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300: The Art of the Filmby Frank Miller, Lynn VarleyISBN 1569714029 (1-56971-402-9)
Hardcover, Dark Horse Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: '300: The Art of the Film'Book summary:An emperor amasses an army of hundreds of thousands, drawn from two continents, to invade a third continent and conquer a tiny, divided nation. Only a few hundred warriors stand against them. Yet the tiny nation is saved. It sounds like the plot of a preposterous fantasy novel. It is historical fact. In 481-480 B.C., King Xerxes of Persia raised forces in Asia and Africa and invaded Greece with an army so huge that it "drank rivers dry." Then they entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae and encountered 300 determined soldiers from Sparta....
Writer-artist Frank Miller and colorist Lynn Varley retell the battle of Thermopylae in the exciting and moving graphic novel 300. They focus on King Leonidas, the young foot soldier Stelios, and the storyteller Dilios to highlight the Spartans' awe-inspiring toughness and valor. Miller and Varley's art is terrific, as always; the combat scenes are especially powerful. And Miller's writing is his best in years. Read it.
Do not, however, read 300 expecting a strictly accurate history. The Phocians did not "scatter," as Miller describes. His Spartans are mildly homophobic, which is goofy in such a gay society. Miller doesn't say how many Greeks remained for the climactic battle--you'd think 300 Spartans and maybe a dozen others, when there were between 700 and 1,100 Greeks. Herodotus's Histories does not identify the traitor Ephialtes as ugly and hunchbacked, or even as Spartan. 300 establishes a believable connection between Ephialtes's affliction and behavior, but his monstrous appearance, King Xerxes's effeminacy, and the Persians' inexplicable pierced-GenX-African looks make for an eyebrow-raising choice of villain imagery. Nonetheless, 300 is a brilliant dramatization.
For the full story of the failed invasion, read Herodotus's Histories or, for a concise, graphic-novel retelling, Larry Gonick's great Cartoon History of the Universe: Volumes 1-7, From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great. For a lighthearted look at post-invasion Athens and a very young Alexander the Great, check out William Messner-Loebs and Sam Kieth's witty and gorgeous graphic novels, Epicurus the Sage Vol. I and Vol. II. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Akiraby Katsuhiro OtomoISBN 1569714983 (1-56971-498-3)
Softcover, Dark Horse Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Akira'Book summary:Dark Horse is committed to bringing the finest comics from around the world to America. Now, in association with Kodansha Ltd. and Studio Proteus, Dark Horse has again gathered one of the crown jewels of graphic fiction. Katsuhiro Otomo's stunning science-fiction masterpiece, Akira! Regarded by many as the finest comic series ever produced, Akira is a bold and breathtaking epic of potent narrative strength and astonishing illustrative skill. Akira is set in the post-apocalypse Neo-Tokyo of 2019, a vast metropolis built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by an apocalyptic blast of unknown power that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when dormant paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, who becomes a target for a shadowy government operation, a group who will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like that which leveled Tokyo. And at the core of their motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear: a fear of someone -- or something -- of unthinkably monstrous power known only as...Akira. And Akira is about to rise! Collected in six massive volumes, Akira has been reproduced in its original, black-and-white majesty as never-before-seen in an English-translated edition. If you love science fiction, manga or comics, Akira is the one work that must be represented in your collection! [via]
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Amistadby David PesciISBN 156924703X (1-56924-703-X)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amistad: A Novel'Book summary:A riveting historical novel based on one of the nation's first civil right struggles
-- Often left out of history books, the events that inspired this novel spanned three years and involved three court casesThe year is 1839, the place Western Africa and New Haven, Connecticut. Fifty-three Africans who are taken as slaves struggle against terrible odds to regain their freedom and return home to Africa. They are led by Singbe Pieh, a humble rice farmer who refuses to be a slave and never gives up his quest to return home to his wife and children.
This historical novel begins as Singbe is capture by rival tribesmen. He is quickly sold to white slave traders, tortured, and humiliated on board a slave ship and again in the Havana slave market Soon he finds himself transferred to the Amistad, where he stages a bloody rebellion. Eventually he and his fellow rebels end up off the coast of Long Island where the U.S. Navy intervenes, towing the Amistad to Connecticut, where slavery is still legal.
Led by President Van Buren, the pro-slavery U.S. government tries to return the Amistad to the slave owners and Cuban shores. But members of the fledgling abolitionist movement, led by equal rights zealot Lewis Tappan and defense lawyer Roger Baldwin, force a series of court trials aimed at freeing them. What follows is a scheme to kidnap the Amistads using U.S. Marines, a government cover-up, and the case making its way to the U.S. Supreme Court where former President John Quincy Adams argues on behalf of the Amistads. David Pesci converts this harrowing story into a page-turning novel.
"A wonderful book, powerfully written and filled with emotion.... This is a story that transcends race orethnic origin. It is a story of hope in the face of impossible odds and of the will to be free". -- Roberta Flack [via]
Anakin's Questby Rebecca Moesta, Rebacca MoestaISBN 1572971363 (1-57297-136-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Anita and Meby Meera SyalISBN 1565845293 (1-56584-529-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anita and Me'Book summary:Now in paperback, the prize-winning coming-of-age novel about a young Indian girl in northern England. Winner of the Betty Trask Award and finalist for the Guardian Fiction Award, Anita and Me, which has been compared to To Kill a Mockingbird, tells the story of Meena, the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the British village of Tollington. With great warmth and humor, Meera Syal brings to life a quirky, spirited 1960s mining town and creates in her protagonist what the Washington Post calls a "female Huck Finn." The novel follows nine-year-old Meena through a year spiced with pilfered sweets and money, bad words, and compulsive, yet inventive, lies. Anita and Me offers a fresh, sassy look at a childhood caught between two cultures. [via]
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Anne's House of Dreamsby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 1576463141 (1-57646-314-1)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne's House of Dreams'Book summary:Gilbert has become a doctor and now Anne's wedding day has come, the first bride of Green Gables. Now has come the time for Anne to leave Green Gables and she does for her "House of Dreams."
Once again there are new friends. One new friend Captain Jim is full of tales including the moving "Lost Margaret".
Joy comes to Anne and in one day leaves again in the form of little Joyce. But time and James Mathew cure Anne of her sadness, but the memory of little Joyce never leaves.
Mark Twain described Anne as "the most moving and delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice." The "Anne" books have been best sellers since 1908. [via]
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Battle Royaleby Yuji Oniki, Koushun TakamiISBN 156931778X (1-56931-778-X)
Softcover, Viz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Battle Royale'Book summary:Synopsis: In a country ruled by a ruthless totalitarian government, a group of ninth-grade students are confined to a small isolated island, armed only with a map, some food, and various weapons, where they are forced wear special exploding collars and must fight each other for three days until only one survivor remains, as part of the ultimate in reality television. Original. [via]
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Becket or the Honor of Godby Jean Anouilh, Lucienne Hill, Andre AcimanISBN 1573225088 (1-57322-508-8)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christby Lew Wallace, Joe L. WheelerISBN 1561797456 (1-56179-745-6)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ'Book summary:Presented in their complete text and updated for easier reading, each story in the Great Stories Collection is truly unique. Each has been rigorously critiqued and selected for the quality of its Christian content, the value in its message, and its ability to bring and bind a family together. In-depth introductions detail both the authors and the times in which they lived. Many books feature original woodcut illustrations. Complete with thought-provoking questions, these books are keepsakes to be treasured for years to come. Perfect additions to the adult fiction section.
An unforgettable account of betrayal, revenge, and rebellion. Lew Wallace tells the story of a Jewish nobleman who fell from Roman favor and was sentenced to life as a slave-all at the hands of his childhood friend. Years later Ben-Hur regains his freedom in the famous chariot race. Through everything, Ben-Hur has an encounter with the grace of God. [via]
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A Bookby Desi ArnazISBN 1568492545 (1-56849-254-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Characterby E.M. Prince, Ferdinand BordewijkISBN 1566632277 (1-56663-227-7)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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The Chosenby Chaim PotokISBN 1568493193 (1-56849-319-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chosen'Book summary:Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom, or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, their friendship, and the chaotic times in which they live. Though on the surface it explores religious faith--the intellectually committed as well as the passionately observant--the struggles addressed in The Chosen are familiar to families of all faiths and in all nations.
In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a secular Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father; Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic rebbe), the young men form a deep, if unlikely, friendship. Together they negotiate adolescence, family conflicts, the crisis of faith engendered when Holocaust stories begin to emerge in the U.S., loss, love, and the journey to adulthood. The intellectual and spiritual clashes between fathers, between each son and his own father, and between the two young men, provide a unique backdrop for this exploration of fathers, sons, faith, loyalty, and, ultimately, the power of love. (This is not a conventional children's book, although it will move any wise child age 12 or older, and often appears on summer reading lists for high school students.) [via]
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Curious Georgeby Hans Augusto ReyISBN 1568496583 (1-56849-658-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Darkest Knightby Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca MoestaISBN 1572971290 (1-57297-129-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Deliveranceby James DickeyISBN 1562870106 (1-56287-010-6)
Hardcover, Armchair Detective Library
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Disney's 101 Dalmatiansby Walt Disney Company, Dodie SmithISBN 1570820457 (1-57082-045-7)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Disney's Beauty and the Beastby A. L. Singer, Walt Disney Company, Ron Dias, Ric GonzalezISBN 1562820508 (1-56282-050-8)
Hardcover, Disney Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disney's Beauty and the Beast'Book summary:"Beauty is found within all things," the enchantress tells the cold-hearted prince as she turns him into a hideous Beast. All the suspense, humor, and romance of Disney's Beauty and the Beast animated film is captured in this novel for readers to enjoy on their own, time and time again. Illustrated with color stills from the film. [via]
Disney's Mulan Classic Storybookby Walt Disney Productions, Lisa Ann Marsoli, Judith Holmes ClarkeISBN 1570828644 (1-57082-864-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Disney's the AristocatsISBN 1570824460 (1-57082-446-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Disney's the Lion Kingby Gina IngogliaISBN 1562826336 (1-56282-633-6)
Softcover, Disney Press
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Disney's the Lion King Little Library/the Future King/Pride Land Trouble/Hakuna Matata/Circle of LifeISBN 1570820880 (1-57082-088-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Disney's Toy StoryISBN 1570824126 (1-57082-412-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
Find This BookBook summary:Woody the cowboy and Buzz Lightyear, two talking toys, have a fantastic adventure when they go out into the real world. [via]
Diversity Allianceby Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca MoestaISBN 1572972343 (1-57297-234-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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A Doll's Houseby Henrik Ibsen, Nicholas RudallISBN 1566632250 (1-56663-225-0)
Hardcover, Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Doll's House'Book summary:Ibsen's seminal play, which changed modern drama, is a searing view of a male-dominated and authoritarian society, presented with a realism that elevates theatre to a level above mere entertainment. The reverberations of Nora's slamming the door as she leaves Torvald continue to the present day. Plays for Performance Series. [via]
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The Doll's House: A Playby Henrik Ibsen, Nicholas RudallISBN 1566632269 (1-56663-226-9)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doll's House: A Play'Book summary:Ibsens seminal play, which changed modern drama, is a searing view of a male-dominated and authoritarian society, presented with a realism that elevates theatre to a level above mere entertainment. The reverberations of Noras slamming the door as she leaves Torvald continue to this present day. Nicholas Rudall, justly celebrated for his translations of Ibsen, again provides a play of power and speakability. [via]
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Dragonheartby Charles E. PogueISBN 1572971304 (1-57297-130-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Emperor's Plagueby Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca MoestaISBN 1572973315 (1-57297-331-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Empire of the Sunby J.G. BallardISBN 156849663X (1-56849-663-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire of the Sun'Book summary:From the creators of the movie tie-in blockbusteries, The Color Purple, comes the most certain money-making event of this winter. Empire of the Sun is the story of a young boy in Shanghai who witnesses the outbreak of World War II and the bombing of Nagasaki. [via]
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The Enemy Papersby Barry LongyearISBN 1565048598 (1-56504-859-8)
Softcover, Psi
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enemy Papers'Book summary:"The Enemy Papers" contains a newly edited and expanded-by-the-author version of "Enemy Mine" and its two sequels, "The Last Enemy" and "The Tomorrow Testament", published together for the first time. A battle between the Dracs and humans becomes personal when a fighter pilot from each side crashes on a distant planet. Survival means overcoming their greatest enemy--their own rage. . [via]
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Ethan Fromeby Edith WhartonISBN 1566196760 (1-56619-676-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethan Frome'Book summary:Ethan works his unproductive farm, and struggles to maintain an existence with his suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's cousin enters their household as a "hired girl", Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. [via]
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Fever Pitchby Nick HornbyISBN 1573226882 (1-57322-688-2)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fever Pitch'Book summary:In the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. In Britain he is revered for his status as a fanatical football writer (sorry, fanatical soccer writer), owing to Fever Pitch--which is both an autobiography and a footballing Bible rolled into one. Hornby pinpoints 1968 as his formative year--the year he turned 11, the year his parents separated, and the year his father first took him to watch Arsenal play. The author quickly moved "way beyond fandom" into an extreme obsession that has dominated his life, loves, and relationships. His father had initially hoped that Saturday afternoon matches would draw the two closer together, but instead Hornby became completely besotted with the game at the expense of any conversation: "Football may have provided us with a new medium through which we could communicate, but that was not to say that we used it, or what we chose to say was necessarily positive." Girlfriends also played second fiddle to one ball and 11 men. He fantasizes that even if a girlfriend "went into labor at an impossible moment" he would not be able to help out until after the final whistle.
Fever Pitch is not a typical memoir--there are no chapters, just a series of match reports falling into three time frames (childhood, young adulthood, manhood). While watching the May 2, 1972, Reading v. Arsenal match, it became embarrassingly obvious to the then 15-year-old that his white, suburban, middle-class roots made him a wimp with no sense of identity: "Yorkshire men, Lancastrians, Scots, the Irish, blacks, the rich, the poor, even Americans and Australians have something they can sit in pubs and bars and weep about." But a boy from Maidenhead could only dream of coming from a place with "its own tube station and West Indian community and terrible, insoluble social problems."
Fever Pitch reveals the very special intricacies of British football, which readers new to the game will find astonishing, and which Hornby presents with remarkable humor and honesty--the "unique" chants sung at matches, the cold rain-soaked terraces, giant cans of warm beer, the trains known as football specials carrying fans to and from matches in prisonlike conditions, bottles smashing on the tracks, thousands of policemen waiting in anticipation for the cargo of hooligans. The sport and one team in particular have crept into every aspect of Hornby's life--making him see the world through Arsenal-tinted spectacles. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Foreign Affairs: The National Society of Film Critics' Video Guide to Foreign Filmsby Kathy Shulz HuffhinesISBN 1562790161 (1-56279-016-1)
Softcover, Mercury House
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Forrest J. Ackerman's World of Science-Fictionby Forrest J. AckermanISBN 1575440695 (1-57544-069-5)
Hardcover, General Publishing Group, Incorporated
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworldby Herbert AsburyISBN 1569249911 (1-56924-991-1)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld'Book summary:The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership. It is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled, as Luc Sante has written, from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research. Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject, an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather. A universal history of infamy [that] contains all the confusion and cruelty of the barbarian cosmologies.... Jorge Luis Borges The tale is one of blood, excitement and debauchery. The New York Times Book Review The Gangs of New York is one of the essential works of the city.... Luc Sante, The New York Review of Books[via]More editions of The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld:
Golden Globeby Nancy RichardsonISBN 1572970359 (1-57297-035-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Harold and the Purple CrayonISBN 1568901380 (1-56890-138-0)
Softcover, Peaceable Kingdom Pr
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Heaven, Texasby Susan Elizabeth PhillipsISBN 1568956991 (1-56895-699-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Heidiby Johanna SpyriISBN 1569873917 (1-56987-391-7)
Hardcover, School Specialty Childrens Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidi'Book summary:Johanna Spyri's classic story of a young orphan sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Swiss Alps is retold in it's entirety in this beautifully bound hardcover edition. Heidi has charmed and intrigued readers since it's original publication in 1880. Much more than a children's story, the narrative is also a lesson on the precarious nature of freedom, a luxury too often taken for granted. Heidi almost loses her liberty as she is ripped away from the tranquility of the mountains to tend to a sick cousin in the city. Happily, all's well that ends well, and the reader is left with only warm, fuzzy thoughts. Spryi's story will never grow wearisome--and this is a very appealing edition. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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In the Footsteps of Jesusby Bruce MarchianoISBN 1565078578 (1-56507-857-8)
Softcover, Harvest House Pub
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King Kongby Anthony BrowneISBN 157036107X (1-57036-107-X)
Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Kong'Book summary:The classic adventure of the great ape is retold with dramatic full-color illustrations, from an uncharted native island to the populated one of Manhattan, where the climatic confrontation takes place high atop the Empire State Building. [via]
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The Kite Runnerby Khaled HosseiniISBN 1573222453 (1-57322-245-3)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kite Runner'Book summary:In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his first try.
The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted. Even after Amir and his father flee to America, Amir remains haunted by his cowardly actions and disloyalty. In part, it is these demons and the sometimes impossible quest for forgiveness that bring him back to his war-torn native land after it comes under Taliban rule. ("...I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.")
Some of the plot's turns and twists may be somewhat implausible, but Hosseini has created characters that seem so real that one almost forgets that The Kite Runner is a novel and not a memoir. At a time when Afghanistan has been thrust into the forefront of America's collective consciousness ("people sipping lattes at Starbucks were talking about the battle for Kunduz"), Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating land. Perhaps the only true flaw in this extraordinary novel is that it ends all too soon. --Gisele Toueg [via]
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The Land That Time Forgotby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 1576465594 (1-57646-559-4)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemenby Kevin O'Neill, Alan MooreISBN 1563898586 (1-56389-858-6)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'Book summary:Proving that mainstream comics could be infused with past literary/cultural ideals and still be bestsellers, the America's Best Comics imprint took the dilapidated superhero genre and created three vastly entertaining hybrids with Tom Strong, Promethea and Top Ten. Now, a stunning coup de grace is delivered with this masterful pairing of Victorian adventure fiction's greatest characters and the old war-horse of the super-group. With the stunning The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it would be no exaggeration to say that Alan Moore has produced a near-perfect piece of adventure fiction that is clever, literate, rich with excitement and hard to put down.
It's 1898 and at the behest of M, the mysterious head of the secret Service, Campion Bond is dispatched to procure the services of Miss Mina Murray (nee Harker), adventurer Allan Quartermain, "Science-Pirate" Captain Nemo, Henry Jekyll (and his monstrous alter ego) and Hawley Griffin (a.k.a. the Invisible Man). Together, they must combat an insidious threat that will decide supremacy of the London skies, but their success may unleash a far greater threat. With no shortage of action, Moore and O' Neill sustain a high level of suspense, intrigue, mystery and terrific wit that all contribute to an indispensable read. O'Neill's art, so memorable in Marshal Law, produces a London filled with vivid, magnificent architecture and a malevolent atmosphere ripe with thrills and danger. An unmitigated triumph--pure and simple. --Danny Graydon [via]
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1898by Alan MooreISBN 1563896656 (1-56389-665-6)
Hardcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1898'Book summary:Proving that mainstream comics could be infused with past literary/cultural ideals and still be bestsellers, the America's Best Comics imprint took the dilapidated superhero genre and created three vastly entertaining hybrids with Tom Strong, Promethea and Top Ten. Now, a stunning coup de grace is delivered with this masterful pairing of Victorian adventure fiction's greatest characters and the old war-horse of the super-group. With the stunning The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it would be no exaggeration to say that Alan Moore has produced a near-perfect piece of adventure fiction that is clever, literate, rich with excitement and hard to put down.
It's 1898 and at the behest of M, the mysterious head of the secret Service, Campion Bond is dispatched to procure the services of Miss Mina Murray (nee Harker), adventurer Allan Quartermain, "Science-Pirate" Captain Nemo, Henry Jekyll (and his monstrous alter ego) and Hawley Griffin (a.k.a. the Invisible Man). Together, they must combat an insidious threat that will decide supremacy of the London skies, but their success may unleash a far greater threat. With no shortage of action, Moore and O' Neill sustain a high level of suspense, intrigue, mystery and terrific wit that all contribute to an indispensable read. O'Neill's art, so memorable in Marshal Law, produces a London filled with vivid, magnificent architecture and a malevolent atmosphere ripe with thrills and danger. An unmitigated triumph--pure and simple. --Danny Graydon [via]
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Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Heeby Meera SyalISBN 1565846141 (1-56584-614-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee'Book summary:Meera Syal's second novel features a trio of close and somewhat unlikely childhood friends. Sunita, a former law student and activist, has married her university sweetheart Akash, and is settled into a life of overweight, underappreciated motherhood. Tania is a raven-maned beauty who's rejected marriage and anything traditionally Asian for a high-flying TV career and a compliant Indophile boyfriend. And then there's Chila. Innocent, kind, funny Chila, with her simple soul and her glass animal collection, has just, to everyone's amazement, snared Deepak--the "most eligible bachelor within a twenty-mile radius."
A comedienne and actress as well as the author of the prize-winning Anita and Me, Syal expertly steers her characters through what we might call middle youth--that emotional roller coaster of an age when the real growing up is done. Everywhere her trademark wit and sensitivity are on display. There's the inevitable bitching at the wedding: "Now the sister is howling. I'd howl if I had a moustache like hers..." Then, after the ceremony, come the traditional tears:
Tissue-clutching matriarchs reattached themselves to harrumphing husbands, reaffirming their bonds to each other and the watching world. Single girls clucked in feverish groups, high on the drama of the departure, tossing their fancy dupattas at the single men, torn between the horror and the longing of it all.
What comes after that, alas, is infidelity and envy and betrayal. True to its stoic title, Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee encompasses not only the strengths but the limits of female friendship. Yet the author retains her sense of humor and cross-cultural irony to the very end. One final note: if you're pregnant and have set your heart on natural childbirth, avoid pages 72 and 73. Or else book that elective cesarean and painkilling cocktail. Now. --Lisa Gee [via]More editions of Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee:
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Lightsabersby Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca MoestaISBN 157297091X (1-57297-091-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lightsabers'Book summary:With a new generation of Dark Jedi being trained at the Shadow Academy, Luke Skywalker decides that it is time for the young Jedi Knights of the New Republic to build their lightsabers, a task that brings both a growth in the power of the Force and deadly peril. Original. [via]
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Little Women: The Musicalby John Nicholas, Jason HowlandISBN 1575608294 (1-57560-829-4)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Love, Lucyby Lucille Ball, Betty Hannah HoffmanISBN 1572973234 (1-57297-323-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love, Lucy'Book summary:Although Lucille Ball died in 1989, this autobiography written prior to 1964 has only recently been discovered among her papers. She describes a childhood deeply affected by her father's death and her mother's withdrawal from her life. Raised by her grandparents, Ball craved attention and developed a tempestuous, vivacious, fiery, and yet insecure personality that would later lead her to comic stardom. It took years of working from the bottom of show business before she became a television hit, with the help of her husband, co-star, and business partner, former Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz. Ball abandoned the book for fear of hurting Arnaz, although she gives him credit for the tremendous success she enjoyed with "I Love Lucy." [via]
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Lyric's Worldby Nancy RichardsonISBN 1572970685 (1-57297-068-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Miyazaki's Spirited Awayby Hayao Miyazaki, Yuji Oniki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, Donald H. HewittISBN 1569317925 (1-56931-792-5)
Softcover, Viz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miyazaki's Spirited Away'Book summary:After Chihiro's parents are turned into pigs in an "abandoned" town full of spirits, a mysterious boy, Haku, helps her survive here by getting a job in the palatial Abura-ya bath house from its boss, the witch Yubaba. Clumsy at first, Sen manages in the baths to free a stinking river spirit of the human garbage trapped within it. The spirit flies away, leaving her a magical medicine. Now No Face, whom Sen let in earlier, is turning the place upside down, flinging gold to the staff, downing dish after dish...and demanding to see Sen! [via]
Morality Playby Barry UnsworthISBN 156895297X (1-56895-297-X)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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The Odysseyby Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 1562884336 (1-56288-433-6)
Hardcover, Checkerboard Pr Inc
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Opening Shots: The Unusual, Unexpected, Potentially Career-Threatening First Roles That Launched the Careers of 70 Hollywood Starsby Damien BonaISBN 1563052792 (1-56305-279-2)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 157646265X (1-57646-265-X)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Persuasion'Book summary:Jane Austen (1775-1817) is considered by many scholars to be the first great woman novelist. Her novels revolve around people, not events or coincidences. Miss Austen sets her novels in the upper middle class English country which was her own environment.
Her novels have increased in stature over time. Her skills of writing, including a dry humor and a witty elegance of expression have attracted generations to her work.
Miss Austen completed six novels and part of a seventh, "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion" and the partial "Lady Susan". Quiet Vision publishes all seven. [via]
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The Pianoby Jane CampionISBN 1562827030 (1-56282-703-0)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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The Pilot's Wifeby Anita ShreveISBN 1568951469 (1-56895-146-9)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilot's Wife'Book summary:With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve now offers a skillfully crafted exploration of the long reach of tragedy in The Pilot's Wife. News of Jack Lyons's fatal crash sends his wife into shock and emotional numbness:
Kathryn wished she could manage a coma. Instead, it seemed that quite the opposite had happened: She felt herself to be inside of a private weather system, one in which she was continuously tossed and buffeted by bits of news and information, sometimes chilled by thoughts of what lay immediately ahead, thawed by the kindness of others ... frequently drenched by memories that seemed to have no regard for circumstance or place, and then subjected to the nearly intolerable heat of reporters, photographers and curious on-lookers. It was a weather system with no logic, she had decided, no pattern, no progression, no form.
The situation becomes even more dire when the plane's black box is recovered, pinning responsibility for the crash on Jack. In an attempt to clear his name, Kathryn searches for any and all clues to the hours before the flight. Yet each discovery forces her to realize that she didn't know her husband of 16 years at all. Shreve's complex and highly convincing treatment of Kathryn's dilemma, coupled with intriguing minor characters and an expertly paced plot, makes The Pilot's Wife really take off. [via] 
Portnoy's Complaintby Philip RothISBN 156849324X (1-56849-324-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Editionby Muriel SparkISBN 1568496982 (1-56849-698-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Edition'Book summary:The classic bestselling book--the subject of a play, movie, and a song--that tells the darkly fascinating story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special, and ultimately dangerous, relationship with six of her students. [via]
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Promisesby Nancy RichardsonISBN 1572970979 (1-57297-097-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Promises'Book summary:With the help of her friend Anakin Solo, Tahiri, a young girl raised by the treacherous Tusken Raiders, sets out to prove herself worthy and to discover the secret of her past and mystery of her real parents. Original. [via]
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Prozac Nationby Elizabeth WurtzelISBN 1573225126 (1-57322-512-6)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prozac Nation'Book summary:Elizabeth Wertzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of a generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. A memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation still manages to be a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era. [via]
Race Warby Andrew Vachss, Randy Stradley, Ray Lago, Jordan Raskin, Lauchland PelleISBN 1569711127 (1-56971-112-7)
Softcover, Dark Horse Comics
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The Road to Perditionby Max Allen Collins, Bob Lappan, Richard Piers RaynerISBN 1563894491 (1-56389-449-1)
Softcover, Vertigo
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The Rocketeerby Jonathan FastISBN 1562820656 (1-56282-065-6)
Softcover, Disney Pr
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The Scarecrow Video Movie Guideby Scarecrow Video (Firm : Seattle, Wash.)ISBN 1570614156 (1-57061-415-6)
Softcover, Sasquatch Books
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Screenplayby Syd FieldISBN 156731239X (1-56731-239-X)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Screenplay'Book summary:From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script..
Here are easily understood guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints the structural and stylistic elements essential to every good screenplay. He presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing the script that will succeed.
"Why are the first ten pages of your script crucially important?
"How do you collaborate successfully with someone else?
"How do you adapt a novel, a play, or an article into a screenplay?
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Shadow Academyby Kevin J. AndersonISBN 1572970251 (1-57297-025-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shadow Academy'Book summary:Driven away from Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy for pursuing the Dark Side of the Force, former student Brakiss masters his dark powers, establishes the Shadow Academy for aspiring Dark Jedis, and plots to kidnap the Solo twins. Original. [via]
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Shards of Aleraanby Kevin J. AndersonISBN 1572972076 (1-57297-207-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Spy Who Loved Meby Ian FlemingISBN 1567310524 (1-56731-052-4)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spy Who Loved Me'Book summary:Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers - the perverse Sol Horror and the deadly Sluggsy Morant. When a coolly charismatic Englishman turns up, Viv, in terrible danger, is not just hopeful, but fascinated. Because he is James Bond, 007; the man she hopes will save her, the spy she hopes will love her. [via]
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Star Trek the Returnby William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-StevensISBN 1568953593 (1-56895-359-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Star Warsby George Lucas, Toshiki KudoISBN 1569713901 (1-56971-390-1)
Softcover, Dark Horse Comics
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Story of Oby Pauline Reage, John P. HandISBN 1562010352 (1-56201-035-2)
Softcover, Blue Moon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Story of O'Book summary:Published originally in French, (this one is in English) by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Story of O is a tale of female submission about a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer, O, who is blindfolded, chained, whipped, branded, pierced, made to wear a mask, and taught to be constantly available for oral, vaginal, and anal intercourse. Despite her harsh treatment, O grants permission beforehand for everything that occurs, and her permission is consistently sought. At the beginning of the story, O's lover, René, brings her to the château of Roissy, where she is trained to serve the men of an elite group. After this first period of training is finished, as a demonstration of their bond and his generosity, René hands O to Sir Stephen, a more dominant master. René wants O to learn to serve someone whom she does not love, and someone who does not love her. Over the course of this training, O falls in love with Sir Stephen and believes him to be in love with her as well. While her vain friend and lover, Jacqueline, is repulsed by O's chains and scars, O herself is proud of her condition as a willing slave. During the summer, Sir Stephen decides to move O to Samois, an old mansion solely inhabited by women for advanced training and body modifications related to submission. There she agrees to receive a branding and a labia piercing with rings marked with Sir Stephen's initials and insignia. At the climax, O appears as a slave, nude but for an owl-like mask, before a large party of guests who treat her solely as an object. [via]
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The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Storiesby Robert Louis Stevenson, Laura Victoria LevinISBN 1566197112 (1-56619-711-2)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Stories'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Swamp Thing: Dark Genesisby Len WeinISBN 1563890445 (1-56389-044-5)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmasby Tim BurtonISBN 1562824112 (1-56282-411-2)
Hardcover, Hyperion Press
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Tipping the Velvetby Sarah WatersISBN 1573221368 (1-57322-136-8)
Softcover, Tarcher/Putnam
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tipping the Velvet: A Novel'Book summary:The heroine of Sarah Waters's audacious first novel knows her destiny, and seems content with it. Her place is in her father's seaside restaurant, shucking shellfish and stirring soup, singing all the while. "Although I didn't long believe the story told to me by Mother--that they had found me as a baby in an oyster-shell, and a greedy customer had almost eaten me for lunch--for eighteen years I never doubted my own oysterish sympathies, never looked far beyond my father's kitchen for occupation, or for love." At night Nancy Astley often ventures to the nearby music hall, not that she has illusions of being more than an audience member. But the moment she spies a new male impersonator--still something of a curiosity in England circa 1888--her years of innocence come to an end and a life of transformations begins.
Tipping the Velvet, all 472 pages of it, is as saucy, as tantalizing, and as touching as the narrator's first encounter with the seductive but shame-ridden Miss Kitty Butler. And at first even Nancy's family is thrilled with her gender-bending pal, all but her sister, best friend, and bedmate, Alice, "her eyes shining cold and dull, with starlight and suspicion." Not to worry. Soon Nancy and Kitty are off to London, their relationship close though (alas for our heroine) sisterly. We know that bliss will come, and it does, in an exceptionally charged moment. A lesser author would have been content to stop her story there, but Waters has much more in mind for her buttonholing heroine, and for us. In brief, her Everywoman with a sexual difference goes from success onstage to heartbreak to a stint as a male prostitute (necessity truly is the mother of invention) to keeping house for a brother and sister in the Labour movement. And did I mention her long stint as a plaything in the pleasure palace of a rich Sapphist extraordinaire? Diana Lethaby is as cruel as she is carnal, and even the well-concealed Cavendish Ladies' Club isn't outré enough for her. Kitting Nancy out in full, elegant drag, she dares the front desk to turn them away. "We are here," she mocks, "for the sake of the irregular."
Only after some seven years of hard twists and sensual turns does Nancy conclude that a life of sensation is not enough. Still, Tipping the Velvet is so entertaining that readers will wish her sentimental--and hedonistic--education had taken twice as long. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Tomi Ungerer's "Heidi": The Classic Novelby Tomi Ungerer, Johanna SpyriISBN 1570981620 (1-57098-162-0)
Hardcover, Rinehart Publishers, Roberts
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tomi Ungerer's "Heidi": The Classic Novel'Book summary:The dramatic story of Heidi has enthralled generations of children. Tom Ungerer's Heidi evokes all the charm and imaginative power of the original--here in its complete text. 150 illustrations, 30 in full-color. [via]
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The Ultimate Unauthorized Star Wars Trilogy Trivia Challengeby James Hatfield, George BurtISBN 1575661853 (1-57566-185-3)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Untouchablesby Eliot Ness, Oscar FraleyISBN 1568491980 (1-56849-198-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Untouchables'Book summary:The Untouchables is the gripping true story of the team of men who broke the back of the vicious Chicago crime mob and its stranglehold on the nation, told by the man who orchestrated the effort. Enormously successful as a long-running TV series, The Untouchables should leap onto the bestseller lists when released as a major motion picture in June, starring Robert DeNiro and Sean Connery. Reissue. [via]
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Velveteen Rabbitby Margery WilliamsISBN 1568460937 (1-56846-093-7)
Hardcover, Creative Co
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Waterworldby Max Allan CollinsISBN 1572970022 (1-57297-002-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Wayne's World: Extreme Close-Upby Mike Myers, Robin RuzanISBN 1562829793 (1-56282-979-3)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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White Teeth: Reader's Companionby Zadie SmithISBN 1568959508 (1-56895-950-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Teeth: Reader's Companion'Book summary:Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from Jamaica to Turkey to Bangladesh and back again.
Still, the book's home base is a scrubby North London borough, where we encounter Smith's unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal, who served together in the so-called Buggered Battalion during World War II. In the ensuing decades, both have gone forth and multiplied: Archie marries beautiful, bucktoothed Clara--who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother--and fathers a daughter. Samad marries stroppy Alsana, who gives birth to twin sons. Here is multiculturalism in its most elemental form: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks."
Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided, and entirely familiar. Reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. Even a simple exchange between Alsana and Clara about their pregnancies has a comical ring of truth: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's... parts." And the men, of course, have their own involvement in bodily functions:
The deal was this: on January 1, 1980, like a New Year dieter who gives up cheese on the condition that he can have chocolate, Samad gave up masturbation so that he might drink. It was a deal, a business proposition, that he had made with God: Samad being the party of the first part, God being the sleeping partner. And since that day Samad had enjoyed relative spiritual peace and many a frothy Guinness with Archibald Jones; he had even developed the habit of taking his last gulp looking up at the sky like a Christian, thinking: I'm basically a good man.
Not all of White Teeth is so amusingly carnal. The mixed blessings of assimilation, for example, are an ongoing torture for Samad as he watches his sons grow up. "They have both lost their way," he grumbles. "Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave." These classic immigrant fears--of dilution and disappearance--are no laughing matter. But in the end, they're exactly what gives White Teeth its lasting power and undeniable bite. --Eithne Farry [via]More editions of White Teeth: Reader's Companion:
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