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1,000 Places to See Before You Dieby Patricia SchultzISBN 0761104844 (0-7611-0484-4)
Softcover, Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: '1,000 Places to See Before You Die'Book summary:Around the World, continent by continent, here is the best the world has to offer: 1,000 places guaranteed to give travelers the shivers. Sacred ruins, grand hotels, wildlife preserves, hilltop villages, snack shacks, castles, festivals, reefs, restaurants, cathedrals, hidden islands, opera houses, museums, and more. Each entry tells exactly why it's essential to visit. Then come the nuts and bolts: addresses, websites, phone and fax numbers, best times to visit. Stop dreaming and get going. [via]
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1000 Places To See Before You Die Traveler's Journalby Patricia SchultzISBN 0761138323 (0-7611-3832-3)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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1984by George OrwellISBN 078389368X (0-7838-9368-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0755334353 (0-7553-3435-3)
Softcover, Headline Book Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:(Please note that all Timeless Classic Books have been carefully formatted manually with full annotation and proper photo and/or illustration placement since our start in 2010/2011. Each cover is designed with paid or public domain artwork that is pertinent to the title. Each and ever cover is unique. None have ever been used twice.)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891-92) brings together the first twelve short stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. These follow Holmes's introduction in the first two novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four. [via]More editions of Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:
The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650by John MorrisISBN 0760702438 (0-7607-0243-8)
Softcover, Marboro Books
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All Rivers to the Sea: A Novelby Bodie Thoene, Brock ThoeneISBN 0785266224 (0-7852-6622-4)
Softcover, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas
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The Ancient Books of Irelandby Michael SlavinISBN 0773530096 (0-7735-3009-6)
Hardcover, McGill-Queen's University Press
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Ashes of Remembrance: A Novelby Bodie Thoene, Brock ThoeneISBN 0785266208 (0-7852-6620-8)
Softcover, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ashes of Remembrance: A Novel'Book summary:The third book in the Galway Chronicles tells of the political and economic strife in Ireland and of the personal struggles of some of her most fascinating inhabitants.
This sequel to Only the River Runs Free and Of Men and of Angels follows the further adventures of Kate, Joseph, and the beloved characters of the village of Ballynockanor. Ashes of Remembrance offers a powerful portrayal of a people's faith and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of tragedy, betrayal, and separation. Set in a tumultuous time in Ireland's history, this novel follows the fight for freedom by passionate Irishmen and brings the heroism and heartbreak to life for modern readers. From the horror of famine, to the plots of ruthless men, this story gives a human face to the troubles that brought so many Irish people to the shores of America-troubles that continue to haunt England and Ireland today.
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Beowulfby Gareth HindsISBN 0763630233 (0-7636-3023-3)
Softcover, Candlewick Press
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The epic tale of the great warrior Beowulf has thrilled readers through the ages and now it is reinvented for a new generation with Gareth Hindss masterful illustrations. Grendels black blood runs thick as Beowulf defeats the monster and his hideous mother, while somber hues overcast the heros final, fatal battle against a raging dragon. Speeches filled with courage and sadness, lightning-paced contests of muscle and will, and funeral boats burning on the fjords are all rendered in glorious and gruesome detail. Told for more than a thousand years, Beowulfs heroic saga finds a true home in this graphic-novel edition. [via]More editions of Beowulf:
Besiegedby Bertrice SmallISBN 0758204302 (0-7582-0430-2)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Book of Fairy & Folk Tales of Irelandby W. B. YeatsISBN 0765197030 (0-7651-9703-0)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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The Canterville Ghost: Level 2by Oscar Wilde, Inga MooreISBN 0763601322 (0-7636-0132-2)
Hardcover, Candlewick Pr
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Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye - A Novelby Nadine CrenshawISBN 0761502475 (0-7615-0247-5)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye - A Novel'Book summary:In the far, far west of ancient Eireland, the evil giant Balor and his forces of doom sweep down to destroy everything in their path, even as young princess Medb prepares for her wedding day. There, before her innocent gaze, monstrous Balor extinguishes her parents' lives. So begins the mythic Celtic saga of the first great battle for Eireland. Queen Medb's passion for revenge drives her to unite the tribes of Eireland and confront the terror of the Evil Eye. Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye spins a fascinating yarn of magic, treachery, love, and war.About the AuthorNadine Crenshaw, author of Viking Gold and Destiny and Desire, is the winner of a prestigious Golden Heart Award given by the Romance Writers of America. She lives in California. [via]
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The Celtic World: An Illustrated History 700 B. C. to the Presentby Patrick LavinISBN 078180731X (0-7818-0731-X)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books
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Chronicles of Avonleaby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 077042161X (0-7704-2161-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Danny Boy: The Legend of the Beloved Irish Balladby Malachy McCourtISBN 0762411244 (0-7624-1124-4)
Hardcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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Darby O'gillby Herminie Templeton KavanaghISBN 0765354624 (0-7653-5462-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Daughter of Irelandby Juilene Osborne-McKnightISBN 0765346427 (0-7653-4642-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Dreamfallby Joan D. VingeISBN 0765303426 (0-7653-0342-6)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dreamfall'Book summary:Cat, the halfbreed telepath hero of Catspaw and Psion, joins a research team on Refuge, homeworld of his mother's people, the Hydrans. Immediately, he finds trouble when he helps a Hydran woman escape human pursuers.[via]
The decimated Hydran population of Refuge is confined to a bleak "homeland," by a huge corporate state, Tau Biotech. Tau also controls Refuge's one unique natural resource, "Dreamfall." The tangible residue of cast-off thoughts from beautiful, enigmatic "cloud whales," dreamfall forms vast reefs, sacred to the Hydrans, but mere exploitable data to Tau.
Caught between Tau and desperate Hydrans who fight to reclaim their world, Cat must somehow forge the ruins of the past into a means to defeat Tau's brutality to save his people--and himself.More editions of Dreamfall:
Economic Activity in Ireland: A Study of Two Open Economiesby William Black, John E. Spencer, Norman J. GibsonISBN 0770514782 (0-7705-1478-2)
Hardcover, Gill & Macmillan
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Emmaby Jane AustenISBN 0755331486 (0-7553-3148-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Evil Empire: The Irish Mob and the Assassination of Journalist Veronica Guerinby Paul WilliamsISBN 076530841X (0-7653-0841-X)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Ruthless godfather John Gilligan controlled a colossal drug empire and a mob of Dublin gangland's most dangerous criminals. Violence and the threat of murder kept terrified witnesses silent and other gangsters in fear. Gilligan thought himself above the law---and never managed to figure out that there was a line between what gangsters can and cannot do.
Evil Empire tells the chilling inside story of Gilligan's rise to power, his savage gang, and the truth about the terrifying murder that shocked the world. Also shown is the behind-the-scenes drama of the dedicated police squad that waged an unprecedented four-year war to smash "Factory" John's Evil Empire.More editions of Evil Empire: The Irish Mob and the Assassination of Journalist Veronica Guerin:
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Exit Unicornsby Cindy BrandnerISBN 075966661X (0-7596-6661-X)
Softcover, AuthorHouse
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Feasting Galore Irish-Style: Recipes and Food Lore from the Emerald Isleby Maura LavertyISBN 0781808693 (0-7818-0869-3)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books, Incorporated
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Foxmaskby Juliet MarillierISBN 0765345919 (0-7653-4591-9)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foxmask'Book summary:The Norseman Eyvind, a fierce and loyal Wolfskin, came to a new land on top of the world to find his destiny. With his priestess bride Nessa he saved the land and weathered the treachery that was caused by Eyvind's blood-sworn friend Somerled. After much pain and sorrow the two lovers have managed to create a society where the Norse warriors and the gentle folks of the Orkney Isles live and thrive in contentment at last. A decade and more has passed since the devastating events of the creation of the settlement and Eyvind and Nessa have watched their children grow and thrive in peace.[via]
But not all on the islands are content or at peace. Thorvald, the young son of Margaret, widow of the slain king and Eyvind's war leader, has always felt apart and at odds with all he knows. He learns upon his coming to manhood that he is not his father's son but that of the love that Margaret bore for the hated Somerled and that Somerled was not killed for his treachery but sent on a boat, adrift with little more than a knife and skein of water, doomed to the god's will. Thorvald is determined to find a boat and cast off to the West in a desperate bid to find a father he never knew...and to find out if he is made of the same stuff as the henious traitor.
The tragedy of this scheme would be horrific enough...if it were not for the fact that Creidhe, the winsome daughter of Eyvind and Nessa has loved Thorvald since birth and unbeknownst to him conspires to go along on this most perilous of quests.
What happens to them on their journey of discovery will ultimately change the lives of all they know and love...and will doom (or redeem) an entire people.
Foxmask No. 2: Children of the Light Islesby Juliet MarillierISBN 0765306751 (0-7653-0675-1)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0766607178 (0-7666-0717-8)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
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Frommer's Ireland 2004by Suzanne Rowan KelleherISBN 0764542168 (0-7645-4216-8)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Frommer's Ireland 2006by Suzanne K. Kelleher, Christi DaughertyISBN 076459771X (0-7645-9771-X)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Frommer's Ireland from $60 a Dayby Mark MeagherISBN 0764565478 (0-7645-6547-8)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Frommer's Ireland from $80 a Dayby Suzanne Rowan KelleherISBN 0764542176 (0-7645-4217-6)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Frommer's Road Atlas Irelandby British Auto Association StaffISBN 0764559311 (0-7645-5931-1)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Frommer's® Ireland 2002by Suzanne Rowan KelleherISBN 0764565265 (0-7645-6526-5)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Further Chronicles of Avonleaby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 0770421628 (0-7704-2162-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Further Chronicles of Avonlea'Book summary:It was a beautiful night; the full moon was just rising over the wooded hills, and her light fell through the poplars into the garden before me. Through an open corner on the western side I saw the sky all silvery blue in the afterlight. The garden was very beautiful just then, for it was the time of the roses, and ours were all out--so many of them--great pink, and red, and white, and yellow roses. [via]
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If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730by Donald Harman AkensonISBN 0773516867 (0-7735-1686-7)
Softcover, McGill-Queen's University Press
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In Code: A Mathematical Journeyby Sarah Flannery, David FlanneryISBN 0761123849 (0-7611-2384-9)
Hardcover, Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
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Independent Travellers Britain and Ireland 2003: The Budget Travel Guideby Thomas Cook Publishing StaffISBN 0762724471 (0-7627-2447-1)
Softcover, Cook Publishing, Thomas
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Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Wicklowby DoeISBN 0755719107 (0-7557-1910-7)
Softcover, Duchas The Heritage Society
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Irelandby Patricia LevyISBN 0761417842 (0-7614-1784-2)
Hardcover, Cavendish Corporation, Marshall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ireland'Book summary:[via]A travel guide to Ireland, land of ancient myths and hi-tech ambitions. The best sights. Mountains, murals and monasteries. Where to eat, sleep and drink. Pubs, peat bogs and poets. Doing the Dingle and walking the Sheep's Head Way. The pirate queen and the king of excuses. Full color maps. and Mexico including places to eat, sleep and drink.More editions of Ireland:
Irish Americaby Russell MaloneISBN 0781801737 (0-7818-0173-7)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books, Incorporated
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Irish Blessings: A Photographic Celebrationby Ashley ShannonISBN 0762404787 (0-7624-0478-7)
Hardcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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Irish Creamby Andrew M. GreeleyISBN 0765342367 (0-7653-4236-7)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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An Irish History of Civilizationby Donald Harman AkensonISBN 0773528903 (0-7735-2890-3)
Hardcover, McGill-Queen's University Press
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The Irish in Ontario: A Study in Rural Historyby Donald Harman AkensonISBN 0773505911 (0-7735-0591-1)
Softcover, McGill-Queen's University Press
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Irish Wit & Wisdomby John HickeyISBN 0785325891 (0-7853-2589-1)
Hardcover, Publications International
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Irish-English/English-Irish Practical Dictionaryby Ciaran O'PronntaighISBN 0781807778 (0-7818-0777-8)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Irish-English/English-Irish Practical Dictionary'Book summary:This long-anticipated addition to Hippocrene's Irish library is the ideal concise reference for both Irish and English speakers. The two-way dictionary contains over 20,000 total entries; a basic introduction to the use of Irish is also included. This contemporary reference book is suitable for all levels, but is especially designed for travelers and tourists, and for anyone with an interest in Ireland and the Irish language. [via]
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It's a Long Way from Penny Applesby Bill CullenISBN 0765310430 (0-7653-1043-0)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Bronte, Sara Thomson, Richard LauterISBN 0766607216 (0-7666-0721-6)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
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Kushiel's Dart: A Novel of Passion, Magic, and Betrayalby Jacqueline CareyISBN 0765342987 (0-7653-4298-7)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman with very a special mission...and the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one.
Phèdre is trained equally in the courtly arts and the talents of the bedchamber, but, above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Almost as talented a spy as she is courtesan, Phèdre stumbles upon a plot that threatens the very foundations of her homeland. Treachery sets her on her path; love and honor goad her further. And in the doing, it will take her to the edge of despair...and beyond. Hateful friend, loving enemy, beloved assassin; they can all wear the same glittering mask in this world, and Phèdre will get but one chance to save all that she holds dear.
Set in a world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, heroic traitors, and a truly Machiavellian villainess, this is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. Not since Dune has there been an epic on the scale of Kushiel's Dart-a massive tale about the violent death of an old age, and the birth of a new.More editions of Kushiel's Dart: A Novel of Passion, Magic, and Betrayal:
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Literature Made Easy Lord of the Fliesby Tony Buzan, Mary HartleyISBN 0764108212 (0-7641-0821-2)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0766607615 (0-7666-0761-5)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
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Little Womenby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0762405651 (0-7624-0565-1)
Hardcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy manage to lead interesting lives despite Father's absence at war and the family's lack of money. Whether they're putting on a play or forming a secret society, their gaiety is infectious. Written from Louisa May Alcott's own experiences, this remarkable novel has been treasured for generations. [via]
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Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0783880804 (0-7838-8080-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita'Book summary:Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.
Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:
She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.
Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguistic jouissance is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of Lolita:
Malachy McCourt's History of Irelandby Malachy McCourtISBN 0762419652 (0-7624-1965-2)
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0755331478 (0-7553-3147-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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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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Midlife Runaway: A Grown Ups' Guide to Taking a Year Offby Lynda CroninISBN 0771576854 (0-7715-7685-4)
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Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0755331494 (0-7553-3149-4)
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Praying with Celtic Holy Womenby Bridget Mary Meehan, Regina Oliver OliverISBN 0764809296 (0-7648-0929-6)
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 075533146X (0-7553-3146-X)
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Rainbow Valleyby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0770422683 (0-7704-2268-3)
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Rilla of Inglesideby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0770421857 (0-7704-2185-7)
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Saxon Shore: The Camulod Chroniclesby Jack WhyteISBN 0765306506 (0-7653-0650-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saxon Shore: The Camulod Chronicles'Book summary:The story of The Saxon Shore, the fourth novel in Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, is largely that of Merlyn, who continues his struggle to preserve the refuge of Camulod and protect the infant king, Arthur. Merlyn, in Whyte's version, is a fascinating mix of pragmatism and naïveté, blending the observational skills of Sherlock Holmes with the oratorical gifts of Marc Antony. Because he thinks a bit more deeply than most around him, thinking things through and staying a step ahead, it's easy to see how he gains a bit of a reputation as a magician. He also has his failings, most particularly an over-confidence that leads him to believe he is just as right about matters he is ignorant of (such as leprosy) as he is about things he actually understands. It's also interesting to note that Merlyn's failings are in many ways the failings of his community. Preserving Roman ways has meant preserving Roman attitudes toward outsiders and barbarians, and on a trip to Eire and a later journey through the south of Britain, Merlyn learns just how out of touch Camulod has become with its new neighbours.
Thus the story leads us inexorably to a new generation that knows little or nothing of Roman culture. In this way, The Saxon Shore continues with the same strength as preceding volumes. Jack Whyte's most splendid achievement is the creation of an historical period so well grounded in fact that the legend becomes real and Arthur lives again. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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The Scottish-Irish Pub and Hearth Cookbook: Recipes and Lore from Celtic Kitchensby Kay Shaw NelsonISBN 0781807417 (0-7818-0741-7)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books
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The Second Interim Report of the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Paymentsby Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments (Ireland), Feargus M. FloodISBN 0755712854 (0-7557-1285-4)
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Selected Documents in Irish Historyby Josef L. AltholzISBN 0765605414 (0-7656-0541-4)
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 076240566X (0-7624-0566-X)
Hardcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense and Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]
Short History of Modern Irelandby Richard KilleenISBN 0773526706 (0-7735-2670-6)
Softcover, McGill-Queen's University Press
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Small Differences : Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815-1922: An International Perspectiveby Donald Harman AkensonISBN 0773508589 (0-7735-0858-9)
Softcover, McGill-Queen's University Press
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Someplace to Be Flyingby Charles De LintISBN 076530757X (0-7653-0757-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Someplace to Be Flying is set in Newford, a town familiar to readers of de Lint. (He set two prior novels (Memory and Dream and Trader) and two anthologies (Dreams Underfoot and The Ivory and the Horn) in Newford.) One late night, as Hank drives his gypsy cab, his reliable though perilous city is transformed. He encounters the mythical "animal people," and the experience leaves him--and the reader--questioning accepted reality.
"Hank just wanted away from here. He'd sampled some hallucinogens when he was a kid and the feeling he had now was a lot like coming down from an acid high. Everything slightly askew, illogical things that somehow made sense, everything too sharp and clear when you looked at it but fading fast in your peripheral vision, blurred, like it didn't really exist." Fans of Emma Bull and Terri Windling (as both an editor and an author) will enjoy de Lint. He can make you believe "as many as six impossible things before breakfast." --Nona Vero [via]
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Songs and Sayings of an Ulster Childhoodby Alice KaneISBN 0771032102 (0-7710-3210-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Southern Exposure: A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Around New Zealand's South Islandby Chris DuffISBN 0762725958 (0-7627-2595-8)
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Voices of Ireland: Classic Writings of a Rich and Rare Landby Malachy McCourtISBN 0762417013 (0-7624-1701-3)
Softcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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The Wild Reelby Paul BrandonISBN 0765308800 (0-7653-0880-0)
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Wolfskinby Juliet MarillierISBN 0765306735 (0-7653-0673-5)
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treasures . . . and a people who are willing to share their bounty.
Ulf's new settlement begins in harmony with the natives of the isles led by the gentle king Engus. And Eyvind finds a treasure of his own in the young Nessa, niece of the king, seer and princess. His life will change forever as she claims his heart for her own.
But someone has come along to this new land who is not what he seems. Somerled, the strange and lonely boy that Eyvind befriended long ago, has a secret---and his own plans for the future. The blood oath that they swore in childhood binds them in lifelong loyalty, and Somerled is calling in the debt of honor. What he asks of Eyvind might just doom him to kill the only thing that Evyind has ever truly loved.
Will the price of honor create the destruction of all that Eyvind holds dear?
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