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Acres and Painsby S. J. PerelmanISBN 0671213180 (0-671-21318-0)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Advanced Sex Tips for Girls: This Time It's Personalby Cynthia HeimelISBN 068485645X (0-684-85645-X)
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Adventures of a Verbivoreby Richard LedererISBN 0671709429 (0-671-70942-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of a Verbivore'Book summary:The author of Anguished English invites readers on another verbal adventure, in which he offers a plethora of palindromes, groan-inducing puns, malapropisms, and word quizzes, and is told off by a sixth-grader. Reprint. [via]
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Anything Consideredby Peter MayleISBN 067976268X (0-679-76268-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Armadillos & Old Laceby Kinky FriedmanISBN 067186923X (0-671-86923-X)
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A Bad Spell in Yurtby C. Dale BrittainISBN 0671720759 (0-671-72075-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Barchester Towersby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0679405879 (0-679-40587-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barchester Towers'Book summary:This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur. [via]
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Lifeby Anne LamottISBN 0679435204 (0-679-43520-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life'Book summary:Think you've got a book inside of you? Anne Lamott isn't afraid to help you let it out. She'll help you find your passion and your voice, beginning from the first really crummy draft to the peculiar letdown of publication. Readers will be reminded of the energizing books of writer Natalie Goldberg and will be seduced by Lamott's witty take on the reality of a writer's life, which has little to do with literary parties and a lot to do with jealousy, writer's block and going for broke with each paragraph. Marvelously wise and best of all, great reading. [via]
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The Blue Afternoonby William BoydISBN 067977260X (0-679-77260-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blue Afternoon'Book summary:From the acclaimed author of Brazzaville Beach and The Blue Afternoon, a new novel, set in present-day London, which demonstrates the superbly plotted storytelling that has earned William Boyd his reputation as a writer whose "eccentric wit and restless intelligence exert a powerful appeal" (New York Times Book Review).
One cold winter's morning, Lorimer Black--
insurance adjuster, young, good-looking, on the rise--goes out on a perfectly ordinary business appointment, finds a hanged man and realizes that his life is about to be turned upside down. The elements at play: a beautiful actress glimpsed in a passing taxi . . . an odd new business associate whose hiring, firing and rehiring make little sense . . . a rock musician who is losing his mind--and a web of fraud in which virtually everyone Lorimer Black knows has been caught and in which he finds himself increasingly entangled.
Boyd at his urbane and mesmerizing best. [via] 
Book of Nonsenseby Edward LearISBN 0679417982 (0-679-41798-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Borders Up! : Eastern Europe Through the Bottom of a Glassby Vitaliaei Vital'evISBN 0684851806 (0-684-85180-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Burglar in the Closetby Lawrence BlockISBN 0671617044 (0-671-61704-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kiplingby Lawrence BlockISBN 0671618318 (0-671-61831-8)
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The Case of the Toxic Spell Dumpby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0671721968 (0-671-72196-8)
Softcover, Baen Books
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Childhood Is Hellby Matt GroeningISBN 0679720553 (0-679-72055-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Childhood Is Hell'Book summary:Another Inevitable Mini-Jumbo Compendium of Hellish Cartoons by Child-At-Heart Matt Groening, author of Love Is Hell, Work Is Hell, School Is Hell, etc., etc., etc.
This pint-size yet chunky cartoon book contains dozens of zany, daffy, downright insolent comic strips-specially designed to be read under the covers late at night with a secret flashlight and a bowl of ice cream for nourishment. Don't let Mom catch you.
Childhood Is Hell is jam-packed with 48 of the wittiest and weirdest cartoons from Matt Groening's syndicated "Life in Hell" "RM" comic strip (seen weekly in the hippest newspapers from coast to coast). Not only do you get all 25 chapters of the painfully funny "Childhood Is Hell" maxiseries, you also get a whole bunch more bonus cartoons -- at practically no apparent added cost. Childhood Is Hell may not be all that cute and cuddly, but its peculiar insights could save you thousands of dollars in annoying therapy bills, as well as convulse you with childlike laughter and merriment. [via]More editions of Childhood Is Hell:
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status Systemby Paul Fussell, Martim De AvillezISBN 0671792253 (0-671-79225-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Class: A Guide Through the American Status System'Book summary:In Class Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality with eagle-eyed irreverence and iconoclastic wit. This bestselling, superbly researched, exquisitely observed guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system is always outrageously on the mark as Fussell shows us how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. He describes the houses, objects, artifacts, speech, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from the top to the bottom and everybody -- you'll surely recognize yourself -- in between. Class is guaranteed to amuse and infuriate, whether your class is so high it's out of sight (literally) or you are, alas, a sinking victim of prole drift. [via]
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Closing Timeby Joseph HellerISBN 0684804506 (0-684-80450-6)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Closing Time'Book summary:In a novel as darkly comic and audaciously ambitious as was Catch-22, Joseph Heller has dared to write the sequel to his American classic, using many of Catch-22's characters, now older if not wiser, to deftly satirize the realities and the myths of America in the half century since they fought World War II. In 1961, Joseph Heller's remarkable first novel made its way immediately into the American psyche and came to symbolize the absurdity of war and of life. Catch-22 was recognized overnight as a classic and has sold nearly ten million copies in the United States alone. It remains perhaps the funniest - and the most serious - novel ever written about war, "an apocalyptic masterpiece, " in the words of one reviewer. Now, thirty-three years later, Joseph Heller has written the sequel. You don't have to have read Catch-22 (But then, who on earth hasn't?) to enjoy Closing Time, which is a fully independent companion work, a comic masterpiece in its own right, in which Heller spears the inflated balloons of our national consciousness - the absurdity of our politics, the decline of society and our great cities, the greed and hypocrisy of our business and culture - with the same ferocious humor that he used against the conventional view of warfare. His characters are those of Catch-22, coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian, and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked, this time in uneasy peace and old age, fighting, not the Germans this time, but The End. Closing Time is outrageously funny and totally serious, and as brilliant and successful as Catch-22itself, a fun-house mirror that captures, at once grotesquely and accurately, the truth about ourselves. [via]
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Complete Novels of Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0679600256 (0-679-60025-6)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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Cosmic Trigger Final Secret of Illmntiby WilsonISBN 0671452185 (0-671-45218-5)
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The Detaineesby Sean HughesISBN 0684820811 (0-684-82081-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Detainees'Book summary:Antiques dealer John Palmer has seldom left the narrow-minded Irish town where he was born. And the cracks in his psyche are beginning to show. When an old acquaintance, Alan "Redser" McDermot, drags up memories of John's tortured past, John plans a comprehensive and meticulous act of revenge. [via]
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Did You Say Chicks?!by Esther FriesnerISBN 0671878670 (0-671-87867-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Did You Say Chicks?!'Book summary:A brief word from the characters: We seem to have a failure to communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that "Chicks in Chainmail" was so popular, and reached Number 3 on the "Locus" bestseller list, and everybody wanted more, please. But people, you need to take us sword-swinging amazons a little more seriously. After all, you think it's a picnic wearing a cold brass brassiere (let alone finding the right size)? You think it's a piece of cake keeping those chainmail accessories from rusting when it rains? You think it's a walk in the park besieging a city when you've got PMS? Think again, you wimpy noncombatants! [via]
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Encore Provenceby Peter MayleISBN 0679762698 (0-679-76269-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Encore Provence'Book summary:"Provence, again?" one may think, seeing Peter Mayle's latest effort. "Has the man nothing better to do than promote a region that's already overhyped and overpriced? Can't he turn his eye to a place that needs a touristic boost, like Bulgaria?"
However, there are reasons to plunge into the third Provençal book by Englishman Mayle, formerly a Madison Avenue copywriter whose bestselling A Year in Provence made the area a must-see for tourists and helped to quadruple real estate prices there. After four years in Long Island, Mayle has returned to France with continuing adoration.
Mayle discloses a world missed by tourists, be it the questions dry cleaners ask about wine stains or the mysterious murder of a small-town butcher given to making housewives happy with more than his displayed meat. He also incorporates guide-like tips--listing markets, cheese makers, and the essential how-tos of perfume sniffing and olive-oil tasting. What's more, this book gives a peek into the life of a bestselling writer. The role is not always an enviable one.
Mayle no longer fits into life in America--the vocabulary alone is enough to throw him off--yet in Provence, he is regarded as little more than a moneyed foreigner. Speared by the British press, he laments, "One of my crimes is to have encouraged people to visit the region ... far too many people ... and people of the wrong sort," an accusation that he denies.
And Mayle comes off as positively defensive in his attack of former New York Times food critic Ruth Reichl, who wrote that she was disappointed in the region. The title alone of chapter 3 hints at the sarcastic stabbings to follow: "New York Times Restaurant Critic Makes Astonishing Discovery: Provence Never Existed." Page after page, he roasts Reichl on the spit, creating a hissing Ruth Rotisserie that's most unbecoming from someone of his stature.
What most causes him to sputter is Reichl's admission that she "had been dreaming of a Provence that never existed."
"Where had I been living all these years?" writes the man who's helped to perpetrate the illusion of a land that is nothing but lavender fields, sunflowers swaying in the breeze, and fascinating characters every millimeter. "The Provence that Daudet, Giono, Ford Madox Ford, Lawrence Durrell and M.F.K. Fisher knew and wrote about--the Provence that I know--doesn't exist.... It's a sunny figment of our imagination, a romanticized fantasy."
Maybe. Having recently visited Provence, I agree with Reichl's critical assessment. Therein lies Mayle's ultimate charm. Crack open a bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape, delve into Encore Provence, and voilà: it may be better than actually being there. --Melissa Rossi [via]
The Five-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classicsby Greg NaganISBN 0684867672 (0-684-86767-2)
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The Fran Lebowitz Readerby Fran LebowitzISBN 0679761802 (0-679-76180-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Gahan Wilson's Americaby Gahan WilsonISBN 067155512X (0-671-55512-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Girls Guide to Chaosby Cynthia HeimelISBN 0671657593 (0-671-65759-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Green Eggs and Hamby Dr. SeussISBN 0679891293 (0-679-89129-3)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Green Eggs and Ham'Book summary:Young fans of the unflappable Sam-I-am will be pleased as punch to discover the plethora of flaps to lift in this 10-page board book version of the Dr. Seuss classic. Sam-I-am does his very best to convince a more finicky Seuss character to try this rather unusual delicacy.
Would you? Could you? In a car?
To which the exasperated doubter replies:
Eat them! Eat them! Here they are.
You may like them. You will see.
You may like them in a tree!
I would not,
On every page readers will find sturdy, easy-to-lift flaps behind which reside the familiar characters and lines of the unique 1960 classic--except for the last page. Here, blank spaces lurk behind the flaps, just waiting to be filled in with peel-off pictures from the accompanying sheet of silly stickers. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter [via]
could not, in a tree.
Not in a car!
You let me be.
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Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo: A History of the Marx Brothers and a Satire on the Rest of the Worldby Joe AdamsonISBN 0671470728 (0-671-47072-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Hawkline Monsterby Richard BrautiganISBN 0671437860 (0-671-43786-0)
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Heartburnby Nora EphronISBN 0679767959 (0-679-76795-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The High Crusadeby Poul AndersonISBN 0671720740 (0-671-72074-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The High Crusade'Book summary:In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in North East Lincolnshire. The Wersgorix, whose scouting ship it is, are quite expert at taking over planets, and having determined from orbit that this one was suitable, they initiate standard world-conquering procedure. But this time it's no mere primitives the Wersgorix seek to enslave - they've launched their invasion against Englishmen! In the end, only one alien is left alive - and Sir Roger's grand vision is born. He intends for the creature to fly the ship first to France to aid his King, then on to the Holy Land to vanquish the infidel! [via]
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The Homo Handbookby Judy CarterISBN 0684813580 (0-684-81358-0)
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How Proust Can Change Your Lifeby Alain De BottonISBN 0679779159 (0-679-77915-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Proust Can Change Your Life'Book summary:This is a genius-level piece of writing that manages to blend literary biography with self-help and tongue-in-cheek with the profound. The quirky, early 1900s French author Marcel Proust acts as the vessel for surprisingly impressive nuggets of wisdom on down-to-earth topics such as why you should never sleep with someone on the first date, how to protect yourself against lower back pain, and how to cope with obnoxious neighbors. Here's proof that our ancestors had just as much insight as the gurus du jour and perhaps a lot more wit. De Botton simultaneously pokes fun at the self-help movement and makes a significant contribution to its archives. [via]
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How Proust Can Change Your Life : Not a Novelby Alain de BottonISBN 0679442758 (0-679-44275-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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It's Always Somethingby Gilda RadnerISBN 0671638688 (0-671-63868-8)
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Joys of Yiddishby Leo RostenISBN 067172813X (0-671-72813-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joys of Yiddish'Book summary:Leo Rosten left a great legacy of Jewish culture with his classic informal lexicon of Yiddish. Rosten defines (by synonym, anecdote, and joke) the words that have made it into common parlance (like chutzpah, schlep, and schmooze) as well as a choice collection of less integrated but equally rich vocabulary such as schmatte (a rag, i.e. what a schmatte you're wearing), chozzerai (literally "pig food," now denoting crap or junk food), and hundreds more. First published in 1968, Rosten's aptly named compendium still sings with humorous erudition. [via]
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0679417974 (0-679-41797-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Les Carnets Du Major Thompsonby Pierre DaninosISBN 0686555619 (0-686-55561-9)
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Les Cigares Du Pharaonby HergeISBN 0685234096 (0-685-23409-6)
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A Load of Old Ball Crunchers: Women in Historyby Jo BrandISBN 0684816954 (0-684-81695-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Mage Questby C. Dale BrittainISBN 0671721690 (0-671-72169-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Magnificent Wilfby Gordon R. DicksonISBN 0671877194 (0-671-87719-4)
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Mall Purchase Nightby Rick CookISBN 0671721984 (0-671-72198-4)
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0679412697 (0-679-41269-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
Mash Goes to Moroccoby HookerISBN 067180264X (0-671-80264-X)
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Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Lifeby Robert FulghumISBN 0679419608 (0-679-41960-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Memoirs of a Mangy Loverby Groucho Marx, Leo HershfieldISBN 0671679414 (0-671-67941-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Miss Manners Guide for the Turn of the Millenniumby Judith Martin, Gloria KamenISBN 067172228X (0-671-72228-X)
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MTV's Beavis and Butthead: This Book Sucksby Mike Judge, Sam Johnson, Chris Marcil, Glenn EichlerISBN 0671890344 (0-671-89034-4)
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The New Yorker Book of Lawyer CartoonsISBN 0679765743 (0-679-76574-3)
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No News at Throat Lakeby Lawrence DoneganISBN 0671785443 (0-671-78544-3)
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Caught in the throes of a premature midlife crisis, Donegan, a London journalist, pulls up stakes and moves to an Irish village he once visited on holiday. The book chronicles his (mis)adventures there, from an abortive attempt at cattle farming (described here as "Quentin Tarantino's All Creatures Great and Small") through a series of exploits with the rambunctious editors of the Tirconaill Tribune, a feisty local paper. Donegan relates his experiences, which include a hunt for a whale tooth and a visit from Newt Gingrinch, and describes his companions in Creeslough with great intimacy and wit. This is certainly not the final word on "the Irish character," if such a thing even exists, but Donegan's story abounds with charming characters, Irish and otherwise, providing a meditation on small-town life that is at once universal and as unique as the Irish village it describes. --Andrew Nieland [via]
Nothin' but Good Times Aheadby Molly IvinsISBN 0679754881 (0-679-75488-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nothin' but Good Times Ahead'Book summary:A follow-up to the best-selling Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?, by the nationally syndicated columnist, pinpoints the 1992 campaign, fellow Texan Ross Perot, and Clinton's presidency. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbookby Henry Beard, Christopher CerfISBN 0679741135 (0-679-74113-5)
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The Official Sexually Correct Dictionary and Dating Guideby Henry BeardISBN 0679756418 (0-679-75641-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Old Devilsby Kingsley AmisISBN 0671637045 (0-671-63704-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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One Fat Englishmanby K. AmisISBN 0671671197 (0-671-67119-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Fat Englishman'Book summary:Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to offend all he meets and to seduce every woman he encounters. But his American hosts seem made of sterner stuff. Who will be Roger's undoing? Irving Macher, the young author of an annoyingly brilliant first novel? Father Colgate, the priest who suggests that Roger's soul is in torment? Or will it be his married ex-lover Helene? One thing is certain - Roger is heading for a terrible fall. Outrageously funny and irreverent, "One Fat Englishman" (1963) is a devastating satire on Anglo-American relations. [via]
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Pantagruel Gargantuaby Francois Rabelais, Thomas UrquhartISBN 0679431373 (0-679-43137-3)
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Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0679409866 (0-679-40986-6)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Of all Jane Austens great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance.
Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish, spendthrift Sir Walter Elliot, is a woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen, she fell in love withand was engaged toa naval officer, the fearless and headstrong Captain Wentworth. But the young man had no fortune, and Anne allowed herself to be persuaded, against her profoundest instinct, to give him up.Now, at twenty-seven, and believing that she has lost her bloom, Anne is startled to learn that Captain Wentworth has returned to the neighborhood, a rich man and still unwed. Her never-diminished love is muffled by her pride. He seems cold and unforgiving. Even worse, he appears to be infatuated by the flighty and pretty Louisa Musgrove.
What happens as Anne and Wentworth are thrown together in the social world of Bathand as an eager new suitor appears for Anneis touchingly and wittily told in a masterpiece that is also one of the most entrancing novels in the English language. [via] -
The Philosophical Stranglerby Eric FlintISBN 0671319868 (0-671-31986-8)
Hardcover, Baen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Philosophical Strangler'Book summary:Mighty Greyboar, the world's greatest professional strangler, is dissatisfied with his lot in life. The work is steady and the pay is good, but what, he wonders, is the "point" of it all?
But when he learns that there is a Supreme Philosophy of Life*, Greyboar the Strangler is Born Again! Still, just how can a professional man in good standing pay the bills with all this philosophical exploration getting in the way?
That's what his hard-headed agent and manager Ignace wants to know! And Ignace's skepticism turns quickly into outright horror when Greyboar's philosophical preoccupation leads to one disaster after another ...
simple choke jobs turn into ethical quandaries... a bizarre artist and a deadly arms-master turn up to complicate their lives... as if their new girlfriends haven't complicated them enough!
Before you know it, Greyboar the strangler and his disgruntled manager find themselves embroiled with an abbess at odds with her deity, heretics on the run, dwarves needing to be rescued, and then -- the worst of all!
Greyboar's long-estranged sister Gwendolyn, political activist and revolutionary, comes back to town asking Greyboar's help in an insane mission to the underworld. it's purely a noble cause, one which no self-respecting assassin would touch for a moment. But in the pursuit of Enlightenment, anything can happen....
*What? You want the details? Hint: "Entropy." For more on the secret, buy this book! [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0679600019 (0-679-60001-9)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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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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Pogo Papersby Walt KellyISBN 0671588001 (0-671-58800-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pogo Papers'Book summary:After working as a Disney animator, Walt Kelly struck out on his own and Pogo first appeared in a 1941 Dell comic. By the late 40's Kelly had transformed Pogo into a newspaper strip. The first of 45 books, simply titled Pogo, was released in 1951. This was quickly followed by I Go Pogo, Uncle Pogo's So-So Stories, The Pogo Papers, and The Pogo Stepmother Goose. [via]
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Postcards from the Edgeby Carrie FisherISBN 0671724738 (0-671-72473-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Postcards from the Edge'Book summary:Written in a montage form using diary extracts, memory flashbacks and narrative, this is a novel about stardom and drugs, while looking at some of the dangers and delights of our age - career, money, sex and insecurity. The author is also an actress who played Princess Leia in "Star Wars". [via]
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Pygmalionby George Bernard ShawISBN 0671643525 (0-671-64352-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Actsby George Bernard Shaw, Harry ShefterISBN 0671704966 (0-671-70496-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts'Book summary:When George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion more than a half century ago, no one could have predicted his play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time -- My Fair Lady -- and an Academy Award³-winning motion picture. Generations of readers and theatergoers have found relevance in Shaw's story of speech therapist Henry Higgins, who successfully transforms Liza Doolittle, a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe," into a darling of high society who momentarily upsets his hard-edged reserve. The extraordinary wit of this master dramatist of the twentieth century cuts away at the artificiality of class distinctions to reveal that human clay can be molded into wondrous shapes.
Washington Square Press' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of Pygmalion includes the analysis of Eric Bentley from his book Bernard Shaw. Essential biographical and historical background is provided, together with notes, critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading. A unique visual essay of period illustrations and photographs helps bring the play to life. [via]
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The Real Frank Zappa Bookby Frank ZappaISBN 0671705725 (0-671-70572-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Real Frank Zappa Book'Book summary:This is the second-best way to expose yourself to the particular genius of Frank Zappa (music is the best, after all)--through his own words. In addition to being an idiosyncratic American composer of some degree of controversy, Zappa was an orator of no small ability or scope. He was known for his ability to expound at great length (and to hilarious effect) on any number of topics. The Real Frank Zappa Book faithfully captures this side of its author, composed of essays on everything from his background and upbringing, to politics, capitalism, and raising children. Zappa takes the opportunity to dispel some of the most pervasive rumors that surrounded him right up to (and even persist after) his death in 1993 (no he didn't do drugs, or sleep with all those groupies). If you're familiar with the man, you will be able to hear his distinctive enunciations (aided by the bold-facing of certain words and Zappaisms) as you read the assorted road stories, his views on making music for a living, and scenes from two--count them, two--organized hearings on obscenity in music. Of course, the chapter titles speak for themselves and include such Zappa winners as "All About Schmucks," "Marriage (As a Dada Concept)," and "America Drinks and Goes Marching." [via]
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The Real Frank Zappa Bookby Peter Occhiogrosso, Frank ZappaISBN 067163870X (0-671-63870-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Real Frank Zappa Book'Book summary:This is the second-best way to expose yourself to the particular genius of Frank Zappa (music is the best, after all)--through his own words. In addition to being an idiosyncratic American composer of some degree of controversy, Zappa was an orator of no small ability or scope. He was known for his ability to expound at great length (and to hilarious effect) on any number of topics. The Real Frank Zappa Book faithfully captures this side of its author, composed of essays on everything from his background and upbringing, to politics, capitalism, and raising children. Zappa takes the opportunity to dispel some of the most pervasive rumors that surrounded him right up to (and even persist after) his death in 1993 (no he didn't do drugs, or sleep with all those groupies). If you're familiar with the man, you will be able to hear his distinctive enunciations (aided by the bold-facing of certain words and Zappaisms) as you read the assorted road stories, his views on making music for a living, and scenes from two--count them, two--organized hearings on obscenity in music. Of course, the chapter titles speak for themselves and include such Zappa winners as "All About Schmucks," "Marriage (As a Dada Concept)," and "America Drinks and Goes Marching." [via]
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The Restraint of Beastsby Magnus MillsISBN 0684865114 (0-684-86511-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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True Storyby Bill MaherISBN 0679753370 (0-679-75337-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Twelfth Night : Or, What You Willby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722948 (0-671-72294-8)
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0679722769 (0-679-72276-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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User Friendlyby Spider RobinsonISBN 0671878646 (0-671-87864-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'User Friendly'Book summary:Spider Robinson has won every major award that the science fiction field has to offer with his Heinlein-influenced, solidly scientific, warmly human stories. "User Friendly" is a new solid chunk of Spider's universe that is inimitably reader friendly. Welcome to a world where your wife may be inhabited by alien symbiote; where the fabulously rich hire hit men to be their own assassins in a bizarre conspiracy; where a brave woman must change the course of Halley's Comet on its next return to save the life of her lover; and where you can't tell the real time travelers from the frauds without a program.... [via]
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When a Man Loves a Walnut: And Even More Misheard Lyricsby Gavin EdwardsISBN 0684845679 (0-684-84567-9)
Softcover, Fireside
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Wizardry Cursedby Rick CookISBN 067172049X (0-671-72049-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Wizardry Questedby Rick CookISBN 0671877089 (0-671-87708-9)
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Wonder Boysby Michael ChabonISBN 0679415882 (0-679-41588-2)
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The Works of Jane Austenby Jane AustinISBN 0681103752 (0-681-10375-2)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
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The World of Charles Addamsby Charles AddamsISBN 067974813X (0-679-74813-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Worlds Apart No. 2: How Much for Just the Planet?by John M. Ford, Dave SternISBN 067172214X (0-671-72214-X)
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