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The Annotated Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0681322608 (0-681-32260-8)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Press
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The Arabian Nightsby Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora A. Smith, Maxfield ParrishISBN 0684195895 (0-684-19589-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights'Book summary:For nearly a century, Scribner has exemplified the very best in publishing by pairing classic texts with the illustrative giants of the time, such as N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. With the same commitment to the high standards established by the series' founders, Atheneum Books for Young Readers is expanding the Scribner Illustrated Classics line over the next several years to include such modern-day classics as Jack London's The Call of the Wild and White Fang, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and The Stories of O. Henry, to be illustrated by some of the finest artists of our generation, including Wendell Minor, Ed Young, and Trina Schart Hyman. [via]
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The Bald Banditby Ron Roy, John Steven GurneyISBN 0679884491 (0-679-88449-1)
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B is for Bandit...
In the second book of the A to Z Mysteriesan early chapter book mystery series featuring strong boy and girl charactersa bandit has robbed the Green Lawn Savings Bank! Dink and his friends Josh and Ruth Rose are ready to help. When a private detective comes to Dink's door looking for the kid who videotaped the crime, the trio volunteers to find him. After all, there's a reward! But tracking down one red-headed kid isn't such an easy job, especially if he doesn't want to be found. Dink and his friends must find that kidand his tapebefore the bandit does!
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Berenstain Bears and the Tic-Tac-Toe Mysteryby Stan BerenstainISBN 067989229X (0-679-89229-X)
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Black Castleby Les DanielsISBN 0684155338 (0-684-15533-8)
Hardcover, Scribner
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The Black Stallion's Ghostby Walter FarleyISBN 0679869506 (0-679-86950-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Stallion's Ghost'Book summary:While riding the Black in the Everglades one day, Alec meets a man astride a ghostly gray mare. Alecs fascination with the man turns to fear as he realizes the man is dangerously close to insanity. Soon Alec and the Black are caught up in a deadly chase through the depths of the Everglades, where a misstep could be fatal. [via]
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Blind Trustby Linda GrantISBN 0684191652 (0-684-19165-2)
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Blood Linesby Cynthia Harrod-EaglesISBN 0684800470 (0-684-80047-0)
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The Book of Evidenceby John BanvilleISBN 0684191806 (0-684-19180-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Evidence'Book summary:John Banvilles stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer.
Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display. [via]More editions of The Book of Evidence:
The Book of Webster'sby J.N. WilliamsonISBN 0681415983 (0-681-41598-3)
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Botanist at Bayby John SherwoodISBN 068418432X (0-684-18432-X)
Hardcover, Ap Watt Ltd
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But He Was Already Dead When I Got Thereby Barbara PaulISBN 0684186152 (0-684-18615-2)
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The Canary Caperby Ron Roy, John Steven GurneyISBN 0679885935 (0-679-88593-5)
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Canary Murder Caseby S. S. Van DineISBN 0684164043 (0-684-16404-3)
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0681416068 (0-681-41606-8)
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Citizen Vampireby Les DanielsISBN 0684168278 (0-684-16827-8)
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Civil War on Sundayby Mary Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 067989067X (0-679-89067-X)
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Cliff Hangerby Philip R. CraigISBN 0684195526 (0-684-19552-6)
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Cold Hand in Mineby Robert AickmanISBN 0684151324 (0-684-15132-4)
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The Complete Frank Miller Batmanby Frank MillerISBN 068140969X (0-681-40969-X)
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Complete Works of William Shakespeareby William ShakespeareISBN 0681410035 (0-681-41003-5)
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Condo Killby Richard BarthISBN 0684184745 (0-684-18474-5)
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The Cruel Motherby Janet LapierreISBN 0684191709 (0-684-19170-9)
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Dark Thirtyby Pat McKissack, J. Brian PinkneyISBN 0679890068 (0-679-89006-8)
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The Dark-Thirty : Southern Tales of the Supernaturalby Patricia C. McKissack, Brian PinkneyISBN 0679883355 (0-679-88335-5)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Days of Drumsby Philip ShelbyISBN 0684801779 (0-684-80177-9)
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The Deadly Dungeonby Ron Roy, John Steven GurneyISBN 0679887555 (0-679-88755-5)
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Death Dropby B.M. GillISBN 0684164647 (0-684-16464-7)
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Death in a High Latitudeby John R. L. AndersonISBN 0684181371 (0-684-18137-1)
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Death in the Cityby John R. L. AndersonISBN 0684177587 (0-684-17758-7)
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Death in the Old Countryby Eric WrightISBN 0684183846 (0-684-18384-6)
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The Devil Down Homeby Eve K. SandstromISBN 0684192683 (0-684-19268-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Dinosaurs Before Darkby Mary Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 0679924116 (0-679-92411-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dinosaurs Before Dark'Book summary:Jack and Annie are ready for their first fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade seriesthe Magic Tree House!
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Where did the tree house come from?
Before Jack and Annie can find out, the mysterious tree house whisks them to the prehistoric past. Now they have to figure out how to get home. Can they do it before dark . . . or will they become a dinosaur's dinner?
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Dolphins at Daybreakby Mary Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 067988338X (0-679-88338-X)
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Dorothy L. Sayers: A Biographyby James BrabazonISBN 0684168642 (0-684-16864-2)
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The Down Home Heifer Heistby Eve K. SandstromISBN 0684194287 (0-684-19428-7)
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The Empty Envelopeby Ron Roy, John Steven GurneyISBN 0679890548 (0-679-89054-8)
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The Falcon's Feathersby Ron Roy, John Steven GurneyISBN 0679890556 (0-679-89055-6)
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Five Past Midnightby James Stewart ThayerISBN 068480025X (0-684-80025-X)
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Flashbackby Ted WoodISBN 0684194147 (0-684-19414-7)
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Flowers of Evilby John SherwoodISBN 0684188678 (0-684-18867-8)
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Full Frontal Murderby Barbara PaulISBN 0684197162 (0-684-19716-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Full Frontal Murder'Book summary:Lieutenant Marian Larch of the New York police sees her personal and private lives collide when she is put on the case of a turbulent child custody battle, which culminates in an attempted kidnapping and murder. 10,000 first printing." [via]
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Golden Compassby Philip PullmanISBN 0679879242 (0-679-87924-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Compass'Book summary:Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal dæmon, the manifestation of their soul in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied:
As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had dæmons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them.
Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war." But Lyra's carefree existence changes forever when she and her dæmon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey dæmon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.In The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children's book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn't speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel, The Subtle Knife, will help put off that inevitability for a while longer. --Alix Wilber [via]
Good King Sauerkrautby Barbara PaulISBN 0684190893 (0-684-19089-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Goose's Goldby Ron Roy, John Steven GurneyISBN 0679890785 (0-679-89078-5)
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G is for Gold...
In the seventh book of the A to Z Mysteriesan early chapter book mystery series featuring strong boy and girl charactersDink, Josh, and Ruth Rose go to Florida on vacation. Sun, sand...and sunken treasure? They hear that someone's found an old shipwreck. Two men are collecting money in order to bring up the gold, and they're promising to share the wealth beneath the waves. Is the offer too good to be true? It's up to Dink and his friends to get to the bottom of it!
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Gram Negativeby Barbara WeinerISBN 0684186896 (0-684-18689-6)
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The Hanging Gardenby John SherwoodISBN 0684194295 (0-684-19429-5)
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The Haunted Hotelby Ron Roy, John Steven GurneyISBN 0679890793 (0-679-89079-3)
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H is for Haunted...
In the eighth book of the A to Z Mysteriesan early chapter book mystery series featuring strong boy and girl charactersa ghost has checked into the Shangri-la Hotel! It's almost Halloween, and reports of strange sounds and even stranger sights are coming from Green Lawn's only hotel. Every day, more and more guests are being scared away. Everyone else is getting scared, too! Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose must figure out what's going on and catch the ghost - before Green Lawn turns into a ghost town!
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Hope Against Hopeby Susan B. KellyISBN 0684193876 (0-684-19387-6)
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In Remembrance of Roseby M. R. D. MeekISBN 0684188325 (0-684-18832-5)
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In-Laws and Outlawsby Barbara PaulISBN 0684192632 (0-684-19263-2)
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The Innocence That Killsby Ronald LevitskyISBN 0684197073 (0-684-19707-3)
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Innocent Bloodby P. D. JamesISBN 0684165910 (0-684-16591-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Innocent Blood'Book summary:Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir.
"As a crime novel," wrote the London Times, Innocent Blood is "the peak of the art." "Flawlessly crafted...profoundly, masterfully moving," Cosmopolitan concurred. [via]
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Inspector West at Homeby John CreaseyISBN 0684133962 (0-684-13396-2)
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Just Dessertsby Tim HealdISBN 0684160986 (0-684-16098-6)
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Justice in Manhattanby Mary Higgins Clark, Thomas Chastain, Stanley CohenISBN 0681454806 (0-681-45480-6)
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The Knight at Dawnby Mary Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 0679924124 (0-679-92412-4)
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A Loose Connectionby M. R. D. MeekISBN 0684191342 (0-684-19134-2)
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Love Nor Moneyby Linda GrantISBN 0684193795 (0-684-19379-5)
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The Magiciansby James E. GunnISBN 0684147823 (0-684-14782-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magicians'Book summary:Unseen by an apathetic society, a stukpendous battle is being waged between good and evil. In the center of unassuming town, gathered in a nondescript hotel, are the most powerful forces of time eternal: the thirteen black covens. On All Hallow's Eve they unite to summon the Black Magician, the darkest and deadliest being of all time They are a rag-tag group of misfits, an inexperienced but lovely witch, an ancient sorcerer obsessed with math, and a private detective who can't seem to solve a case, but the [via]
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The Man Who Changed His Name: An Inspector Charlie Salter Mysteryby Eric O. WrightISBN 0684186357 (0-684-18635-7)
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Mans Stormby Keith HellerISBN 0684186535 (0-684-18653-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mans Storm'Book summary:First published in 1985 and now reissued, a historical crime novel set in London in 1703, where George Man investigates the murder of a woman as a great gale ravages England. From the author of SNOW ON THE MOON, MAN'S ILLEGAL LIFE and MAN'S LOVING FAMILY. [via]
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The Mantrap Gardenby John SherwoodISBN 0684187264 (0-684-18726-4)
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Marvin Redpostby Louis Sachar, Barbara SullivanISBN 067991949X (0-679-91949-X)
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Menacing Grovesby John SherwoodISBN 0684189674 (0-684-18967-4)
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Murder in a Good Causeby Medora SaleISBN 0684192160 (0-684-19216-0)
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A Mystery Readerby Nancy Ellen Talburt, Lyna Lee MontgomeryISBN 0684141043 (0-684-14104-3)
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The Night the Gods Smiledby Eric O. WrightISBN 068418009X (0-684-18009-X)
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Origin and Cause : A Crime Novelby Shelly ReubenISBN 0684197022 (0-684-19702-2)
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Painted Devilsby Robert AickmanISBN 0684159996 (0-684-15999-6)
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Pay on the Way Outby John MurphyISBN 0684142120 (0-684-14212-0)
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The Phantom Tollboothby Norton JusterISBN 0679833706 (0-679-83370-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Phantom Tollbooth'Book summary:"It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "[T]here's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored, bored young protagonist who can't see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll, and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull.
Norton Juster received (and continues to receive) enormous praise for this original, witty, and oftentimes hilarious novel, first published in 1961. In an introductory "Appreciation" written by Maurice Sendak for the 35th anniversary edition, he states, "The Phantom Tollbooth leaps, soars, and abounds in right notes all over the place, as any proper masterpiece must." Indeed.
As Milo heads toward Dictionopolis he meets with the Whether Man ("for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be"), passes through The Doldrums (populated by Lethargarians), and picks up a watchdog named Tock (who has a giant alarm clock for a body). The brilliant satire and double entendre intensifies in the Word Market, where after a brief scuffle with Officer Short Shrift, Milo and Tock set off toward the Mountains of Ignorance to rescue the twin Princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Anyone with an appreciation for language, irony, or Alice in Wonderland-style adventure will adore this book for years on end. (Ages 8 and up) [via]
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Pursued by Shadowsby Medora SaleISBN 0684195054 (0-684-19505-4)
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0681103604 (0-681-10360-4)
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Seminar for Murderby B.M. GillISBN 0684186519 (0-684-18651-9)
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September Songby Edward MathisISBN 0684192624 (0-684-19262-4)
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The Shipping Newsby Annie ProulxISBN 068419337X (0-684-19337-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shipping News'Book summary:This darkly comic, wonderfully inventive work, winner of the 1993 National Book Award, transforms the lore of Newfoundland--including shipwrecks, nautical knot-tying, horrid weather and family legend--into brilliant literary art. It is the story of the rebirth of Quoyle, a hulking, inarticulate, misery-ridden widower who flees upstate New York to take up residence in Newfoundland. The island of his forebears, Newfoundland is a dreary rock in the north Atlantic beset by lousy weather. Proulx lovingly recreates this hardscrabble location in her vivid, distinctive prose and populates it with a cast of amusing, richly human characters. Quoyle, a "third-rate newspaperman," makes a hit with his "Shipping News" column, while his anguish at the loss of his faithless wife is slowly transformed by the strengthening ties that bind him to the place and to his fellow Newfoundlanders. [via]
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Snowjobby Ted WoodISBN 0684195631 (0-684-19563-1)
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The Split Secondby M. R. D. MeekISBN 0684187345 (0-684-18734-5)
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Stone Boyby Ronald LevitskyISBN 0684195542 (0-684-19554-2)
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Subtle Knifeby Philip PullmanISBN 0679879250 (0-679-87925-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Subtle Knife'Book summary:With The Golden Compass Philip Pullman garnered every accolade under the sun. Critics lobbed around such superlatives as "elegant," "awe-inspiring," "grand," and "glittering," and used "magnificent" with gay abandon. Each reader had a favorite chapter--or, more likely, several--from the opening tour de force to Lyra's close call at Bolvangar to the great armored-bear battle. And Pullman was no less profligate when it came to intellectual firepower or singular characters. The dæmons alone grant him a place in world literature. Could the second installment of his trilogy keep up this pitch, or had his heroine and her too, too sullied parents consumed him? And what of the belief system that pervaded his alternate universe, not to mention the mystery of Dust? More revelations and an equal number of wonders and new players were definitely in order.
The Subtle Knife offers everything we could have wished for, and more. For a start, there's a young hero--from our world--who is a match for Lyra Silvertongue and whose destiny is every bit as shattering. Like Lyra, Will Parry has spent his childhood playing games. Unlike hers, though, his have been deadly serious. This 12-year-old long ago learned the art of invisibility: if he could erase himself, no one would discover his mother's increasing instability and separate them.
As the novel opens, Will's enemies will do anything for information about his missing father, a soldier and Arctic explorer who has been very much airbrushed from the official picture. Now Will must get his mother into safe seclusion and make his way toward Oxford, which may hold the key to John Parry's disappearance. But en route and on the lam from both the police and his family's tormentors, he comes upon a cat with more than a mouse on her mind: "She reached out a paw to pat something in the air in front of her, something quite invisible to Will." What seems to him a patch of everyday Oxford conceals far more: "The cat stepped forward and vanished." Will, too, scrambles through and into another oddly deserted landscape--one in which children rule and adults (and felines) are very much at risk. Here in this deathly silent city by the sea, he will soon have a dustup with a fierce, flinty little girl: "Her expression was a mixture of the very young--when she first tasted the cola--and a kind of deep, sad wariness." Soon Will and Lyra (and, of course, her dæmon, Pantalaimon) uneasily embark on a great adventure and head into greater tragedy.
As Pullman moves between his young warriors and the witch Serafina Pekkala, the magnetic, ever-manipulative Mrs. Coulter, and Lee Scoresby and his hare dæmon, Hester, there are clear signs of approaching war and earthly chaos. There are new faces as well. The author introduces Oxford dark-matter researcher Mary Malone; the Latvian witch queen Ruta Skadi, who "had trafficked with spirits, and it showed"; Stanislaus Grumman, a shaman in search of a weapon crucial to the cause of Lord Asriel, Lyra's father; and a serpentine old man whom Lyra and Pan can't quite place. Also on hand are the Specters, beings that make cliff-ghasts look like rank amateurs.
Throughout, Pullman is in absolute control of his several worlds, his plot and pace equal to his inspiration. Any number of astonishing scenes--small- and large-scale--will have readers on edge, and many are cause for tears. "You think things have to be possible," Will demands. "Things have to be true!" It is Philip Pullman's gift to turn what quotidian minds would term the impossible into a reality that is both heartbreaking and beautiful. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Sunflower Plotby John SherwoodISBN 0684192705 (0-684-19270-5)
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Things We Do for Loveby Benjamin M. SchutzISBN 0684189909 (0-684-18990-9)
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The Three Musketeersby Alexandre Dumas, Deborah G. FelderISBN 0679860177 (0-679-86017-7)
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Time and Time Againby B.M. GillISBN 0684191741 (0-684-19174-1)
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A Treasury of Victorian Detective Storiesby Everett BleilerISBN 0684176408 (0-684-17640-8)
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A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Storiesby Everett BleilerISBN 0684178230 (0-684-17823-0)
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Trophy Wifeby Kelly LangeISBN 0684801914 (0-684-80191-4)
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Two Leaps Across a Chasmby Nilolai Aleksandrov, Anthony OlcottISBN 0684194155 (0-684-19415-5)
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Wacky Jacksby David A. Adler, Heather Harms MaioneISBN 0679946969 (0-679-94696-9)
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A Woman's Placeby Linda GrantISBN 068419631X (0-684-19631-X)
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Works of Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 0681410566 (0-681-41056-6)
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You Don't Need an Enemyby Richard Martin SternISBN 0684125811 (0-684-12581-1)
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