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Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfallby Spike MilliganISBN 006126380X (0-06-126380-X)
Hardcover, Harper's Magazine Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall'Book summary:'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked 'This is your enemy'. I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train'. Spike Milligan's on the march, blitzing friend and foe alike with his uproarious recollections of army life from enlistment to the landing at Algiers in 1943. Bathos, pathos and gales of drunken laughter, and insane military goonery explode in superlative Milliganese. [via]
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Alphabet Weekends: Love on the Road from A to Zby Elizabeth NobleISBN 0061122181 (0-06-112218-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alphabet Weekends: Love on the Road from A to Z'Book summary:Natalie and Tom have been best friends forever, but Tom wants them to be much more. When Natalie's longtime boyfriend walks out on her just when she thinks he's going to propose, Tom offers her a different and wildly romantic proposition. He suggests that they spend twenty-six weekends together, indulging in twenty-six different activities from A to Z, and at the end of that time Tom's convinced they'll be madly in love. Natalie, however, is not so sure.
As Natalie's touring the alphabet with Tom, her mother's going through her own romantic crisiswhile Tom's unhappily married sister-in-law, Lucy, struggles with temptation. And over the course of six amazing months, three generations of passionate dreamers are going to discover that, no matter how clever they are, loveand lifeis never as easy as A, B, C . . .
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And the Ass Saw the Angelby Nick CaveISBN 0061090913 (0-06-109091-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And the Ass Saw the Angel'Book summary:Born to a drunken mother and a hunter father, Euchrid Eucrow yearns to express the intense feelings he has for the world around him and is driven deeper and deeper into a mad angelic vision. Reprint. [via]
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The Art of Discworldby Terry Pratchett, Paul KidbyISBN 006121194X (0-06-121194-X)
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Axiomaticby Greg EganISBN 0061052655 (0-06-105265-5)
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Barbarian West: The Early Middle Ages, A. D. 400-1000by J.M. Wallace-HadrillISBN 0061310611 (0-06-131061-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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Benet's Reader's EncyclopediaISBN 0061810886 (0-06-181088-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This BookBook summary:What does it mean to have the voice of a stentor? Where is John o'Groat's House? Ever heard of a beast epic, or the Jindyworobak Movement? And what is the origin of the word "abracadabra"?
The answers lie in this delicious reference that anyone interested in humility should have; just glimpsing it on the shelf reminds one of how very much there is that one does not know. The thousands of entries in Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia cover anything and nearly everything having to do with literature. The book includes biographies of authors, summaries of books and plays, depictions of characters and mythological figures, explications of literary terms and movements, and, well, a whole bunch of other irresistible stuff that is somewhat quirky and utterly engrossing. (For the curious: a stentor's voice is a very loud voice; John o'Groat's House is considered to be the most northerly point in Great Britain; in a beast epic, "the central characters are animals and the tone is often satirical"; the Jindyworobak Movement is "a school of Australian poets demanding fidelity to Australian environment and the employment of aboriginal themes"; and abracadabra is a cabalistic charm.) [via]
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Benet's Reader's Encyclopediaby Bruce Murphy, William Rose BenetISBN 006270110X (0-06-270110-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The answers lie in this delicious reference that anyone interested in humility should have; just glimpsing it on the shelf reminds one of how very much there is that one does not know. The thousands of entries in Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia cover anything and nearly everything having to do with literature. The book includes biographies of authors, summaries of books and plays, depictions of characters and mythological figures, explications of literary terms and movements, and, well, a whole bunch of other irresistible stuff that is somewhat quirky and utterly engrossing. (For the curious: a stentor's voice is a very loud voice; John o'Groat's House is considered to be the most northerly point in Great Britain; in a beast epic, "the central characters are animals and the tone is often satirical"; the Jindyworobak Movement is "a school of Australian poets demanding fidelity to Australian environment and the employment of aboriginal themes"; and abracadabra is a cabalistic charm.) [via]
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Bhagavad Gitaby S. RadhakrishnanISBN 0061317594 (0-06-131759-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:Sanskrit text in English translation, with notes,commentary, and introductory essay by author. Helps those who seek to understand Hinduism. A classic. [via]
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The Black Deathby P. ZieglerISBN 0061315508 (0-06-131550-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Brush Up Your Shakespeare!by Michael MacRone, Tom LulevitchISBN 006272018X (0-06-272018-X)
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Byzantium: Library Editionby Stephen R. LawheadISBN 0061057541 (0-06-105754-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Byzantium: Library Edition'Book summary:Born to rule
Although born to rule, Aidan lives as a scribe in a remote Irish monastery on the far, wild edge of Christendom. Secure in work, contemplation, and dreams of the wider world, a miracle bursts into Aidan's quiet life. He is chosen to accompany a small band of monks on a quest to the farthest eastern reaches of the known world, to the fabled city of Byzantium, where they are to present a beautiful and costly hand-illuminated manuscript, the Book of Kells, to the Emperor of all Christendom.
Thus begins an expedition by sea and over land, as Aidan becomes, by turns, a warrior and a sailor, a slave and a spy, a Viking and a Saracen, and finally, a man. He sees more of the world than most men of his time, becoming an ambassador to kings and an intimate of Byzantium's fabled Golden Court. And finally this valiant Irish monk faces the greatest trial that can confront any man in any age: commanding his own Destiny.
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Charityby Len DeightonISBN 0061096024 (0-06-109602-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charity'Book summary:After steering master spy Bernard Samson through Faith and Hope, Len Deighton wraps up his trilogy with a predictable dose of Charity. Although the beleaguered spook has plenty of intrigue to deal with, this installment seems more diffuse and less plot-driven than its predecessors. Still, Deighton fans will probably enjoy the resolution of several outstanding cliffhangers, including the likelihood of a decent retirement package for the protagonist. [via]
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A Circle of Quietby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0062545035 (0-06-254503-5)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Circle of Quiet'Book summary:This journal shares fruitful reflections on life and career prompted by the author's visit to her personal place of retreat near her country home. [via]
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Darcy's Storyby Janet AlymerISBN 0061148709 (0-06-114870-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darcy's Story'Book summary:When elizabeth bennet first met mr. Darcy, she found him proud, distant, and rude-despite the other ladies' admiration of his estate in derbyshire and ten thousand pounds a year. But what was mr. Darcy thinking?jane austen's classic pride and prejudice has long stood among the most beloved novels of all time. The story of elizabeth bennet's blossoming romance with "haughty, reserved, and fastidious" fitzwilliam darcy has enchanted readers for nearly two centuries. Yet, mr. Darcy has always remained an intriguing enigma-his thoughts, feelings, and motivations hidden behind a cold, impenetrable exterior . . . Until now.with the utmost respect for austen's original masterwork, author janet aylmer loving retells pride and prejudice from a bold new perspective: seeing events as they transpire through the eyes of darcy himself. One of world's great love stories takes on breathtaking new life, and one of fiction's greatest romantic heroes becomes even more sympathetic, compelling, attractive, and accessible, all through the imagination and artistry of a truly gifted storyteller [via]
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Daughter of Fortuneby Isabel AllendeISBN 0061120251 (0-06-112025-1)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daughter of Fortune'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 2000: Until Isabel Allende burst onto the scene with her 1985 debut, The House of the Spirits, Latin American fiction was, for the most part, a boys' club comprising such heavy hitters as Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mario Vargas Llosa. But the Chilean Allende shouldered her way in with her magical realist multi-generational tale of the Trueba family, followed it up with four more novels and a spate of nonfiction, and has remained in a place of honor ever since. Her sixth work of fiction, Daughter of Fortune, shares some characteristics with her earlier works: the canvas is wide, the characters are multi-generational and multi-ethnic, and the protagonist is an unconventional woman who overcomes enormous obstacles to make her way in the world. Yet one cannot accuse Allende of telling the same story twice; set in the mid-1800s, this novel follows the fortunes of Eliza Sommers, Chilean by birth but adopted by a British spinster, Rose Sommers, and her bachelor brother, Jeremy, after she is abandoned on their doorstep.
"You have English blood, like us," Miss Rose assured Eliza when she was old enough to understand. "Only someone from the British colony would have thought to leave you in a basket on the doorstep of the British Import and Export Company, Limited. I am sure they knew how good-hearted my brother Jeremy is, and felt sure he would take you in. In those days I was longing to have a child, and you fell into my arms, sent by God to be brought up in the solid principles of the Protestant faith and the English language."
The family servant, Mama Fresia, has a different point of view, however: "You, English? Don't get any ideas, child. You have Indian hair, like mine." And certainly Eliza's almost mystical ability to recall all the events of her life would seem to stem more from the Indian than the Protestant side.As Eliza grows up, she becomes less tractable, and when she falls in love with Joachin Andieta, a clerk in Jeremy's firm, her adoptive family is horrified. They are even more so when a now-pregnant Eliza follows her lover to California where he has gone to make his fortune in the 1849 gold rush. Along the way Eliza meets Tao Chi'en, a Chinese doctor who saves her life and becomes her closest friend. What starts out as a search for a lost love becomes, over time, the discovery of self; and by the time Eliza finally catches up with the elusive Joachin, she is no longer sure she still wants what she once wished for. Allende peoples her novel with a host of colorful secondary characters. She even takes the narrative as far afield as China, providing an intimate portrait of Tao Chi'en's past before returning to 19th-century San Francisco, where he and Eliza eventually fetch up. Readers with a taste for the epic, the picaresque, and romance that is satisfyingly complex will find them all in Daughter of Fortune. --Margaret Prior [via]
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The Diary of a Magusby Paulo Coelho, Alan R. ClarkeISBN 0062501755 (0-06-250175-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of a Magus'Book summary:Tells of Coelho's initiation into a spiritual path, leading to inner development and a particular type of wisdom. He gives the reader the same exercises in self-control and self-discovery, which he was taught on his pilgrimage along the ancient road to Santiago, by various mentors and guides. [via]
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Dic Collins Spanish English English Spanish Dictonaryby Colin SmithISBN 006270818X (0-06-270818-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dic Collins Spanish English English Spanish Dictonary'Book summary:A high-quality dictionary is a colossal challenge. Since languages live, breathe, and change, antiquated terms must be excised and newly coined words included, definitions must take current usage into account, and editorial dreams of comprehensiveness vie with practical considerations of space. And that's when you're dealing with just one language. In a two-language dictionary such as this English-Spanish/Spanish-English college dictionary by Harper Collins, the task is more than doubled. Not only must both lexicons be evaluated for a scope and contemporary relevance consistent with a sophisticated audience, but the definitions and translations must be appropriate for students still learning Spanish.
It's a tough proposition, but Harper Collins is more than up to the task. With 355,000 entries and translations, the Harper Collins Spanish College Dictionary covers the basic building blocks of the two languages, plus thousands of contemporary technical, political, and business terms--such as karaoke, telemarketing, male menopause, and aromatherapy, downsize, spellchecker, carphone, and junk TV. While some words are translated simply and briefly with one-word or two-word definitions, such as "odioso/a" for "hateful," more complex words, such as "have," merit a full column of idioms, examples, and grammatical constructs. The entry for "head" (cabeza), for example, includes everything from "my head aches" (me duele la cabeza) to "laugh one's head off" (reirse a carcajadas) to "have a head for business" (ser bueno para los negocios).
In addition, a Language Building Supplement contains 85 pages of translation tips, sentence-builder templates, Spanish verbs, and correspondence models, plus numbers, times and dates, weights and measures, and vocabulary for the telephone. This 1,100-page tome provides the tools that can enable you to read, write, and speak correct, up-to-date Spanish. For the money, it would be hard to find a dictionary better suited to the needs of a serious student of Spanish. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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Dictionary of American Slangby Robert L. Chapman, Harold Wentworth, Barbara Ann KipferISBN 006270107X (0-06-270107-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Dispossessedby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0061054887 (0-06-105488-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dispossessed'Book summary:Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.
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Distressby Greg EganISBN 0061057274 (0-06-105727-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Distress'Book summary:Investigative reporter Andrew Worth turns down a documentary on a mysterious new mental illness -- "Distress, " or acute clinical anxiety syndrome, for another assignment. He's on his way to the artifical island of Stateless, where the world's top physicists are gathering to decide on a new TOE, or Theory of Everything, to replace Einstein's outmoded legacy.
Chief among the scientists is the brilliant African Nobel laureate, Violet Mosala, the focus of Worth's story, who is the subject of mysterious death threats. Worth begins his own investigation, but it takes on even more urgency when he finds that Distress, the mental plague now affecting millions, is linked somehow to the approaching "Aleph Moment" when the TOE is finalized. The countdown has begun for a disaster that will reach all the way back to the Big Bang. And beyond... [via]
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: America's Doctor Tells You Why the Health Experts Are Wrongby David Schrieberg, Dean EdellISBN 0061096970 (0-06-109697-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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End of Storyby Peter AbrahamsISBN 0061121347 (0-06-112134-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'End of Story'Book summary:Aspiring author Ivy Seidel accepts a part-time position teaching writing to a group of convicted criminals hoping the experience will add depth and darkness to her own work.
But in the haunting writings of charismatic inmate Vance Harrow she discovers a talent possibly greater than her own. And in the startling, disturbing stories Harrow has to tell, Ivy finds a dangerous new purposeand a terrifying temptation that lures her into an inescapable world of shadows.
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Factotumby Charles BukowskiISBN 006113127X (0-06-113127-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Factotum'Book summary:One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.
Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.
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Faithby Len DeightonISBN 0061094196 (0-06-109419-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Family, Sex, and Marriageby Lawrence StoneISBN 0061319791 (0-06-131979-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Fast Food Nation Tie-in: The Dark Side of the All-american Mealby Eric SchlosserISBN 006116139X (0-06-116139-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Food Nation Tie-in: The Dark Side of the All-american Meal'Book summary:On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.
Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed [via]
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The Flight of the Shadowby George MacDonaldISBN 0062505637 (0-06-250563-7)
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Fortress in the Eye of Timeby C. J. CherryhISBN 0061056898 (0-06-105689-8)
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Fortress of Eaglesby C. J. CherryhISBN 006105710X (0-06-105710-X)
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Foundation and Chaosby Greg BearISBN 0061056405 (0-06-105640-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation and Chaos'Book summary:This is book number two in the new Second Foundation Trilogy being written by hard science fiction authors Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, and David Brin, otherwise known as the "Killer B's." In this book, Bear continues where Benford's Foundation's Fear left off, as the trial of legendary psychohistorian Hari Seldon is about to begin. Bear writes with a style uncannily similar to Foundation creator Isaac Asimov's, and he even manages to incorporate some of Asimov's own writing in the novel. Aside from the trial, Bear also focuses on the nearly immortal robots that serve the Foundation, including R. Daneel Olivaw, who is set to guide one of the Foundation's first great undertakings. But Olivaw runs into trouble from an unexpected quarter, his best operative, Lodovik Trema, whose positronic brain has been irrevocably altered in a strange accident that has given him freedom from the supposedly immutable laws of robotics. --Craig Engler [via]
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Foundation's Fearby Gregory BenfordISBN 0061056383 (0-06-105638-3)
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Foundation's Fearby Isaac Asimov, Gregory BenfordISBN 0061052434 (0-06-105243-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation's Fear'Book summary:This is the first installment of The Second Foundation Trilogy, based on Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation series. Acclaimed hard science fiction writers Gregory Benford, David Brin, and Greg Bear will each produce a work for the trilogy. Benford kicks off exploring the beginnings of the Foundation itself and its creator, Hari Seldon. Seldon is working on a project to ease the inevitable collapse of the universe-spanning Empire and the Dark Ages that will ensue. But the current emperor has other plans, like appointing Seldon first minister and thus thrusting him into a world of political intrigues and assassination attempts that ultimately will bring him up against future history's greatest threat. [via]
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Foundation's Triumphby David BrinISBN 0061056391 (0-06-105639-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation's Triumph'Book summary:Isaac Asimov's 1951-53 Foundation trilogy is a rough-hewn classic of far future SF, honored with a unique 1965 Hugo for Best All-Time Series. It begins with "psychohistorian" Hari Seldon mapping the best possible course for humanity's next millennium, after the fall of the doomed Galactic Empire. Late in life Asimov revisited the series and awkwardly linked it with his popular robot stories--introducing vast conspiracy theories to explain the Empire's total lack of visible robots.
Asimov's estate authorized three SF notables to fill out Seldon's life in the Second Foundation Trilogy, which David Brin here wraps up after Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear and Greg Bear's Foundation and Chaos. Chaos is the new keyword, because chaos theory seemingly makes nonsense of psychohistorical prediction. Whole planetary populations can lapse into chaotic rebellion despite secret mind-controlling agencies behind the scenes. So Seldon makes his last interstellar journey, harried, lectured, and even kidnapped by the warring factions of robots and not-quite-robots that have long manipulated humanity. The robots' dilemma:
"We are loyal, and yet far more competent than our masters. For their own sake, we have kept them ignorant, because we know too well what destructive paths they follow, whenever they grow too aware."
Brin does his best with Asimov's overcrowded legacy, skillfully steering Seldon to an insight about the much-foretold future that satisfies both the old man and the reader, with a spark of human free will and constructive chaos shining through the grayness of predestination. Asimov would have approved. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Fourth Estateby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0061092037 (0-06-109203-7)
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingby Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. LevittISBN 0061245135 (0-06-124513-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything'Book summary:Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: They could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from innercity Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe
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Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, author and co-author of this season's bestselling quirky hit, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, graciously answered the Amazon.com Significant Seven questions that we like to run by every author.
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Freakonomics Intl Pb: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingby Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. LevittISBN 0061131326 (0-06-113132-6)
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The Gabriel Houndsby Mary StewartISBN 0061145394 (0-06-114539-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gabriel Hounds'Book summary:It's all a grand adventure when Christy Mansel unexpectedly runs into her cousin Charles in Damascus. And being young, rich, impetuous, and used to doing whatever they please, they decide to barge in uninvited on their eccentric Great-Aunt Harrietdespite a long-standing family rule strictly forbidding unannounced visits. A strange new world awaits Charles and Christy beyond the gates of Dar Ibrahim"Lady Harriet's" ancient, crumbling palace in High Lebanonwhere a physician is always in residence and a handful of Arab servants attends to the odd old woman's every need.
But there is a very goodvery sinisterreason why guests are not welcome at Dar Ibrahim. And the young cousins are about to discover that, as difficult as it is to break into the dark, imposing edifice, it may prove even harder still to escape . . .
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God's Englishman Oliver Cromwell and the English Revby Christopher HillISBN 0061316660 (0-06-131666-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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Greek Philosophers: From Thales to Aristotleby William Keith Chambers GuthrieISBN 0061310085 (0-06-131008-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greek Philosophers: From Thales to Aristotle'Book summary:W.K.C. Guthrie has written a survey of the great age of Greek philosophyfrom Thales to Aristotlewhich combines comprehensiveness with brevity. Without pre-supposing a knowledge of Greek or the Classics, he sets out to explain the ideas of Plato and Aristotle in the light of their predecessors rather than their successors, and to describe the characteristic features of the Greek way of thinking and outlook on the world. Thus The Greek Philosophers provides excellent background material for the general readeras well as providing a firm basis for specialist studies.
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Ground Zeroby Kevin J. AndersonISBN 0061056774 (0-06-105677-4)
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The Handbook of Nonsexist Writingby Casey Miller, Kate SwiftISBN 0061816027 (0-06-181602-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing'Book summary:Man, he brotherhood, founding fathers. It is argued that such words are and always have been used by educated people to encompass all humanitymen and women. Psychological and historical research in the past few years has produced evidence to the contrary: for most people false generics seldom if ever convey a female image, nor are they ancient unchangeable rules of the English grammar that have always been used by the educated.Using hundreds of examples, mostly from published sources, the authors illustrate what certain words are saying to us on a subliminal level. Solutions are supplied that range from word substitutions to suggestions for rewriting. Without a trace of self-conscious righteousness, and with refreshing humor, Miller and Swift provide surprising insights into the English language and the ways in which people use it and are used by it. They demonstrate that to be in command of the language, we must find clear, convincing, and graceful ways to convey our ideas accurately. We must recognize and replace exclusive, distorting, ambiguous, and injurious words. [via]
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The Harper Dictionary of Foreign Terms: Based on the Original Edition by C.O. Sylvester Mawsonby Eugene H. Ehrlich, C. O. Sylvester MawsonISBN 0061815764 (0-06-181576-4)
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Heavens to Betsy! : And Other Curious Sayingsby John Marlin, Charles E. FunkISBN 0062720112 (0-06-272011-2)
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Whether it's like a bump on a log or a bat out of hell, these expressions have been around forever, but we've never really known why ... until now! Finally Dr. Funk explains more than 400 droll, colorful, and sometimes pungent expressions of everyday speech. Derived from classical sources, historic events, famous literature, frontier humor, and the frailties of humankind, each of these sayings has an interesting story behind its origin.
If you've ever wondered why when you're in a hurry you are told to hold your horses, wonder no more!
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Historians' Fallacies; Toward a Logic of Historical Thought.by David Hackett FischerISBN 0061315451 (0-06-131545-1)
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Hopeby Len DeightonISBN 0061095559 (0-06-109555-9)
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Into the Wildby Erin HunterISBN 0061284203 (0-06-128420-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into the Wild'Book summary:For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their warrior ancestors. But the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger, and the sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. Noble warriors are dyingand some deaths are more mysterious than others.
In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary house cat named Rusty . . . who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all.
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Jackson Ruleby Dinah McCallISBN 0061083917 (0-06-108391-7)
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Language and Woman's Placeby Robin T. LakoffISBN 0061320935 (0-06-132093-5)
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The Lions of Al-Rassanby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0061056219 (0-06-105621-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lions of Al-Rassan'Book summary:A Master Storyteller Creates an Enduring Legend of His Own
Over the centuries, the once stern rulers of Al-Rassan have been seduced by sensuous pleasures. Now King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy, adding city after city to his realm, aided by his friend and advisor, the notorious Ammar ibn Khairan--poet, diplomat, soldier--until a summer day of savage brutality changes their relationship forever. Meanwhile, in the north, the Jaddite's most celebrated--and feared--military leader, Rodrigo Belmonte, and Ammar meet. Sharing the interwoven fate of both men is Jehane, the beautiful, accomplished court physician, whose own skills play an increasing role as Al-Rassan is swept to the brink of holy war, and beyond....
In a magnificent setting, hauntingly evocative of medieval Spain, The Lions of Al-Rassan is both a brilliant adventure and a deeply moving story of love, divided loyalties, and what happens to men and women when hardening beliefs begin to remake--or destroy--a world. [via]
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Love in Veinby Poppy Z. BriteISBN 0061054909 (0-06-105490-9)
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Love in Vein IIby Poppy Z. BriteISBN 006105657X (0-06-105657-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love in Vein II'Book summary:A second helping of blood and passion ...
Acclaimed dark fantasist Poppy Z. Brite's previous excursion into the nightmare realm of terrifying sensuality offered readers a sumptuous blood feast of unspeakable pleasures. Now she has done it again, serving up more provocative tales from some of the most inventive and accomplished writers in the field -- an unabashed exploration of shadow places and terrible hungers that's more dangerously seductive, more boldly erotic than the first.
If you found Love in Vein disturbingly dark, unsettlingly seductive, and deliciously carnal -- you're going to adore Twice Bitten: Love in Vein II. But be warned. It may be more than you can handle. It may open doors into the darkest corners of your unspoken fears. And it may be exactly what you've been secretly lusting for.
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Mamistaby Len DeightonISBN 0061090948 (0-06-109094-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mamista'Book summary:As a group of Marxist revolutionaries in Spanish Guiana prepare to unseat their country's leader, a group of high-powered men in Washington prepare to keep the current government intact and capitalize on the small country's newfound oil. Reprint. [via]
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The Medieval Readerby Norman F. CantorISBN 0062720554 (0-06-272055-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Medieval Reader'Book summary:The Middle Ages comes to life in this fascinating history of the period told through the letters, essays, poems, and ballads of those who lived it. [via]
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New Dictionary of American Slangby Robert L. Chapman, Harold Dictionary of American Slang WentworthISBN 0061811572 (0-06-181157-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Dictionary of American Slang'Book summary:Dollars to doughnuts, your reference shelf lacks a good slang dictionary, and that's a fine how-de-do. Whether you're a stuffy writer looking to gussy up your prose, a poindexter who thinks studying dictionaries is the cat's pajamas, or a muttonheaded fogey hoping to get a clue, Robert Chapman's Dictionary of American Slang fills the bill. Containing more than 19,000 terms of American slang, this lexicon represents all periods of American history, from phrases out of the 1880s, such as carrot-top for "redhead," to current '90s jargon such as carjacking. It covers the widely acceptable and the taboo, slang from cowboys and railroad workers and slang from rock & rollers, corporate America, and the gay community. It includes obsolete phrases such as canoeing for "making-out," and up-to-date terms relating to technology, such as listserv for "electronic mail list." Each item features pronunciation guides, word origins, and usage examples, and words that are derogatory or impolite are clearly labeled as such. A righteous reference and a lulu of a browser, the Dictionary of American Slangis an elegantly produced and scholarly rigorous linguistic knockout. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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The New Policemanby Kate ThompsonISBN 0061174270 (0-06-117427-0)
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Nice Guys Finish Seventh: False Phrases, Spurious Sayings, and Familiar Misquotationsby Ralph KeyesISBN 0062720392 (0-06-272039-2)
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The Pactby Jodi PicoultISBN 0061150142 (0-06-115014-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pact'Book summary:Until the phone calls came at three o'clock on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily is deadshot with a gun her beloved and devoted Chris pilfered from his father's cabinet as part of an apparent suicide pactleaving two devastated families stranded in the dark and dense predawn, desperate for answers about an unthinkable act and the children they never really knew.
From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoultone of the most powerful writers in contemporary fictioncomes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence.
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The Pale Horsemanby Bernard CornwellISBN 0061144835 (0-06-114483-5)
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The Perfumed Gardenby Umar Ibn Muhammad Nafzawi, Sheik NefzawiISBN 0062510827 (0-06-251082-7)
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Pierre, or the Ambiguities: The Kraken Editionby Herman Melville, Hershel Parker, Maurice SendakISBN 0061180092 (0-06-118009-2)
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The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdomby Paulo Coelho, Alan ClarkeISBN 006251279X (0-06-251279-X)
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The Player of Gamesby Iain M. BanksISBN 0061053562 (0-06-105356-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Player of Games'Book summary:In The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks presents a distant future that could almost be called the end of history. Humanity has filled the galaxy, and thanks to ultra-high technology everyone has everything they want, no one gets sick, and no one dies. It's a playground society of sports, stellar cruises, parties, and festivals. Jernau Gurgeh, a famed master game player, is looking for something more and finds it when he's invited to a game tournament at a small alien empire. Abruptly Banks veers into different territory. The Empire of Azad is exotic, sensual, and vibrant. It has space battle cruisers, a glowing court--all the stuff of good old science fiction--which appears old-fashioned in contrast to Gurgeh's home. At first it's a relief, but further exploration reveals the empire to be depraved and terrifically unjust. Its defects are gross exaggerations of our own, yet they indict us all the same. Clearly Banks is interested in the idea of a future where everyone can be mature and happy. Yet it's interesting to note that in order to give us this compelling adventure story, he has to return to a more traditional setting. Thoughtful science fiction readers will appreciate the cultural comparisons, and fans of big ideas and action will also be rewarded. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Poems and Critics: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism from Shakespeare to Hardyby Christopher B. RicksISBN 006131644X (0-06-131644-X)
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Princess Charlotte And the Birthday Ballby Vivian French, Sarah GibbISBN 0061124281 (0-06-112428-1)
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Princess Katie And the Silver Ponyby Vivian French, Sarah GibbISBN 0061124303 (0-06-112430-3)
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Sacred Gamesby Vikram ChandraISBN 0061130354 (0-06-113035-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacred Games'Book summary:Sacred Games is a novel as big, ambitious, multi-layered, contradictory, funny, sad, scary, violent, tender, complex, and irresistible as India itself. Steep yourself in this story, enjoy the delicious masala Chandra has created, and you will have an idea of how the country manages to hang together despite age-old hatreds, hundreds of dialects, different religious practices, the caste system, and corruption everywhere. The Game keeps it afloat.
There are more than a half-dozen subplots to be enjoyed, but the main events take place between Inspector Sartaj Singh, a Sikh member of the Mumbai police force, and Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. It is no accident that Ganesh is named for the Hindu god of success, the elephant god much revered by Hindus everywhere. By the world's standards he has made a huge success of his life: he has everything he wants. But soon after the novel begins he is holed up in a bomb shelter from which there is no escape, and Sartaj is right outside the door. Ganesh and Sartaj trade barbs, discuss the meaning of good and evil, hold desultory conversations alternating with heated exchanges, and, finally, Singh bulldozes the building to the ground. He finds Ganesh dead of a gunshot wound, and an unknown woman dead in the bunker along with him.
How did it come to this? Of course, Singh has wanted to capture this prize for years, but why now and why in this way? The chapters that follow tell both their stories, but especially chronicle Gaitonde's rise to power. He is a clever devil, to be sure, and his tales are as captivating as those of Scheherezade. Like her he spins them out one by one and often saves part of the story for the reader--or Sartaj--to figure out. He is involved in every racket in India, corrupt to the core, but even he is afraid of Swami Shridlar Shukla, his Hindu guru and adviser. In the story Gaitonde shares with Singh and countless other characters, Vikram Chandra has written a fabulous tale of treachery, a thriller, and a tour of the mean streets of India, complete with street slang. --Valerie Ryan
Questions for Vikram Chandra
After writing his first two, critically acclaimed books, Red Earth and Pouring Rain and Love and Longing in Bombay, Vikram Chandra set off on what became, seven years later, an epic story of crime and punishment in modern Mumbai, Sacred Games. Chandra splits his time between Berkeley, where he teaches at the University of California, and Mumbai, the vast city that becomes a character in its own right in Sacred Games. We asked him a few questions about his new book. Amazon.com: Did you imagine your book would become such an epic when you began it?
Vikram Chandra: No, not at all. When I began, I imagined a conventional crime story which began with a dead body or two, proceeded along a linear path, and ended 300 pages later with a neatly-wrapped solution. But when I began to actually investigate the particular kind of crime that I was interested in, a series of connections revealed themselves. Organized crime is of course connected to politics, both local and national, but if you're interested in political activity in India today--and elsewhere in the world--you are of course going to have to address the role of religion. These realms, in turn, intersect with the workings of the film and television industries. And all of this exists within the context of the "Great Game," the struggle between nation-states for power and dominance; some of the criminal organizations have mutually-beneficial relationships with intelligence agencies. So, I became really interested in this mesh of interlocking lives and organizations and historical forces. I began to trace how ordinary people were thrown about and forced to make choices by events and actors very far away; how disparate lives can cross each other--sometimes unknowingly--and change profoundly as a result. The form of the novel grew from this thematic interest, in an attempt to form a representation of this intricate web. The reader will, I hope, by the end of the novel see how the connections fall together and weave through each other. The individual characters, of course, see only a fragmented, partial version of this whole.
Amazon.com: You interviewed many gangsters, high and low, to research your story. How did you get introductions to them? What did they think of someone writing their life?
Chandra: When I was writing my last book, Love and Longing in Bombay (in which Sartaj Singh first appears), I had contacted some police officers and crime journalists. I stayed in touch with a few of them, and when I began to think seriously about this project I asked them to introduce me to anyone who could tell me something about organized crime. Amongst the people I met in this way were some people from the "underworld," which turns out not to be an underworld at all. It's the same world we live in, inhabited by human beings who are very much like the rest of us, even in their distinctiveness. For the most part, they were as curious about me and what I was doing as I was about them. They're not big novel readers, but they had very certain opinions about representations of their lives they had seen on the big screen: "Such-and-such film got it all wrong"--they would tell me--"don't do that." And, "This was correct, that was not." So I listened, and I hope I got it mostly right.
Amazon.com: For most American readers--like me--your story is full of slang and cultural references that we can't hope to follow. For me that's part of the charm--I feel like I'm immersed in a world I don't fully understand. Were you thinking of a particular audience as you wrote?
Chandra: I wanted to use the English that we actually speak in India, the language that I would use to tell this story if I were sitting in a bar in Mumbai talking to a friend. This English would be sprinkled with words from many Indian languages, and we would share a universe of cultural referents and facts that a reader from another country wouldn't recognize instantly. This, of course, is an experience that all of us have in a very various world. I remember reading British children's stories as a kid, and having long discussions with friends about what "crumpets" and "clotted cream" could possibly be. An Indian reader reading a novel about Arizona by an American writer might have no idea what a "pueblo" was, or why you went to a "Circle-K" to get a bottle of milk. But the context tells you something about what is being referred to, and there is a distinct delight in discovering a new world and figuring out its nuances. This is one of the great gifts of reading, that it can transport you into foreign landscapes. It's one of the reasons I read books from other cultures and places, and I hope American readers will share in this pleasure.
Amazon.com: Your book has dozens of characters who could live in books of their own. Aside from your two main figures, the policeman Sartaj Singh and the criminal Ganesh Gaitone, which was your favorite character to write?
Chandra: That would have to be Sartaj's mother, Prabhjot Kaur, as a young girl in pre-Partition India, I think. She's curious, innocent, and passionate; writing that chapter was hard and exhilarating.
Amazon.com: The movies of Bollywood (and Hollywood) are everywhere in your story, and many in your family (and you yourself) have been screenwriters and directors. For someone new to Indian film, what are some of your favorites you'd recommend?
Chandra: A very small sampling from the '50s onwards might be: Pyaasa (Thirst, 1957); Kaagaz ke Phool ("Paper Flowers," 1959); Mughal-e-Azam ("The Great Mughal," 1960); Sholay ("Embers," 1975); Parinda ("Bird," 1989); Satya (1998); Lagaan ("Land Tax," 2001); Lage Raho Munnabha ("Keep at it, Munnabhai," 2006).
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The Sandman : Book of Dreamsby Neil Gaiman, Edward E. KramerISBN 0061053546 (0-06-105354-6)
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Neil Caiman's The Sandman is the most successful adult comic of all time and the first ever to win a World Fantasy Award. Gaiman's moody, twisted tales made Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming, an icon recognized across the globe. Now millions of new readers can appreciate Neil Caiman's award-winning creation as interpreted by some of the most imaginative minds in modern literature and one of the most breathtaking assemblies of talent in publishing history:
Clive Barker * Tad Williams * Barbara Hambly * Gene Wotfe * Nancy A. Collins * Tori Amos * Steven Brust and others [via]
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Schild's Ladder: A Novelby Greg EganISBN 006107344X (0-06-107344-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Schild's Ladder: A Novel'Book summary:Greg Egan's ability to imagine wonders of cosmic scale is shown again in his SF novel Schild's Ladder, with future galactic society confronting a disaster of almost unimaginable vastness--or is it a springboard to new hope?
The fatal experiment was right at the edge of theoretical physics. Could there be an alternative structure for vacuum itself, the void underlying our cosmos? Unfortunately, yes. Once created, this artificial "novo-vacuum" successfully competes with normal space, expanding at half the speed of light in an all-consuming sphere. Inside, physics is radically, incomprehensibly different...
Six centuries later, thousands of inhabited solar systems have been gobbled. Scientists investigating the novo-vacuum from starship Rindler are split between trying to destroy it with tailored spatial viruses ("Planck worms") and hoping to understand the teeming richness beyond that deadly interface.
In a lonely galaxy where only humans are intelligent, whole planets have been evacuated to give microscopic alien organisms their chance to evolve. The novo-vacuum may be bursting with new orders of life, so that killing it would be a monstrous act of genocide. But frightened people dare dreadful things. Violence erupts on the Rindler.
Building up from ideas of human intelligence in disembodied storage or artificial bodies, Egan finally takes his lead characters on a mind-boggling joyride through novo-vacuum, mapping them into a space where a tense eight-hour flight from deadly predators covers just one millimetre. There's a lot of room in there.
Schild's Ladder makes easy reading out of terrifying physics, generating a real sense of wonder even as your jaw drops at the immensity of its implications. --David Langford [via]
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Screaming Life: A Chronicle of the Seattle Music Sceneby Charles Peterson, Michael Azerrad, Bruce PavittISBN 0062586408 (0-06-258640-8)
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Spy Sinkerby Len DeightonISBN 0061099287 (0-06-109928-7)
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Stonehengeby Bernard CornwellISBN 0061091944 (0-06-109194-4)
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Tallchiefby Dinah McCallISBN 0061084441 (0-06-108444-1)
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Thesaurus of American Slangby Robert L. ChapmanISBN 0062720104 (0-06-272010-4)
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Thief of Lightby David RamusISBN 006109420X (0-06-109420-X)
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Triple: A Novelby Ken FollettISBN 006136472X (0-06-136472-X)
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The Truth Is Out There Vol. 1: The Official Guide to the X-Filesby Brian Lowry, Chris CarterISBN 0061053309 (0-06-105330-9)
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The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeareby Brenda James, William RubinsteinISBN 006114648X (0-06-114648-X)
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Twelve Red Herringsby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0061093653 (0-06-109365-3)
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Veronika Decides to Dieby Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0061124265 (0-06-112426-5)
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We Need to Talk About Kevinby Lionel ShriverISBN 006112429X (0-06-112429-X)
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Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Languageby Mary Daly, Jane CaputiISBN 0062510371 (0-06-251037-1)
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What Came Before He Shot Herby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0061145912 (0-06-114591-2)
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What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writersby Anne Bernays, Pamela PainterISBN 0062720066 (0-06-272006-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers'Book summary:What If? is the first handbook for writers based on the idea that specific exercises are one of the most useful and provocative methods for mastering the art of writing fiction. With more than twenty-five years of experience teaching creative writing between them, Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter offer more than seventy-five exercises for both beginners and more experienced writers. These exercises are designed to develop and refine two basic skills: writing like a writer and, just as important, thinking like a writer. They deal with such topics as discovering where to start and end a story; learning when to use dialogue and when to use indirect discourse; transforming real events into fiction; and finding language that both sings and communicates precisely. What If? will be an essential addition to every writer's library, a welcome and much-used companion, a book that gracefully borrows a whisper from the muse. [via]
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Wickedby Gregory MaguireISBN 0061350966 (0-06-135096-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wicked'Book summary:> 11/11/2011 3:47:53 PM: 9780061351396, WICKED SPA:MEMORIAS DE UNA BRUJA MALA, PB [via]
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X-Files Book of the Unexplainedby Jane GoldmanISBN 0061053341 (0-06-105334-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'X-Files Book of the Unexplained'Book summary:The X-Files Book of the Unexplained is the perfect synthesis of popular media, folklore, theory, and fact. Author Jane Goldman appraises the merits of episodes such as "Ghost in the Machine," in which special agents Mulder and Scully investigate a murderous computer system. However, Goldman's exploration of the inspirations for these episodes is what sets The X-Files Book of the Unexplained apart from a mere episode guide. For "Ghost in the Machine," Goldman interviews experts in the field of artificial intelligence such as MIT's Mark Torrence. She also recounts reports of Japanese workers killed by assembly-line robots that run amuck and the bizarre case of chess champion Nikolai Gudkov, who was electrocuted by the computer opponent he had just checkmated. The photographs and quotes from the television show, interspersed throughout, are a bonus for X-philes and accentuate the book's truth-is-stranger-than-fiction theme. If you enjoy this book, be sure to pick up volume two as well. --Brian Patterson [via]
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The X-Files Ground Zeroby Kevin AndersonISBN 0061056200 (0-06-105620-0)
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Collins Spanish Dictionaryby Harper CollinsISBN 0061131024 (0-06-113102-4)
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