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1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI the Untold Storyby Peter LanceISBN 0060597259 (0-06-059725-9)
Softcover, Regan Books
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Abe Lincoln Remembersby Ann Warren Turner, Wendell MinorISBN 0060511079 (0-06-051107-9)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 0060758600 (0-06-075860-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love. [via]More editions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
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American Godsby Neil GaimanISBN 0060558121 (0-06-055812-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Gods'Book summary:American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman days.
Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.
Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.
More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what's real and what's not. --Therese Littleton [via]
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American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Countryby Kay Bailey HutchisonISBN 0060566361 (0-06-056636-1)
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At Work in the Fields of the Bombby Robert Del TrediciISBN 0060550597 (0-06-055059-7)
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Battle Cryby Leon UrisISBN 006075186X (0-06-075186-X)
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Beethoven: The Universal Composerby Edmund MorrisISBN 0060759747 (0-06-075974-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beethoven: The Universal Composer'Book summary:Brilliant....This book is a perfect marriageor should one say, duetof subject and author, every word as masterly as the notes of the artist it illuminates. Christopher Buckley, Forbes
This is not just criticism but poetry in itself, with the additionaland inestimablemerit of being true. Washington Post Book World
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, Dutch) is one of Americas most distinguished biographers, known for his rich, compulsively readable prose style. His biography of Beethoven, one of the most admired composers in the history of music, is above all a study of genius in action, of one of the few giants of Western culture. Beethoven is another engaging entry in the HarperCollins Eminent Lives series of biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures.
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Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murderby Steve HodelISBN 0060589957 (0-06-058995-7)
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The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-day, And the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalionby Douglas BrinkleyISBN 0060565306 (0-06-056530-6)
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Based upon recently released documents, here is the first in-depth, anecdotal remembrance of these fearless Army Rangers. Acclaimed author and historian Douglas Brinkley deftly moves between events four decades apart to tell two riveting stories: the making of Ronald Reagan's historic 1984 speeches about the storming of the Normandy coast and the actual heroic event that inspired them and helped to end the Second World War.
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The Boys Of Pointe Du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-day, and the U.s. Army 2nd Ranger Battallionby Ronald Reagan, Douglas BrinkleyISBN 0060565276 (0-06-056527-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Boys Of Pointe Du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-day, and the U.s. Army 2nd Ranger Battallion'Book summary:"These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war." -Ronald Reagan, June 6, 1984, Normandy, France
Acclaimed historian and author of the "New York Times" bestselling Tour of Duty Douglas Brinkley tells the riveting account of the brave U.S. Army Rangers who stormed the coast of Normandy on D-Day and the President, forty years later, who paid them homage.
The importance of Pointe du Hoc to Allied planners like General Dwight Eisenhower cannot be overstated. The heavy U.S. and British warships poised in the English Channel had eighteen targets on their bombardment list for D-Day morning. The 100-foot promontory known as Pointe du Hoc -- where six big German guns were ensconced -- was number one. General Omar Bradley, in fact, called knocking out the Nazi defenses at the Pointe the toughest of any task assigned on June 6, 1944. Under the bulldoggish command of Colonel James E. Rudder of Texas, who is profiled here, these elite forces "Rudder's Rangers" -- took control of the fortified cliff. The liberation of Europe was under way.
Based upon recently released documents from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the Eisenhower Center, Texas A & M University, and the U.S. Army Military History Institute. The Boys of Pointe du Hoc is the first in-depth, anecdotal remembrance of these fearless Army Rangers. With brilliant deftness, Brinkley moves between two events four decades apart to tell the dual story of the making of Reagan's two uplifting 1984 speeches, considered by many to be among the best orations the Great Communicator ever gave, and the actual heroic event, which was indelibly captured as well in the opening scenes of Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan".
Just as compellingly, Brinkley tells the story of how Lisa Zanatta Henn, the daughter of a D-Day veteran, forged a special friendship with President Reagan that changed public perceptions of World War II veterans forever. Two White House speechwriters -- Peggy Noonan and Tony Dolan -- emerge in the narrative as the master scribes whose ethereal prose helped Reagan become the spokesperson for the entire World War II generation. [via]
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Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004by Maggie MaharISBN 0060564148 (0-06-056414-8)
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The Buying of the President 2004: Who's Really Bankrolling Bush and His Democratic Challengers--And What They Expect in Returnby Charles LewisISBN 0060548533 (0-06-054853-3)
Softcover, Perennial
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The Chinese Nail Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Storyby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0060751398 (0-06-075139-8)
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Christianity Through the Agesby Kenneth S. LatouretteISBN 0060650117 (0-06-065011-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Complete Gospelsby Robert J. MillerISBN 0060655879 (0-06-065587-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Gospels'Book summary:From the editors of the bestselling "The Five Gospels, The Complete Gospels" presents for the first time anywhere all twenty of the known gospels from the early Christian era, offering a fuller and more fascinating picture of early Christian origins than found in the four canonical gospels alone - or in any other source. Each of these gospel records offers fresh glimpses into the world of Jesus and his followers, including: GOSPEL OF THOMAS reveals that Jesus, contrary to the popular image of him as an apocalyptic preacher of damnation and salvation, was actually a wisdom teacher who taught about the true origins of humankind. GOSPEL OF MARY suggests that women held prominent roles in the early church, and provides a startling look at what may have been the first attempts to suppress their leadership. SAYINGS GOSPEL Q, the controversial reconstruction of the first gospel used by Jesus' original followers, contains only Jesus' sayings and none of the dramatic stories about his life later told in the New Testament gospels. SIGNS GOSPEL is almost entirely a catalog of Jesus' miracles, intended to demonstrate that he was the Jewish Messiah, the Anointed. SECRET BOOK OF JAMES relates that immediately prior to his ascension, Jesus imparted a private revelation to James and Peter, which James presents here as a letter. GOSPEL OF PETER contains what may have been the original passion narrative later adapted in the New Testament synoptic gospels' accounts.
Four new pieces have been added to this third expanded edition: the three Jewish-Christian gospels and the Greek fragments of the Gospel of Thomas.
Each gospel is translated into lively, contemporary English, recapturing the spirit ofthe original. Exciting both to read and to hear, this Scholars Version (SV) translation has - as one reader put it - "a vitality that jumps off the page."
The editor and contributors to this volume are members of the Jesus Seminar founded by Robert W. Funk, based at the Westar Institute in Sonoma, California. [via]
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The Connection: How Al Qaeda's Collaboration With Saddam Hussein Has Endangered Americaby Stephen F. HayesISBN 0060746734 (0-06-074673-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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A Crowning Mercyby Bernard Cornwell, Susannah KellsISBN 0060725648 (0-06-072564-8)
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Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalismby Sean HannityISBN 0060750391 (0-06-075039-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism'Book summary:Nearly three years have passed since that tragic day in september. Since then, our wounds have healed, but our senses and memories have dulled. At first, the nation rallied behind its leader. But by the time the confrontation with iraq presented itself, our courage and moral certainty seemed to fade in the face of partisan bickering and posturing. Now the political left and the democratic party are trying to use the demanding aftermath of the war to exploit our national cause for their own political advantage. How could we allow ourselves to forget so soon? --from deliver us from evil sean hannity's first blockbuster book, the new york times bestseller let freedom ring, cemented his place as the freshest and most compelling conservative voice in the country. As the host of the phenomenally successful hannity & colmes on the fox news channel and the sean hannity show on abc radio, hannity has won a wildly devoted fan base. Now he brings his plainspoken, take-no-prisoners style to the continuing war on terror abroad -- and liberalism at home -- in deliver us from evil. "evil exists," hannity asserts. "it is real, and it means to harm us." and in these pages he revisits the harsh lessons america has learned in confronting evil in the past and the present, to illuminate the course we must take in the future. Tracing a direct line from adolf hitler and joseph stalin through saddam hussein and osama bin laden, he reminds us of the courage and moral clarity of our great leaders. And he reveals how the disgraceful history of appeasement has reached forward from the days of neville chamberlain and jimmy carter to corrupt the unrepentant leftists of the modern democratic party -- from howard dean and john kerry to bill and hillary clinton. As americans face the ongoing war against terrorists and their state sponsors around the world, sean hannity reminds us that we must also cope with the continuing scourge of accommodation and cowardice at home. [via]
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Dust Tracks on a Roadby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0060552840 (0-06-055284-0)
Hardcover, HarperPerennial
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Escaping The Delta: Robert Johnson And The Invention Of The Bluesby Elijah WaldISBN 0060524278 (0-06-052427-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Escaping The Delta: Robert Johnson And The Invention Of The Blues'Book summary:Robert Johnson's story presents a fascinating paradox: Why did this genius of the Delta blues excite so little interest when his records were first released in the 1930s? And how did this brilliant but obscure musician come to be hailed long after his death as the most important artist in early blues and a founding father of rock 'n' roll?
Elijah Wald provides the first thorough examination of Johnson's work and makes it the centerpiece for a fresh look at the entire history of the blues. He traces the music's rural folk roots but focuses on its evolution as a hot, hip African-American pop style, placing the great blues stars in their proper place as innovative popular artists during one of the most exciting periods in American music. He then goes on to explore how the image of the blues was reshaped by a world of generally white fans, with very different standards and dreams.
The result is a view of the blues from the inside, based not only on recordings but also on the recollections of the musicians themselves, the African-American press, and original research. Wald presents previously unpublished studies of what people on Delta plantations were actually listening to during the blues era, showing the larger world in which Johnson's music was conceived. What emerges is a new respect and appreciation for the creators of what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music.
Wald also discusses how later fans formed a new view of the blues as haunting Delta folklore. While trying to separate fantasy from reality, he accepts that neither the simple history nor the romantic legend is the whole story. Each has its own fascinating history, and it is these twin histories that inform this book.
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The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesusby Jesus Seminar, Robert W. Funk, Roy W. HooverISBN 006063040X (0-06-063040-X)
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Did he promise to return and usher in a new age?
How did Jesus envision the Kingdom of God?The Five Gospels answers these questions in a bold, dynamic work that will startle traditional readers of the Bible and rekindle interest in it among secular skeptics. In 1985 the Jesus Seminar, comprising a distinguished group of biblical scholars, was founded by Robert W. Funk. They embarked on a new translation and assessment of the gospels, including the recently discovered Gospel of Thomas. In pursuit of the historical Jesus, they used their collective expertise to determine the authenticity of more than fifteen hundred sayings attributed to him. Their remarkable findings appear in this book.
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Foul Play!: The Art And Artists Of The Notorious 1950s E.C. Comicsby Grant GeissmanISBN 006074698X (0-06-074698-X)
Softcover, Harper Design Intl
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tasha TudorISBN 006075771X (0-06-075771-X)
Hardcover, Harperfestival
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Ghosts of 42nd Street: A History of America's Most Infamous Blockby Anthony BiancoISBN 0060566779 (0-06-056677-9)
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Harper's Encyclopedia of Bible Lifeby Boyce M. Bennett, David H. Scott, John Lane Miller, Madeleine MillerISBN 006065676X (0-06-065676-X)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harper's Encyclopedia of Bible Life'Book summary:Harper's Encyclopedia of Bible Life is a casual yet informative guide to the people and places of biblical times. Completely revised from its original publication in 1944, the book is written for the layperson rather than clerics. It's a handy companion for students--or for anyone curious about the customs, languages, and social structures of the time. The authors, Madeleine S. and J. Lane Miller, are concerned with the very ordinariness of the era--exploring how people lived, the occupations they toiled at, and the kinds of homes they resided in. As with any record of this period, the information is derived from both subjective and objective sources, including archaeological evidence, historical manuscripts, and stories and narratives passed down through the generations.
The book is split into three distinct sections: "The World of the Bible" looks at the New and Old Testaments; "How the People of the Bible Lived" investigates day-to-day living; and "How the People of the Bible Worked" traces livelihoods--from craftsmen to soldiers, and even prostitutes. With over 150 illustrations and information on 74 biblical subjects, Harper's Encyclopedia of Bible Life is a mighty read. [via]
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The Hidden Book in the Bibleby Richard E. FriedmanISBN 0060630035 (0-06-063003-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hidden Book in the Bible'Book summary:Richard Elliott Friedman's The Hidden Book in the Bible may be the most important literary discovery of our century. Or it may be a load of guano. The Hidden Book, like Michael Drosnin's The Bible Code, makes the audacious claim that its author has discovered a secret structure of meaning in the holy texts of Christianity and Judaism. Bucking more than a century of biblical textual criticism, Friedman claims that one author, probably a lay person, wrote many of the most familiar stories in the Hebrew Bible (including the stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses, and David) as one unified text. The Hidden Book's introduction defends this thesis with close readings of the patterns of punctuation, word choice, sentence structure, and allusion used in these stories; the remainder of the book is a reconstruction of what Friedman says is the original, foundational text at the heart of the Bible.
Unlike The Bible Code, Friedman's book abstains from making specific interpretive claims based on its findings. Yet Friedman does draw one lesson for contemporary readers from the story he has found--perhaps the only element of this book that will escape the controversy it is sure to cause. In an age of relativism, Friedman writes, "Suddenly this work comes back from nearly three thousand years ago. And it says yes, humans have the power to make judgments of what is good and bad and right and wrong. In this story, the creator of the earth does not always reveal what is good and bad, but rather the humans take the fruit that enables them to make these judgments." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Hidden Book in the Bible: The Discovery of the First Prose Masterpieceby Richard Elliott FriedmanISBN 0060630043 (0-06-063004-3)
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The Hidden Face of Godby Richard E. FriedmanISBN 006062258X (0-06-062258-X)
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The Hollow Hillsby Mary StewartISBN 0060548266 (0-06-054826-6)
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Holy Siege: The Year That Shook Catholic Americaby Kenneth A. BriggsISBN 0060610581 (0-06-061058-1)
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Honest to Jesus: Jesus for a New Millenniumby Robert W. FunkISBN 0060627581 (0-06-062758-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Honest to Jesus: Jesus for a New Millenniumby Robert Walter FunkISBN 0060627573 (0-06-062757-3)
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The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religionby Joseph CampbellISBN 0060551526 (0-06-055152-6)
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Introducing the New Testamentby John DraneISBN 0060620730 (0-06-062073-0)
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Islam: Religion, History, and Civilizationby Seyyed Hossein NasrISBN 0060507144 (0-06-050714-4)
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In this informative and clear introduction to the world of Islam, Seyyed Hossein Nasr explores the following topics in depth:
"What Is Islam?
"The Doctrines and Beliefs of Islam
"Islamic Practices and Institutions
"The History of Islam
"Schools of Islamic Thought
"Islam in the Contemporary World
"Islam and Other Religions
"The Spiritual and Religious Significance of Islam
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Jesus : A New Visionby Marcus J. BorgISBN 0060608145 (0-06-060814-5)
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Jesus In America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsessionby Richard Wightman FoxISBN 006062874X (0-06-062874-X)
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Jews: The Essence and Character of a Peopleby Arthur Hertzberg, Aron Hirt-ManheimerISBN 0060638354 (0-06-063835-4)
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John and Charles Wesley: Selected Prayers Hymns and Sermonsby John Wesley, Charles Wesley, Harpercollins Spiritual Classics, Frank Whaling, Peter J. GomesISBN 0060576510 (0-06-057651-0)
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"About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death." John Wesley
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Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destructionby Martin GilbertISBN 0060570830 (0-06-057083-0)
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The Last Enchantmentby Mary StewartISBN 0060548274 (0-06-054827-4)
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The Last Night Of The Yankee Dynasty: The Game, The Team, And The Cost Of Greatnessby Buster OlneyISBN 0060515074 (0-06-051507-4)
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For the players and coaches, baseball Yankees-style was also an almost unbearable pressure cooker of anxiety, expectation, and infighting. With owner George Steinbrenner at the controls, the Yankees money machine spun out of control, and as the team's revenues skyrocketed, salaries were inflated beyond belief and smaller teams were priced out of competition. With New York's unforgiving fans behind him, Steinbrenner let the Yankees know loud and clear that their big paychecks carried a clear obligation: win now, and win all the time. As the spending and emotion spiraled, careers were made and broken, friendships began and ended, and a dynasty rose and fell.
In THE LAST NIGHT OF THE YANKEE DYNASTY, Buster Olney tracks the Yankees through these exciting and tumultuous seasons, giving intimate insights into the stars, the foot soldiers, and the coaches and managers. With unparalleled knowledge of the game, he also advances a compelling argument that the philosophy that made the Yankees great was inherently unsustainable and ultimately harmful to the sport. [via]
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The Last Shot: The Incredible Story Of The CSS Shenandoah And The True Conclusion Of The American Civil Warby Lynn SchoolerISBN 0060523336 (0-06-052333-6)
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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behindby Loung UngISBN 0060733950 (0-06-073395-0)
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Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, And Graphic Novelsby Scott McCloudISBN 0060780940 (0-06-078094-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, And Graphic Novels'Book summary:Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics was published in 1993, just as "Comics Aren't Just for Kids Anymore!" articles were starting to appear and graphic novels were making their way into the mainstream, and it quickly gave the newly respectable medium the theoretical and practical manifesto it needed. With his clear-eyed and approachable analysis--done using the same comics tools he was describing--McCloud quickly gave "sequential art" a language to understand itself. McCloud made the simplest of drawing decisions seem deep with artistic potential.
Thirteen years later, following the Internet evangelizing of Reinventing Comics, McCloud has returned with Making Comics.
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Designed as a craftsperson's overview of the drawing and storytelling decisions and possibilities available to comics artists, covering everything from facial expressions and page layout to the choice of tools and story construction, Making Comics, like its predecessors, is also an eye-opening trip behind the scenes of art-making, fascinating for anyone reading comics as well as those making them. Get a sense of the range of his lessons by clicking through to the opening pages of his book, including his (illustrated, of course) table of contents (warning: large file, recommended for high-bandwidth users):
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Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journeyby Holly George-Warren, Robert Santelli, Peter Guralnick, Christopher John FarleyISBN 0060525444 (0-06-052544-4)
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The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visionsby Marcus J. Borg, N. T. WrightISBN 0060608765 (0-06-060876-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions'Book summary:The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions is a theological remix of the old Cole Porter song "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off." In alternating chapters, the (mostly) liberal Marcus J. Borg and the (mostly) conservative N.T. Wright consider the major questions of the historical-Jesus debate that has dominated biblical studies in the 1990s. Borg and Wright agree that Jesus was the Christian messiah and preached the Kingdom of God, but they disagree about the Virgin birth, the purpose of Jesus' death, the issue of his bodily resurrection, and the question of his divinity. The Ping-Pong structure of this book and the fastidious politeness with which the authors treat one another sometimes give The Meaning of Jesus a tomato/tomahto, potato/potahto bounciness, but the project is nevertheless worthy: this is a simple, clear orientation to some of the most important biblical questions of our time, and a record of a lively and loving friendship between two of the best Christian scholars alive. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Mystery Religions in the Ancient Worldby Joscelyn GodwinISBN 0060631406 (0-06-063140-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mystery Religions in the Ancient World'Book summary:A lively, illustrated overview of the variety of mystery religions that flourished at the dawn of the Christian era. In clear, enlightened text and striking images, Mystery Religions holds up a "distant mirror" to our own times, showing that the quest for spiritual illumination from Eastern religions, and emphasis on spiritual development and experience, and a concern for hidden knowledge are deeply rooted in Western culture. Mystery Religions brings the myths, the magic, their rites and the wisdom of a bygone age to compelling life, making them comprehensible to modern readers.... Here is a compelling account of the forms mystery religions took, from the cults of Mithras, Dionysus, and Orpheus to those of the Goddess, esoteric Christianity and Judaism, and Gnosticism. Godwin offers a rich and varied selection of illustrations; the symbolism of paintings, statues, releifs, and other visual imagery provides a wealth of additional information about these religions. --- excerpts from book's back cover [via]
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Native Sonby WrightISBN 006053348X (0-06-053348-X)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Native Son'Book summary:Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to arrest, prison, or death, driven by despair, frustration, poverty, and incomprehension. As a young black man in the Chicago of the '30s, he has no way out of the walls of poverty and racism that surround him, and after he murders a young white woman in a moment of panic, these walls begin to close in. There is no help for him--not from his hapless family; not from liberal do-gooders or from his well-meaning yet naive friend Jan; certainly not from the police, prosecutors, or judges. Bigger is debased, aggressive, dangerous, and a violent criminal. As such, he has no claim upon our compassion or sympathy. And yet...
A more compelling story than Native Son has not been written in the 20th century by an American writer. That is not to say that Richard Wright created a novel free of flaws, but that he wrote the first novel that successfully told the most painful and unvarnished truth about American social and class relations. As Irving Howe asserted in 1963, "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. It made impossible a repetition of the old lies [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture."
Other books had focused on the experience of growing up black in America--including Wright's own highly successful Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of five stories that focused on the victimization of blacks who transgressed the code of racial segregation. But they suffered from what he saw as a kind of lyrical idealism, setting up sympathetic black characters in oppressive situations and evoking the reader's pity. In Native Son, Wright was aiming at something more. In Bigger, he created a character so damaged by racism and poverty, with dreams so perverted, and with human sensibilities so eroded, that he has no claim on the reader's compassion:
"I didn't want to kill," Bigger shouted. "But what I killed for, I am! It must've been pretty deep in me to make me kill! I must have felt it awful hard to murder.... What I killed for must've been good!" Bigger's voice was full of frenzied anguish. "It must have been good! When a man kills, it's for something... I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em. It's the truth..."
Wright's genius was that, in preventing us from feeling pity for Bigger, he forced us to confront the hopelessness, misery, and injustice of the society that gave birth to him. --Andrew Himes [via] 
Nellie Taft: The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Eraby Carl Sferrazza AnthonyISBN 0060513837 (0-06-051383-7)
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A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nationby Diana L. EckISBN 0060621591 (0-06-062159-1)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhoodby Irmgard A. HuntISBN 0060532181 (0-06-053218-1)
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One Jesus, Many Christs : The Truth about Christian Originsby Gregory J. RileyISBN 0060667990 (0-06-066799-0)
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Oops: 20 Life Lessons from the Fiascoes That Shaped Americaby Martin J. Smith, Patrick J. KigerISBN 0060780843 (0-06-078084-3)
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Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomatby Paula Gunn AllenISBN 0060730609 (0-06-073060-9)
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Pocahontas: Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat, Medicine Womanby Paula Gunn AllenISBN 006053687X (0-06-053687-X)
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The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and Truth of the Traditional Gospelsby Luke Timothy JohnsonISBN 0060641665 (0-06-064166-5)
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Rumsfeld: A Personal Portraitby Midge DecterISBN 0060561106 (0-06-056110-6)
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The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an Amazing Discoveryby Joann FletcherISBN 0060585560 (0-06-058556-0)
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The Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Laura F. MarshISBN 0060762128 (0-06-076212-8)
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Shantung Compoundby Langdon GilkeyISBN 0060631120 (0-06-063112-0)
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Sharpe's Escape: Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, 1810by Bernard CornwellISBN 0060560959 (0-06-056095-9)
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The Story of Buddhism: A Concise Guide to Its History and Teachingsby Donald S. LopezISBN 0060699760 (0-06-069976-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of Buddhism: A Concise Guide to Its History and Teachings'Book summary:Much of what we hear about Buddhism today in the West focuses on its philosophy, and how it can change one's life. Throughout history, however, Buddhism's mythology, scriptures, heroes, and its promise for salvation from rebirth have been the Buddhist teachings that most people have known. Religion professor Donald Lopez has mastered a good deal of this immense lore and managed with The Story of Buddhism to get it into a manageable package. Rather than providing a chronological history or country-by-country breakdown, Lopez explores general topics, meandering through two-and-a-half millennia, from India to Japan. In sections such as "Monastic Life," "Tantra," and "Pilgrimage," he talks about the origins of each topic and its mainstream manifestations. In addition, he spices up his work with delectable, if occasionally bizarre, examples from specific cultures. There is, for instance, the story of the depraved man who, once having said the words "Lotus Sutra," was saved from Hell. And the tale of the practice called the "act of truth," in which a perfectly candid statement can have magical powers. Or the story of the monk who attempted to rescue some maggots by opening his own flesh for them. No doubt, Buddhism is interesting, but it takes a competent scholar and a good storyteller to get it just right. Lopez fills the bill. --Brian Bruya [via]
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The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated Southby Edward BallISBN 0060505907 (0-06-050590-7)
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Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualismby Barbara WeisbergISBN 006075060X (0-06-075060-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism'Book summary:Is it really possible to talk with the dead? As much as modern America is familiar with mediums--think bestselling authors John Edwards and Sylvia Browne--this question still generates passionate opinions from believers and skeptics alike. So one can only imagine the stir that the Fox sisters created in 1848 when they claimed to hear a ghost rapping on the wall of their Hydesville, New York rental house bedroom. The sisters soon discovered that the ghost would tap answers to specific questions. Within days neighbors and travelers were showing up at the house, wanting to converse with the dead rapper. The Fox sisters--Maggie and Kate--went onto become a national phenomenon, holding séances and making their livings as celebrity mediums. They were also the leaders of a new movement called the spiritualists. New York-based filmmaker Barbara Weisberg assembled this fascinating and expertly recounted biography. Beyond trying to prove whether the Fox girls were legitimate, Weisberg wrote a study of how two young girls could shape a new spiritual movement in mid-1800s America. "The more I thought about the Fox sisters, the more it seemed to me not only that Kate and Maggie sparked a movement, but that their lives epitomized the conflicts and urges that helped fuel its blaze. The question of the other world aside, the girls' appeal surely stemmed in part from the ways they embodiedand intuitedtheir culture's anxieties and ambitions." Ironically, in not trying to prove whether these two were frauds, Weisberg has created a more satisfying human story within a rich historical context, not unlike the tactics used for the bestseller Seabiscuit. And likewise, this could and should easily translate into a dynamite major motion picture. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Thereby Hangs a Tale: Stories of Curious Word Originsby Charles Earle FunkISBN 0060513381 (0-06-051338-1)
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A language where hearse and rehearse have the same root and the word dunce comes from a great philosopher, English has hundreds of every day words that originated or acquired their meaning in unusual ways. Dictionaries don't have the space to tell us all the mysteries, but now Dr. Funk, with humor and insight, tells us the strange and intriguing stories of hundreds of words and how they came to be a part of our language.
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They Came Here First: The Epic of the American Indianby D'Arcy McNickleISBN 0060802472 (0-06-080247-2)
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Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam Warby Douglas BrinkleyISBN 0060565292 (0-06-056529-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War'Book summary:Covering more than four decades, "Tour of Duty is the definitive account of John Kerry's journey from war to peace. Written by acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley, this is the first full-scale, intimate account of Kerry's naval career. In writing this riveting narrative, Brinkley has drawn on extensive interviews with virtually everyone who knew Kerry well in Vietnam, including all the men still living who served under him. Kerry also entrusted to Brinkley his letters home from Vietnam and his voluminous "War Notes" -- journals, notebooks, and personal reminiscences written during and shortly after the war. This material was provided without restriction, to be used at Brinkley's discretion, and has never before been published.
John Kerry enlisted in the Navy in February 1966, months before he graduated from Yale. In December 1967 Ensign Kerry was assigned to the frigate U.S.S. "Gridley; after five months of service in the Pacific, with a brief stop in Vietnam, he returned to the United States and underwent training to command a Swift boat, a small craft deployed in Vietnam's rivers. In June 1968 Kerry was promoted to lieutenant (junior grade), and by the end of that year he was back in Vietnam, where he commanded, over time, two Swift boats. Throughout "Tour of Duty Brinkley deftly deals with such explosive issues as U.S. atrocities in Vietnam and the bombing of Cambodia. In a series of unforgettable combat-action sequences, he recounts how Kerry won the Purple Heart three times for wounds suffered in action and was awarded the Bronze Star and the Navy' s Silver Star for gallantry in action.
When Kerry returned from Southeast Asia, he joined the Vietnam Veterans Againstthe War (VVAW), becoming a prominent antiwar spokesperson. He challenged the Nixon administration on Capitol Hill with the antiwar movement cheering him on. As Kerry's public popularity soared in April-May 1971, the FBI considered him a subversive. Brinkley -- using new information acquired from the recently released Nixon tapes -- reveals how White House aides Charles Colson and H. R. Haldeman tried to discredit Kerry. Refusing to be intimidated, Kerry started running for public office, eventually becoming a U.S. senator from Massachusetts. But he never forgot his fallen comrades. Working with his friend Senator John McCain, he returned to Vietnam numerous times looking for MIAs and POWs. By the time Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, Kerry was the leading proponent of "normalization" of relations with Vietnam. When President Clinton officially recognized Vietnam in 1995, Kerry's three-decade-long tour of duty had at long last ended. [via]
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Transformations of Myth Through Timeby Joseph CampbellISBN 0060551895 (0-06-055189-5)
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyleby AviISBN 0060739479 (0-06-073947-9)
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Walkerby Rudy WurlitzerISBN 0060551224 (0-06-055122-4)
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Wheelock's Latinby Frederic M. Wheelock, Richard A. LafleurISBN 0060783710 (0-06-078371-0)
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When Professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin first appeared in 1956, the reviews extolled its thoroughness, organization, and conciseness; at least one reviewer predicted that the book "might well become the standard text" for introducing students to elementary Latin. Now, five decades later, that prediction has certainly proved accurate.
The revised sixth edition of Wheelock's Latin has all the features that have made it the best-selling single-volume beginning Latin textbook, many of them improved and expanded:
- 40 chapters with grammatical explanations and readings based on ancient Roman authors
- Self-tutorial exercises with an answer key for independent study
- A newly enlarged English-Latin/Latin-English vocabulary
- A rich selection of original Latin readings -- unlike other textbooks, which contain primarily made-up Latin texts
- Etymological aids
Also included are maps of the Mediterranean, Italy, and the Aegean area, as well as numerous photographs illustrating aspects of classical culture, mythology, and historical and literary figures presented in the chapter readings.
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Women of the Way: Discovering 2,500 Years of Buddhist Wisdomby Sallie TisdaleISBN 0060598166 (0-06-059816-6)
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