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1984by George Orwell, Fromm, Erich (AFT)ISBN 0451524934 (0-451-52493-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0451526503 (0-451-52650-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0451519124 (0-451-51912-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0451523733 (0-451-52373-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0451526503 (0-451-52650-3)
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0451519124 (0-451-51912-4)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, James DickeyISBN 0451522729 (0-451-52272-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0451525361 (0-451-52536-1)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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- Animal Farm: ISBN 0451526341 (0-451-52634-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic - Animal Farm: ISBN 0451521560 (0-451-52156-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Animal Farm: ISBN 0451524667 (0-451-52466-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Animal Farm: ISBN 0452262771 (0-452-26277-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Animal Farm: ISBN 0452264901 (0-452-26490-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Animal Farm: ISBN 0451525361 (0-451-52536-1)
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- Animal Farm: ISBN 0451526341 (0-451-52634-1)
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0451528824 (0-451-52882-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules Verne, Jacqueline RogersISBN 0451525450 (0-451-52545-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:[via]One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days -- and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompaned by his hot-blooded manservant Passepartout. Traveling by train, steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings, natural disasters, Sioux attacks, and the dogged Inspector Fix of Scotland Yard -- who believes that Fogg has robbed the Bank of England -- to win the extraordinary wager. Around the World in 80 Days gripped audiences on its publication and remains hugely popular, combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time.
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The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroixby Stephen KingISBN 0451190556 (0-451-19055-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix'Book summary:Time has run out for one of the inmates at the Cold Mountain penitentiary. Eduard Delacroix is set to take that final walk down the Green Mile. But first he must say good-bye--to the guards, to his fellow inmates, and to a strange creature that forever changed his life. Little does he know of the terrible fate that awaits him, and of a devilish plan of revenge.
Nothing you have ever read can prepare you for Stephen King's boldest exercise in terror, a multi-part serial audiobook that begins on Death Row and burrows inward to the most horrific secrets of the heart. Put yourself in Stephen King's hands, and feel the grip get tighter and tighter. [via]
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Behind the Oscar: The Secret History of the Academy Awardsby Anthony HoldenISBN 0452271312 (0-452-27131-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 045225230X (0-452-25230-X)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beloved'Book summary:Toni Morrison gently reads her own Pulitzer Prize-winning work in the unabridged version of this riveting tale of ex-slave Sethe and the beloved ghost that haunts her. While Morrison makes occasional odd pauses in her reading, what is lost in smoothness is more than made up for in quiet intensity as the author reads words obviously deeply felt. Her intimate knowledge of the characters and their motivations lends this reading an authority that helps the listener sort out the breaks in time and dialogue in this complex story of a woman coming to terms with her enslaved past and the loss of her husband and baby daughter. (Running time: 12 hours, eight cassettes) --Kimberly Heinrichs [via]
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Bogart: In Search of My Fatherby Gary Provost, Stephen Humphrey BogartISBN 0452277043 (0-452-27704-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bogart: In Search of My Father'Book summary:Humphrey Bogart's son examines his father's life as an actor, a man, a husband, and a father, as he presents a picture of a man with a tough image that belied his ambitions and vulnerabilities. Reprint. [via]
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The Bone Collectorby Jeff DeaverISBN 0451188454 (0-451-18845-4)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bone Collector'Book summary:The hero of Jeffery Deaver's thriller The Bone Collector is Lincoln Rhyme, a forensic scientist known to his peers as "the world's foremost criminalist." Rhyme will need all his reason--and his considerable stock of high-tech tools--about him to solve this latest brain-twister: a serial killer with method to his madness. In tried and true thriller fashion, the killer's crimes are described in lurid detail, as is the astounding technological equipment with which Rhyme examines the evidence--everything from an energy-dispersive x-ray unit to a mass spectrometer.
Every fictional detective has his or her gimmick, from Sherlock Holmes's violin to Nero Wolf's orchids, and Rhyme is no exception. He is a quadriplegic who can move nothing but a single finger. Gadget-philes will be in seventh heaven reading about Lincoln Rhyme's tools; other readers might feel the book could do with a few more plausible characters and a little less technology. [via]
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Bone Collector Trade Paperby Not AvailableISBN 0451210255 (0-451-21025-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Bram Stoker's Draculaby Fred Saberhagen, James V. HartISBN 0451175751 (0-451-17575-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'Book summary:A novelisation of the film of the book. This novel is a great deal shorter than the original novel and it is much more direct and erotic. Fred Saberhagen is the author of the "Berserker" books. James Hart is the screenwriter of "Hook". [via]
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Coffey on the Mileby Stephen KingISBN 0451190572 (0-451-19057-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coffey on the Mile'Book summary:The Green Mile is creatively packaged as a six-part series of small paperbacks--serial fiction for a new age. The story, set during the Great Depression, tells of John Coffey, an African American convicted of rape and murder who awaits his death in a Southern prison. Coffey has strange powers, and the creepy characters in the prison have their own views of his gifts, and of God's. The mystery is enhanced by the succession of installments. [via]
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Coffey's Handsby Stephen KingISBN 0451190548 (0-451-19054-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Complete Film Dictionaryby Ira KonigsbergISBN 0452009804 (0-452-00980-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Roger CelestinISBN 0451529707 (0-451-52970-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:Edmond Dantes, a young sailor from Marseilles, soon to become captain of his own ship and married to his beloved, finds himself betrayed by spiteful enemies and condemned to lifelong imprisonment. A novel of intrigue, suspense and love now debuting as a Signet Classic. [via]
The Dead Zoneby Stephen KingISBN 0452273293 (0-452-27329-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Emmaby Jane Austen, Margaret DrabbleISBN 0451526279 (0-451-52627-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
The Father of Frankensteinby Christopher BramISBN 0452273374 (0-452-27337-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Gladiatorby Dewey GramISBN 0451409477 (0-451-40947-7)
Softcover, Signet
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Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 0451526716 (0-451-52671-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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- Great Expectations: ISBN 0451517598 (0-451-51759-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451525248 (0-451-52524-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451523598 (0-451-52359-8)
Hardcover, New Amer Library - Great Expectations: ISBN 0451526716 (0-451-52671-6)
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- Great Expectations: ISBN 0451517598 (0-451-51759-8)
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0451527321 (0-451-52732-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:On two voyages, an Englishman becomes shipwrecked in a land where people are six inches high, and stranded in a land of giants. [via]
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0451526929 (0-451-52692-9)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Howard Hughes : The Untold Storyby Peter H. Brown, P. H. BroeskeISBN 0451180283 (0-451-18028-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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I Never Promised You a Rose Gardenby Joanne GreenbergISBN 0451211200 (0-451-21120-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Never Promised You a Rose Garden'Book summary:Aided by a brilliant psychiatrist, and accompanied by her deeply concerned-and terrified-parents, Deborah must undertake a three-year struggle to resist the allure of madness, and rejoin the real world. Poignant and compelling, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a "convincing and emotionally gripping"* read that introduces an unforgettable young heroine-and stands as a modern classic on the topic of mental illness. [via]
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte Brontë, Erica JongISBN 0451526554 (0-451-52655-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:"Jane Eyre," Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane Eyre's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, "Jane Eyre" has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. "Jane Eyre" lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect. "At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë." -Virginia Woolf [via]
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- Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451511174 (0-451-51117-4)
Softcover, Signet - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451513479 (0-451-51347-9)
Softcover, Signet - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451514653 (0-451-51465-3)
Softcover, Signet - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451515560 (0-451-51556-0)
Softcover, Signet - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451518845 (0-451-51884-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451523326 (0-451-52332-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451526554 (0-451-52655-4)
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- Jane Eyre: ISBN 0451511174 (0-451-51117-4)
John Kobal Presents the Top 100 Moviesby John KobalISBN 0452261465 (0-452-26146-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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A Journey to the Center of the Earthby Jules VerneISBN 0451528964 (0-451-52896-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth'Book summary:In this fully dramatized adaptation of Jules Verne's classic, "Journey to the Center of the Earth", Leonard Nimoy, John de Lancie, and cast members from Star Trek feature films and all four TV series take you on an incredible journey.
"Journey to the Center of the Earth" is the story of Professor Lindenbrock, his nephew Axel and their quest for the secrets contained at the earth's core. Led by Hans, their Icelandic guide, Lindenbrock and Axel descend deeper into the planet than anyone has ever gone before... but will they make it back to the surface alive?
Featuring virtuoso performaces from the entire cast, riveting sound effects and original music, Alien Voices' production of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is an adventure in sound. [via]
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0451529820 (0-451-52982-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Of The Mohicans'Book summary:The classic story set during the French and Indian war of a man with the moral courage to severe all relations with a society he no longer can agree with. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's 1999 Movie & Video Guideby Leonard MaltinISBN 0451195825 (0-451-19582-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's 1999 Movie & Video Guide'Book summary:If you buy only one film book in your life, this should be it. Maltin is the filmgoer's guide--the most compact, intelligent, and informative reference available. Alphabetized by title, each of its more than 19,000 entries lists year of release, running time, director, principal cast, and availability on video. Other guides may offer even more information, but Maltin's is distinguished by the quality of its reviews. Rating films on a scale from "****" to "BOMB," it offers a comprehensive introduction to the international cinema, covers the classics with the respect they deserve, unearths thousands of little-known gems, takes the wind out of the overrated, and laughs at the awful with appropriate good humor. If you want proof of Maltin's versatility, compare the reviews of The Battleship Potemkin, History Is Made at Night, Blue Velvet, and The Navy vs. the Night Monsters. Standard, crucial, great fun to read, chock full of trivia, and bursting with passion for the movies. --Raphael Shargel [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Family Film Guideby Leonard MaltinISBN 0451197143 (0-451-19714-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1996by Leonard MaltinISBN 0451185056 (0-451-18505-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1996'Book summary:Featuring more than nineteen thousand entries, this comprehensive film guide encompasses capsule movie reviews, identification of movies available in video, a listing of top family films, cross-references to performers and directors, ratings, and more. [via]
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Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: Career Profiles of More Than 2,000 Actors and Filmmakers, Past and Presentby Leonard Maltin, Luke Sader, Cathleen Anderson, Spencer GreenISBN 0452270588 (0-452-27058-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyby Charles DickensISBN 0451516338 (0-451-51633-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Susan StraightISBN 0451529308 (0-451-52930-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:Little Women is the heartwarming story of the March family that has thrilled generations of readers. It is the story of four sisters--Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth-- and of the courage, humor and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during the Civil War. [via]
The Liveliest Art: A Panoramic History of the Moviesby Arthur KnightISBN 0451626524 (0-451-62652-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Making Priscilla/the Hilarious Story Behind the Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desertby Al ClarkISBN 0452274842 (0-452-27484-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Man in the Iron Maskby Alexandre DumasISBN 0451525647 (0-451-52564-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man in the Iron Mask'Book summary:Isolated since infancy, the rightful heir to the throne of England escapes from his iron mask and sets out to seek revenge on his enemies and reclaim the throne. Reprint. [via]
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Marilynby Gloria SteinemISBN 0452259827 (0-452-25982-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Mouse on the Mileby Stephen KingISBN 0451190521 (0-451-19052-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Night Journeyby Stephen KingISBN 0451190564 (0-451-19056-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Journey'Book summary:Paul Edgecombe and his fellow guards take a huge gamble by taking convicted killer John Coffey away from Death Row in the dead of night to bring him to the bedside of a woman writhing in torment. [via]
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0452254264 (0-452-25426-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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The Official Gone With the Wind Companion: The Authorized Collection of Quizzes, Trivia, Photos-And Moreby Stephen J. SpignesiISBN 0452270693 (0-452-27069-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Prince Of Beverly Hillsby Stuart WoodsISBN 0451214625 (0-451-21462-5)
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Ragtimeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0452275709 (0-452-27570-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ragtime'Book summary:An account of the interrelated lives of the families of a New Rochelle manufacturer, an immigrant socialist, and a Harlem musician and their involvements with period notables is set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century American history. Reprint. [via]
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The Road to Perditionby Max Allen CollinsISBN 0451410297 (0-451-41029-7)
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Rob Royby Scott, Walter, Sr.ISBN 0451526236 (0-451-52623-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rob Roy'Book summary:This novel, first published in 1817, achieved a huge success and helped establish the historical novel as a literary form. In rich prose and vivid description, Rob Roy follows the adventures of a businessman's son, Frank Osbaldistone, who is sent to Scotland and finds himself drawn to the powerful, enigmatic figure of Rob Roy MacGregor, the romantic outlaw who fights for justice and dignity for the Scots. This is an incomparable portrait of the haunted Highlands and Scotland's glorious past. [via]
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0451527011 (0-451-52701-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 0451516354 (0-451-51635-4)
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The Secret Agent: A Simple Taleby Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. KarlISBN 0451524160 (0-451-52416-0)
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Stargateby Dean Devlin, Roland EmmerichISBN 0451184106 (0-451-18410-6)
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A Streetcar Named Desireby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0451175166 (0-451-17516-6)
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Robert Bechtold HeilmanISBN 0451526791 (0-451-52679-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]
Too Perfectby Julie OrtolonISBN 0451217071 (0-451-21707-1)
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, Edward HublerISBN 0451521285 (0-451-52128-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, J.A. BryantISBN 0451526864 (0-451-52686-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 0451526066 (0-451-52606-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turn of the Screw'Book summary:The story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories 'round the fire on Christmas Eve. One of the guests tells about a governess at a country house plagued by supernatural visitors. But in the hands of Henry James, the master of nuance, this little tale of terror is an exquisite gem of sexual and psychological ambiguity. Only the young governess can see the ghosts; only she suspects that the previous governess and her lover are controlling the two orphaned children (a girl and a boy) for some evil purpose. The household staff don't know what she's talking about, the children are evasive when questioned, and the master of the house (the children's uncle) is absent. Why does the young girl claim not to see a perfectly visible woman standing on the far side of the lake? Are the children being deceptive, or is the governess being paranoid? By leaving the questions unanswered, The Turn of Screw generates spine-tingling anxiety in its mesmerized readers. [via]
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The Two Dead Girlsby Stephen KingISBN 0451190491 (0-451-19049-1)
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They were sisters, and the picture-perfect image of innocence. No one understood their brutal deaths, not even the man who killed them. But John Coffey is about to gain a new insight, about his life in prison, and about the one man who will walk him down that green mile [via]More editions of The Two Dead Girls:
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V Is for Vampire : The A-to-Z Guide to Everything Undeadby David J. SkalISBN 0452271738 (0-452-27173-8)
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0451522761 (0-451-52276-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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