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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

ISBN 3895082104 (3-89508-210-4)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft

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A seminal work of American literature that still commands deep praise and elicits controversy, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought to be lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a fuller understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
by Louise Rennison

ISBN 0060521848 (0-06-052184-8)
Softcover, Avon Books

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She has a precocious 3-year-old sister who tends to leave wet nappies at the foot of her bed, an insane cat who is prone to leg-shredding "Call of the Wild" episodes, and embarrassing parents who make her want to escape to Stonehenge and dance with the Druids. No wonder 14-year-old Georgia Nicolson laments, "Honestly, what is the point?" A Bridget Jones for the younger set, Georgia records the momentous events of her life--and they are all momentous--in her diary, which serves as a truly hilarious account of what it means to be a modern girl on the cusp of womanhood. No matter that her particular story takes place in England, the account of her experiences rings true across the ocean (and besides, "Georgia's Glossary" swiftly eradicates any language barriers).
The author, Louise Rennison, is a British comedy writer and it shows. Whether Georgia is dealing with wearing a bra ("OK, it's a bit on the loose side and does ride up round my neck if I run for the bus"), pondering kissing and how to know which way to turn your head ("You don't want to be bobbing around like pigeons for hours"), or managing the results of an overzealous eyebrow-plucking episode ("Obviously, now I have to stay in forever"), she always cracks us up. Georgia struggles with the myriad issues facing teen girls--boys, of course being at the forefront--but she does it with such humor and honesty it almost seems like a good time. This refreshingly funny book is ripe for a sequel, which readers will await in droves. (Ages 11 and older). --Brangien Davis [via]
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As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela
by Mark Thomas

ISBN 0091909228 (0-09-190922-8)
Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd

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Asterxix and Soothslayer
by Burgard

ISBN 0024972304 (0-02-497230-4)
Hardcover, Distribooks Inc

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Aventuras De Alicia En El Pais De Las Maravillas /alice's Adventures In Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll

ISBN 9590804489 (959-08-0448-9)
Softcover, Gente Nueva Editorial

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Nueva edición en español del famoso libro de Lewis Carroll. [via]
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Bachelor Kisses
by Nick Earls

ISBN 0140269630 (0-14-026963-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Books

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Big Money
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 014000937X (0-14-000937-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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T. Paterson Frisby possessed twenty million dollars and loved every cent of them. His secretary, Berry Conway, possessed only a dud copper mine; and the Biscuit (Berry's schoolfriend) nothing but a title. The latter pair needed money, big money: but the former was fast on his feet. Frisking Frisby wouldn't be easy. [via]
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Blue Heaven
by Joe Keenan

ISBN 0140107649 (0-14-010764-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The British Museum Is Falling Down
by David Lodge

ISBN 0140124195 (0-14-012419-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Cause Celeb: Library Edition
by Helen Fielding

ISBN 0142000221 (0-14-200022-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Disillusioned with life as a literary publicist in London and sick of her hotshot TV presenter boyfriend, twenty-something Rosie Richardson decides to give up glitz for good deeds and escape to Africa to run a refugee camp. When famine strikes and a massive refugee influx threatens to overwhelm the camp, officials drag their heels. The only way to get food fast is to bring the celebrities first, so Rosie returns to London to organize a star-studded and risky emergency appeal. Deftly skewering the world of celebrity fundraising, Fielding's debut novel is both comic and thought-provoking.

Cause Celeb crackles with insights into the nature of fame, passion, and altruism in our time, all the while following an unlikely-but hugely likeable-heroine. [via]
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Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
by Oscar Wilde

ISBN 0007144369 (0-00-714436-9)
Softcover, Harper Uk

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The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wildes works, and is available in both paperback and this hardback edition.

Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wildes texts available, containing his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts.

Illustrated with many fascinating photographs, the book includes introductions to each section by Merlin Holland (Oscars grandson), Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kiberd and Terence Brown.

Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde, and a chronological table of his life and work.
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Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Centenary Edition
by Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland

ISBN 0004723724 (0-00-472372-4)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square

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The centennial edition of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works. A new centennial edition of the bestselling Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: now published in a special hardback centennial edition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death, with a revision of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's grandson. [via]
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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

ISBN 0004704738 (0-00-470473-8)
Softcover, Irish Books & Media

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A unique one-volume anthology which includes all of Wilde's stories, plays, and poems. It also features a large portion of his essays and letters and an introduction by Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland. [via]
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Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
by Louise Rennison

ISBN 0060575905 (0-06-057590-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Georgia Nicolson's in turmoil. Her cat, Angus (the size of a small labrador), is terrorizing the neighborhood. She went to a party dressed as a stuffed olive. And she's madly in love with Robbie the Sex God, who (sometimes) thinks she's too young for him. In these first two volumes in the hilarious #1 New York Times best-selling series, Georgia needs to change her life from Ergghhhlack to Fabbity-fab-fab!
The hysterically funny first two Georgia Nicolson diaries: angus, thongs and full -- frontal snogging and on the bright side, i#146;m now the girlfriend of a sex god. [via]
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Dancing in My Nuddypants
by Louise Rennison

ISBN 0060097469 (0-06-009746-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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Dancing in My Nuddy Pants takes up Georgia Nicolson's tale of red bottomosity, continuing her diary just the day after the third instalment, Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas. The Ace gang and the Bummers make strong appearances alongside the essential Sex God (SG) and Dave the Laugh, while little sister Libby has the most laugh-out-loud moments. A school trip to Paris with "gorgey Henri" is one highlight of the winter months, even resulting in Georgia coming top in French. However, her attitude to school and boys remains the same as ever:
8.00 pm I am so worried about school. I have so much to do tomorrow. 8.10 pm I can do my nails and foundation and eye stuff during RE--Miss Wilson won't notice ... But I suppose even she might notice if I took my curling tongs into class...
We are introduced to some new concepts, such as the "General Horn" and the "Cosmic Horn" (from the one and only Dave the Laugh, who of course gave us "nunga-nungas" and "nippy noodles"); learn about unplanned pregnancy with Angus' "trouser snake addendums" and Naomi the sex kitten (literally); ponder whether it is better to love someone for their maturiosity or their lip-nibbling; and reluctantly make a stand for the less popular girls.
This instalment of Georgia's diary is "THE OFFICIAL AND PROPER END PROBABLY". All that any fan of Georgia's is likely to say when they hear this is "Erlack", and beg Louise Rennison for more hilariosity. --Olivia Dickinson [via]
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Don Quijote
by Not Available

ISBN 9707700610 (970-770-061-0)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc

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Contenidos: Presentación; Un Novela Para El Siglo XXI por Mario Vargas Llosa; La Invención Del "Quijote" por Francisco Ayala; Cervantes Y El "Quijote" por Martin de Riquer; Nota Al Texto por Francisco Rico; Don Quijote De La Mancha, Edición y notas de Francisco Rico; La Lengua De Cervantes Y El "Quijote" por Jose Manuel Blecua, Guillermo Rojo, Jose Antonio Pascual, Margit Frank, Claudio Guillen; Glosario. [via]
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

ISBN 8471664577 (84-7166-457-7)
Softcover, Edaf Antillas

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La novela más moderna, crítica, tierna, mordaz y divertida de la literatura española. Hay Quijotes para lucir en la estantería, Quijotes para investigar, Quijotes para leer por obligación...Esta Edición Cultural está hecha para disfrutar leyendo el Quijote como lo hicieron sus primeros lectores: Porque incluye anotaciones al margen que proporcionan claves para la interpretación del texto sin entorpecer la continuidad de la lectura. Porque incluye 60 temas culturales desarrrollados en formato visual, que permiten acceder de forma rápida a la información del contexto cultural de la época. Un Quijote para leer y entender. [via]
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Don Quijote De La Mancha
by Miguel Saavedra De Cervantes, Florencio Sevilla

ISBN 842067205X (84-206-7205-X)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Si bien Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) gustaba de presentarlo como «la(*CR*)historia de un hijo seco y avellanado», EL QUIJOTE es la obra cumbre de(*CR*)su labor literaria, uno de los libros fundamentales de la cultura(*CR*)universal y, como novela, la más grande de todos los tiempos y aquella(*CR*)en que hunde sus raíces la narrativa moderna. La presente edición,(*CR*)precedida de una esclarecedora introducción de Antonio Rey que sitúa la(*CR*)obra dentro del contexto de la vida de su autor y de la época en que fue(*CR*)escrita, ha corrido a cargo de Florencio Sevilla, quien se ha guiado por(*CR*)un criterio de absoluta fidelidad al texto de la príncipe, a fin de(*CR*)ofrecer un «Quijote» lo más próximo posible al original que Cervantes(*CR*)concibiera. [via]
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Don Quijote De LA Mancha
by Salvador Dali, Miguel De Cervantes, Martin de Riquer

ISBN 8408055496 (84-08-05549-6)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Don Quijote De La Mancha / Don Quixote Man of La Mancha
by Miguel Saavendra De Cervantes, Eduardo Alonso, Victor G. Ambrus, Martin de Riquer

ISBN 8431673966 (84-316-7396-6)
Softcover, Vicens-Vives Editorial S.A.

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Don Quijote de la Mancha: Edicion Especial IV Centenario
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Alberto Blecua, Andres Pozo

ISBN 8467016906 (84-670-1690-6)
Hardcover, Espasa Calpe, S.A.

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This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography, book analysis and quotations. This book features the table of contents linked to every part and chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

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Don Quijote de la Mancha (ortografia y titulo original: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Qvixote de la Mancha) es una novela escrita por el español Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Editado en 1605, es una de las obras mas destacadas de la literatura española y la literatura universal, y una de las mas traducidas.

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El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha/The ingenious nobleman Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Andres Amoros

ISBN 8434865947 (84-348-6594-7)
Hardcover, Ediciones Sm

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La novela más moderna, crítica, tierna, mordaz y divertida de la literatura española. Hay Quijotes para lucir en la estantería, Quijotes para investigar, Quijotes para leer por obligación...Esta Edición Cultural está hecha para disfrutar leyendo el Quijote como lo hicieron sus primeros lectores: Porque incluye anotaciones al margen que proporcionan claves para la interpretación del texto sin entorpecer la continuidad de la lectura. Porque incluye 60 temas culturales desarrrollados en formato visual, que permiten acceder de forma rápida a la información del contexto cultural de la época. Un Quijote para leer y entender. [via]
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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote De LA Mancha
by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

ISBN 8437601177 (84-376-0117-7)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial

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Don Quijote de la Mancha, escrito por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, editado en 1605, es una de las obras más destacadas de la literatura española y la literatura universal, y una de las más traducidas

La novela consta de dos partes: la primera, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, fue publicada en 1605; la segunda, El ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha, en 1615. [via]
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Fever Pitch
by Nick Hornby

ISBN 0140237291 (0-14-023729-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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In the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. In Britain he is revered for his status as a fanatical football writer (sorry, fanatical soccer writer), owing to Fever Pitch--which is both an autobiography and a footballing Bible rolled into one. Hornby pinpoints 1968 as his formative year--the year he turned 11, the year his parents separated, and the year his father first took him to watch Arsenal play. The author quickly moved "way beyond fandom" into an extreme obsession that has dominated his life, loves, and relationships. His father had initially hoped that Saturday afternoon matches would draw the two closer together, but instead Hornby became completely besotted with the game at the expense of any conversation: "Football may have provided us with a new medium through which we could communicate, but that was not to say that we used it, or what we chose to say was necessarily positive." Girlfriends also played second fiddle to one ball and 11 men. He fantasizes that even if a girlfriend "went into labor at an impossible moment" he would not be able to help out until after the final whistle.
Fever Pitch is not a typical memoir--there are no chapters, just a series of match reports falling into three time frames (childhood, young adulthood, manhood). While watching the May 2, 1972, Reading v. Arsenal match, it became embarrassingly obvious to the then 15-year-old that his white, suburban, middle-class roots made him a wimp with no sense of identity: "Yorkshire men, Lancastrians, Scots, the Irish, blacks, the rich, the poor, even Americans and Australians have something they can sit in pubs and bars and weep about." But a boy from Maidenhead could only dream of coming from a place with "its own tube station and West Indian community and terrible, insoluble social problems."
Fever Pitch reveals the very special intricacies of British football, which readers new to the game will find astonishing, and which Hornby presents with remarkable humor and honesty--the "unique" chants sung at matches, the cold rain-soaked terraces, giant cans of warm beer, the trains known as football specials carrying fans to and from matches in prisonlike conditions, bottles smashing on the tracks, thousands of policemen waiting in anticipation for the cargo of hooligans. The sport and one team in particular have crept into every aspect of Hornby's life--making him see the world through Arsenal-tinted spectacles. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Generica
by Will Ferguson

ISBN 014029984X (0-14-029984-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Books

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An emotional balancing act of Herculean proportions, Will Ferguson's debut novel is somehow both caustically cynical and touchingly humane. Its message: there is no happiness without sadness. The pursuit of happiness is all--actually attaining it, if that were even possible, would be death. When Edwin de Valu, an editor at Panderic Press, finds What I Learned on the Mountain, a self-help book by an unknown author, Tupak Soiree, on his slush pile and publishes it, suddenly millions of people believe that pursuit is over. "Apocalypse Nice" has arrived, and Edwin's cynical side goes into high gear trying to save the world from itself. On this hysterical (in every sense of the word) quest, Edwin receives little help from his credulous wife, his plump co-worker (and sometime lover) May, or his ponytailed baby-boomer boss, Mr. Mead.
This wacky, lightweight novel mixes elements from Dilbert, Woody Allen, grainy art films, and P.J. O'Rourke. While Ferguson lines up a number of easy targets and can be way too obvious ("The Name of the Tulip" echoes a certain highbrow mystery), he can also write with flair, as in describing Edwin's city: "Here, in a miasma of fumes, trains rattle-bang on an endless Möbius strip of work, sweat, salt and grubby lucre. A merry-go-round where the horses have emphysema." --Mark Frutkin [via]
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The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
by Erma Bombeck

ISBN 0070064504 (0-07-006450-4)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill

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"She is marvelously funny, direct as a hypodermic, a virtuoso in the field of suburban living....Lovely stuff." VOGUE It's the expose to end all exposes--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters. [via]
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Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift

ISBN 0140382402 (0-14-038240-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Combining travel narrative and powerful satire, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS was an immediate success when it was published in 1726. As soon as Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput, Swift's distortion of reality begins and man is seen as a diminished, magnified, abstracted, and finally bestial species. Whether expurgated and adapted for children, or read as a biting and incisive satire on humanity, the novel continues to appeal to readers on a variety of levels. [via]
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Happiness
by Will Ferguson

ISBN 006052510X (0-06-052510-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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"The Age of Nice is at hand, and there's nothing we can do about it." But the protagonist of Will Ferguson's Happiness, terminally luckless book editor Edwin de Valu, does want to do something. In fact, he feels obliged to put a stop to the Age of Nice, because it's all his fault. Desperate to save a flagging career in the world of self-help publishing, Edwin has staked everything on a dubious, thousand-page manuscript bearing the motto "Live! Love! Learn!" Promising its readers endless wealth, effortless weight loss, and everlasting happiness, the book has become a runaway success. And that's where Edwin's problems really begin. There's the murderous cartel of drug and tobacco barons who want Edwin's head on a plate, as well as the fact that misery, cynicism, irrational hatred, draught beer--all the things that once made Edwin's life as an underdog bearable--have become outlawed. It's down to one man to save the globe from the tyranny of the group hug! But can Edwin do it before the world economy melts down and a bestselling serial killer called Dr. Ethics enacts his own deadly revenge?
It has been said--possibly by the sort of homily-peddling guru that Ferguson attacks so masterfully in his debut novel--that there are many routes to happiness. The general effect of reading this razor-sharp satire on the self-help industry is to understand that these routes lead us nowhere, except perhaps to a cul-de-sac called Hell. This would be depressing to realize, except that Happiness clubs its readers into submission with the sort of zany, almost otherworldly wit that makes us profoundly glad to be alive. --Matthew Baylis, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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How to Become Ridiculously Well-Read in One Evening: A Collection of Literary Encapsulations
by Parrott

ISBN 0140074511 (0-14-007451-1)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square

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If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet
by Cynthia Heimel

ISBN 0060974788 (0-06-097478-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Lemony Snicket
by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist

ISBN 0060562250 (0-06-056225-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography is bizarre, abstruse ("a word which here means 'cryptic'"), and truly entertaining. Would you expect anything less from the mystery man behind A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Bad Beginning, The Ersatz Elevator and so on.)? Virtually every detail of the volume has Snicket's indelible mark, from the book jacket to the copyright page text to the intentionally blurry and bewildering black-and-white photographs appearing throughout. An apparently false obituary for Lemony Snicket sets the stage for what turns into a series of mind-boggling bundles of coded information passed from hand to hand, gleaned from newspapers blowing through streets, pages from a journal addressed to "Dear Dairy", blueprints of ships, minutes from secret meetings, and a lot of edited and disputed commentary. The question is, do we finally discover the meaning of VFD? You know you're not going to get a straight answer. But any fan of Snicket will have a lot of fun trying. (ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter, Amazon.com [via]
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Life With Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 0140059024 (0-14-005902-4)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is an English-born storyteller and journalist who came to America before World War I and sold a serial to the Saturday Evening Post, where most of his books first appeared. Though Wodehouse wrote more than 90 books and 20 film scripts, and collaborated on more than 30 plays and musical comedies, he is perhaps best known as the creator of the gentlemanly character Jeeves, "that subtle master of prudence, good taste, and ineffable composure." This three-part edition will delight newcomers to Wodehouse as well as those already familiar with his "sunny universe and sparkling prose." Let the reader beware: unless you are the kind of person who enjoys being stared at, do not attempt to read anything by P. G. Wodehouse in public. If you do, you'll soon find yourself an object of interest on the bus, plane or train as you attempt to stifle guffaws or end up accidentally swallowing your tongue in a useless effort to squash that belly-laugh. Wodehouse is, quite simply, one of the funniest men on the planet, and this latest compendium of his work, Life with Jeeves, is Wodehouse at his best.
Here you'll find Bertie Wooster, a complete gentleman, but the first to admit he's a bit of a chump; his valet, Jeeves, infinitely sagacious, the source of all solace; and a wild collection of terrifying aunts, miserly uncles, love-sick friends, female authors, crusading communists, troublesome cousins, cantankerous dogs, unwanted fiancés and more-all bound up in plots as impossibly labyrinthine as they are laugh-out-loud funny. [via]
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My Life and Hard Times
by James Thurber

ISBN 0060933089 (0-06-093308-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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In My Life and Hard Times, Thurber returns to his starting pointthe delightful chaos and frustrations brought on by family, boyhood, youth, odd dogs, and recalcitrant machinery in the quiet university town of his birth.
This is one of the most deeply humorous books of our century. Not only is it a "memoir" that takes into account the crumbling of empires, it talks "largely about small matters and smally about great affairs." Mostly it is about the widely incredible things people do when they think they are acting sensibly. Yet Thurber does more than just tickle your funny bone. He has quietly and unobtrusively, but permanently, deflated your false pride in the essential sanity and prudence of the human race. [via]
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My Uncle Oswald
by Roald Dahl

ISBN 0140055770 (0-14-005577-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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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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On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God
by Louise Rennison

ISBN 0064472264 (0-06-447226-4)
Softcover, Avon Tempest

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Fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson is back in British author Louise Rennison's irreverent, laugh-out-loud sequel to the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging. Written in diary form, these truly hilarious books chronicle the often minute-by-minute, very dramatic, and significant flip-flops of a teenager's psyche.

7:18 p.m.
My eyes are all swollen up like mice eyes from crying. Even my nose is swollen. It's not small at the best of times, but now it looks like I've got three cheeks. Marvelous. Thank you, God.
9:00 p.m.
I'll never get over this.
9:10 p.m.
Time goes very slowly when you're suicidal.
What tragedy has her so distraught? Her parents have told her she's moving to New Zealand just when she's managed to snog (kiss--look it up in the glossary) the SG (Sex God, a.k.a Robbie). This is of course not the only source of drama in Georgia's eventful life. Her half Scottish wildcat, Angus, who is the size of a small Labrador, herds the poodles next door and terrorizes the neighborhood. Her little sister, Libby, who is slightly mad, stores her "pooey knickers" and her scuba-diving Barbie doll in Georgia's bed. Her mother (from whom she inherited her orangutan eyebrow gene and possibly her "gigantic basoomas") is clearly inhabiting Earth solely to make her life miserable, and even her best friend Jas is "half girl, half turnip."
Despite the fact that she's spared from going to "Kiwi-a-gogo land," things don't get much better for Georgia. She's suspended for a childish prank right before her dad returns from New Zealand, she falls in love with the SG who dumps her for being too young, and Dave, the "red-herring" boyfriend she's using to make the SG jealous calls her a "heartless whatsit." And, she continues, "the spot on my bum is probably a boil. I wonder what Buddha would do now?" Rennison's comedic timing is brilliant. Adolescent angst ("I hope I am not driven to the brink of madness by grief") vanishes less than an hour later ("Angus can fetch sticks!!!") and sometimes even sooner. (Warning: Do not read this book while riding a train or bus unless you don't care what people think of intermittent explosive laughter. Seriously.) (Ages 12 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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by Louise Rennison

ISBN 0060288728 (0-06-028872-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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The Penguin Complete Saki
by Saki

ISBN 0140090037 (0-14-009003-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books

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Saki is considered by many as perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's "golden afternoon" - the slow and peaceful years before World War I. This volume contains the whole of his work, including all the short stories, his three novels and three plays. [via]
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The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0140436111 (0-14-043611-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Rising rage and extreme bewilderment had swelled the noble breast of Mr Pickwick, almost to the bursting of his waistcoat

Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle and, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, and his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtors prison, characters and incidents sprang to life from Dickenss pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour and literary invention.

This edition is based on the first volume edition of 1837, and includes the original illustrations. In his introduction, Mark Wormald discusses the genesis of The Pickwick Papers and the emergence of its central characters.

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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
by Charles Dickens, Robert L. Patten

ISBN 0140430784 (0-14-043078-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Saki
by H. H. Munro

ISBN 0140184201 (0-14-018420-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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The Simpsons
by Matt Groening, Ray Richmond, Antonia Coffman

ISBN 0060952520 (0-06-095252-0)
Softcover, Perennial

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Nearly a decade into their run, it's clear that The Simpsons is one of the best-loved and most influential television shows to come down the pike in a long while. If the show's attitude was a little less pervasive, this encyclopedic book would be aimed solely at Simpsons addicts. But that's not entirely true--Matt Groening and Ray Richmond have created a book that is essential for anyone interested in where TV is today. That's not to suggest that the book is serious, though--it's not. The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family (that's debatable, but who cares?) is a collection of everything related to the show, from all the "couch gags" during the end of the opening credits, to the complete words to the theme song from The Itchy and Scratchy Show. There are broadcast dates, credits, and hidden jokes for every episode. You'll even find a list of things that make Homer go "Mmm..."
If you're a fan of the show, you'll be hard-pressed to find fault with Ray Richmond's collection. The only glaring one is that the stills often look a little blurry. Oh, and couldn't they have come up with a funnier title? But that's nitpicking. Simpsons fans, you know what to do. [via]
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The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family
by Matt Groening

ISBN 0060193484 (0-06-019348-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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Nearly a decade into their run, it's clear that The Simpsons is one of the best-loved and most influential television shows to come down the pike in a long while. If the show's attitude was a little less pervasive, this encyclopedic book would be aimed solely at Simpsons addicts. But that's not entirely true--Matt Groening and Ray Richmond have created a book that is essential for anyone interested in where TV is today. That's not to suggest that the book is serious, though--it's not. The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family (that's debatable, but who cares?) is a collection of everything related to the show, from all the "couch gags" during the end of the opening credits, to the complete words to the theme song from The Itchy and Scratchy Show. There are broadcast dates, credits, and hidden jokes for every episode. You'll even find a list of things that make Homer go "Mmm..."
If you're a fan of the show, you'll be hard-pressed to find fault with Ray Richmond's collection. The only glaring one is that the stills often look a little blurry. Oh, and couldn't they have come up with a funnier title? But that's nitpicking. Simpsons fans, you know what to do. [via]
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The Unauthorized Autobiography
by Lemony Snicket

ISBN 0060007192 (0-06-000719-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography is bizarre, abstruse ("a word which here means 'cryptic'"), and truly entertaining. Would you expect anything less from the mystery man behind A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Bad Beginning, The Ersatz Elevator and so on.)? Virtually every detail of the volume has Snicket's indelible mark, from the book jacket to the copyright page text to the intentionally blurry and bewildering black-and-white photographs appearing throughout. An apparently false obituary for Lemony Snicket sets the stage for what turns into a series of mind-boggling bundles of coded information passed from hand to hand, gleaned from newspapers blowing through streets, pages from a journal addressed to "Dear Dairy", blueprints of ships, minutes from secret meetings, and a lot of edited and disputed commentary. The question is, do we finally discover the meaning of VFD? You know you're not going to get a straight answer. But any fan of Snicket will have a lot of fun trying. (ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter, Amazon.com [via]
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Uncle Fred in the Springtime
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 014000971X (0-14-000971-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Pongo Twistleton is in a state of financial embarrassment and it's not for the first time. Uncle Fred, meanwhile, has been asked by Lord Emsworth of Blandings to foil a plot to relieve him of the Empress, his much-adored prize pig. Along with Polly Pott (daughter of dear old Mustard), they form a deputation to Blandings Castle, a party of innocent imposters bent on doing 'a bit of good to two loving hearts'. For, as Uncle Fred himself admits, 'there are no limits, literally none, to what I can accomplish in the springtime'. [via]
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Vile Village
by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist

ISBN 0060288906 (0-06-028890-6)
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The seventh book in Lemony Snicket's splendidly gloomy Series of Unfortunate Events shadows the three Baudelaire orphans as they plummet headlong into their next misadventure. Mr. Poe, their ineffective legal guardian, having exhausted all options for finding them a new home with relatives (including their 19th cousin), sadly entrusts his young charges' fate to a progressive guardian program formed with the premise "It takes a village to raise a child." Before they know it, the Baudelaires are being whisked off on a bus to a village (vile) named "V.F.D." Snicket fans who read The Austere Academy and The Ersatz Elevator will jump to see these three initials, as they provide a clue to the tragic disappearance of the Baudelaires' friends, the beloved, equally orphaned Quagmire triplets.
To the orphans' dismay, V.F.D. is covered in crows--so much so that the whole village is pitch-black and trembling. "The crows weren't squawking or cawing, which is what crows often do, or playing the trumpet, which crows practically never do, but the town was far from silent. The air was filled with the sounds the crows made as they moved around." Another disturbing element of the town is that the Council of Elders (who wear creepy crow hats) has thousands of rules, such as "don't hurt crows" and "don't build mechanical devices." Fortunately, the Baudelaires are taken in by a kindly handyman named Hector who cooks them delicious Mexican food and secretly breaks rules. Still, neither Hector nor an entire village can protect the orphans from the clutches of the money-grubbing Count Olaf, who has relentlessly pursued them (actually, just their fortune) since The Bad Beginning. Fans won't want to miss any of this marvelously morbid series! (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The World of Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN 0060972440 (0-06-097244-0)
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Years With Ross
by James Thurber

ISBN 0060959711 (0-06-095971-1)
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At the helm of America's most influential literary magazine for more than half a century, Harold Ross introduced the country to a host of exciting talent, including Robert Benchley, Alexander Woolcott, Ogden Nash, Peter Arno, Charles Addams, and Dorothy Parker. But no one could have written about this irascible, eccentric genius more affectionately or more critically than James Thurber -- an American icon in his own right -- whose portrait of Ross captures not only a complex literary giant but a historic friendship and a glorious era as well. "If you get Ross down on paper," warned Wolcott Gibbs to Thurber," nobody will ever believe it." But readers of this unforgettable memoir will find that they do.
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