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27 Years of Shoe: World Ends at Ten, Details at Elevenby Jeff MacNellyISBN 0740746669 (0-7407-4666-9)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Absolute Certainty : A Crime Novelby Rose ConnorsISBN 0743229061 (0-7432-2906-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Action Figure!by G. B. TrudeauISBN 0740715542 (0-7407-1554-2)
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Alhazredby Donald TysonISBN 0738708925 (0-7387-0892-5)
Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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All Dressed Down And Nowhere To Goby Scott AdamsISBN 0740729314 (0-7407-2931-4)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Another Day in Paradise: The Fourth Sherman's Lagoon Collectionby Jim P. ToomeyISBN 0740720120 (0-7407-2012-0)
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The Blue Day Bookby Bradley Trevor GreiveISBN 0740722670 (0-7407-2267-0)
Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Day Book'Book summary:Available now for the first time in Little Book format, this international best-selling collection of amusing, poignant animal photos and inspirational text will lift the spirits of anyone who's got the blues. [via]
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The Blue Day Book: A Lesson in Cheering Yourself Upby Bradley Trevor GreiveISBN 0740704818 (0-7407-0481-8)
Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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The Blue Day Book For Kidsby Bradley Trevor GreiveISBN 0740750232 (0-7407-5023-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Day Book For Kids'Book summary:Perfect for those downer days when your child needs a pick-me-up, The Blue Day Book for Kids magnificently pairs striking animal photographs and inspirational thoughts to re-create the magic Bradley Trevor Greive (BTG) tapped into with the original book.
Enchanted by the wildly successful Blue Day Book's poignant, often funny, photos of animals and clever, poetic insights, many parents and teachers from all over the world wrote the author asking, "When will you do a version of this book for children?"
The Blue Day Book for Kids features the same style of delightful black-and-white animal photos found in its New York Times best-selling predecessor. But this special edition for children is accompanied by compassionate words of wisdom written especially for children 12 and under. As BTG says, "Hey, even little people have big blue days."
The deceptively simple, imaginative story line reflects a child's sensibility about the symptoms, causes, and cures for those times when children feel tired, grumpy, left out, or think that nothing ever goes as they planned. Even on days when brussels sprouts are served at dinner . . . a cherished toy must be shared . . . a homework avalanche looms . . . or a silly mistake is made in front of friends or family, The Blue Day Book for Kids provides children with a literary umbrella to laugh off the unexpected rain life can bring. [via]
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Bombinghamby Anthony GroomsISBN 0743205588 (0-7432-0558-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bombingham'Book summary:From the war-torn rice fields of Vietnam to the riot-filled streets of Birmingham, Alabama, "Bombingham is the affecting story of a middle-class black family riven by its personal chaos. When Walter Burke is faced with writing a letter to the parents of a fallen friend and fellow soldier, he is taken back to his childhood amidst the Civil Rights Movement. From it, he recalls the segregated city, the fledgling movement, and the momentous responsibility to act.
Walter reflects on how he and his family were challenged by the swelling resistance to the horrific realities of segregation in a city where little girls could be bombed in church and their fathers jailed for just looking at a white person in the wrong way. The parents' sense of security is increasingly threatened, while the children are forced to make moral decisions that portend grave consequences.
As Walter struggles to make sense of his presence in Vietnam, he wonders if the victory of the movement meant nothing more than being sent into a battlefield of another kind. Joining two pivotal periods in the American experience, this beautifully written novel from the winner of the 1996 Lillian Smith Award for Fiction makes an important contribution to our understanding of the period.
With wry humor and haunting description, it is a portrait of the wonder and the terror of childhood in a time when ordinary citizens risked their lives to change America. By turns both reflective and dramatic, Grooms chronicles the events of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War through the heightened perspective of a narrator who struggles to find the meaning of his role in both events. "Bombingham is a moving testament to thepower of responsibility and faith in the face of tragedy. [via]
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Book of Namesby John PeelISBN 0738706175 (0-7387-0617-5)
Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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Book of Signsby John PeelISBN 0738706167 (0-7387-0616-7)
Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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Bringing down the House: The Inside Story of Six M. I. T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millionsby Ben MezrichISBN 0743225708 (0-7432-2570-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bringing down the House: The Inside Story of Six M. I. T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions'Book summary:It's Friday night and you're on a red-eye to the city of sin. Strapped to your chest is half a million dollars; in your overnight bag is another twenty-five thousand in blackjack chips; and your wallet holds ten fake IDs. As soon as you land in Las Vegas, you are positive you are being investigated and followed. To top it all off, the IRS is auditing you, someone has been going through your mail -- and you have a multivariable calculus exam on Monday morning. Welcome to the world of an exclusive group of audacious MIT math geniuses who legally took the casinos for over three million dollars -- while still finding time for college keg parties, football games, and final exams.
In the midst of the go-go eighties and nineties, a group of overachieving, anarchistic MIT students joined a decades-old underground blackjack club dedicated to counting cards and beating the system at major casinos around the world. While their classmates were working long hours in labs and libraries, the blackjack team traveled weekly to Las Vegas and other glamorous gambling locales, with hundreds of thousands of dollars duct-taped to their bodies. Underwritten by shady investors they would never meet, these kids bet fifty thousand dollars a hand, enjoyed VIP suites and other upscale treats, and partied with showgirls and celebrities.
Handpicked by an eccentric mastermind -- a former MIT professor and an obsessive player who had developed a unique system of verbal cues, body signals, and role-playing -- this one ring of card savants earned more than three million dollars from corporate Vegas, making them the object of the casinos' wrath and eventually targets of revenge. Here is their inside story, revealing their secrets for the first time.
Master storyteller Ben Mezrich takes you from the ivory towers of academia to the Technicolor world of Las Vegas, where anything can happen -- and often does. [via]
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Broken Trailby Alan GeoffrionISBN 0739470310 (0-7394-7031-0)
Hardcover, Fulcrum Pub
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Buck Wild Doonsburyby G. B. TrudeauISBN 0740700154 (0-7407-0015-4)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures of Henrietta and Her Foreign Correspondentby Christopher S. WrenISBN 0743222768 (0-7432-2276-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Catch of the Day: The Eighth Sherman's Lagoon Collectionby Jim ToomeyISBN 0740746707 (0-7407-4670-7)
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Children at the Gateby Lynne Reid BanksISBN 0743211626 (0-7432-1162-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Clouds Above : A Novel of Love and Warby Andrew GreigISBN 0743206401 (0-7432-0640-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
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Costigan's Needleby Sohl JerryISBN 0738836591 (0-7388-3659-1)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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Cry, Wolfby Glenn ClarkISBN 0738805599 (0-7388-0559-9)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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Daughterby Asha BandeleISBN 0743211847 (0-7432-1184-7)
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Dead for Life: A Novelby Ethan BlackISBN 0743244001 (0-7432-4400-1)
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The Distance : A Crime Novelby Eddie MullerISBN 0743214439 (0-7432-1443-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Distance : A Crime Novel'Book summary:Penzler Pick, January 2002: This debut mystery is by an author who already has a claim on the hearts of his audience: he produced two splendid works of nonfiction that are must-haves for every mystery lover's library, Dark City Dames and Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir. Both take readers down new paths into a familiar, haunting landscape--that of the 1940s and '50s films that brought such a paradoxical blend of artifice and authenticity to the small, claustrophobic world of crime.
As the son of a West Coast boxing writer, Muller is writing from strength when he makes his protagonist, Billy Nichols, a newspaper boxing columnist who easily keeps pace with the mugs and thugs he covers. The setting is post-World War II San Francisco and Nichols is a journalist who pounds out his stories, stopping only afterward to ask the right questions.
His relationship to the heavyweight Hack Escalante takes a startling turn early in the story as Billy finds himself an accessory to a crime that it seems Hack has just committed. Gig Liardi, Hack's manager, is lying dead on the floor of his apartment, less than a half-hour after summoning Billy over for a scoop, and Hack's knuckles are bloody, though his eyes are wet. "This boy should never have been a fighter," Billy thinks, watching him. "Now he was a killer. A couple of his tears dropped on Gig's face."
Even if prizefighters do cry, this scene is still only one high point in a tough, vivid re-creation of a lost era of urban sports history that swaggers on for almost 40 more chapters. More mystery novels featuring "Mr. Boxing," as Billy Nichols is known, will certainly be welcome by mystery fans, but come early to the series now and get a ringside seat! --Otto Penzler [via]
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Don't Roll Your Eyes at Me, Young Man!: A Zits Collection Sketchbook 3by Jim Borgman, Jerry ScottISBN 0740711660 (0-7407-1166-0)
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Duke 2000: Whatever It Takes A Doonesbury Bookby G. B. TrudeauISBN 0740706071 (0-7407-0607-1)
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Excuse Me While I Wagby Scott AdamsISBN 0740713906 (0-7407-1390-6)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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The Fabulistby Stephen GlassISBN 0743227123 (0-7432-2712-3)
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Female Troubleby Antonya NelsonISBN 0743218728 (0-7432-1872-8)
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Fleecedby Carol Higgins ClarkISBN 0743205812 (0-7432-0581-2)
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The Fluorescent Light Glistens off Your Headby Scott AdamsISBN 0740751131 (0-7407-5113-1)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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For the Dogs: A Novelby Kevin WignallISBN 0743247566 (0-7432-4756-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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Four Days to Veracruz : A Novelby Owen WestISBN 0743229827 (0-7432-2982-7)
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Good Hairby Benilde LittleISBN 0743218612 (0-7432-1861-2)
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Got War?by G. B. TrudeauISBN 0740738178 (0-7407-3817-8)
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The Great Pretenderby Millenia BlackISBN 0741412780 (0-7414-1278-0)
Softcover, Infinity Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Pretender'Book summary:ONE MAN& TWO LIVES&
For over six years, Reginald Brooks has managed to pull it off. Having two families, leading two lives.
Now, the pretending must stop.
But how?
THE GREAT PRETENDER&an electrifying tale of how one man tries to untangle his life, setting a full-fledged arena of wife against husband, lover against lover, friend against friend, and family against family.
Once you begin this engaging tale, you will witness how one mans decision to pretend ricochets through the lives of several people. For some, escape could seem to be a most welcome solution&
Reginald Brooksa polished marketing VP who shrewdly built a dual life around his work. But without warning, that life begins to come apart at the seams and Reginald makes a decision that could threaten his very future, and the lives of those he loves most&
Tracy BrooksReginalds wife of nearly 20 years. While the cats away, the mice will play. Shes got secrets of her own to protect&
Renee Jamesonthe younger woman with the killer body who managed to turn Reginalds head long enough to become pregnant&
Franklin Bevinsa UPS executive and Reginalds best friend since the carefree days of childhood. Reggie has never made a life-changing decision without Franks input; a practice they may soon live to regret&
Olivia BrooksReginald and Tracys eldest daughter. Family isnt very high on Olivias list of priorities. With her primary focus on a man, Olivia seems nonchalant about the significant changes in her familys life until a shocking demand gets her full attention&
Valerie Brooksthe younger of Reggie and Tracys two daughters. A curious teen on the verge of adulthood when a hard knock lesson brings her questionable habits to a screeching halt.
From the plush streets of Miami to the glamour of New York City, follow the families of Reginald Brooks as their lives of sex, love, hate and surprise unfolds to an agonizing climax!
This debut novel by Millenia Black is anticipated to spark a tantalizing blend of emotions, and may even leave you wondering if perhaps you know someone who might be&THE GREAT PRETENDER. [via]
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Green Grass Grace: A Novelby Shawn McBrideISBN 074322311X (0-7432-2311-X)
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Greetings from Sherman's Lagoon: The 1992 to 1993 Sherman's Lagoon Collectionby Jim P. ToomeyISBN 0740721925 (0-7407-2192-5)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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H.r.h.by Danielle SteelISBN 0739326805 (0-7393-2680-5)
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Haremby Dora Levy MossanenISBN 0743230213 (0-7432-3021-3)
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Harlem Reduxby Persia WalkerISBN 0743224973 (0-7432-2497-3)
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Her Infinite Varietyby Pamela Rafael BerkmanISBN 074321255X (0-7432-1255-X)
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How to Read and Whyby Harold BloomISBN 074320428X (0-7432-0428-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Read and Why'Book summary:Harold Bloom's urgency in How to Read and Why may have much to do with his age. He brackets his combative, inspiring manual with the news that he is nearing 70 and hasn't time for the mediocre. (One doubts that he ever did.) Nor will he countenance such fashionable notions as the death of the author or abide "the vagaries of our current counter-Puritanism" let alone "ideological cheerleading." Successively exploring the short story, poetry, the novel, and drama, Bloom illuminates both the how and why of his title and points us in all the right directions: toward the Romantics because they "startle us out of our sleep-of-death into a more capacious sense of life"; toward Austen, James, Proust; toward Thomas Mann, Toni Morrison, and Cormac McCarthy; toward Cervantes and Shakespeare (but of course!), Ibsen and Oscar Wilde.
How should we read? Slowly, with love, openness, and with our inner ear cocked. Then we should reread, reread, reread, and do so aloud as often as possible. "As a boy of eight," he tells us, "I would walk about chanting Housman's and William Blake's lyrics to myself, and I still do, less frequently yet with undiminished fervor." And why should we engage in this apparently solitary activity? To increase our wit and imagination, our sense of intimacy--in short, our entire consciousness--and also to heal our pain. "Until you become yourself," Bloom avers, "what benefit can you be to others." So much for reading as an escape from the self!
Still, many of this volume's pleasures may indeed be selfish. The author is at his best when he is thinking aloud and anew, and his material offers him--and therefore us--endless opportunities for discovery. Bloom cherishes poetry because it is "a prophetic mode" and fiction for its wisdom. Intriguingly, he fears more for the fate of the latter: "Novels require more readers than poems do, a statement so odd that it puzzles me, even as I agree with it." We must, he adjures, crusade against its possible extinction and read novels "in the coming years of the third millennium, as they were read in the eighteenth and nineteenth century: for aesthetic pleasure and for spiritual insight."
Bloom is never heavy, since his vision quest contains a healthy love of irony--Jedediah Purdy, take note: "Strip irony away from reading, and it loses at once all discipline and all surprise." And this supreme critic makes us want to equal his reading prowess because he writes as well as he reads; his epigrams are equal to his opinions. He is also a master allusionist and quoter. His section on Hedda Gabler is preceded by three extraordinary statements, two from Ibsen, who insists, "There must be a troll in what I write." Who would not want to proceed? Of course, Bloom can also accomplish his goal by sheer obstinacy. As far as he is concerned, Don Quixote may have been the first novel but it remains to this day the best one. Is he perhaps tweaking us into reading this gigantic masterwork by such bald overstatement? Bloom knows full well that a prophet should stop at nothing to get his belief and love across, and throughout How to Read and Why he is as unstinting as the visionary company he adores. --Kerry Fried [via]
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I'm in the Mood for Food: In the Kitchen With Garfieldby Barbara Albright, Jim Davis, Mark Acey, Scott NickelISBN 0740733869 (0-7407-3386-9)
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Impossibleby Danielle SteelISBN 0739325744 (0-7393-2574-4)
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In Search of Klingsorby Jorge VolpiISBN 0743201183 (0-7432-0118-3)
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Incasby Alex Gilly, Antoine B. DanielISBN 074320722X (0-7432-0722-X)
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Into the Woodsby Hudson Talbott, Stephen Sondheim, James LapineISBN 0743232909 (0-7432-3290-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into the Woods'Book summary:The Tony Award-winning musical,
now adapted into a lavishly illustrated book
"Into the Woods" is the imaginative account of what happens when the lives of new and old fairy-tale characters dramatically and humorously come together. Cinderella, Jack (of bean-stalk fame), Little Red Ridinghood, and the Baker and his Wife set out for the forest on a quest to find "happily ever after." Along the way they meet Rapunzel, a Wicked Witch, a lascivious Wolf, vengeful Giants, a couple of charming Princes, and their own destiny. With wit and wisdom, the authors have given us a parable about the loss of innocence, the joys and sorrows of adulthood, and the price paid for getting the things you really want. [via]
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It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain Itby Scott AdamsISBN 0740746588 (0-7407-4658-8)
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John Adamsby David Willis McCulloughISBN 0743223136 (0-7432-2313-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Adams'Book summary:Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams--who, David McCullough writes, was "not a man of the world" and not fond of politics--came to greatness as the second president of the United States, and one of the most distinguished of a generation of revolutionary leaders. He found reason to dislike sectarian wrangling even more in the aftermath of war, when Federalist and anti-Federalist factions vied bitterly for power, introducing scandal into an administration beset by other difficulties--including pirates on the high seas, conflict with France and England, and all the public controversy attendant in building a nation.
Overshadowed by the lustrous presidents Washington and Jefferson, who bracketed his tenure in office, Adams emerges from McCullough's brilliant biography as a truly heroic figure--not only for his significant role in the American Revolution but also for maintaining his personal integrity in its strife-filled aftermath. McCullough spends much of his narrative examining the troubled friendship between Adams and Jefferson, who had in common a love for books and ideas but differed on almost every other imaginable point. Reading his pages, it is easy to imagine the two as alter egos. (Strangely, both died on the same day, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.) But McCullough also considers Adams in his own light, and the portrait that emerges is altogether fascinating. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Killing The Buddha: A Heretic's Bibleby Peter ManseauISBN 0743232771 (0-7432-3277-1)
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The King's Evilby Will HeinrichISBN 0743235045 (0-7432-3504-5)
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The Land of Women: A Novelby Regina McBrideISBN 074322888X (0-7432-2888-X)
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Live At Bryson Elementaryby Jef MallettISBN 0740754475 (0-7407-5447-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Live At Bryson Elementary'Book summary:One of the last places you'd expect to find fun is in an elementary-school janitor's cleaning closet. Creator Jef Mallett has given life to Renaissance man / janitor Edwin Frazier, better known as "Frazz," who took the job at Bryson Elementary School when he was a struggling songwriter. He then surprised everyone by sticking around after selling his first hit song; the school will never be the same. Frazz: Live from Bryson Elementary features the diverse cast of charming characters Frazz readers have come to love. There's eight-year-old budding genius Caulfield. He's a constant thorn in the side of burned-out third-grade teacher Mrs. Olsen, who still remembers having Frazz in her class more than 20 years ago. Caulfield needs Frazz to challenge him as he remarks, "School would be OK if it didn't interfere so much with my education." Hilariously naive Principal Spaetzle wants to be like Frazz, and first-grade teacher (and first-rate babe!) Miss Plainwell is getting to know him better. And the kids at Bryson Elementary can't get enough of him! [via]
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Long Time Comingby Sandra BrownISBN 0739326899 (0-7393-2689-9)
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Mandarinby Robert ElegantISBN 0743237803 (0-7432-3780-3)
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Meeting Evilby Jonathan Lethem, Thomas BergerISBN 0743247035 (0-7432-4703-5)
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--Jonathan Lethem, from the IntroductionMeeting Evil tells an adrenaline-pumped, genuinely frightening tale of malevolence that swerves swiftly and irrevocably to a catastrophic climax.
John Felton meets evil late one Monday morning when the doorbell rings. Standing on the front porch is a stranger. He wears expensive running shoes and a baseball cap and calls himself Richie. He tells John his car has stalled and asks for help. An altercation at the gas station leads to a shocking crime as violence begets violence. At the end of this harrowing day, John returns home to find Richie ensconced in his living room, chatting up his wife. The evil has somehow seeped into his life. Thus begins the transformation of an unremarkable husband and father of two into a desperate man willing to go to any length to protect his family from the darkness that threatens them.
This is an extraordinary masterpiece and a chilling portrait of mounting menace played out against an everyday world of domestic routine, personified in a protagonist of basic decency grappling with both the immediate and existential meaning of true evil. [via]
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Mirror Lake: A Novelby Thomas Christopher GreeneISBN 0743244273 (0-7432-4427-3)
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The Moment She Was Gone : A Novelby Evan HunterISBN 074323748X (0-7432-3748-X)
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Murder Among Friendsby Chuck FagerISBN 0738847801 (0-7388-4780-1)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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Mutts: A Little Look-Seeby Patrick McDonnellISBN 0740713949 (0-7407-1394-9)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mutts: A Little Look-See'Book summary:The fun and mischievous daily adventures of head mutt Earl and his kitty chum, Mooch, take center stage in Patrick McDonnell's Mutts collection, A Little Look-See. As with McDonnell's previous collections, the always-adorable Mooch and Earl can be counted on for hearty laughs and endearing moments as they share their pets'-eye views when "their peoples" are not around. In A Little Look-See, we learn through Earl and Mooch that yes, animals do practice those irresistible expressions that melt our hearts, and we witness a not-so-dignified debate over the age-old question of who is cuter: dogs or cats?
The creative style and classic charm of Mutts earns McDonnell the admiration of loyal readers, prominent national organizations, and fellow cartoonists, as well as frequent comparisons to cartoon-strip greats such as Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes. In 2000, McDonnell received the National Cartoonists Society's highest honor, the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year for 1999. With a following that spans 20 countries, Mutts has also garnered notice internationally, winning Germany's prestigious Max & Moritz Award for best international comic strip. Go ahead and take A Little Look-See at the spectacular world of Mutts. [via]
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One Million A.D.by Gardner R. DozoisISBN 0739462733 (0-7394-6273-3)
Hardcover, Science Fiction Book Club
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Ophelia's Salvationby Mary BorsellinoISBN 0738832707 (0-7388-3270-7)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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A Pearls Before Swine Collection: Nighthogsby Stephan PastisISBN 0740750097 (0-7407-5009-7)
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The Peril of Magnificent Loveby Emma MagentaISBN 0740748041 (0-7407-4804-1)
Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Lessby Terry Ryan, Suze OrmanISBN 0743211235 (0-7432-1123-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less'Book summary:The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s.
Stepping back into a time when fledgling advertising agencies were active partners with consumers, and everyday people saw possibility in every coupon, Terry Ryan tells how her mother kept the family afloat by writing jingles and contest entries. Mom's winning ways defied the Church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated views of housewives. To her, flouting convention was a small price to pay when it came to securing a happy home for her six sons and four daughters. Evelyn, who would surely be a Madison Avenue executive if she were working today, composed her jingles not in the boardroom, but at the ironing board.
By entering contests wherever she found them -- TV, radio, newspapers, direct-mail ads -- Evelyn Ryan was able to win every appliance her family ever owned, not to mention cars, television sets, bicycles, watches, a jukebox, and even trips to New York, Dallas, and Switzerland. But it wasn't just the winning that was miraculous; it was the timing. If a toaster died, one was sure to arrive in the mail from a forgotten contest. Days after the bank called in the second mortgage on the house, a call came from the Dr Pepper company: Evelyn was the grand-prize winner in its national contest -- and had won enough to pay the bank.
Graced with a rare appreciation for life's inherent hilarity, Evelyn turned every financial challenge into an opportunity for fun and profit. From her frenetic supermarket shopping spree -- worth $3,000 today -- to her clever entries worthy of Erma Bombeck, Dorothy Parker, and Ogden Nash, the story of this irrepressible woman whose talents reached far beyond her formidable verbal skills is told in The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio with an infectious joy that shows how a winning spirit will triumph over the poverty of circumstance. [via]
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The Revolt of the English Majors: A Doonesbury Bookby G. B. TrudeauISBN 0740718479 (0-7407-1847-9)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Rockville Pike : A Suburban Comedy of Mannersby Susan CollISBN 074324477X (0-7432-4477-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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RussiaISBN 0742400344 (0-7424-0034-4)
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Shadows at the Fair : An Antique Print Mysteryby Lea WaitISBN 0743225538 (0-7432-2553-8)
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The Shark Diaries: The Seventh Sherman's Lagoon Collectionby Jim ToomeyISBN 0740738151 (0-7407-3815-1)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Sherman's Lagoon 1991 to 2001: Greatest Hits and Near Missesby Jim P. ToomeyISBN 0740726765 (0-7407-2676-5)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Stealing the Ambassadorby Sameer ParekhISBN 0743214307 (0-7432-1430-7)
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Stealing the Dragon: A Cape Weathers Investigationby Tim MaleeneyISBN 0738709972 (0-7387-0997-2)
Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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The Story of Janeby Catherine CussetISBN 0743202996 (0-7432-0299-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Sugar Skull : An Eve Diamond Novelby Denise HamiltonISBN 0743245393 (0-7432-4539-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sugar Skull : An Eve Diamond Novel'Book summary:You can spot Denise Hamilton's journalistic background in the inquisitive, meticulous way she plumbs the economic and ethnic strata of Los Angeles, the setting of her second Eve Diamond mystery, Sugar Skull. As in her previous book, The Jasmine Trade, which dealt with Asian gangsters and undersupervised teens susceptible to criminal influence, Sugar Skull contrasts seemingly disparate, yet intersecting social realms as it illuminates a metropolis in transition.
"All over town, people were dying violently," observes L.A. Times reporter Diamond at this tale's start. In other words, it's a typical weekend in California's largest city, with most of the deceased barely earning a mention in print. But Isabel Chevalier is different. A 15-year-old prep-school student, she's taken to slumming with runaway street kids, so when she disappears suddenly, her worried father seeks Diamond's help. Too late: Isabel is found murdered in an abandoned building. Sniffing a good story, Diamond tracks down the homeless youths who knew Isabel best, including the feral but oddly magnetic Finch "Mad Dog" Marino and an abused girl called Scout, who revs up the reporter's maternal instincts. At the same time, Diamond has another scoop on the hook, involving the suspicious demise of a mayoral candidate's "super-socialite" wife, who--in hypocritical disregard of her hubby's "family values" platform--has been cavorting with another man. Hamilton's smoothly paced yarn sends Eve from a riverside transvestite camp to Latino nightclubs to the hyper-competitive arena of her newsroom, yet leaves her time (and breath) enough to tryst with a somber Hispanic music promoter amid L.A.'s Day of the Dead festivities. Although readers may cringe at this novel's trite portrayals of spin-mad politicians, Diamond's rough-cut charm and perspicacity, plus Hamilton's thoughtful focus on race and homelessness, make Sugar Skull a sweet read. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
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Tastes Like Chickenby Lolita FilesISBN 0743245261 (0-7432-4526-1)
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Teacher Man: A Memoirby Frank McCourtISBN 0743243781 (0-7432-4378-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teacher Man: A Memoir'Book summary:For 30 years Frank McCourt taught high school English in New York City and for much of that time he considered himself a fraud. During these years he danced a delicate jig between engaging the students, satisfying often bewildered administrators and parents, and actually enjoying his job. He tried to present a consistent image of composure and self-confidence, yet he regularly felt insecure, inadequate, and unfocused. After much trial and error, he eventually discovered what was in front of him (or rather, behind him) all along--his own experience. "My life saved my life," he writes. "My students didn't know there was a man up there escaping a cocoon of Irish history and Catholicism, leaving bits of that cocoon everywhere." At the beginning of his career it had never occurred to him that his own dismal upbringing in the slums of Limerick could be turned into a valuable lesson plan. Indeed, his formal training emphasized the opposite. Principals and department heads lectured him to never share anything personal. He was instructed to arouse fear and awe, to be stern, to be impossible to please--but he couldn't do it. McCourt was too likable, too interested in the students' lives, and too willing to reveal himself for their benefit as well as his own. He was a kindred spirit with more questions than answers: "Look at me: wandering late bloomer, floundering old fart, discovering in my forties what my students knew in their teens."
As he did so adroitly in his previous memoirs, Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, McCourt manages to uncover humor in nearly everything. He writes about hilarious misfires, as when he suggested (during his teacher's exam) that the students write a suicide note, as well as unorthodox assignments that turned into epiphanies for both teacher and students. A dazzling writer with a unique and compelling voice, McCourt describes the dignity and difficulties of a largely thankless profession with incisive, self-deprecating wit and uncommon perception. It may have taken him three decades to figure out how to be an effective teacher, but he ultimately saved his most valuable lesson for himself: how to be his own man. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Thunderstrikeby Michael McCollumISBN 0738800333 (0-7388-0033-3)
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The Tongues of Angelsby Reynolds PriceISBN 074320221X (0-7432-0221-X)
Softcover, Scribner
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Truelove & Homegrown Tomatoesby Julie CannonISBN 0743245881 (0-7432-4588-1)
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The Used Worldby Haven KimmelISBN 0743247787 (0-7432-4778-7)
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The Varieties of Romantic Experienceby Robert CohenISBN 0743229622 (0-7432-2962-2)
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Wide Blue Yonderby Jean ThompsonISBN 0743229584 (0-7432-2958-4)
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Willem's Fieldby Melinda HaynesISBN 0743238508 (0-7432-3850-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Willem's Field'Book summary:Willem Fremont has spent his adult life held tight inside the clenched fist of panic disorder. Determined to break the pattern - even as he reaches his twilight years - Willem returns to his childhood home in Purvis, Mississippi, where he believes the solution lies. There he discovers his father's acreage in the hands of the idiosyncratic Till family. Eilene, mother of Sonny and Bruno and "no bigger than a dress form," pretends to be deaf as a way of dealing with her grown boys - each of whom suffers from inertia. Sonny, hugely fat, perennially unemployed, and looking for love, is building a shrimp boat in his mother's land-locked backyard. Bruno, who has returned from Vietnam with a spinal injury and wearing a brace, escapes into the glossy pages of old National Geographics while his wife Leah tries to find a small measure of comfort in the day to day tending of their farm. From these unsettled lives comes a story of reconciliation against all odds and a vision of rekindled love as well as a compassionate portrait of small town life that celebrates the unusual, embraces the unwanted and opens its arms to all lost souls in search of a home. [via]
Witches' Key To Terrorby Silver RavenwolfISBN 0738700495 (0-7387-0049-5)
Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd
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Women & Other Animalsby Bonnie Jo CampbellISBN 0743203070 (0-7432-0307-0)
Softcover, Scribner
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Wrongful Deathby Baine KerrISBN 0743211170 (0-7432-1117-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Travellerby Frances MayesISBN 0739325922 (0-7393-2592-2)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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