placed her in the top tier of urban fantasists and established a new subgenre. Unlike most of the rock & rollin' fantasies that have ripped off Ms. Bull's concept, War for the Oaks is well worth reading. Intelligent and skillfully written, with sharply drawn, sympathetic characters, War for the Oaks is about love and loyalty, life and death, and creativity and sacrifice.
Eddi McCandry has just left her boyfriend and their band when she finds herself running through the Minneapolis night, pursued by a sinister man and a huge, terrifying dog. The two creatures are one and the same: a phouka, a faerie being who has chosen Eddi to be a mortal pawn in the age-old war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. Eddi isn't interested--but she doesn't have a choice. Now she struggles to build a new life and new band when she might not even survive till the first rehearsal.
War for the Oaks won the Locus Magazine award for Best First Novel and was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Society Award. Other books by Emma Bull include the novels Falcon, Bone Dance (second honors, Philip K. Dick Award), Finder (a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award), and (with Stephen Brust) Freedom and Necessity; the collection Double Feature (with Will Shetterly); and the picture book The Princess and the Lord of Night. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Watchersby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0613574877 (0-613-57487-7)
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Watership Downby Richard George AdamsISBN 068483605X (0-684-83605-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watership Down'Book summary:Watership Down has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it's often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn't cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams's bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most great novels, Watership Down is a rich story that can be read (and reread) on many different levels. The book is often praised as an allegory, with its analogs between human and rabbit culture (a fact sometimes used to goad skeptical teens, who resent the challenge that they won't "get" it, into reading it), but it's equally praiseworthy as just a corking good adventure.
The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching, involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside, complete with its own folk history and language (the book comes with a "lapine" glossary, a guide to rabbitese). As much about freedom, ethics, and human nature as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates, Watership Down will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come. --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Wolf's Hourby Robert R. McCammonISBN 0671664859 (0-671-66485-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wolf's Hour'Book summary:On the eve of D-Day, a British secret agent with unique powers goes behind Nazi linesMichael Gallatin is a British spy with a peculiar talent: the ability to transform himself into a wolf. Although his work in North Africa helped the Allies win the continent in the early days of World War II, he quit the service when a German spy shot his lover in her bed. Now, three years later, the army asks him to end his retirement and parachute into occupied Paris. A mysterious German plan called the Iron Fist threatens the D-Day invasion, and the Nazi in charge is the spy who betrayed Michaels lover. The werewolf goes to France for king and country, hoping for a chance at bloody vengeance.[via]
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Ojos de Fuegoby Stephen KingISBN 0609810871 (0-609-81087-1)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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