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After the First Deathby Robert Cormier, John LancasterISBN 0521485614 (0-521-48561-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, David BevingtonISBN 052161287X (0-521-61287-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:Richard Madelaine explains how the challenging complexity of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra has at different times inhibited or promoted its success on the stage, and accounts for the remarkable resurgence of performances in the past twenty years. His introduction and commentary, presented alongside the New Cambridge edition of the text, provide the most detailed, extensive and up-to-date history of the play on stage and screen, in and beyond Britain. In the process he reveals not only the rich plurality of possible readings of the play, but also changing attitudes to Shakespeare. [via]
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Antony and Cleopatraby Mary Berry, Michael ClampISBN 0521445841 (0-521-44584-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, Antony and Cleopatra has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version aims to be different from other editions of the play. It invites you to bring the play to life in your classroom through enjoyable activities that will help increase your understanding. You are encourage to make up your own mind about the play, rather than have someone else's interpretation handed down to you. Whatever you do, remember that Shakespeare wrote his plays to be acted, watched and enjoyed. [via]
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The Big Book for Our Planetby Aliki, Ann Durell, Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0525451196 (0-525-45119-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Black Waterby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0525934553 (0-525-93455-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Cannery Rowby John SteinbeckISBN 0531001695 (0-531-00169-5)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Cavedwellerby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0525941673 (0-525-94167-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cavedweller'Book summary:"Death changes everything." So begins Dorothy Allison's sprawling, ambitious, and deeply satisfying second novel, Cavedweller. For Delia Byrd, Randall Pritchard's death in a motorcycle accident launches a journey of several thousand miles and almost two decades, a rebirth of sorts that's also a return to her roots. Years before, the handsome but untrustworthy rock star Randall helped Delia flee an abusive husband; Delia escapes physical danger but leaves her two small children behind. In California, her abandoned daughters haunt her dreams and preoccupy her waking hours, even as she sings in Randall's band and gives birth to another daughter, Cissy. But when Randall is killed in a motorcycle accident, Delia packs rebellious Cissy into a broken-down Datsun, bound for Cayro, Georgia, and the one thing that suddenly matters more than anything else: her abandoned children and the chance to be a mother to them once again.
Cayro's poverty is emotional as well as material; the town is a hard place, full of hard people. To them, Delia will always be "that bitch" who abandoned her babies, "that hippie" living a life of sin. Nonetheless, Delia forges a cruel bargain with her former husband: in exchange for Delia's agreeing to care for him as he dies, he gives her a chance to reclaim her daughters. Like Bastard out of Carolina, Allison's acclaimed debut novel, Cavedweller is a chronicle of rage, strength, and survival. Here, however, Allison is equally concerned with the redemptive power of love and forgiveness, and a novel that began with death ends on an unexpectedly sanguine note: "'Yes, it's time for some new songs.'" There are no victims in Dorothy Allison's work; Delia triumphs through sheer force of will, bringing her family together despite the contempt of almost everyone around her.
The novel has its flaws--including occasionally flat-footed prose--but it is in the end compulsively readable, and it's populated by some of the most memorable characters in recent fiction: tough, prickly, flawed, and deeply human, Delia and Cissy are literary creations of the first rank. In describing the complicated emotions that bind and divide them, Allison demonstrates a profoundly unsentimental understanding of the way the human heart works. Cavedweller is the work of a mature artist, her best fiction to date. [via]
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Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritualby Richard Huntington, Peter MetcalfISBN 0521423759 (0-521-42375-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The City of God Against the Pagansby R.W. Dyson, AugustineISBN 0521468434 (0-521-46843-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City of God Against the Pagans'Book summary:This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilization. Robert Dyson has produced a complete, accurate, authoritative and fluent translation of De Civitate Dei, edited together with full biographical notes, a concise introduction, bibliography and chronology of Augustine's life. The result is an important contribution of interest to students of theology, philosophy, ecclesiastical history, the history of political thought and late antiquity. [via]
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The Color Purpleby Alice WalkerISBN 0521403979 (0-521-40397-9)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color Purple'Book summary:Set in the segregated world of the Deep South between the wars, this text is a challenging read for students aged 14 and above. It is part of a series of contemporary women's writing, in editions designed specifically for schools. [via]
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Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, Jack David Zipes, Jacob Grimm, Johnny GruelleISBN 0553051849 (0-553-05184-9)
Hardcover, Bantam
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources. [via]
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Constructing Death : The Sociology of Dying and Bereavementby Clive SealeISBN 0521595096 (0-521-59509-6)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Daphne's Bookby Mary Downing HahnISBN 0553156314 (0-553-15631-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Everybody in Jessica's English class makes fun of Daphne. She never says a word to anyone -- just walks around with her nose in a book, with her long straggly hair hanging over her face. Now the worst thing has happened. The teacher has assigned Jessica to be partners with Daphne in the Write-A-Book contest!
But being forced to work with the class "weirdo", Jessica gets an even bigger surprise. Not only does Daphne talk to her, but she tells Jessica a terrible secret...one that Jessica knows could be very dangerous to keep.
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The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Designby Christopher M. Kelly, Wendy NorthcuttISBN 0525949607 (0-525-94960-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design'Book summary:All-new tales from the shallow end of the gene pool
Named after Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, The Darwin Awards pays homage to those who improve our gene pool . . . by removing themselves from it.
Most of us know instinctively that igniting a blasting cap in our mouth is a recipe for disaster. Darwin Award winners do not. Most of us have basic sound judgment that eliminates the need for no smoking signs at ammo dumps. Darwin Award winners do not. Whether it's head-butting motorcyclists, thallium-snorting soldiers, or hatchet-wielding men who mistake a body part for a chicken neck, there's no shortage of creative Darwin Award winners. There's a reason the instructions say, "Don't heat your lava lamp on the stove." Only a Darwin Award winner would learn the fatal reason why.
Filled with over a hundred new tales of evolution in action, science essays by guest writers, and a parody research paper supporting Intelligent Design, The Darwin Awards 4 shows that when it comes to common sense, natural selection still has a long way to go. [via]
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Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selectionby Wendy NorthcuttISBN 0525946233 (0-525-94623-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Death and Life of Supermanby Roger SternISBN 055309582X (0-553-09582-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death and Life of Superman'Book summary:"Superman-dead!"--The Daily Planet. On November 18, 1992, news of Superman's death shocked the world as the legendary Man of steel was killed defending Metropolis from the monster called Doomsday. Here at last is the dramatic story behind the best-selling comic book of all time: the fates of Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Ma and Pa Kent, the Justice League, and the reign of the four super-beings who mysteriously appeared after Superman's funeral, each claiming to be the real Last Son of Krypton. And finally, here is the complete incredible story of Superman's triumphant retum! In this thrilling novel, Roger Stern, a veteran writer of Action Comics, chronicles the most amazing comeback in comic book history--told with more gripping detail and background than ever before.
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Death and the Emperor: Roman Funerary Monuments, from Augustus to Marcus Aureliusby Penelope J. E. DaviesISBN 0521632366 (0-521-63236-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa CatherISBN 0553064169 (0-553-06416-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Death Encountersby Charles FioreISBN 0553124528 (0-553-12452-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Dying for Chocolateby Diane Mott DavidsonISBN 055308576X (0-553-08576-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dying for Chocolate'Book summary:Fleeing an abusive ex, caterer Goldy Bear moves herself, her son, and her business out to the ritzy Aspen Meadow Country Club area, where she witnesses the bizarre death of Philip Miller, a handsome local shrink. [via]
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Exits: Stories of Dying Moments & Parting Wordsby Scott Slater, Alec SolomitaISBN 0525930701 (0-525-93070-1)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Falling Angels : A Novelby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0525945814 (0-525-94581-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Falling Angels : A Novel'Book summary:Set among the sweeping skirts and social upheavals of Edwardian London, Tracy Chevalier's Falling Angels is a meditation on change, loss, and recovery. Her central characters are two young girls of the same age, whose family plots are situated side-by-side in a cemetery modeled on Highgate. Lavinia Waterhouse is respectably middle-class, devoted, like her conventional, doting mother, to the right way to do things, although suspiciously well- schooled in subjects like funerary sculpture and the English practices of mourning. Her friend Maude Coleman comes from a slightly more privileged and free-thinking background. In contrast with Lavinia's mother, Maude's mother Kitty Coleman is well-educated by the standards of the day, and it has made her restless and irritable. But neither her reading, nor her gardening, nor her affair with the somber, high-thinking governor of the cemetery is enough for Kitty. She comes alive only when she discovers the women's suffrage movement, and her devotion to the cause takes her away from Maude in every sense.
Although the point of view shifts between many characters (with even the Coleman's maid and cook getting their say, sometimes unnecessarily), Falling Angels is essentially the children's story, since it is their lives that are most open to change. The narrative spans exactly the years of Edward VII's reign, from the morning after his mother Queen Victoria's death in January 1901 to his own death in May 1910. Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring) deftly uses the nation's dramatically different mourning for these two monarchs to signal the social transformations of the period. Readers at ease with English history will find Falling Angels an unusually subtle novel, with an emotional range that recalls the best of the Edwardian novelists, E.M. Forster, and his quintessential novel of Edwardian manners, Howard's End. --Regina Marler [via]
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The Family of Max Desirby Robert FerroISBN 0525241973 (0-525-24197-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fear Nothingby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0553106643 (0-553-10664-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Fifth Sacred Thingby StarhawkISBN 0553095226 (0-553-09522-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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Figgs and Phantomsby Ellen RaskinISBN 0525296808 (0-525-29680-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Frozen in Time: Unlocking the Secrets of the Franklin Expeditionby Owen Beattie, John GeigerISBN 0525246851 (0-525-24685-1)
Hardcover, Dutton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frozen in Time: Unlocking the Secrets of the Franklin Expedition'Book summary:Sir John Franklin's ill fated Arctic Expedition of 1845-48 has been a mystery for nearly 140 years. In l981 things began to change... [via]
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Ghostsby Adrian PlassISBN 0551031107 (0-551-03110-7)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghosts'Book summary:It has been just six months since David Herrick lost his beloved wife, Jessica. The grief is still an open wound. So when he receives an invitation to a reunion of long-lost friends, David's first impulse is to refuse. After all, two decades have passed since he was in the same youth group with these people. But the invitation comes from Angela, one of his wife's oldest friends -- and mysteriously, she claims she has something for him from his late wife. Reluctant but curious, David arrives at Headly Manor, an ancient house with an unsettling reputation. But life's most haunting spectres are not a matter of location. In this honest, deeply moving novel of the heart, David and his friends search their souls for the courage to exorcise the ghosts of their own pasts. [via]
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Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigatorby Jennifer AllisonISBN 0525473750 (0-525-47375-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Tim SewardISBN 0521484723 (0-521-48472-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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Guppies for Teaby Marika CobboldISBN 0552995371 (0-552-99537-1)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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A History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chaptersby Julian Barnes, Ron MiddletonISBN 0521484782 (0-521-48478-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History Of The World In Ten And A Half Chapters'Book summary:Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will feature writing in English from various genres and differing times. A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes is edited by Ron Middleton of the University of Reading. [via]
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Homer, Odyssey Books Vi-VIIIby A.F. GarvieISBN 0521338409 (0-521-33840-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer, Odyssey Books Vi-VIII'Book summary:This is the first self-contained edition of Books VI-VIII of the Odyssey--the account of Odysseus' time among the Phaeacians, and a popular introduction to Homer. While not neglecting matters of language and formulaic composition, the Commentary aims to provide guidance on questions of literary and narrative technique and poetic artistry. The Introduction deals with the problem of Homeric composition in general, and with the place of the Phaeacian books in the poem as a whole. There are also brief sections on Homeric meter and the text. [via]
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How to Survive the Loss of a Loveby Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams, Melba ColgroveISBN 0553077600 (0-553-07760-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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How to Survive the Loss of a Love: 58 Things to Do When There Is Nothing to Be Doneby Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams, Melba ColgroveISBN 0553014811 (0-553-01481-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissectionby Helen MacdonaldISBN 0522851576 (0-522-85157-6)
Softcover, Melbourne Univ Pr
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Incredible Journeyby Sheila Burnford, Carl BurgerISBN 0553156160 (0-553-15616-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Incredible Journey'Book summary:A story about three friends, Lauth the young labrador, Tao the siamese cat and Bodger the bull terrier, and their adventures on an incredible journey. This is the story that inspired the Walt Disney's film "Homeward Bound". [via]
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Into the Forestby Jean HeglandISBN 0553106686 (0-553-10668-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into the Forest'Book summary:Jean Hegland's prose in Into the Forest is as breathtaking as one of the musty, ancient redwoods that share the woodland with Nell and Eva, two sisters who must learn to live in harmony with the northern California forest when the electricity shuts off, the phones go out, their parents die, and all civilization beyond them seems to grind to a halt. At first, the girls rely on stores of food left in their parents' pantry, but when those supplies begin to dwindle, their only option is to turn to each other and the forest's plants and animals for friendship, courage, and sustenance. Into the Forest, an apocalyptic coming-of-age story, will fill readers (both teens and adults) with a profound sense of the human spirit's strength and beauty. [via]
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Julius Caesarby Tim SewardISBN 0521409039 (0-521-40903-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon IIby Kenneth AngerISBN 0525242716 (0-525-24271-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon II'Book summary:Originally published in Paris, this is a collection of Hollywood's darkest and best kept secrets from the pen of Kenneth Anger, a former child movie actor who grew up to become one of America's leading underground film-makers. [via]
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King Henry IV. Part 1by William Shakespeare, Judith Weil, Herbert WeilISBN 0521296153 (0-521-29615-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Henry IV. Part 1'Book summary:Written between 1596 and 1597, Henry IV Part One represents Shakespeare's increasingly mature talent in staging the history of the early Tudor monarchy. Midway in the cycle of Shakespeare's History Plays, which begin with Richard II and ultimately culminate in his last play, Henry VIII, Henry IV Part One tells the story of the troubled reign of Henry IV following his deposition of Richard II. The historical action revolves around the attempt by Henry Percy (known as Hotspur) to overthrow Henry at the Battle of Shrewsbury. However, over half the play deals with the transformation of Henry's profligate son, Prince Hal (the future King Henry V), from tavern joker to national icon.
The whole play is stolen from its kings and princes by Shakespeare's greatest comic creation, the "fat-kidneyed rascal" Sir John Falstaff, king of his own dominions--the taverns and brothels of London's Eastcheap district. The tavern scenes of the play are some of the most evocative accounts of 16th-century popular London life. They revolve around the comical but ultimately sinister relationship between Falstaff and his young apprentice Hal, who learns to "so offend to make offence a skill" as he learns the slippery ropes of realpolitik and kingship. The play is considered by many to be the liveliest and most profound of Shakespeare's History Plays, and remains one of its most popular examples. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondesby T. CooperISBN 052594933X (0-525-94933-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Living Endby Stanley ElkinISBN 0525481583 (0-525-48158-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Living End'Book summary:Killed during a senseless holdup, kindhearted Ellerbee finds himself on a whirlwind tour of a distressingly familiar theme park Heaven and inner-city Hell, where he learns the truth about God's love and wrath. Reprint. NYT. [via]
Logan's Runby William F. Nolan, George Clayton JohnsonISBN 0553025171 (0-553-02517-1)
Softcover, Virtual Pub Group Inc
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The Loss That Is Forever: The Lifelong Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Fatherby Maxine HarrisISBN 0525938699 (0-525-93869-9)
Hardcover, E P Dutton
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, A. R. BraunmullerISBN 052129455X (0-521-29455-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
The Meanings of Deathby John Westerdale BowkerISBN 0521447739 (0-521-44773-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Medeaby Euripides, Donald J. MastronardeISBN 0521643864 (0-521-64386-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medea'Book summary:This edition presents Medea, the most famous play of the Athenian tragedian Euripides, in ancient Greek, with commentary designed for university Greek classes, from second-year Greek upward. It helps students experience a classic drama as they work through the process of careful translation and gives them an appreciation of the work's artistry and its relation to its culture and performance tradition. The introduction summarizes interpretive and cultural issues raised by the play and provides background on important aspects of Greek tragedy, including language, style, and metre. [via]
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The Medical Detectivesby Berton RouecheISBN 0525242708 (0-525-24270-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Mona Lisa Overdriveby William GibsonISBN 0553052500 (0-553-05250-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mona Lisa Overdrive'Book summary:Into the cyber-hip world of William Gibson comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled...or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes.
An over-the-top thrill ride sequel to Neuromancer and Count Zero. [via]
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Monkeysby Susan MinotISBN 0525243429 (0-525-24342-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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In this luminous story of family life--the first novel by Susan Minot, author of the highly acclaimed Evening--the seven Vincent children follow their Catholic mother to Mass and spend Thanksgiving with their father's aging parents who come from a world of New England priviledge. As they grow older, they meet with the perplexing lives of adults. Susan Minot writes with delicacy and a tremendous gift for the details that decorate domestic life, and when tragedy strikes she beautifully mines the children's tenderness for each other, and their aching guardianship of what they have. [via]More editions of Monkeys:
Mrs. Katz and Tushby Patricia PolaccoISBN 0553081225 (0-553-08122-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Books Canada, Incorporated
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Names Will Never Hurt Meby Jamie Levi AdoffISBN 0525471758 (0-525-47175-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlifeby Daniel Quinn, Tom Whalen, Greg BoydISBN 0553096702 (0-553-09670-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife'Book summary:Inspired by a dead woman named Delores who appeared to one of the authors in a dream, A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife is the text that was presented to her shortly after she crossed over to the "other side." With the help of Tom Whalen, Daniel Quinn was able to decipher for living readers the cryptic messages encoded in the text of what is commonly known among the dead as "The Little Book." Filled with wisdom, secrets, strange imaginings, uncanny perceptions, and unexpected humor--A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife can be read as parable, allegory, or exactly as what it proclaims itself to be. [via]
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The Other Side and Back : A Psychic's Guide to Our World and Beyondby Sylvia Browne, Lindsay HarrisonISBN 0525945040 (0-525-94504-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Side and Back : A Psychic's Guide to Our World and Beyond'Book summary:In this upbeat look at a world that isn't as far removed from us as we might think, Sylvia Browne answers the big questions we all ask at one point or another: "What are angels?" "What happens when we die?" and "What are ghosts?" While The Other Side and Back may pacify your curiosity about the spirit realm, it also offers a cure to the cynicism that plagues us every day. Surprisingly, this book feels much more personal than Browne's biographical Adventures of a Psychic, perhaps because of the conversational, first-person narrative that brings the spirit world down to earth without diminishing its uniqueness. --Brian Patterson [via]
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The Piano Lessonby August WilsonISBN 0525249265 (0-525-24926-5)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Pigman's Legacyby Paul ZindelISBN 055314992X (0-553-14992-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Pluto Projectby Melissa Glenn HaberISBN 0525477217 (0-525-47721-7)
Hardcover, Dutton Childrens Books
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Postcards From No Man's Landby Aidan ChambersISBN 0525468633 (0-525-46863-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Red Dragonby Thomas HarrisISBN 0525945563 (0-525-94556-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Dragon'Book summary:Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas's Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs. As in Silence, the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist Lecter for clues to catching a killer on the loose.
The sleuth, Will Graham, actually quit the FBI after nearly getting killed by Lecter while nabbing him, but fear isn't what bugs him about crime busting. It's just too creepy to get inside a killer's twisted mind. But he comes back to stop a madman who's been butchering entire families. The FBI needs Graham's insight, and Graham needs Lecter's genius. But Lecter is a clever fiend, and he manipulates both Graham and the killer at large from his cell.
That killer, Francis Dolarhyde, works in a film lab, where he picks his victims by studying their home movies. He's obsessed with William Blake's bizarre painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, believing there's a red dragon within him, the personification of his demonic drives. Flashbacks to Dolarhyde's terrifying childhood and superb stream-of-consciousness prose get us right there inside his head. When Dolarhyde does weird things, we understand why. We sympathize when the voice of the cruel dead grandma who raised and crazed him urges him to mayhem--she's way scarier than that old bat in Psycho. When he falls in love with a blind girl at the lab, we hope he doesn't give in to Grandma's violent advice.
This book is awesomely detailed, ingeniously plotted, judiciously gory, and fantastically imagined. If you haven't read it, you've never had the creeps. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Red Kayakby Thomas Wynne RossISBN 0525473173 (0-525-47317-3)
Hardcover, Dutton Childrens Books
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Regenerationby Pat BarkerISBN 0525934278 (0-525-93427-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Regeneration'Book summary:Regeneration, one in Pat Barker's series of novels confronting the psychological effects of World War I, focuses on treatment methods during the war and the story of a decorated English officer sent to a military hospital after publicly declaring he will no longer fight. Yet the novel is much more. Written in sparse prose that is shockingly clear -- the descriptions of electronic treatments are particularly harrowing -- it combines real-life characters and events with fictional ones in a work that examines the insanity of war like no other. Barker also weaves in issues of class and politics in this compactly powerful book. Other books in the series include The Eye in the Door and the Booker Award winner The Ghost Road. [via]
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The Republicby Plato, Tom Griffith, G.R.F. FerrariISBN 052148443X (0-521-48443-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Republic of Platoby PlatoISBN 0525470042 (0-525-47004-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Seize the Nightby Dean KoontzISBN 0553106651 (0-553-10665-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seize the Night'Book summary:Chris Snow, the light-phobic, oddball hero of Dean Koontz's Fear Nothing, is once again caught in the middle of something ugly. The children (and pets) of Moonlight Bay, California, are disappearing. The first to go is Jimmy Wing, the son of Snow's former girlfriend, Lilly. Then Snow's own hyper-intelligent dog goes missing. Snow decides that he will find them, but what he uncovers is more than just a simple kidnapping; before he can turn back, he's up against an age-old vendetta, an active time machine, and a genetic experiment gone awry.
Seize the Night offers up the same eclectic mix of characters that appeared in Fear Nothing: boardhead Bobby, disc jockey Sasha, Snow, and all of their friends band together to find the missing kids and figure out why the people of Moonlight Bay are morphing into demonic versions of their former selves. They outsmart corrupt cops, outrun genetically enhanced monkeys, and outlive a time warp with a vengeance--all between nightfall and sunrise, the only time that Snow can be outside.
Though the premise is a little bit hard to believe, and the surf lingo occasionally irritating, Seize the Night is ultimately fun to read. Koontz successfully draws you in and keeps you entertained through an unexpected climax and an enlightening resolution. --Mara Friedman [via]
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Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural Historyby J.M. WinterISBN 0521639883 (0-521-63988-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History'Book summary:Jay Winter's powerful and substantial new study of the "collective remembrance" of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Using a wide variety of literary, artistic and architectural evidence, Dr. Winter looks anew at the ways, many of them highly traditional, in which communities endeavored to find collective solace after the carnage of the First World War. The result is a profound and moving book, of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century. [via]
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Something for Joeyby Richard Peck, Jerry McNeelyISBN 0553116401 (0-553-11640-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Song of Pentecostby W. J. Corbett, Martin UrsellISBN 0525440518 (0-525-44051-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Sonnetsby William Shakespeare, Rex GibsonISBN 0521559472 (0-521-55947-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Sourceryby Terry PratchettISBN 0552131075 (0-552-13107-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sourcery'Book summary:270pages. in12. Poche. [via]
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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpoxby Jennifer Lee CarrellISBN 0525947361 (0-525-94736-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox'Book summary:A timely book about history's first desperate efforts to conquer the spotted beast of smallpox.
What is it like to be caught in the terror and chaos of a smallpox epidemic when you and those you love are unprotected? What is it like to get smallpox, or to watch your children battle the disease?
The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story-both historical and timely-of two parents who dared to fight back against the disease. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they both flouted eighteenth-century European medical tradition by borrowing folk knowledge from African slaves and eastern women in frantic bids to protect their children. From their heroic struggles stem the modern science of immunology as well as the vaccinations that remain our only hope should the disease ever be unleashed again.
Jennifer Lee Carrell transports readers back to the early eighteenth century to tell the tales of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston: two iconoclastic figures who helped save the cities of London and Boston from the deadliest disease mankind has known. [via]More editions of The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox:
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0531002853 (0-531-00285-3)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Talking to Heaven : A Medium's Message of Life after Deathby James Van PraaghISBN 0525942688 (0-525-94268-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William ShakespeareISBN 0521535131 (0-521-53513-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fictionby Henry JamesISBN 0553210599 (0-553-21059-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Understanding Death, Dying, And Bereavementby Michael R. Leming, George E. DickinsonISBN 0534627366 (0-534-62736-6)
Hardcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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The Westing Gameby Ellen RaskinISBN 0525423206 (0-525-42320-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Westing Game'Book summary:For twenty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite and is now being reissued with a brand-new jacket by Kevin Hawkes and an introduction by Ann Durell.[via]
This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, which involves blizzards, burglaries, and bombings. Ellen Raskin has entangled a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense. 
Why Can't I Live Forever?: And Other Not Such Dumb Questions About Lifeby Vicki Cobb, Mena DolobowskyISBN 0525675051 (0-525-67505-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Wisdom Without Answers: A Brief Introduction to Philosophyby Daniel Kolak, Raymond MartinISBN 0534534651 (0-534-53465-1)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Wisdom Without Answers: A Guide to the Experience of Philosophyby Daniel Kolak, Raymond MartinISBN 0534145981 (0-534-14598-1)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesseby Jack D. Zipes, David Frampton, Hermann HesseISBN 0553100238 (0-553-10023-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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