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90 Minutes at Entebbeby William Stevenson, Uri DanISBN 0553104829 (0-553-10482-9)
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Acquired Tastesby Peter MayleISBN 0553090275 (0-553-09027-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acquired Tastes'Book summary:The author of A Year in Provence samples the best that life can offer, from handmade shoes and limousine etiquette, to the art of keeping a mistress in style and the world's best caviar, in a whimsical look at the lifestyles of the rich. [via]
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Babel-17by Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0553201565 (0-553-20156-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babel-17'Book summary:The invader's battle code contained a deadly secret.
Babel-17 winner of the Nebula Award for 1966.
A brilliant poet and her colorful crew range the galaxy to solve the riddle of a language that has become a deadly weapon in the hands of the enemy.
This revised Bantam edition (0-553-20156-5) can be considered by the author's choice: "... Bantam Books has kindly allowed me to restore certain typographical complexities ... that Babel-17's initial publisher was unable to include..." -- S.R.Delany
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The Beggar Maidby Alice MunroISBN 0553202928 (0-553-20292-8)
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The Castle in the Atticby Elizabeth WinthropISBN 0553156012 (0-553-15601-2)
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Castlesby David Day, Alan LeeISBN 0553050664 (0-553-05066-4)
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Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymesby Beatrix Potter, Allen AtkinsonISBN 0553152297 (0-553-15229-7)
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Charadesby Janette Turner HospitalISBN 0553053469 (0-553-05346-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Child Buyerby John Richard HerseyISBN 055320937X (0-553-20937-X)
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The Cinder Pathby Catherine CooksonISBN 0553126946 (0-553-12694-6)
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Jack D. Zipes, Johnny Gruelle, Jacob W. GrimmISBN 0553212516 (0-553-21251-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of Once Upon A Time, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of childhood that stay with us throughout our lives. But most Americans know them only secondhand, in adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations. Now, in the most comprehensive translation to date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Bothers Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of folklore and song. Volume II contains 142 unabridged tales, including such bedtime favorites as "Snow White and Rose Red" and "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes," as well as 32 little-known tales that the Brothers Grimm omitted during the course of their many revisions. These wonderful tales of life, passion, and make-believe appeal not only to children--who unabashedly love them--but to readers of any age. [via]
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Dark Force Risingby Timothy ZahnISBN 0553085743 (0-553-08574-3)
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The Deceiverby Frederick ForsythISBN 0553073192 (0-553-07319-2)
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Deception on His Mindby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0553102346 (0-553-10234-6)
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The Devil Tree: A Novelby Jerzy N. KosinskiISBN 0553145770 (0-553-14577-0)
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The Diamond Age/Or, Young Lady's Illustrated Primerby Neal StephensonISBN 0553096095 (0-553-09609-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diamond Age/Or, Young Lady's Illustrated Primer'Book summary:John Percival Hackworth is a nanotech engineer on the rise when he steals a copy of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" for his daughter Fiona. The primer is actually a super computer built with nanotechnology that was designed to educate Lord Finkle-McGraw's daughter and to teach her how to think for herself in the stifling neo-Victorian society. But Hackworth loses the primer before he can give it to Fiona, and now the "book" has fallen into the hands of young Nell, an underprivileged girl whose life is about to change. [via]
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Doctorsby Erich SegalISBN 0553052942 (0-553-05294-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctors'Book summary:Writing with all the passion of Love Story and power of The Class, Erich Segal sweeps us into the lives of the Harvard Medical School's class of 1962. His stunning novel reveals the making of doctors--what makes them tick, scheme, hurt . . . and love. From the crucible of med school's merciless training through the demanding hours of internship and residency to the triumphs--and sometimes tragedies--beyond, Doctors brings to vivid life the men and women who seek to heal but who must first walk through fire. At the novel's heart is the unforgettable relationship of Barney Livingston and Laura Castellano, childhood friends who separately find unsettling celebrity and unsatisfying love--until their friendship ripens into passion. Yet even their devotion to each other, even their medical gifts may not be enough to save the one life they treasure above all others. Doctors --heartbreaking, witty, inspiring, and utterly, grippingly real--is a vibrant portrait that culminates in a murder, a trial . . . and a miracle.
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The Doomsday Bookby Connie WillisISBN 0553081314 (0-553-08131-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doomsday Book'Book summary:Connie Willis labored five years on this story of a history student in 2048 who is transported to an English village in the 14th century. The student arrives mistakenly on the eve of the onset of the Black Plague. Her dealings with a family of "contemps" in 1348 and with her historian cohorts lead to complications as the book unfolds into a surprisingly dark, deep conclusion. The book, which won Hugo and Nebula Awards, draws upon Willis' understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit. [via]
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Dragonsingerby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0553141279 (0-553-14127-9)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragonsinger'Book summary:Pursuing her dream to be a Harper of Pern, Menolly studies under the Masterharper learning that more is required than a facility with music and a clever way with words. Sequel to Dragonsong. [via]
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Dune: House Atreidesby Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank HerbertISBN 0553110616 (0-553-11061-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune: House Atreides'Book summary:THE EPIC PREQUEL TO DUNE
"DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES is a terrific prequel, but it is also a first-rate adventure on its own. Frank Herbert would surely be delighted and proud of this continuation of his vision."Dean Koontz
Frank Herbert's Dune chronicles became an enduring classic and the most popular science fiction series of all time. Working from recently discovered files left by his father, Brian Herbert and best-selling novelist Kevin J. Anderson bring us Dune: House Atreides, the prequel, which captures all the complexity and grand themes of the original work while weaving a new tapestry of great passion and momentous destiny into a saga that expands the tale written by Frank Herbert more than thirty years ago.
Complex, brilliant, and prophetic, Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imaginations of millions of readers worldwideand transformed their perception of what the future could be. By his death in 1986, Frank Herbert had completed six novels in the Dune series. But much of his visionvast, sprawling, and multilayeredremained unwritten. Now, working from recently discovered files left by his father, Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson collaborate on a new novel, the first volume in the prequel to Dunewhere we step onto planet Arrakis...decades before Dune's hero, Paul Atreides, walks its sands.
Beginning nearly four decades before Dune, House Atreides introduces pivotal characters, alliances, base treacheries, and bright hopes that form the foundation of Dune. On the planet Arrakis, an aging tyrant sits on the Golden Lion Throne and rules all of the known universe, while his son grows dangerously impatient for the crown. A quasi-religious order of black-robed women move their secret breeding program one momentous step closer to creating a god-child they call the Kwisatz Haderach. And a minor family among the nobility, House Atreides, chooses a course of honor that will bring it to destruction at the hands of its mortal enemy, House Harkonnenor take it to new heights of power.
Here is the rich and complex world that Frank Herbert created in his classic series, in the time leading up to the momentous events of Dune. As Emperor Elrood's son Shaddam plots a subtle regicide, young Leto Atreides leaves his lush, water-rich planet for a year's education on the mechanized world of Ix; a planetologist named Pardot Kynes is dispatched by the Emperor to the desert planet Arrakis, or Dune, to discover the secrets of the addictive spice known as melange; and the eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho is hunted by his cruel masters in a terrifying game from which he vows escape and vengeance. But none can envision the fate in store for them: one that will make them renegadesand shapers of history.
Covering the decade when Shaddam wins his throne, the teenager Leo Atreides becomes unexpectedly the rule of House Atreides, and Pardot Kynes uncovers one of the planet Dune's greatest secrets, House Atreides stands next to Dune in its power and scope. While this new novel solves some of Dune's most baffling mysteries, it presents new puzzles springing from the sands where one day Paul Muad'Dib Atreides will walk. But now, in the years before Paul's birth, an unforgettable new epic begins. Fans of the Dune chronicles will relish the opportunity to return to the rich and exotic universe created by Frank Herbert, while new readers will be introduced to an incomparable imaginationa future where the fate of the entire cosmos is at stake.
The Story Behind Dune: House Atreides
by Brian Herbert
When my father first sat down with me to go over one of my manuscripts, he told me that he couldn't teach me how to write; instead, he would teach me what he called "the care and feeding of editors": how to make manuscripts look presentable so that they wouldn't be tossed into a slush pile, unread. He then proceeded to teach me how to write. I remember many instances when we would brainstorm ideas and dissect my own novel manuscripts. He taught me how to develop worlds, to create characters, to invent action...and to describe all of it. We collaborated on the novel Man of Two Worlds, Frank Herbert's last published work, and even talked about working together on a new Dune novel, but we'd set no date, had established no specific details or direction.
That novel was not to be. When my father died in 1986, he left several projects unfinished. For years there were rumors that I would write another novel set in my father's Dune universe, a sequel to the sixth book in the series, Chapterhouse: Dune. Prominent writers approached me with offers of collaboration, but in tossing ideas around with them I couldn't visualize the project coming to fruition. They were excellent writers, but in combination with them I didn't feel the necessary synergy for such a monumental task. Along with Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and a handful of other works, Dune stood as one of the greatest creative achievements of all time, and arguably the greatest example of science fiction world-building in the history of literature. For the sake of my father's legacy, I could not select the wrong person.
It wasn't until I began conversation with Kevin J. Anderson, a critically acclaimed and internationally best-selling author, that I found someone whose enthusiasm and passion for the Dune universe match my own. Much of Kevin's writing had been influenced heavily by the work of Frank Herbert. I read everything I could get my hands on that Kevin had written, and did more checking on him. It soon became clear that he was a brilliant writer and that his reputation was sterling. We hit it off immediately, both on a personal and professional level; new story ideas fairly exploded from our minds and together, we found the energy to tackle such a massive project.
Frank Herbert had left behind literally thousands of pages of notes, ideas, and sketches. Of all the possible Dune stories we could tell, Kevin and I chose to concentrate on an immediate prequel, to go back to the heart of Dune's readership, the core characters and situations that had made this the best-selling science fiction novel of all time: The love story of Duke Leto and Lady Jessica; their first battle with Baron Harkonnen; the quest of the planetologist Kynes, sent to the desert world of Dune to investigate the precious spice and the sandworms and the Fremen...and the power-hungry Crown Prince Shaddam, who would do anything to secure the Imperial throne.
The Dune universe is a vast canvas, with ample opportunity for many stories, but we have chosen to start here, featuring the characters with whom all Dune fans are familiar. Dune: House Atreides is a personal story that means a great deal to us; we hope booksellers and readers alike will feel the same way.
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The Empires of Sandby David W. BallISBN 0553110144 (0-553-11014-4)
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Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret Pitchby Donald J. Sobol, Leonard ShortallISBN 0553153927 (0-553-15392-7)
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Fantastic Mr. Foxby Roald DahlISBN 0553153900 (0-553-15390-0)
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Finderby Greg RuckaISBN 055310098X (0-553-10098-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finder'Book summary:Professional bodyguard Atticus Kodiak is still having trouble dealing with the death of his best friend at the end of Keeper, Greg Rucka's well-received first thriller. So, in this exciting and suprisingly moving sequel, he takes a job as a bouncer at a New York club called The Strap, which caters to the bondage trade. But when the 15-year-old daughter of his former colonel turns up at the club and is menaced by a tough Brit who happens to be an SAS commando, Atticus quickly finds himself back in the action. [via]
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The Fist of Godby Frederick ForsythISBN 0553091263 (0-553-09126-3)
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Four Tragediesby William ShakespeareISBN 0553212834 (0-553-21283-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Tragedies'Book summary:Hamlet
One of the most famous plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the young prince of Denmark who must reconcile his longing for oblivion with his duty to avenge his fathers murder is one of Shakespeares greatest works. The ghost, Ophelias death and burial, the play within a play, and the breathtaking swordplay are just some of the elements that make Hamlet a masterpiece of the theater.
Othello
This great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor. The doomed marriage of Desdemona to the Moor Othello is the focus of a storm of tension, incited by the consummately evil villain Iago, that culminates in one of the most deeply moving scenes in theatrical history.
King Lear
Here is the famous and moving tragedy of a king who foolishly divides his kingdom between his two wicked daughters and estranges himself from the young daughter who loves hima theatrical spectacle of outstanding proportions.
Macbeth
No dramatist has ever seen with more frightening clarity into the heart and mind of a murderer than has Shakespeare in this brilliant and bloody tragedy of evil. Taunted into asserting his masculinity by his ambitious wife, Macbeth chooses to embrace the Weird Sisters prophecy and kill his kingand thus, seals his own doom.
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" Comprehensive explanatory notes
" Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship
" Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English
" Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories
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A Free Man of Colorby Barbara HamblyISBN 0553102583 (0-553-10258-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Freedom Roadby Howard FastISBN 0553132903 (0-553-13290-3)
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Future Shockby Alvin TofflerISBN 0553144316 (0-553-14431-6)
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The Garden of Ramaby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0553072617 (0-553-07261-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Garden of Rama'Book summary:An instalment in the saga which began with the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning "Rendezvous with Rama" and "Rama II". Rama II, the giant alien artifact, is to be turned into a habitat suitable for human beings. The colony starts well, but soon disintegrates under mounting political tensions. [via]
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A Great Deliveranceby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0553052446 (0-553-05244-6)
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Great Tales of Horrorby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0553137689 (0-553-13768-9)
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Greatest Salesman in the World Part II: The End of the Storyby Og MandinoISBN 0553052551 (0-553-05255-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greatest Salesman in the World Part II: The End of the Story'Book summary:What you are today is not important... for in this runaway bestseller you will learn how to change your life by applying the secrets you are about to discover in the ancient scrolls.
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The Hammer of Godby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0553095579 (0-553-09557-9)
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Heavy Weatherby Bruce SterlingISBN 0553093932 (0-553-09393-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heavy Weather'Book summary:Why hack computers when you can hack nature? Sterling's Storm Troupe lives in a post-greenhouse world ravaged by monster storms and finds itself hacking the ultimate storm: the F-6 tornado. No one in the Troupe, not even it's brilliant, driven leader, guesses the real nature of the F-6 or the shadowy forces unleashed in its twisting fury. Not until it is too late... [via]
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Heir to the Empireby Timothy ZahnISBN 0553073273 (0-553-07327-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heir to the Empire'Book summary:Here is a special 20th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel that reignited the entire Star Wars publishing phenomenonfeaturing an Introduction and annotations from award-winning author Timothy Zahn, exclusive commentary from Lucasfilm and Del Rey Books, and a brand-new novella starring the ever-popular Grand Admiral Thrawn. The biggest event in the history of Star Wars books, Heir to the Empire follows the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia after they led the Rebel Alliance to victory in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.
Five years after the Death Star was destroyed and Darth Vader and the Emperor were defeated, the galaxy is struggling to heal the wounds of war, Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting twins, and Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of new Jedi Knights.
But thousands of light-years away, the last of the Emperors warlordsthe brilliant and deadly Grand Admiral Thrawnhas taken command of the shattered Imperial fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the New Republic. For this dark warrior has made two vital discoveries that could destroy everything the courageous men and women of the Rebel Alliance fought so hard to create.
The explosive confrontation that results is a towering epic of action, invention, mystery, and spectacle on a galactic scalein short, a story worthy of the name Star Wars. [via]More editions of Heir to the Empire:
The High Kingsby Joy ChantISBN 0553050451 (0-553-05045-1)
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Hopalong Cassidy and the Trail to Seven Pinesby Louis L'AmourISBN 055308349X (0-553-08349-X)
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How to Survive the Loss of a Loveby Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams, Melba ColgroveISBN 0553077600 (0-553-07760-0)
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How to Survive the Loss of a Love: 58 Things to Do When There Is Nothing to Be Doneby Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams, Melba ColgroveISBN 0553014811 (0-553-01481-1)
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Jane and the Stillroom Maidby Stephanie BarronISBN 0553107348 (0-553-10734-8)
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Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manorby Stephanie BarronISBN 055310196X (0-553-10196-X)
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Jubileeby Margaret WalkerISBN 0553110802 (0-553-11080-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamlined Babyby Tom WolfeISBN 055314443X (0-553-14443-X)
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Keeperby Greg RuckaISBN 0553102443 (0-553-10244-3)
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King John and Henry VIIIby William ShakespeareISBN 0553212869 (0-553-21286-9)
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Last Commandby Timothy ZahnISBN 0553091867 (0-553-09186-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Command'Book summary:This story begins five years after the events of the "Star Wars" film "Return of the Jedi". Hopes are dim in the fragile New Republic as Grand Admiral Thrawn and his clone soldiers mount a final siege, threatening the Republic's ruin. [via]
Last of the Breedby Louis L'AmourISBN 0553051628 (0-553-05162-8)
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Lessons for a Sunday Fatherby Claire CalmanISBN 0552998540 (0-552-99854-0)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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The Lonesome Godsby Louis L'AmourISBN 0553050141 (0-553-05014-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lonesome Gods'Book summary:I am Johannes Verne, and I am not afraid.
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This was the boys mantra as he plodded through the desert alone, left to die by his vengeful grandfather. Johannes Verne was soon to be rescued by outlaws, but no one could save him from the lasting memory of his grandfathers eyes, full of impenetrable hatred. Raised in part by Indians, then befriended by a mysterious woman, Johannes grew up to become a rugged adventurer and an educated man. But even now, strengthened by the love of a golden-haired girl and well on his way to making a fortune in bustling early-day Los Angeles, the past may rise up to threaten his future once more. And this time only the ancient gods of the desert can save him.More editions of The Lonesome Gods:
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The Matarese Countdownby Robert LudlumISBN 0553106678 (0-553-10667-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Matarese Countdown'Book summary:On a snowy night in northern Russia, balding and bedridden Maria Yuriskaya prepares herself for the last rites of death. When a priest approaches her bed and asks for a confession, she unloads a whopper of a secret and sets off The Matarese Countdown. Apparently, the accidental killing of her world-class nuclear physicist husband by a wild bear was not an accident after all. The death was a set up and Maria knows who did it. The priest thinks she's having a senile fit, but she's serious. So serious, that uttering the dreaded words, "The Matarese ... the consummate evil" seems to vacuum the life right out of her. The legendary Matarese, the planet-threatening dynasty of killers from The Matarese Circle, is back and up to their evil tricks. The grandson of The Matarese, a laissez-faire fundamentalist with a bad case of ancestor-worship plans to finish his grandfather's wicked designs. However, political-science prodigy and CIA rookie Cameron Pryce is on the case. Armed with several languages and even more degrees, Pryce races around the world and against the clock to stop the deadly posse. Fast-paced and action-packed, The Matarese Countdown is a must for Ludlum fans, but it's not for sissies. Rugged, macho observations abound: "They waded into shore as the clattering motors came to a stop, and as women tend to do, Leslie and Toni embraced," and "Maybe the women would change your mind. After all, it was the women, the mothers, who got us all through the Ice Age. In the animal kingdom, the female is the most vicious in protecting her young." In other words, if a post Ice Age feminist read this book and ran into Ludlum, she probably wouldn't embrace him. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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Night Dogsby Kent AndersonISBN 055310764X (0-553-10764-X)
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A Nose for Troubleby Jim KjelgaardISBN 0553155784 (0-553-15578-4)
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The Once and Future Spyby Robert LittellISBN 0553057510 (0-553-05751-0)
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Passageby Connie WillisISBN 0553111248 (0-553-11124-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Passage'Book summary:Most of us would rather not spend a lot of time contemplating death, but the characters in Connie Willis's novel Passage make a living at it. Joanna Lander is a medical researcher specializing in Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and how the brain constructs them. Her partner in this endeavor is Richard Wright, a single-minded scientist who induces NDEs in healthy people by injecting a compound that tricks the brain into thinking it's dying. Joanna and Richard team up and try to find test subjects whose ability to report their experiences objectively hasn't been wrecked by reading the books of pop-psychologist and hospital gadabout Maurice Mandrake. Mandrake has gained fame and fortune by convincing people that they can expect light, warmth, and welcoming loved ones once they die. Joanna and Richard try to quantify NDEs in more scientific terms, a frustrating exercise to say the least.
The brain cells started to die within moments of death. By the end of four to six minutes the damage was irreversible, and people brought back from death after that didn't talk about tunnels and life reviews. They didn't talk at all.... But if the dying were facing annihilation, why didn't they say, "It's over!" or, "I'm shutting down"?... Why did they say, "It's beautiful over there," and, "I'm coming, Mother!"
When Joanna decides to become a test subject and see an NDE firsthand, she discovers that death is both more and less than she expected. Telling anything at all about her experience would be spoiling the book's suspenseful buildup, but readers are in for some shocks as Willis reveals the secrets and mysteries of the afterlife. Unfortunately, several running gags--the maze-like complexity of the hospital, Mandrake's oily sales pitch, and a tiresomely talkative World War II veteran--go on a little too long and threaten the pace of the story near the middle. But don't stop reading! We expect a lot from Connie Willis because she's so good, and Passage's payoff is incredible--the ending will leave you breathless, and more than a little haunted. Passage masterfully blends tragedy, humor, and fear in an unforgettable meditation on humanity and death. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Payment in Bloodby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0553057014 (0-553-05701-4)
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Pigman's Legacyby Paul ZindelISBN 055314992X (0-553-14992-X)
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Playing for the Ashesby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0553092626 (0-553-09262-6)
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Playing for Time: A Screenplayby Arthur Miller, Fania FenelonISBN 0553145479 (0-553-14547-9)
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Rama IIby Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry LeeISBN 0553057146 (0-553-05714-6)
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Rama Revealedby Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry LeeISBN 0553095366 (0-553-09536-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rama Revealed'Book summary:In the conclusion to Rendezvous with Rama, Rama II, and The Garden of Rama, a massive alien starship carries its human passengers to the end of a generations-long odyssey. 115,000 first printing. $115,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Red Marsby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553092049 (0-553-09204-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Mars'Book summary:The first novel in the astounding trilogy, Red Mars chronicles the lives of the first arrivals to Mars. The planet that the settlers find is empty of life and many of the pioneers want to begin changing the ecosystem right away to be suitable for human life. But the purity of the stark landscape convinces some scientists that it should be preserved. The stakes are high and the players on both sides range from politically naive idealists to ambitious manipulators without discernible scruples. No one can be sure that "terraforming" the planet will succeed, but it is certain to change the face of Mars beyond recognition. Red Mars won the 1994 Nebula Award. [via]
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Rhinegoldby Stephan GrundyISBN 0553095455 (0-553-09545-5)
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Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymesby Roald DahlISBN 0553153617 (0-553-15361-7)
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The Rocky and Bullwinkle Bookby Louis ChunovicISBN 0553105035 (0-553-10503-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rocky and Bullwinkle Book'Book summary:In the late '50s and early '60s, the most subversive show ever to hit the airwaves enchanted millions of American grade-schoolers. The kiddies tuned in to watch Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocket J. Squirrel of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, indulge in cartoon acrobatics and rattle off a series of unbelievable puns. This encyclopedic volume details their every adventure, from chasing the wailing whale Maybe Dick to joining the football team at Wossamotta U. The sinister Pottsylvanian spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale sneak into a goodly share of the pages, along with Dudley Do-Right, the square-jawed Mountie; Snidely Whiplash, the luxuriantly mustachioed villain; Mr. Peabody, the beagle who knows everything; and his boy Sherman. It's a loving, cleverly-illustrated tribute to these saviors of the free world and an admiring paean to the twisted, hilarious genius of Jay Ward, their modest creator, who set the standard for TV animation for generations to come. [via]
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Saint Urbains Horsemanby Mordecai RichlerISBN 0553110780 (0-553-11078-0)
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Scribble, Scribbleby Nora EphronISBN 0553122754 (0-553-12275-4)
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Scuse Me While I Kiss the Skyby David HendersonISBN 0553013343 (0-553-01334-3)
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The Search for King Pup's Tombby Jim Razzi, MaryISBN 0553153129 (0-553-15312-9)
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Shooting at Midnight A.Kodiak and B.Logan Novelby Greg RuckaISBN 0553107208 (0-553-10720-8)
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Sink the Bismarckby Cecil S. ForesterISBN 0553133519 (0-553-13351-9)
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Smokerby Greg RuckaISBN 055310716X (0-553-10716-X)
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Soul Catcherby Frank HerbertISBN 0553115162 (0-553-11516-2)
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A Spanish Loverby Joanna TrollopeISBN 0552995495 (0-552-99549-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Spanish Lover'Book summary:In Joanna Trollope's The Spanish Lover, Frances and Lizzie are twins, but the resemblance between them is strictly physical. Lizzie is married, a mother, the owner of a successful business. Frances is--well, people are beginning to worry about Frances now that she is almost 40. Instead of dwindling into respectable English spinsterhood, however, Frances moves to Spain and falls in love with a very married Spaniard named Luis, who, because he is Catholic, will never leave his wife. The repercussions of Frances's actions are unexpected indeed: as her life takes on new meaning and joy, the lives of her family back in England begin to crumble.
Joanna Trollope, a descendant of novelist Anthony Trollope, has inherited her esteemed ancestor's talent for storytelling. In this bittersweet tale set on the Iberian peninsula, she deftly maps the complex relationships that exist within families and the equally complicated relations between lovers. [via]
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Specter of the Pastby Timothy ZahnISBN 0553095420 (0-553-09542-0)
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The Starship and the Canoeby Kenneth BrowerISBN 055312451X (0-553-12451-X)
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The Stately Homo : A Celebration of the Life of Quentin Crispby Paul BaileyISBN 055299927X (0-552-99927-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stately Homo : A Celebration of the Life of Quentin Crisp'Book summary:[via]Paul Bailey has created a fascinating portrait of the unique Quentin Crisp, with contributions from friends, admirers, and critics. His various careersas a performer, artist's model, writer of a memorable autobiography, and authority on style and etiquetteare examined with wit, affection, and disinterested criticism. Designed to explore his life from a variety of angles, The Stately Homo is a tribute to one of the twentieth century's true English eccentrics.More editions of The Stately Homo : A Celebration of the Life of Quentin Crisp:
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The Story of Bby Daniel QuinnISBN 055310053X (0-553-10053-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of B'Book summary:The Story of B combines Daniel Quinn's provocative and visionary ideas with a masterfully plotted story of adventure and suspense in this stunning, resonant novel that is sure to stay with readers long after they have finished the last page. Father Jared Osborne--bound by a centuries-old mandate held by his order to know before all others that the Antichrist is among us--is sent to Europe on a mission to find a peripatetic preacher whose radical message is attracting a growing circle of followers. The target of Osborne's investigation is an American known only as B. He isn't teaching New Age platitudes or building a fanatical following; instead, he is quietly uncovering the hidden history of our planet, redefining the fall of man, and retracing a path of human spirituality that extends millions of years into the past. From the beginning, Fr. Osborne is stunned, outraged, and awed by the simplicity and profundity of B's teachings. Is B merely a heretic--or is he the Antichrist sent to seduce humanity not with wickedness, but with ideas more alluring than those of traditional religion? With surprising twists and fascinating characters, The Story of B answers this question as it sends readers on an intellectual journey that will forever change the way they view spirituality, human history, and, indeed, the state of our present world.
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Ten Days That Shook the Worldby John ReedISBN 0553212680 (0-553-21268-0)
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The Terminal Manby Michael CrichtonISBN 0553136984 (0-553-13698-4)
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The Testamentby Elie WieselISBN 0553208101 (0-553-20810-1)
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Three Early Comediesby William Shakespeare, David M. Bevington, David Scott Kastan, Robert Kean Turner, James HammersmithISBN 0553212826 (0-553-21282-6)
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Till Morning Comesby Suyin Han, Han SuyinISBN 0553050117 (0-553-05011-7)
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Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrowby Ray BradburyISBN 0553102494 (0-553-10249-4)
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To Say Nothing of the Dogby Connie WillisISBN 0553099957 (0-553-09995-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Say Nothing of the Dog'Book summary:To Say Nothing of the Dog is a science-fiction fantasy in the guise of an old-fashioned Victorian novel, complete with epigraphs, brief outlines, and a rather ugly boxer in three-quarters profile at the start of each chapter. Or is it a Victorian novel in the guise of a time-traveling tale, or a highly comic romp, or a great, allusive literary game, complete with spry references to Dorothy L. Sayers, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Conan Doyle? Its title is the subtitle of Jerome K. Jerome's singular, and hilarious, Three Men in a Boat. In one scene the hero, Ned Henry, and his friends come upon Jerome, two men, and the dog Montmorency in--you guessed it--a boat. Jerome will later immortalize Ned's fumbling. (Or, more accurately, Jerome will earlier immortalize Ned's fumbling, because Ned is from the 21st century and Jerome from the 19th.)
What Connie Willis soon makes clear is that genre can go to the dogs. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a fine, and fun, romance--an amused examination of conceptions and misconceptions about other eras, other people. When we first meet Ned, in 1940, he and five other time jumpers are searching bombed-out Coventry Cathedral for the bishop's bird stump, an object about which neither he nor the reader will be clear for hundreds of pages. All he knows is that if they don't find it, the powerful Lady Schrapnell will keep sending them back in time, again and again and again. Once he's been whisked through the rather quaint Net back to the Oxford future, Ned is in a state of super time-lag. (Willis is happily unconcerned with futuristic vraisemblance, though Ned makes some obligatory references to "vids," "interactives," and "headrigs.") The only way Ned can get the necessary two weeks' R and R is to perform one more drop and recuperate in the past, away from Lady Schrapnell. Once he returns something to someone (he's too exhausted to understand what or to whom) on June 7, 1888, he's free.
Willis is concerned, however, as is her confused character, with getting Victoriana right, and Ned makes a good amateur anthropologist--entering one crowded room, he realizes that "the reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over." Though he's still not sure what he's supposed to bring back, various of his confederates keep popping back to set him to rights. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a shaggy-dog tale complete with a preternaturally quiet, time-traveling cat, Princess Arjumand, who might well be the cause of some serious temporal incongruities--for even a mouser might change the course of European history. In the end, readers might well be more interested in Ned's romance with a fellow historian than in the bishop's bird stump, and who will not rejoice in their first Net kiss, which lasts 169 years! [via]
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The Twilight Zone Companionby Marc ZicreeISBN 0553014161 (0-553-01416-1)
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Two Crowns for Americaby Katherine KurtzISBN 0553075624 (0-553-07562-4)
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiographyby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0553115200 (0-553-11520-0)
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Virtual Lightby William GibsonISBN 0553074997 (0-553-07499-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virtual Light'Book summary:The author of Neuromancer takes you to the vividly realized near future of 2005. Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pick-pocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash. [via]
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Vision of the Futureby Timothy ZahnISBN 0553100351 (0-553-10035-1)
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Walking to Mercuryby StarhawkISBN 0553102338 (0-553-10233-8)
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Wallby John Richard HerseyISBN 0553200534 (0-553-20053-4)
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Wallflower at the Orgyby Nora EphronISBN 0553131192 (0-553-13119-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wallflower at the Orgy'Book summary:From her Academy Awardnominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of Americas most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American culture with love, cynicism, and unmatched wit. From tracking down the beginnings of the self-help movement to dressing down the fashion worlds most powerful publication to capturing a glimpse of a legendary movie in the making, these timeless pieces tap into our enduring obsessions with celebrity, food, romance, clothes, entertainment, and sex. Whether casting her ingenious eye on renowned director Mike Nichols, Cosmopolitan magazine founder Helen Gurley Brownor herself, as she chronicles her own beauty makeoverEphron deftly weaves her journalistic skill with the intimate style of an essayist and the incomparable talent of a great storyteller. [via]
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Wish You Were Hereby Rita Mae Brown, Wendy Wray, Sneaky Pie BrownISBN 0553058819 (0-553-05881-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wish You Were Here'Book summary:Curiosity just might be the death of Mrs. Murphy--and her human companion, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen. Small towns are like families: Everyone lives very close together. . .and everyone keeps secrets. Crozet, Virginia, is a typical small town-until its secrets explode into murder. Crozet's thirty-something post-mistress, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, has a tiger cat (Mrs. Murphy) and a Welsh Corgi (Tucker), a pending divorce, and a bad habit of reading postcards not addressed to her. When Crozet's citizens start turning up murdered, Harry remembers that each received a card with a tombstone on the front and the message "Wish you were here" on the back. Intent on protecting their human friend, Mrs. Murphy and Tucker begin to scent out clues. Meanwhile, Harry is conducting her own investigation, unaware her pets are one step ahead of her. If only Mrs. Murphy could alert her somehow, Harry could uncover the culprit before the murder occurs--and before Harry finds herself on the killer's mailing list.
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Zeitgeist : A Novel of Metamorphosisby Bruce SterlingISBN 0553104934 (0-553-10493-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zeitgeist : A Novel of Metamorphosis'Book summary:"Like Tom Clancy on PCP." That's how Bruce Sterling describes his fin-de-siècle head trip, Zeitgeist, a typically Sterling spectacle packed with verbal flash and digerati wit, along with the expected rail-gun-steady stream of well-thought-out ideas and references. His self-appraisal, as it turns out, is right on. This is a guy widely considered "another, hipper Alvin Toppler" (in the words of cyberpunk godfather John Shirley), an effortlessly intelligent master of both style and substance.
Fans will recognize Zeitgeist's antihero protagonist Leggy Starlitz from Sterling stories "Hollywood Kremlin," "Are You for 86?" and "The Littlest Jackal." The well-connected, world-class fixer is part mystic, part sleaze--sort of Uncle Enzo meets Templeton "Faceman" Peck--and his latest hustle is plying the Third World with merchandise from his all-fake, all-girl band, G-7. (Its seven talentless, Wonderbra-wearing members are known simply as the American One, the French One, the German One, etc.)
Starlitz makes use of a shady, flamboyantly weird network of state officials, bodyguards, photographers, and other assorted players to push the merchandise--action figures, lip gloss, shoes, you name it--on what one of G-7's savvier members calls the "Moslem hillbillies." But things get surreal as G-7 girls start dying, characters start explicitly referring to their purpose in the narrative, and one of Leggy's associates conspires to break G-7's most sacred rule: that the whole enterprise must end by Y2K. --Paul Hughes [via]
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