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The Aleph and Other Storiesby Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew HurleyISBN 0142437883 (0-14-243788-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aleph and Other Stories'Book summary:[via]Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borgess most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her fathers killer, and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.
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The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969: Together with Commentaries and an Autobiographical Essayby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0525484442 (0-525-48444-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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- The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969: Together with Commentaries and an Autobiographical Essay: ISBN 0525051546 (0-525-05154-6)
Hardcover, E. P. Dutton - The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969: Together with Commentaries and an Autobiographical Essay: ISBN 0525484442 (0-525-48444-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969: Together with Commentaries and an Autobiographical Essay: ISBN 0525051546 (0-525-05154-6)
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The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the Systemby Siva VaidhyanathanISBN 0465089852 (0-465-08985-2)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anarchist In The Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System'Book summary:From Napster to Total Information Awareness to flash mobs, the debate over information technology in our lives has revolved around a single question: How closely do we want cyberspace to resemble the real world? Siva Vaidhyanathan enters this debate with a seminal insight: While we've been busy debating how to make cyberspace imitate the world, the world has been busy imitating cyberspace. More and more of our social, political, and religious activities are modeling themselves after the World Wide Web.Vaidhyanathan tells us the key information structure of our time, and the key import from cyberspace into the world, is the "peer-to-peer network." Peer-to-peer networks have always existed--but with the rise of electronic communication, they are suddenly coming into their own. And they are drawing the outlines of a battle for information that will determine much of the culture and politics of our century, affecting everything from society to terrorism, from religion to the latest social fads. The Anarchist in the Library is a radically original look at how this battle defines one of the major fault lines of twenty-first-century civilization.[via]More editions of The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System:
- The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System: ISBN 0465089844 (0-465-08984-4)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group - The Anarchist In The Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System: ISBN 0465089852 (0-465-08985-2)
Softcover, Basic Books
- The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System: ISBN 0465089844 (0-465-08984-4)
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At First Sightby Nicholas SparksISBN 0446698466 (0-446-69846-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At First Sight'Book summary:Nicholas Sparks brings back two characters from his beloved bestseller, True Believer, in this continuing saga of extraordinary love.
There are few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple's marriage. [via]
Atomisedby Michel Houellebecq, Frank WynneISBN 0434007935 (0-434-00793-5)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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Barely Mistakenby Jennifer LabrecqueISBN 0373259867 (0-373-25986-7)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barely Mistaken'Book summary:MENAGE A TROIS?
Librarian Olivia Cooper, daughter of the town drunk, will do almost anything to gain respectability -- even marry wealthy, but oh-so-dull, Adam Rutledge. But the night of the local costume party, Adam's anything but dull. Suddenly her would-be fiance is daring, dangerous...and very, very sexy. Only, Olivia never guesses that the right chemistry will lead her into the wrong bed....
Rebel Luke Rutledge thinks he's only saving Olivia from his brother's greedy machinations when he takes Adam's place at the party. But once Olivia is in his arms, Luke can't think at all! The attraction is immediate, the sex explosive...and the truth disastrous. Olivia might have wanted Adam -- but she can't keep her hands off Luke. So what else can this bad boy do but seduce her into saying yes?
The Wrong Bed
Harlequin Temptation #886, July 2002. [via]
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Blackoutby Annie SolomonISBN 0446616311 (0-446-61631-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Book Of The Seven Delightsby Betina KrahnISBN 0515139726 (0-515-13972-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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A Canticle for Leibowitzby Walter M. Miller, Mary Doria RussellISBN 0060892994 (0-06-089299-4)
Softcover, Eos
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'Book summary:Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As 1984 cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959's A Canticle for Leibowitz warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. Following a cloister of monks in their Utah abbey over some six or seven hundred years, the funny but bleak Canticle tackles the sociological and religious implications of the cyclical rise and fall of civilization, questioning whether humanity can hope for more than repeating its own history. Divided into three sections--Fiat Homo (Let There Be Man), Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light), and Fiat Voluntas Tua (Thy Will Be Done)--Canticle is steeped in Catholicism and Latin, exploring the fascinating, seemingly capricious process of how and why a person is canonized. --Paul Hughes [via]
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- A Canticle for Leibowitz: ISBN 0553273817 (0-553-27381-7)
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Collected Fictionsby Andrew Hurley, Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0140286802 (0-14-028680-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Fictions'Book summary:Although Jorge Luis Borges published his first book in 1923--doling out his own money for a limited edition of Fervor de Buenos Aires--he remained in Argentinian obscurity for almost three decades. In 1951, however, Ficciones appeared in French, followed soon after by an English translation. This collection, which included the cream of the author's short fictions, made it clear that Borges was a world-class (if highly unclassifiable) artist--a brilliant, lyrical miniaturist, who could pose the great questions of existence on the head of pin. And by 1961, when he shared the French Prix Formentor with Samuel Beckett, he seemed suddenly to tower over a half-dozen literary cultures, the very exemplar of modernism with a human face.
By the time of his death in 1986, Borges had been granted old master status by almost everybody (except, alas, the gentlemen of the Swedish Academy). Yet his work remained dispersed among a half-dozen different collections, some of them increasingly hard to find. Andrew Hurley has done readers a great service, then, by collecting all the stories in a single, meticulously translated volume. It's a pleasure to be reminded that Borges's style--poetic, dreamlike, and compounded of innumerable small surprises--was already in place by 1935, when he published A Universal History of Iniquity: "The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it." (Incidentally, the thrifty author later recycled the second of these aphorisms in his classic bit of bookish metaphysics, "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Teris.") The glories of his middle period, of course, have hardly aged a day. "The Garden of the Forking Paths" remains the best deconstruction of the detective story ever written, even in the post-Auster era, and "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" puts the so-called death of the author in pointed, hilarious perspective.
But Hurley's omnibus also brings home exactly how consistent Borges remained in his concerns. As late as 1975, in "Avelino Arredondo," he was still asking (and occasionally even answering) the same riddles about time and its human repository, memory: "For the man in prison, or the blind man, time flows downstream as though down a slight decline. As he reached the midpoint of his reclusion, Arredondo more than once achieved that virtually timeless time. In the first patio there was a wellhead, and at the bottom, a cistern where a toad lived; it never occurred to Arredondo that it was the toad's time, bordering on eternity, that he sought." Throughout, Hurley's translation is crisp and assured (although this reader will always have a soft spot for "Funes, the Memorious" rather than "Funes, His Memory.") And thanks to his efforts, Borgesians will find no better--and no more pleasurable--rebuttal of the author's description of himself as "a shy sort of man who could not bring himself to write short stories." --James Marcus [via]
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Dark Secret of Weatherend: An Anthony Monday Mysteryby John Bellairs, Edward GoreyISBN 014038006X (0-14-038006-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Secret of Weatherend: An Anthony Monday Mystery'Book summary:When Anthony Monday stumbles upon the diary of J.K. Borkman, he thinks he's unearthed a worthless piece of junk. But Borkman's mysterious writings turn out to be much more--plans to turn the world into an icy wasteland. By the time ghastly weather sets in and Anthony realizes it's Borkman's fanatical son who is bent on carrying out his father's horrific work, it may be too late to stop him. [via]
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Softcover, Bantam Books - Dark Secret of Weatherend: An Anthony Monday Mystery: ISBN 014038006X (0-14-038006-X)
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- Dark Secret of Weatherend: An Anthony Monday Mystery: ISBN 0553153757 (0-553-15375-7)
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Dead Over Heelsby Charlaine HarrisISBN 0373262604 (0-373-26260-4)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Over Heels'Book summary:Aurora Teagarden is enjoying a sunny afternoon in her backyard until Detective Jack Burns drops in--literally. Aurora and the detective never did get along, but this is especially traumatic as Burns's dead body is dropped next to her lawn chair from a low-flying airplane. Aurora begins to investigate. But when two more bodies emerge in her vicinity, the sleuth comes to realize that she is right in the middle of the murderers--and there is a killer on the loose with a message for her. [via]
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Dewey Deathby Charity BlackstockISBN 0345325095 (0-345-32509-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Distant Bloodby Jeff AbbottISBN 0345394704 (0-345-39470-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Do Unto Othersby Jeff AbbottISBN 0345389484 (0-345-38948-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Down Timeby Lynn AbbeyISBN 0441012701 (0-441-01270-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Edgeby Catherine CoulterISBN 0515128600 (0-515-12860-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Edge'Book summary:Setting: Edgerton, Oregon, present day
Sensuality Rating: 7Following the success of The Cove, The Maze, and The Target, Coulter again delights readers with her latest offering, The Edge. Recovering in a D.C. hospital from a Tunisian car bomb accident, FBI agent Ford MacDougal awakens from a violent dream in which his sister Jilly drives off a cliff and into the ocean. Ford feels her fear as well as her anger and agony over the betrayal by someone named Laura, and shares the utter stillness as the frigid waters engulf her. The next morning, he receives the news that Jilly was indeed in a car accident. And when he arrives in Edgerton, Oregon, it quickly becomes obvious that something mysterious and deadly is going on in the quiet, little town. Add a quirky cast of characters, including a sexy, undercover DEA agent named--you guessed it--Laura, a drug that improves sex exponentially but has the unfortunate side effect of making its users psychotic, and you've got all the ingredients for a fast-paced, can't-put-down thriller. --Alison Trinkle [via]
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The Elementary Particlesby Michel HouellebecqISBN 0375727019 (0-375-72701-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elementary Particles'Book summary:Bruno and Michel are half-brothers, born to a hippie mother who believed in following her bliss. As boys they live in ignorance of each other--at one point attending the same school without knowing of their blood connection. As grown men they're not truly close, but they occasionally phone each other late at night. Bruno's a hopeless sexual obsessive, often drunk or on his way there, and Michel's a molecular biologist, distant and inaccessible.
Michel Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles follows these brothers through the latter half of the 20th century. Bruno and Michel are buffeted by history, vessels of disappointment and desire rocked by the ocean of time. Shuttled away to a boarding school where he's sexually abused by other boys, Bruno grows up full of twisted sexual longings and a contempt for aging women so palpable that at times it's stomach-churning. At a commune in the country, Bruno takes stock:
The women were intolerable at breakfast, but by cocktail hour the mystical tarts were hopelessly vying with younger women once again. Death is the great leveler. On Wednesday afternoon he met Catherine, a fifty-year-old who had been a feminist of the old school. She was tanned, with dark curly hair; she must have been very attractive when she was twenty. Her breasts were still in good shape, he thought when he saw her by the pool, but she had a fat ass.
Michel doesn't hate women; he doesn't even notice them. Instead of leering at bodies by the pool, he stares at particles in microscopes. He wins prizes for his experiments, but never experiences the rush of life. For both men, the damage has been done by history, by mother, before the story begins. What interests Houellebecq are the permutations and recapitulations of damage--the way the particles of the self can never be completely reconstituted. --Emily White [via]More editions of The Elementary Particles:
Flirting With Troubleby Cathie LinzISBN 0373057229 (0-373-05722-9)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Forbidden Readingby Lisette AshtonISBN 0352340223 (0-352-34022-3)
Softcover, Virgin Pub
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Girl's Guide to Witchcraftby Mindy KlaskyISBN 0373896077 (0-373-89607-7)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Google Power: Unleash The Full Potential Of Googleby Chris ShermanISBN 0072257873 (0-07-225787-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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Guards! Guards!by Terry PratchettISBN 0061020648 (0-06-102064-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guards! Guards!'Book summary:This is the story of mysterious night-time prowling in Ankh-Morpork, the greatest city of Discworld: someone is turning the citizens into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. [via]
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The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki MurakamiISBN 0241131448 (0-241-13144-8)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'Book summary:By the author of "A Wild Sheep Chase", which won the Noma Literary Award for New Writers, this novel combines science-fiction, satire and a warning of the dangerous powers of corporations. [via]
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Housewrightsby Art CorriveauISBN 0142002097 (0-14-200209-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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I Will Surviveby Samantha ConnollyISBN 0373441827 (0-373-44182-7)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Introduction to Reference Work: Reference Services and Reference Processesby William A. KatzISBN 0072441437 (0-07-244143-7)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to Reference Work: Reference Services and Reference Processes'Book summary:This noted reference resource is an easy to understand presentation of the impact of the electronic age upon the reference services, and the tools employed, such as CD-ROMs and the Internet. New chapter on electronic network services and document delivery. [via]
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Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College - Introduction to Reference Work: Reference Services and Reference Processes: ISBN 0070342784 (0-07-034278-4)
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An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigationby M. LeveneISBN 0321306775 (0-321-30677-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Island of Dreamsby Katherine StoneISBN 0446609544 (0-446-60954-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Last Scene Aliveby Charlaine HarrisISBN 0373264763 (0-373-26476-3)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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Libraryby Sarah Stewart, David SmallISBN 0374443947 (0-374-44394-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Library: An Unquiet Historyby Matthew BattlesISBN 0393325644 (0-393-32564-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Library: An Unquiet History'Book summary:On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet.
Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age.
He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanishand in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia. Encyclopedic in its breadth and novelistic in its telling, this volume will occupy a treasured place on the bookshelf next to Baker's Double Fold, Basbanes's A Gentle Madness, Manguel's A History of Reading, and Winchester's The Professor and the Madman. 11 b/w illustrations. [via]
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A Little Change of Faceby Lauren Baratz-LogstedISBN 0373895259 (0-373-89525-9)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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The Major and the Librarianby Nikki BenjaminISBN 037324228X (0-373-24228-X)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Man Of My Dreamsby Suzanne FosterISBN 0515137936 (0-515-13793-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man Of My Dreams'Book summary:[via]Four all-new stories featuring handsome heroes who can possess a woman's heart and satisfy her late-night yearnings.
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The Mansion in the Mistby John BellairsISBN 0140349332 (0-14-034933-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mansion in the Mist'Book summary:John Bellairs, the name in Gothic mysteries for middle graders, wrote terrifying tales full of adventure, attitude, and alarm. For years, young readers have crept, crawled, and gone bump in the night with the unlikely heroes of these Gothic novels: Lewis Barnavelt, Johnny Dixon, and Anthony Monday. Now, the ten top-selling titles feature an updated cover look. Loyal fans and enticed newcomers will love the series even more with this haunting new look![via]More editions of The Mansion in the Mist:
Mask of a Hunterby Sylvie KurtzISBN 0373227736 (0-373-22773-6)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachersby Graham Gibbs, Wilbert J. McKeachieISBN 0395903459 (0-395-90345-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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About This Edition
From the Publisher
New Features
- A new chapter on feedback and assessment provides recommendations on how to improve the quality of teacher feedback comments, and discusses ways of ensuring that these comments have maximum impact on learning.
- Testing chapters have been condensed into one streamlined chapter, as have the technology chapters, allowing the book to maintain its handy pocket-sized length while incorporating new information.
- All of the chapters have been updated to include new developments in technologies and instructional strategies that have become more prominent since the last edition.
Additional Features
- Guest-authored chapters offer advice and instruction from renowned educators, including Peter Elbow and Mary Deane Sorcinelli on writing, Jane Halonen on teaching thinking, and Brian P. Coppola on laboratory instruction.
- Technology coverage includes topics such as the use of Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides, plagiarism, and effective Web research.
- Additional important coverage includes experiential learning, recent policy shifts, diversity and gender issues, and standards and accountability.
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Mistletoe & Mayhem/Santa's Sexy Secretby Cara Summers, Lori WildeISBN 0373441061 (0-373-44106-1)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Moving Picturesby Terry PratchettISBN 006102063X (0-06-102063-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moving Pictures'Book summary:A gloriously funny saga set against the background of a world gone mad.
The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood Hill? Its up to Victor Tugelbend ( Cant sing. Cant dance. Can handle a sword a little ) and Theda Withel ( I come from a little town youve probably never heard of ) to find out. [via] 
Mr. Dixon Disappears: A Mobile Library Mysteryby Ian SansomISBN 0060822538 (0-06-082253-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Murder at the Library of Congressby Margaret TrumanISBN 0449001954 (0-449-00195-4)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder at the Library of Congress'Book summary:Margaret Truman looks inside one of D.C.'s great institutions, the Library of Congress, the place where much of the wisdom of the nation is collected, and finds blood on the floor.
Was there a second diary, beyond the one Columbus kept, describing his voyage to the New World? Leading scholars at the Library of Congress think so, and Annabel Smith, with her pre-Columbian interests, has been commissioned by the library's magazine, Civilization, to write about it.
She is not the only person interested. Word comes through the rare-books black market that a wealthy bibliophile has been offered the second diary: He'd not only pay, he'd almost kill to possess it. Starting her search in the library itself, Annabel soon finds herself competing with an ambitious TV journalist. As both women come closer to finding the hidden documents, other questions creep up. Was the murder of the library's most prominent Hispanic scholar connected to the missing diary? Further research leads them deeper into barely explored corners of the library and closer to having to face their own mortality.
Murder in familiar yet surprising surroundings- a great library- leads to a surprising conclusion in this latest Capital Crime novel. [via]More editions of Murder at the Library of Congress:
The Murders of Richard III: Library Editionby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0445402296 (0-445-40229-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The North Star Conspiracyby Miriam G. MonfredoISBN 0425147207 (0-425-14720-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The North Star Conspiracy'Book summary:Glynis Tryon, the delightful Seneca Falls, New York, librarian introduced in Seneca Falls Inheritance (SMP, 1992), returns, still balancing her own life against the momentous events of the times. With sure authenticity, the author evokes the atmosphere of 1854, seven years before the Civil War, and brings to life the vivid cast of characters involved. A local election is pending, from which Glynis and Elizabeth Cady Stanton hope will come gains for women's rights. A wealthy resident has started Seneca Falls's first theater, and its production of Macbeth looms large in the story. Glynis herself faces a wrenching decision: Constable Cullen Stuart wants her as his wife when he moves west to become a Pinkerton man. Warm as her regard for Cullen may be, Glynis is reluctant, knowing how her life must change after marriage. Meanwhile, Seneca Falls has become an important stop on the Underground Railroad. Fugitive slaves following the North Star to Canada find support from many of the town's inhabitants, including Glynis. It is a difficult commitment at best, and when complicated by murder, a perilous one as well. Once again, Miriam Grace Monfredo has combined historical events, a moving personal story, and an engrossing mystery in a work of extraordinary interest. [via]
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North Star Conspiracyby Miriam Grace MonfredoISBN 0312093551 (0-312-09355-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Only Good Yankeeby Jeff AbbottISBN 0345394380 (0-345-39438-0)
Softcover, Del Rey
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Oprah Reading Group 20ISBN 0446789291 (0-446-78929-1)
Softcover, Warner Books Inc
Find This BookBook summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, December 1998: A funny thing happens to Novalee Nation on her way to Bakersfield, California. Her ne'er-do-well boyfriend, Willie Jack Pickens, abandons her in an Oklahoma Wal-Mart and takes off on his own, leaving her with just 10 dollars and the clothes on her back. Not that hard luck is anything new to Novalee, who is "seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty-seven pounds overweight--and superstitious about sevens.... For most people, sevens were lucky. But not for her," Billie Letts writes. "She'd had a bad history with them, starting with her seventh birthday, the day Momma Nell ran away with a baseball umpire named Fred..."
Still, finding herself alone and penniless in Sequoyah, Oklahoma is enough to make even someone as inured to ill fortune as Novalee want to give up and die. Fortunately, the Wal-Mart parking lot is the Sequoyah equivalent of a town square, and within hours Novalee has met three people who will change her life: Sister Thelma Husband, a kindly eccentric; Benny Goodluck, a young Native American boy; and Moses Whitecotton, an elderly African American photographer. For the next two months, Novalee surreptitiously makes her home in the Wal-Mart, sleeping there at night, exploring the town by day. When she goes into labor and delivers her baby there, however, Novalee learns that sometimes it's not so bad to depend on the kindness of strangers--especially if one of them happens to be Sam Walton, the superchain's founder.
Where the Heart Is oddly mixes heart-warming vignettes and surprising, brutal violence. Novalee's story is juxtaposed with occasional chapters chronicling Willy Jack's downward spiral into prison, disappointment, and degradation. And even in Sequoyah, sudden storms, domestic violence, kidnapping, and deadly fires punctuate Novalee's progress from homeless, unwed teen mom to successful, happy member of the community. This is not a subtle book; there's never any doubt that our heroine will make a home for herself and her baby or that Willy Jack will get what he deserves for abandoning them. Still, Billie Letts has created several memorable characters, and there's always room for another novel that celebrates the life-affirming qualities of reading, the importance of education, and the power of love to change lives. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Out of the Nightby Robin T. PoppISBN 0446616265 (0-446-61626-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Promises of Homeby Jeff AbbottISBN 0345394690 (0-345-39469-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mysteryby Charlaine HarrisISBN 0373261047 (0-373-26104-7)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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The Roverby Mel OdomISBN 0312878826 (0-312-87882-6)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rover'Book summary:Edgewick Lamplighter (Wick to his friends) is a humble librarian in the isolated halls of Greydawn Moors until dreams of wanderlust and a bit of dereliction in his duties result in his being shanghaied to a far-off land.[via]
Captured by pirates, sold into slavery, and adopted by a gang of thieves, Wick soon finds himself with more adventures than even a halfling librarian can imagine.
Rival gangs, goblin marauders, evil wizards, and monstrous dragons are soon after the wee adventurer and his newfound allies in a tale of treasures and treachery, magic and mystery, where even a little guy can rise to the occasion and save the day.More editions of The Rover:
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Sabrielby Garth NixISBN 0064471837 (0-06-447183-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sabriel'Book summary:After receiving a cryptic message from her father, Abhorsen, a necromancer trapped in Death, 18-year-old Sabriel sets off into the Old Kingdom. Fraught with peril and deadly trickery, her journey takes her to a world filled with parasitical spirits, Mordicants, and Shadow Hands. Unlike other necromancers, who raise the dead, Abhorsen lays the disturbed dead back to rest. This obliges him--and now Sabriel, who has taken on her father's title and duties--to slip over the border into the icy river of Death, sometimes battling the evil forces that lurk there, waiting for an opportunity to escape into the realm of the living. Desperate to find her father, and grimly determined to help save the Old Kingdom from destruction by the horrible forces of the evil undead, Sabriel endures almost impossible exhaustion, violent confrontations, and terrifying challenges to her supernatural abilities--and her destiny.
Garth Nix delves deep into the mystical underworld of necromancy, magic, and the monstrous undead. This tale is not for the faint of heart; imbedded in the classic good-versus-evil story line are subplots of grisly ghouls hungry for human life to perpetuate their stay in the world of the living, and dark, devastating secrets of betrayal and loss. Just try to put this book down. For more along this line, try Nix's later novel: Shade's Children. (Ages 12 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Selected Letters of Philip Larkin 1940-1985by Philip Larkin, Anthony ThwaiteISBN 0374258295 (0-374-25829-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Seneca Falls Inheritanceby Miriam G. MonfredoISBN 0425144658 (0-425-14465-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seneca Falls Inheritance'Book summary:During the Women's Rights Convention of 1848, a body turns up in the canal -- and town librarian Glynis Tryon stands up to a killer. [via]
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Seneca Falls Inheritanceby Miriam Grace MonfredoISBN 0312070829 (0-312-07082-9)
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Souls in the Great Machineby Sean McMullenISBN 0312872569 (0-312-87256-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Souls in the Great Machine'Book summary:In 40th-century Australia, Zarvora Cybeline discovers the world is threatened by destruction from the sky--yet the planet doesn't have enough technology even to build a steam engine. To save civilization, Zarvora must recover lost 21st-century technology. But technology is proscribed, and the dangers from the sky are joined by enemies in the sea, and even among her own ranks. Zarvora embarks on a bold and ruthless plan to save a world no one else believes is in danger.
Souls in the Great Machine is a big book at 450 pages. Stuffed fuller than a Thanksgiving turkey with great storylines, characters, and concepts, it's got thrilling action, hair's-breadth escapes, tyranny, treachery, villainy, heroism, duels, riots, war, love, hate, obsession, powerful women, mad monks, a returning ice age, a lost race, rediscovered civilizations, invasions, executions, high-tech, steampunk tech, a computer with human components, and numerous subplots. In short, Souls in the Great Machine is huge; it is epic--but it is not sprawling. In the hands of most authors, this complex and ambitious SF novel would be a trilogy. And while Souls may occasionally move a little too fast, the plot never drags and the reader's interest never flags. If you're looking for a sense of wonder, for adventure that respects your intelligence, for an enormously fun read--look no further than Souls in the Great Machine. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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The Stolen Blueby Judith Van GiesonISBN 0451200012 (0-451-20001-2)
Softcover, Signet
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Summerby Edith WhartonISBN 0140186794 (0-14-018679-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summer'Book summary:Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's "Summer" created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman's sexual awakening. "Summer" is the story of proud and independent Charity Royall, a child of mountain moonshiners adopted by a family in a poor New England town, who has a passionate love affair with Lucius Harney, an educated young man from the city. Wharton broke the conventions of woman's romantic fiction by making Charity a thoroughly contemporary woman--in touch with her feelings and sexuality, yet kept from love and the larger world she craves by the overwhelming pressures of environment and heredity. Praised for its realism and candor by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James and compared to Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," "Summer" was one of Wharton's personal favorites of all her novels and remains as fresh and relevant today as when it was first written. [via]
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Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Summer: ISBN 0403002591 (0-403-00259-1)
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Taking Timeby Lynn AbbeyISBN 0441011535 (0-441-01153-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Tomas and the Library Ladyby Pat Mora, Raul ColonISBN 0375803491 (0-375-80349-1)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Treasure of Alpheus Winterbornby John Bellairs, Judith Gwyn BrownISBN 0140380094 (0-14-038009-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Tutorby Portia Da CostaISBN 0352329467 (0-352-32946-7)
Softcover, Virgin Books Limited
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When the Lights Go Downby Heidi BettsISBN 0373766866 (0-373-76686-6)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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Where the Heart Isby Billie LettsISBN 0446603651 (0-446-60365-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Heart Is'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, December 1998: A funny thing happens to Novalee Nation on her way to Bakersfield, California. Her ne'er-do-well boyfriend, Willie Jack Pickens, abandons her in an Oklahoma Wal-Mart and takes off on his own, leaving her with just 10 dollars and the clothes on her back. Not that hard luck is anything new to Novalee, who is "seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty-seven pounds overweight--and superstitious about sevens.... For most people, sevens were lucky. But not for her," Billie Letts writes. "She'd had a bad history with them, starting with her seventh birthday, the day Momma Nell ran away with a baseball umpire named Fred..."
Still, finding herself alone and penniless in Sequoyah, Oklahoma is enough to make even someone as inured to ill fortune as Novalee want to give up and die. Fortunately, the Wal-Mart parking lot is the Sequoyah equivalent of a town square, and within hours Novalee has met three people who will change her life: Sister Thelma Husband, a kindly eccentric; Benny Goodluck, a young Native American boy; and Moses Whitecotton, an elderly African American photographer. For the next two months, Novalee surreptitiously makes her home in the Wal-Mart, sleeping there at night, exploring the town by day. When she goes into labor and delivers her baby there, however, Novalee learns that sometimes it's not so bad to depend on the kindness of strangers--especially if one of them happens to be Sam Walton, the superchain's founder.
Where the Heart Is oddly mixes heart-warming vignettes and surprising, brutal violence. Novalee's story is juxtaposed with occasional chapters chronicling Willy Jack's downward spiral into prison, disappointment, and degradation. And even in Sequoyah, sudden storms, domestic violence, kidnapping, and deadly fires punctuate Novalee's progress from homeless, unwed teen mom to successful, happy member of the community. This is not a subtle book; there's never any doubt that our heroine will make a home for herself and her baby or that Willy Jack will get what he deserves for abandoning them. Still, Billie Letts has created several memorable characters, and there's always room for another novel that celebrates the life-affirming qualities of reading, the importance of education, and the power of love to change lives. --Alix Wilber [via]
Witch Hunt: An Ophelia And Abby Mysteryby Shirley DamsgaardISBN 0061147117 (0-06-114711-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Worlds of Reference: Lexicography, Learning and Language from the Clay Tablet to the Computerby Tom McArthurISBN 052130637X (0-521-30637-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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