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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: From the Winchester MSS. of Thomas Malory and Other Sourcesby John SteinbeckISBN 0345273893 (0-345-27389-3)
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The Amber Spyglassby Philip PullmanISBN 0345413377 (0-345-41337-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amber Spyglass'Book summary:From the very start of its very first scene, The Amber Spyglass will set hearts fluttering and minds racing. All we'll say here is that we immediately discover who captured Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife, though we've yet to discern whether this individual's intent is good, evil, or somewhere in between. We also learn that Will still possesses the blade that allows him to cut between worlds, and has been joined by two winged companions who are determined to escort him to Lord Asriel's mountain redoubt. The boy, however, has only one goal in mind--to rescue his friend and return to her the alethiometer, an instrument that has revealed so much to her and to readers of The Golden Compass and its follow-up. Within a short time, too, we get to experience the "tingle of the starlight" on Serafina Pekkala's skin as she seeks out a famished Iorek Byrnison and enlists him in Lord Asriel's crusade:
A complex web of thoughts was weaving itself in the bear king's mind, with more strands in it than hunger and satisfaction. There was the memory of the little girl Lyra, whom he had named Silvertongue, and whom he had last seen crossing the fragile snow bridge across a crevasse in his own island of Svalbard. Then there was the agitation among the witches, the rumors of pacts and alliances and war; and then there was the surpassingly strange fact of this new world itself, and the witch's insistence that there were many more such worlds, and that the fate of them all hung somehow on the fate of the child.
Meanwhile, two factions of the Church are vying to reach Lyra first. One is even prepared to give a priest "preemptive absolution" should he succeed in committing mortal sin. For these tyrants, killing this girl is no less than "a sacred task."In the final installment of his trilogy, Philip Pullman has set himself the highest hurdles. He must match its predecessors in terms of sheer action and originality and resolve the enigmas he already created. The good news is that there is no critical bad news--not that The Amber Spyglass doesn't contain standoffs and close calls galore. (Who would have it otherwise?) But Pullman brings his audacious revision of Paradise Lost to a conclusion that is both serene and devastating. In prose that is transparent yet lyrical and 3-D, the author weaves in and out of his principals' thoughts. He also offers up several additional worlds. In one, Dr. Mary Malone is welcomed into an apparently simple society. The environment of the mulefa (again, we'll reveal nothing more) makes them rich in consciousness while their lives possess a slow and stately rhythm. These strange creatures can, however, be very fast on their feet (or on other things entirely) when necessary. Alas, they are on the verge of dying as Dust streams out of their idyllic landscape. Will the Oxford dark-matter researcher see her way to saving them, or does this require our young heroes? And while Mary is puzzling out a cure, Will and Lyra undertake a pilgrimage to a realm devoid of all light and hope, after having been forced into the cruelest of sacrifices--or betrayals.
Throughout his galvanizing epic, Pullman sustains scenes of fierce beauty and tenderness. He also allows us a moment or two of comic respite. At one point, for instance, Lyra's mother bullies a series of ecclesiastical underlings: "The man bowed helplessly and led her away. The guard behind her blew out his cheeks with relief." Needless to say, Mrs. Coulter is as intoxicating and fluid as ever. And can it be that we will come to admire her as she plays out her desperate endgame? In this respect, as in many others, The Amber Spyglass is truly a book of revelations, moving from darkness visible to radiant truth. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Ancient Eveningsby Norman MailerISBN 0316544108 (0-316-54410-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Blackwood Farmby Anne RiceISBN 0345443683 (0-345-44368-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blackwood Farm'Book summary:In this luminous novel, Anne Rice fuses here seductive vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches to ggive us a world of classic Deep South luzury and ancestral secrets. [via]
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fableby Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Ivor H. EvansISBN 0304935700 (0-304-93570-0)
Hardcover, Cassel
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fableby Ivor H. Evans, Ebenezer Cobham BrewerISBN 0304307068 (0-304-30706-8)
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The Case of Charles Dexter Wardby H. P. LovecraftISBN 0345354907 (0-345-35490-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward'Book summary:Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in a quiet town near Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits are being resurrected from beyond the grave, a supernatural force so twisted that it kills without offering the mercy of death! [via]
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Cassell's Dictionary of Classical Mythologyby Jennifer R. MarchISBN 030435788X (0-304-35788-X)
Softcover, Cassell
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cassell's Dictionary of Classical Mythology'Book summary:An award winner by an expert on ancient Greek culture! Gods and goddesses, personalities and places, history and archeology: this fascinating and superbly authoritative work taps into the richest veins of the classical world--its mythology. It covers all the principal stories, characters (divine, human, and animal), sacred sites, and important events that shaped past civilizations...and our own. Extensive quotations from the original sources and over 100 illustrations enliven more than 400 articles.[via]More editions of Cassell's Dictionary of Classical Mythology:
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Child of the Prophecyby Juliet MarillierISBN 0312870361 (0-312-87036-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Child of the Prophecy'Book summary:The powerful fantasy novel Child of the Prophecy successfully concludes Juliet Marillier's Sevenwaters Trilogy, which chronicles a fated family's three-generation struggle to preserve the failing magic of ancient Ireland.
The daughter of a forbidden romance, Fianne has been raised in isolation and trained in magic by her loving but remote druid-father, Ciaran, and her ruthless sorceress-grandmother, the Lady Oonagh. They send Fianne to Sweetwaters to live among relatives who had no knowledge of her existence and who may have instigated the death of her mother, their sister Niamh. Fianne has come to carry out her grandmother's long-planned vengeance on the clan--and on the Old Ones, who are the source of Ireland's mystic power. Despite her mother's death, Fianne is reluctant to harm her Sweetwaters kin. But if she lets them live, the Lady Oonagh will kill both her father and Darragh, the handsome young horse tamer who has captured Fianne's heart.
Child of the Prophecy works as a standalone novel, but readers will benefit by first reading its equally accomplished prequels, Daughter of the Forest and Son of the Shadows. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Chinese Mythsby Anne BirrellISBN 0292708793 (0-292-70879-3)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0307350428 (0-307-35042-8)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude'Book summary:Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo .
Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]More editions of Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude:
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Daughter of the Forestby Juliet MarillierISBN 0312875304 (0-312-87530-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daughter of the Forest'Book summary:At the heart of this surprisingly accomplished first novel, first book of the Sevenwaters trilogy, is a retelling of an ancient Celtic legend. Marillier's story, however, is much more than a slightly disguised fairy tale. Young Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Irish Lord Colum of Sevenwaters, a domain well protected from invading Saxons and Britons by dense forest where, legend says, fey Deirdre, the Lady of the Forest, walks the woodland paths at night. Colum is first and foremost a warrior, bent on maintaining his lands against all outsiders. Not all of his sons are so bound to the old ways, and that family friction leads to outright disobedience when Sorcha and her brother Finbar help a Briton captive escape from Colum's dungeon. Soon after, Colum brings home a new wife who ensorcels everyone she can't otherwise manipulate. By her spell Sorcha's brothers are cursed to become swans. Only Sorcha, hiding deep in the forest, can break the spell by painfully weaving shirts of starwort nettle--but then Sorcha is captured by Britons and taken away across the sea. Determined to break the curse despite her captivity, Sorcha continues to work, little expecting that ultimately she will have to chose between saving her brothers and protecting the Briton lord who has defended her throughout her trials. Marillier's writing is deft and heartfelt, bypassing the usual bombast of fantasy fireworks for a rich, magical story of loyalty and love. --Charlene Brusso [via]
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Darkby Carl SaganISBN 0345409469 (0-345-40946-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark'Book summary:"A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought." *Los Angeles Times "POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing." *The Washington Post Book World How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don't understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions. Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. And yet, disturbingly, in today's so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms. "COMPELLING." *USA Today "A clear vision of what good science means and why it makes a difference. . . . A testimonial to the power of science and a warning of the dangers of unrestrained credulity." *The Sciences "PASSIONATE." *San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle [via]
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The Dragon Queenby Alice BorchardtISBN 0345444000 (0-345-44400-0)
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The Eagle: The Concluding Volume of the Camulod Chroniclesby Jack WhyteISBN 0312870078 (0-312-87007-8)
Hardcover, Forge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eagle: The Concluding Volume of the Camulod Chronicles'Book summary:[via]Beginning with The Skystone, the first in his riveting Camulod Chronciles, Jack Whyte has embarked on an ambitious and remarkable re-telling of the Arthurian cycle, giving us a fresh and compelling take on a story that has been beloved for centuries.
The Eagle brings us at last to the heart of the tale, the creation of fabled Camelot and the love story that enshrined its glory. Whyte takes us into the minds and lives of Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, three astonishing but fallible people who were bound together by honor, loyalty, and love. Three who created the glory that was Britain's shining dream&and, some say, caused its downfall.
The Gaulish nobleman Clothar--known in our time as Lancelot--is drawn to the young High King's court by tales of honor and nobility, where he meets a man whose love of law matches his own. More, he finds in Arthur a life-long friend whose dream of uniting the people of Britain in peace Clothar embraces. And Clothar meets Arthur's queen, a wondrous beauty whose passion and ideals match her husband's. Together they work to bring Arthur's dream to life.
But dark forces rise in opposition to Arthur's plans for creating this noble island nation and it is hard to tell friend from foe in the swirling chaos that ensues. Many tales have been told of the dream that shined and died. This one will astonish even the most jaded.More editions of The Eagle: The Concluding Volume of the Camulod Chronicles:
The Eagles' Broodby Jack WhyteISBN 0312852894 (0-312-85289-4)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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The Feast of All Saintsby Anne RiceISBN 0345334531 (0-345-33453-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feast of All Saints'Book summary:Before the Civil War, there lived in Louisiana, people unique in Southern history. For though they were descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. In this dazzling historical novel, Anne Rice chronicles four of these so-called Free People of Color--men and women caught periolously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.
"Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere....She makes us believe everything she sees."
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The Flight of the Horseby Larry NivenISBN 0345334183 (0-345-33418-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Fort at River's Bendby Jack WhyteISBN 031286597X (0-312-86597-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Foucault's Pendulumby Umberto EcoISBN 0345368754 (0-345-36875-4)
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Three clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires, they think they are creating a long lazy game--until the game starts taking over....
Here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco--or indeed anyone--has ever devised.
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Johanna M. SmithISBN 031219126X (0-312-19126-X)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:From the Longman Cultural Editions series, this second edition of Frankenstein p resents Mary Shelley's remarkable novel in several provocative and illuminating contexts: cultural, critical, and literary.
Series Editor Susan J. Wolfson presents the 1818 version of Mary Shelley's famous novel in its cultural and historical contexts. Like all great works of fiction, Frankenstein gains depth and dimension from its "conversation" with contemporary texts, especially those by Shelley's own parents, husband, and friends. A lively introduction is complemented by a chronology coordinating Shelley's life with key historical events and a speculative calendar of the novel's events in the late eighteenth century. In addition to the 1818 text, this cultural edition features the introduction to and a sample revision of the 1831 version. New to this Edition is Frankentalk, a section of selected references to Frankenstein in the popular press, and the complete text of Richard Brinsley Peakes Frankenstein, A Romantic Drama, the first stage version of Frankenstein.
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Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins - Frankenstein: ISBN 0312249489 (0-312-24948-9)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins - Frankenstein: ISBN 0330241885 (0-330-24188-5)
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Frankenstein Mary Shelleyby J. SmithISBN 0312044690 (0-312-04469-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein Mary Shelley'Book summary:This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelleys English Romantic novel along with critical essays that introduce students to Frankenstein from contemporary psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gender, and cultural studies perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how various critical perspectives can be combined. In the second edition, 3 of the 6 essays are new. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.[via]More editions of Frankenstein Mary Shelley:
Freaky Fablesby J.B. HandelsmanISBN 0312303610 (0-312-30361-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Golden Treasury of Myths and Legends Adapted from the World's Great Classicsby Anne Terry WhiteISBN 030760747X (0-307-60747-X)
Hardcover, Goldencraft
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Greek Mythsby Lucilla BurnISBN 0292727488 (0-292-72748-8)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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His Dark Materialsby Philip PullmanISBN 0345448898 (0-345-44889-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'His Dark Materials'Book summary:In an epic trilogy, Philip Pullman unlocks the door to a world parallel to our own, but with a mysterious slant all its own. Dæmons and winged creatures live side by side with humans, and a mysterious entity called Dust just might have the power to unite the universes--if it isn't destroyed first. Here, the three paperback titles in Pullman's heroic fantasy series are united in one dazzling boxed set. Join Lyra, Pantalaimon, Will, and the rest as they embark on the most breathtaking, heartbreaking adventures of their lives. The fate of the universe is in their hands. The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass pit good against evil in a way no reader will ever forget. (Ages 13 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Historianby Elizabeth KostovaISBN 0316154547 (0-316-15454-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Historian'Book summary:a novel about Vlad the Impaler and the modern world [via]
The Iliad of Homer, Books I-XIIby Homer, Malcolm M. WillcockISBN 0333157389 (0-333-15738-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan Education
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The Illustrated Golden Boughby Mary Douglas, Sabine MacCormack, James George FrazerISBN 0333244923 (0-333-24492-3)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Golden Bough'Book summary:"One of the 20th century's most influential books" (Time), Sir James George Frazer's masterwork, The Golden Bough, has become the classic study of the origins of magic and religion. Here is a brilliantly illustrated abridgement of the 12-volume masterpiece that includes 200 illustrations, 100 in color. Large format. [via]
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Interview With the Vampireby Anne RiceISBN 0345337662 (0-345-33766-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interview With the Vampire'Book summary:In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their "dark gift" to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis' first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.
While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy in subsequent Vampire novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The Vampire Armand), Interview remains a treasured masterpiece. It is that rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of the human condition. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Jack of Kinrowanby Charles De LintISBN 0312869592 (0-312-86959-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Name of the Roseby Umberto Eco, William Weaver, David LodgeISBN 0307264890 (0-307-26489-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A spectacular best seller and now a classic, The Name of the Rose catapulted Umberto Eco, an Italian professor of semiotics turned novelist, to international prominence. An erudite murder mystery set in a fourteenth-century monastery, it is not only a gripping story but also a brilliant exploration of medieval philosophy, history, theology, and logic.
In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville is sent to investigate a wealthy Italian abbey whose monks are suspected of heresy. When his mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths patterned on the book of Revelation, Brother William turns detective, following the trail of a conspiracy that brings him face-to-face with the abbeys labyrinthine secrets, the subversive effects of laughter, and the medieval Inquisition. Caught in a power struggle between the emperor he serves and the pope who rules the Church, Brother William comes to see that what is at stake is larger than any mere political disputethat his investigation is being blocked by those who fear imagination, curiosity, and the power of ideas.
The Name of the Rose offers the reader not only an ingeniously constructed mysterycomplete with secret symbols and coded manuscriptsbut also an unparalleled portrait of the medieval world on the brink of profound transformation. [via]More editions of The Name of the Rose:
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Night of the Wolfby Alice BorchardtISBN 0345423631 (0-345-42363-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night of the Wolf'Book summary:Night of the Wolf interweaves a tale of the Roman Empire with magic, romance, and--lycanthropy. It follows The Silver Wolf, Alice Borchardt's absorbing story of the coming of age of a young woman who must learn to control and enjoy her wild side within the exotic setting of decadent Rome. This sequel begins by focusing on a mysterious figure from The Silver Wolf, Maeniel, a wolf who must contend with being a part-time human. Some of the other characters are magical in their own ways, such as Dryas, a warrior queen and priestess of the Caledoni. Others are resolutely human, such as Lucius, a Roman noble who finds himself at the mercy of Caesar and Cleopatra. Maeniel gradually begins to understand the quirks of human nature and in time finds that all roads lead to Rome, where Caesar's life is in the hands of Maeniel and his allies. With an adventurous plot, an unusual historical background, and a large helping of steamy sex scenes, this series should be much to the taste of fans of Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon or Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. --Blaise Selby [via]
Norse Mythsby R.I. PageISBN 0292755465 (0-292-75546-5)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Platte Riverby Rick BassISBN 0345392493 (0-345-39249-3)
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The Poetic Eddaby Lee Milton Hollander, Lee M. HollanderISBN 0292764995 (0-292-76499-5)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poetic Edda'Book summary:The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of the North during the late heathen and early Christian times.
Collected by an unidentified Icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, The Poetic Edda was rediscovered in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Danish scholars. Even then its value as poetry, as a source of historical information, and as a collection of entertaining stories was recognized. This meticulous translation succeeds in reproducing the verse patterns, the rhythm, the mood, and the dignity of the original in a revision that Scandinavian Studies says "may well grace anyone's bookshelf."
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The Portable Promise Landby ToureISBN 0316738360 (0-316-73836-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Queen of the Damnedby Anne RiceISBN 0345351525 (0-345-35152-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Queen of the Damned'Book summary:Did you ever wonder where all those mischievous vampires roaming the globe in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles came from? In this, the third book in the series, we find out. That raucous rock-star vampire Lestat interrupts the 6,000-year slumber of the mama of all bloodsuckers, Akasha, Queen of the Damned.
Akasha was once the queen of the Nile (she has a bit in common with the Egyptian goddess Isis), and it's unwise to rile her now that she's had 60 centuries of practice being undead. She is so peeved about male violence that she might just have to kill most of them. And she has her eye on handsome Lestat with other ideas as well.
If you felt that the previous books in the series weren't gory and erotic enough, this one should quench your thirst (though it may cause you to omit organ meats from your diet). It also boasts God's plenty of absorbing lore that enriches the tale that went before, including the back-story of the boy in Interview with the Vampire and the ancient fellowship of the Talamasca, which snoops on paranormal phenomena. Mostly, the book spins the complex yarn of Akasha's eerie, brooding brood and her nemeses, the terrifying sisters Maharet and Mekare. In one sense, Queen of the Damned is the ultimate multigenerational saga. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Raven Steals the Lightby Bill Reid, Robert BringhurstISBN 0295975245 (0-295-97524-5)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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The Raven Warriorby Alice BorchardtISBN 0345444019 (0-345-44401-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Raven Warrior: The Tales of Guinevereby Alice BorchardtISBN 0345444027 (0-345-44402-7)
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Born of the Highlands, along Pictish shores washed by the icy North Sea, Guinevere, Queen of the Dragon People, has become a woman. She has taken the power offered to her by the Dragon Throne. Now there is no turning back. In order to protect her beloved homeland from the obscene greed of the Saxon raiders, Guinevere knows she must launch an attack. The sub-chiefs refuse to fall in line with her plans (because what does this young thing, barely a woman, know of warfare?) and give her an army of the useless, the outcast, the weakest of their young boys and girls. But the war party must proceed. If it fails, the command of both land and sea will fall to the enemy.
Facing her first battle against the pirates on foreign shores, and backed only by a meager band of ill-equipped fighters, Guinevere calls upon the spirits of the dead to aid her in the attack. Diving into the dark, morbid depths, Guinevere suddenly understands more of hate, love, anger, and revenge than she has ever wanted to. But the power the dead provide comes at a severe price. If she makes it through the raid, she will be a changed woman, in more ways than she can possibly imagine.
Further south, Black Leg, her childhood companion, sets out on his own. It is a quest to become a mana man, he hopes, who will be worthy of the newly crowned Guinevere. A shapeshifter and the son of Guineveres adoptive man-wolf father, Black Leg (soon to be Lancelot) feels he has much to learnand even more to prove. He discovers both his inner strength and an unmitigated passion when he meets the Lady of the Lake. But the trials of his journey both mental and physicalturn out to be more perilous with each step. And when Lancelot and Guinevere are finally reunited, the consequences of both their ordeals will unleash a torrent of anguish and desire.
With familiar names brilliantly repositioned for a new generation of Arthurian fansevil Merlin, conniving Igrane, complex Lancelot, tainted Arthur, and of course, warrior GuinevereAlice Borchardts creation stands as a testament to the power of imagination.
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The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Travellerby Giles MiltonISBN 031242129X (0-312-42129-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveller'Book summary:Sir John Mandeville, a medieval English knight, was either one of history's greatest explorers or one of its greatest liars, depending on how one reads the pages of his Travels. Christopher Columbus took his words as a veritable guidebook, using it, Giles Milton writes, to convince the Spanish crown to fund his American voyages. The Victorians were not so kind, dismissing the wanderer--who, after all, wrote that in the Indian Ocean "there is a race of great stature, like giants ... they have one eye only, in the middle of their foreheads"--as an uncritical fabulist at best, a charlatan at worst.
Giles Milton, a student of exploration history, gives us reasons aplenty to question Mandeville's accuracy at points, but he is inclined to think that the knight actually did see at least some of the things he reported in his enormously influential book. Tracing Mandeville's trail to the Middle East and beyond, he considers the historical realities that underlie Mandeville's tales, from the gems that lie strewn among the reeds of Indonesia (which Milton guesses might be crystal-like secretions from bamboo plants) to the fabulous Christian kingdom of Prester John somewhere far out on the plains of Mongolia (where, Milton reminds us, Nestorian Christians were once common). His conclusion, well argued in the course of this witty and delightful book, is that although Mandeville is not always taken literally, he really did go crusading off in distant lands, and he certainly deserves to be rediscovered today, not least for what his work tells us about the medieval mind.
Readers new to Mandeville will find this a spirited introduction, and those already fond of The Travels will enjoy following Milton's parallel voyages. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Riddley Walkerby Russell HobanISBN 0330266454 (0-330-26645-4)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Riddley Walker'Book summary:'Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.' Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece. [via]
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Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts: Nine Questions to Ask Before (And After) You Remarryby Les ParrottISBN 0310207487 (0-310-20748-7)
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Saxon Shore: The Camulod Chroniclesby Jack WhyteISBN 0312865961 (0-312-86596-1)
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The Season of Passageby Christopher PikeISBN 0312851154 (0-312-85115-4)
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Servant of the Bonesby Anne RiceISBN 0345389417 (0-345-38941-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Servant of the Bones'Book summary:Her first book since Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, genji, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to the Europe of the Black Death and to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction. [via]
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Silmarillionby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345325818 (0-345-32581-8)
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The Silver Wolfby Alice BorchardtISBN 0345423615 (0-345-42361-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Silver Wolf'Book summary:Regeane is a fatherless royal relation who happens to be a werewolf. Her guardian, Gundabald, and his venal son Hugo plan to recoup their fortunes by marrying Regeane to a wealthy bridegroom, even though she might inadvertently make him into a bedtime snack. Gundabald forces her into apparent compliance by threatening to reveal her secret to the Church, which would burn her at the stake. As the bridegroom, Maeniel, journeys to Rome to claim her, Regeane discovers allies in her quest to defeat Gundabald's machinations, including some very strong, funny, and levelheaded women. Unfortunately for Regeane, she also has more powerful enemies than Gundabald.
Alice Borchardt brings 8th-century Rome vividly to life. Her language is earthy and sensuously descriptive: "The wolf visited Regeane's eyes and ears. The girl staggered slightly with the shock. The light in the square became intense. Smells an overwhelming experience: wet stone, damp air, musty clothing, perspirations shading from ancient sticky filth to fresh acrid adrenal alarm."
Borchardt is Anne Rice's sister, but she writes a very different sort of tale. Ghosts, the dead, and supernatural forces are here, but so is laugh-out-loud humor and a happy ending. --Nona Vero [via]
The Singing Swordby Jack WhyteISBN 0312852924 (0-312-85292-4)
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The Skystoneby Jack WhyteISBN 0312860919 (0-312-86091-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Skystone'Book summary:How do you find a new way to approach a story as familiar as any in the English language? If you're Jack Whyte, you begin your retelling of the Arthurian saga by taking one giant step backward to the latter days of the Roman Empire in Britain, sometime between the first breaching of Hadrian's Wall and the legendary days of King Arthur. Publius Varrus is the last legionnaire in Britain, and The Skystone is in many ways his story. He is a common man with aristocratic friends, and successful both as a soldier and an ironsmith. As the Roman world slowly crumbles around them, and Publius becomes involved in a political and personal vendetta, he and his friends seek to establish a refuge, a valley where the old Roman virtues will be kept alive and the empire's many faults be avoided.
A finely crafted historical novel, The Skystone pays close attention to the details of everyday life in fourth-century Britain. As the first book in Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, it makes few allusions to the usual details of the Arthurian legends until Publius comes into contact with a sword, a stone, a lake, and a Celtic tribe who name themselves Pendragon. Greg L. Johnson [via]
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Son of the Shadowsby Juliet MarillierISBN 0312875290 (0-312-87529-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Son of the Shadows'Book summary:Second of the Sevenwaters trilogy of novels about the last days of heroic Ireland, Son of the Shadows takes up the story of the children of Sorcha, who saved her enchanted brothers, and Hugh, the Briton she married. Sorcha's daughter Liadan is a gifted seer and healer who thinks, in spite of her visions, that she knows what the future has in store for her--caring for her dying mother and then an alliance marriage to Eamonn. A chance meeting on the road carries her off to care for a dying man--one of the mercenaries of the sinister Painted Man, Eamonn's archenemy and a killer for hire. Liadan discovers that she cannot choose whom she loves and that she and the Painted Man are as bound up in destiny as her mother and father were before her.
This is an intelligent historical romance in which the supernatural is a part of the character's everyday lives to an extent that makes it hard to think of the book as specifically a fantasy--these are people to whom the beings of forest speak on a regular basis and to whom sorcery is real. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
The Sorcererby Jack WhyteISBN 0312865988 (0-312-86598-8)
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Soul Cityby ToureISBN 0312425163 (0-312-42516-3)
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The Tale of the Body Thiefby Anne RiceISBN 034538475X (0-345-38475-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tale of the Body Thief'Book summary:It's been said that Vladimir Nabokov's best novels are the ones he wrote after starting a failed novel. Anne Rice wrote The Body Thief, the fourth thrilling episode of her Vampire Chronicles, right after she spent a long time poring over that most romantic of horror novels, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to research a novel Rice abandoned about an artificial man. Perhaps as a result of Shelley's influence, The Body Thief is far more psychologically penetrating than its predecessors, with a laser-like focus on a single tormented soul. Oh, we meet some wild new characters, and Rice's toothsome vampire-hero Lestat zooms around the globe--as is his magical habit--from Miami to the Gobi desert, but he's in such despair that he trades his immortal body to a con man named Raglan James, who offers him in return two days of strictly mortal bliss.
Lestat has always had a faulty impulse-control valve, and it gets him in truly intriguing trouble this time. On the plus side, he gets to experience romance with a nun and orange juice--"thick like blood, but full of sweetness." But Lestat is horrified by an uncommon cold, and his toilet training proves traumatic. He's also got to catch Raglan James, who has no intention of giving up his dishonestly acquired new superpowered body. Lestat enlists the help of David Talbot, a mortal in the Talamasca, a secret society of immortal watchers described in Queen of the Damned.
The swapping of bodies and supernatural stories is choice, and there's even a moral: never give a bloodsucker an even break. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Tales before Tolkienby Douglas A. AndersonISBN 0345458559 (0-345-45855-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales before Tolkien'Book summary:A superb collection, a splendid and much-needed book. Anderson has cleared away the dross and shown us the golden roots of fantasy before it became a genre.
Michael Moorcock, author of The Eternal Champion
Many of todays top names in fantasy acknowledge J.R.R. Tolkien as the author whose work inspired them to create their own epics. But which writers influenced Tolkien himself? In a collection destined to become a classic in its own right, internationally recognized Tolkien expert Douglas A. Anderson, editor of The Annotated Hobbit, has gathered the fiction of the many gifted authors who sparked Tolkiens imagination. Included are Andrew Langs romantic swashbuckler The Story of Sigurd, which features magic rings and a ferocious dragon; an excerpt from E. A. Wyke-Smiths The Marvelous Land of Snergs, about creatures who were precursors to Tolkiens hobbits; and a never-before-published gem by David Lindsay, author of A Voyage to Arcturus, a novel that Tolkien praised highly both as a thriller and as a work of philosophy, religion, and morality.
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Tales Before Tolkien : The Roots of Modern Fantasyby Douglas A. AndersonISBN 0345458540 (0-345-45854-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales Before Tolkien : The Roots of Modern Fantasy'Book summary:TALES BEFORE TOLKIEN
The Roots of Modern Fantasy
Classic Stories that Inspired the Author of The Lord of the Rings
Edited and with commentary by Douglas A. Anderson
Editor of The Annotated Hobbit
Once upon a time, fantasy writers were looked down upon by the literary mainstream as purveyors of mere escapism or, at best, bedtime tales fit only for children. Today fantasy novels stand atop the bestseller lists, while fantasy films smash box office records. Fantasy dominates the role-playing and computer gaming industries, and classic works in the genre are taught in schools and universities throughout the world. Credit for this amazing turnaround belongs to one man more than any other: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, the beloved author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Terry Brooks. David Eddings. George R. R. Martin. Robin Hobb. The top names in modern fantasy all acknowledge J. R. R. Tolkien as their model and master, the author whose work first fired their imaginations and inspired them to create their own epics. But what writers influenced Tolkien himself? Sir Isaac Newton once wrote, If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. As with the scientific genius of Newton, so, too, with the literary genius of Tolkien. Now internationally recognized Tolkien expert Douglas A. Anderson has gathered the fiction of some of those giants together for the first time in a collection destined to become a classic in its own right.
In The Golden Key, the inspiration for Tolkiens short story Smith of Wootton Major, George MacDonald tells the tale of a boy whose quest for the end of the rainbow leads beyond the borders of the world. Andrew Langs romantic tale, The Story of Sigurd, features magic rings, an enchanted sword, and a brave hero loved by two beautiful womenand cursed by a ferocious dragon. Tolkien read E. A. Wyke-Smiths The Marvelous Land of Snergs to his children, delighting in these charming tales of a pixieish people only slightly taller than the average table. Also appearing in this collection is a never-before-published gem by David Lindsay, author of Voyage to Arcturus, a novel which Tolkien praised highly both as a thriller and as a work of philosophy, religion, and morals.
In stories packed with magical journeys, conflicted heroes, and terrible beasts, this extraordinary volume is one that no fan of fantasy or Tolkien should be without. These tales just might inspire a new generation of creative writers.
Tales Before Tolkien: 22 Magical Stories
The Elves by Ludwig Tieck
The Golden Key by George MacDonald
Puss-Cat Mew by E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen
The Griffin and the Minor Canon by Frank R. Stockton
The Demon Pope by Richard Garnett
The Story of Sigurd by Andrew Lang
The Folk of the Mountain Door by William Morris
Black Heart and White Heart by H. Rider Haggard
The Dragon Tamers by E. Nesbit
The Far Islands by John Buchan
The Drawn Arrow by Clemence Housman
The Enchanted Buffalo by L. Frank Baum
Chu-bu and Sheemish by Lord Dunsany
The Baumhoff Explosive by William Hope Hodgson
The Regent of the North by Kenneth Morris
The Coming of the Terror by Arthur Machen
The Elf Trap by Francis Stevens
The Thin Queen of Elfhame by James Branch Cabell
The Woman of the Wood by A. Merritt
Golithos the Ogre by E. A. Wyke-Smith
The Story of Alwina by Austin Tappan Wright
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Taltosby Anne RiceISBN 0345404319 (0-345-40431-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Taltos'Book summary:In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice... [via]
Tam Linby Pamela DeanISBN 0312851375 (0-312-85137-5)
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The Vampire Lestatby Anne RiceISBN 0345313860 (0-345-31386-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vampire Lestat'Book summary:After the spectacular debut of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in Cry to Heaven and the Free People of Color in The Feast of All Saints. But Lestat, the mischievous creator of Louis in Interview, finally emerged to tell his own story in the 1985 sequel, The Vampire Lestat.
As with the first book in the series, the novel begins with a frame narrative. After over a half century underground, Lestat awakens in the 1980s to the cacophony of electronic sounds and images that characterizes the MTV generation. Particularly, he is captivated by a fledgling rock band named Satan's Night Out. Determined both to achieve international fame and end the centuries of self-imposed vampire silence, Lestat takes command of the band (now renamed "The Vampire Lestat") and pens his own autobiography. The remainder of the novel purports to be that autobiography: the vampire traces his mortal youth as the son of a marquis in pre-Revolutionary France, his initiation into vampirism at the hands of Magnus, and his quest for the ultimate origins of his undead species.
While very different from the first novel in the Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat has proved to be the foundation for a broader range of narratives than is possible from Louis's brooding, passive perspective. The character of Lestat is one of Rice's most complex and popular literary alter egos, and his Faustian strivings have a mythopoeic resonance that links the novel to a grand tradition of spiritual and supernatural fiction. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Realityby Paul BarberISBN 0300048599 (0-300-04859-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality'Book summary:In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires, his book is fascinating reading. [via]
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Violinby Anne RiceISBN 0345424468 (0-345-42446-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Violin/Open Market Edition'Book summary:If neatness counts for you, don't count on Anne Rice's musical-ghost novel Violin. It is an eruption of the author's personal demons, as messy as the monster bursting from that poor fellow's chest in the movie Alien. Like Rice, the heroine Triana lives in New Orleans, mourns a dead young daughter and a drunken mother, and is subject to uncanny visions. A violin-virtuoso ghost named Stefan time-trips and globetrots with Triana, taunting her for her inability to play his Stradivarius--which echoes composer Salieri's jealousy in Amadeus and possibly Rice's jealousy of her successful poet husband Stan Rice in the years before her own florid, lurid writing made her famous. The storytelling here is too abstract, but the almost certainly autobiographical emotions could not be more visceral. At one point, the narrator exclaims, "Shame, blame, maim, pain, vain!" But Rice's dip in the acid bath of memory was not in vain--she packs the pain of a lifetime into 289 pages. [via]
The Weirdstone of Brinsingamenby Alan GarnerISBN 0345290437 (0-345-29043-7)
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Who's Who in Classical Mythologyby Michael Grant, John HazelISBN 0297766007 (0-297-76600-7)
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The Wicked Dayby Mary StewartISBN 0340322373 (0-340-32237-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wicked Day'Book summary:Far from being the scourge of Arthur, his bastard son Mordred actually strives to resist Merlin's prophecy of doom. But he is thwarted by the schemes of his sorceress mother, Queen Morgause, who has brought him up to be her revenge incarnate, and by misunderstandings beyond his control. Prophecy triumphs, and the confrontation that is as fatal as it is inevitable is played out against the darkened walls of the city of Camelot. [via]
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The Witching Hourby Anne RiceISBN 0345367898 (0-345-36789-8)
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The Wolf Kingby Alice BorchardtISBN 0345423658 (0-345-42365-8)
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Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0307350274 (0-307-35027-4)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude'Book summary:Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo .
Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]More editions of Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude:
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