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The Adventures of Pinocchio/ Le Avventure Di Pinocchioby Carlo Collodi, Nicolas J. PerellaISBN 0520246861 (0-520-24686-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Pinocchio/ Le Avventure Di Pinocchio'Book summary:Perella's translation and introductory essay capture the wit, irony, ambiguity, and social satire of the original nineteenth-century text, finally reclaiming Pinocchio for adult readers. It also represents the first time the whole story has appeared in English. This bilingual edition includes over 130 drawings by the original illustrator, Enrico Mazzanti.[via]More editions of The Adventures of Pinocchio/ Le Avventure Di Pinocchio:
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Animal Dreamsby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0613032950 (0-613-03295-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Dreams'Book summary:From the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland, comes a powerful story of love and courage in an exotc southwestern landscape. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American myths, thisis a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's greatest commitments. [via]
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Automated Aliceby Jeff NoonISBN 0552999059 (0-552-99905-9)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Awakeningsby Oliver W. SacksISBN 0525483500 (0-525-48350-0)
Softcover, E P Dutton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Awakenings'Book summary:It hardly seems fair that so many great doctors are also great writers. Perhaps it's qualities like sensitivity, craft, and dedication that keep physicians like Oliver Sacks in hospitals all day and at writing desks all night; if nothing else, these qualities shine in books like Awakenings. This powerful set of case histories rises above its pathological foundation to find new literary territory, a medical-spiritual synthesis equally stimulating for the mind and the soul. It's no wonder Hollywood producers chose to turn it into a feature film--anyone can see the universal human struggle against bondage and despair in these pages.
The sleeping-sickness epidemic of 1918 caused hundreds of survivors to slip into a bizarre rigid paralysis with similarities to advanced Parkinson's disease. These patients, only occasionally able to communicate or move, were nearly all institutionalized for life, their ranks increasing every now and then with similarly afflicted men and women. Sacks came to work at a long-term care facility shortly before the first exciting results with L-dopa and Parkinson's in the late 1960s; his patients soon embarked on dramatic, difficult recoveries from up to 50 years of torpor. He documents their spiritual and medical obstacles with great care to portray their individual personalities, long suppressed but finally released. Though many great doctors are also great writers, few can compare with Oliver Sacks for expressing the relation of medicine to the human spirit. --Rob Lightner [via]
Basic Kafkaby Franz KafkaISBN 0606223363 (0-606-22336-3)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 0606040463 (0-606-04046-3)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Big Book for Peaceby Ann Durell, Marilyn SachsISBN 0525446052 (0-525-44605-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Castleby David MacaulayISBN 0606022929 (0-606-02292-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Classic 1000 DreamsISBN 0572016743 (0-572-01674-3)
Softcover, Foulsham & Co Ltd
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0606029818 (0-606-02981-8)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Complete Works of the Pearl Poetby Casey FinchISBN 0520078713 (0-520-07871-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Dream Childby David M. McPhailISBN 0525441093 (0-525-44109-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Interpretationsby Barbara TedlockISBN 0521340047 (0-521-34004-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Dreams, "Evolution," and Value Fulfillmentby Jane RobertsISBN 0553283235 (0-553-28323-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Emancipator's Wifeby Barbara HamblyISBN 0553381938 (0-553-38193-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emancipator's Wife'Book summary:As a girl growing up in Kentucky, she lived a sheltered, privileged life filled with picnics and plantation balls. Vivacious, impulsive, and intoxicated by politics, she is a Todd of Lexington, an aristocratic family whose ancestors defeated the British. But no one knows her secret fears and anxieties. Although she is courted by the most eligible suitors in the land, including future senator Stephen Douglas, it is a gangly lawyer from Illinois who captures her heart. After a stormy courtship and a broken engagement, Abraham Lincoln will marry twenty-four-year-old Mary Todd and give her a ring inscribed with the words Love Is Eternal.
But their happiness wont last nearly so long. Their first child will be born under the gathering clouds of a civil war, and three more follow. As Lincolns star rises, the pleasure-loving Mary learns, often the hard way, the rules of being a politicians wife. But by the time the fiery storm of war passes, tragedy will have claimed two sons, scandal will shadow her days as First Lady, and an assassins bullet will take Lincoln himself, leaving Mary alone and all but forgotten by the nation that owed her husband its survival.
Yet it is in the years to come that Mary Todd Lincoln will truly come into her own. In public, she will fight to preserve Lincolns memory even as she battles a bitterly contested insanity trial. In private, she will struggle with depression and addiction as she endures the betrayalsboth real and imaginedof family and friends.
With a gifted novelists imagination and a historians eye for detail, Barbara Hambly tells a story of astonishing scope, richly peopled with real-life characters and their fictional counterparts, a tour-de-force tale of power, politics, and the role of women in nineteenth- century America. The result is a Mary Todd Lincoln few have seen and none will forgetthe fascinating, controversial woman of whom her husband could say: My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl and I fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out Mary Todd, the woman who loved Abraham Lincoln.
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Epilepsy You're Not Alone: A Personal View on How to Cope With the Disorderby Stacey ChillemiISBN 0595195261 (0-595-19526-1)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Eugene Field's Wynken, Blynken and Nodby Eugene Field, Ron BergISBN 059042422X (0-590-42422-X)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Everything Is Illuminatedby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0618173870 (0-618-17387-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything Is Illuminated'Book summary:The simplest thing would be to describe Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's accomplished debut, as a novel about the Holocaust. It is, but that really fails to do justice to the sheer ambition of this book. The main story is a grimly familiar one. A young Jewish American--who just happens to be called Jonathan Safran Foer--travels to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his search by Alex Perchov, a naïve Ukrainian translator, Alex's grandfather (also called Alex), and a flatulent mongrel dog named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. On their journey through Eastern Europe's obliterated landscape they unearth facts about the Nazi atrocities and the extent of Ukrainian complicity that have implications for Perchov as well as Safran Foer. This narrative is not, however, recounted from (the character) Jonathan Safran Foer's perspective. It is relayed through a series of letters that Alex sends to Foer. These are written in the kind of broken Russo-English normally reserved for Bond villains or Latka from Taxi. Interspersed between these letters are fragments of a novel by Safran Foer--a wonderfully imagined, almost magical realist, account of life in the shtetl before the Nazis destroyed it. These are in turn commented on by Alex, creating an additional metafictional angle to the tale.
If all this sounds a little daunting, don't be put off; Safran Foer is an extremely funny as well as intelligent writer who combines some of the best Jewish folk yarns since Isaac Bashevis Singer with a quite heartbreaking meditation on love, friendship, and loss. --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Farmer Enno and His Cowby Jens RassmusISBN 0531300811 (0-531-30081-1)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Fiction As History: Nero to Julianby G. W. BowersockISBN 0520208811 (0-520-20881-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Figgs and Phantomsby Ellen RaskinISBN 0525296808 (0-525-29680-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Finnegans Wakeby James JoyceISBN 0571108075 (0-571-10807-5)
Softcover, Faber
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Froggy Goes to Schoolby Jonathan LondonISBN 0590066935 (0-590-06693-5)
Softcover, Scholastic
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From the Corner of His Eyeby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0553582747 (0-553-58274-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From the Corner of His Eye'Book summary:Horrormeister Koontz looks heavenward for inspiration in his newest suspense thriller, which is chock-full of signs, portents, angels, and one somewhat second-rate devil, a murky and undercharacterized guy named Junior Cain who throws his beloved wife off a fire tower on an Oregon mountain and spends the rest of the novel waiting for the retribution that will surely come. But not before a series of tragedies ensues that convince Junior that someone or something named Bartholomew is out to exact vengeance for that crime and the series of other murders that follow.
Bartholomew's own troubles begin with his birth, which transpires moments after his father is killed in a traffic accident as he is taking his wife to the hospital, and continue with the loss of his eyes at the tender age of 3. Young Bartholomew has visionary gifts, though to his mother, a nice lady who's renowned for her pie-making abilities as well as her sweetly innocent nature, he's just a particularly smart kid who can read and write before his second birthday. Eventually, Bartholomew regains his sight, Junior Cain gets his comeuppance, and fate conspires to bring love into the Pie Lady's life, reward the faithful, and put a happy ending on this genre-bending tale. Koontz will no doubt rocket right to the top of the bestseller list with this inventive, if somewhat slower-paced, read. --Jane Adams [via]
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Greeks and the Irrationalby E.R. DoddsISBN 0520242300 (0-520-24230-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Hauntedby Carol Joyce OatesISBN 0525936556 (0-525-93655-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Hotel New Hampshireby John IrvingISBN 052512800X (0-525-12800-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hotel New Hampshire'Book summary:The first of my fathers illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels. So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they dream on in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.
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Hypnerotomachia Poliphiliby Francesco ColonnaISBN 0576159948 (0-576-15994-8)
Hardcover, Gregg
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I Sing the Body Electricby Ray BradburyISBN 0553263196 (0-553-26319-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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In the Keep of Timeby Margaret Jean AndersonISBN 0590053795 (0-590-05379-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreamsby Sylvia PlathISBN 0571111203 (0-571-11120-3)
Hardcover, Faber
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Killer Dreamsby Iris JohansenISBN 0553803441 (0-553-80344-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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LA Ley Del Amorby Laura Esquivel, Miguelanxo PradoISBN 060980149X (0-609-80149-X)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Ley Del Amor'Book summary:Esquivel atrae a sus lectores hacia una historia de amor cósmica e innovadora con un exquisito trabajo artístico acompañado por un disco compacto con arias de óperas italianas y danzones mejicanos. Después de una noche apasionada, dos amantes son separados y deben escudriñar toda la galaxia, a través de 14.000 reencarnaciones para encontrarse nuevamente. Una historia de amor apasionado que sobrevive desde la caída del imperio de Montezuma hasta Ciudad de Méjico en el siglo XXIII. [via]
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The Law of Loveby Margaret Sayers Peden, Laura EsquivelISBN 0609801279 (0-609-80127-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Law of Love'Book summary:Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel leapt to international fame in 1993 with Like Water For Chocolate. Her new novel strives to replicate the impact of that work with multimedia innovation in style and structure. This translation by Margaret Sayers Peden comes with a CD of arias by Puccini and Mexican danzones, and 48 pages of striking color illustrations by Spanish artist Miguelano Prado. The text by Esquivel is part science fiction, part new age spiritual journey, as she chronicles the efforts of 23rd century "astroanalyst" Azucena to find her twin soul. [via]
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Lord Valentine's Castleby Robert SilverbergISBN 0553274368 (0-553-27436-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Valentine's Castle'Book summary:Joining a motley band of jugglers on their tour across the world, Valentine, a young man with no memory of his past, searches for his identity in the city of the Shapeshifter, on the Isle of Sleep, and at the Castle Mount. Reissue. NYT. [via]
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, R. A. FoakesISBN 0521532477 (0-521-53247-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeare's more romantic and enchanting plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale with confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena escape parental control and the "sharp Athenian law" of their elders by eloping into the forest outside the city. Unfortunately they stumble into civil war in fairyland, where King Oberon and Queen Titania fight over possession of a beautiful young Indian "changeling" boy. The appearance of the "rude mechanicals", a group of Athenian workers, including the weaver Nick Bottom, compounds the confusion. Chaos, confusion and "shaping fantasies" reign before the final settlement of the play, but underneath all the hilarity many critics have discerned more ambivalent attitudes towards coercive parental control, bestial sexuality and the destructive power of desire. These approaches in no way detract from the exquisite lyricism of many sections of the play, but make it a more complex and effective comedy than has often been appreciated. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0553213008 (0-553-21300-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0582527171 (0-582-52717-1)
Softcover, Longman Trade/Caroline House - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0521293898 (0-521-29389-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0521787289 (0-521-78728-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 058208833X (0-582-08833-X)
Softcover, Copp Clark Professional - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0521445604 (0-521-44560-4)
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby Linda Buckle, Paul KelleyISBN 0521409047 (0-521-40904-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeare's more romantic and enchanting plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale with confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena escape parental control and the "sharp Athenian law" of their elders by eloping into the forest outside the city. Unfortunately they stumble into civil war in fairyland, where King Oberon and Queen Titania fight over possession of a beautiful young Indian "changeling" boy. The appearance of the "rude mechanicals", a group of Athenian workers, including the weaver Nick Bottom, compounds the confusion. Chaos, confusion and "shaping fantasies" reign before the final settlement of the play, but underneath all the hilarity many critics have discerned more ambivalent attitudes towards coercive parental control, bestial sexuality and the destructive power of desire. These approaches in no way detract from the exquisite lyricism of many sections of the play, but make it a more complex and effective comedy than has often been appreciated. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Moonstoneby Wilkie CollinsISBN 0553211560 (0-553-21156-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moonstone'Book summary:T.S. Eliot called `The Moonstone the first and greatest English detective novel. The novel is worthy of such praise.
The story begins with a brief prologue describing how the famous yellow diamond was captured during a military campaign in India by a British officer in 1799. The action moves quickly to 1848 England, where, according to the British officers will, the diamond has been given to one of the soldiers young relatives, Rachel Verinder. Yet only hours after the diamond arrives at the Verinder estate, it disappears. Was it stolen by a relative? A servant? And who are these three Indian men who keep hanging around the estate?
`The Moonstone is told from the point of view of several characters. The first portion of the tale is told by Gabriel Betteredge, house steward of the Verinder estate, who has been working for the family practically his entire life. Betteredges account holds the readers interest as he introduces the main players and the crime itself. The next account, by distant Verinder relative Miss Clack, is humorous and somewhat important. But after Miss Clacks account, things really take off at breakneck speed.
Readers who latch onto the T.S. Eliot quote expecting a modern detective tale will be sorely disappointed. You arent going to see anything resembling Jeffrey Deaver, James Patterson, Sue Grafton, or even Mary Higgins Clark. You also wont see Mickey Spillane, Dashiel Hammett, or Raymond Chandler. Nor will you see Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, or Martha Grimes. You wont even see Arthur Conan Doyle. But you WILL see the novel that influenced them all.
Youll also see something else. Something that modern mystery/detective writers have for the most part lost. Characters. Oh sure, modern writers have characters, but for the most part, the reader only learns enough about the character to forward the plot. In our time, plot is King. When `The Moonstone was published (1868), [via]
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The Nature of Personal Realityby Jane RobertsISBN 0553248456 (0-553-24845-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Needful Thingsby Stephen KingISBN 0613096010 (0-613-09601-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Needful Things'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Leland Gaunt probes the limits of people's desires when he moves to Castle Rock, Maine; opens his shop, Needful Things; and sets a high price on love, hope, and the human soul. [via]
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The Neverending Storyby Michael Ende, Ralph Manheim, Roswitha QuadfliegISBN 0525457585 (0-525-45758-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Neverending Story'Book summary:The Neverending Story When it was published more than a decade ago, this special story within a story captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers worldwide. A lonely boy named Bastian is drawn into a beautiful but doomed world. Only Bastian can save this enchanted place of dragons, giants, monsters, and mysteries . . . but will he have to stay there forever? This beautifully repackaged hardcover classic Full description [via]
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Neverwhereby Neil GaimanISBN 0613163931 (0-613-16393-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Neverwhere'Book summary:Neverwhere's protagonist, Richard Mayhew, learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. He ceases to exist in the ordinary world of London Above, and joins a quest through the dark and dangerous London Below, a shadow city of lost and forgotten people, places, and times. His companions are Door, who is trying to find out who hired the assassins who murdered her family and why; the Marquis of Carabas, a trickster who trades services for very big favors; and Hunter, a mysterious lady who guards bodies and hunts only the biggest game. London Below is a wonderfully realized shadow world, and the story plunges through it like an express passing local stations, with plenty of action and a satisfying conclusion. The story is reminiscent of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but Neil Gaiman's humor is much darker and his images sometimes truly horrific. Puns and allusions to everything from Paradise Lost to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz abound, but you can enjoy the book without getting all of them. Gaiman is definitely not just for graphic-novel fans anymore. --Nona Vero [via]
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Nine Layers of Skyby Liz WilliamsISBN 0553584995 (0-553-58499-5)
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One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0606203419 (0-606-20341-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'Book summary:"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Other Windby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0613555090 (0-613-55509-0)
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Power of Your Subconscious Mindby Joseph MurphyISBN 0553270435 (0-553-27043-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Princess and Curdieby George MacDonaldISBN 0613639804 (0-613-63980-4)
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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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Riddle of the Wrenby Charles De LintISBN 061356586X (0-613-56586-X)
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Seth: Dreams and Projection of Consciousnessby Jane RobertsISBN 0553281704 (0-553-28170-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Shadow Out of Timeby H. P. Lovecraft, August William DerlethISBN 0575001100 (0-575-00110-0)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illustrationsby Neil GaimanISBN 0606246959 (0-606-24695-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Something Wicked This Way Comesby Ray BradburyISBN 0553280325 (0-553-28032-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'Book summary:A masterpiece of modern Gothic literature, Something Wicked This Way Comes is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small Midwestern town with the arrival of a "dark carnival" one Autumn midnight. How these two innocents, both age 13, save the souls of the town (as well as their own), makes for compelling reading on timeless themes. What would you do if your secret wishes could be granted by the mysterious ringmaster Mr. Dark? Bradbury excels in revealing the dark side that exists in us all, teaching us ultimately to celebrate the shadows rather than fear them. In many ways, this is a companion piece to his joyful, nostalgia-drenched Dandelion Wine, in which Bradbury presented us with one perfect summer as seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old. In Something Wicked This Way Comes, he deftly explores the fearsome delights of one perfectly terrifying, unforgettable autumn. --Stanley Wiater [via]
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Tales from Earthseaby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0613555430 (0-613-55543-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales from Earthsea'Book summary:Winner of five Nebula and five Hugo Awards, the National Book Award, the Newbery, and many other awards, Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest authors ever to write science fiction and fantasy. Her greatest creation may be the powerful, beautifully written, and deeply imagined Earthsea Cycle, which inhabits the rarified air at the pinnacle of modern fantasy with J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and Jane Yolen's Chronicles of Great Alta. The books of the Earthsea Cycle are A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1971), The Farthest Shore (1972), the Nebula-winning Tehanu (1990), and now, Tales of Earthsea (2001).
If you have never read an Earthsea book, this collection isn't the place to start, as the author points out in her thoughtful foreword; begin with A Wizard of Earthsea. If you insist on starting with Tales of Earthsea, read the foreword and the appended "Description of Earthsea" before proceeding to the five stories (three of which are original to this book).
The opening story, "The Finder," occupies a third of the volume and has the strength and insight of a novel. This novella describes the youth of Otter, a powerful but half-trained sorcerer, and reveals how Otter came to an isle that cannot be found, and played a role in the founding of the great Roke School. "Darkrose and Diamond" tells of two lovers who would turn their backs on magic. In "The Bones of the Earth," an aging wizard and his distant pupil must somehow join forces to oppose an earthquake. Ged, the Archmage of Earthsea, appears in "On the High Marsh" to find the mad and dangerous mage he had driven from Roke Island. And in "Dragonfly," the closing story, a mysterious woman comes to the Roke School to challenge the rule that only men may be mages. "Dragonfly" takes place a few years after Tehanu and is the bridge between that novel and the next novel, The Other Wind (fall 2001). --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Togetherby George Ella Lyon, Vera RosenberryISBN 053105831X (0-531-05831-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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True Tales of American Lifeby Paul Auster, Nelly Reifler, National Public Radio (U.S.), National Story Project (U.S.)ISBN 0571210708 (0-571-21070-8)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Unknown Reality, Part Iby Jane RobertsISBN 0553278509 (0-553-27850-9)
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The Vision of Piers Plowmanby William Langland, Terence TillerISBN 0563179279 (0-563-17927-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vision of Piers Plowman'Book summary:One man's dream of a better society...PIERS PLOWMAN stands at the centre of medieval English literature along with Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES, which in many ways it complements. A weary wanderer falls asleep and dreams of a tower and a deep dungeon, and in between the whold of humanity pursuing its business and pleasure...but his dream becomes a profound vision of redemption, in which the corruptions and injustices that occur daily are laid open with passionate truthfulness in poetry that combines vigorous realism and probing argument with moments of epic sublimity and lyrical beauty. Edited by AVC Schmidt of Balliol College, Oxford, this is the B-Text. 'A marvel of comprehension' Derek Pearsall [via]
Wisdom of the Heart: Working With Women's Dreamsby Karen SignellISBN 0553349058 (0-553-34905-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BrontëISBN 0553196332 (0-553-19633-2)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wuthering Heights'Book summary:"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being." Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte, who died a year after its publication, at the age of thirty. A brooding Yorkshire tale of a love that is stronger than death, it is also a fierce vision of metaphysical passion, in which heaven and hell, nature and society, are powerfully juxtaposed. Unique, mystical, with a timeless appeal, it has become a classic of English literature. [via]
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Wynken, Blynken and Nodby Eugene Field, Susan JeffersISBN 0525440224 (0-525-44022-4)
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Your Heart's Desire: Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Wantby Sonia Choquette, Patrick TullyISBN 0609800116 (0-609-80011-6)
Softcover, Crown Pub
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