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The Adventures of Pinocchioby Carlo Collodi, Stephanie Spinner, Diane GoodeISBN 0394859103 (0-394-85910-3)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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The Adventures of Pinocchioby Stephanie Spinner, Carlo Collodi, Diane GoodeISBN 0394959108 (0-394-95910-8)
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Anastasia's Chosen Careerby Lois LowryISBN 0395425069 (0-395-42506-9)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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Be My Valentine, Charlie Brownby Charles M. SchulzISBN 0394831640 (0-394-83164-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Berenstain Bears and the Bad Habitby Stan Berenstain, Jan BerenstainISBN 0394873408 (0-394-87340-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Berenstain Bears and the Week at Grandma'sby Stan Berenstain, Jan BerenstainISBN 0394873351 (0-394-87335-1)
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Berenstain Bears Get in a Fightby Stan Berenstain, Jan BerenstainISBN 0394851323 (0-394-85132-3)
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The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmiesby Stan Berenstain, Jan BerenstainISBN 0394905660 (0-394-90566-0)
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The Berenstain Bears Go to Campby Stan Berenstain, Jan BerenstainISBN 0394851315 (0-394-85131-5)
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The Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctorby Stan Berenstain, Jan BerenstainISBN 0394848357 (0-394-84835-7)
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The Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bearby Stan Berenstain, Jan BerenstainISBN 0394868803 (0-394-86880-3)
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Between Ourselves: Letters Between Mothers and Daughters 1750-1982by Karen PayneISBN 0395365716 (0-395-36571-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Black Pearlby Scott O'Dell, Milton JohnsonISBN 0395069610 (0-395-06961-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Book of Lost Talesby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395426405 (0-395-42640-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Lost Tales'Book summary:The Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Tolkien, begun in 1916-1917 when he was twenty-five years old and left incomplete several years later. It stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor, for the Lost Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Embedded in English legend and English association, they are set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriel (or AElfwine) to Tol Eressea, the Lonely Isle, where Elves dwelt; from them he learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. In the Tales are found the earliest accounts and original ideas of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs, and Orcs; of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor; of Nargothrond and Gondolin; of the geography and cosmography of the invented world.[via]
The Book of Lost Tales will be published in two volumes; this first part contains the Tales of Valinor; and the second will include Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, and the only full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin. Each tale is followed by a commentary in the form of a short essay; together with the texts of associated poems; and each volume contains extensive information on names and vocabulary in the earliest Elvish languages. Further books in this series are planned to extend the history of Middle-earth as it was refined and enlarged in later years, and will include the Long Lays of Beleriand, the Ambarkanta or Shape of the World, the Lhammas or Account of Tongues, annals, maps, and many other unpublished writings of J.R.R. Tolkien.More editions of The Book of Lost Tales:
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The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1by J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 0395409276 (0-395-40927-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1'Book summary:The Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Tolkien, begun in 1916, when he was twenty-five years old, and left incomplete several years later. It stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor, for the Lost Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Embedded in English legend and association, they are set in the narrative frame of the great westward voyage of a mariner named Eriel (or AElfwine). His destination is Tol Eressea, the Lonely Isle where Elves dwell; from them he learns their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. The Tales include the earliest accounts of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs, and Orcs; of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor; of Nargothrond and Gondolin; of the geography and cosmography of their invented world.[via]
The Book of Lost Tales is published in two volumes. The first contains the Tales of Valinor; and this second past includes Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, and the only full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin. Each tale is followed by a commentary, together with associated poems, and each volume contains extensive information on names and vocabulary of the earliest Elvish languages. Additional books in this series will extend the history of Middle-earth as it was refined and enlarged in later years and will include the long Lays of Beleriand, the Ambarkanta or Shape of the World, the Lhammas or Account of Tongues, annals, maps, and many other previously unpublished writings of J.R.R. Tolkien.More editions of The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1:
Cinderellaby Charles Perrault, Diane GoodeISBN 0394896009 (0-394-89600-9)
Hardcover, Random House
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 0395051223 (0-395-05122-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Fair Land, Fair Landby Alfred Bertram GuthrieISBN 0395325110 (0-395-32511-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Fantastic Mr. Foxby Roald Dahl, Donald ChaffinISBN 0394904974 (0-394-90497-4)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Fellowship of the Ringby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395272238 (0-395-27223-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fellowship of the Ring'Book summary:Part one of The Lord of the Rings, now featuring film art on the cover. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in THE HOBBIT. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.[via]More editions of Fellowship of the Ring:
A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers from Northern Arizona and New Mexico to British Columbia,by John Johnson CraigheadISBN 0395183243 (0-395-18324-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Find a Stranger, Say Goodbyeby Lois LowryISBN 0395264596 (0-395-26459-6)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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Flap Your Wingsby P. D. EastmanISBN 0394835654 (0-394-83565-4)
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Garfield the Pirateby Jim Davis, Mike FentzISBN 0394854454 (0-394-85445-4)
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George's Marvelous Medicineby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0394846001 (0-394-84600-1)
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The Great Santiniby Pat ConroyISBN 0395242975 (0-395-24297-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Grover's Hide and Seekby Jon Stone, Michael J. SmollinISBN 0394832922 (0-394-83292-2)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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The Hairy Bookby Babette ColeISBN 0394870263 (0-394-87026-3)
Hardcover, Random House
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He Bear, She Bearby Stan Berenstain, Jan BerenstainISBN 0394929977 (0-394-92997-7)
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunterby Carson McCullersISBN 0395079780 (0-395-07978-0)
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Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Libraryby Eth Clifford, George HughesISBN 0395284783 (0-395-28478-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Hidden Picturesby Meg WolitzerISBN 0395360021 (0-395-36002-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Hobbitby J.R.R. TolkienISBN 0395071224 (0-395-07122-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, "looking for someone to share in an adventure," Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit's doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure.
The dwarves' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, would eventually spring. Though The Hobbit is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don't be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Hobbit or There and Back Againby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395177111 (0-395-17711-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Homo Faberby Ackermann P. K.ISBN 0395144027 (0-395-14402-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Hop on Popby SeussISBN 0394900294 (0-394-90029-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hop on Pop'Book summary:Poor, long-suffering Dad deserves a little lift every once in a while, and who better to boost than Dr. Seuss? In this funky pop-up adaptation of the classic Hop on Pop, kids do their best to perk up Pop after a bad day. The furry yellow Seuss-critters know "it's best not to HOP on POP," but "we like to hop. / We like to hop / on top of Pop. / STOP!" Other, more human-looking children give their fathers gifts, such as "a set of Slim Jim Swim Fins" (pink, three-toed marvels), violin serenades, and for the man who has everything... "a Bright Dwight Bird-Flight Night-Sight Light." Clever paper engineering livens up this six-spread volume (not that anything by Dr. Seuss ever needed enlivening). Young readers will love making the gleeful characters hop on pop over and over, and will laugh to see the walrus (another less-than-welcome gift) licking one poor daddy's ear. It's hard to say who will enjoy this more: fathers or their well-meaning little urchins. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter [via]
Houseby Tracy KidderISBN 0395363179 (0-395-36317-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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How to Draw Star Wars Heroes, Creatures, Space-Ships, and Other Fantastic Thingsby Lee J. AmesISBN 0394864891 (0-394-86489-1)
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Humankindby Peter FarbISBN 0395257107 (0-395-25710-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Humankind'Book summary:Kirkus Reviews Of the many characteristics of Homo sapiens proposed to distinguish the species--symboling, tool-inventing, language-using--let us propose another: human beings feel a need to explain. Certainly the need applies to Peter Farb who sets out to account for the major features of humankind, from inception to the present. The result is a monumental tome of popular anthropology, sociology, psychology, cultural history, forecast. Clearly he's done a lot of homework. . . This new tome reveals the same faculty for synthesis, for clear good writing, for touching the right scholarly bases. But there is a but. Farb has tried to do too much: to explain and sometimes explain away an array of traits, vast but arbitrary--marriage customs and incest taboos, male dominance, aging, Santa Claus, the psychology of learning, memory. . . . It may be the belief that women need man's physical strength to protect them and so have submitted to dominance, or that incest taboos are the result of hominid necessity and exogamy, or that peasants at all times have been suspicious, conservative, improvident as a result of their eternal exploitation by power-wielders. Readers will criticize and carp. Some may like the intellectual battling. The problem with books of this kind is that the traits discussed, the very words used, reveal a cultural boundedness. In the end Farb's version of H. sapiens is that of a liberal 20th-century Western intellectual with a sense of history and a belief in the fundamental capacity of ""modernization"": technology and planning will extricate the species from its present predicaments. The optimistic epilogue may surprise the reader, for the earlier sections present not too sanguine a picture; indeed, there is a kind of yearning for the hunting-gathering society. Farb has given us not a definitive pulsebeat of humanity, but a potpourri of interesting facts and artful speculations, at times heady and subtle, at times simplistic and flat. [via]
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James and the Giant Peachby Roald DahlISBN 0394912829 (0-394-91282-9)
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Joseph Had a Little Overcoatby Simms TabackISBN 0394832515 (0-394-83251-5)
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 0395051916 (0-395-05191-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Le Petit Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0395240050 (0-395-24005-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Little Gorillaby Ruth BornsteinISBN 0395287731 (0-395-28773-1)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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The Lord of the Ringsby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395193958 (0-395-19395-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings'Book summary:A one-volume collector's edition boxed and bound in handsome red leatherette with gold, green, and blue foil stamping, two-color text setting, and large format fold-out maps containing the complete texts of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, and six appendices. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. On his eleventy-first birthday Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest -- to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard, Merry, Pippin, and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. [via]
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Lyle and the Birthday Partyby Bernard WaberISBN 0395174511 (0-395-17451-1)
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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodileby Bernard WaberISBN 0395137209 (0-395-13720-9)
Softcover, Walter Lorraine
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile'Book summary:Lyle the crocodile lives in a house on East 88th Street in New York City. He likes it there, and his hosts, the Primms, like having him around--he helps young Joshua with his homework, jumps-rope with the neighborhood kids, and browses through antique shops with Mrs. Primm. Much to the affable reptile's dismay, however, he makes his neighbor's cat Loretta crazy, which in turn makes Mr. Grumps, Loretta's owner, even crazier. One day, Mrs. Primm and Lyle are shopping, when Lyle--through no real fault of his own--ends up infuriating department-store bigwig Mr. Grumps who turns red and blue and purple with rage. This unfortunate eruption lands the rollicking reptile in the Central Park zoo where Lyle fights back his crocodile tears. In an elaborate sequence of events, Lyle finds himself back with the Primms on East 88th Street, a neighborhood hero, and, startlingly, even a friend of the mistrustful cat Loretta. Bernard Waber--creator of The House on East 88th Street--charms young readers again with this endearing, whimsical 1965 classic, perfectly complemented by his simple, sketchy, comical illustrations. (Ages 4 to 8) [via]
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave FlaubertISBN 0395052106 (0-395-05210-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Mamaby Terry McMillanISBN 0395399742 (0-395-39974-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mama'Book summary:In Mildred Peacock's world, men come and go as quickly as her paychecks, but her five children are something else: her hope, her dream, her future. Mildred is a survivor who will do anything to keep her family togethera tough, funny heroine facing life with dignity. [via]
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More About Paddingtonby Michael Bond, Peggy FortnumISBN 0395066409 (0-395-06640-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 0395083567 (0-395-08356-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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The Night Before Christmasby Clement Clarke Moore, Douglas W. GorslineISBN 0394830199 (0-394-83019-9)
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The Night Before Christmasby Clement C. Moore, Anita LobelISBN 0394868633 (0-394-86863-3)
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The One Hundredth Thing about Carolineby Lois Lowry, Diane deGroatISBN 0395348293 (0-395-34829-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Paddington Bearby Michael Bond, Fred BanberyISBN 0394926420 (0-394-92642-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Paddington Helps Outby Michael BondISBN 0395066395 (0-395-06639-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Paddington on Topby Michael Bond, Peggy FortnumISBN 0395218977 (0-395-21897-7)
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Peter Panby J. M. Barrie, Josette Frank, Diane GoodeISBN 0394857178 (0-394-85717-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:"All children, except one, grow up." Thus begins a great classic of children's literature that we all remember as magical. What we tend to forget, because the tale of Peter Pan and Neverland has been so relentlessly boiled down, hashed up, and coated in saccharine, is that J.M. Barrie's original version is also witty, sophisticated, and delightfully odd. The Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, live a very proper middle-class life in Edwardian London, but they also happen to have a Newfoundland for a nurse. The text is full of such throwaway gems as "Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter Pan when she was tidying up her children's minds," and is peppered with deliberately obscure vocabulary including "embonpoint," "quietus," and "pluperfect." Lest we forget, it was written in 1904, a relatively innocent age in which a plot about abducted children must have seemed more safely fanciful. Also, perhaps, it was an age that expected more of its children's books, for Peter Pan has a suppleness, lightness, and intelligence that are "literary" in the best sense. In a typical exchange with the dastardly Captain Hook, Peter Pan describes himself as "youth... joy... a little bird that has broken out of the egg," and the author interjects: "This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form." A book for adult readers-aloud to revel in--and it just might teach young listeners to fly. (Ages 5 and older) --Richard Farr [via]
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The Poetical Works of Keats.by John KeatsISBN 0395180155 (0-395-18015-5)
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The Poetical Works of Wordsworth.by William WordsworthISBN 0395184967 (0-395-18496-7)
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The Return of the Kingby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395272211 (0-395-27221-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0395051428 (0-395-05142-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...scholar-like renown still lived in Oxford, was considered by his more fervent admirers as little less than a heavenly-ordained apostle, destined, should he live and labor for the ordinary term of life, to do as great deeds for the now feeble New England Church, as the early Fathers had achieved for the infancy of the Christian faith. About this period, however, the health of Mr. Dimmesdale had evidently' begun to fail. By those best acquainted with his habits, the paleness of the young minister's cheek was accounted for by his too earnest devotion to study, his scrupulous fulfilment of parochial duty, and, more than all, by the fasts and vigils of which he made a frequent practice, in order to keep the grossness of this earthly state from clogging and obscuring his spiritual lamp. Some declared, that, if Mr. Dimmesdale were really going to die, it was cause enough, that the world was not worthy to be any onger trodden by his feet. He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief, that, if Providence should see fit to remove him, it would be because of his own unworthiness to perform its humblest mission here on earth. With all this difference of opinion as to the cause of his decline, there could be no question of the fact. His form grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it; he was often observed, on any slight alarm or other sudden accident, to put his hand over his heart, with first a flush and then a paleness, indicative of pain. Such was the young clergyman's condition, and so imminent the prospect that his dawning light would be extinguished, all untimely, when Koger Chillingworth made his advent to the town. His first entry on the scene, few people... [via]
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Scarlet Letter and Other Tales of the Puritansby Hawthorne LevinISBN 0395051533 (0-395-05153-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Selected Poems, 1965-1975by Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 0395404223 (0-395-40422-3)
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Shaneby Jack Warner SchaeferISBN 0395070902 (0-395-07090-2)
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Shoeless Joeby W.P. KinsellaISBN 039532047X (0-395-32047-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shoeless Joe'Book summary:W. P. Kinsella plays with both myth and fantasy in his lyrical novel, which was adapted into the enormously popular movie, Field of Dreams. It begins with the magic of a godlike voice in a cornfield, and ends with the magic of a son playing catch with the ghost of his father. In Kinsella's hands, it's all about as simple, and complex, as the object of baseball itself: coming home. Like Ring Lardner and Bernard Malamud before him, Kinsella spins baseball as backdrop and metaphor, and, like his predecessors, uses the game to tell us a little something more about who we are and what we need. [via]
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The Sign of the Beaverby Elizabeth George SpeareISBN 0395338905 (0-395-33890-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sign of the Beaver'Book summary:When his father returns East to collect the rest of the family, 13-year-old Matt is left alone to guard his family's newly built homestead. One day, Matt is brutally stung when he robs a bee tree for honey. He returns to consciousness to discover that his many stings have been treated by an old Native American and his grandson. Matt offers his only book as thanks, but the old man instead asks Matt to teach his grandson Attean to read. Both boys are suspicious, but Attean comes each day for his lesson. In the mornings, Matt tries to entice Attean with tales from Robinson Crusoe, while in the afternoons, Attean teaches Matt about wilderness survival and Native American culture. The boys become friends in spite of themselves, and their inevitable parting is a moving tribute to the ability of shared experience to overcome prejudice. The Sign of the Beaver was a Newbery Honor Book; author Elizabeth Speare has also won the Newbery Medal twice, for The Witch of Blackbird Pond and The Bronze Bow. (Ages 12 and older) --Richard Farr [via]
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Silmarillionby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395346460 (0-395-34646-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silmarillion'Book summary:Although The Silmarillion takes place in the same imaginary world as J.J.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and was originally published four years after the author's death and over two decades after the former book, it is set much earlier, in the First Age of the World. The tales and the book which reads as a fusion between a story collection and historical chronicle, are a matter of legend even to the characters of The Lord of the Rings:
In the beginning Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Ilúvatar, made the Ainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him
Tolkien wrote the heart of this material very early in his career, and continued to work on it throughout his life. It fell to his son, Christopher Tolkien, to edit it into book form, and such proved the unquenchable public appetite that he subsequently oversaw 12 volumes of The History of Middle-Earth. This edition features 20 highly evocative colour plates by Ted Nasmith, themselves worth the price of admission, while reinforcing the sense of a historical work are genealogical tables, an extensive index, appendix and colour map. Far removed from the genial style of The Hobbit, this is Tolkien at his most formal, his prose austere, poetically beautiful, his storytelling capturing the epic scale, high drama and melancholy wonder of myth. These stories of elves and heroes and old gods are quite literally the foundation of the entire modern fantasy-publishing revival, and are therefore essential reading. --Gary S. Dalkin [via] -
The Song of the Larkby Willa CatherISBN 0395345308 (0-395-34530-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Song of the Lark'Book summary:Perhaps Willa Cather's most autobiographical work, The Song of the Lark charts the story of a young woman's awakening as an artist against the backdrop of the western landscape. Thea Kronborg, an aspiring singer, struggles to escape from the confines her small Colorado town to the world of possibility in the Metropolitan Opera House. In classic Cather style, The Song of the Lark is the beautiful, unforgettable story of American determination and its inextricable connection to the land.[via]
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Three Romances: Love Stories from Camelot Retoldby Paul O. Zelinsky, Winifred RosenISBN 0394945093 (0-394-94509-3)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Thursday's Childby Noel Streatfeild, Peggy FortnumISBN 0394920961 (0-394-92096-1)
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Twas the Night Before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicolasby Clement Clarke Moore, Jessie Willcox SmithISBN 0395069521 (0-395-06952-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Unfinished Talesby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395324416 (0-395-32441-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unfinished Tales'Book summary:Edited by Christopher Tolkien, Unfinished Tales is a posthumous collection of narratives ranging from the time of The Silmarillion - the Elder days of Middle-earth - to the end of the War of the Ring in The Lord of the Rings. Among the stories told are Gandalf's account of sending the dwarves to Bibo's party at Bag End, the tale of the appearance of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor along the coast of Beleriand, and a description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan. It also contains the only story from the long ages of Numenor before its downfall, and all that is known of such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantiri, and the legend of Amroth. [via]
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Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earthby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395299179 (0-395-29917-9)
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0395051614 (0-395-05161-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Way Things Workby David MacaulayISBN 0395428572 (0-395-42857-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way Things Work'Book summary:David Macaulay has made it his business to demystify science and technology for children (and certainly one or two surreptitious adults) with his worldwide bestseller, The New Way Things Work. Packed with information on the inner workings of everything from the World Wide Web to windmills, the remarkable and humorous book guides readers through the fundamental principles of machines. And now Macaulay and his trusty mammoth sidekick are back, ready to make science even more fun and comprehensible. The Way Things Work Kit is a hands-on, fully interactive kit, equipped with everything needed to perform over 50 activities, including the construction of 12 working models. A handy cardboard carrying case opens to reveal a guidebook, a CD-ROM with instructions on how to build your own pinball games, activity cards, and more than 100 basic components that fit together to make models from a balloon-powered car to a robot arm to a fairground ride. Children will be absorbed for hours as they learn about levers and hydraulics, winches and friction, inertia and pneumatics. Future engineers--not to mention just regular humans--couldn't have a better introduction to the way things work. (Ages 8 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Wise Childby Monica FurlongISBN 0394891058 (0-394-89105-8)
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The Witch of Blackbird Pondby Elizabeth George SpeareISBN 0395071143 (0-395-07114-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond'Book summary:Forced to leave her sunny Caribbean home for the bleak Connecticut Colony, Kit Tyler is filled with trepidation. As they sail up the river to Kit's new home, the teasing and moodiness of a young sailor named Nat doesn't help. Still, her unsinkable spirit soon bobs back up. What this spirited teenager doesn't count on, however, is how her aunt and uncle's stern Puritan community will view her. In the colonies of 1687, a girl who swims, wears silk and satin gowns, and talks back to her elders is not only headstrong, she is in grave danger of being regarded as a witch. When Kit befriends an old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, it is more than the ascetics can take: soon Kit is defending her life. Who can she count on as she confronts these angry and suspicious townspeople?
A thoroughly exciting and rewarding Newbery Medal winner and ALA Notable Children's Book, Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond brings this frightening period of witch hysteria to life. Readers will wonder at the power of the mob mentality, and the need for communities in desperate times--even current times--to find a scapegoat. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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