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The Awakeningby Kate ChopinISBN 1419153366 (1-4191-5336-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:An American classic of sexual expression that paved the way for the modern novel, The Awakening is both a remarkable novel in its own right and a startling reminder of how far women in this century have come. The story of a married woman who pursues love outside a stuffy, middle-class marriage, the novel portrays the mind of a woman seeking fulfillment of her essential nature. [via]
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- The Awakening: ISBN 1573920983 (1-57392-098-3)
Softcover, Prometheus Books - The Awakening: ISBN 1573225118 (1-57322-511-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - The Awakening: ISBN 0899682707 (0-89968-270-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - The Awakening: ISBN 1419153366 (1-4191-5336-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
- The Awakening: ISBN 1573920983 (1-57392-098-3)
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Bad Case Of Stripesby David ShannonISBN 0439598389 (0-439-59838-9)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bad Case Of Stripes'Book summary:Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them. Why? Because the other kids in her school don''t like them. And Camilla Cream is very, very worried about what other people think of her. In fact, she''s so worried that she''s about to break out in& a bad case of stripes! [via]
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The Big Orange Splotby Daniel M. PinkwaterISBN 0590445103 (0-590-44510-3)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Boy Proofby Cecil CastellucciISBN 0763627968 (0-7636-2796-8)
Softcover, Candlewick Pr
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Complete Novels and Storiesby Kate Chopin, Sandra M. GilbertISBN 1931082219 (1-931082-21-9)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Novels and Stories'Book summary:From ruined Louisiana plantations to bustling, cosmopolitan New Orleans, Kate Chopin wrote with unflinching honesty about propriety and its strictures, the illusions of love and the realities of marriage, and the persistence of a past scarred by slavery and war. Her stories of fiercely independent women, culminating in her masterpiece The Awakening (1899), challenged contemporary mores as much by their sensuousness as their politics, and today seem decades ahead of their time. Now, The Library of America collects all of Chopin's novels and stories as never before in one authoritative volume.
The explosive novel At Fault (1890) centers on a love triangle between a strong-willed young widow, a stiff St. Louis businessman, and the man's alcoholic wife. In the story collections Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), Chopin transforms the local color sketch into taut, perfectly calibrated tales of post-Civil War bayou culture. In The Awakening, the now-classic novel that scandalized many of her contemporaries and effectively ended her writing career, Chopin tells the story of a restless, unsatisfied woman who embarks on a quixotic search for fulfillment.
The volume also includes all the stories not collected by Chopin, including those meant for "A Vocation and a Voice," a projected volume that her publisher canceled in 1900, and three stories that were found in 1992 in a long-lost cache of Chopin's papers. [via]More editions of Complete Novels and Stories:
D.H. Lawrence's the Rainbowby Harold BloomISBN 1555460232 (1-55546-023-2)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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El Hombre Duplicado/the Doubleby Jose Saramago, Pilar Del RioISBN 8466312803 (84-663-1280-3)
Softcover, Punto De Lectura
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Hombre Duplicado/the Double'Book summary:Saramago tells the story of a history professor that, by chance, discovers in a rented movie a man identical to him, and decides to go in search of him. This novel poses the essential questions of life and the search of ones own identity: What defines us as unique people? Can we assume that our voice, our characteristics, or even the smallest distinctive mark are not repeated in another person? In this book, Saramago once again explores the depths of the soul. [via]
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Environment Heredity and Intelligenceby Arthur R. JensenISBN 0916690024 (0-916690-02-4)
Softcover, Harvard Educational Pub Group
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Fancy Nancyby Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss-GlasserISBN 0060542098 (0-06-054209-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fancy Nancy'Book summary:Meet Nancy, who believes that more is ALWAYS better when it comes to being fancy. From the top of her tiara down to her sparkly studded shoes, Nancy is determined to teach her family a thing or two about being fancy.
How Nancy transforms her parents and little sister for one enchanted evening makes for a story that is funny and warm -- with or without the frills.
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Ferdinand the BullISBN 1579820182 (1-57982-018-2)
Hardcover, Merrymakers Distribution
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Fountainheadby Ayn RandISBN 0451191153 (0-451-19115-3)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fountainhead'Book summary:The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence. [via]
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- Fountainhead: ISBN 0452273331 (0-452-27333-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Fountainhead: ISBN 0452286379 (0-452-28637-9)
Softcover, Plume - Fountainhead: ISBN 0452286751 (0-452-28675-1)
Hardcover, Plume - Fountainhead: ISBN 0451175123 (0-451-17512-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Fountainhead: ISBN 0026009102 (0-02-600910-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Fountainhead: ISBN 0452283760 (0-452-28376-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Fountainhead: ISBN 0684869713 (0-684-86971-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Fountainhead: ISBN 0808519387 (0-8085-1938-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Fountainhead: ISBN 0451191153 (0-451-19115-3)
Softcover, Signet
- Fountainhead: ISBN 0452273331 (0-452-27333-1)
Frederickby Leo Lionni, Teresa MlawerISBN 1930332815 (1-930332-81-5)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frederick'Book summary:While the other field mice work to gather grain and nuts for winter, Frederick sits on a sunny rock by himself. I gather sun rays for the cold dark winter days, he tells them. Another day he gathers colors, and then words. And when the food runs out, it is Frederick, the dreamer and poet, whose endless store of supplies warms the hearts of his fellow mice, and feeds their spirits during the darkest winter days. Fredericks story will warm readers as well in this Caldecott Honor winning fable. [via]
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- Frederick: ISBN 0394826140 (0-394-82614-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Frederick: ISBN 0394810406 (0-394-81040-6)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc - Frederick: ISBN 0394910400 (0-394-91040-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Frederick: ISBN 1930332815 (1-930332-81-5)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns
- Frederick: ISBN 0394826140 (0-394-82614-0)
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The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki Murakami, Alfred T. BirnbaumISBN 4770015445 (4-7700-1544-5)
Hardcover, Kodansha International
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'Book summary:The narrator, like the narrator of A Wild Sheep Chase, is a mensch--an ordinary fellow aspiring to decency and self-respect, an individual laboring under the illusion of free will. Information is the key to this society in this unnerving tale of technological espionage, brain-wave tampering, and science-fictional fear and loathing. [via]
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Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformityby Hal NiedzvieckiISBN 0872864537 (0-87286-453-7)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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Henry David Thoreauby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0940450275 (0-940450-27-5)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry David Thoreau'Book summary:Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here for the first time in a single volume. Subtly interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. "Walden," one of America's great books, is at once a personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, manual of self-reliance, and masterpiece of style. "The Maine Woods" and "Cape Cod" portray landscapes changing irreversibly even as he wrote. The first combines close observation of the unexplored Maine wilderness with a far-sighted plea for conservation; the second is a brilliant and unsentimental account of survival on a barren peninsula in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay. [via]
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Hop Jumpby Ellen Stoll WalshISBN 015201375X (0-15-201375-X)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Human Diversity, Its Causes and Social Significance: The Proceedings of a Series of Seminarsby Bernard D. Davis, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Patricia FlahertyISBN 0884100472 (0-88410-047-2)
Hardcover, Ballinger Pub Co
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Individuality: An Essay on the Foundations of Metaphysicsby Jorge J. E. GraciaISBN 0887066275 (0-88706-627-5)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Juan Salvador Gaviotaby Richard BachISBN 846661639X (84-666-1639-X)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Juan Salvador Gaviota'Book summary:Una de las mas bellas fábulas escritas por estos tiempos ha sido Juan Salvador Gaviota. Richard Bach ha vendido mas de 30 millones de copias de esta producción. El valor de la libertad, de la amistad, el despego de lo material; tales son los elementos que forman esta fábula. [via]
LA Cola De Caballo De Estefaniaby Robert Munsch, Beatriz Zeller, Michael MartchenkoISBN 1550375075 (1-55037-507-5)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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Leo the Late Bloomerby Robert KrausISBN 193101602X (1-931016-02-X)
Softcover, Finney Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leo the Late Bloomer'Book summary:This bilingual edition is part of the Hmong Translation Initiative coordinated by Motheread.Fatheread MN, a curriculum-based family literacy program of the Minnesota Humanities Commission (MHC). The purpose of this project is to help Hmong families develop literacy skills in their first language as well as in English. Because of the Moob Ntsuab (Green Mong) and Hmoob Dawb (White Hmong) dialects are different, the translation committee has translated the English text into both. The Hmong text is featured next to the English, and the books original artwork is maintained. [via]
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Luna and the Big Blurby Shirley Day, Don MorrisISBN 0945354665 (0-945354-66-5)
Hardcover, Amer Psychological Assn
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Miss Twiggley's Treeby Dorothea Warren FoxISBN 1930900171 (1-930900-17-1)
Hardcover, Purple House Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miss Twiggley's Tree'Book summary:Why did Miss Twiggley live in a tree? Why did she send her dog, Puss, out to do the shopping? Why did she always run away and hide when people came to visit? And it was rumored that Miss Twiggley had even more peculiar habits...
Old Miss Twiggley
Was friendly with bears.
"They shed on the sofa," she said,
"But who cares?"And was it true, as the mayor's wife had heard, that she actually slept in her hat? "Simply disgraceful!" they said. But when a hurricane hits the town and the water rises, everyone is grateful to Miss Twiggley and her tree. Even better, Miss Twiggley herself learns a very important lesson, with a warm and happy ending. [via]
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The Moorchildby Eloise McGrawISBN 1416927689 (1-4169-2768-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moorchild'Book summary:The child of a fairy folk mother and human father, Moql doesn't fit into either of their worlds. First raised by the fairies, she's exchanged for a human baby and starts life almost all over again, with a new name and only the faintest knowledge of her origins. [via]
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My Head Is Full of Colorsby Catherine Friend, KikiISBN 1562823604 (1-56282-360-4)
Hardcover, Disney Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Head Is Full of Colors'Book summary:Each morning when Maria wakes up, she finds her hair is full of colors, books, animals, or people. [via]
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The North Starby Peter H. ReynoldsISBN 1891405004 (1-891405-00-4)
Hardcover, Fablevision Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The North Star'Book summary:The North Star from FableVision Press, is a hardcover book of 120 pages, filled with magical watercolor illustrations and text by Peter Reynolds.
The North Star is the story of a young boy's journey through life. It is an allegory that raises questions about which road we take, and how to seek out our own unique path through life. The magical illustrations and gentle text reveal the empowering wonder of navigating our true potential.
The North Star celebrates the individual. It invites us to rethink curriculum, career choices and other critical life decisions in a way that respects who we really are and our own unique gifts. It has inspired children, teachers, parents and people from all walks of life. [via]
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Oliviaby Ian FalconerISBN 0689829531 (0-689-82953-1)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Olivia'Book summary:Olivia would be Eloise, if Eloise were a pig. She is good at singing 40 very loud songs and is very good at wearing people out. And scaring the living daylights out of her little brother, Ian, particularly when he copies her every move. She is also quite skilled at reproducing Jackson Pollock's "Autumn Rhythm #30" on the walls at home. When her mother tucks her in at night and says, "You know, you really wear me out. But I love you anyway," Olivia precociously pronounces, "I love you anyway too."
The New Yorker artist Ian Falconer's endearing charcoal portraits of his porcine heroine are spotted with fire-engine red gouache in all the right places--perhaps a tribute to Hilary Knight's red, pink, white, and black celebrations of Olivia's human counterpart? When she dresses up, the bow on her ears, her red lipstick, and her high-heeled shoes are all red. (The only time her shades-of-gray body is pink is when she is sunburned and the area where her bathing suit was is white!) Falconer does a fine job of letting the spare text set up the jokes for the visual punch lines--a dryly humorous interplay that adults will appreciate as much as children.
Preschoolers (and their parents) will see themselves in Olivia--a typical high-energy, over-the-top kid who likes the beach and Degas paintings, but hates naps. On the other hand, she combs her ears and is unusually gifted at sandcastle building. While we are certainly reminded of Eloise, Falconer's portrait is simpler in scope, less demented, and, as a result, less adult. Bottom line: precocious is fun, and we're tickled pink to have Olivia join the parade of, let's just say, individualistic youngsters. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Oliviaby Teresa Mlawer, Ian FalconerISBN 1930332084 (1-930332-08-4)
Hardcover, Lectorum Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Olivia'Book summary:A Olivia le gusta cantar a todo volumen, probarse toda su ropa cada vez que se viste, ir a la playa y construir castillos de arena, imaginar que es bailarina o cantante de ópera, darle lata al gato, deshacerse de su hermanito, pintar murales, sacar de quicio a todo el mundo. En fin, es una cerdita que se divierte a lo grande. [via]
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Party of One: The Loners' Manifestoby Anneli S. RufusISBN 1569245134 (1-56924-513-4)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto'Book summary:The Buddha. Rene Descartes. Emily Dickinson. Greta Garbo. Bobby Fischer. J. D. Salinger: Loners, allalong with as many as 25 percent of the world's population. Loners keep to themselves, and like it that way. Yet in the press, in films, in folklore, and nearly everywhere one looks, loners are tagged as losers and psychopaths, perverts and pity cases, ogres and mad bombers, elitists and wicked witches. Too often, loners buy into those messages and strive to change, making themselves miserable in the process by hiding their true natureand hiding from it. Loners as a group deserve to be reassessedto claim their rightful place, rather than be perceived as damaged goods that need to be "fixed." In Party of One Anneli Rufus -- a prize-winning, critically acclaimed writer with talent to burn -- has crafted a morally urgent, historically compelling tour de forcea long-overdue argument in defense of the loner, then and now. Marshalling a polymath's easy erudition to make her case, assembling evidence from every conceivable arena of culture as well as interviews with experts and loners worldwide and her own acutely calibrated analysis, Rufus rebuts the prevailing notion that aloneness is indistinguishable from loneliness, the fallacy that all of those who are alone don't want to be, and wouldn't be, if only they knew how.[via]More editions of Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto:
A Peacock in the Land of Penguinsby B. J. Hateley, Warren H. Schmidt, Barbara Hateley, Sam Weiss, Ken BlanchardISBN 1576750108 (1-57675-010-8)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Peopleby Peter SpierISBN 038524469X (0-385-24469-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Prepby Curtis SittenfeldISBN 1400062314 (1-4000-6231-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prep'Book summary:Curtis Sittenfeld's poignant and occassionally angst-ridden debut novel Prep is the story of Lee Fiora, a South Bend, Indiana, teenager who wins a scholarship to the prestigious Ault school, an East Coast institution where "money was everywhere on campus, but it was usually invisible." As we follow Lee through boarding school, we witness firsthand the triumphs and tragedies that shape our heroine's coming-of-age. Yet while Sittenfeld may be a skilled storyteller, her real gift lies in her ability to expertly give voice to what is often described as the most alienating period in a young person's life: high school.
True to its genre, Prep is filled with boarding school stereotypes--from the alienated gay student to the picture perfect blond girl; the achingly earnest first-year English teacher and the dreamy star basketball player who never mentions the fact that he's Jewish. Lee's status as an outsider is further affirmed after her parents drive 18 hours in their beat-up Datsun to attend Parent's Weekend, where most of the kids "got trashed and ended up skinny-dipping in the indoor pool" at their parents' fancy hotel. Yet even as the weekend deteriorates into disaster and ends with a heartbreaking slap across the face, Sittenfeld never blames or excuses anyone; rather, she simply incorporates the experience into Lee's sense of self. ("How was I supposed to understand, when I applied at the age of thirteen, that you have your whole life to leave your family?")
By the time Lee graduates from Ault, some readers may tire of her constant worrying and self-doubting obsessions. However, every time we feel close to giving up on her, Sittenfeld reels us back in and makes us root for Lee. In doing so, perhaps we are rooting for every high school student who's ever wanted nothing more than to belong. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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The Rainbowby D. H. LawrenceISBN 1417927313 (1-4179-2731-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rainbow'Book summary:1915. Controversial English novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist, Lawrence is known for his frequently misunderstood, but basically idealistic theories about sexual relations and for his interest in primitive religions and nature mysticism. Lawrence regarded sex, the primitive subconscious, and nature as cures for what he considered modern man's maladjustment to industrial society. His philosophy, life history and prejudices are inextricably entwined in his writings. Lawrence's fourth novel, The Rainbow, was about two sisters growing up in the north of England. The book begins: The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. Two miles away, a church-tower stood on a hill, the houses of the country town climbing assiduously up to it. Whenever one of the Brangwens in the fields lifted his head from his work, he saw the church-tower at Ilkeston in the empty sky. So that as he turned again to the horizontal land, he was aware of something standing above him and beyond him in the distance. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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The Second Mrs. Giocondaby E. L. KonigsburgISBN 1416903429 (1-4169-0342-9)
Softcover, Simon Pulse
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Second Mrs. Gioconda'Book summary:THE GREATEST ARTIST OF HIS TIME
AN APPRENTICE WITH A LARCENOUS HEART AND AN AVERSION TO THE TRUTH
A YOUNG DUTCHESS WHOSE PLAIN FACE BELIES HER BEAUTIFUL SOUL
Could the complex ways these three lives intertwine hold the key to a historical riddle as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa's smile -- why Leonardo da Vinci devoted three years to a painting of the second wife of an unimportant merchant when all the nobles of Europe were begging for a portrait by his hand?
Only a master storyteller like two-time Newberry Medal-winner E.L. Konigsburg could create such an intriguing answer to the puzzle behind the most famous painting of all time. [via]
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The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Callingby James HillmanISBN 0446673714 (0-446-67371-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling'Book summary:James Hillman, a former director of the Jung Institute who has written more than 20 books on behavior and psychology, delves into human development in The Soul's Code. Hillman encourages you to "grow down" into the earth, as an acorn does when it becomes a mighty oak tree. He argues that character and calling are the result of "the particularity you feel to be you" and knocks those who blame childhood difficulties for all their problems as adults. According to Hillman, "The current American identity as a victim is the flip side of the coin whose head brightly displays the opposite identity: the heroic self-made man, carving out destiny alone and with unflagging will." Hillman's theories seem disarmingly simple, but he backs them with a careful, well-practiced intellect. [via]
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Stargirlby Jerry SpinelliISBN 037582233X (0-375-82233-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stargirl'Book summary:"She was homeschooling gone amok." "She was an alien." "Her parents were circus acrobats." These are only a few of the theories concocted to explain Stargirl Caraway, a new 10th grader at Arizona's Mica Area High School who wears pioneer dresses and kimonos to school, strums a ukulele in the cafeteria, laughs when there are no jokes, and dances when there is no music. The whole school, not exactly a "hotbed of nonconformity," is stunned by her, including our 16-year-old narrator Leo Borlock: "She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl."
In time, incredulity gives way to out-and-out adoration as the student body finds itself helpless to resist Stargirl's wide-eyed charm, pure-spirited friendliness, and penchant for celebrating the achievements of others. In the ultimate high school symbol of acceptance, she is even recruited as a cheerleader. Popularity, of course, is a fragile and fleeting state, and bit by bit, Mica sours on their new idol. Why is Stargirl showing up at the funerals of strangers? Worse, why does she cheer for the opposing basketball teams? The growing hostility comes to a head when she is verbally flogged by resentful students on Leo's televised Hot Seat show in an episode that is too terrible to air. While the playful, chin-held-high Stargirl seems impervious to the shunning that ensues, Leo, who is in the throes of first love (and therefore scornfully deemed "Starboy"), is not made of such strong stuff: "I became angry. I resented having to choose. I refused to choose. I imagined my life without her and without them, and I didn't like it either way."
Jerry Spinelli, author of Newbery Medalist Maniac Magee, Newbery Honor Book Wringer, and many other excellent books for teens, elegantly and accurately captures the collective, not-always-pretty emotions of a high school microcosm in which individuality is pitted against conformity. Spinelli's Stargirl is a supernatural teen character--absolutely egoless, altruistic, in touch with life's primitive rhythms, meditative, untouched by popular culture, and supremely self-confident. It is the sensitive Leo whom readers will relate to as he grapples with who she is, who he is, who they are together as Stargirl and Starboy, and indeed, what it means to be a human being on a planet that is rich with wonders. (Ages 10 to 14) --Karin Snelson [via]
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- Stargirl: ISBN 0440416779 (0-440-41677-9)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Stargirl: ISBN 0679886370 (0-679-88637-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Stargirl: ISBN 0679986375 (0-679-98637-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Stargirl: ISBN 037582233X (0-375-82233-X)
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- Stargirl: ISBN 0440416779 (0-440-41677-9)
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Stephanie's Ponytailby Robert Munsch, Michael MartchenkoISBN 1550374842 (1-55037-484-2)
Softcover, Annick Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stephanie's Ponytail'Book summary:A little girl who is determined to strike a blow for nonconformity manages to arrive at school every day with a hairdo more outraegous than the day before. And each time, the cast of copycats grows and grows --- until the day she threatens to shave her head! The strong female voice will speak to many, asserting the importance of individuality and independent thought. Full color throughout.
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Tacky the Penguinby Helen Lester, Lynn MunsingerISBN 0618737545 (0-618-73754-5)
Softcover, Walter Lorraine
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Tacky the Penguinby Lynn Munsinger, Helen LesterISBN 0395562333 (0-395-56233-3)
Softcover, Walter Lorraine
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Ugliesby Scott WesterfeldISBN 0689865384 (0-689-86538-4)
Softcover, Simon Pulse
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uglies'Book summary:Playing on every teens passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The "New Pretties" are then free to play and party, while the younger "Uglies" look on enviously and spend the time before their own transformations in plotting mischievous tricks against their elders. Tally Youngblood is one of the most daring of the Uglies, and her imaginative tricks have gotten her in trouble with the menacing department of Special Circumstances. She has yearned to be pretty, but since her best friend Shay ran away to the rumored rebel settlement of recalcitrant Uglies called The Smoke, Tally has been troubled. The authorities give her an impossible choice: either she follows Shays cryptic directions to The Smoke with the purpose of betraying the rebels, or she will never be allowed to become pretty. Hoping to rescue Shay, Tally sets off on the dangerous journey as a spy. But after finally reaching The Smoke she has a change of heart when her new lover David reveals to her the sinister secret behind becoming pretty. The fast-moving story is enlivened by many action sequences in the style of videogames, using intriguing inventions like hoverboards that use the riders skateboard skills to skim through the air, and bungee jackets that make wild downward plunges survivable -- and fun. Behind all the commotion is the disturbing vision of our own society -- the Rusties -- visible only in rusting ruins after a virus destroyed all petroleum. Teens will be entranced, and the cliffhanger ending will leave them gasping for the sequel. (Ages 12 and up) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 1420922610 (1-4209-2261-0)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:After a hundred years of its first edition, Walden remains one of the classics of American literature. This edition includes beautiful illustrations by Henry Bughee Kane who, at the time of this writing, lived near Walden Pond. [via]
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Hardcover, Indypublish.Com - Walden: ISBN 0894714953 (0-89471-495-3)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub - Walden: ISBN 0894718797 (0-89471-879-7)
Hardcover, Courage Books - Walden: ISBN 8437622123 (84-376-2212-3)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones - Walden: ISBN 3895082090 (3-89508-209-0)
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Walden; Or, Life in the Woodsby Henry David Thoreau, Terry Tempest WilliamsISBN 1590300882 (1-59030-088-2)
Hardcover, Shambhala Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden; Or, Life in the Woods'Book summary:In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, his most important work, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. Since its first publication on August 9, 1854, by Ticknor and Fields, the work has become a classic, beloved for its message of living simply and in harmony with nature.
This special 150th anniversary edition of Walden features exquisite wood engravings by Michael McCurdy, one of America's leading engravers and woodblock artists. McCurdy's engravings bring the text to lifeand illuminate the spirit of Thoreau's prose. Also included is a foreword by noted author, environmentalist, and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams, who reflects upon Thoreau's message that as we explore our world and ourselves, we draw ever closer to the truth of our connectedness. [via]More editions of Walden; Or, Life in the Woods:
A Wind in the Doorby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 1560546158 (1-56054-615-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Wingsby Mark MeyerISBN 093473805X (0-934738-05-X)
Hardcover, Lickle Pub Inc
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Wingsby Shinsuke TanakaISBN 1933327197 (1-933327-19-7)
Hardcover, Purple Bear Books
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The World According to Mr. Rogers: Important Things to Rememberby Fred RogersISBN 1401301061 (1-4013-0106-1)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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A Wrinkle in Time: Library Editionby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 1557360596 (1-55736-059-6)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Los Desposeidosby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 8445074032 (84-450-7403-2)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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El Hombre Duplicado/the Doubleby Jose Saramago, Pilar Del RioISBN 958704049X (958-704-049-X)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Hombre Duplicado/the Double'Book summary:Saramago tells the story of a history professor that, by chance, discovers in a rented movie a man identical to him, and decides to go in search of him. This novel poses the essential questions of life and the search of one's own identity: How do we know who we are? What does identity consist of? What defines us as individuals and as unique people? Can we assume that our voice, our characteristics, even the smallest distinctive mark is repeated in another person? In this book, Saramago raises these questions and once again explores the depths of the soul. [via]
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Huevos Verdes Con Jamon / Green Eggs And Hamby Aida E. Marcuse, Seuss, Marcuse AidaISBN 1880507013 (1-880507-01-3)
Hardcover, Lectorum Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Huevos Verdes Con Jamon / Green Eggs And Ham'Book summary:Sam-I-Am mounts a determined campaign to convince another Seuss character to eat a plate of green eggs and ham. "Limited vocabulary but unlimited exuberance of illustration".--School Library Journal. Full color. [via]
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Juan Salvador Gaviotaby Richard Bach, Carol Howell, Frederick Howell, Russell MunsonISBN 8466612491 (84-666-1249-1)
Hardcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Juan Salvador Gaviota'Book summary:For most seagulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes the story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds your ambition threatening. (At one point our beloved gull is even banished from his flock.) By not compromising his higher vision, Juan Salvador gets the ultimate payoff: transcendence. Ultimately, he learns the meaning of love and kindness.
Blurb in Spanish:"Hay quien obedece sus propias reglas porque se sabe en lo cierto; quien cosecha un especial placer en hacer algo bien; quien adivina algo más que lo que sus ojos ven; quien prefiere volar a dormir y comer; todos ellos harán duradera amistad con Juan Salvador Gaviota. Habrá también quienes volarán con Juan Gaviota por lugares de encanto y aventura, y de luminosa libertad. Pero para unos y otros será una experiencia que jamas olvidarán". Richard Bach [via]
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Masa Y Poderby Elias CanettiISBN 8420637513 (84-206-3751-3)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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El Pinguino Taky/Taky the Penguinby Yanitzia Canetti, Helen Lester, Lynn MunsingerISBN 0618125310 (0-618-12531-0)
Softcover, Walter Lorraine
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La rebelion del atlas/ The Rebellion of the Atlasby Ayn RandISBN 9872095116 (987-20951-1-6)
Softcover, Grito Sagrado Editorial
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Una Arruga En El Tiempo / A Wrinkle in Timeby Madeleine L'Engle, Hector SilvaISBN 8420440744 (84-204-4074-4)
Softcover, Alfaguara
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Ferdinandus Taurusby Munro Leaf, Robert Lawson, Elizabetha HadasISBN 1567921272 (1-56792-127-2)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ferdinandus Taurus'Book summary:Once upon a time, there lived in Spain a bull named Ferdinand. While his brothers liked to charge around the field, butt their heads together and to generally act ferocious, Ferdinand liked nothing better than to sit under the cork tree and smell the flowers. He was, you see, a placid and a gentle bull whose only desire in life was to be let alone. And his life would have proceeded very nicely had he not one day placed his considerable rump on a bumblebee on the very same day that five men arrived from Madrid searching for a new star for the corrida.
This classic tale by Munro Leaf, which has enchanted children for over fifty years, is here translated for the first (and certainly the last) time into (mirabile dictu) Latin. It comes with a complete glossary of words, and, of course, with the wonderful, appropriate, and droll drawings from the pen of the inimitable Robert Lawson (for whom the book was originally written). [via]More editions of Ferdinandus Taurus:
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Absolute Vilem Flusserby Silvia Wagnermaier, Nils RollerISBN 3936086109 (3-936086-10-9)
Softcover, Orange-Press
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