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1632by Eric FlintISBN 0671319728 (0-671-31972-8)
Softcover, Baen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: '1632'Book summary:1632 is an alternate history written by Eric Flint, the author of Mother of Demons, which was selected by Science Fiction Chronicle as one of the best novels of 1997. Flint is also the co-author, with David Drake, of the acclaimed Belisarius series: An Oblique Approach, In the Heart of Darkness, Destiny's Shield and Fortune's Stroke (forthcoming in June, 2000). The bestselling SF author David Weber says of Destiny's Shield: "It isn't often you come across a book or series you recommend to everyone. This one is an exception. But all three books. Read them. Now!" [via]
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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glassby Lewis CarrollISBN 0671437887 (0-671-43788-7)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0679417958 (0-679-41795-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Batmanby Greg RuckaISBN 0671774557 (0-671-77455-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Batman'Book summary:Fans of Batman are lucky to get Greg Rucka--the talented, gritty young author of Keeper and Finder, among others--sharing time with their favorite licensed character in this novelization of DC's complete No Man's Land comic series. (And fans of Rucka--assuming they get around to reading this at all--will still likely hold the opinion that Atticus Kodiak could take Batman in a standup fight any day.)
DC shook up Gotham--literally--in its 1999 Batman plot arc: a 7.6 earthquake rocked Gotham City, wreaking enough destruction to bring the broken, crime-ridden, runt kid-brother of Metropolis and New York to its knees. In the story line's most indulgent liberty, those fat cats in Washington decide to write off Gotham, à la Escape from New York, blowing up the connecting bridges, mining the surrounding waterways, and signing into law the Federal Declaration of No Man's Land, which makes it a crime to even set foot in the city. The usual suspects from Arkham Asylum, Two-Face and the Penguin, the Riddler and Dr. Freeze, Poison Ivy and Mr. Zsasz, file out to begin running the show, strong-arming and manipulating the block-by-block turf battles that envelop the now-ultraviolent city. A conflicted Batman shows up fashionably late, only to find that these lunatics are the least of his worries: Lex Luthor, Superman's archfoe, has nefarious designs on Gotham too. Could this possibly get any better? Sure, No Man's Land is derivative fiction, but the appeal of Rucka--and, of course, Batman--can make this one worth the read. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beastby Robin McKinleyISBN 0671604341 (0-671-60434-1)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Big over Easyby Jasper FfordeISBN 0670034231 (0-670-03423-1)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Big over Easy'Book summary:Its Easter in Readinga bad time for eggsand no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. All the evidence points to his ex-wife, who has conveniently shot herself.
But Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary remain unconvinced, a sentiment not shared with their superiors at the Reading Police Department, who are still smarting over their failure to convict the Three Pigs of murdering Mr. Wolff. Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum, and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody.
And on top of all that, the JellyMan is coming to town . . . [via]
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The Blue Girlby Charles De LintISBN 0670059242 (0-670-05924-2)
Hardcover, Viking Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Girl'Book summary:Imogene Yeck, former gang member and current fairy butt-kicker, is the cool "blue girl" at the center of Charles de Lint's latest urban fantasy novel. Seventeen-year-old Imogene jumps at the chance to lose her bad girl reputation when her family moves to a new town. She purposely lays low at Redding High, only making friends with Maxine, a shy, studious girl who is Imogene's opposite in every way. Despite a few run-ins with the ruling football jock and his cheerleader girlfriend, Imogene keeps her temper in check and even lends some of her bravado to Maxine, who begins to come out of her straight-A shell. Things are going well for the new friends--until the day Imogene meets Adrian, the benign ghost of a boy who died in the school's parking lot. Adrian and Imogene's unusual connection attracts the unwelcome attention of Redding High's resident Little People, or fairies. Affronted by streetwise Imogene's lack of belief in them, the fairies set into motion a malevolent prank that will not only turn Imogene completely blue from head to toe, but pit her, Adrian and Maxine against some of the most frightening beings of the Otherworld--the soul-sucking Anamithims. de Lint's Blue Girl reads like a really well-executed episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer--smart and thought provoking, without taking itself too seriously. Although the action builds slowly, the final scene, involving a bucket of blue paint, a knife fight, and green monster blood, is absolutely worth it. Buffy fans who enjoy meeting Imogene and Co. will also want to check out Holly Black's dark fairy tale, Tithe, and Nina Kiriki Hoffman's modern ghost story, A Stir of Bones --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Bram Stoker's Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0671009877 (0-671-00987-7)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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Certain Slant of Lightby Laura WhitcombISBN 061858532X (0-618-58532-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Certain Slant of Light'Book summary:In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking at her. They belong to a boy, a boy who has not seemed remarkable until now. And Helenterrified, but intriguedis drawn to him. The fact that he is in a body and she is not presents this unlikely couple with their first challenge. But as the lovers struggle to find a way to be together, they begin to discover the secrets of their former lives and of the young people they come to possess.[via]More editions of Certain Slant of Light:
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Child of the Northern Springby Persia WoolleyISBN 0671621998 (0-671-62199-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Child of the Northern Spring'Book summary:In the tradition of The Once and Future King and Mists of Avalon, Persia Woolley has created a rich, highly readable, startlingly original r ecreation of the tale of Arthur--seen from Guinevere's point of view. [via]
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Cordelia's Honorby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0671578286 (0-671-57828-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cordelia's Honor'Book summary:Sick of combat, Cordelia Naismith is ready to settle down to a quiet life. But when the Emperor dies, Aral become guardian of the infant heir to the throne of Barrayar. Cordelia soon finds herself allied with Aral to keep the child safe from high-tech assassins engaged in a dynastic civil war fought with biowar technology. [via]
The Deed of Paksenarrionby Elizabeth MoonISBN 0671721046 (0-671-72104-6)
Softcover, Baen Books
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Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien Myth and Modernityby Patrick CurryISBN 061847885X (0-618-47885-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Eagles' Broodby Jack WhyteISBN 0670845213 (0-670-84521-3)
Hardcover, Viking
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The Eyes of the Dragonby Stephen King, David PalladiniISBN 067081458X (0-670-81458-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eyes of the Dragon'Book summary:A kingdom is in turmoil as the old king dies and his successor must do battle for the throne. Pitted against an evil wizard and a would-be rival, Prince Peter makes a daring escape and rallies the forces of Good to fight for what is rightfully his. This is a masterpiece of classic dragons-and-magic fantasy that only Stephen King could have written! [via]
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Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Arthur RackhamISBN 0679417966 (0-679-41796-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'Book summary:Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Snow White are among the jewels we owe to the German brothers Grimm, who began in the first decade of the 19th century to seek out and listen to village storytellers. The best-loved of the tales they discovered are now brought together with the marvelous pictures that in 1900 first established the reputation of one of the greatest children's illustrators of all time, Arthur Rackham. [via]
Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Kay Rasmus NielsenISBN 0670305650 (0-670-30565-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Fire Roseby Mercedes LackeyISBN 067187750X (0-671-87750-X)
Softcover, Baen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fire Rose'Book summary:San Francisco, 1905: Rosalind, a medieval scholar, is hired by Jason, a powerful sorcerer. Jason's enemy offers to restore Rosalind's family fortune if she will betray Jason. And then the earthquake strikes. . . . [via]
Forest Houseby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0670844543 (0-670-84454-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crimeby Jasper FfordeISBN 0670037729 (0-670-03772-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles RobinsonISBN 0679423095 (0-679-42309-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:A simplified retelling of ten-year-old Mary coming to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovering an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Shirley Hughes, Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0670825719 (0-670-82571-9)
Hardcover, Kestrel Pr
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Anne K. Mellor, Teresa ReyesISBN 0671531506 (0-671-53150-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 0679409998 (0-679-40999-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 0670878014 (0-670-87801-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Frankenstein: ISBN 0671804138 (0-671-80413-8)
Softcover, Pocket Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 0670878006 (0-670-87800-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Frankenstein: ISBN 0671531506 (0-671-53150-6)
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 0679409998 (0-679-40999-8)
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0672514575 (0-672-51457-5)
Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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- Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0679427899 (0-679-42789-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Frankenstein : Or, the Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0679600590 (0-679-60059-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0672514575 (0-672-51457-5)
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- Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: ISBN 0679427899 (0-679-42789-9)
George Orwell's 1984by Ralph A. RanaldISBN 067100719X (0-671-00719-X)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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Ghosts I Have Beenby Richard PeckISBN 0670338133 (0-670-33813-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-Earthby Ralph C. WoodISBN 0664226108 (0-664-22610-8)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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The Green Fairy Bookby Antony Maitland, Brian Alderson, Andrew LangISBN 0670354201 (0-670-35420-1)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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The Green Mileby Stephen KingISBN 0671041789 (0-671-04178-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Mile'Book summary:Read this history-making serial novel -- from cliffhanger to cliffhanger -- in its entirety. When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller list -- simultaneously -- and delighted millions of fans the world over. Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs...and yours. [via]
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The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novelby Stephen KingISBN 0671032658 (0-671-03265-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel'Book summary:This novel taps into what Stephen King does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The charming narrator is an old man looking back on the events, decades later. Maybe it's a little too cute, maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. As Time magazine put it, "Like the best popular art, The Green Mile has the courage of its cornier convictions ... the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel work as well as it finally does." And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome can be easily skipped by the squeamish. The Green Mile was nominated for a 1997 Bram Stoker Award. [via]
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Arthur RackhamISBN 0670355321 (0-670-35532-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:Twenty tales collected from German folklore and immortalized by the brothers Grimm. [via]
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If I Pay Thee Not in Goldby Piers Anthony, Mercedes LackeyISBN 0671876236 (0-671-87623-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If I Pay Thee Not in Gold'Book summary:Join fantasy superstars Piers Anthony and Mercedes Lackey in a marvelous adult fantasy that examines the war between the sexes and the ethics of desire. In the Age of the Mazonians, women rule through magic--and men suffer what they must. When Xylina sympathizes with the men, she is ordered by the Queen to publicly conquer the most glorious male in the land. [via]
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In the Shadow of the Oak Kingby Courtway JonesISBN 0671734040 (0-671-73404-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Insomniaby Stephen KingISBN 0670855030 (0-670-85503-0)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Insomnia'Book summary:INSOMNIA - 1994 1st EDITION HARDBACK WITH DUST JACKET LIKE NEW, INSCRIPTION ONLY NOTICABLE MARK. 1994 STEPHEN KING, PUBLISHED VIKING PENGUIN INC. 'S' IN" STEPHEN KING" ON SPINE IS NOT PERFECT. RARE VARIATION. [via]
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Lady of Avalonby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0670857831 (0-670-85783-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Last Light Of The Sunby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0670043192 (0-670-04319-2)
Hardcover, Viking Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Light Of The Sun'Book summary:In the often formulaic world of fantasy fiction, Guy Gavriel Kay stands out as an innovative and challenging writer. He not only pushes the genre's limits with his unique blend of high fantasy and historical fiction, he also expands his own boundaries as a writer by constantly exploring new directions. The Last Light of the Sun is no exception, as Kay leaves the courtly world of his recent novels for a harsh northern land populated with marauding sea raiders, grim kings struggling to establish some semblance of civilization, and a slowly dying faerie world. The Last Light of the Sun invokes the Britain of the Old English sagas, in which community is built upon honour and loyalty, and the end of the world is always but a battle away.
The book follows a large cast of characters from three different societies: the Viking stand-in Erlings, the Celtic Cyngael, and the Anglo Saxon-like Anglcyn. The three groups clash repeatedly and become more closely intertwined in each meeting, as characters fight, fall in love, and die, and complex family stories and quests are played out across generations and different landscapes. What makes the book truly remarkable is Kay's honest, unsentimental storytelling style. The characters in The Last Light of the Sun are real people, not stock fantasy characters, and the plot often takes unexpected, unconventional twists, resulting in a chain of events that more closely resembles real history than romantic tales. The Last Light of the Sun is one of Kay's bleaker works, largely because it's also one of his most real. But it is still an epic tale, and like the best epics it depicts not only heroes and mighty battles but also patterns of loss and change. It is a world upon which the sun is truly setting, but it is also a world about to be reborn into a new era, and Kay tells its story like the best bards of old. --Peter Darbyshire [via]
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Le Morte D'Arthurby Thomas MaloryISBN 067960099X (0-679-60099-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Morte D'Arthur'Book summary:The legends of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table have inspired some of the greatest works of literature--from Cervantes's Don Quixote to Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Although many versions exist, Malory's stands as the classic rendition. Malory wrote the book while in Newgate Prison during the last three years of his life; it was published some fourteen years later, in 1485, by William Caxton. The tales, steeped in the magic of Merlin, the powerful cords of the chivalric code, and the age-old dramas of love and death, resound across the centuries.
The stories of King Arthur, Lancelot, Queen Guenever, and Tristram and Isolde seem astonishingly moving and modern. Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur endures and inspires because it embodies mankind's deepest yearnings for brotherhood and community, a love worth dying for, and valor, honor, and chivalry.
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Life of Piby Yann MartelISBN 0676978991 (0-676-97899-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life of Pi'Book summary:Serious novels about young boys being drawn closer to God while trapped on lifeboats with dangerous wild animals ought to be impossible. Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, proves they're not. Its plot stretches the limits of credibility into new and exciting shapes, and the fact that Martel has made his materials into an enchanting story is almost unbelievable. Martel's Pi is Piscine Molitor Patel, a boy from Pondicherry, one of the few Indian towns to be colonized by France. Pi is an intelligent, unusual child: he has a scientific turn of mind but is also a practising Hindu, Moslem, and Christian. Pi's family runs a large zoo, but they decide to sell their animals to zoos in the United States and emigrate to Canada. Crossing the Pacific (with their animals), they're shipwrecked halfway between China and Midway. Pi survives, only to find himself sharing a lifeboat with an injured zebra, a spotted hyena, an orangutan, and Richard Parker--an immense Bengal tiger.
Most of these animals are doomed, but Pi and Richard Parker cling to life, establishing a tacit order on the lifeboat. Martel handles this part of the story perfectly: one would expect Life of Pi to become cute, or perhaps preachy, but it is neither. Life on the boat proceeds in strict accordance with the rules of ecology and territorialism, and the interdependence of the passengers is both believable and absorbing. Life of Pi is a superb novel, both for its story and for its rich examinations of religion, isolation, and love. If this is an indication of what is to come, we can expect great things from Yann Martel. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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Life, the Universe and Everythingby Douglas AdamsISBN 0671739670 (0-671-73967-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life, the Universe and Everything'Book summary:Arthur Dent now finds himself living in a miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. Just as he thinks things could not possibly get any worse--they do. Third in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. 4 cassettes. [via]
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soulby Douglas AdamsISBN 0671742515 (0-671-74251-5)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Lord of Emperorsby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0670880922 (0-670-88092-2)
Hardcover, Viking
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The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companionby Wayne G. Hammond, Christina ScullISBN 0618642676 (0-618-64267-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion'Book summary:In The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion internationally acclaimed scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull examine Tolkien's masterpiece chapter by chapter, offering expert insights into its evolution, structure, and meaning. They discuss in close detail important literary and historical influences on the development of The Lord of the Rings, connections between that work and other writings by Tolkien, errors and inconsistencies, significant changes to the text during its fifty years of publication, archaic and unusual words used by Tolkien, and words and passages in his invented languages of Middle-earth. Thousands of notes, keyed to standard editions of The Lord of the Rings but universally accessible, reveal the richness and complexity of one of the most popular works of fiction in our time. In addition to their own expertise and that of other scholars and critics, Hammond and Scull frequently draw upon comments by Tolkien himself, made in letters to family, friends, and enthusiasts, in draft texts of The Lord of the Rings, and in works written in later years which amplify or illuminate characters and events in the story. Extensive reference is made also to writings by Tolkien not previously or widely published, including elaborate time-schemes, an unfinished manuscript index to The Lord of the Rings, and most notably, the important Nomenclature or guide to names in The Lord of the Rings prepared for the use of translators, long out of print and now newly transcribed and printed in its entirety. With these resources at hand, even the most seasoned reader of The Lord of the Rings will come to a greater enjoyment and appreciation of Tolkien's magnificent achievement.[via]More editions of The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion:
The Lord of the Rings Sketchbookby Alan LeeISBN 0618640142 (0-618-64014-2)
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722794 (0-671-72279-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'Book summary:Shakespeare's classic story. [via]
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A Midsummer Nights Dreamby Barbara A. Mowat, Paul WerstineISBN 0671042904 (0-671-04290-4)
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0679417397 (0-679-41739-7)
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Nineteen Eighty-Four revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth centurys greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. In Winston Smiths desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universal predicament of the individual. [via]More editions of Nineteen Eighty-Four:
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No Man's Landby Greg RuckaISBN 0671038281 (0-671-03828-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Man's Land'Book summary:Fans of Batman are lucky to get Greg Rucka--the talented, gritty young author of Keeper and Finder, among others--sharing time with their favorite licensed character in this novelization of DC's complete No Man's Land comic series. (And fans of Rucka--assuming they get around to reading this at all--will still likely hold the opinion that Atticus Kodiak could take Batman in a standup fight any day.)
DC shook up Gotham--literally--in its 1999 Batman plot arc: a 7.6 earthquake rocked Gotham City, wreaking enough destruction to bring the broken, crime-ridden, runt kid-brother of Metropolis and New York to its knees. In the story line's most indulgent liberty, those fat cats in Washington decide to write off Gotham, à la Escape from New York, blowing up the connecting bridges, mining the surrounding waterways, and signing into law the Federal Declaration of No Man's Land, which makes it a crime to even set foot in the city. The usual suspects from Arkham Asylum, Two-Face and the Penguin, the Riddler and Dr. Freeze, Poison Ivy and Mr. Zsasz, file out to begin running the show, strong-arming and manipulating the block-by-block turf battles that envelop the now-ultraviolent city. A conflicted Batman shows up fashionably late, only to find that these lunatics are the least of his worries: Lex Luthor, Superman's archfoe, has nefarious designs on Gotham too. Could this possibly get any better? Sure, No Man's Land is derivative fiction, but the appeal of Rucka--and, of course, Batman--can make this one worth the read. --Paul Hughes [via]
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One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0679444653 (0-679-44465-3)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'Book summary:"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Prestigeby Christopher PriestISBN 0671719246 (0-671-71924-6)
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The Princess and the Goblinby George MacDonaldISBN 0679428100 (0-679-42810-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess and the Goblin'Book summary:As always with George MacDonald, everything here is more than meets the eye: this in fact is MacDonald's grace-filled vision of the world. Said to be one of J.R.R. Tolkien's childhood favorites, The Princess and the Goblin is the story of the young Princess Irene, her good friend Curdie--a minor's son--and Irene's mysterious and beautiful great great grandmother, who lives in a secret room at the top of the castle stairs. Filled with images of dungeons and goblins, mysterious fires, burning roses, and a thread so fine as to be invisible and yet--like prayer--strong enough to lead the Princess back home to her grandmother's arms, this is a story of Curdie's slow realization that sometimes, as the princess tells him, "you must believe without seeing." Simple enough for reading aloud to a child (as I've done myself more than once with my daughter), it's rich enough to repay endless delighted readings for the adult. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Restaurant at the End of the Universeby Douglas AdamsISBN 0671701606 (0-671-70160-6)
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Riddley Walkerby Russell HobanISBN 0671526944 (0-671-52694-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Riddley Walker'Book summary:'Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.' Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece. [via]
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Saxon Shore: The Camulod Chroniclesby Jack WhyteISBN 0670845221 (0-670-84522-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saxon Shore: The Camulod Chronicles'Book summary:The story of The Saxon Shore, the fourth novel in Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, is largely that of Merlyn, who continues his struggle to preserve the refuge of Camulod and protect the infant king, Arthur. Merlyn, in Whyte's version, is a fascinating mix of pragmatism and naïveté, blending the observational skills of Sherlock Holmes with the oratorical gifts of Marc Antony. Because he thinks a bit more deeply than most around him, thinking things through and staying a step ahead, it's easy to see how he gains a bit of a reputation as a magician. He also has his failings, most particularly an over-confidence that leads him to believe he is just as right about matters he is ignorant of (such as leprosy) as he is about things he actually understands. It's also interesting to note that Merlyn's failings are in many ways the failings of his community. Preserving Roman ways has meant preserving Roman attitudes toward outsiders and barbarians, and on a trip to Eire and a later journey through the south of Britain, Merlyn learns just how out of touch Camulod has become with its new neighbours.
Thus the story leads us inexorably to a new generation that knows little or nothing of Roman culture. In this way, The Saxon Shore continues with the same strength as preceding volumes. Jack Whyte's most splendid achievement is the creation of an historical period so well grounded in fact that the legend becomes real and Arthur lives again. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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Shardikby Richard AdamsISBN 0671220152 (0-671-22015-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shardik'Book summary:A reissue of a classic fantasy work by acclaimed author Richard Adams Shardik is a fantasy of tragic character, centred on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the half-barbaric Ortelgan people. A gripping tale of war, adventure, horror and romance, Shardik, on a deeper level, is a remarkable exploration of mankind's universal desire for divine incarnation. [via]
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The Sorcererby Jack WhyteISBN 0670867632 (0-670-86763-2)
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The Spirit Ringby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0671578707 (0-671-57870-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spirit Ring'Book summary:When her father's patron is murdered, Fiametta and her father--a noted creator of enchanted objects--go on the lam, and she gets a chance to test her magical powers. Reprint. PW. [via]
Swan Songby Robert R. McCammonISBN 0671741039 (0-671-74103-9)
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Tolkien And The Great War: The Threshold Of Middle-earthby John GarthISBN 0618574816 (0-618-57481-6)
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Treasure Islandby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0670869201 (0-670-86920-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Treasure Island'Book summary:Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Troilus and Cressidaby William ShakespeareISBN 0671669168 (0-671-66916-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Troilus and Cressida'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most notoriously difficult and cynical plays, labelled a "Problem Comedy", Troilus and Cressida has perplexed critics and theatre directors, and after Shakespeare's lifetime it was not performed again until 1907. In many ways the play's difficulty is a surprise; the story of Troilus and Cressida was a popular theme, drawn from Homer's Iliad and Chaucer's own Troilus and Criseyde, as was its classical setting, the Greek siege of Troy, led by Agamemnon, Achilles, Ajax, Diomedes and Ulysses.
Within the walls of Troy, Prince Troilus falls madly in love with Cressida, daughter of the deserter Calchas. His love is intense and frenetic--"I am giddy, expectation whirls round me," but turns to bitter disillusion when Cressida defects to the Greek camp and flirts with Diomedes. As the war and conflict over the abduction of Helen whirls around the doomed romance, the play delights in its complex syntax and cynical images of waste, decay, corruption and mutability, summed up in Ulysses' comment that, "Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all / To envious and calumniating time." The play's cynical open-ended quality has frustrated many readers, but gives the play a remarkably modern, contemporary sensibility. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Understanding The Lord Of The Rings: The Best Of Tolkien Criticismby Neil D. Isaacs, Neil David IsaacsISBN 0618422536 (0-618-42253-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding The Lord Of The Rings: The Best Of Tolkien Criticism'Book summary:Understanding The Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism is the definitive collection of essays on Tolkien's masterpiece. The essays span fifty years of critical reaction, from the first publication of The Fellowship of the Ring through the release of Peter Jackson's film trilogy, which inspired a new generation of readers to discover the classic work and prior generations to rediscover its power and beauty.[via]
Fans and scholars alike will appreciate these important, insightful, and timely pieces. Fourteen of the fifteen have been previously published but are gathered here for the first time. The final essay in the volume, "The Road Back to Middle-earth" by Tom Shippey, was commissioned especially for this collection. Shippey examines how Peter Jackson translated the text into film drama, shaping the story to fit the understanding of a modern audience without compromising its deep philosophical core.More editions of Understanding The Lord Of The Rings: The Best Of Tolkien Criticism:
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Usher's Passingby Robert R. McCammon, Sally PetersISBN 0671769928 (0-671-76992-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Usher's Passing'Book summary:In this most gothic of Robert McCammon's novels, setting is key: the continuing saga of the Usher family (descended from the brother of Roderick and Madeline of Edgar Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher") takes place in the weird and picturesque heart of the North Carolina mountains. The haughty, aristocratic Ushers live in a mansion near Asheville; the poor but crafty mountain folk (whose families are just as ancient) live on Briartop Mountain nearby. At harvest time, when the book's action unfolds, the mountains are a blaze of color. Add to the mixture a sinister history of mountain kids disappearing every year, a journalist investigating those disappearances, a monster called "The Pumpkin Man," moldy books and paintings in a huge old library at the Usher estate, and a secret chamber with a strange device involving a brass pendulum and tuning forks--and you've got a splendid recipe for atmospheric horror. [via]
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Werehunterby Mercedes LackeyISBN 0671578057 (0-671-57805-7)
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Winter's Taleby Mark Helprin, Jane RosenmanISBN 0671727079 (0-671-72707-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winter's Tale'Book summary:Surreal, dazzling, fantastic in every sense of the word, this "great gift in an hour of great need" (The New York Times Book Review) depicts a time of love and laughter with master thief Peter Lake and his flying horse. Helprin is the author of A Soldier of the Great War. [via]
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0671083171 (0-671-08317-1)
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The Wolf's Hourby Robert R. McCammonISBN 0671664859 (0-671-66485-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wolf's Hour'Book summary:On the eve of D-Day, a British secret agent with unique powers goes behind Nazi linesMichael Gallatin is a British spy with a peculiar talent: the ability to transform himself into a wolf. Although his work in North Africa helped the Allies win the continent in the early days of World War II, he quit the service when a German spy shot his lover in her bed. Now, three years later, the army asks him to end his retirement and parachute into occupied Paris. A mysterious German plan called the Iron Fist threatens the D-Day invasion, and the Nazi in charge is the spy who betrayed Michaels lover. The werewolf goes to France for king and country, hoping for a chance at bloody vengeance.[via] -
The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. DenslowISBN 067941794X (0-679-41794-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Yellow Fairy Bookby Erik Blegvad, Brian Alderson, Andrew LangISBN 067079385X (0-670-79385-X)
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