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Academ's Furyby Jim ButcherISBN 0441013406 (0-441-01340-6)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Academ's Fury'Book summary:In Furies of Calderon, bestselling author Jim Butcher introduced readers to a world where the forces of nature take physical form. But now, it's human nature that threatens to throw the realm into chaos. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Susan K. Harris, Lyrae Vanclief-StefanonISBN 039598078X (0-395-98078-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Ratby Harry HarrisonISBN 0441004229 (0-441-00422-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Airportby Arthur HaileyISBN 0425176088 (0-425-17608-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Airport'Book summary:In a raging blizzard, a stricken aeroplane is struggling against all odds to reach its destination. For seven suspense-filled hours a blocked runway, a suicide, a mass demonstration, a stowaway, a pregnancy and a psychotic with a home-made bomb, bring the plot to a shattering conclusion. [via]
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The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1by J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 0395409276 (0-395-40927-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1'Book summary:The Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Tolkien, begun in 1916, when he was twenty-five years old, and left incomplete several years later. It stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor, for the Lost Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Embedded in English legend and association, they are set in the narrative frame of the great westward voyage of a mariner named Eriel (or AElfwine). His destination is Tol Eressea, the Lonely Isle where Elves dwell; from them he learns their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. The Tales include the earliest accounts of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs, and Orcs; of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor; of Nargothrond and Gondolin; of the geography and cosmography of their invented world.[via]
The Book of Lost Tales is published in two volumes. The first contains the Tales of Valinor; and this second past includes Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, and the only full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin. Each tale is followed by a commentary, together with associated poems, and each volume contains extensive information on names and vocabulary of the earliest Elvish languages. Additional books in this series will extend the history of Middle-earth as it was refined and enlarged in later years and will include the long Lays of Beleriand, the Ambarkanta or Shape of the World, the Lhammas or Account of Tongues, annals, maps, and many other previously unpublished writings of J.R.R. Tolkien.More editions of The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1:
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Breakfast of Championsby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440131480 (0-440-13148-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast of Champions'Book summary:"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
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Callahan's Ladyby Spider RobinsonISBN 0441090729 (0-441-09072-9)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Callahan's Lady'Book summary:A HOUSE OF "HEALTHY" REPUTE...
Welcome to Lady Sally's, the House that "is" a home -- the internationally (hell, interplanetarily) notorious bordello. At Lady Sally's House, the customer doesn't necessarily come first: even the staff are genuinely enjoying themselves.
Wife of time traveling bartender Mike Callahan, and employer of some of the most unusual and talented performing artists ever to work in the field of hedonic interface, Her Ladyship has designed her House to be an "equal opportunity enjoyer," discreetly, tastefully and joyfully catering to all erotic tastes and fantasies, however unusual. Like her famous husband, Lady Sally doesn't even insist that her customers be "human."..as long as they have good manners.
Small wonder, then, that she and her staff encounter beings as unique and memorable as the superhuman Colt, whose banner never, ever flags...Diana, the deadly dominatrix who "cannot" be disobeyed...Tony Donuts, the moronic man-monster even the Mafia doesn't want to mess with...or Charles, the werewolf with a distinct difference... [via]
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Cerulean Sinsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0425188361 (0-425-18836-1)
Hardcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cerulean Sins'Book summary:Laurell K. Hamilton's legions of eager fans will be pleased to see Cerulean Sins, the eleventh novel in her Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, which is set on an alternate Earth where magic works and vampires and werewolves are real. When a sinister stranger tries to hire the magically potent Anita Blake to raise the dead, she finds herself embroiled in the search for a vicious, supernatural serial killer, and also in the clandestine international politics of the vampires. And as she becomes more deeply enmeshed in cruel plots and counterplots, her tangled personal life only becomes more demanding, more wrenching, and more erotically fraught.
With ten previous books in the Anita Blake series, Cerulean Sins is not the place to start. Though author Hamilton artfully reveals the backstory in small doses, the numerous returning characters and the complex history will overwhelm most newcomers (and even the most devoted fans may find that the backfilling slows the pace). Also, the characters frequently stand around talking and psychoanalyzing one another, which makes for static stretches unlikely to hold a new reader's attention. Newcomers should start with the first book, Guilty Pleasures. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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The Chantry Guildby Gordon R. DicksonISBN 044110276X (0-441-10276-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chantry Guild'Book summary:Hal Mayne is lured away from important research aboard the Final Encyclopedia by the shattering news of the Younger Worlds' oncoming defeat--an inevitable triumph for the cross-cultural hybrids known as the Others. And on the planet Kultis, Hall will meet his ultimate challenge--and enter a battle that will alter mankind's destiny forever. Original. [via]
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Children of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0441104029 (0-441-10402-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children of Dune'Book summary:[via]The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! In this third installment, the sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy. Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides's twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions--but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens...More editions of Children of Dune:
Codgerspaceby Alan Dean FosterISBN 0441718515 (0-441-71851-5)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Complete Illustrated Shakespeareby John GilbertISBN 0405124104 (0-405-12410-4)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Damiaby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441135560 (0-441-13556-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Damia'Book summary:In the sequel to The Rowan, Damia and Afra must find a way to save their planet when Deneb's early-warning system detects an incoming alien armada. 100,000 first printing. $90,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Damia's Childrenby Anne McCaffreyISBN 044100007X (0-441-00007-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Damia's Children'Book summary:Although damia had used her inherited psychic talent to deflect most of the alien invasion on the human worlds, she did not exterminate the enemies, leaving her children to confront the danger in an intense final battle of powers. 100,000 first printing. $80,000 ad/promo [via]
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Danse Macabreby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0425207978 (0-425-20797-8)
Hardcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danse Macabre'Book summary:Fans have been waiting to sink their fangs into an all-new Anita Blake hardcover in the New York Times bestselling series.
These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely, he knows perfectly well that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner, is no way to bring up a baby. [via]More editions of Danse Macabre:
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Dead As A Doornailby Charlaine HarrisISBN 0441013333 (0-441-01333-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead as a Doornail'Book summary:[via]When Sookie's brother Jason's eyes start to change, she knows he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population-and Jason's new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who's behind the attacks, unless the killer decides to find her first.
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Decameronby Giovanni BoccaccioISBN 0440318661 (0-440-31866-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Definitely Deadby Charlaine HarrisISBN 0441014917 (0-441-01491-7)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Definitely Dead'Book summary:[via]
As a person with so few living relatives, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse really hated to lose one. But she never guessed that it would be her cousin Hadleya consort of the Vampire Queen of New Orleans. After all, technically speaking, Hadley was already dead. And now, as unexpected heir to Hadleys estate, Sookie discovers the inheritance definitely comes with a risk.Someone doesnt want Sookie looking too deeply into Hadleys pastor for that matter, Hadleys possessions. And theyre prepared to do anything in their power to stop her. But who? The range of suspects runs from the Rogue Weres who reject Sookie as a friend of the Pack to the Vampire Queen herself, who could be working through a particularly vulnerable subjectSookies first love, Bill.
Whoever it is, theyre definitely dangerousand Sookies life is definitely on the line&
With HBO's launching of an all-new show, True Blood, based on the Southern Vampire novels, the demand for Charlaine Harris and Sookie Stackhouse is bigger than ever.
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Dune Messiahby Frank HerbertISBN 0441172695 (0-441-17269-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune Messiah'Book summary:mass market paperback book [via]
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Evidence of Personal Survival from Cross Correspondencesby Herbert Francis SaltmarshISBN 0405070497 (0-405-07049-7)
Hardcover, Arno Press
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Fellowship of the Ringby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395489318 (0-395-48931-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fellowship of the Ring'Book summary:Frodo Baggins knew the Ringwraiths were searching for him--and the Ring of Power he bore that would enable Sauran to destroy all that was good in Middle-earth. Now it was up to Frodo and his faithful servant Sam to carry the Ring to where it could be detroyed--in the very center of Sauron's dark kingdom. [via]
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The Final Encyclopediaby Gordon R. DicksonISBN 0441237770 (0-441-23777-0)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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First Lensmanby E. E. SmithISBN 0425071774 (0-425-07177-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Flight of the Eagle: A Documentary Novelby Olof SundmanISBN 0436505029 (0-436-50502-9)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Freedom's Challengeby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441006256 (0-441-00625-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom's Challenge'Book summary:Deportees from many worlds, the colonists of Freedom's Landing have made a new home for themselves on the planet where they were abandoned. Now they have the technology they need to go back to war with the deadly Eosi--with a surprise strike at enslaved planet Earth itself! Kris Bjornson has come a long way since the day alien slave ships scooped her up in Denver with thousands of others. Dropped on an apparently uninhabited world with the rest, she has fallen in love with Zainal, a renegade Cattani, and has worked for years to make this fertile planet, Botany, into a home. Now she has a house of sorts, a child she adores, and a respected place in the community. But she still feels a soldier's duty to escape and rejoin the struggle. The Eosi overlords have tight control of many worlds; as they continue to drop their captives on Botany, however, the original colonists learn that there are freedom fighters on every captured world. There are rebels even among the warlike Cattani, and Earth is full of pockets of resistance. Now that the settlers on Botany are well-fed, and have technology stolen from visiting Cattani warships, they might be able to help. The trip to Earth will be heartbreaking, they realize. All of Earth's major cities are in ruins. Humans with technical ability have been enslaved, or mind-wiped. Crops and animals have been herded into spaceships for the use of alien overlords, while Earth's people starve. But the colonists of Botany can load their stolen ship with grain and supplies to help the resistance fighters. Most important, they can bring hope: it is possible to fight back against the Eosi and their Cattani enforcers. Earth can again be free! [via]
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Freedom's Choiceby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441005314 (0-441-00531-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom's Choice'Book summary:A group of slaves, brought to an uninhabited planet by their catenni masters, who have taken over earth, must learn to survive in their new surroundings, but some struggle with calling their new planet home and consider a rebellion in order to return to their true home [via]
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Freedom's Landingby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441003389 (0-441-00338-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom's Landing'Book summary:Science fiction, english. Ace books, Chapter one. Kristin Bjornsen wondered if summer on the planet Barevi could possibly be the only season. [via]
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Freedom's Ransomby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441010202 (0-441-01020-2)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom's Ransom'Book summary:Freedom's Ransom is the fourth novel in Anne McCaffrey's Freedom series, also known as the Catteni Sequence. The sequel to Freedom's Landing, Freedom's Choice, and Freedom's Challenge, Freedom's Ransom will please some fans of this star-spanning science fiction series, but others will find the book slow-paced, talky, and lacking in action. Freedom's Ransom ends conclusively, with no major unresolved plot lines, yet leaves space for at least one sequel.
The planet Botany was settled by a mixed group of humans and aliens, slaves of the alien Catteni and their alien masters, the Eosi. But one Catteni was dropped on Botany with the slaves: Zainal, who helped them win their independence. Now Botany must establish trade with other planets in order to survive. But the other worlds have been ravaged by the Catteni, and once-proud Earth has been reduced to primitive poverty, its technology stolen by corrupt Barevi merchants. To save Botany, Zainal and Kris Bjornsen, his human lover, must find a way to help all the worlds.
While the preface of Freedom's Ransom crisply summarizes the preceding books, this series has so many characters, races, and planets that newcomers should start with the first book, Freedom's Landing. Sophisticated SF readers aren't likely to enjoy the series, but it should hook young adults; if you're looking to broaden a child's reading beyond Harry Potter, try Anne McCaffrey's Freedom series and Dragonriders of Pern series. --Cynthia Ward [via]
The Harlequinby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0425217248 (0-425-21724-8)
Hardcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Heretics Of Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 0441328008 (0-441-32800-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heretics Of Dune'Book summary:Thousands of years after the death of God Emperor Leto II, the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleilax struggle to direct the future of Dune, now called Rakis. Book available. [via]
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Heretics of Dune/300842by Frank HerbertISBN 0425076695 (0-425-07669-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heretics of Dune/300842'Book summary:With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. In this, the fifth and most spectacular Dune book of all, the planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love... [via]
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The Hobbitby J.R.R. Tolkien, Michael HagueISBN 0395520215 (0-395-52021-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit'Book summary:"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."
The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, "looking for someone to share in an adventure," Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit's doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure.
The dwarves' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, would eventually spring. Though The Hobbit is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don't be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader. --Alix Wilber [via]
Hotelby Arthur HaileyISBN 0425176363 (0-425-17636-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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I, Claudiusby Robert GravesISBN 0413370704 (0-413-37070-4)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen
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Incubus Dreamsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0425198243 (0-425-19824-3)
Hardcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incubus Dreams'Book summary:As Incubus Dreams opens, Anita Blake may be America's most powerful vampire hunter and necromancer. So it's no surprise that the Regional Preternatural Crime Investigation Team seeks her assistance when a St. Louis stripper is murdered and the evidence points to unusual serial killers: a group of seven vampires. It appears a master vampire has gone rogue--and may prove too powerful for Anita Blake, even if she can gain help from not only her vampire consort, Master of the City Jean-Claude, but from the wereleopard king Micah, her other lover, and the alpha werewolf Richard, her bitter ex-lover.
It would be an exaggeration to say that Laurell K. Hamilton's Incubus Dreams (2004) is just one sex scene after another. This twelth novel in her bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series presents a wedding, a murder, and a lot of relationship angst before getting down and dirty on page 89; and the sex scenes pause on page 377 to let the mystery plot resume. The series deftly blends elements of alternate history, horror, romance, erotica, and mystery, but anyone reading Incubus Dreams for the murder plot is going to be frustrated. However, Incubus Dreams is a considerably stronger and more interesting book than its talky predecessor, Cerulean Sins, and fans will enjoy the many new developments in Anita's complicated love life. --Cynthia Ward
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J.R.R. Tolkien: The Authorized Biographyby Humphrey CarpenterISBN 0395486769 (0-395-48676-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.R.R. Tolkien: The Authorized Biography'Book summary:One day while grading papers, J.R.R. Tolkien inexplicably wrote "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" in the margin - thereby setting out on the path that would bring him fame, fortune, and the devotion of millions. A veteran of the Battle of the Somme, he was a close friend of C. S. Lewis and an editor of the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY before becoming the Merton Professor of English at Oxford. [via]
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Lyon's Prideby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441001416 (0-441-00141-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lyon's Pride'Book summary:Rowan, her daughter and son-in-law, Damia and Afra, and their children must use their extraordinary telepathic abilities to battle the alien Hivers in outer space. [via]
The Moneychangersby Arthur HaileyISBN 0425182177 (0-425-18217-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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My Utmost for His Highestby Oswald ChambersISBN 0396002412 (0-396-00241-2)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Utmost for His Highest'Book summary:Oswald Chambers, a Scotsman who converted to Christianity in his teens under the ministry of Charles Spurgeon, has been affecting Christians with his devotional words since My Utmost for His Highest was first published in 1935. This acknowledged classic contains 365 daily readings that take heady doctrine and make it practical, realistic, and intensely personal. With humor and humility, Chambers speaks plainly to the common man struggling with devotion to Christ in daily living. Worldly cares and self-serving desires begin to lose their appeal as Chambers aides the reader in transforming his mind by viewing life through the instruction of God's Word. Richard Halverson, former chaplain of the United States Senate, attests to this: "no book except the Bible has influenced my walk with Christ at such deep maturing levels." This is Chambers's chief desire, directing the reader to "shut out every other consideration and keep yourself before God for this one thing only--My Utmost for His Highest... determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and for Him alone." --Jill Heatherly [via]
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Myth Alliancesby Jody Lynn Nye, Robert AsprinISBN 0441011829 (0-441-01182-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Myth Alliances'Book summary:[via]When the sheepish Wuhses are taken advantage of by the overbearing Pervects, Skeeve teams up with Zol Icty--self-help expert and bestselling author of Imps Are from Imper, Deveels Are from Deva--on a mythion in personal empowerment.
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Narcissus in Chainsby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0425181685 (0-425-18168-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narcissus in Chains'Book summary:"I've never read a writer with a more fertile imagination - and fewer inhibitions about using it." (Diana Gabaldon)
Six months of celibacy have made Anita crave the two men in her life like never before. But merging their powers together will give this mortal woman a taste of immortal hunger that she'll never be able to forget... [via]More editions of Narcissus in Chains:
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Obsidian Butterflyby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0441007813 (0-441-00781-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Obsidian Butterfly'Book summary:Anita Blake, the tough, sexy vampire executioner, zombie animator, and police consultant for preternatural crimes in St. Louis, hunts monsters in New Mexico in the ninth book of Laurell K. Hamilton's excellent series. Edward, Anita's mentor in slaying, asks Anita to return the favor that she has owed him since she killed a backup he brought in to protect her. He needs Anita's preternatural expertise as well as her firepower. Something is skinning and mutilating a few of its chosen victims, and dismembering others. Edward has no idea what creature could be responsible for such heinous crimes.
Summoning Anita has its downside for Edward, since it means letting her onto his turf. Anita is surprised to find that this normally aggressive man has a personal life, and shocked by his ability to be entirely different from the stone cold killer she's known. She also has problems with the cop in charge in Albuquerque, who believes her powers must be evil, and with the other backups Edward has brought in. Most of all, she has to deal with her own vulnerability--she's tried to shut down her ties to her vampire and werewolf lovers and go it alone, but it turns out to be harder than she thought.
Anita's usual supporting cast is missing, and she's taking time out from her complex love life, but there's plenty of bloody action, vampires, werewolves, and Aztec ritual. Plus a lot more about Edward. Fans will find this installment similar to the earlier books in the series, particularly The Laughing Corpse. --Nona Vero. [via]
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Overloadby Arthur HaileyISBN 044016754X (0-440-16754-X)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, Margaret TarnerISBN 0435272527 (0-435-27252-7)
Softcover, Macmillan Heinemann ELT
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride and Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Return of the Kingby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 039548930X (0-395-48930-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of the King'Book summary:As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, Aragorn is revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient kings. Gandalf miraculously returns and defeats the evil wizard, Saruman. Sam leaves his master for dead after a battle with the giant spider, Shelob; but Frodo is still alive -- in the hands of the Orcs. And all the while the armies of the Dark Lord are massing -- and the One Ring comes ever closer to the Cracks of Doom. [via]
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Richard Burton: A Lifeby Melvyn BraggISBN 0446359386 (0-446-35938-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Riverside Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans, Heather Dubrow, Charles H. Shattuck, William T. Liston, Frank Kermode, Hallett Smith, Anne Barton, Harry Levin, Herschel Baker, Marie Edel, Joseph Jay TobinISBN 0395754909 (0-395-75490-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riverside Shakespeare'Book summary:After more than a generation and despite its many imitators, The Riverside Shakespeare remains the Shakespeare of choice for scholars and general readers alike. Recently revised to reflect the last quarter century of literary scholarship, it is now available in a deluxe edition - two volumes, bound in full cloth, in a handsome, four-color slipcase. The new, revised version of The Riverside Shakespeare retains all the features that made the first edition so popular - the invaluable notes, the wide-ranging introduction, and the brilliant critical prefaces to the individual works. Additions include the history play Edward IIIand the poem "A Funeral Elegy," both recently claimed for Shakespeare by computer-aided textual analysis. The original appendices have been updated and expanded and are joined by two new essays, "Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Criticism" and "Shakespeare's Plays in Performance: From 1970," the latter accompanied by eight pages of full-color photographs. [via]
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The Robeby Lloyd Cassel Douglas, John RadziewiczISBN 0395957753 (0-395-95775-3)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Robe'Book summary:Sent away from Rome for mocking the repulsive heir apparent Gaius, high-born Marcellus Gallio resigns himself to several dreary years in Palestine. But within a few months he is ordered to assist at the crucifixion of Jesus. Drunk and depressed he wins Christ's robe at a dice game. It is only afterwards that he discovers the robe has miracle qualities. The more he finds out about its former owner, the more admiration he feels for him. Morally compelled to change his values and a privileged lifestyle he has enjoyed since birth, he puts not just himself but all those he holds dear in terrible danger. [via]
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The Rowanby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441735762 (0-441-73576-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rowan'Book summary:Trapped under tons of mud following a huge mud slide, a three-year-old girl screams out telepathically for help. Every resource on her planet is used in her rescue mission, for she is no ordinary girl, but a Prime, and possessor of one of the most powerful minds in the Nine Star League. [via]
The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 0440402204 (0-440-40220-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Windby Alexandra RipleyISBN 0446363251 (0-446-36325-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind'Book summary:Come back to Tara...to Scarlett and Rhett...and to the greatest love story in all fiction. This is the book whose initial publication was an instant sensation: selling out immediately, setting new records, and enthralling readers all over the world. This is the book everyone wants to read, savor, and enjoy... [via]
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The Silmarillionby J. R. R. Tolkien, Ted Nasmith, Christopher TolkienISBN 0395939461 (0-395-93946-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Silmarillion'Book summary:Although The Silmarillion takes place in the same imaginary world as J.J.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and was originally published four years after the author's death and over two decades after the former book, it is set much earlier, in the First Age of the World. The tales and the book which reads as a fusion between a story collection and historical chronicle, are a matter of legend even to the characters of The Lord of the Rings:
In the beginning Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Ilúvatar, made the Ainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him
Tolkien wrote the heart of this material very early in his career, and continued to work on it throughout his life. It fell to his son, Christopher Tolkien, to edit it into book form, and such proved the unquenchable public appetite that he subsequently oversaw 12 volumes of The History of Middle-Earth. This edition features 20 highly evocative colour plates by Ted Nasmith, themselves worth the price of admission, while reinforcing the sense of a historical work are genealogical tables, an extensive index, appendix and colour map. Far removed from the genial style of The Hobbit, this is Tolkien at his most formal, his prose austere, poetically beautiful, his storytelling capturing the epic scale, high drama and melancholy wonder of myth. These stories of elves and heroes and old gods are quite literally the foundation of the entire modern fantasy-publishing revival, and are therefore essential reading. --Gary S. Dalkin [via]More editions of The Silmarillion:
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The Sirens of Titanby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440179483 (0-440-17948-3)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sirens of Titan'Book summary:Winston has flown his craft into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum, and been converted into pure energy. Materializing only when his waveforms intercept a planet, he only gets home once every 59 days. But at least it's some consolation that he knows all that ever has been and all that ever will be. [via]
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Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusadeby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440180295 (0-440-18029-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade'Book summary:Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.
Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor. [via]
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Through the Breachby David DrakeISBN 0441003265 (0-441-00326-5)
Softcover, Anson-Cartwright Editions
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The Tower and the Hiveby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441007201 (0-441-00720-1)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tower and the Hive'Book summary:Anne McCaffrey concludes the saga of Angharad Gwyn, the Rowan, her husband Jeff Raven, and their family of powerful telepathically and telekinetically Talented offspring with The Tower and the Hive. ( The first four books in the series are: The Rowan, Damia, Damia's Children, and Lyon's Pride.) As usual, McCaffrey delivers vividly real characters struggling with personal, political, and ethical issues and finding humane solutions.
Federated Teleport and Telepath, dominated by the Gwyn-Raven clan, provides interstellar shipping and communications for the Star League of Humans and Mrdinis--weasel-like aliens. In following the aggressive, ant-like Hivers, whose "spheres" have repeatedly attacked League worlds, naval vessels have discovered many more habitable planets, including some occupied by Hivers. Who will get to colonize these planets, Humans or Mrdinis? Should all Hivers be destroyed, or is there some way to contain them? Where will more Talents to staff the vital Towers come from? And how best to defeat those whose resentment of the Gwyn-Raven family's powers and friendship with Mrdinis could lead to violence?
McCaffrey's protagonists are four Gwyn-Raven grandchildren, now young adults who find romance and mature while studying both alien races. Old and new fans alike can enjoy her masterful blending of scientific extrapolation and fantasy elements to produce a universe they'll leave regretfully. --Nona Vero [via]
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Triplanetaryby E. E. "Doc" SmithISBN 0425090558 (0-425-09055-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Triplanetary'Book summary:This is the first of E. E. "Doc" Smith's six Lensman books, and although it isn't as fast-paced as later Lensman novels, it sets the stage for what is perhaps the greatest space-opera saga ever told. Through a series of vignettes spanning millions of years, readers will learn how the titanic struggle between the good Arisians and the evil Eddorians first came to pass, and about how humanity was chosen (and bred) to assume the awesome power of the lens. A short foreword by science fiction scholar John Clute puts the entire series into perspective. [via]
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Two Towersby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395489334 (0-395-48933-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Towers'Book summary:Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest. They have lost the wizard Gandalf in a battle in the Mines of Moria. And Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. Now Frodo and Sam continue the journey alone down the great river Anduin -- alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. [via]
Undead And Unappreciatedby Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 0425207226 (0-425-20722-6)
Softcover, Berkley Sensation
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Undead And Unpopularby Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 0425215997 (0-425-21599-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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With her birthday coming up, Betsy isn't in the best frame of mind to face the powerful European vampires who have finally come to pay their respects. Playing politics is not her strong suit, especially when she finds out her best friend Jessica may have a life-threatening illness. Sure Betsy can save her life by taking it-isn't that what friends are for?-but the choice isn't in her hands.
With her fiancé Eric dodging all the wedding plans, Betsy's plate is full-and not with birthday cake. But who has time to pout? Not even a reluctant vampire queen, who is taking it one high-heeled step at a time in MaryJanice Davidson's creative, sophisticated, sexy, and wonderfully witty series. [via] -
Undead and Unreturnableby Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 0425210812 (0-425-21081-2)
Softcover, Berkley Sensation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Undead And Unreturnable'Book summary:Though she's the vampire queen, Betsy Taylor is much more like a princess. In MaryJanice Davidson's novels, this high-maintenance monarch is finally coming to terms with her new status.
They say Christmas is a time for friends and family. But with a half-sister who's the devil's daughter, an evil stepmother, a fiend living in her basement, assorted spirits and killers running amok, and a spring wedding to plan with the former bane of her existence, Eric Sinclair, Betsy is not sure she'll survive the holidays.
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Wheelsby Arthur HaileyISBN 0440194148 (0-440-19414-8)
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Works: William Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, William G. Clark, William Aldis WrightISBN 0404059503 (0-404-05950-3)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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