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About a Boyby Nick HornbyISBN 0786216069 (0-7862-1606-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'About a Boy'Book summary:Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient, and blithely living off his father's novelty-song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children, and he's increasingly left out in the cold. How can someone brilliantly equipped for meaningless relationships ensure that he'll continue to meet beautiful Julie Christie-like women and ensure that they'll throw him over before things get too profound? A brief encounter with a single mother sets Will off on his new career, that of "serial nice guy." As far as he's concerned--and remember, concern isn't his strong suit--he's the perfect catch for the young mother on the go. After an interlude of sexual bliss, she'll realize that her child isn't ready for a man in their life and Will can ride off into the Highgate sunset, where more damsels apparently await. The only catch is that the best way to meet these women is at single-parent get-togethers. In one of Nick Hornby's many hilarious (and embarrassing) scenes, Will falls into some serious misrepresentation at SPAT ("Single Parents--Alone Together"), passing himself off as a bereft single dad: "There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word."
What interferes with Will's career arc, of course, is reality--in the shape of a 12-year-old boy who is in many ways his polar opposite. For Marcus, cool isn't even a possibility, let alone an issue. For starters, he's a victim at his new school. Things at home are pretty awful, too, since his musical therapist mother seems increasingly in need of therapy herself. All Marcus can do is cobble together information with a mixture of incomprehension, innocence, self-blame, and unfettered clear sight. As fans of Fever Pitch and High Fidelity already know, Hornby's insight into laddishness magically combines the serious and the hilarious. About a Boy continues his singular examination of masculine wish-fulfillment and fear. This time, though, the author lets women and children onto the playing field, forcing his feckless hero to leap over an entirely new--and entirely welcome--set of emotional hurdles. [via]
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...And Ladies of the Clubby Helen Hoover SantmyerISBN 081420323X (0-8142-0323-X)
Hardcover, Ohio State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: '...And Ladies of the Club'Book summary:"A great novel that is American to its core...so gently memorable, so bursting with life, that those who abandon themselves to its pages will find it claiming a permanent place close to their hearts." --New York Daily News[via]"A warm, evocative, often hilarious picture of society, culture, politics and family life." --Atlanta Constitution
"A warmly human story...never flags from first page to last." --Publishers Weekly
A groundbreaking bestseller with two and a half million copies in print, "...And Ladies of the Club" centers on the members of a book club and their struggles to understand themselves, each other, and the tumultuous world they live in. A true classic, it is sure to enchant, enthrall, and intrigue readers for years to come.
"It is hard to think of a better place to spend the summer than in AHelen Hooven Santmyer's? world." --Cosmopolitan
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery, Deborah FelderISBN 0679854673 (0-679-85467-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:When Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island, she surprises everyone: first of all, she is a girl. Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, had specifically asked for an orphan boy. She has bright red hair that won't manage and a mouth that won't shut. Nothing will ever be the same at Green Gables!
A favorite story of generations of girls ever since it was first published in 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic story of one girl's profound effect on a small Canadian community has stayed in print for nearly one hundred years and has been made into a popular TV series and even a musical. [via]
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- Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0689846223 (0-689-84622-3)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0694012513 (0-694-01251-3)
Softcover, Harperfestival - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0771098839 (0-7710-9883-9)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0804902186 (0-8049-0218-6)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0812551524 (0-8125-5152-4)
Softcover, Tor Books - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0613666887 (0-613-66688-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0613996631 (0-613-99663-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0679444750 (0-679-44475-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0766607186 (0-7666-0718-6)
Hardcover, Modern Pub - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0770000061 (0-7700-0006-1)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 059042243X (0-590-42243-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0816704651 (0-8167-0465-1)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0816728674 (0-8167-2867-4)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C. - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0679994289 (0-679-99428-9)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0681007702 (0-681-00770-2)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0866119930 (0-86611-993-0)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co - Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0679854673 (0-679-85467-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
- Anne of Green Gables: ISBN 0689846223 (0-689-84622-3)
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Because of Winn-Dixieby Kate DiCamilloISBN 0763616052 (0-7636-1605-2)
Softcover, Candlewick Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Because of Winn-Dixie'Book summary:Because of Winn-Dixie, a big, ugly, happy dog, 10-year-old Opal learns 10 things about her long-gone mother from her preacher father. Because of Winn-Dixie, Opal makes new friends among the somewhat unusual residents of her new hometown, Naomi, Florida. Because of Winn-Dixie, Opal begins to find her place in the world and let go of some of the sadness left by her mother's abandonment seven years earlier.
With her newly adopted, goofy pooch at her side, Opal explores her bittersweet world and learns to listen to other people's lives. This warm and winning book hosts an unforgettable cast of characters, including a librarian who fought off a bear with a copy of War and Peace, an ex-con pet-store clerk who plays sweet music to his animal charges, and the neighborhood "witch," a nearly blind woman who sees with her heart. Part Frankie (The Member of the Wedding), part Scout (To Kill a Mockingbird), Opal brings her own unique and wonderful voice to a story of friendship, loneliness, and acceptance. Opal's down-home charm and dead-on honesty will earn her friends and fans far beyond the confines of Naomi, Florida. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
Belshazzar: Prince of Babylon A Novel in Four Partsby Florence H. AnastasasISBN 0682498181 (0-682-49818-1)
Hardcover, Exposition-Phoenix Pr
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Benny and Omarby Eoin ColferISBN 0862785677 (0-86278-567-7)
Softcover, Irish Books & Media
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The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble With Friendsby Stan BerenstainISBN 0808590251 (0-8085-9025-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Best Friendsby Miriam Cohen, Lillian HobanISBN 0689713347 (0-689-71334-7)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Best Friends'Book summary:Jim was waiting outside of school. He was waiting to say "Hi" to Paul. Paul was his best friend. Jim was almost sure of it.
At the beginning of the day, Jim and Paul are almost best friends - and after a series of mix-ups, almost enemies!
Then, together, they see an emergency in the classroom, and they band together to set it right...like the best friends they really are. [via]
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The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0808514032 (0-8085-1403-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]
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- The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0792715160 (0-7927-1516-0)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer - Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0606048871 (0-606-04887-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0792715179 (0-7927-1517-9)
Hardcover, Curley Large Print - Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0822070383 (0-8220-7038-3)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc - The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0808514032 (0-8085-1403-2)
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- The Catcher in the Rye: ISBN 0792715160 (0-7927-1516-0)
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The Catcher in the Rye: New Essaysby J. P. SteedISBN 0820457299 (0-8204-5729-9)
Softcover, Peter Lang Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays'Book summary:J. D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye celebrated its fiftieth anniversary of publication in 2001. The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays presents a variety of new approaches to this extremely popular and intensely influential novel, ranging [via]
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Chicken Sundayby Patricia PolaccoISBN 0698116151 (0-698-11615-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chicken Sunday'Book summary:[via]After being initiated into a neighbor's family by a solemn backyard ceremony, a young Russian American girl and her African American brothers' determine to buy their gramma Eula a beautiful Easter hat. But their good intentions are misunderstood, until they discover just the right way to pay for the hat that Eula's had her eye on. A loving family story woven from the author's childhood.
"Polacco has outdone herself with these joyful, energetic illustrations, her vibrant colors even richer and more intense than usual, while authentic details enhance the interest. A unique piece of Americana." --Kirkus Reviews, pointer review
"In this moving picture book, the hatred sometimes engendered by racial and religious differences is overpowered by the love of people who recognize their common humanity." --Booklist, starred, boxed review
"The text conveys a tremendous pride of heritage as it brims with rich images from her characters' African American and Russian Jewish cultures--A tribute to the strength of all family bonds." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Clifford's Palsby Norman BridwellISBN 0590442953 (0-590-44295-3)
Softcover, Scholastic
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College of Magicsby Caroline StevermerISBN 0765342456 (0-7653-4245-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'College of Magics'Book summary:Teenager Faris Nallaneen is the heir to the small northern dukedom of Galazon. Too young still to claim her title, her despotic Uncle Brinker has ruled in her place. Now he demands she be sent to Greenlaw College. For her benefit he insists. To keep me out of the way, more like it![via]
But Greenlaw is not just any school-as Faris and her new best friend Jane discover. At Greenlaw students major in . . . magic.
But it's not all fun and games. When Faris makes an enemy of classmate Menary of Aravill, life could get downright . . . deadly.More editions of College of Magics:
Frog And Toad Are Friendsby School Specialty PublishingISBN 0867342129 (0-86734-212-9)
Softcover, School Specialty Pub
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The Golden Egg Bookby Margaret Wise BrownISBN 0685053679 (0-685-05367-9)
Hardcover, Goldencraft
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Good Harborby Anita DiamantISBN 0743225724 (0-7432-2572-4)
Softcover, Scribner
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Gracious Christianity: Living the Love We Professby Douglas G. Jacobsen, Rodney James SawatskyISBN 0801031397 (0-8010-3139-7)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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The Guermantes Wayby Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, Mark TreharneISBN 0670033170 (0-670-03317-0)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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Harry and Willy and Carrotheadby Judith CaseleyISBN 0688094929 (0-688-09492-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Hooper Humperdink...?Not Him!by Seuss, Scott NashISBN 0679881298 (0-679-88129-8)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Hoot: Library Editionby Carl HiaasenISBN 0606308482 (0-606-30848-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Horace and Morris, but Mostly Doloresby James Howe, Amy WalrodISBN 068985675X (0-689-85675-X)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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How to Win Friends & Influence Peopleby Arthur R. Pell, Dale Carnegie, Dorothy CarnegieISBN 0671027034 (0-671-02703-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Win Friends & Influence People'Book summary:This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to Win Friends and Influence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature that will never be outdated. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to "the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people." He teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated. He also emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated. Carnegie says you can make someone want to do what you want them to by seeing the situation from the other person's point of view and "arousing in the other person an eager want." You learn how to make people like you, win people over to your way of thinking, and change people without causing offense or arousing resentment. For instance, "let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers," and "talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person." Carnegie illustrates his points with anecdotes of historical figures, leaders of the business world, and everyday folks. --Joan Price [via]
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How to Win Friends & Influence Peopleby Dale CarnegieISBN 0671723650 (0-671-72365-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Win Friends & Influence People'Book summary:This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to Win Friends and Influence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature that will never be outdated. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to "the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people." He teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated. He also emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated. Carnegie says you can make someone want to do what you want them to by seeing the situation from the other person's point of view and "arousing in the other person an eager want." You learn how to make people like you, win people over to your way of thinking, and change people without causing offense or arousing resentment. For instance, "let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers," and "talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person." Carnegie illustrates his points with anecdotes of historical figures, leaders of the business world, and everyday folks. --Joan Price [via]
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How to Win Friends and Influence Peopleby Dale CarnegieISBN 067164551X (0-671-64551-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'Book summary:This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to Win Friends and Influence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature that will never be outdated. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to "the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people." He teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated. He also emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated. Carnegie says you can make someone want to do what you want them to by seeing the situation from the other person's point of view and "arousing in the other person an eager want." You learn how to make people like you, win people over to your way of thinking, and change people without causing offense or arousing resentment. For instance, "let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers," and "talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person." Carnegie illustrates his points with anecdotes of historical figures, leaders of the business world, and everyday folks. --Joan Price [via]
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I'm Not Your Friendby Steve Metzger, Hans WilhelmISBN 0590689916 (0-590-68991-6)
Softcover, Scholastic
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In Search of Lost Timeby Marcel ProustISBN 0679600280 (0-679-60028-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of Lost Time'Book summary:The Guermantes Way, in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantess château near Combray. It also represents the narrators passage into the rarefied social kaleidoscope of the Guermantess Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for Parisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and manners of the Guermantess drawing room. Here he encounters nobles, officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert de Saint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron de Charlus, and the Prince de Borodino.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of In Search of Lost Time:
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In Search of Lost Time Vol. IV : Sodom and Gomorrahby D. J. Enright, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, Marcel ProustISBN 0679600299 (0-679-60029-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of Lost Time Vol. IV : Sodom and Gomorrah'Book summary:After encountering a relationship between the Baron de Charlus and the tailor Jupien, Marcel's love for Albertine is diluted by his suspicion that she's attracted to her own sex in Proust's intimate tale of homosexuality. The production includes music by Breton, Schumann, Ciurlionis and Waldteufel. [via]
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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flowerby Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, James GrieveISBN 0670032778 (0-670-03277-8)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower'Book summary:Readers and reviewers in the United Kingdom have hailed the new translations of Proust as a major literary event. Soon to appear in the United States, Swanns Way, along with the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. These superb editionsthe first completely new translation of Prousts novel since the 1920sbring us a more comic and lucid Proust than English readers have previously been able to enjoy.
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrators memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. In it, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. [via]
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J.D. Salingerby Harold BloomISBN 0877547165 (0-87754-716-5)
Hardcover, Chelsea House Pub
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J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Ryeby Harold BloomISBN 0791056643 (0-7910-5664-3)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J. D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas. [via]
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J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0671006916 (0-671-00691-6)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]
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Jessicaby Kevin HenkesISBN 0688158471 (0-688-15847-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Kite Runnerby Khaled HosseiniISBN 0747566992 (0-7475-6699-2)
Softcover, Bloomsbury
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kite Runner'Book summary:The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.
Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling.
The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park. --Lisa Alward, Amazon.ca [via]
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The Kite Runner: Bookclub-in-a-box Presents the Discussion Companion for Khaled Hosseini's Novelby Khaled HosseiniISBN 0606308857 (0-606-30885-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Little Gorillaby Ruth BornsteinISBN 0618051589 (0-618-05158-9)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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Madelineby Ludwig BemelmansISBN 0670445800 (0-670-44580-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madeline'Book summary:With its lively verse, beautiful scenes of Paris, and fun-filled action spreads, the pop-up edition of Madeline will delight children who meet her for the first time--and enchant those who already love her. Full-color illustrations. [via]
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Madeline's Rescueby Ludwig BemelmansISBN 0670447161 (0-670-44716-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madeline's Rescue'Book summary:It took Ludwig Bemelmans years to think of Madeline's next adventure after the 1939 original Madeline, but he did it, and the result was Madeline's Rescue, winner of the 1954 Caldecott Medal. One day on a walk through Paris (a "twelve little girls in two straight lines" kind of walk), Madeline slips and falls off a bridge right into the Seine. Everyone feared she would be dead, "But for a dog / That kept its head," saving her from a "watery grave." What choice do Madeline and the girls have but to take the heroic pooch home, feed her biscuits, milk, and beef, and name her Genevieve? Sadly, when Lord Cucuface gets wind of the new dog, he decrees that no dogs will be allowed in the "old house in Paris that was covered with vines," and kicks Genevieve out on the street. Madeline vows vengeance, and the girls scour Paris looking for the pup: "They went looking high / and low / And every place a dog might go. / In every place they called her name / But no one answered to the same." As we've come to expect from Bemelmans, all's well that ends well chez Clavel, and young readers will be tickled by this heartwarming, quirky dog story with a surprise finale. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Madeline/Spanishby Ludwig Bemelmans, Ernesto Livon GrosmanISBN 067085154X (0-670-85154-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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May I Bring a Friend?by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers, Beni MontresorISBN 0689713533 (0-689-71353-3)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'May I Bring a Friend?'Book summary:The King and Queen are most gracious hosts to a certain little boy--and any friend of his is a friend of theirs. When he brings a giraffe to tea, the King doesn't blink an eye and says, "Hello. How do you do?" and the Queen merely exclaims, "Well! Fancy meeting you!" The royal pair continue to invite the boy as their guest for tea, breakfast, lunch, dinner, apple pie, and Halloween, and each time he politely asks if he can bring a friend, waits for their assent, then brings a hippo, monkeys, an elephant, and once even a pride of lions into their elegant home. Beatrice Schenk De Regniers's gentle, repetitive, rhyming story, with the refrain "So I brought my friend," will resonate with young children, who will be pleased to see the well-behaved wild animals wreaking harmless havoc in the palace, and soothed by the unfalteringly open arms and perpetual politesse of the King and Queen. Beni Montresor's distinctive, inky, richly colored drawings earned this book a Caldecott Medal in 1965, and have won the hearts of children ever since. (Ages 3 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food, Taming Our Primal Instinctsby Terry Burnham, Jay PhelanISBN 0738202304 (0-7382-0230-4)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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My Friend Rabbitby Eric RohmannISBN 0761315357 (0-7613-1535-7)
Hardcover, Roaring Brook Press
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On Gold Mountainby Lisa SeeISBN 0679768521 (0-679-76852-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Rats Saw Godby Rob ThomasISBN 0689807775 (0-689-80777-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Rats Saw God: A Comic Emotionally Charged Taleby Rob ThomasISBN 0689802072 (0-689-80207-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rats Saw God: A Comic Emotionally Charged Tale'Book summary:In order to pass English class and graduate, 18-year-old Steve York has to write a 100- page essay about his life. What sounds like a run-of-the-mill writing assignment, however, becomes an excuse for Steve to reflect on the last four years (from Texas freshman to California senior), and figure out where it all went wrong. Maybe it was when he discovered that he really couldn't relate to his father, the Famous Astronaut. Or it could be because his "heart had been run through frappé, puree, and liquefy on a love blender" by his ex-girlfriend, Wanda "Dub" Varner. No matter where the finger of blame ends up pointing, it's a wild ride of self-enlightenment as Steve discovers that not all relationships are permanent, and that some--like the one with his dad--can be mended with a little work. With Steve, author Rob Thomas has taken a teenage outsider and given him a funny, intelligent voice: "There are those males who merely fill ear holes with tiny studs hardly big enough to offend a Marine. Not me. Most days I wear big hoops. When I combine the look with a doo rag, I'm a regular pirate." As with his other novels--Doing Time and Slave Day--Thomas proves his thorough grasp of young adult issues and emotions. Teens will appreciate the author's empathy and humor, and teachers and parents will examine his work for clues to the mystery of adolescence. (Ages 13 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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A Scanner Darklyby Philip K. DickISBN 0679736654 (0-679-73665-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Scanner Darkly'Book summary:Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely influential SF stories. A Scanner Darkly cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. Nevertheless, it's blackly farcical, full of comic-surreal conversations between people whose synapses are partly fried, sudden flights of paranoid logic, and bad trips like the one whose victim spends a subjective eternity having all his sins read to him, in shifts, by compound-eyed aliens. (It takes 11,000 years of this to reach the time when as a boy he discovered masturbation.) The antihero Bob Arctor is forced by his double life into warring double personalities: as futuristic narcotics agent "Fred," face blurred by a high-tech scrambler, he must spy on and entrap suspected drug dealer Bob Arctor. His disintegration under the influence of the insidious Substance D is genuine tragicomedy. For Arctor there's no way off the addict's downward escalator, but what awaits at the bottom is a kind of redemption--there are more wheels within wheels than we suspected, and his life is not entirely wasted. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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A Scholar Of Magicsby Caroline StevermerISBN 0765342006 (0-7653-4200-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Scholar Of Magics'Book summary:Glasscastle University--on the surface, one of the most peaceful places in England. But underneath, its magic is ancient and dangerous&[via]
American Samuel Lambert, sharpshooter, adventurer, late of the Wyoming plains and Kiowa Bob's Wild West Show, has been invited to Glasscastle University in England to contribute his phenomenally accurate shooting eye to the top secret Agincourt Project. The only dangers he expects to face are British snobbery, heavy dinners, and tea with the Provost's pretty wife. But when the Provost's stylish sister, Jane Brailsford, comes to town, things get much more exciting&.
This sparkling sequel to A College of Magics is a whirlwind of secret weapons, motor cars, mysterious assaults and abductions, thugs in bowler hats, and a mild-mannered don who is heir to a magical power greater than all of Glasscastle's. 
The Secret Language of Girlsby Frances O'Roark DowellISBN 0689844212 (0-689-84421-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Snow Flower And the Secret Fanby Lisa SeeISBN 0812968069 (0-8129-6806-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Flower And the Secret Fan'Book summary:In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, "old same," in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she's painted a poem in nu shu, a unique language that Chinese women created in order to communicate in secret, away from the influence of men. As the years pass, Lily and Snow Flower send messages on fans, compose stories on handkerchiefs, reaching out of isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. Together, they endure the agony of foot-binding, and reflect upon their arranged marriages, shared loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive. But when a misunderstanding arises, their deep friendship suddenly threatens to tear apart. [via]
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Sodom and Gomorrahby Marcel Proust, John Sturrock, Christopher PrendergastISBN 0670033480 (0-670-03348-0)
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Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunalsby Gary Jonathan BassISBN 0691092788 (0-691-09278-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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A Weekend With Wendellby Kevin HenkesISBN 0688140246 (0-688-14024-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Wemberly Worriedby Kevin HenkesISBN 0688170277 (0-688-17027-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wemberly Worried'Book summary:Wemberly the mouse worries about everything: big things, like whether her parents might disappear in the middle of the night; little things, like whether she'll spill grape juice on her toy rabbit, Petal; and things in between, like whether she might shrink in the bathtub. What she is more worried about than anything else, however, is her first day at the New Morning Nursery School: "What if no one else has spots? What if no one else wears stripes? What if no one else brings a doll? What if the teacher is mean? What if the room smells bad?" Happily, Miss Peachum introduces her to a kindred spirit right away. Jewel doesn't have spots, but she is wearing stripes and holding a doll. As Wemberly plays with her new friend, she still worries, but no more than usual. ("And sometimes even less.")
Kevin Henkes, well-loved creator of the award-winning Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, gets to the heart of a child's feelings like no one else can. Young worrywarts (and their parents) will see themselves in Wemberly, and be relieved that she, too, worries about playground equipment ("Too rusty. Too loose. Too high."), sure-to-be-inhabited cracks in the wall, whether she will be the only butterfly in the Halloween parade, and, of course, whether school will be dreadful in every way. Henkes's Lilly-style illustrations are sweet, expressive, and loaded with funny, inventive details that invite close perusal with every reading. (Wemberly's roller-blading grandma, for example, is wearing a T-shirt that says "Go with the flow.") We're not worried about whether this book will become a classic--it will! (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Within a Budding Groveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 067960006X (0-679-60006-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Within a Budding Grove'Book summary:First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swanns Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swanns daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attentionAlbertine, a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of Within a Budding Grove:
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