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Another Monster at the End of This Bookby Jon Stone, Michael SmollinISBN 0375805621 (0-375-80562-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Another Monster at the End of This Bookby Naomi Kleinberg, Jon StoneISBN 0375804153 (0-375-80415-3)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Monster at the End of This Book'Book summary:Another Monster at the End of this Book was written 25 years after The Monster at the End of this Book, by the original collaborators, as a way to expand upon a modern classic by including Elmo, (who didn't yet exist when the first title was published). The wild and wacky humor of the original increases ten-fold with the addition of Elmo, as he and Grover dare each other to find the NEW monster at the end of the book. The bright colors and rich textures of the illustrations ramp up the energyand the funas Elmo happily ignores Grover's warnings and prohibitions about moving onward page by page, eager to see what lies in wait at the end. It's a terrifically funny tour de force that will have parents and toddlers laughing out loud as they read this new classic over and over again. [via]
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The BFGby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0374304696 (0-374-30469-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The BFG'Book summary:Evidently not even Roald Dahl could resist the acronym craze of the early eighties. BFG? Bellowing ferret-faced golfer? Backstabbing fairy godmother? Oh, oh ... Big Friendly Giant! This BFG doesn't seem all that F at first as he creeps down a London street, snatches little Sophie out of her bed, and bounds away with her to giant land. And he's not really all that B when compared with his evil, carnivorous brethren, who bully him for being such an oddball runt. After all, he eats only disgusting snozzcumbers, and while the other Gs are snacking on little boys and girls, he's blowing happy dreams in through their windows. What kind of way is that for a G to behave?
The BFG is one of Dahl's most lovable character creations. Whether galloping off with Sophie nestled into the soft skin of his ear to capture dreams as though they were exotic butterflies; speaking his delightful, jumbled, squib-fangled patois; or whizzpopping for the Queen, he leaves an indelible impression of bigheartedness. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbitby Christopher WormellISBN 0375828915 (0-375-82891-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Bones of the Moonby Jonathan CarrollISBN 0380706881 (0-380-70688-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Boris and the Monstersby Lynn Munsinger, Elaine MacMann WilloughbyISBN 0395290678 (0-395-29067-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Born to Howlby Mel Gilden, John PierardISBN 0380754258 (0-380-75425-8)
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A Cabinet of Medical Curiositiesby Jan BondesonISBN 0393318923 (0-393-31892-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Coralineby Neil Gaiman, Dave McKeanISBN 0380807343 (0-380-80734-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coraline'Book summary:Coraline lives with her preoccupied parents in part of a huge old house--a house so huge that other people live in it, too... round, old former actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and their aging Highland terriers ("We trod the boards, luvvy") and the mustachioed old man under the roof ("'The reason you cannot see the mouse circus,' said the man upstairs, 'is that the mice are not yet ready and rehearsed.'") Coraline contents herself for weeks with exploring the vast garden and grounds. But with a little rain she becomes bored--so bored that she begins to count everything blue (153), the windows (21), and the doors (14). And it is the 14th door that--sometimes blocked with a wall of bricks--opens up for Coraline into an entirely alternate universe. Now, if you're thinking fondly of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, you're on the wrong track. Neil Gaiman's Coraline is far darker, far stranger, playing on our deepest fears. And, like Roald Dahl's work, it is delicious.
What's on the other side of the door? A distorted-mirror world, containing presumably everything Coraline has ever dreamed of... people who pronounce her name correctly (not "Caroline"), delicious meals (not like her father's overblown "recipes"), an unusually pink and green bedroom (not like her dull one), and plenty of horrible (very un-boring) marvels, like a man made out of live rats. The creepiest part, however, is her mirrored parents, her "other mother" and her "other father"--people who look just like her own parents, but with big, shiny, black button eyes, paper-white skin... and a keen desire to keep her on their side of the door. To make creepy creepier, Coraline has been illustrated masterfully in scritchy, terrifying ink drawings by British mixed-media artist and Sandman cover illustrator Dave McKean. This delightful, funny, haunting, scary as heck, fairy-tale novel is about as fine as they come. Highly recommended. (Ages 11 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: book Two City of Nightby Dean Koontz, Kevin J. AndersonISBN 0375434712 (0-375-43471-2)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: book Two City of Night'Book summary:From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of&
DEAN KOONTZS CITY OF NIGHT
They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever createdand they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Heliosonce Frankensteincan stop the engineered killers hes set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time monster and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson OConnor and Michael Maddison. Deucalions centuries-old history began as Victors first and failed attempt to build the perfect humanand it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victors malignant mind could have imaginedan indestructible entity that steps out of humankinds collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us. [via]More editions of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: book Two City of Night:
Death's Enemy: The Pilgrimage of Victor Frankenstein a Novelby George RosieISBN 0434008273 (0-434-00827-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monstersby Terrance DicksISBN 0426110250 (0-426-11025-0)
Softcover, Carol Pub Group
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The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth and Other Storiesby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0380011468 (0-380-01146-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Double Trouble Monstersby Debbie Dadey, Marcia Jones, John Steven GurneyISBN 0439058708 (0-439-05870-8)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Double Trouble Monsters'Book summary:When Professor E. Gore visits Hauntly Manor Inn, he starts to work on a top secret project with Hilda Hauntly. Two mad scientists mean double trouble. [via]
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Draculaby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram StokerISBN 0385095805 (0-385-09580-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Dragon Fallby Lee HindleISBN 0380884682 (0-380-88468-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Edmund Spenser's Poetryby Edmund Spenser, Hugh MacLean, Anne Lake PrescottISBN 0393962997 (0-393-96299-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edmund Spenser's Poetry'Book summary:Building on the strengths of two previous editions, this revised and enlarged Third Edition continues to offer more of Spenser's poetry than any other comparable volume. All selections are based on early and established texts, fully glossed and precisely annotated, with an Editor's Note following each section.
To facilitate discussion of the place of the body and of pastoral elements in Spenser's epic, the Third Edition includes more of The Faerie Queene: from Book II, canto ix (the House of Alma), and from Book VI, the remainder of canto x and all of cantos xi-xii. The Shepheardes Calender is represented by six eclogues, including the much-discussed "Februarie." Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, increasingly a focus of critical attention, is an important addition, and Amoretti is offered in its entirety.
Seventeen critical essays, judiciously chosen from the many published since 1982, have been added to supplement eleven earlier commentaries. New to the Third Edition are the perspectives of Spenser's contemporary William Camden, Virginia Woolf, William Nelson, A. Bartlett Giamatti, Donald Cheney, Judith Anderson, Richard Helgerson, Louis Adrian Montrose, and David Lee Miller. The critical essays on the House of Busyrane, Spenser's pastoral, Muiopotmos, and Amoretti are grouped to "speak" to each other in ways sure to stimulate classroom discussion. This class-tested feature is back by popular demand along with essays by D. C. Allen, Robert A. Brinkley, Ronald P. Bond, Anne Lake Prescott, Andrew D. Weiner, Susanne Lindgren Wofford, Harry Berger, Jr., and Paul Alpers.
A Chronology of Spenser's life and an extensive Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Edmund Spenser's Poetry:
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Softcover, Norton - Edmund Spenser's Poetry: ISBN 0393013847 (0-393-01384-7)
Hardcover, Norton - Edmund Spenser's Poetry: ISBN 0393962997 (0-393-96299-7)
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The Encyclopedia of Monstersby Daniel CohenISBN 038071485X (0-380-71485-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Eragonby Christopher PaoliniISBN 0375826696 (0-375-82669-6)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eragon'Book summary:Here's a great big fantasy that you can pull over your head like a comfy old sweater and disappear into for a whole weekend. Christopher Paolini began Eragon when he was just 15, and the book shows the influence of Tolkien, of course, but also Terry Brooks, Anne McCaffrey, and perhaps even Wagner in its traditional quest structure and the generally agreed-upon nature of dwarves, elves, dragons, and heroic warfare with magic swords.
Eragon, a young farm boy, finds a marvelous blue stone in a mystical mountain place. Before he can trade it for food to get his family through the hard winter, it hatches a beautiful sapphire-blue dragon, a race thought to be extinct. Eragon bonds with the dragon, and when his family is killed by the marauding Ra'zac, he discovers that he is the last of the Dragon Riders, fated to play a decisive part in the coming war between the human but hidden Varden, dwarves, elves, the diabolical Shades and their neanderthal Urgalls, all pitted against and allied with each other and the evil King Galbatorix. Eragon and his dragon Saphira set out to find their role, growing in magic power and understanding of the complex political situation as they endure perilous travels and sudden battles, dire wounds, capture and escape.
In spite of the engrossing action, this is not a book for the casual fantasy reader. There are 65 names of people, horses, and dragons to be remembered and lots of pseudo-Celtic places, magic words, and phrases in the Ancient Language as well as the speech of the dwarfs and the Urgalls. But the maps and glossaries help, and by the end, readers will be utterly dedicated and eager for the next book, Eldest. (Ages 10 to 14) --Patty Campbell [via]
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Eric Carle's Dragons Dragons & Other Creatures That Never Wereby Eric Carle, Laura WhippleISBN 0399221050 (0-399-22105-0)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Flanimalsby Ricky Gervais, Rob SteenISBN 0399243976 (0-399-24397-6)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flanimals'Book summary:[via]What is Glonk's favorite pastime?
If a Puddloflaj's eyes pop out why can't it pick them up?
The Plamglotis only eats two things in its entire life. What are they?
Why don't you know the answers?
What's wrong with you?
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Forgotten Beasts of Eldby Patricia A. McKillipISBN 0425094529 (0-425-09452-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forgotten Beasts of Eld'Book summary:Almost destroyed because of a man's fear and greed, Sybel, a beautiful young sorceress, embarks on a quest for revenge that proves equally destructive. Winner of the World Fantasy award, this exquisitely written story has something for almost every reader: adventure, romance and a resonant mythology that reveals powerful truths about human nature. Locus praised it for its "marvelous heroine... and chilling sorcery" and The New York Times called it "rich and regal." [via]
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Frankenstein Unboundby Brian AldissISBN 0394490797 (0-394-49079-7)
Hardcover, Random House
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From the Dust Returnedby Ray BradburyISBN 0380789612 (0-380-78961-2)
Softcover, Avon Books
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Fungus the Bogeymanby Raymond BriggsISBN 0394738209 (0-394-73820-9)
Softcover, Random House
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Geek Loveby Katherine DunnISBN 0375713344 (0-375-71334-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Geek Love'Book summary:A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. It's a solipsistic funhouse world that makes "normal" people seem bland and pitiful. Arturo the Aqua-Boy, who has flippers and an enormous need to be loved. A museum of sacred monsters that didn't make it. An endearing "little beetle" of a heroine. Sort of like Tod Browning's Freaks crossed with David Lynch and John Irving and perhaps George Eliot -- the latter for the power of the emotions evoked. [via]
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Golemby David Wisniewski, Lee SalsberyISBN 0395726182 (0-395-72618-2)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golem'Book summary:Golem is the Hebrew word for shapeless man. According to Jewish legend, the renowned scholar and teacher Rabbi Loew used his powers to create a Golem from clay in order to protect his people from persecution in the ghettos of 16th-century Prague. (This was the time of the Blood Lie, when hostile gentiles claimed that Jews were mixing the blood of Christian children with the flour and water of matzo.) David Wisniewski's cut-paper collage illustrations--which earned him the Caldecott Medal in 1997--are the ideal medium for portraying the stark black-and-white forces of good and evil, pride and prejudice, as well as the gray area that emerges when the tormented clay giant loses control of his anger. Echoing the tension and mood of Frankenstein, Wisniewski sends the tragic giant back to the blood red earth that birthed him. The historical note on the last page offers a broader context for the legend, ultimately comparing the creation of Golem to the emergence of Israel. (Ages 8 and older) --Gail Hudson [via]
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witchby Terry Pratchett, Neil GaimanISBN 0425132153 (0-425-13215-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch'Book summary:Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time... [via]
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Grassby Sheri S. TepperISBN 0385260121 (0-385-26012-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Great Monsters of the Moviesby Edward EdelsonISBN 0385006683 (0-385-00668-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Harryby Ann CameronISBN 0394941624 (0-394-94162-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Harry and the Terrible Whatzitby Dick GackenbachISBN 0395287952 (0-395-28795-2)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandpreISBN 0439064864 (0-439-06486-4)
Hardcover, Arthur a Levine
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'Book summary:In one of the most hotly anticipated sequel in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where she left off with Harry's second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, an outrageously conceited professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, and a mysterious force that turns Hogwarts students to stone. [via]
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandpreISBN 0439136350 (0-439-13635-0)
Hardcover, Arthur a Levine
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'Book summary:During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths. [via]
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House of Leavesby Mark Z. DanielewskiISBN 0375703764 (0-375-70376-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of Leaves'Book summary:Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on.
Now that we've reached the post-postmodern era, presumably there's nobody left who needs liberating from the strictures of conventional fiction. So apart from its narrative high jinks, what does House of Leaves have to offer? According to Johnny Truant, the tattoo-shop apprentice who discovers Zampanò's work, once you read The Navidson Record,
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.
We'll have to take his word for it, however. As it's presented here, the description of the spooky film isn't continuous enough to have much scare power. Instead, we're pulled back into Johnny Truant's world through his footnotes, which he uses to discharge everything in his head, including the discovery of the manuscript, his encounters with people who knew Zampanò, and his own battles with drugs, sex, ennui, and a vague evil force. If The Navidson Record is a mad professor lecturing on the supernatural with rational-seeming conviction, Truant's footnotes are the manic student in the back of the auditorium, wigged out and furiously scribbling whoa-dude notes about life.Despite his flaws, Truant is an appealingly earnest amateur editor--finding translators, tracking down sources, pointing out incongruities. Danielewski takes an academic's--or ex-academic's--glee in footnotes (the similarity to David Foster Wallace is almost too obvious to mention), as well as other bogus ivory-tower trappings such as interviews with celebrity scholars like Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom. And he stuffs highbrow and pop-culture references (and parodies) into the novel with the enthusiasm of an anarchist filling a pipe bomb with bits of junk metal. House of Leaves may not be the prettiest or most coherent collection, but if you're trying to blow stuff up, who cares? --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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Softcover, Random House Inc - House of Leaves : A Novel: ISBN 0375410341 (0-375-41034-1)
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How the Grinch Stole Christmasby SeussISBN 0394800796 (0-394-80079-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas'Book summary:"The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! / Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason." Dr. Seuss's small-hearted Grinch ranks right up there with Scrooge when it comes to the crankiest, scowling holiday grumps of all time. For 53 years, the Grinch has lived in a cave on the side of a mountain, looming above the Whos in Whoville. The noisy holiday preparations and infernal singing of the happy little citizens below annoy him to no end. The Grinch decides this frivolous merriment must stop. His "wonderful, awful" idea is to don a Santa outfit, strap heavy antlers on his poor, quivering dog Max, construct a makeshift sleigh, head down to Whoville, and strip the chafingly cheerful Whos of their Yuletide glee once and for all.
Looking quite out of place and very disturbing in his makeshift Santa get-up, the Grinch slithers down chimneys with empty bags and stealing the Whos' presents, their food, even the logs from their humble Who-fires. He takes the ramshackle sleigh to Mt. Crumpit to dump it and waits to hear the sobs of the Whos when they wake up and discover the trappings of Christmas have disappeared. Imagine the Whos' dismay when they discover the evil-doings of Grinch in his anti-Santa guise. But what is that sound? It's not sobbing, but singing! Children simultaneously adore and fear this triumphant, twisted Seussian testimonial to the undaunted cheerfulness of the Whos, the transcendent nature of joy, and of course, the growth potential of a heart that's two sizes too small. This holiday classic is perfect for reading aloud to your favorite little Whos. (Ages 4 to 8) [via]
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How to Be a Vampire in One Easy Lessonby Mel Gilden, John PierardISBN 0380759063 (0-380-75906-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor Hugo, Elizabeth McCracken, Catherine LiuISBN 034547242X (0-345-47242-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'Book summary:In the dark world of medieval Paris, the deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral heroically fights to save the life of a beautiful Gypsy girl about to be unjustly executed. Told with simple vocabulary and set in large type, this adaptation of the classic tale is perfectly suited for young readers.
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In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampiresby Raymond T. McNally, Radu FlorescuISBN 0395657830 (0-395-65783-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires'Book summary:"Little did the coauthors realize at the time they embarked upon this project over a glass of plum brandy in Bucharest more than twenty-five years ago, that their work would result in the discovery of the authentic, bloodthirsty prototype for Bram Stoker's famous novel Dracula." This pioneering study, first published in 1972, became a collector's item, so this fully updated edition is welcome indeed. The authors' pursuit of the notion that Vlad the Impaler (1431-76) was the original Dracula--through treks both antiquarian (in old libraries and museums) and geographic (in areas of Romania that were once Transylvania and Walachia)--has the thrill of an adventure story. In Search of Dracula is also an entertaining introduction to vampire lore and to people's obsession with Dracula. It has a delightful cover by Edward Gorey and numerous illustrations, including antique woodcuts of Vlad's impaled victims and photos from the authors' trips to Romania. [via]
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Inheritance: 3-book Setby Christopher PaoliniISBN 0375836586 (0-375-83658-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inheritance: 3-book Set'Book summary:In the #1 New York Times bestselling novels Eragon and Eldest, fifteen year-old Eragon discovers his destiny as a Dragon Rider. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and his dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds. This beautiful boxed set includes books I and II in the Inheritance trilogy. [via]
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Island of the Weirdby Mel GildenISBN 0380759071 (0-380-75907-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Judgeby Margot Zemach, Harve ZemachISBN 0374439621 (0-374-43962-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Lovable Furry Old Grover's Resting Placesby Jon Stone, Michael J. SmollinISBN 039486056X (0-394-86056-X)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Mary Reillyby Valerie MartinISBN 0375725997 (0-375-72599-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Reilly'Book summary:From the acclaimed author of the bestselling Italian Fever comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel told from the perspective of Mary Reilly, Dr. Jekyll's dutiful and intelligent housemaid.
Faithfully weaving in details from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Martin introduces an original and captivating character: Mary is a survivorscarred but still strongfamiliar with evil, yet brimming with devotion and love. As a bond grows between Mary and her tortured employer, she is sent on errands to unsavory districts of London and entrusted with secrets she would rather not know. Unable to confront her hideous suspicions about Dr. Jekyll, Mary ultimately proves the lengths to which she'll go to protect him. Through her astute reflections, we hear the rest of the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, and this familiar tale is made more terrifying than we remember it, more complex than we imagined possible. [via] 
The Monkby Matthew G. Lewis, Hugh ThomasISBN 0375759166 (0-375-75916-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Monster in Creeps Head Bayby Mel Gilden, John PierardISBN 0380759055 (0-380-75905-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Monster Mashersby Mel GildenISBN 0380757850 (0-380-75785-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Monster Under the Shedby W. Awdry, Richard CourtneyISBN 0375813713 (0-375-81371-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Monster's Ringby Bruce Coville, Katherine CovilleISBN 0394953207 (0-394-95320-7)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Monsters, Giants, and Little Men from Mars: An Unnatural History of the Americasby Daniel CohenISBN 0385032676 (0-385-03267-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Monsters, Giants, and Little Men from Mars; An Unnatural History of the Americas.by David CohenISBN 038506943X (0-385-06943-X)
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The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty Mcfearlessby AHMET ZAPPAISBN 0375832874 (0-375-83287-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Monstrous Regimentby Terry Pratchett, Stephen BriggsISBN 0413774457 (0-413-77445-7)
Softcover, Methuen Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monstrous Regiment'Book summary:What do you get when you cross a vampire, a troll, Igor, a collection of misfits, and a young woman who shoves a pair of socks down her pants to join the army? The answer's simple. You have Monstrous Regiment, the characteristically charming novel by Terry Pratchett.
Polly becomes Private Oliver Perks, who is on a quest to find her older brother, who's recently MIA in one of the innumerable wars the tiny nation of Borogravia has a habit of starting with its neighbors. This peevish tendency has all but expended Borogravia's ranks of cannon fodder. Whether Sergeant Jackrum knows her secret or not, he can't afford to be choosy, as Perks and her/his comrades are among the last able-bodied recruits left in Borogravia. This collection of misfits includes the aforementioned vampire (reformed and off the blood, thank you), troll, and macabre Igor, who is only too happy to sew you a new leg if you aren't too particular about previous ownership. Off to war, Polly/Oliver learns that having a pair of, um, socks is a good way to open up doors in this man's army.
For those who haven't made this underrated author's acquaintance, Monstrous Regiment is as good a place to start as any. Readers will encounter Pratchett's subtle and disarming wit, his trademark footnoted asides along with a not-too-shabby tale of honor, courage, and duty in the face of absurd circumstances. --Jeremy Pugh [via]
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Outside the Dog Museumby Jonathan CarrollISBN 0356195899 (0-356-19589-9)
Hardcover, Macdonald
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Pet of Frankensteinby Mel Gilden, John PierardISBN 0380751852 (0-380-75185-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Pet Semataryby Stephen KingISBN 0385182449 (0-385-18244-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pet Sematary'Book summary:Renowned for its superior productions, BBC radio may have outdone itself by adapting Stephen King's Pet Sematary to audio. A clamorous cacophony of talking, whining, whistling, and howling, Pet Sematary is a quick, entertaining earful for those who don't have other auditory distractions to contend with, such as a car full of talking whining, whistling, howling children. However, the melodramatic prose marries well with the acting; such is the case when one reader--whose voice bears an uncanny resemblance to Kramer's from Seinfeld--tells another about the effects of the Pet Sematary: "Heroin makes junkies feel good when they put it in their arms, but all the time it's poisoning their mind and body--this place can be like that and don't you ever forget it!" (Running time: three hours, two cassettes) [via]
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Please Do Not Open This Book!by Jon Stone, Michael SmollinISBN 0375836837 (0-375-83683-7)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Red Dragonby Thomas HarrisISBN 0385319673 (0-385-31967-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Dragon'Book summary:Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas's Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs. As in Silence, the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist Lecter for clues to catching a killer on the loose.
The sleuth, Will Graham, actually quit the FBI after nearly getting killed by Lecter while nabbing him, but fear isn't what bugs him about crime busting. It's just too creepy to get inside a killer's twisted mind. But he comes back to stop a madman who's been butchering entire families. The FBI needs Graham's insight, and Graham needs Lecter's genius. But Lecter is a clever fiend, and he manipulates both Graham and the killer at large from his cell.
That killer, Francis Dolarhyde, works in a film lab, where he picks his victims by studying their home movies. He's obsessed with William Blake's bizarre painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, believing there's a red dragon within him, the personification of his demonic drives. Flashbacks to Dolarhyde's terrifying childhood and superb stream-of-consciousness prose get us right there inside his head. When Dolarhyde does weird things, we understand why. We sympathize when the voice of the cruel dead grandma who raised and crazed him urges him to mayhem--she's way scarier than that old bat in Psycho. When he falls in love with a blind girl at the lab, we hope he doesn't give in to Grandma's violent advice.
This book is awesomely detailed, ingeniously plotted, judiciously gory, and fantastically imagined. If you haven't read it, you've never had the creeps. --Tim Appelo [via]
Return to Howliday Innby James HoweISBN 038071972X (0-380-71972-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Robots Are Coming and Other Problemsby Andy RashISBN 043906306X (0-439-06306-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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The Shiningby Stephen KingISBN 0385121679 (0-385-12167-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shining'Book summary:In MINT UNREAD condition. A first edition book club printing. Published 1977 by DoubleDay [via]
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Shrek!by William SteigISBN 0374466238 (0-374-46623-8)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Silmarillionby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345325818 (0-345-32581-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silmarillion'Book summary:Although The Silmarillion takes place in the same imaginary world as J.J.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and was originally published four years after the author's death and over two decades after the former book, it is set much earlier, in the First Age of the World. The tales and the book which reads as a fusion between a story collection and historical chronicle, are a matter of legend even to the characters of The Lord of the Rings:
In the beginning Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Ilúvatar, made the Ainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him
Tolkien wrote the heart of this material very early in his career, and continued to work on it throughout his life. It fell to his son, Christopher Tolkien, to edit it into book form, and such proved the unquenchable public appetite that he subsequently oversaw 12 volumes of The History of Middle-Earth. This edition features 20 highly evocative colour plates by Ted Nasmith, themselves worth the price of admission, while reinforcing the sense of a historical work are genealogical tables, an extensive index, appendix and colour map. Far removed from the genial style of The Hobbit, this is Tolkien at his most formal, his prose austere, poetically beautiful, his storytelling capturing the epic scale, high drama and melancholy wonder of myth. These stories of elves and heroes and old gods are quite literally the foundation of the entire modern fantasy-publishing revival, and are therefore essential reading. --Gary S. Dalkin [via]More editions of Silmarillion:
Sleeping In Flameby Jonathan CarrollISBN 0385249578 (0-385-24957-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Stolen Fireby Hans Baumann, Herbert HolzingISBN 0394826752 (0-394-82675-2)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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The Tempestby William Shakespeare, Peter Hulme, William H. ShermanISBN 0393978192 (0-393-97819-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tempest'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most famous but also enigmatic plays, for many years the story of Prospero's exile from his native Milan, and life with his daughter Miranda on an unnamed island in the Mediterranean, was seen as an autobiographical dramatisation of Shakespeare's departure from the London stage. The Epilogue, spoken by Prospero, claims that "now my charms are all o'erthrown", appeared to reflect Shakespeare's own renunciation of his magical dramatic powers as he retired to Stratford. But The Tempest is far more than this, as recent commentators have pointed out. The dramatic action observes the classical unities of time, place and action, as Prospero uses his "rough magic" to lure his wicked usurping brother, Antonio, and King Alonso of Naples to his island retreat to torment them before engineering his return to Milan.
However, the play is full of extraordinary anomalies and fantastic interludes, including Gonzalo's fantasy of a utopian commonwealth, Prospero's magical servant Ariel, and the "poisonous slave" Caliban. The creation of Caliban has particularly fascinated critics, who have noticed in his creation a colonial dimension to the play. In this respect Caliban can be seen as an American Indian or African slave, who articulates a particularly powerful strain of anti-colonial sentiment, telling Prospero that "this island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,/ Which thou tak'st from me". This has led to an intense reassessment of the play from a post-colonial perspective, as critics and historians have debated the extent to which the play endorses or criticises early English colonial expansion. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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There's a Batwing in My Lunchboxby Ann HodgmanISBN 0380754266 (0-380-75426-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Vampiresby Nancy GardenISBN 0397314574 (0-397-31457-4)
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Weird Science: An Expert Explains Ghosts, Voodoo, the UFO Conspiracy, and Other Paranormal Phenomenaby Michael James Denham WhiteISBN 0380805057 (0-380-80505-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Werewolf Come Homeby Mel Gilden, John PierardISBN 038075908X (0-380-75908-X)
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The Wizard, the Fairy, and the Magic Chickenby Helen Lester, Lynn MunsingerISBN 0395479452 (0-395-47945-2)
Softcover, Walter Lorraine
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Z Is for Zombieby Mel Gilden, John PierardISBN 0380756862 (0-380-75686-2)
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