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After Many a Summer Dies the Swanby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060910631 (0-06-091063-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Art Deco: Los Angeles Photographsby Ave PildasISBN 0060133384 (0-06-013338-4)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Beneath the Underdogby Charles MingusISBN 0140038809 (0-14-003880-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beneath the Underdog'Book summary:From the shabby roadhouses to fabulous estates, from the psychiatric wards of Bellevue to worlds of mysticism and solitude, these are the moving memoirs of the great jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus. [via]
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The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angelesby Don WolfeISBN 0060582502 (0-06-058250-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyleby T. C. BoyleISBN 014014076X (0-14-014076-X)
Softcover, Granta Books in association with Penguin
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Dead Eyesby Stuart WoodsISBN 006109157X (0-06-109157-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Eyes'Book summary:Actress Chris Callaway finds her life threatened by a stalker whose attack leaves her blind, and it is up to Beverly Hills police detective Jon Larsen and Danny Devere, a gay friend, to track the would-be killer. 150,000 first printing. $250,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild & Doubleday. Tour. [via]
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Death Claimsby Joseph HansenISBN 0030574846 (0-03-057484-6)
Softcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Claims'Book summary:If this Corvette-cool, drumskin-taut policier leaves you marveling at its incorporation of a totally rugged, sexy, openly gay sleuth into a style and milieu that reads deliciously like Chandler, Hemingway, and Jacqueline Susann all in bed together, then get this: Hansen wrote it not at the turn of this century--which has gay characters popping up in books and movies and on TV in all sorts of stereotype-busting ways--but, remarkably, in the 70s! Indeed, it was the second in what became Hansen's series of Southern California-set whodunits featuring insurance-claims investigator Dave Brandstetter, who is not without his own lost loves and private demons--and yet never without his cigarette, glass of whiskey (neat, of course), and enough terse, manly stoicism to make Steve McQueen look like Richard Simmons. The Brandstetter series has acquired something of a cult following over the 30 years that Hansen developed it (Death Claims is the second title in its U.S. revival courtesy of Alyson Publications, although many more are currently in print by No Exit Press, available on Amazon's U.K. link) and this slim, no-slack volume, which followed up Fadeout, the series debut, makes it delightfully clear why. Everything you could want in a gay-inflected murder mystery set in golden-haired SoCal in the Nixon years is here: A middle-aged rare-books dealer whose doped-up body is found washed up on the coast, his shrewish ex-wife, his lovely young bibliophile girlfriend, and his angelically beautiful and adoring actor son. Don't forget the imperiously queeny head of the local repertory theater; the confirmed-bachelor superstar of a TV western and the blind, Bible-thumping mother who rules his life; a seedy young hospital orderly who smuggles morphine to addicted patients; and a couple of small-time academics obsessed with the lost notebooks of Thomas Wolfe.
Then there's Hansen's language, which falls brilliantly somewhere between homage to and spoof of his thriller-penning forebears, right from the first line--"Arena Blanca was right. The sand that bracketed the little bay was so white it hurt the eyes...gulls sheared a sky cheerful as new denim"--to curt, epigrammatic lines--"The dead are terrible. They won't help you at all. No matter how you loved them"--that can only be said with a cigarette propped out of the corner of one's mouth. In fact, the only thing you could call even remotely stereotypically gay about Hansen's prose (or, indeed, Brandstetter's point-of-view) is its obsession with interior design--but even that remains true to genre ("a wastebasket was alone there like a dwarf prince in a dungeon--royal-purple plastic embossed with gold fleur-de-lis...").
True, none of the supporting characters is really developed beyond colorful stock, and not every gear of the story clicks into place with the elegant exactitude and ever-increasing tension and claustrophobia of the technically perfect mystery novel. But who cares? Dave Brandstetter is too cool to be passed up. He's got a steady enough hand to take a drink with even the most sinister of suspects, he hangs out and talks about relationships with his suave Lothario dad, and he can be sensitive and tender with his longtime lesbian friend Madge without lapsing into total schmaltz. Oh, and of course he's haunted by the boy that got away. --Timothy Murphy [via]
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Dharma Bumsby Jack KerouacISBN 0140042520 (0-14-004252-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dharma Bums'Book summary:One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac. This book is a must-read for any serious Kerouac fan. [via]
The Dissidentby Nell FreudenbergerISBN 0060758716 (0-06-075871-6)
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Do or Dieby Leon BingISBN 0060922915 (0-06-092291-5)
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Do or Die/for the First Time, Members of L.A.'s Most Notorious Teenage Gangs-The Crips and Bloods-Speak for Themselves.by Leon BingISBN 0060163267 (0-06-016326-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Echoby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0064407446 (0-06-440744-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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False Prophetby Faye KellermanISBN 006075088X (0-06-075088-X)
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Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runnerby Paul SammonISBN 0061053147 (0-06-105314-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner'Book summary:The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made.
Future Noir is the story of that triumph.
The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry.
A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic. [via]
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Girl Goddessby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 006447187X (0-06-447187-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl Goddess #9'Book summary:Movie stars, rock stars, pond nymphs, intergalactic superheroes . . . who are the real goddesses in Francesca Lia Block's world? Real young women--the kind who ache, bleed, dance, and talk to blue ghosts in closets. Famous for her lyric Weetzie Bat books, Block blossoms in this collection of short stories about love: straight, gay, familial, and otherworldly. Very few young adult authors talk as frankly as Block about sex and some of the other yearnings we feel in this world, yet she guides her readers toward the self-respect and courage necessary to make smart choices about those yearnings. [via]
The Hidden Lawby Michael NavaISBN 0060167831 (0-06-016783-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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How to Go to Hellby Matt GroeningISBN 0060968796 (0-06-096879-6)
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How to Save Your Own Lifeby Erica JongISBN 003017726X (0-03-017726-X)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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I Love Los Angeles Guideby Marilyn J. Appleberg, Yvette Lodge, Francis MorganISBN 0020972415 (0-02-097241-5)
Softcover, Collier Books
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The Killing of the Saintsby Alex AbellaISBN 0140174192 (0-14-017419-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Last Tycoonby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0020199503 (0-02-019950-3)
Softcover, Collier Books
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Let's All Kill Constanceby Ray BradburyISBN 0060515856 (0-06-051585-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let's All Kill Constance'Book summary:On a dismal evening, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door -- and once again admits a dangerous icon into his life. Constance Rattigan, an aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, stands soaked and shivering in his foyer, clutching two anonymously delivered books that have sent her running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge: twin lists of the Tinseltown dead and soon-to-be dead . . . with Constance's name included among them.
And, just as suddenly, she vanishes into the stormy night, leaving the narrator with her macabre "gifts" and an unshakable determination to get to the root of the actress's grand terror.
So begins an odyssey as dark as it is wondrous, as the writer sets off in a broken-down jalopy with his irascible sidekick, Crumley, to sift through the ashes of a bygone Hollywood. But a world that once sparkled with larger- than-life luminaries -- Dietrich, Valentino, Harlow -- is now a graveyard of ghosts and secrets. Each twisted road our heroes travel leads to grim shrines and shattered dreams -- a remote cabin where history is preserved in mountains of yellowed newsprint; a cathedral where sinners hold sway; a forgotten projection booth where the past lives eternally on in an endless loop of cinematic youth and beauty. And always the road turns back to lost filmdom's temple, a fading movie palace called Grauman's Chinese, and to the murky hidden catacombs beneath.
Prepare yourself for a mystery as enthralling as the most well-crafted whodunit; a satire as keen as the edge of a straight razor, a phantasmagoric celebration of a lost world built on equal parts dream and nightmare -- the latest fantastic flight of glorious imagination by Ray Bradbury, the one and only.
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Love of the Last Tycoonby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph BruccoliISBN 0020199856 (0-02-019985-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love of the Last Tycoon'Book summary:The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by the preeminent Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli, is a restoration of the author's phrases, words, and images that were excised from the 1940 edition, giving new luster to an unfinished literary masterpiece. It is the story of the young Hollywood mogul Monroe Stahr, who was inspired by the life of boy-genius Irving Thalberg, and is an exposé of the studio system in its heyday. The Love of the Last Tycoon is now available for the first time in paperback. [via]
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The Magician's Assistantby Ann PatchettISBN 0151002630 (0-15-100263-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magician's Assistant'Book summary:The Magician's Assistant sustains author Ann Patchett's proven penchant for crafting colorful characters and marrying the ordinary with the fantastic. When Parsifal, Sabine's husband of more than 20 years and the magician of the title, suddenly dies, she begins to discover how she's glimpsed him only through smoke and mirrors. He has managed to keep hidden the existence of a family in Nebraska--his mother, two sisters, and two nephews. Sabine approaches them hungrily, as if they are a bridge to her beloved husband and a key to the mysteries he left behind. [via]
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Man Everybody Was Afraid ofby Joseph HansenISBN 003059894X (0-03-059894-X)
Softcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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Maybe the Moonby Armistead MaupinISBN 0060924349 (0-06-092434-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maybe the Moon'Book summary:Thirty-two inches tall, the acid-tongued actress Cadence Roth survives in Hollywood doing ""infomercials"" and B-grade horror flicks. By the author of Tales of the City. 60,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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Microserfsby Douglas CouplandISBN 0060987049 (0-06-098704-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Microserfs'Book summary:Microserfs is not about Microsoft--it's about programmers who are searching for lives. A hilarious but frighteningly real look at geek life in the '90's, Coupland's book manifests a peculiar sense of how technology affects the human race and how it will continue to affect all of us. Microserfs is the hilarious journal of Dan, an ex-Microsoft programmer who, with his coder comrades, is on a quest to find purpose in life. This isn't just fodder for techies. The thoughts and fears of the not-so-stereotypical characters are easy for any of us to relate to, and their witty conversations and quirky view of the world make this a surprisingly thought-provoking book.
" ... just think about the way high-tech cultures purposefully protract out the adolescence of their employees well into their late 20s, if not their early 30s," muses one programmer. "I mean, all those Nerf toys and free beverages! And the way tech firms won't even call work 'the office,' but instead, 'the campus.' It's sick and evil." [via]
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Missing Angel Juanby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0064471209 (0-06-447120-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Missing Angel Juan'Book summary:One of kids' favorite characters in Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat series is Witch Baby: a tangly haired, purple-eyed girl who can curl her toes into cashew shapes. She's a bit of an outsider, more in touch with feelings and portents than the rest of the gang from Shangri-L.A. In Witch Baby and Missing Angel Juan, we're able to watch Witch Baby work through some of her feelings of alienation. Her willingness to explore darker emotional realms is a real inspiration, and, in fact, she seems more evolved and "whole" than the others. In Missing Angel Juan, Witch Baby finally finds a way to create her own sense of belonging. She finds out more about her history and her unique needs to push through some of the shyness and moodiness that has always kept her separate from others. [via]
Monster: The Autobiography of an L. A. Gang Memberby Monster K. Scott, Sanyika ShakurISBN 0140232257 (0-14-023225-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Movies of My Lifeby Alberto Fuguet, Ezra E. FitzISBN 006053463X (0-06-053463-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Nemesis: Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, And The Love Triangle That Brought Down The Kennedysby Peter EvansISBN 0060580542 (0-06-058054-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nemesis: Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, And The Love Triangle That Brought Down The Kennedys'Book summary:Peter Evans's biography of Aristotle Onassis, "Ari," met with great acclaim when it was published in 1986. Ari provided the world with an unprecedented glimpse of the Greek shipping magnate's orbit of dizzying wealth, twisted intrigues, and questionable mores. Not long after the book appeared, however, Onassis's daughter Christina and his longtime business partner Yannis Georgakis hinted to Evans that he had missed the "real story" -- one that proved Onassis's intrigues had deadly results. "I must begin," Georgakis said, "with the premise that, for Onassis, Bobby Kennedy was unfinished business from way back..."
His words launched Evans into the heart of a story that tightly bound Onassis not to Jackie's first husband, but to his ambitious younger brother Bobby. A bitter rivalry emerged between Bobby and Ari long before Onassis and Jackie had even met. "Nemesis" reveals the tangled thread of events that linked two of the world's most powerful men in their intense hatred for one another and uncovers the surprising role played by the woman they both loved. Their power struggle unfolds against a heady backdrop of international intrigue: Bobby Kennedy's discovery of the Greek shipping magnate's shady dealings, which led him to bar Onassis from trade with the United States; Onassis's attempt to control much of Saudi Arabia's oil; Onassis's untimely love affair with Jackie's married sister Lee Radziwill; and his bold invitation to First Lady Jackie to join him on his yacht -- without the president. Just as the self-made Greek tycoon gloried in the chance to stir the wrath of the Kennedys, they struggled unsuccessfully to break his spell over the woman who held the key to all of theirfutures. After Jack's death, Bobby became ever closer to Camelot's holy widow, and fought to keep her from marrying his sworn rival. But Onassis rarely failed to get what he wanted, and Jackie became his wife shortly after Bobby was killed.
Through extensive interviews with the closest friends, lovers, and relatives of Onassis and the Kennedys, longtime journalist Evans has uncovered the shocking culmination of the Kennedy-Onassis-Kennedy love triangle: Aristotle Onassis was at the heart of the plot to kill Bobby Kennedy. Meticulously tracing Onassis's connections in the world of terrorism, "Nemesis" presents compelling evidence that he financed the assassination -- including a startling confession that has gone unreported for nearly three decades. Along the way, this groundbreaking work also daringly paints these international icons in all of their true colors. From Evans's deeply nuanced portraits of the charismatic Greek shipping magnate and his acquisitive iconic bride to his probing and revelatory look into the events that shaped an era, "Nemesis" is a work that will not be soon forgotten. [via]
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Olivia Joules And The Overactive Imaginationby Helen FieldingISBN 0143035363 (0-14-303536-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Psyche in a Dressby Francesca Lia BlockISBN 0060763728 (0-06-076372-8)
Hardcover, Joanna Cotler Books
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Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angelesby Margaret Leslie DavisISBN 0060921943 (0-06-092194-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Road to Hell: A Cartoon Bookby Matt GroeningISBN 0060969504 (0-06-096950-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Rudy in Hollywoodby William OvergardISBN 0030000874 (0-03-000087-4)
Softcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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Run With the Huntedby Charles Bukowski, John MartinISBN 0060169117 (0-06-016911-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Run With the Huntedby John Martin, Charles BukowskiISBN 0060924586 (0-06-092458-6)
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Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islamby Asra Q. NomaniISBN 0060571446 (0-06-057144-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Syrupby Maxx BarryISBN 0140291873 (0-14-029187-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Syrup'Book summary:When Scat comes up with the idea for the hottest new soda ever, he's sure he'll retire the next rich, savvy marketing success story. But in the treacherous waters of corporate America there are no sure things--and suddenly Scat has to save not only his idea but his yet-to-be-realized career. With the help of the scarily beautiful and brainy 6, he sets out on a mission to reclaim the fame and fortune that, time and again, eludes him. This brilliantly scathing debut is a hilarious send-up of celebrity, sexual politics, corporate America, and the fleeting status that comes with getting to the table first--before the other guy has you for lunch.[via]More editions of Syrup:
T. C. Boyle Storiesby T. C. BoyleISBN 014028091X (0-14-028091-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Ticket Outby Helen KnodeISBN 0151001847 (0-15-100184-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Vinelandby Thomas PynchonISBN 0141180633 (0-14-118063-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vineland'Book summary:Seventeen years after he shocked and dazzled readers with Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon returns with a novel as astonishing, as kaleidoscopic, as funny, and as satisfying as that legendary work. Vineland is peopled with a startling array of quirky characters and combines elements of daytime drama and the political thriller, resulting in a haunting evocation of 20th-century America. [via]
What Makes Sammy Run?by Budd SchulbergISBN 0140047956 (0-14-004795-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Zorroby Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0060779004 (0-06-077900-4)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zorro'Book summary:This is a swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well. "Until that moment Diego had not been conscious of his dual personality, one part Diego de la Vega, elegant, affected, hypochondriac, and the other part El Zorro, audacious, daring, playful." Born in southern California late in the 18th century, Diego de la Vega is a child of two worlds. His father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego learns from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, the ways of her tribe while receiving from his father lessons in the art of fencing and in cattle branding. It is here, during Diego's childhood, filled with mischief and adventure, that he witnesses the brutal injustices dealt Native Americans by European settlers and first feels the inner conflict of his heritage. At the age of sixteen, Diego is sent to Barcelona for a European education. In a country chafing under the corruption of Napoleonic rule, Diego follows the example of his celebrated fencing master and joins La Justicia, a secret underground resistance movement devoted to helping the powerless and the poor. With these tumultuous times as backdrop, Diego falls in love, saves the persecuted, and confronts for the first time a great rival who emerges from the world of privilege. Between California and Barcelona, the New World and the Old, the persona of Zorro is formed, a great hero is born and the legend begins. After many adventures - duels at dawn, fierce battles with pirates at sea, and impossible rescues - Diego de la Vega, a.k.a. Zorro, returns to America to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised and to seek justice for all who cannot fight for it themselves. [via]
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Las Peliculas De Mi Vida: Una Novelaby Alberto FuguetISBN 0060733667 (0-06-073366-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Las Peliculas De Mi Vida :Una Novela / The Movies of My Life: Una Novelaby Alberto Fuguet, Ezra E. FitzISBN 0060559403 (0-06-055940-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Zorroby Isabel AllendeISBN 0060779020 (0-06-077902-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zorro'Book summary:¿Quién no conoce al Zorro, el astuto y travieso enmascarado? Lo que no sabíamos -- de cómo surgió el héroe -- se resuelve en estas páginas, que nos revelan el misterio de su doble personalidad. Aquí reencontramos a su amigo Bernardo, su corcel, Tornado, su prodigioso látigo, la Z con que firma sus hazañas y mucho más.
Nacido en 1795 en la California hispana, Diego de la Vega está atrapado entre dos mundos. Su padre es un heroico militar convertido en un próspero hacendado, su madre es una valiente guerrera indígena y su abuela materna es la sabia chamán de su tribu. Del primero, Diego aprende las virtudes de un hidalgo, desde esgrima hasta el arte de hacerse obedecer, mientras su madre y su abuela lo inician en las tradiciones indígenas y el conocimiento de la naturaleza y la magia. Junto a su inseparable amigo Bernardo, vive aventuras en la niñez y se da cuenta de las injusticias que soportan los indios a mano de los colonos europeos.
Diego se hace hombre en Barcelona, donde su padre lo manda a estudiar justamente cuando España, ocupada por las tropas de Napoleón, soporta una cruenta guerra. Le toca de todo, desde duelos a muerte hasta enamorarse a primera vista, enrolarse en una sociedad secreta, huir con una tribu de gitanos, ser secuestrado por piratas y, sobre todo, enfrentarse al hombre que habrá de ser su peor enemigo. Por último regresa a California a reclamar la hacienda donde nació e impartir justicia, luchando por los indefensos. Así, entre el Viejo y el Nuevo Mundo se forma el carácter del más legendario y romántico de los héroes.
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