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27 Short Playsby Christopher DurangISBN 188039989X (1-880399-89-X)
Softcover, Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '27 Short Plays'Book summary:A collection of works by Christopher Durang. Twenty-seven short plays including: Woman Stand-up, Titanic, The Actor's Nightmare, A Stye of the Eye, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls, and Wanda's Visit. [via]
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44 Scotland Streetby Alexander McCall Smith, Iain McIntoshISBN 1904598161 (1-904598-16-1)
Hardcover, Polygon
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The Arden Shakespeare Complete Worksby Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan, Richard ProudfootISBN 1903436397 (1-903436-39-7)
Hardcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works: Leather-Bound'Book summary:The Complete Arden Shakespeare, published for the first time in 1998, is now available in an updated hardback edition. The Complete Arden Shakespeare contains the texts of all ShakespeareÂ's plays, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden Shakespeare series. The updated edition includes eight newly revised playtexts as published in the Arden Third Series since 1998. A general introduction by the three General Editors of the ongoing Arden Shakespeare series gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries. The introduction summarises the known facts about the dramatistÂ's life, his reading and use of sources, and the nature of theatrical performance during his lifetime. Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within ShakespeareÂ's ÂSuvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers. · The sound, reliable, critical edition of ShakespeareÂ's work · Updated and revised to include all of the editions currently available in the Arden Third Series · Includes The Two Noble Kinsmen, the Poems and the Sonnets · General introduction by the Arden General Editors · Brief contextual introductions to each play · Glossary with about 400 entries [via]
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Arden Shakespeare Complete Works of ShakespeareISBN 1903436613 (1-903436-61-3)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
Find This BookBook summary:[via]The Complete Arden Shakespeare contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays and poems, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden Shakespeare series. This edition includes eight newly revised playtexts as published in the Arden Third Series since 1998.A general introduction by the three General Editors of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries. The introduction summarizes the known facts about the dramatist's life, his reading and use of sources, and the nature of theatrical performance during his lifetime.Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare's oeuvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary with nearly 400 entries explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsGeneral Editors' PrefaceIntroductionShakespeare's SonnetsA Lover's ComplaintVenus and AdonisLucreceThe Passionate Pilgrim"The Phoenix and Turtle"All's Well That Ends WellAntony and CleopatraAs You Like ItThe Comedy of ErrorsCoriolanusCymbelineHamletJulius CaesarKing Henry IV, Part 1King Henry IV, Part 2King Henry VKing Henry VI, Part 1King Henry VI, Part 2King Henry VI, Part 3King Henry VIIIKing JohnKing LearKing Richard IIKing Richard IIILove's Labour's LostMacbethMeasure for MeasureThe Merchant of VeniceThe Merry Wives of WindsorA Midsummer Night's DreamMuch Ado About NothingOthelloPericlesRomeo and JulietThe Taming of the ShrewThe TempestTimon of AthensTitus AndronicusTroilus and CressidaTwelfth NightThe Two Gentlemen of VeronaThe Two Noble KinsmenThe Winter's TaleBibliographyIndex of first lines of sonnetsIndex of first lines of songsGlossaryMore editions of Arden Shakespeare Complete Works of Shakespeare:
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As You Like Itby William ShakespeareISBN 1853260592 (1-85326-059-2)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As You Like It'Book summary:The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of As You Like It provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts. [via]
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As You Like Itby Juliet DusinberreISBN 1904271227 (1-904271-22-7)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As You Like It'Book summary:[via]With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberre demonstrates that Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeare's heroine reinvents herself for every age. But the play is also deeply rooted in Elizabethan culture, and through it Shakespeare addresses some of the hotly debated issues of the period. Dusinberre's introduction begins with a brief analysis of the play to preface a vast and thorough exploration of characters, cultural context, sources, setting, staging, literary and legendary influences, themes of love, politics, and gender, and more. Images, illustrations, and a casting and doubling chart appear throughout the introduction and within the five appendices.The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the plays foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader.More editions of As You Like It:
At Home in Mitfordby Jan KaronISBN 1863407073 (1-86340-707-3)
Hardcover, Thomas t Beeler
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Bone: Out from Bonevilleby Jeff SmithISBN 1888963093 (1-888963-09-3)
Softcover, Cartoon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bone: Out from Boneville'Book summary:Trapped in a dungeon while the fate of the Valley is decided by two raging armies, Thorn is haunted by the dangerous and mysterious object of power known as the Crown of Horns. Guarded by dragons, the Crown of Horns is the only thing that can stop the Locust and end the war... but how, and at what price? Fone Bone believes he knows the answer, and he must decide where his heart truly lies... [via]
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By the Seat of My Pants: Humorous Tales Of Travel And Misadventureby Don GeorgeISBN 1741046068 (1-74104-606-8)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Castle Waitingby Linda MedleyISBN 1888963077 (1-888963-07-7)
Softcover, Diamond Comic Distributors
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Complete Works of William Shakespeareby William ShakespeareISBN 185326895X (1-85326-895-X)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works of William Shakespeare'Book summary:William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness. This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnets, as well as his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. [via]
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Edmond RostandISBN 1593080751 (1-59308-075-1)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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Dead And Loving Itby Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 159722345X (1-59722-345-X)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Don't Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefsby Kimberly Witherspoon, Andrew FriedmanISBN 1596910704 (1-59691-070-4)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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Eddie Izzard: Dress to Killby David Quantick, Eddie IzzardISBN 1852277637 (1-85227-763-7)
Hardcover, Virgin
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The Four Bubbas of the Apocalypse: Flatulence, Halitosis, Incest, and ... Nedby Selina RosenISBN 1893687457 (1-893687-45-7)
Softcover, Yard Dog Pr
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Gaining Lightnessby John Baur, Mark SummersISBN 1595710221 (1-59571-022-1)
Softcover, Word Assn Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gaining Lightness'Book summary:Avast, ye scurvy dogs and saucy wenches! The Pirate Guys Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers and John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur were as surprised as anyone when their idea for Talk Like a Pirate Day went around the world in just two years. In 2003 more than 19 million people on seven continents took part in the fun. The Pirate Guys have been seen and heard on CNN, National Public Radio, the BBC, Radio Ireland, and plenty more radio stations and newspapers around the globe.
Now they share their booty of pirate lore and high seas hijinks in Well Blow Me Down. With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Dave Barry, the Guys tell the how and why of talking like pirates in a "drop-dead funny" book that will shiver your timbers and make any landlubber swagger with pirattitude. [via]
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The Good Fairies of New Yorkby Martin MillarISBN 1857022173 (1-85702-217-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Fairies of New York'Book summary:This book enables teachers to develop a complete range of basic investigations for science with students aged five to 11 years. It demonstrates how children can use hands-on activities to consolidate and extend their knowledge and understanding. Investigations are presented in a generic form, so that teachers can work through them and adapt them to meet the particular needs of their own classes. The presentation of activities ranges from highly-structured sequences of instructions and questions (with answers!), to more general discussions, depending on the approach needed and the likely variations in equipment and materials available. Each activity is aimed to help any teacher carry out significant scientific investigations with their class, and where necessary, to learn alongside them. Almost every investigation and activity has been tested by the author. Investigations use readily-available, non-specialist or recycled materials. The context of this book is children's need to learn through first-hand experience of the world around them. This book is an essential resource for teachers planning an effective science programme, or for student teachers needing to broaden their scientific knowledge and understanding. "200 Science Investigations for Young Students" is the companion volume of activities which demonstrate the theories in Martin Wenham's "Understanding Primary Science". The content has been guided by, but not limited to, The National Curriculum 2000 and the Initial Teacher Training Curriculum for Primary Science, issued by the Teacher Training Agency. [via]
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Gravitation 4by Maki MurakamiISBN 1595324151 (1-59532-415-1)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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Gravitation 4by Jamie S. Rich, Maki MurakamiISBN 1595324143 (1-59532-414-3)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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Growing Up Lutheranby Suzann J. Nelson, Janet Letnes MartinISBN 1886627053 (1-886627-05-3)
Softcover, Independent Pub Marketing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Growing Up Lutheran'Book summary:If you search for the word "coffee" in the Bible, if you're pretty sure that all the pairs of animals in Noah's Ark were married, and if you know that Heaven is up and Hell is down, you'll love Growing Up Lutheran. If the Lutherans you know seem rather, er, mysterious, it will do you good.
Combining their own memories with those of other Lutherans who grew up in the 1940s through the 1960s, Janet and Suzann have written a delightful expose of what it means to be Lutheran and how it's done. Endearing, often hilarious stories shine a light on Lutheran life from baptism ("And His Name Shall Be Called Gilman Einar Stedje") to death ("He Is Not Gone, He Is Only Away"). In between, you'll learn about Sunday School, Christmas pageants (a.k.a. "bathrobe pageants"), Bible Camp, Confirmation, and Lutheran weddings. You'll get the inside scoop on the Lutheran Church Basement Women ("a special species of people"), lutefisk suppers, pew protocol, church architecture, and much more.
In the words of the authors, Growing Up Lutheran is "a mixture of ingredients that we had on hand, generously salted. . . . With gentle humor, and lightly peppered&with quite a few hot granules of Lutheran theology." This is most certainly true. [via]More editions of Growing Up Lutheran:
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The Illustrated Stratford Shakespeareby William ShakespeareISBN 1851523812 (1-85152-381-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Stratford Shakespeare'Book summary:He's indisputably the greatest writer in the English language, a master of every mood from sidesplitting comedy (Twelfth Night) to profound tragedy (King Lear) to the historically majestic (Henry V). Every bookshelf must have a complete collection of his 38 plays, his magnificent and passionate sonnets, and his epic poems. Here they all are in one 1,024-page, yet compact and low-cost hardcover, sturdy enough to withstand students poring through its pages for classes and exams; theatergoers refreshing their acquaintance with a favorite play before seeing it performed; and literature lovers picking it up again and again simply for pleasure. Every time you return to Shakespeare's elegantly phrased lines, and his rich and complex characters, you'll find something new to treasure. Illustrated with Renaissance pictures that capture the feel of the Bard's era. [via]
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In The Beginning . . . There Were No Diapers: Laughing And Learning In The First Years Of Fatherhoodby Timothy P. BeteISBN 1893732878 (1-893732-87-8)
Softcover, Ave Maria Pr
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrellby Susanna ClarkeISBN 1596911530 (1-59691-153-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell'Book summary:It's 1808 and that Corsican upstart Napoleon is battering the English army and navy. Enter Mr. Norrell, a fusty but ambitious scholar from the Yorkshire countryside and the first practical magician in hundreds of years. What better way to demonstrate his revival of British magic than to change the course of the Napoleonic wars? Susanna Clarke's ingenious first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, has the cleverness and lightness of touch of the Harry Potter series, but is less a fairy tale of good versus evil than a fantastic comedy of manners, complete with elaborate false footnotes, occasional period spellings, and a dense, lively mythology teeming beneath the narrative. Mr. Norrell moves to London to establish his influence in government circles, devising such powerful illusions as an 11-day blockade of French ports by English ships fabricated from rainwater. But however skillful his magic, his vanity provides an Achilles heel, and the differing ambitions of his more glamorous apprentice, Jonathan Strange, threaten to topple all that Mr. Norrell has achieved. A sparkling debut from Susanna Clarke--and it's not all fairy dust. --Regina Marler [via]
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Kurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both Deadby Tim BarelaISBN 1884568041 (1-884568-04-1)
Softcover, Palliard Pr
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Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comicby Henri BergsonISBN 1596050446 (1-59605-044-6)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic'Book summary:Clem Kadiddlehopper wore a funny hat. Even animals other than humans seem to laugh, because they, too, possess emotions. And sometimes, when you're by yourself, you just start giggling for no reason. But that's not funny. As Henri Bergson, proto-existentialist French philosopher and author of Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, would say, you can stop laughing now. We must rethink what tickles us. For Bergson, laughter is a purely intellectual response that serves the social purpose of assuaging discomfort over the unaccustomed and unexpected. We chuckle at Lucy attempting to wrap the bonbons speeding by on a candy-factory conveyor belt because she's stuck in one place, performing the same task over and over, and failing; we hope that in similar situations we could be more flexible. Bergson recaps: "Rigidity is the comic, and laughter is its corrective."
Bergson's thinking typifies a peculiarly Gallic tendency to rationalize the apparently ephemeral and subjective (in this case, humor), discussing it in exquisitely rarefied language in order to assert that which defies common sense (a funny hat is not funny, laughter expresses no emotion, no one laughs alone) but partakes nonetheless of a logical inevitability. Laughter, first published in 1911, clearly draws upon the early years of European modernism, yet also prefigures the movement in some ways. In recognizing the comic as it embodies itself in a "rigid," absentminded person, locked into repetitious, socially awkward behavior, Bergson--even as he looks backward, primarily to Molière--seems to be spawning the sophisticated visual and physical comedy of Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd; the transformation of Léger's figures into anthropoid machines; and Nijinsky's starring role in Stravinsky's satirical clockwork ballet Pétrouchka.
This little book resurrects a British translation that has long been out of print. While Laughter won't quite explain why the French love Jerry Lewis, or keep you in stitches, it's a bracing read that will make you think twice about laughing the next time someone stumbles into a lamppost. --Robert Burns Neveldine [via]
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The Leaky Establishmentby David LangfordISBN 1903468000 (1-903468-00-0)
Softcover, Big Engine
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The Library Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, George Cruikshank, John Gilbert, Robert DudleyISBN 1888777745 (1-888777-74-5)
Hardcover, Trident Reference Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Library Shakespeare'Book summary:Known as the greatest playwright of all time Wiiliam Shakespeare has been immortalized in this deluxe 1448 edition of his works. This reproduction, from an original 3 volume 19th Century Manuscript,is beautifully illustrated by Irish artist George Cruikshank, joined by Sir John Gilbert, and R. Dudley.
This Complete Library of Shakspeare is divided into three sections: Tragedies, Comedies, & Histories with Sonnets. [via]
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Little Peopleby Tom HoltISBN 1841491853 (1-84149-185-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Loves Labours LostISBN 1904271103 (1-904271-10-3)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
Find This BookBook summary:Another example of Shakespeare's comic fascination with the battle between and misunderstanding of the sexes, Love's Labour's Lost is a difficult play to read, but one which is extremely effective on stage. The Play opens with King Ferdinand of Navarre and his courtiers taking a vow of study and sexual abstinence for a period of three years. However, their vows are soon placed under strain with the arrival of the Princess of France and her ladies in waiting. The inevitable happens, and the different couples attempt to surreptitiously communicate, causing much hilarious confusion and embarrassment in the process. Shakespeare deploys every farcical element in the book, including impersonation, wrongly delivered letters, outrageous puns and word play, fights, drunkenness and masquerades, as Ferdinand's entourage soon learn that rather than running from women to books, it is in fact the opposite sex that "are the books, the arts, the academes/That show, contain, and nourish all the world". However, one of the most interesting aspects of the play is that it does not end with everyone marrying and living happily ever after. The women give as good as they get from the men, and in the end turn the tables in extremely interesting ways. One of Shakespeare's most linguistically challenging, but also intelligent comedies. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Mad Readerby Harvey Kurtzman, Roger Price, Jack Davis, Bill ElderISBN 1596878061 (1-59687-806-1)
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The Mammoth Book Of New Comic Fantasyby Mike AshleyISBN 1845291573 (1-84529-157-3)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf
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The Man Who Was Thursdayby G. K. ChestertonISBN 1853262366 (1-85326-236-6)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Was Thursday'Book summary:In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon."
But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Man Who Was Thursday:
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmareby G. K. ChestertonISBN 1595970010 (1-59597-001-0)
Softcover, Idylls Pr
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But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare:
The Mantra of Jabez: A Christian Parodyby Douglas M. JonesISBN 1885767889 (1-885767-88-9)
Softcover, Canon Pr
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Microthrills: True Stories from a Life of Small Highsby Wendy SperoISBN 1594630194 (1-59463-019-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Modern Drunkardby Frank Kelly RichISBN 1594481423 (1-59448-142-3)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Moomin Book One: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Stripby Tove JanssonISBN 1894937805 (1-894937-80-5)
Hardcover, Drawn & Quarterly Publications
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The Museum of Kitschy Stitches: A Gallery of Notorious Knitsby Stitchy McyarnpantsISBN 1594741115 (1-59474-111-5)
Hardcover, Quirk Books
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The Napoleon of Notting Hillby G. K. ChestertonISBN 1853262803 (1-85326-280-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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The Other Side of the Storyby Marian KeyesISBN 1842231499 (1-84223-149-9)
Hardcover, Poolbeg
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Paranoia Xpby A. VarneyISBN 1904854265 (1-904854-26-5)
Hardcover, Mongoose Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paranoia Xp'Book summary:YOU ARE IN ERROR. NO ONE IS SCREAMING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. The Computer is happy. The Computer is crazy. The Computer will help you become happy. This will drive you crazy. Being a citizen of Alpha Complex is fun. The Computer says so, and The Computer is your friend. Many traitors threaten Alpha Complex. Many happy citizens live in Alpha Complex. Most happy citizens are crazy. Which are more dangerous traitors or happy citizens? Rooting out traitors will make you happy. The Computer tells you so. If you are not happy, The Computer will use you as reactor shielding. Being a Troubleshooter is fun. The Computer tells you so. Do you doubt The Computer, citizen? Troubleshooters get shot at, stabbed, mangled, incinerated, poisoned, stapled, blown to bits and accidentally executed. This is so much fun many Troubleshooters go crazy. You work with many Troubleshooters. They all carry lasers. Aren t you glad you have a laser too? Won t this be fun? Stay alert! Trust no one! Keep your laser handy! When PARANOIA was first published almost 20 years ago, amid fears of nuclear war and job loss to those newfangled desktop PCs, it was instantly popular for its vision of a high-tech, post-holocaust, totalitarian future ruled by a deranged Computer. It won attention too for turning the basic paradigm of RPGs players cooperate on its head, making all players secret traitors who can only advance by uncovering treason. Happily, today those fears are obsolete. Instead, we have spam, viruses, trojans, malware, distributed denial of service attacks, the RIAA, cyberwarfare, identify theft, terrorists, the Patriot Act, terrifying new diseases, the threat of environmental catastrophe, the grey goo scenario, and weapons of mass destruction. [via]
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Parnassus on Wheelsby Christopher MorleyISBN 1879923017 (1-879923-01-7)
Softcover, Booksellers Pub
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The Physics of Superheroesby James KakaliosISBN 1592402429 (1-59240-242-9)
Softcover, Gotham Books
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 1593080255 (1-59308-025-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: '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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Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - The Picture of Dorian Gray: ISBN 1593081758 (1-59308-175-8)
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Plays, Prose Writings & Poemsby Oscar WildeISBN 1857150422 (1-85715-042-2)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plays, Prose Writings & Poems'Book summary:Famed as a wit and bon viveur, Oscar Wilde lived up to his reputation. This selection of plays, poems and prose writings, introduced by Terry Eagleton, includes "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Lady Windermere's Fan", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Critic as an Artist", Apologia", "The Soul of a Man Under Socialism", "Letter to Robert Ross", "Requiescat" and "The Ballad of Reading Goal". Terry Eagleton is the author of "Criticism and Ideology", "Marxism and Literary Criticsm" and "Literary Theory: An Introduction". [via]
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Please Don't Drink The Holy Water!: Homeschool Days, Rosary Nights, And Other Near Occasions Of Sinby Susie LloydISBN 1928832199 (1-928832-19-9)
Softcover, Sophia Inst Pr
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The Prince and the Pauperby Mark Twain, William Hatherell, Robert TineISBN 1593082185 (1-59308-218-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince and the Pauper'Book summary:Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, "The Prince And The Pauper" is a delight satire of England's romantic past and a joyful boyhood romp filled with the same tongue-in-cheek irony that sparked the best of Mark Twain's tall tales. Two boys, one an urchin from London's filthy lanes, the other a prince born in a lavish palace, unwittingly trade identities. Thus a bedraggled "Prince of Poverty" discovers that his private dreams have all the come true -- while a pampered Prince of Wales finds himself tossed into a rough-and-tumble world of squalid beggars and villainous thieves. Originally written as a story for children, "The Prince And The Pauper" is a classic novel for adults as well -- through its stinging attack on the ageless human folly of attempting to measure true worth by outer appearances. [via]
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The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Agesby Mark TwainISBN 159818444X (1-59818-444-X)
Hardcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages'Book summary:Twain's story has been adapted and, er, borrowed from so often and so freely that you're probably familiar with it even if you've never read of it: a prince of sixteenth-century England meets his double in the slums of London. The two swap clothes -- and lives. Complications ensue. Tom Canty, the urchin, learns how luxury and power can become the death of a man, while his doppleganger roams his kingdom, learning first hand of the cruelty of the Tudor monarchy. . . .
"Twain was . . . enough of a genius to build his morality into his books, with humor and wit and -- in the case of The Prince and the Pauper -- wonderful plotting."
-- E.L. Doctorow [via]
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R Crumb Handbookby Robert Crumb, Pete PoplaskiISBN 1840727160 (1-84072-716-0)
Hardcover, Mq Pubns
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Revolting Youthby C. D. PayneISBN 1882647157 (1-882647-15-7)
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Right Behind: A Parody of Last Days Goofinessby Nathan WilsonISBN 1885767870 (1-885767-87-0)
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Rostand: Cyrano De Bergeracby C.G. WoodenISBN 1853993727 (1-85399-372-7)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing Inc
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Selected Poetry of Ogden Nashby Ogden NashISBN 1884822304 (1-884822-30-4)
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ShakespeareISBN 1897954239 (1-897954-23-9)
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A Small Book of Grave Humourby Paul RossISBN 1904435653 (1-904435-65-3)
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Soft Pawnby HartstonISBN 1857441451 (1-85744-145-1)
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Still Can't Keep a Straight Faceby Ellen Orleans, Noreen StevensISBN 1889594016 (1-889594-01-6)
Softcover, Inland Womensource
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Stupid, Stupid Rat-Tails: The Adventures of Big Johnson Bone, Frontier Heroby Jeff Smith, Tom Sniegoski, Stan SakaiISBN 1888963069 (1-888963-06-9)
Softcover, Cartoon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stupid, Stupid Rat-Tails: The Adventures of Big Johnson Bone, Frontier Hero'Book summary:Cartoon Books announces the release of the Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails graphic novel featuring the work of Jeff Smith, Tom Sniegoski and Stan Sakai. This 104-page trade paperback includes the compilation of The Adventures of Big Johnson Bone, Frontier Hero which was released as a three-part mini-series by Cartoon Books. Discover every hilarious twist and turn of the fast-paced story of Big Johnson Bone and his adventures in the valley. Find out why the rat creatures in BONE no longer wear their tails long. In addition, this volume will include the compilation of Riblet, a back up story initially released in five parts through the BONE series. The rat creatures meet their match in this fun-filled romp written by Tom Sniegoski and illustrated by 1999 Eisner Award winner Stan Sakai. [via]
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Sushi For Beginnersby Marian KeyesISBN 1842230441 (1-84223-044-1)
Hardcover, Poolberg
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sushi For Beginners'Book summary:Sushi For Beginners has all the right ingredients for a thirtysomething novel. The thirtysomething girls are there, looking for a better job, a better man, ANYTHING other than what they've already got; there are men to die for and men you wish would drop dead, preferably in agony. And these "so-real you can pinch 'em" people live their lives in a funny, thrilling, sad world that you wish hadn't just ended when you turn the last page. But there is more, because this one is written by best-selling Irish author Marian Keyes.
Where her previous best-seller, Last Chance Saloon, featured Irish folk living in London, Sushi For Beginners is set in Keyes' hometown, Dublin. The only "foreigner" here is Lisa from London, a real madam whose longed-for promotion to Manhattan magazine is knocked off-course a few thousand miles when she is forced to accept the editorship of Colleen, a new magazine for young women, billed by the publishers as "dumbed-down" but definitely "sexy". Lisa would frankly rather eat one of her freebie Patrick Cox stilettos. Still a job is a job, and anyhow, Irish MD Jack Devine could just turn out to be a major consolation prize. Lisa's deputy at Colleen is Ashling, a Little Miss Fix-It, whose early role reversal with her mother (thanks to the latter's nervous breakdown) has induced an organisational paranoia and a handbag filled with emergency equipment to meet any eventuality. Oh, and a best friend whose motives might not always be in Ashling's best interests.
This is a story of three girls' lives, what's made them what they are and their search for happiness--sometimes found in unlikely places and sometimes lost forever. With Sushi For Beginners, Keyes is fast becoming the undisputed Queen of her genre. She is wincingly accurate and wickedly funny, and while she can tackle big issues like homelessness (no pun intended) with honest feeling devoid of over-sentimentality, her insight into the aspirations of thirtysomething women at the turn of the 21st century sets her high above the competition. --Carey Green This review refers to the hardcover edition of this title. [via]
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The Tempestby William ShakespeareISBN 185326203X (1-85326-203-X)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown", appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.
However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Twelfth Nightby William ShakespeareISBN 1904271154 (1-904271-15-4)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twelfth Night'Book summary:The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of Twelfth Night provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts. [via]
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The Unabridged William Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, William George Clark, William Aldis WrightISBN 1889372331 (1-889372-33-1)
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Uncle John's 5th Bathroom ReaderISBN 1879682281 (1-879682-28-1)
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Uncle John's Ultimate Bathroom Readerby The Bathroom Reader's InstituteISBN 1879682656 (1-879682-65-6)
Softcover, Advantage Pub Group
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace Thackery, Nicholas Dames, William Makepeace ThackerayISBN 1593080719 (1-59308-071-9)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled 'A Novel without a Hero', Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world. [via]
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Wake Me for the Resurrectionby Pat Bagley, Robert KirbyISBN 1885628471 (1-885628-47-1)
Softcover, Buckaroo Books
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Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide To Better English In Plain Englishby Patricia T. O'ConnerISBN 1594480060 (1-59448-006-0)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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The Worlds Greatest Collection of Church Jokesby Paul M. MillerISBN 1593100183 (1-59310-018-3)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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Xenophobe's Guide to Swedesby Peter BerlinISBN 1853047414 (1-85304-741-4)
Softcover, Ravette Pub Ltd
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The Xenophobe's Guide to the Scotsby David RossISBN 190282542X (1-902825-42-X)
Softcover, Oval Books
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Stardustby ERNEST RIERAISBN 1594970971 (1-59497-097-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stardust'Book summary:De Féerie, le pays magique, les habitants du petit village de Wall savent peu de choses. Il faut dire qu'un grand mur les en séparent. Un mur dans lequel est ouvert une brèche, une brèche bien gardée, par laquelle ils n'ont droit de passer qu'une fois l'an, le jour de la grande foire de Wall. C'est ce jour-là, justement, que le jeune Tristram Thorn, décidé à conquérir le cSur de sa belle, part pour le pays de fée afin de lui ramener une étoile filante. Mais dans un pays magique, rien n'est comme ailleurs. Les distances sont immenses, on y croise nains et licornes, des chasseurs d'éclairs naviguent sur des bateaux volants et l'on est jamais à l'abri d'un mauvais sort qui pourra vous transformer en arbre, en chèvre ou en rat. Un monde plein de dangers et de merveilles que Tristram est loin d'imaginer, comme il est loin d'imaginer que son étoile filante est une belle et pure jeune fille, dont la présence ici-bas va éveiller la concupiscence des sept seigneurs de Sromhold comme de quelques vilaines sorcières...
Neil Gaiman est aussi à l'aise dans la BD (Sandman), que dans le roman (Neverwhere). Un talent inépuisable qu'il confirme une fois de plus ici en revisitant avec bonheur l'univers des contes de fées. À la fois drôle, merveilleux et volontairement naïf, Stardust est une réussite. --Georges Louhans [via]
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Zitsby Jim Borgman, Jerry ScottISBN 1594970777 (1-59497-077-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zits'Book summary:Nota: En los titulos y nombres de autores, los marcos ortograficos han sido omitidos para facilitar las busquedas de Internet.
Description del libro en espanol: Quieres recordar como era tu vida cuando eras adolescente Revive con Zits esos momentos inolvidables, pero tambien las meteduras de pata mas lamentables, todo con un sentido del humor inconfundible.
Book Description in English: Since its wildly popular debut in the summer of 1997, Zits has become one of America's favorite comic strips! Enter the life of Jeremy Duncan, a 15-year-old aspiring rock musician, riddled with angst, boredom and parents who don't understand anything. Let him show you the wonderfully lousy world of being a 15-year-old. Meet Jeremy's parents Connie and Walt Duncan. Watch as they continue to try to figure out the mysterious science of parenting a teenager... the second time around! Meet Jeremy's brother, Chad, the glowing college student. Jeremy will have to live up to his brother's dreadfully perfect example. Join Jeremy and his best friend Hector as they struggle to solve the mystery of life, aided with advanced hangin' out techniques. Watch Jeremy as he flounders around with his awkward high school love affair with Sara Toomey, his uh... girlfriend. [via]
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