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The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbinsby SeussISBN 039484484X (0-394-84484-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Accidental Touristby Anne TylerISBN 0425092917 (0-425-09291-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Adventures of Tintinby HergeISBN 0416088309 (0-416-08830-9)
Hardcover, French & European Pubns
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Archer's Goonby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0425098885 (0-425-09888-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archer's Goon'Book summary:When the Goon turns up demanding "Archer's two thousand", life turns upside-down. As Howard desperately tries to get to the bottom of this demand, he discovers that the town is run by seven crazy wizards (not all of whom live in the present!) and someone is trying to take over the world. [via]
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Art Cop Robert Volpe, Art Crime Detectiveby Burton BernsteinISBN 0396070272 (0-396-07027-2)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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Be Coolby Elmore LeonardISBN 0440235057 (0-440-23505-7)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Be Cool'Book summary:The film Get Shorty was a success on many fronts. It introduced a new style of hip gangster that revised the stereotype of the Godfather series. It also helped relaunch the career of John Travolta. And it brought Elmore Leonard's impressive body of fiction to larger public attention. In Hollywood, such a triumph usually spawns a sequel--a film that rehashes the great jokes and cool scenes of the first film, but with none of the panache that initially inspired audiences.
In the beginning of Be Cool, the sequel to the novel Get Shorty, readers are reminded that Chili Palmer--like his creator--scored a huge success with a gangster film (his was entitled Get Leo). But the sequel, Get Lost, was a predictable dud. Rather than follow that sordid story, however, Leonard takes Chili into a totally new direction. He places Chili on a murder investigation (in which he is a prime suspect) and then traces Chili's entry into the music business. Meanwhile, Leonard reveals a whole new cast of fresh, funny, and flaky characters to populate Chili's world, characters like Elliot the gigantic, gay, Samoan bodyguard who lives to be on the stage. Throughout, the voice of John Travolta rings in Chili's every speech (word has it that Travolta has already been cast to reprise the role) as Leonard pokes fun at the Hollywood apparatus and the task of a sequel writer.
Be Cool surpasses its original because it is so self-consciously a novel about sequels, about the sometimes cowardice that limits the creativity of the American film industry. It is hard to imagine how Leonard could top the multilayered satire/crime novel/exposé. One only hopes for a sequel. Fans of Be Cool might want to check out music from The Stone Coyotes, the band that served as Leonard's model in the book. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Book of Nonsenseby Edward LearISBN 041528600X (0-415-28600-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Calculus Affairby HergeISBN 0416605605 (0-416-60560-5)
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Classic Books from the Library of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardryby J. K. RowlingISBN 043932162X (0-439-32162-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classic Books from the Library of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry'Book summary:When first released to Muggles in March 2001, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages further enlightened Harry Potter fans about the dangers and delights of the wizarding world. Now these two charming works of non-fiction ae available in hardcover - in a special keepsake slipcase edition! [via]
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The Common Yearsby Jilly CooperISBN 0413480100 (0-413-48010-0)
Hardcover, Methuen
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The Crying of Lot 49by Thomas PynchonISBN 0397004184 (0-397-00418-4)
Hardcover, Lippincott
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crying of Lot 49'Book summary:The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.
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Danny the Champion of the Worldby Roald Dahl, Jill BennettISBN 0394831039 (0-394-83103-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danny the Champion of the World'Book summary:"My father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had." Danny feels very lucky. He adores his life with his father, living in a gypsy caravan, listening to his stories, tending their gas station, puttering around the workshop, and occasionally taking off to fly home-built gas balloons and kites. His father has raised him on his own, ever since Danny's mother died when he was four months old. Life is peaceful and wonderful... until he turns 9 and discovers his father's one vice. Soon Danny finds himself the mastermind behind the most incredible plot ever attempted against nasty Victor Hazell, a wealthy landowner with a bad attitude. Can they pull it off? If so, Danny will truly be the champion of the world. Danny is right up to Roald Dahl's impishly brilliant standards. An intense and beautiful father-son relationship is balanced with sublegal high jinks that will have even the most rigid law-abider rooting them on. Dahl's inimitable way with words leaves the reader simultaneously satisfied and itching for more. (Ages 9 to 13) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Deadeye Dickby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440117658 (0-440-11765-8)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Deep Thoughtsby Jack HandeyISBN 0425133656 (0-425-13365-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Derik's Baneby Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 0425199975 (0-425-19997-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Derik's Bane'Book summary:Derik's a werewolf with alpha issues--and a body to die for.[via]Sara is the personification of unspeakable evil--and smells like roses.
Now if they could just stop drooling over each other long enough to save the world.
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Dreadful Acts: The Eddie Dickens Trilogyby Philip Ardagh, David RobertsISBN 0439537606 (0-439-53760-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Duchess of Bloomsbury Streetby Helene HanffISBN 0397009763 (0-397-00976-3)
Hardcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Eddie Dickens Trilogyby Philip Ardagh, David RobertsISBN 0439537592 (0-439-53759-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Falconer's Malteser: A Diamond Brothers Mysteryby Anthony HorowitzISBN 0399241531 (0-399-24153-1)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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Families and How to Survive Themby Robin Skynner, John CleeseISBN 0413526402 (0-413-52640-2)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Fields for Presidentby W. C. Fields, Michael M. TaylorISBN 0396064191 (0-396-06419-1)
Hardcover, Dodd, Mead
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Frank Muir on Childrenby Frank Muir, Simon Brett, Joseph WrightISBN 0434481513 (0-434-48151-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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George's Marvelous Medicineby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0394846001 (0-394-84600-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Get Thee to a Punneryby Richard LedererISBN 0440204992 (0-440-20499-2)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Get Thee to a Punnery'Book summary:The Pun Is Mightier Than The Sword...
Richard Lederer has great puns. And you don't have to take vows to enjoy them. Just Get Thee To A Punnery and laugh yourself int a state of grace. Sinners will be punished with such gems as:
-Old Milkmaids never die -- they just kick the bucket.
-Drunk drivers are people who put the quart before the hearse.
Whether you like 'em hot or cool, straight-up or low-down, here are puns of every color, stripe and persuasion to suit your every whim. Even if you don't know that your humerus is your funny bone, this is the book for you. [via]More editions of Get Thee to a Punnery:
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The Girlfriends' Guide to Getting Your Groove Back: Loving Your Family Without Losing Your Mindby Vicki Iovine, Vivki IovineISBN 0399526307 (0-399-52630-7)
Softcover, Perigee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girlfriends' Guide to Getting Your Groove Back: Loving Your Family Without Losing Your Mind'Book summary:Bust out of that mommy rut and get into the groove![via]When a mother finally emerges from the mommy mole tunnel of pregnancy, breastfeeding, potty-training and preschool, she comes to the inevitable realization: The road to maternity is a one-way street. No U-turns allowed. Youve survived the battles of baby- and toddler-hood, playdates and temper tantrums to time-outs. And just when it seems your former life is within reachtaking up neglected jobs and hobbies, committing to a fitness program, rediscovering the boyfriend living in the body of your husbandyou crash headfirst into the wall of reality. The kids may be able to fasten their own seatbelts and pour their own cereal, but the homework, tucking in, car pools, and birthday parties have just begun. Let Vicki Iovine, author of The Girlfriends Guides, show you how to navigate the twists and turns of family lifeand find time for your kids, your spouse, your home, your work, and yourself. Youre not alone in this mommy adolescence. In The Girlfriends Guide to Getting Your Groove Back, Iovine provides her trademark sage, witty advice on:
- How to focus at work when things at home are in chaosand vice versa
- Making time for yourselfand not the PTA
- Getting over the romantic myth of date nights and weekends away from the kids
- Homework helpyour transformation into a human flashcard
- The dinnertime crush and how to relieve frozen pizza fatigueIovine puts the perils of perpetual parenthood into perspective. Youll feel like you do after a long chat with a good friendrelaxed, refreshed, and ready to reclaim your life &
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The Girlfriends' Guide to Toddlers: A Survival Manual to the "Terrible Twos" (And Ones and Threes) from the First Step, the First Potty and the First Word ("No") to the Last Blankieby Vicki IovineISBN 039952438X (0-399-52438-X)
Softcover, Perigee
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The Golden Turkey Awardsby Michael Medved, Harry MedvedISBN 039950463X (0-399-50463-X)
Softcover, Perigee
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The Great Brain at the Academyby John D. FitzgeraldISBN 0440431131 (0-440-43113-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Brain at the Academy'Book summary:Everyone knew that Tom Fitzgerald, alias The Great Brain, would get into trouble when he went off to school at the strict Catholic Academy for Boys in Salt Lake City. But no one--including Tom--knew just how much. His tongue got him into fifteen demerits worth of difficulty the very first day, but his great brain refused to be defeated as Tom set out to outwit the eighth grade, the superintendent, and finally the bishop of the state of Utah. Whether it's running an illegal candy store or earning a reputation as the fastest potato peeler in the world or introducing the newfangled sport of basketball at the academy, Tom's great brain never falters. And his money-making schemes rise to new heights--or depths--faced with the challenge of rigorous boarding-school life. [via]
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The Great Brain Does It Againby John Dennis FitzgeraldISBN 0440429838 (0-440-42983-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Green Eggs and Hamby SeussISBN 0394900162 (0-394-90016-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens 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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Harry Potter Schoolbooksby J. K. Rowling, Kennilworthy Whisp, Newt ScamanderISBN 0439284031 (0-439-28403-1)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter Schoolbooks'Book summary:Now, the classic books from the library of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry--Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages--are available in hardcover in a sturdy boxed gift set. (These books are written by J.K. Rowling herself under the pseudonyms Newt Scamander and Kennilworthy Whisp.) Finally, Muggles will have the chance to discover where the Quintaped lives, what the Puffskein eats, and why it is best not to leave milk out for a Knarl. The Quidditch textbook explains where the Golden Snitch came from, how the Bludgers came into existence, and why the Wigtown Wanderers have pictures of meat cleavers on their clothes. Both books, designed to look like Harry Potter's actual, used Hogwarts textbooks, feature silly scribblings from Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Proceeds from the sale of this gift set will go to improving and saving the lives of children around the world. Harry Potter fans, rejoice! (All ages) [via]
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Hemingway's Chairby Michael PalinISBN 0413689301 (0-413-68930-1)
Hardcover, Methuen
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How to Live to Be 100--Or More: The Ultimate Diet, Sex and Exercise Book* *at My Agby George BurnsISBN 0399127879 (0-399-12787-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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I Had Trouble In Getting To Solla Sollewby Dr. SeussISBN 0394900928 (0-394-90092-8)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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I, an Actorby Nigel Planer, Christopher Douglas, Nicholas CraigISBN 0413765504 (0-413-76550-4)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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The Jane Austen Book Clubby Karen Joy FowlerISBN 0399151613 (0-399-15161-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jane Austen Book Club'Book summary:Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable - under the guiding eye of Jane Austen a couple of them even fall in love..."I was enchanted. A charming and intelligent read, with the best appendix I've come across since Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time"" - Kate Long, author of "The Bad Mother's Handbook". [via]
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Joseph Andrews and Shamelaby Henry FieldingISBN 0395051509 (0-395-05150-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Life and Hard Times of Heidi Abromowitzby Joan RiversISBN 0440147212 (0-440-14721-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Lucia in Londonby E. F. BensonISBN 0434065021 (0-434-06502-1)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucia in London'Book summary:In Lucia in London, Lucia inherits a house in London and leaves Riseholme to go off and conquer the capital. Meanwhile the inhabitants of Riseholme are setting up a museum.
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an excerpt from the first chapter:Considering that Philip Lucas's aunt who died early in April was no less than eighty-three years old, and had spent the last seven of them bedridden in a private lunatic asylum, it had been generally and perhaps reasonably hoped among his friends and those of his wife that the bereavement would not be regarded by either of them as an intolerable tragedy. Mrs. Quantock, in fact, who, like everybody else at Riseholme, had sent a neat little note of condolence to Mrs. Lucas, had, without using the actual words "happy release," certainly implied it or its close equivalent.
She was hoping that there would be a reply to it, for though she had said in her note that her dear Lucia mustn't dream of answering it, that was a mere figure of speech, and she had instructed her parlour-maid who took it across to 'The Hurst' immediately after lunch to say that she didn't know if there was an answer, and would wait to see, for Mrs. Lucas might perhaps give a little hint ever so vaguely about what the expectations were concerning which everybody was dying to get information. . . .
While she waited for this, Daisy Quantock was busy, like everybody else in the village on this beautiful afternoon of spring, with her garden, hacking about with a small but destructive fork in her flower-beds. She was a gardener of the ruthless type, and went for any small green thing that incautiously showed a timid spike above the earth, suspecting it of being a weed. She had had a slight difference with the professional gardener who had hitherto worked for her on three afternoons during the week, and had told him that his services were no longer required. She meant to do her gardening herself this year, and was confident that a profusion of beautiful flowers and a plethora of delicious vegetables would be the result. At the end of her garden path was a barrow of rich manure, which she proposed, when she had finished the slaughter of the innocents, to dig into the depopulated beds. On the other side of her paling her neighbour Georgie Pillson was rolling his strip of lawn, on which during the summer he often played croquet on a small scale. Occasionally they shouted remarks to each other, but as they got more and more out of breath with their exertions the remarks got fewer. Mrs. Quantock's last question had been "What do you do with slugs, Georgie?" and Georgie had panted out, "Pretend you don't see them."
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The Meanwhile Adventuresby Roddy Doyle, Brian AjharISBN 0439662117 (0-439-66211-7)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meanwhile Adventures'Book summary:The triumphant finale to Roddy Doyle's hilarious Mack Family tales, released in the same season as his sequel to A STAR CALLED HENRY, his best-selling book for adults.[via]
Mr. Macks been arrested for a small misunderstanding at the bank (involving a saw inconveniently shaped like a machine gun.) Billie Jean Fleetwood-Mack has disappeared (off on an attempt to become the first woman to circle the globe without telling anyone.) So its up to the Mack kids Jimmy, Robbie and Kayla (and Rover the jaded wonder-dog) to save their family and the world from bullying prison guards, nasty orphan catchers and an army of ill-mannered slugs.
As funny as THE GIGGLER TREATMENT, as snarky as ROVER SAVES CHRISTMAS, and as brilliant as only Roddy Doyle can be.More editions of The Meanwhile Adventures:
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Monty Python's Life of Brian (Of Nazareth)by Terry Jones, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry GilliamISBN 0413741303 (0-413-74130-3)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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Monty Python's the Meaning of Lifeby Graham Chapman, Monty Python (Comedy troupe)ISBN 0413533808 (0-413-53380-8)
Hardcover, Methuen
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More About Paddingtonby Michael Bond, Peggy FortnumISBN 0395066409 (0-395-06640-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Mr. Popper's Penguinsby Richard AtwaterISBN 0440213703 (0-440-21370-3)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Popper's Penguins'Book summary:More than 60 years have not dated this wonderfully absurd tale--it still makes kids (and parents) laugh out loud. Poor Mr. Popper isn't exactly unhappy; he just wishes he had seen something of the world before meeting Mrs. Popper and settling down. Most of all, he wishes he had seen the Poles, and spends his spare time between house-painting jobs reading all about polar explorations. Admiral Drake, in response to Mr. Popper's fan letter, sends him a penguin; life at 432 Proudfoot Avenue is never the same again. From one penguin living in the icebox, the Popper family grows to include 12 penguins, all of whom must be fed. Thus is born "Popper's Performing Penguins, First Time on Any Stage, Direct from the South Pole." Their adventures while on tour are hilarious, with numerous slapstick moments as the penguins disrupt other acts and invade hotels. Classic chapter-a-night fun. (Ages 5 to 10) --Richard Farr [via]
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Never Cry Wolfby Farley MowatISBN 0440362997 (0-440-36299-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Never Cry Wolf'Book summary:In the summer of 1948, young biologist and budding writer Farley Mowat, "infatuated with the study of animate nature," joined the Dominion Wildlife Service and, after enduring a few bureaucratic mishaps, was assigned to study a population of wolves in the subarctic highlands of southern Nunavut and northern Manitoba. Those wolves and their kin, Mowat's superiors believed, had decimated the once huge population of large mammals in the region, so that, as one worried official put it, "more and more of our fellow citizens are coming back from more and more hunts with less and less deer."
Mowat found his wolves, followed them, learned their ways, and in a very real sense became part of the pack. As he did so, suffering plenty of misadventures along the way (and performing odd experiments that involved, among other things, subsisting on a lupine diet of field mice, for which he includes a recipe or two), he concluded that human hunters, and not wolves, were the cause of the ungulates' decline. The news, he writes, was not well received in Ottawa and Winnipeg. "I received no reply," he writes, "unless the fact that the Provincial Government raised the bounty on wolves to twenty dollars some weeks afterwards could be considered a reply."
Never Cry Wolf was first published in 1963, a time when the welfare of Canis lupus was far from most readers' minds. Attitudes have changed, and Mowat's book now has many companions, books that pay honour to wolves and urge their protection. A close-up look at the lives of wolves in their native domain, it still stands at the head of that well-stocked library. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Official Rulesby Pual DicksonISBN 0440166845 (0-440-16684-5)
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Out from Bonevilleby Jeff SmithISBN 0439706408 (0-439-70640-8)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out from Boneville'Book summary:The cornerstone of GRAPHIX, our new graphic novel imprint, BONE is the incredible comic book saga of an unlikely hero who must save an idyllic valley from the forces of evil.[via]
In OUT FROM BONEVILLE, volume 1 of this 9-book epic, the three Bone cousins -- Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone -- are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. Eventually, the cousins are reunited at a farmstead run by tough Gran'ma Ben and her spirited granddaughter Thorn. But little do the Bones know, there are dark forces conspiring against them, and their adventures are only just beginning!More editions of Out from Boneville:
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P Is for Perilby Sue GraftonISBN 0399147195 (0-399-14719-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'P Is for Peril'Book summary:When Dowan Purcell, a respected physician who operates a nursing home, disappears, his ex-wife hires Santa Teresa PI Kinsey Millhone to look into it. Fiona Purcell is still seething over Dow's affair and subsequent marriage to Crystal, a former stripper, yet they're still friends, and she seems worried. But when his body is discovered, she's among the suspects. Both of Dow's wives, at least one of his business partners, and perhaps even Crystal's teenage daughter had motives to kill.
While in her most recent adventures (N Is for Noose, O Is for Outlaw) Kinsey has acquired new digs, an extended family, and a few more gray hairs, in this one (which takes place some time in the mid-'80s), she's 36, still living in the remodeled garage that was blown up in an earlier novel. Easier than a facelift, and while Sue Grafton is a solid enough writer to pull it off, dedicated Kinsey fans will miss the more complex and multidimensional character who aged so ruefully and interestingly in the '90s. This isn't Grafton's strongest case; it's hard to care about any of Purcell's women or his associates. More exciting is the secondary plot, which involves a handsome landlord who offers Kinsey the new office space she's been seeking and turns out to be a lot more trouble than she bargained for. Despite its somewhat plodding pace and the echo of a more evolved heroine that rings through its pages, Grafton's many fans will probably shoot P Is for Peril right to the top of the bestseller list. --Jane Adams [via]
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Paddington at Workby Michael Bond, Peggy FortnumISBN 0440407974 (0-440-40797-4)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Paddington Helps Outby Michael BondISBN 0395066395 (0-395-06639-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Paradise Newsby David LodgeISBN 0436256681 (0-436-25668-1)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studiesby S. FullerISBN 0415941059 (0-415-94105-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0440369142 (0-440-36914-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Q Is for Quarryby Sue GraftonISBN 0425192725 (0-425-19272-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Q Is for Quarry'Book summary:Private investigator Kinsey Millhone has served Sue Grafton well through 16 letters of the alphabet in a perennially popular series that occasionally breaks new ground but more often traverses familiar territory, as is the case here. Two old, ailing cops--one retired, the other disabled--try to breathe some life into an 18-year-old mystery that haunts them both for different reasons. They enlist Kinsey's help in identifying the victim, a young woman who was murdered and left for dead in the old quarry of the title. Neither they nor Kinsey expect that reopening an old case will incite the killer to strike again--not once, but twice. And while the real case of the still-unidentified victim that inspired this fictionalized scenario continues to languish in the cold case file in the Santa Barbara sheriff's office, Grafton's solution is as plausible as any. While the unlikely trio of Millhone and her cranky geezer sidekicks offers a few chuckles, the inner reaches of Kinsey's soul remain largely inaccessible to her as well as to the reader, which will probably not bother most of Kinsey's or Grafton's many admirers. --Jane Adams [via]
R Is for Ricochetby Sue GraftonISBN 0425203867 (0-425-20386-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Rutland Dirty Weekend Bookby Eric IdleISBN 0413365700 (0-413-36570-0)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen
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Science Made Stupidby Tom WellerISBN 0395366461 (0-395-36646-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Scotchby John Kenneth GalbraithISBN 0395393825 (0-395-39382-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Sibyl in Her Graveby Sarah CaudwellISBN 0440234824 (0-440-23482-4)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sibyl in Her Grave'Book summary:For mystery lovers and literary connoisseurs alike, 2000 was a year of loss. Gone are two masters of language, one with over 30 works to his credit (George V. Higgins), the other with only four (Sarah Caudwell). It is some comfort that each gave readers one last glimpse of literary skill before passing on: Higgins (At End of Day) captured the way people really speak; Caudwell captured the way many people would dearly love to speak. Her first three novels (The Shortest Way to Hades, Thus Was Adonis Murdered, The Sirens Sang of Murder) brought readers into the elegant, urbane world of Hilary Tamar, Oxford fellow and mentor to London barristers Cantrip, Selena, Ragwort, and Julia. Caudwell's last work, The Sibyl in Her Grave, continues the intoxicating blend of dry humor and genteel manners that marked her as a successor to Dorothy Sayers.
The sibyl of the title is the psychic counselor Isabella del Comino, who descends in a flurry of bad taste to the Sussex village of Parsons Haver. With an aviary of ravens, a frumpy niece, and a penchant for combining divinations and blackmail, her sudden death comes as a relief to the village's disgruntled inhabitants, including Julia's redoubtable Aunt Regina. Regina has enough to worry about: she and two friends pooled their resources and invested in equities--and made a killing. But now the tax man is demanding his share, and the money has already been spent. When she asks Julia for legal advice, Julia and her colleagues discover that both Regina's fiscal success and Isabella's death are connected to an insider-trading scandal brewing with Julia's biggest clients. Unraveling that connection, of course, is a task that falls to Hilary.
Hilary, who "labors always in the service of Scholarship," is a triumph of authorial ambiguity. After four novels, readers will be left wondering, apparently unto eternity, whether Professor Tamar is a man or a woman. Take it as a political statement if you will--or simply as another little mystery, courtesy of an author who reveled in the power of words to clarify, outline, elucidate, and obscure. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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The Sirens Sang of Murderby Sarah L. CaudwellISBN 0440207452 (0-440-20745-2)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sirens Sang of Murder'Book summary:Young barrsiter Michael Cantrip has skipped of to the Channel Islands to take on a tax-law case that's worth a fortune -- if Cantrip's tax-planning cronies can locate the missing heir. But Cantrip has waded in way over his head. Strange things are happening on these mysterious, isolated isles. Something is going bump in the night -- and bumping off members of the legal team, one by one. Soon Cantrip is telexing the gang at the home office for help. And it's up to amateur investigator Hilaray Tamar (Oxford don turned supersleuth) to get Cantrip back to safety of his chambers -- alive! [via]
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Smith of Smithsby Hesketh PearsonISBN 0403011469 (0-403-01146-9)
Hardcover, Native Amer Books Distributor
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Speak after the Beep: Studies in the Art of Communicating with Inanimate and Semi-Animate Objectsby Michael FraynISBN 0413720608 (0-413-72060-8)
Softcover, Methuen Publishing Limited
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Superfudgeby Judy BlumeISBN 0425193810 (0-425-19381-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Take My Word for It: Still More Stories from My Word ! ..by Frank Muir, Denis NordenISBN 0413387100 (0-413-38710-0)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen
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The Tao of Poohby Benjamin HoffISBN 0416195261 (0-416-19526-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Te of Pigletby Benjamin HoffISBN 0416195121 (0-416-19512-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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Terrible Timesby Philip Ardagh, David RobertsISBN 0439537614 (0-439-53761-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Three Sheets in the Wind: Thelwell's Manual of Sailingby Norman ThelwellISBN 0413306100 (0-413-30610-0)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen
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Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, Kyle BakerISBN 0425120228 (0-425-12022-8)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0394869168 (0-394-86916-8)
Hardcover, A.A. Knopf
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Tigger's Little Book of Bounceby Alan Alexander MilneISBN 0416196764 (0-416-19676-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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Timequakeby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0425164349 (0-425-16434-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Timequake'Book summary:Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a confident final trot 'round the track by one of the greats of postwar American literature. After 40 years of practice, Vonnegut's got his schtick down cold, and it's a pleasure--if a slightly tame one--to watch him go through his paces one more time.
Timequake's a mongrel; it is half novel, half memoir, the project of a decade's worth of writer's block, a book "that didn't want to be written." The premise is standard-issue Vonnegut: "...a timequake, a sudden glitch in the space-time continuum, made everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during past decades, for good or ill, a second time..." Simultaneously, the author's favorite tricks are on display--frequent visits with the shopworn science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a Hitchcockian appearance by the author at the book's end, and frequent authorial opining on love, war, and society. [via]
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Tricky Businessby Dave BarryISBN 0425192741 (0-425-19274-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Twelfth Nightby William ShakespeareISBN 0415027470 (0-415-02747-0)
Hardcover, Chapman & Hall
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Up the Garden Pathby Norman ThelwellISBN 0417010206 (0-417-01020-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Welcome to the Monkey Houseby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440194784 (0-440-19478-4)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Willowdale Handcar or the Return of the Black Dollby Edward GoreyISBN 0396077676 (0-396-07767-6)
Hardcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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The Wishlistby Eoin ColferISBN 0439443369 (0-439-44336-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wishlist'Book summary:This four-cassette unabridged recording of The Wish List is read by James Wilby. The running time is five hours 45 minutes.
Eoin Colfer's The Wish List is a bitter yet rip-roaringly funny tale of two wayward teenagers on the road to hell--literally. The story opens with Meg Finn and Belch Brennan, two bad kids on the block, breaking into a pensioner's flat. At the very last minute Meg reneges on the deal and tries to break for freedom, leaving the aged Lowrie McCall screaming with the pain inflicted by Belch's bloodthirsty hound. Backed into a corner by Belch and a shotgun, Meg pleads with Belch to call an ambulance and save the old man's life. Instead he pulls the trigger and in a split second of evil and madness the bullet hits a gas tank and knocks Meg's soul out of her skin, catapulting her spirit along a vast tunnel on the way to some particularly shiny, pearly gates.
Meanwhile, Beelzebub is fretting. His boss was expecting two souls, and although Belch (in his new incarnation as a dribbling, growling, red-eyed dog-boy) took the correct turn in the tunnel, he's rather miffed that Meg found her way to the beautifully buffed Pearlies and an interview with Saint Peter and his rather complicated points system. So, the archangel and the demon do a deal, and Meg is given a chance to redeem herself. If she fails on her mission to help Lowrie McCall work his way through his Wish List before he dies, then she too will be heading south to join the boy-band members, the mime artists, Belch and the world's computer boffins in fiery damnation...
The Wish List was first published in Ireland in 2000, bringing with it much critical acclaim. In 2002, following the enormous and well-deserved success of the Artemis Fowl books, Eoin Colfer's publishers decided to let the rest of the world sneak a peak. And about time too. Hopelessly hopeful, immorally moral, rattling with the pain of its anti-heroine as she faces her own demons, and rib-crackingly, laugh-out-loud funny, The Wish List strikes an almost perfect balance between good, old-fashioned scruples and thoroughly modern irreverence in what is ultimately, and most importantly, a darn good read. Not for the faint-hearted, and certainly not for those who can't take a border-line sick joke every now and then, The Wish List is a divinely devilish tale for anyone who enjoys a bucketful of grit and truck loads of wisecracks with their reading material. Ages 10 and over, recommended particularly for older readers. --Susan Harrison [via]
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six Moreby Roald DahlISBN 0394836049 (0-394-83604-9)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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