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Adventures of Samurai Catby Mark RogersISBN 0312850166 (0-312-85016-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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All American Girlby Meg CabotISBN 0064472779 (0-06-447277-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clayby Michael ChabonISBN 0312282990 (0-312-28299-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'Book summary:Like the comic books that animate and inspire it, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is both larger than life and of it too. Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages brimming with longing and hope. Samuel Klayman--self-described little man, city boy, and Jew--first meets Josef Kavalier when his mother shoves him aside in his own bed, telling him to make room for their cousin, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Prague. It's the beginning, however unlikely, of a beautiful friendship. In short order, Sam's talent for pulp plotting meets Joe's faultless, academy-trained line, and a comic-book superhero is born. A sort of lantern-jawed equalizer clad in dark blue long underwear, the Escapist "roams the globe, performing amazing feats and coming to the aid of those who languish in tyranny's chains!" Before they know it, Kavalier and Clay (as Sam Klayman has come to be known) find themselves at the epicenter of comics' golden age.
But Joe Kavalier is driven by motives far more complex than your average hack. In fact, his first act as a comic-book artist is to deal Hitler a very literal blow. (The cover of the first issue shows the Escapist delivering "an immortal haymaker" onto the Führer's realistically bloody jaw.) In subsequent years, the Escapist and his superhero allies take on the evil Iron Chain and their leader Attila Haxoff--their battles drawn with an intensity that grows more disturbing as Joe's efforts to rescue his family fail. He's fighting their war with brush and ink, Joe thinks, and the idea sustains him long enough to meet the beautiful Rosa Saks, a surrealist artist and surprisingly retrograde muse. But when even that fiction fails him, Joe performs an escape of his own, leaving Rosa and Sammy to pick up the pieces in some increasingly wrong-headed ways.
More amazing adventures follow--but reader, why spoil the fun? Suffice to say, Michael Chabon writes novels like the Escapist busts locks. Previous books such as The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys have prose of equal shimmer and wit, and yet here he seems to have finally found a canvas big enough for his gifts. The whole enterprise seems animated by love: for his alternately deluded, damaged, and painfully sincere characters; for the quirks and curious innocence of tough-talking wartime New York; and, above all, for comics themselves, "the inspirations and lucubrations of five hundred aging boys dreaming as hard as they could." Far from negating such pleasures, the Holocaust's presence in the novel only makes them more pressing. Art, if not capable of actually fighting evil, can at least offer a gesture of defiance and hope--a way out, in other words, of a world gone completely mad. Comic-book critics, Joe notices, dwell on "the pernicious effect, on young minds, of satisfying the desire to escape. As if there could be any more noble or necessary service in life." Indeed. --Mary Park [via]
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At Swim-Two-Birdsby Flann O'BrienISBN 0141182687 (0-14-118268-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Swim-Two-Birds'Book summary:If you try to read it too closely, the structure of this book will drive you crazy. Ask me how I know. On the first level, it seems to emanate from the addled mind of a navel-gazing Irish university student stumbling around thinking about writing a book or a school paper. As I said, you can go nuts trying to follow it. Yet At Swim-Two-Birds is a modernist masterpiece, the best-known fictional work of Irish newspaper writer Flann O'Brien. Published in 1939, the book's great charm is O'Brien's constant reinvention of the English language, fueled and altered by an Irish sensibility and language; the sentences come out in a torrent of musical, drunken ramblings. [via]
Bizarre Booksby Russell Ash, Brian LakeISBN 0312082509 (0-312-08250-9)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearmentsby Celia RivenbarkISBN 0312343426 (0-312-34342-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments'Book summary:[via]From the wickedly hilarious pen of Southern humorist Celia Rivenbark comes a collection of essays that brings to mind Dave Barry (in high heels) or Jeff Foxworthy (in a prom dress).
Step into the wacky world of "womanless wedding" fund-raisers, in which Bubbas wear boas. Meet two sisters who fight rural boredom by washing Budweiser cans and cutting them into pieces to make clothing. Learn why the word snow sends any right-thinking Southerner careening to the Food Lion for extra loaves of bread and little else.Humor columnist and slightly crazed belle-by-birth Celia Rivenbark tackles these and other lard-laden subjects in Bless Your Heart, Tramp, a hilarious look at Southern---and just plain human---foibles, up-close and personal.
So pour yourself a glass of sweet tea and curl up on the pie-azza with Bless Your Heart, Tramp.More editions of Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments:
The Book of the Subgeniusby DobbsISBN 0070622299 (0-07-062229-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Bride of Dark and Stormyby Scott Rice, Bulwer-Lytton ContestISBN 014010304X (0-14-010304-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches (1867by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195114000 (0-19-511400-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketchesby Mark Twain, Roy Blount, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195101316 (0-19-510131-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevatorby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0141301120 (0-14-130112-0)
Softcover, Puffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator'Book summary:Picking right up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory left off, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator continues the adventures of Charlie Bucket, his family, and Willy Wonka, the eccentric candy maker. As the book begins, our heroes are shooting into the sky in a glass elevator, headed for destinations unknown. What follows is exactly the kind of high-spirited magical madness and mayhem we've all come to expect from Willy Wonka and his creator Roald Dahl. The American space race gets a send-up, as does the President, and Charlie's family gets a second chance at childhood. Throw in the Vermicious Knids, Gnoolies, and Minusland and we once again witness pure genius. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Decameronby Giovanni Boccaccio, G.H. McWilliamISBN 0140449302 (0-14-044930-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decameron'Book summary:The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots that revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions. [via]
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Softcover, Penguin USA - Decameron: ISBN 019282712X (0-19-282712-X)
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The Diaries of Adam and Eveby Mark TwainISBN 007065610X (0-07-065610-X)
Hardcover, American Heritage Press
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Double Fudgeby Judy BlumeISBN 0142408786 (0-14-240878-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Double Fudge'Book summary:"I love money," is five-year-old Fudge's new theme song. He's going to dress as a miser for Halloween and has made big plans to buy the entire world (or at least Toys"R"Us). Fudge's new obsession with cash is driving his older brother Peter crazy! But life really spins out of control when Peter and his family run into their long-lost relatives, the Howie Hatchers of Honolulu, Hawaii. Now Peter has to deal with Flora and Fauna, his annoying twin cousins who burst into song at the drop of a hat, and their weird little brother, coincidentally named Farley Drexel Hatcher-just like Fudge! Their names aren't the only similarity, and before long, mini-Fudge is causing just as much trouble as Fudge always has! This newest book starring Peter and Fudge is one wild ride! [via]
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Ego Trip's Big Book of Racismby Sacha Jenkins, Elliott Wilson, Jefferson Mao Chairman, Gabriel Alvarez, Brent RollinsISBN 0060988967 (0-06-098896-7)
Softcover, Regan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ego Trip's Big Book of Racism'Book summary:Ferociously intelligent one moment, willfully smart-ass the next, ego trip's Big Book of Racism is a glorious, hilarious conflation of the racial undercurrents that affect contemporary culture at every turn. This one-of-a-kind encounter with the absurdities, complexities, and nuances of race relations is brought to you by five writers of color whose groundbreaking independent magazine, ego trip, has been called "the world's rawest, stinkiest, funniest magazine" by Spin.
Filled with enough testifying and truth to satisfy even the good Reverend Sharpton, ego trip's Big Book of Racism is a riotous and revolutionary look at race and popular culture that's sure to spark controversy and ignite debate.
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Emmaby Jane Austen, Fiona J. StaffordISBN 0141439580 (0-14-143958-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Emma: ISBN 0192802372 (0-19-280237-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Emma: ISBN 0312207573 (0-312-20757-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - Emma: ISBN 0140430105 (0-14-043010-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Emma: ISBN 0140434151 (0-14-043415-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Emma: ISBN 0192824325 (0-19-282432-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Emma: ISBN 0192827561 (0-19-282756-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Emma: ISBN 019283357X (0-19-283357-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Emma: ISBN 0192100300 (0-19-210030-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Emma: ISBN 0192553445 (0-19-255344-5)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Emma: ISBN 0141439580 (0-14-143958-0)
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Emmaby David Lodge, Jane Austen, James KinsleyISBN 0192815040 (0-19-281504-0)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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Every Living Thingby James HerriotISBN 0312348525 (0-312-34852-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Every Living Thing'Book summary:James Herriot's final work and last in his beloved series of animal stories[via]
This fifth and final of James Herriot's heartwarming story collections brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki Woo) and introduces new ones, including Herriot's children Rosie and Jimmy and the marvelously eccentric vet Calum Buchanan.
As James grows older, he finds that change comes even to his beloved Yorkshire---but not necessarily bad, as he watches his own two children come to share and participate in his deep love of the animal world. Herriot's last memoir, Every Living Thing is a truly heartwarming read, burstingly full of his deep joy in life, sense of humor, and appreciation of the world around him. 
Full Blast: Library Editionby Charlotte Hughes, Janet EvanovichISBN 0312983301 (0-312-98330-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Full Tiltby Charlotte Hughes, Janet EvanovichISBN 031298328X (0-312-98328-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Full Tilt'Book summary:Mysterious and sexy, Maximillian Holt moves into Jamie Swift's life like a steamroller. She's the owner of a small town newspaper and hes a notorious, brilliant billionaire--what could they possibly have in common? Apparently quite a lot, for besides their mutual affection for Max's airhead sister Deedee and his investment in Jamie's struggling business, they share an explosive sexual chemistry. Unfortunately, Jamie's already engaged to be married. But when someone sprays her office with gunfire, only Max can save her. Now she'll have to rely on him to sort out the tangle of embezzlement, mayhem, and attempted murder that threatens her bucolic world of Beaumont, South Carolina. But if they unravel the mysteries and manage to stay alive, is there any hope for a shared future between a cosmopolitan guy committed to tracking down evil and a small-town girl who just wants a normal life?
Authors Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes have paired up to create a fast-paced, wacky novel filled with eccentric characters and southern ambiance. In the time-honored tradition of such detective couples as Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man, After the Thin Man) the hero and heroine trade quips and parry sexual innuendos with panache while easily deciphering clues and adroitly coping with danger. Readers will thoroughly enjoy this Jamie Swift/Max Holt adventure, the first in a new series from this author duo. --Lois Faye Dyer [via]
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Galapagosby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224028472 (0-224-02847-2)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Galapagos'Book summary:The human survivors of the "Nature Crisis of the Century", are quietly evolving into sleek, furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by their prized big brains. From the author of "Slaughterhouse 5". [via]
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Galapagos: Key Environmentsby Roger PerryISBN 0080279961 (0-08-027996-1)
Hardcover, Elsevier Science Ltd
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Gargantua and Pantagruelby Francois Rabelais, M. A. ScreechISBN 0140445501 (0-14-044550-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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God Knowsby Joseph HellerISBN 0224022881 (0-224-02288-1)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God Knows'Book summary:Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David -- yes, King David -- but as you've never seen him before. You already know David as the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon; now meet David as he really was: the cocky Jewish kid, the plagiarized poet, and the Jewish father. Listen as David tells his own story, a story both relentlessly ancient and surprisingly modern, about growing up and growing old, about men and women, and about man and God. It is quintessential Heller. [via]
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The Great Brainby John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer MayerISBN 0142400580 (0-14-240058-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Henry Root Lettersby Henry RootISBN 0297777629 (0-297-77762-9)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Hi, This Is Sylvia...by Nicole HollanderISBN 0312371934 (0-312-37193-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruelby Francois Rabelais, J. M. CohenISBN 014044047X (0-14-044047-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel'Book summary:This text parodies everyone from eminent classical authors and schoolmen to Rabelais's own acquaintances. But the brilliance of the book lies not merely in these learned references, but in the story into which they are woven. [via]
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Home Landby Sam LipsyteISBN 0312424183 (0-312-42418-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yetby Cynthia HeimelISBN 0060974788 (0-06-097478-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Playsby Oscar Wilde, Richard Allen CaveISBN 0140436065 (0-14-043606-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays'Book summary:Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This collection offers newly edited texts of Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, An Ideal Husband, and, arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, The Importance of Being Earnest. [via]
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Indiscretions of Archieby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0140020462 (0-14-002046-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Indiscretions of Archie'Book summary:This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library. [via]
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The Iron Tonic: Or, a Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valleyby Edward GoreyISBN 0151004374 (0-15-100437-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iron Tonic: Or, a Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley'Book summary:It's difficult to say what The Iron Tonic is about, although it is "known the skating pond conceals a family of enormous eels," and that "the light is fading from the day. The rest is darkness and dismay." Finally, though, The Iron Tonic could be seen as Edward Gorey's version of a winter afternoon in one of the great Russian novels of the nineteenth century.[via]More editions of The Iron Tonic: Or, a Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley:
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Jane Austen's Emma: A Longman Cultural Editionby Jane Austen, Frances FergusonISBN 032122504X (0-321-22504-X)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen's Emma: A Longman Cultural Edition'Book summary:Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Lady Windermere's Fan/Salome/a Woman of No Importance/an Ideal Husband/the Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar Wilde, Peter RabyISBN 0192822462 (0-19-282246-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Windermere's Fan/Salome/a Woman of No Importance/an Ideal Husband/the Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This collection offers newly edited texts of Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salome, An Ideal Husband, and, arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, The Importance of Being Earnest. [via]
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Lump It or Leave Itby Florence KingISBN 031206568X (0-312-06568-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Mad About the Seventies: The Best of the Decadeby Usual Gang of IdiotsISBN 0316328022 (0-316-32802-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Me and My Little Brainby John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer MayerISBN 0142400645 (0-14-240064-5)
Softcover, Puffin
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More Red Meat : The Second Collection of Red Meat Cartoonsby Max CannonISBN 0312195141 (0-312-19514-1)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggleby Betty MacDonald, Hilary KnightISBN 0064401480 (0-06-440148-0)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle'Book summary:Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has been wildly popular with children and adults for over 50 years. Children adore her because she understands them--and because her upside-down house is always filled with the smell of freshly baked cookies, and her backyard with buried treasure. Grownups love her because her magical common sense solutions to children's problems succeed when their own cajoling and yelling don't. For the child who refuses to bathe, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle recommends letting her be. Wait until the dirt on her body has accumulated to half an inch, then scatter radish seeds on her arms and head. When the plants start sprouting, the nonbather is guaranteed to change her mind about that bath.
Hilary Knight's (Eloise, Sunday Morning) delightful pictures provide lively, droll accompaniment to Betty MacDonald's refreshing stories. Whether Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is curing Answer-Backers or Slow-Eater-Tiny-Bite-Takers, her remedies always work like a charm. More than one parent over the years has surreptitiously turned to Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle when Dr. Spock failed to come through. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Much Ado About Nothingby William Shakespeare, Josephine Waters BennettISBN 014071412X (0-14-071412-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Much Ado about Nothing'Book summary:"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0198321473 (0-19-832147-3)
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Softcover, Viking Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0174434820 (0-17-443482-0)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0192826204 (0-19-282620-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0198320078 (0-19-832007-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0198320566 (0-19-832056-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Much Ado About Nothing: ISBN 0195217977 (0-19-521797-7)
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My Uncle Oswaldby Roald DahlISBN 0140055770 (0-14-005577-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Uncle Oswald'Book summary:The nameless narrator has revealed snippets of the lovable, lascivious Uncle Oswald's life in other collections, but this is the only novel--brief though it is--dedicated solely to the diaries of "the greatest fornicator of all time." Inspired by stories of the aphrodisiac powers of the Sudanese blister beetle, the palpable seductiveness of the lovely Yasmin Howcomely, and the scientific know-how of Professor A. R. Woresley, Uncle Oswald anticipates the concept of the Nobel sperm bank by some 40 years, flimflamming crowned heads, great artists, and eccentric geniuses into making "donations." The life of a commercial sperm broker has a few surprises even for a sophisticated bon vivant, and Dahl manages his signature sting-in-the-tail ending even in one of his lightest comic works. [via]
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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Storiesby Mark TwainISBN 0146000870 (0-14-600087-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Orange Crushby Tim DorseyISBN 0061031542 (0-06-103154-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0192547046 (0-19-254704-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen'Book summary:"I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of return; it would do her good," remarks one of Jane Austen's characters in Emma.
Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and sparkling ironies of Jane Austen's masterpiece, her comedy of a sentimental education through which Emma discovers a capacity for love and marriage. [via]
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Playing the Moldovans at Tennisby Tony HawksISBN 0312305184 (0-312-30518-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Pudd'Nhead Wilsonby Mark Twain, Malcolm BradburyISBN 0140430407 (0-14-043040-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pudd'Nhead Wilson'Book summary:Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate Chambers, the son of her master. The two boys' lives in the quiet Missouri town of Dawson's Landing remain entwined even though they take very different directions. The indulged Tom (now heir to a fortune rightfully that of Chambers) goes to Yale, where he learns how to drink and gamble, while Chambers looks set to remain a subservient drudge. But then a strange sequence of events begins - one in which the much-derided lawyer, 'Pudd'nhead' Wilson, has a key part to play - and changes everything. Darkly ironic, blending farce and tragedy, "Pudd'nhead Wilson" is a complex and fascinating depiction of human nature under slavery. [via]
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Putting on the Ritzby Joe KeenanISBN 0140149899 (0-14-014989-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Putting on the Ritz'Book summary:[via]The witty duo from Blue Heaven invade the entourage of a tasteless real estate/media magnate, attempt to turn his talentless wife into a chanteuse, and vie for the affections of a suave magazine editor, in this deftly delicious comedy of bad manners, financial skullduggery, and romantic infighting.
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Road to Wellvilleby T. C. BoyleISBN 0140167188 (0-14-016718-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainianby Marina LewyckaISBN 0143036742 (0-14-303674-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian'Book summary:[via]With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his intention to remarry, his daughters must set aside their longtime feud to thwart him. For their fathers intended is a voluptuous old-country gold digger with a proclivity for green satin underwear and an appetite for the good life of the West. As the hostilities mount and family secrets spill out, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian combines sex, bitchiness, wit, and genuine warmth in its celebration of the pleasure of growing old disgracefully.
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Snobsby Julian FellowesISBN 0312336934 (0-312-33693-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snobs'Book summary:SNOBS is the story of Edith Lavery, who earns a living answering the telephone in a Chelsea-based estate agents. She is the attractive only child of a comfortably-off accountant. When she attends Royal Ascot as a guest of friends, she meets bachelor Charles Broughton, who as Earl Broughton and heir to the Marquess of Uckfield, is a gossip-column favourite. He proposes, she accepts - and here is the crux of the story: is she really in love with Charles or with his title and all that goes with it? The story is narrated by a journeyman character actor who comfortably moves among the upper and middle classes, while observing their foibles. Superbly observed, the story includes a fabulous character in Charles's mother, Lady Uckfield, known as 'Googie', who wants for her son the daughter of a peer from the old, familiar world she knows and trusts. She perceives Edith to be a young woman on the make, and is vindicated when Edith, now Countess Broughton, falls for a blonde good-looking actor. Fellowes resolves his story with twists and turns aplenty. This is a tale worthy of a contemporary Jane Austen with a dash of Evelyn Waugh. [via]
Sockby Penn JilletteISBN 0312328052 (0-312-32805-2)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hellby Harry HarrisonISBN 0312860633 (0-312-86063-3)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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DiGriz is strenuously fighting boredom on a ritzy pleasure planet when his beloved wife disappears while vising the Temple of Eternal Truth, an enigmatic institution that promises its patrons a sneak peek at Heaven--for a price.
Determined to get his wife back, diGriz takes on the Temple. He thinks he's ready for anything, but he never expects to find himself banished to Hell, complete with pointy-tailed devils. Has Divine judgement caught up with the Rat at last?
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A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gownby Robert BakerISBN 0138526087 (0-13-852608-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Tales from Planet Sylviaby Nicole HollanderISBN 0312051662 (0-312-05166-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Thus Was Adonis Murderedby Sarah CaudwellISBN 0140063102 (0-14-006310-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Uncivil Libertiesby Calvin TrillinISBN 0140102558 (0-14-010255-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Uncle John's Bathroom Readerby Bathroom InstituteISBN 0312026633 (0-312-02663-3)
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Westward Ha!, Or, Around the World in Eighty Clichesby S. J. PerelmanISBN 0306802295 (0-306-80229-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Whad'Ya Know?by Michael FeldmanISBN 0060975083 (0-06-097508-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Wiltby Tom SharpeISBN 0330253603 (0-330-25360-3)
Softcover, Pan Books in association with Secker & Warburg
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wilt'Book summary:This story of Henry Wilt, the Polytechnic lecturer who gets into all sorts of trouble is written by the author of "Riotous Assembly", "Blot on the Landscape" and "Wilt Alternative". [via]
Wonder Boysby Michael ChabonISBN 0312140940 (0-312-14094-0)
Softcover, Picador
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Xone of Contentionby Piers AnthonyISBN 0312866917 (0-312-86691-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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