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Aldous Huxley's Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley, Aaron TillmanISBN 0791070492 (0-7910-7049-2)
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Aldous Huxley's Brave New Worldby Harold BloomISBN 0791040844 (0-7910-4084-4)
Softcover, Chelsea House Pub
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The Amber Spyglassby Philip PullmanISBN 0786241225 (0-7862-4122-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amber Spyglass'Book summary:From the very start of its very first scene, The Amber Spyglass will set hearts fluttering and minds racing. All we'll say here is that we immediately discover who captured Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife, though we've yet to discern whether this individual's intent is good, evil, or somewhere in between. We also learn that Will still possesses the blade that allows him to cut between worlds, and has been joined by two winged companions who are determined to escort him to Lord Asriel's mountain redoubt. The boy, however, has only one goal in mind--to rescue his friend and return to her the alethiometer, an instrument that has revealed so much to her and to readers of The Golden Compass and its follow-up. Within a short time, too, we get to experience the "tingle of the starlight" on Serafina Pekkala's skin as she seeks out a famished Iorek Byrnison and enlists him in Lord Asriel's crusade:
A complex web of thoughts was weaving itself in the bear king's mind, with more strands in it than hunger and satisfaction. There was the memory of the little girl Lyra, whom he had named Silvertongue, and whom he had last seen crossing the fragile snow bridge across a crevasse in his own island of Svalbard. Then there was the agitation among the witches, the rumors of pacts and alliances and war; and then there was the surpassingly strange fact of this new world itself, and the witch's insistence that there were many more such worlds, and that the fate of them all hung somehow on the fate of the child.
Meanwhile, two factions of the Church are vying to reach Lyra first. One is even prepared to give a priest "preemptive absolution" should he succeed in committing mortal sin. For these tyrants, killing this girl is no less than "a sacred task."In the final installment of his trilogy, Philip Pullman has set himself the highest hurdles. He must match its predecessors in terms of sheer action and originality and resolve the enigmas he already created. The good news is that there is no critical bad news--not that The Amber Spyglass doesn't contain standoffs and close calls galore. (Who would have it otherwise?) But Pullman brings his audacious revision of Paradise Lost to a conclusion that is both serene and devastating. In prose that is transparent yet lyrical and 3-D, the author weaves in and out of his principals' thoughts. He also offers up several additional worlds. In one, Dr. Mary Malone is welcomed into an apparently simple society. The environment of the mulefa (again, we'll reveal nothing more) makes them rich in consciousness while their lives possess a slow and stately rhythm. These strange creatures can, however, be very fast on their feet (or on other things entirely) when necessary. Alas, they are on the verge of dying as Dust streams out of their idyllic landscape. Will the Oxford dark-matter researcher see her way to saving them, or does this require our young heroes? And while Mary is puzzling out a cure, Will and Lyra undertake a pilgrimage to a realm devoid of all light and hope, after having been forced into the cruelest of sacrifices--or betrayals.
Throughout his galvanizing epic, Pullman sustains scenes of fierce beauty and tenderness. He also allows us a moment or two of comic respite. At one point, for instance, Lyra's mother bullies a series of ecclesiastical underlings: "The man bowed helplessly and led her away. The guard behind her blew out his cheeks with relief." Needless to say, Mrs. Coulter is as intoxicating and fluid as ever. And can it be that we will come to admire her as she plays out her desperate endgame? In this respect, as in many others, The Amber Spyglass is truly a book of revelations, moving from darkness visible to radiant truth. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Anansi Boys: Library Editionby Neil GaimanISBN 0786285109 (0-7862-8510-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anansi Boys: Library Edition'Book summary:God is dead. Meet the kids.
When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life.
Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.
Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself.
Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure house of story, and we are lucky to have him."
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Angel of Deathby Jack HigginsISBN 0786204664 (0-7862-0466-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Anglo Irish Traditionby J.C. BeckettISBN 0801410568 (0-8014-1056-8)
Hardcover, Cornell University Press
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Antarcticaby Claire KeeganISBN 0802139019 (0-8021-3901-9)
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Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscapeby Kevin Whelan, F. H. A. Aalen, Mathew StoutISBN 0802042945 (0-8020-4294-5)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape'Book summary:Lush and green, the beauty of Ireland's landscape is legendary. "The Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape" has harnessed the expertise of dozens of specialists to produce an exciting and pioneering study which aims to increase understanding and appreciation for the landscape as an important element of Irish national heritage, and to provide a much needed basis for an understanding of landscape conservation and planning.
Essentially cartographic in approach, the Atlas is supplemented by diagrams, photographs, paintings, and explanatory text. Regional case studies, covering the whole of Ireland from north to south, are included, along with historical background. The impact of human civilization upon Ireland's geography and environment is well documented, and the contributors to the Atlas deal with contemporary changes in the landscape resulting from developments in Irish agriculture, forestry, bog exploitation, tourism, housing, urban expansion, and other forces.
"The Atlas of the Rural Irish Landscape" is a book which aims to educate and inform the general reader and student about the relationship between human activity and the landscape. It is a richly illustrated, beautifully written, and immensely authoritative work that will be the guide to Ireland's geography for many years to come. [via]
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The Banks of the Boyneby Donna Fletcher CrowISBN 0802477372 (0-8024-7737-2)
Softcover, Moody Pub
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The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar Bby J. P. DonleavyISBN 0802137962 (0-8021-3796-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Beowulfby Harold BloomISBN 0791040828 (0-7910-4082-8)
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The Black Lyonby Jude DeverauxISBN 0786209518 (0-7862-0951-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Black Swan Greenby David MitchellISBN 0786287071 (0-7862-8707-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Swan Green'Book summary:David Mitchell comes home - to England, 1982, and the cusp of adolescence. Jason Taylor is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring family in the deadest village ("Black Swan Green") in the dullest county (Worcestershire) in the most tedious nation (England) on earth. And he stammers. 13 chapters, each as self-contained as a short story, follow 13 months in his life as he negotiates the pitfalls of school and home and contends with bullies, girls and family politics. In the distance, the Falklands conflict breaks out; close at hand, the village mobilises against a gypsy camp. And through Jason's eyes, we see what he doesn't know he knows - and watch unfold what will make him wish his life had been as uneventful as he had believed. Vividly capturing the mood of the times - high unemployment, Cold War politics and the sunset of agrarian England - this is at once a portrait of an era and of an age: the black hole between childhood and teenagerdom. [via]
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Castles of Britain and Irelandby Plantagenet Somerset Fry Staff, David LyonsISBN 0789202786 (0-7892-0278-6)
Hardcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literatureby Peter Berresford EllisISBN 0802838081 (0-8028-3808-1)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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The Celts: A Historyby Peter Berresford EllisISBN 0786712112 (0-7867-1211-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyreby Harold BloomISBN 0791040925 (0-7910-4092-5)
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Charmedby Nora RobertsISBN 0786276487 (0-7862-7648-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Collected Shorter Playsby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802150551 (0-8021-5055-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Companyby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802151280 (0-8021-5128-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989by Samuel Beckett, S.E. GontarskiISBN 0802134904 (0-8021-3490-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989'Book summary:Although Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is best-known for his novels, such as the Molloy series, and his still frequently-performed plays like Waiting for Godot and Endgame, he is rarely thought of as a writer of short fiction and prose. Yet he wrote short works devotedly throughout his life; many critics count various Beckett short stories as masterpieces of the form, central to an appreciation of the writer's oeuvre. The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989, as the title suggests, collects all of the Nobel Prize-winner's shorter works, such as "First Love," and "The Lost Ones." [via]
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Corrymeela: Hill of Harmony in Northern Irelandby Alf McCrearyISBN 0801517737 (0-8015-1773-7)
Hardcover, Hawthorn Books
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Dead Man Running: The True Story of a Secret Agent's Escape from the Ira and Mi5by Martin McGartlandISBN 0803820054 (0-8038-2005-4)
Softcover, Hastings House Pub
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Dislocationby Caroline WalshISBN 0786712066 (0-7867-1206-6)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Dk Eyewitness Travel Guide Europeby Dk Travel WritersISBN 0789480662 (0-7894-8066-2)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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Dk Eyewitness Travel Guides EuropeISBN 0789497301 (0-7894-9730-1)
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Dk Eyewitness Travel Planner - Great Britain & IrelandISBN 0789447983 (0-7894-4798-3)
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Dorling Kindersley Travel Guides Dublin: City MapISBN 0789456370 (0-7894-5637-0)
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Drama, Performance, and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Irelandby Alan J. FletcherISBN 0802043771 (0-8020-4377-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Dublin Crossingby Sandy DenglerISBN 0802422934 (0-8024-2293-4)
Softcover, Moody Pr
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Emmaby Jane AustenISBN 0786881836 (0-7868-8183-6)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Ends and Odds: Nine Dramatic Piecesby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802150462 (0-8021-5046-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistleby Grey LarsenISBN 0786649429 (0-7866-4942-9)
Softcover, Mel Bay Pubns
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Fenians and Anglo-American Relations during Reconstructionby Brian JenkinsISBN 0801405009 (0-8014-0500-9)
Hardcover, Cornell University Press
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From Mist and Stone: The Folklore of the Celts and Vikingsby National Geographic Society (U.S.), George M. StoneISBN 0792238176 (0-7922-3817-6)
Hardcover, National Geographic
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A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Ageby John DoyleISBN 0786718145 (0-7867-1814-5)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fireby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandpreISBN 0786229276 (0-7862-2927-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Hill Bachelorsby William TrevorISBN 078624481X (0-7862-4481-X)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Hobbit or There and Back Againby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0786251778 (0-7862-5177-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit or There and Back Again'Book summary:Poor Bilbo Baggins! An unassuming and rather plump hobbit (as most of these small, furry- footed people tend to be ), Baggins finds himself unwittingly drawn into adventure by a wizard named Gandalf and 13 dwarves bound for the Lonely Mountain, where a dragon named Smaug hordes a stolen treasure. Before he knows what is happening, Baggins finds himself on the road to danger. Wizards, dwarves and dragons may seem the stuff of children's fairy tales, but The Hobbit is in a class of its own--light-hearted enough for younger readers, yet with a dark edge guaranteed to intrigue an older audience. In the best tradition of the archetypal hero's quest, Bilbo Baggins sets out on his fateful journey a callow, untested soul and returns--tempered by hardship, danger and loss--a better man--er, hobbit.
This book is the predecessor to Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, and though that trilogy can be thoroughly enjoyed without first reading The Hobbit, much that happens in the later novels is foreshadowed here. A word of caution, however: as Bilbo discovers early on, travel and adventure are addictive things; embark on this journey to the Lonely Mountain with Tolkien's reluctant hero, and you might not be able to stop there. And the road taken to the distant mountains of Mordor in the ensuing trilogy is an even more perilous one. [via]
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Homeportby Nora RobertsISBN 0786214279 (0-7862-1427-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Houseguestby Agnes RossiISBN 0786225475 (0-7862-2547-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Insular Traditionby Michael Ryan, Catherine E. Karkov, Robert T. FarrellISBN 0791434559 (0-7914-3455-9)
Hardcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Ireland: A Social and Cultural History, 1922 to the Presentby Terence BrownISBN 0801493498 (0-8014-9349-8)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Irish Birthday Bookby Fleur RobertsonISBN 0785803785 (0-7858-0378-5)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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An Irish Christmas Feastby John B. KeaneISBN 0786710543 (0-7867-1054-3)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Irish Creamby Andrew M. GreeleyISBN 0786275545 (0-7862-7554-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Irish Eyesby Andrew M. GreeleyISBN 0786230916 (0-7862-3091-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Irish Local Names Explainedby P. W. JoyceISBN 0788161407 (0-7881-6140-7)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Irish Traditional Guitar Accompanimentby Gavin RalstonISBN 0786647779 (0-7866-4777-9)
Softcover, Waltons Manufacturing Ltd
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Irish Travellersby Jane HelleinerISBN 0802086284 (0-8020-8628-4)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0791094375 (0-7910-9437-5)
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, Anna Claybourne, Bob HarveyISBN 0794506585 (0-7945-0658-5)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:Charlotte Brontë's first novel, published in 1847, was a bestseller in its day and remains popular today. Jane is a plain, impoverished orphan who becomes governess to the ward of Mr. Rochester, the Byronic and enigmatic employer with whom she falls in love. This quintessential coming-of-age story is a stirring and satisfying tale that still has resonance for young women who are struggling to find the balance between romantic love and personal freedom. [via]
Katie's Wishby Barbara Shook Hazen, Emily Arnold McCullyISBN 0803724780 (0-8037-2478-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Kingdom and Colony: Ireland in the Atlantic World, 1560-1800by Nicholas CannyISBN 0801836034 (0-8018-3603-4)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Legend of Spud Murphyby Eoin ColferISBN 0786855045 (0-7868-5504-5)
Softcover, Miramax
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 078625842X (0-7862-5842-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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A Little Princessby Susanna Davidson, Kate AldousISBN 0794511236 (0-7945-1123-6)
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Little Womenby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0785788727 (0-7857-8872-7)
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Lolitaby Harold BloomISBN 0791009610 (0-7910-0961-0)
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The Mammoth Book of Oddballs and Eccentricsby Karl ShawISBN 0786707240 (0-7867-0724-0)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0786885246 (0-7868-8524-6)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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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]
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Molloyby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802151361 (0-8021-5136-1)
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Persuasion: Theory and Researchby Daniel J. O'KeefeISBN 0803933681 (0-8039-3368-1)
Hardcover, Sage Pubns
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A Pot O' Goldby Kathleen Krull, David McPhailISBN 0786806257 (0-7868-0625-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pot O' Gold'Book summary:Though it may only be a small emerald isle, Ireland's heritage is very large indeed. In A Pot O' Gold, noted writer Kathleen Krull and beloved illustrator David McPhail bring this legacy to life. Created for families, this anthology compiles classic and rare examples of Irish culture including stories, poems, songs, recipes, and even a little blarney. From legends of leprechauns and fairies to the classic poetry of Yeats and Joyce, this treasury is a perfect way for anyone to share the wonders of Ireland. [via]
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Pride and Prejudiceby Harold BloomISBN 0791081699 (0-7910-8169-9)
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The Profane Book of Irish Comedyby David KrauseISBN 0801414695 (0-8014-1469-5)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Remembering How We Stood: Bohemian Dublin at the Mid-Centuryby John RyanISBN 080086770X (0-8008-6770-X)
Hardcover, Taplinger
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The Republic of Irelandby Ellen M. DolanISBN 0787700010 (0-7877-0001-0)
Softcover, Milliken Pub Co
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Rose in Bloomby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0786272945 (0-7862-7294-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rose in Bloom'Book summary:In this sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose Campbell returns to the "Aunt Hill" after two years of traveling around the world. Suddenly, she is surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them. But before she marries anyone, Rose is determined to establish herself as an independent young woman. Besides, she suspects that some of her friends like her more for her money than for herself. [via]
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Saint Ciaran: The Tale of a Saint of Irelandby Gary D. Schmidt, Todd DoneyISBN 0802851703 (0-8028-5170-3)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saint Ciaran: The Tale of a Saint of Ireland'Book summary:Born early in the sixth century, Ciaran was called to bring the light of God's name to Ireland. While few facts are known of Ciaran's life, author Gary Schmidt here tells the tale that lives on, a tale which is "as true as any story ought to be." [via]
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Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godotby Samuel Beckett, S.E. GontarskiISBN 0802115772 (0-8021-1577-2)
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. LewisISBN 0800606507 (0-8006-0650-7)
Hardcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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The Screwtape Letters/Book & Study Guideby C. S. LewisISBN 0800783360 (0-8007-8336-0)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Secret of Roan Inishby Rosalie FryISBN 0786810637 (0-7868-1063-7)
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The Shamrock Shoreby Sandy DenglerISBN 0802422942 (0-8024-2294-2)
Softcover, Moody Pr
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Stories and Texts for Nothingby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802150624 (0-8021-5062-4)
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Tales of Old Irelandby Michael O'MaraISBN 0785800875 (0-7858-0087-5)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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This Is Irelandby M. SasekISBN 0789312247 (0-7893-1224-7)
Hardcover, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Is Ireland'Book summary:On the heels of the runaway bestsellers This is New York and This is Paris, Universe is pleased to reissue another title from M. Sasek's beloved and nostalgic children's travel series.
Like the other Sasek classics, This is Ireland is a facsimile edition of his original book from the 1960s and is still timely and current in every way. The brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously preserved, remaining true to his vision more than 40 years later and, where applicable, facts have been updated for the twenty-first century, appearing on a "This is...Today" page at the back of the book. The stylish, charming illustrations, coupled with Sasek's witty, playful narrative, makes for a perfect souvenir that will delight both children and their parents, many of whom will remember this book from their childhood.
This is Ireland, first published in 1964, brings the Emerald Isle to life, where the shamrock grows and a leprechaun stands at the end of every rainbow, guarding a crock of gold. There's Dublin with its bustling crowds, tall steeples, and Trinity College; there's Clonmacnois, the burial place of kings; there's the Blarney Stone to kiss for eloquence, and much, much more in this verdant, friendly land filled with enchanted lakes and mountains that fall steep to the sea. [via]More editions of This Is Ireland:
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Trainspotting: A Screenplayby Irvine Welsh, John HodgeISBN 0786882212 (0-7868-8221-2)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Undertowby Tom FooteISBN 0802313205 (0-8023-1320-5)
Softcover, Dufour Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Undertow'Book summary:In the stormy seas of Galway Bay, Jim Predergast and his treasured yacht Larinita are doing their best to compete in a local race. After a boating accident that kills his wife and daughter, Jim embarks on a personal quest for revenge which leads him on a dark journey involving IRA gun-running and an international terrorist plot of major proportions aimed at destroying the peace talks once and for all. Foote's highly literate and tightly plotted debut novel heralds a new and exciting voice in thriller/suspense fiction. [via]
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United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republicby David A. WilsonISBN 0801431751 (0-8014-3175-1)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Realityby Steven PooleISBN 0802143059 (0-8021-4305-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality'Book summary:What do the phrases pro-life, intelligent design, and the war on terror have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. Words and phrases that function in this special way go by many names. Some writers call them evaluative-descriptive terms. Others talk of terministic screens or discuss the way debates are framed. Author Steven Poole calls them Unspeak. Unspeak represents an attempt by politicians, interest groups, and business corporations to say something without saying it, without getting into an argument and so having to justify itself. At the same time, it tries to unspeak in the sense of erasing or silencing any possible opposing point of view by laying a claim right at the start to only one way of looking at a problem. Recalling the vocabulary of George Orwells 1984, as an Unspeak phrase becomes a widely used term of public debate, it saturates the mind with one viewpoint while simultaneously makes an opposing view ever more difficult to enunciate. In this fascinating book, Poole traces modern Unspeak and reveals how the evolution of language changes the way we think.[via]More editions of Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality:
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The Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels' Flight to Freedomby Peter F. StevensISBN 0786711302 (0-7867-1130-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage of Catalpa: The Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels Escape to Freedom'Book summary:Fast-paced, compelling, meticulously researched, and dramatically detailed, this saga from the annals of American, Irish, British, and Australian history comprises the first full telling of the secret yearlong journey of the American whaling ship Catalpa, under Captain George Anthony, out of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1875. Risking his own freedom and career, Anthony sailed across international waters to Australia, to rescue from hellish imprisonment the group of British-soldiers-turned-Irish-rebels named "The Fremantle Six." The successful escape and hostility the vulnerable Catalpa overcame both from the British Royal Navy and furious seas make Anthony's historical voyage legendary. 8 pages of photographs add to this true story of daring on the high seas. "Narrated in fascinating and breathtaking fashion. ... The subject matter and fine writing make this book exhilarating."Associated Press "A seafaring adventure, an Irish nationalist version of Treasure Island." Chicago Tribune "Truth may routinely be stranger than fiction, but seldom is it as suspenseful as this story."Publishers Weekly "Genuinely epic ... a fascinating adventure."Kirkus Review[via]More editions of The Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels' Flight to Freedom:
Wartime Liesby Louis BegleyISBN 0804109907 (0-8041-0990-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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What Are You Like?by Anne EnrightISBN 0802138896 (0-8021-3889-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Are You Like?'Book summary:Some novels you nibble away at, half unthinking. Anne Enright's prose bites back. The Irish author of The Portable Virgin and The Wig My Father Wore has produced a third book as unexpected and lively as a miracle child--or is it twins? She tells the story of a Dubliner whose mother died in childbirth. Maria is now 20, living in New York, cleaning houses, taking drugs, sleeping with strangers, and generally being in a funk. In a lover's bag, she finds an old photo of a girl who looks just exactly like herself, dressed in clothes she's never owned, posing with people she's never met. But this isn't some gooey, alternate-reality identity fantasy. Maria has, in fact, a twin sister. Though each is unknown to the other, we learn both their lives inside out as they head toward a giddily inevitable meeting.
This twinning tale suits Enright's style right down to the ground: Her mandate is to bump us into awareness, and if it takes double heroines, so be it. Her language does the rest of the work. On the very first page, for instance, she freshens the simple act of holding a baby into a joke: "And they handed her on from arm to arm, with the dip that people make when they give away a baby--letting her body go and guiding her head, as though it might not be attached. Nothing worse than being left holding the baby, they seemed to say, except being left with the baby's head." In fact, Enright is transfixed by the weirdness of the body, as when Maria visits a dairy farm: "She is too old to dip her fingers in the milk and let the calves suck. Though when she does, a feeling she has never had before goes straight up her arm and into her right nipple. Hello, farming." Enright writes fiction meant to surprise. But her message is surprisingly traditional: biology matters. --Claire Dederer [via]
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The Wig My Father Woreby Anne EnrightISBN 0802138322 (0-8021-3832-2)
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Wild Bloodby Kate ThompsonISBN 0786814225 (0-7868-1422-5)
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The Works of Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queenby Edmund Spenser, Edwin Greenlaw, Charles Grosvenor OsgoodISBN 0801869846 (0-8018-6984-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Zodiacby Neal StephensonISBN 0802143156 (0-8021-4315-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zodiac'Book summary:Believe it or not, some readers find Zodiac even more fun than Neal Stephenson's defining 1990s cyberpunk novel, Snow Crash. Zodiac is set in Boston, and hero Sangamon Taylor (S. T.) ironically describes his hilarious exploits in the first person. S. T. is a modern superhero, a self-proclaimed Toxic Spiderman. With stealth, spunk, and the backing of GEE (a non-profit environmental group) as his weapons, S. T. chases down the bad guys with James Bond-like Zen.
Cruising Boston Harbor with lab tests and scuba gear, S. T. rides in with the ecosystem cavalry on his 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. His job of tracking down poisonous runoff and embarrassing the powerful corporations who caused them becomes more sticky than usual; run-ins with a gang of satanic rock fans, a deranged geneticist, and a mysterious PCB contamination that may or may not be man-made--plus a falling-out with his competent ("I adore stress") girlfriend--all complicate his mission.
Stephenson/S. T.'s irreverent, facetious, esprit-filled voice make this near-future tale a joy to read. [via]
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El Senor De Las Moscasby William GoldingISBN 0785795618 (0-7857-9561-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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