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20 Years & Still Kickingby Jim DavisISBN 0345421264 (0-345-42126-4)
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Alternadadby Neal PollackISBN 0375423621 (0-375-42362-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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And the Devil Will Drag You Underby Jack ChalkerISBN 0345323343 (0-345-32334-3)
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Andy Kaufman Revealed: Best Friend Tells Allby Bob Zmuda, Matthew Scott HansenISBN 0316610984 (0-316-61098-4)
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Andy Kaufman Revealed: Best Friend Tells Allby Jim Carrey, Bob Zmuda, Matthew Scott HansenISBN 0316681237 (0-316-68123-7)
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The Art of Star Wars, Episode II, Attack of the Clonesby Ben BurttISBN 0345440749 (0-345-44074-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Star Wars, Episode II, Attack of the Clones'Book summary:Whether doing business with the Hutts or trying to get a decent haircut on Coruscant, Beeps, Bleats, and Boskas is an invaluable guide for anyone traveling through unfamiliar sections of the galaxy. Vividly illustrated by Sergio Aragones, this handy volume covers the basic situations galactic travelers may find themselves in--plus guidelines for
¸ Greetings--H'chu apenkee, o'grandio lust: "Greetings, glorious host" in Huttese. It doesn't hurt you to be nice, and it might hurt you not to.
¸ Travel arrangements--Zat x'ratch keezo bompaz ha sheep: in Bocce, "That scratch was there when I rented the ship."
¸ Asking directions--Chi ita lungee: "I am lost," in Ewokese. Don't be afraid to seek help in the forest.
¸ Dining--Dis foosa isa berry good: "this food is good." It's always best to compliment your Gungan hosts.
¸ Bargaining for your life--Huwaa muaa mumwa: "Can I buy you a drink." in Wookiee-speak. Try it. It just might work.
A MUST HAVE WHEN TRAVELING WITHOUT YOUR PROTOCOL DROID!
Bonus!--An exclusive "Behind the Sounds" look at making of the Star Wars movies from Academy Award-winning Sound Editor Ben Burtt. Discover the secrets behind the roar of Chewbacca, the chatter of the cantina crowd, and R2-D2's unique eloquence. [via]More editions of The Art of Star Wars, Episode II, Attack of the Clones:
Asterix and Obelix All at Seaby Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, Underzo, Anthea Bell, Derek HockridgeISBN 0340703601 (0-340-70360-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Asterix and the Black Goldby GoscinnyISBN 0340323671 (0-340-32367-1)
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriterby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 0374106916 (0-374-10691-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Big Stone Gapby Adriana TrigianiISBN 0345438329 (0-345-43832-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Stone Gap'Book summary:In the town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, not much happens. The highlight of 35-year-old Ave Maria Mulligan's week comes on Friday, with the arrival of the Bookmobile, the sight of which sends her into raptures. Her favorite book concerns the ancient Chinese art of reading faces. Through her face-readings, we come to understand the hostilities simmering within her family: her father whose small eyes are the clear "sign of a deceptive nature." Her aunt who "has a small head and thin lips. (That's a terrible combination.)" Adriana Trigiani's first novel concerns the family scandals that befall Ave Maria in this seemingly uneventful town. Greed, lust, envy--all the ancient emotional elements--manifest themselves even in this hamlet of "ordinary folk." Fans of Fannie Flagg or Rebecca Wells will enjoy this down-home tale, full of small, everyday details and colloquial revelations. The writing is often awkward, but so too are the characters who inhabit this place: the Bookmobile lady who thinks of herself as the sexiest woman alive; the amateur actors in the local Outdoor Drama who bristle with ambition when they hear that Elizabeth Taylor is coming to visit. In Big Stone Gap, her visit is so anticipated, it's like she's an angel sent from heaven. --Ellen Williams [via]
Blast from the Pastby Kinky FriedmanISBN 0345416309 (0-345-41630-9)
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Boyby Roald DahlISBN 0374373744 (0-374-37374-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boy'Book summary:"'I am only eight years old,' I told myself. 'No little boy of eight has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.'"
So thought Roald Dahl in 1924 when his plan to get revenge on the mean and disgusting candy-store owner Mrs. Pratchett seemed to have worked all too well. Writing about this and other boyhood adventures, the author has recalled only those that stand out as spectacular. "Some are funny. Some are painful. Some are unpleasant. I suppose that is why I have always remembered them so vividly. All are true."
We are told of his first automobile ride, in which he nearly lost his nose; of the canings by Headmasters and older schoolboys; and of the grisly methods of Matrons, those guardians against misbehavior who supervised the dormitories. There were glorious times, too, with his big family at home in Wales; on holiday each summer on a remote island in Norway; and in the class of an endearing math teacher who thought numbers the dreariest things in the world.
Roald Dahl's adventures and misadventures during his school years are crowded with people as strange and wonderful as any character he has created and are as exciting and full of the unexpected as his celebrated fiction.[via]Boy is a 1985 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards Honor Book for Nonfiction.More editions of Boy:
The Boyfriend Schoolby Sarah BirdISBN 034546009X (0-345-46009-X)
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A Child's Garden of Grassby Jack S. Margolis, Richard ClorfeneISBN 0345304969 (0-345-30496-9)
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Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of Animated Cartoonistby Chuck JonesISBN 0374526206 (0-374-52620-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of Animated Cartoonist'Book summary:Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist is a sort of autobiography of Chuck Jones, the brilliant Warner Brothers animator who created such enduring characters as Wile E. Coyote and Marvin the Martian. Like his best cartoons, Jones skips around to the fun parts, giving a bit of childhood here, a few words of drawing advice there, and a good yarn wherever one fits. Jones also manages to work in a detailed yet somehow never boring description of the long and silly process of making a cartoon. Jones is refreshingly generous about spreading credit around to others. He fondly remembers art teachers, tips his hat to fellow directors and mentors Friz Freleng and Tex Avery, and gives the reader a new appreciation of the layout men who create the backgrounds for animated features. Most engaging are Jones's accounts of office life at Warner Brothers, which sounds like just as much fun as you hope it would be. Jones recounts stories of drawing tables wired to wake up sleeping animators when the boss approached and Cal Howard, a gag writer who ran an illegal commissary out of his metal-lined desk. The book is filled with sketches and color plates of much-loved moments from Warner Brothers cartoons and even includes a quick Road Runner and Coyote scene that comes to life when the pages are flipped. Highly recommended for kids who like to draw and adults who have not lost their appreciation for Looney Toons. --Ali Davis [via]
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The Complete Works of Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, David BevingtonISBN 032109333X (0-321-09333-X)
Hardcover, Longman Pub Group
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The Complete Works of Shakespeareby David BevingtonISBN 0321366263 (0-321-36626-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare'Book summary:The discipline's most reader-friendly Shakespeare anthology is now available in a Portable Edition: a boxed set of four portable, paperback volumes organized by genre. This convenient new format features all the content of the hardcover original, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5e, in four paperbacks packaged in a slipcase. The four separate genre volumes can also be purchased on their own. A balanced editorial approach, a highly respected editor, and proven apparatus combine to make Bevingtons the most accessible Complete Works available. A prestigious editorial board provides state-of-the-art scholarship and interpretative balance on each play. In-depth historical coverage helps students understand the cultural context behind each play, without dictating their reading of it. Extensive notes and glosses give students the support they need to understand Elizabethan language and idiomatic expressions. For those who want Shakespeare's complete works in a portable format.
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Crab With the Golden Clawsby HergeISBN 0316358339 (0-316-35833-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Dinner for Twoby Mike GayleISBN 0340767952 (0-340-76795-2)
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The Dragon and the Georgeby Gordon R. DicksonISBN 0345350502 (0-345-35050-2)
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Embroideriesby Marjane SatrapiISBN 0375423052 (0-375-42305-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Embroideries'Book summary:From the best-selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjanes tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love, sex and the vagaries of men.
As the afternoon progresses, these vibrant women share their secrets, their regrets and their often outrageous stories about, among other things, how to fake ones virginity, how to escape an arranged marriage, how to enjoy the miracles of plastic surgery and how to delight in being a mistress. By turns revealing and hilarious, these are stories about the lengths to which some women will go to find a man, keep a man or, most importantly, keep up appearances.
Full of surprises, this introduction to the private lives of some fascinating women, whose life stories and lovers and will strike us as at once deeply familiar and profoundly different from our own, is sure to bring smiles of recognition to the faces of women everywhereand to teach us all a thing or two. [via]More editions of Embroideries:
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Everyone but Thee and Meby Ogden NashISBN 0316598569 (0-316-59856-9)
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The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudinby Idres ShahISBN 0330238078 (0-330-23807-8)
Softcover, Pan Books
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Family Reunionby Ogden NashISBN 0316598577 (0-316-59857-7)
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Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfactionby Ben Stiller, Janeane GarofaloISBN 0345412923 (0-345-41292-3)
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Full Cupboard of Lifeby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 0375422188 (0-375-42218-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Full Cupboard of Life'Book summary:Here is the fifth novel in the internationally bestselling No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency hit series. Once again we are transported to Gaborone, capital city of Botswana, and into the world of Mma Ramotswe and her friends.
THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY.
FOR ALL CONFIDENTIAL MATTERS AND ENQUIRIES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FOR ALL PARTIES.
UNDER PERSONAL MANAGEMENT.
Mma Ramotswe and Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni are still engaged, but with no immediate plans to get married. Mma Ramotswe wonders when a wedding date will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting pressure on her fiancé. For indeed he has other things on his mind -- particularly a frightening request (involving a parachute jump) made by Mma Potokwani, the persuasive matron of the orphan farm.
Mma Ramotswe herself has weighty matters on her mind. She has been approached by a wealthy lady to check up on several suitors. Are these men interested in her or just her money? This may be difficult to find out, but its just the kind of case Mma Ramotswe likes and she is, as we know, a very intuitive lady.
Meanwhile, Mma Makutsi -- plucky assistant detective and deputy manager of the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors garage -- is moving. Her entrepreneurial venture, the Kalahari Typing School for Men, is thriving and with this new income she has rented two rooms in a house. Her spare time is occupied with planning the move, the décor and her new life in a house with running water all to herself.
In the background of all this is Botswana, a country of empty spaces and echoing skies, a country so beautiful and entrancing that it breaks your heart. Mma Ramotswe has prepared the bush tea and is waiting for us to join her. [via] 
A Garfield Christmasby Jim DavisISBN 0345353684 (0-345-35368-4)
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Garfield Eats Crowby Jim DavisISBN 0345452011 (0-345-45201-1)
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Garfield Gets Cookin: His 38th Bookby Jim DavisISBN 0345445821 (0-345-44582-1)
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Garfield Hogs the Spotlightby Jim DavisISBN 0345439228 (0-345-43922-8)
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Garfield : The Me Book: A Guide to Superiority, How to Get It, Use It and Keep Itby Jim DavisISBN 0345365453 (0-345-36545-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Garfield : The Truth about Catsby Jim DavisISBN 0345372263 (0-345-37226-3)
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Garfield's Thanksgivingby Jim DavisISBN 0345356500 (0-345-35650-0)
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Get Down!! : Dog Cartoons by Callahanby John CallahanISBN 0345450930 (0-345-45093-0)
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The Giraffe and the Pelly and Meby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0374326029 (0-374-32602-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Hail to the Chiefs: Or How to Tell Your Polks from Your Tylersby Barbara HollandISBN 034536273X (0-345-36273-X)
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Highland Laddie Goneby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0345360362 (0-345-36036-2)
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How to Shoot an Amateur Naturalistby Gerald Malcolm DurrellISBN 0316197173 (0-316-19717-3)
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If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Groundby Lewis GrizzardISBN 0345372700 (0-345-37270-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, Snoopyby Charles M. SchulzISBN 0345442725 (0-345-44272-5)
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It's a Slippery Slopeby Spalding GrayISBN 0374525234 (0-374-52523-4)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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It's the Stupidity, Stupid : Why (Some) People Hate Clinton and Why the Rest of Us Have to Watchby Harry ShearerISBN 0345434013 (0-345-43401-3)
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Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary: Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning ofby Jeff Foxworthy, Adam Small, Gary Campbell, Fax Bahr, Brian HarttISBN 0345493273 (0-345-49327-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary: Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning of'Book summary:Hey, you! The one holding the book. Have you ever seen a volume like this? Well, whether you realize it or not, its the one youve been waiting for. Jeff Foxworthys Redneck Dictionary will teach you how to speak this unique Southern dialect fluently. Whether youre blue-collar or hoity-toity, swimming in cash or betting your bottom dollar, a little bit country or a lot of city slicker, this practical reference to redneck words and turns of phrases will give you hours of laughs.
So expand your horizons and learn another language with this fun, instructive, and hilariously illustrated book as your guide. After all, speaking redneck is a heck of a lot easier than speaking French!
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Kudzuby Doug MarletteISBN 0345305736 (0-345-30573-6)
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The Last Unicornby Peter S. BeagleISBN 0345353676 (0-345-35367-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Unicorn'Book summary:The Last Unicorn is one of the true classics of fantasy, ranking with Tolkien's The Hobbit, Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Beagle writes a shimmering prose-poetry, the voice of fairy tales and childhood:
The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.
The unicorn discovers that she is the last unicorn in the world, and sets off to find the others. She meets Schmendrick the Magician--whose magic seldom works, and never as he intended--when he rescues her from Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, where only some of the mythical beasts displayed are illusions. They are joined by Molly Grue, who believes in legends despite her experiences with a Robin Hood wannabe and his unmerry men. Ahead wait King Haggard and his Red Bull, who banished unicorns from the land.
This is a book no fantasy reader should miss; Beagle argues brilliantly the need for magic in our lives and the folly of forgetting to dream. --Nona Vero [via]
Laughing Mattersby Gene ShalitISBN 0345362519 (0-345-36251-9)
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Little World of Don Camilloby Giovanni GuareschiISBN 0374189609 (0-374-18960-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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May You ...!: How to Curse in Yiddishby Joe SingerISBN 0345255364 (0-345-25536-4)
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Misfortuneby Wesley StaceISBN 0316830348 (0-316-83034-8)
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Miss Wyomingby Douglas CouplandISBN 0375407340 (0-375-40734-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Modern Baptists: A Novelby James WilcoxISBN 0316940453 (0-316-94045-3)
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Morning, Noon and Nightby Spalding GrayISBN 0374299854 (0-374-29985-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morning, Noon and Night'Book summary:The hilarious new monologue about fatherhood, by the author of It's a Slippery Slope[via]
In Morning, Noon and Night that master of the confessional, Spalding Gray, tells the event-filled, emotionally charged and outrageously funny story of one day of his life in October 1997, after the birth of his son Theo. Horrified by the prospect of having another son, considering what he and his two brothers did to their father, and ambivalent about the idea of living in a small, quaint town on eastern Long Island that seems an odd detour for a man destined for California, Spalding comes to feel, of course, a profound affinity for his baby boy, born with the looks of "a wet, blue beaver." But this is not merely a father's account of an infant son; it's the story of his new life with his girlfriend Kathie; his regally precocious eleven-year-old stepdaughter, Marissa ("Please don't let me die a virgin!"); and his older son, Forrest, who stymies Spalding time and again with his metaphysical inquisitiveness: "Daddy, what's behind the stars?" "How do flies celebrate?" Cosmic questions that for Gray are reinforced by the view from his bedroom window-a seventeenth-century graveyard-a cold reminder to the author of the impermanence of things, the transient nature of his life, the strange calling of his profession, which brilliantly confirms Wordsworth's dictum that the child is father to the man.
A richly comic work about parenthood , about adults who don't grow up and children who do, that stands as Spalding Gray's most mature work to date.More editions of Morning, Noon and Night:
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Nobody's Perfect : Writings from the New Yorkerby Anthony LaneISBN 0375414487 (0-375-41448-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nobody's Perfect : Writings from the New Yorker'Book summary:In an aside that reads like a declaration of intent, Anthony Lane writes that he never quite thrilled to the battle pitched between mainstream and art cinema which is to say that he glories in highbrow and lowbrow alike, and respectfully suggests that the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics . . . books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all.
In almost ten years as a critic for The New Yorker, Lane has not only written an indispensable column on the latest movie releases, great and small. He has also turned his gaze upon subjects as various as Evelyn Waugh, Shakespeare, the glory of cookbooks, and the fine art of the obituary. Whether he is examining Alfred Hitchcock or astronauts, to read him is to be carried along on a current of urgent inquiry ( What is the point of Demi Moore? ), wry reflection, and penetrating wit. An essay on The Sound of Music leads him to consider not only singing nuns but the comedy of our cultural memories ( For all our searchings and suppressings, the past comes unbidden or not at all ); his now infamous pieces on the best-seller lists both celebrate the exultantly bad prose of Judith Krantz and deride the marshes of the middlebrow, where serious novelists lumber around with too many ideas on their back. His writings on the poetry of Matthew Arnold, A. E. Housman, and especially T. S. Eliot showcase his erudition, dispensed with a piercing insight into human folly. In his survey of events as disparate as Oscar night, a Walker Evans retrospective, and the craziness of a Chanel show in Paris, the acuity of Lanes intellect is matched by a quality of heart that is his alone, and by a willingness to be carried away. His writings remind us of what criticism can achieve at its best.
Arguably the most gifted reviewer at work today, Anthony Lane sets the standardas a reader, as a critic, and as an observer of life. Nobody's Perfect is a must for fans old and new. [via]More editions of Nobody's Perfect : Writings from the New Yorker:
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Once upon Stilettos: A Novelby Shanna SwendsonISBN 0345481275 (0-345-48127-5)
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Theres no place like Bloomies!
Katie Chandlers life is pure magicliterally. As an executive assistant at Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc., shes seen more than her share of fantastical occurrences. A mere Manhattan mortal, Katie is no wizard, but shes a wiz at exposing hokum pocus, cloaked lies, and deceptive enchantments. And shes fallen under the all-too-human spell of attraction to Owen, a hunky wizard and coworker. Owen, however, is preoccupied. Someone has broken into his office and disrupted top-secret files, and it reeks of an inside job. CEO Merlin (yes, the Merlin) and taps Katie and her special ability to uncover the magical mole.
Keeping her feelings in check while sleuthing alongside Owen, Katie is shocked to discover that her immunity to magic is waning, putting her in grave danger. Soon shes surrendering to the charms and enchantments of everyone and everything around her, including a killer pair of red stilettos. Katie must now conjure up her natural instincts to get to the bottom of the break-in, regain her power, and win the wizard of her dreams. [via]More editions of Once upon Stilettos: A Novel:
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Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0321427130 (0-321-42713-0)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Palindromania!by Jon AgeeISBN 0374357307 (0-374-35730-7)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Palindromania!'Book summary:The ultimate celebration for the palindromic year 2002!
What exactly is "palindromania"? It's the inability to see the word STRAW without thinking WARTS. It's the powerful impulse to reverse the name OPRAH to make it HARPO. It's the uncontrollable urge to buy A TOYOTA. It's an obsession with words and phrases that read exactly the same forwards and backwards. And now, in his most entertaining and extensive volume, Jon Agee, the prime purveyor of palindromes, has taken this unique word phenomenon to a whole new level. Featuring themed sections, comic-strip-style stories, and even lengthy monologues, Agee's collection of over 160 familiar and unfamiliar palindromes paired with all-new masterly cartoons is a treasure for word-lovers young and old.[via]Palindromania! is a 2003 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.More editions of Palindromania!:
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Passion, Betrayal and Killer Highlightsby Betsy BurkeISBN 0373895526 (0-373-89552-6)
Softcover, Red Dress Ink
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Passion, Betrayal and Killer Highlights'Book summary:Sophie Katz has just offered a man $12,000 for his services& Is she desperate or just meshugeneh?
Considering the kind of disasters that usually befall the half-black, half-Jewish mystery writer, probably both. Because the last time Sophie saw sexy P.I. Anatoly Darinsky, he practically danced a jig when she waved goodbyea normal reaction for a man who'd nearly bought the farm trying to protect her from her own foolishness. What are the chances he'd agree to take incriminating pictures of her sister's philandering husband? Or that he'd let her tag alongyou know&for research?
But when her brother-in-law turns up dead and her sister becomes the prime suspect, Sophie's priority is finding the real killer. With or without Anatoly's help. Her brother-in-law's secret life yields plenty of suspects, but the San Francisco police aren't taking any of them seriously. So Sophie does what comes naturally to her: she stirs up trouble (to lure the killer out, of course).
But if her crazy plan works, will Anatoly be there to protect her this time? [via]
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Passion, Betrayal And Killer Highlightsby Kyra DavisISBN 037389578X (0-373-89578-X)
Hardcover, Harlequin Books
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Peanuts 2000by Charles M. SchulzISBN 0345442393 (0-345-44239-3)
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Plain and Normalby James WilcoxISBN 0316941352 (0-316-94135-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The PMS Outlawsby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0345382323 (0-345-38232-3)
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The Prick of Noonby Peter DevriesISBN 0316182052 (0-316-18205-2)
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Quite Ugly One Morningby Christopher BrookmyreISBN 0316878839 (0-316-87883-9)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Satan : His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kasslerby Jeremy LevenISBN 0345302656 (0-345-30265-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Sauce for the Gooseby Peter DevriesISBN 0316182028 (0-316-18202-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sauce for the Goose'Book summary:Daisy Dobbin is an undercover feminist out to study sexual harassment in business offices, particularly that of Metropole magazine. To research it, of course, she must attract it - and thereby hangs the tale. The irony of her falling in love with the boss is serendipity enough without a resulting down-to-the-wire rivalry with a sister conspirator, her old girlhood chum Effie Sniffen. This the war between men and women becomes thematically interlocked with the competition among women for men, a double motif effected with all the comic subtlety we have come to expect from De Vries. [via]
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Selected Letters of James Thurberby James ThurberISBN 0316844446 (0-316-84444-6)
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Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960sby Gerald NachmanISBN 0375410309 (0-375-41030-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Sex, Murder and a Double Latteby Kyra DavisISBN 0373895801 (0-373-89580-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sex, Murder and a Double Latte'Book summary:When a mystery writer cries bloody murder, everyone blames her overactive imagination . . .
Thriller scribe Sophie Katz is as hard-boiled as a woman who drinks Grande Caramel Brownie Frappuccinos can be -- maybe it's from a lifetime of fielding dumb comments about her half-black, half-Jewish ethnicity. ("My sister married a Polynesian! I just love your culture!") So Sophie knows it's not paranoia, or post-divorce, living-alone-again jitters, when she becomes convinced that a crazed reader is sneaking into her apartment to reenact scenes from her books. The police, however, can't tell a good plot from an unmarked grave.
When a filmmaker friend is brutally murdered in the manner of a death scene in one of his movies, Sophie becomes convinced that a copycat killer is on the loose -- and that she's the next target. If she doesn't solve the mystery, her own bestseller will spell out her doom. Cursing her imagination (why, oh, why did she have to pick the axe?), Sophie engages in some real-life gumshoe tactics. The man who swoops in to save her in dark alleys at night is mysterious new love interest Anatoly Darinsky. Of course, if this were fiction, Anatoly would be her prime suspect . . .
With a story as delicious as designer coffee -- and with twice the jolt -- Davis and her muse, Sophie Katz, will blow you away with sex, murder and hilarity!
First-time novelist Kyra Davis has spent her life in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area, where she currently lives with her young son. Now a full-time parent and writer, Davis previously divided her time between a career in the fashion industry and various artistic endeavors such as acting, singing and creative writing. In her free time she indulges in lattes, Frappuccinos and anything else that will feed her caffeine addiction. [via]
Something Nasty in the Woodshedby Kyril BonfiglioliISBN 0333194438 (0-333-19443-8)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Tales from the White Hartby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0345343220 (0-345-34322-0)
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, A. C. Spearing, J.E. SpearingISBN 0333001109 (0-333-00110-9)
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Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Casebookby Arthur PollardISBN 0333215133 (0-333-21513-3)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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They Went That-A-Way: How the Famous, the Infamous, and the Great Diedby Malcolm ForbesISBN 0345362500 (0-345-36250-0)
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Tintin in Americaby HergeISBN 0316358525 (0-316-35852-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tintin in America'Book summary:Written in 1931, Tintin in America was chronologically the third Tintin adventure but is generally considered the first in the "official" canon. The stereotypes probably fit how a European would have looked at the New World, from Al Capone's gangsters in Chicago to a Native American tribe in the unfortunately named Redskin City, as Tintin and Snowy escape one peril after another in pursuit of villain Bobby Smiles. It's one of Herge's least complex--and least entertaining--tales, still worth a read but not a good introduction to the series as a whole. --David Horiuchi [via]
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Truly Tasteless Jokesby Blanche KnottISBN 034530537X (0-345-30537-X)
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Truly Tasteless Jokes Twoby Blanche KnottISBN 034532921X (0-345-32921-X)
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The Twelfth Garfield Fat Cat 3-Packby Jim DavisISBN 0345445813 (0-345-44581-3)
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Until I Find Youby John IrvingISBN 0345479726 (0-345-47972-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Until I Find You'Book summary:At over 800 pages, John Irving's Until I Find You is a daunting proposition at best. Anyone who finishes it will have acquired forearm muscles, sore shoulders, and not much else. The story is self-indulgent, repetitive and, ultimately, boring, that cardinal sin that readers can't forgive. Longtime Irving readers have stayed with him through a few hits and a miss or two, but this is an all-time low. We are accustomed to Irving's work as quirky, bizarre, and off-the-wall and have forgiven all by calling such high-jinks and characters "imaginative" or "absolutely original." The only thing original about this tome is the descent into soft porn.
Jack Burns, the hero of the tale, is four years old when it all begins. He is the illegitimate son of Daughter Alice, a tattoo artist and, guess what, daughter of a tattoo artist. She takes Jack on a pilgrimage to find his womanizing father, William, a church organist and "ink addict." By seeking out church organs and tattoo parlors, she expects to find him. She doesn't, and by now we have spent more than a hundred pages in Northern European cities doing an imitation of Groundhog Day. Same story, different day: a little prostitution for Alice, a few questions asked; alas, no daddy.
Alice and Jack return to Toronto so that Jack may enter a previously all-girls school, which will admit little boys for the first time. There begins another 200 pages of the girls and the teachers abusing Jack, over and over again. By now, he is five and is, for some unfathomable reason, eminently interesting to girls and women. His "friend" Emma keeps careful track of "the little guy," as she calls Jack's penis, looking for signs of life. The worst part of all this is that none of it is funny or sad or even clever. There are wrestling vignettes, of course, and prep school tedium, but no bears. Maybe bears would have saved it. There were funny parts in The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules as well as poignant, horrific parts in both of those and other Irving novels. This story is flat. The voice never changes; it just drones on.
Jack becomes an actor. First, he is a boy in drag because he is so pretty, then he takes transvestite parts. He and Emma, now a published novelist, live together in LA, which provides endless opportunity for name-dropping. His career eventually takes off and he gets recognition and awards, but still no daddy. Irving, it turns out, never knew his father, either. Perhaps this exercise will exorcise that demon once and for all and Irving's next book will be about something more compelling than a little boy's penis and his trashy mother's antics. If you do make it through to the book's snapper of an ending, you deserve to find out what it is on your own. Call it a reward. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Vet in Harnessby James HerriotISBN 0330443569 (0-330-44356-9)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Vets Might Flyby James HerriotISBN 0330443585 (0-330-44358-5)
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What the Lady Wantsby Jennifer CrusieISBN 0373256442 (0-373-25644-2)
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Which Witchby Eva IbbotsonISBN 0330265865 (0-330-26586-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Which Witch'Book summary:Arriman the Awful, Loather of Light and Wizard of the North, needs a wife. How else can he have a wizard baby to carry on the family tradition of blighting and smiting, blasting and wuthering? The problem is, wizards can only marry one kind of person--a witch. Arriman dreads the thought. "A great black crone with warts and blisters in unmentionable places from crashing about on her broom! You want me to sit opposite one of those every morning eating my cornflakes?" But a witch it must be, so Arriman holds a contest to decide which witch. The local witches are all atwitter over what spell they'll perform for the contest--all except Belladonna, who is, to her great shame, a white witch. She looks rather like the girl on the Clairol Herbal Essence bottle, with a sweet face and flowing blonde hair. "There was usually something in Belladonna's hair: A fledgling blackbird parked there by its mother while she went to hunt for worms, a baby squirrel wanting somewhere safe to eat its hazel nuts, or a butterfly who thought she was a lily or a rose."
Black spells are cast, enchantments are woven, and even Belladonna manages to do a little damage in this wonderfully clever 1979 book by Eva Ibbotson (of The Secret of Platform 13). Young readers will delight in the way Ibbotson glories in the ghoulish and the gory--and in her engaging characters who are kindly and fiendish all at once. Which Witch (finally reissued in the United States) begs to be read aloud, with before-bed-length chapters and lots of opportunities for funny voices. (Ages 9 and older) --Claire Dederer [via]
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Why Things Are: Answers to Every Essential Question in Lifeby Joel AchenbachISBN 0345362241 (0-345-36224-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Things Are: Answers to Every Essential Question in Life'Book summary:"Not only does Joel Achenbach ask some great questions, but he actually answers them--and with a rigor that puts him somewhere between Socrates and Miss Manners. Plus he's funnier than either of them.:
Judy Jones and William Wilson
Authors of AN INCOMPLETE EDUCATION
From the dawn of time to yesterday's headlines, from baseball to the atom bomb,fromant farms to Peperidge Farm, syndicated columnist Joel Achenbach answers the perennial question, WHY?
Why do foreign languages sound so fast?
Why do fools fall in love?
Why don't people talk in elevators?
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You Can't Put No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock and Rollby Lewis GrizzardISBN 0345378032 (0-345-37803-2)
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