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Among Schoolchildrenby Tracy KidderISBN 0395475910 (0-395-47591-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Among Schoolchildren'Book summary:Brimming with the exuberance and innocence of childhood, Among School Children is the intense and affecting chronicle of a Holyoke, Massachusetts, fifth-grade teacher's passionate dedication to the children in her classroom.#Houghton Mifflin. (Nonfiction) [via]
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Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian AndersenISBN 0448060051 (0-448-06005-1)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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An Anthropologist in Japan: Glimpses of Life in the Fieldby Joy HendryISBN 0415195748 (0-415-19574-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Art of Eating: Five Gastronomical Worksby M. F. K. FisherISBN 0394713990 (0-394-71399-0)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Eating: Five Gastronomical Works'Book summary:A collection of essays by one of America's best known food writers, that are often more autobiographical or historical than anecdotal musings on food preparation and consumption. The book includes culinary advice to World War II housewives plagued by food shortages, portraits of family members and friends (with all their idiosyncrasies) and notes on her studies at the University of Dijon, in France. Through each story she weaves her love of food and passion for cooking, and illustrates that our three basic needs as human beings--love, food and security--are so intermingled that it is difficult to think of one without the others. The book won the 1989 James Beard Cookbook Award. [via]
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The Art of Fictionby John GardnerISBN 0394725441 (0-394-72544-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 0394535979 (0-394-53597-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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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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The Bonesetter's Daughterby Amy TanISBN 0399146857 (0-399-14685-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'Book summary:At the beginning of Amy Tan's fourth novel, two packets of papers written in Chinese calligraphy fall into the hands of Ruth Young. One bundle is titled Things I Know Are True and the other, Things I Must Not Forget. The author? That would be the protagonist's mother, LuLing, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In these documents the elderly matriarch, born in China in 1916, has set down a record of her birth and family history, determined to keep the facts from vanishing as her mind deteriorates.
A San Francisco career woman who makes her living by ghostwriting self-help books, Ruth has little idea of her mother's past or true identity. What's more, their relationship has tended to be an angry one. Still, Ruth recognizes the onset of LuLing's decline--along with her own remorse over past rancor--and hires a translator to decipher the packets. She also resolves to "ask her mother to tell her about her life. For once, she would ask. She would listen. She would sit down and not be in a hurry or have anything else to do."
Framed at either end by Ruth's chapters, the central portion of The Bonesetter's Daughter takes place in China in the remote, mountainous region where anthropologists discovered Peking Man in the 1920s. Here superstition and tradition rule over a succession of tiny villages. And here LuLing grows up under the watchful eye of her hideously scarred nursemaid, Precious Auntie. As she makes clear, it's not an enviable setting:
I noticed the ripe stench of a pig pasture, the pockmarked land dug up by dragon-bone dream-seekers, the holes in the walls, the mud by the wells, the dustiness of the unpaved roads. I saw how all the women we passed, young and old, had the same bland face, sleepy eyes that were mirrors of their sleepy minds.
Nor is rural isolation the worst of it. LuLing's family, a clan of ink makers, believes itself cursed by its connection to a local doctor, who cooks up his potions and remedies from human bones. And indeed, a great deal of bad luck befalls the narrator and her sister GaoLing before they can finally engineer their escape from China. Along the way, familial squabbles erupt around every corner, particularly among mothers, daughters, and sisters. And as she did in her earlier The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan uses these conflicts to explore the intricate dynamic that exists between first-generation Americans and their immigrant elders. --Victoria Jenkins [via] -
The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imaginationby Robert ColesISBN 0395528151 (0-395-52815-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, David WrightISBN 039470293X (0-394-70293-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:Based on the definitive Riverside Chaucer, this edition of The Canterbury Tales contains the complete text of all 24 Tales, thoroughly updated scholarship from the past 20 years, and extensive editorial support. This volume is ideal for instructors who want to assign only the Tales and have no need for the complete Chaucer. An overview briefly outlines the basic plot and main idea of each Tale, while a section on language and versification helps students with pronunciation. Explanatory notes provide information on sources, problematic passages, and critical interpretations. Additional pedagogy includes a glossary, a section on Chaucer's life, an index, a general bibliography, and a list of abbreviations. [via]
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Canterbury Tales and Related Readingsby Geoffery ChaucerISBN 0395893283 (0-395-89328-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin School
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The Canterbury Tales of Chaucerby Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas TyrwhittISBN 0404015506 (0-404-01550-6)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Citizen 13660by Mine OkuboISBN 0405112874 (0-405-11287-4)
Hardcover, Arno Press
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The Civil War: An Illustrated Historyby Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns, Ric BurnsISBN 0394562852 (0-394-56285-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Civil War: An Illustrated History'Book summary:"The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things.... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads: the suffering, the enormous tragedy of the whole thing."- Shelby Foote, from The Civil War
When the illustrated edition of The Civil War was first published, The New York Time hailed it as "a treasure for the eye and mind." Now Geoffrey Ward's magisterial work of history is available in a text-only edition that interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through the cataclysmic trial of our nationhood: not just Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Robert E. Lee, but genteel Southern ladies and escaped slaves, cavalry officers and common foot soldiers who fought in Yankee blue and Rebel gray.
The Civil War also includes essays by our most distinguished historians of the era: Don E. Fehrenbacher, on the war's origins; Barbara J. Fields, on the freeing of the slaves; Shelby Foote, on the war's soldiers and commanders; James M. McPherson, on the political dimensions of the struggle; and C. Vann Woodward, assessing the America that emerged from the war's ashes.
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales: Illustrations by Joseph Scharlby Joseph CampbellISBN 0415104416 (0-415-10441-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Josef ScharlISBN 0394709306 (0-394-70930-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Equiano's Travels: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the Africanby Olaudah Equiano, Paul Geoffrey EdwardsISBN 0435906003 (0-435-90600-3)
Softcover, Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equiano's Travels: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African'Book summary:This is a wonderful narrative telling of Equiano's early life in Ibo country, his days as a slave in Southern America and of his later travels. 'Equiano's book continues to be relevant well after two centuries not only because it is was competently organised and well written but also because it has behind it a strong personality whose presence is felt on every page.' Professor Ogude. [via]
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Fabricating Lives: Explorations in American Autobiographyby Herbert LeibowitzISBN 0394574281 (0-394-57428-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 72by Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0446313645 (0-446-31364-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 72'Book summary:With the same drug-addled alacrity and jaundiced wit that made Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas a hilarious hit, Hunter S. Thompson turns his savage eye and gonzo heart to the repellent and seductive race for President. He deconstructs the 1972 campaigns of idealist George McGovern and political hack Richard Nixon, ending up with a political vision that is eerily prophetic. A classic! [via]
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Four Archetypes; Mother, Rebirth, Spirit, Tricksterby C. G. JungISBN 0415304415 (0-415-30441-5)
Softcover, Taylor and Francis
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Four Archetypes; Mother, Rebirth, Spirit, Trickster'Book summary:The concept of the archetype is crucial to Jung's radical interpretation of the human mind. Jung believed that every person partakes of a universal or collective unconscious that persists through generations. The origins of the concept can be traced to his very first publication in 1902 and it remained central to his thought throughout his life. As well as explaining the theoretical background behind the idea, in Four Archetypes Jung describes the four archetypes that he considers fundamental to the psychological make-up of every individual: mother, rebirth, spirit and trickster. Exploring their role in myth, fairytale and scripture, Jung engages the reader in discoveries that challenge and enlighten the ways we perceive ourselves and others. [via]
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War IIby Studs TerkelISBN 0394531035 (0-394-53103-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good War: An Oral History of World War II'Book summary:Studs Terkel, the noted Chicago-based journalist, gathers the reminiscences of 121 participants in World War II (called "the good war" because, in the words of one soldier, "to see fascism defeated, nothing better could have happened to a human being"). These participants, men and women, famous and ordinary, tell stories that add immeasurably to our understanding of that cataclysmic time. One Soviet soldier recounts that, surrounded by the Germans, his comrades tapped the powder from their last cartridges and inserted notes to their families inside the casings; Russian children, he goes on, still turn these up every now and again and deliver the notes to the soldiers' families. Terkel touches on many themes along the way, including institutionalized racism in the United States military, the birth of the military-industrial complex, and the origins of the Cold War. [via]
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The Great Brainby John D. FitzgeraldISBN 0440430712 (0-440-43071-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Great Brain Does It Againby John Dennis FitzgeraldISBN 0440429838 (0-440-42983-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Great Brain Reformsby John D. FitzgeraldISBN 0440448417 (0-440-44841-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Grimm Fairy Talesby Arthur RackmanISBN 043495862X (0-434-95862-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm Fairy Tales'Book summary:Twenty tales collected from German folklore and immortalized by the Brothers Grimm. [via]
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Marian Edwardes, Lucy Crane, Brothers Grimm, Edgar Lucas, Fritz KredelISBN 0448060094 (0-448-06009-4)
Hardcover, Price Stern Sloan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:An illustrated collection of fifty-five traditional tales collected by the Grimm brothers. [via]
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandpreISBN 0439064864 (0-439-06486-4)
Hardcover, Arthur a Levine
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'Book summary:In one of the most hotly anticipated sequel in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where she left off with Harry's second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, an outrageously conceited professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, and a mysterious force that turns Hogwarts students to stone. [via]
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fireby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandpreISBN 0439139600 (0-439-13960-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'Book summary:Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire CD Set tells the story of Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 18 CDs. The audio book is also available in two volumes, Part 1 and Part 2, each containing 9 CDs.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the long-awaited, heavily hyped fourth instalment of a phenomenally successful series that has captured the imagination of millions of readers, young and old, across the globe. For J K Rowling the pressure is certainly on to continue to come up with thrilling, pacey storylines that allow her hero to mature into a young man without detracting from the magical secret that has made Harry into a superstar. In this book, the teenage Harry has a certain gawky charm that fits well with his advancing adolescence. As the story moves on, Harry too moves on to a new level of maturity that leaves the reader wondering how he will learn from his experiences, and liking him all the more as a character.
Once returned to Hogwarts after his summer holiday with the dreadful Dursleys and an extraordinary outing to the Quidditch World Cup, the 14-year-old Harry and his fellow pupils are enraptured by the promise of the Triwizard Tournament: an ancient, ritualistic tournament that brings Hogwarts together with two other schools of wizardry--Durmstrang and Beauxbatons--in heated competition. But when Harry's name is pulled from the Goblet of Fire, and he is chosen to champion Hogwarts in the tournament, the trouble really begins. Still reeling from the effects of a terrifying nightmare that has left him shaken, and with the lightning-shaped scar on his head throbbing with pain (a sure sign that the evil Voldemort, Harry's sworn enemy, is close), Harry becomes at once the most popular boy in school. Yet, despite his fame, he is totally unprepared for the furore that follows.
This is a hefty volume: 636 pages, of which probably at least 200 could have been cut without detracting from the story. The weight and complexity of the book is perhaps a hint that Rowling now has her eye sharply focused on her adult audience, and the average child-reader (particularly one who is coming to Harry Potter for the first time) may well find its girth daunting. Rowling's ironic and pointed observations on tabloid journalism and the nature of media hype is just one of the references littered through the book that will tickle the grown-ups but may well fly over the heads of her young fans.
However, after a slow start, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire really starts to sparkle halfway through with Rowling's familiar magic (and yes, there is a death--sudden and tragic--and yes, Harry does start to notice girls). The crux of this story, however, is Harry's gradual coming-of-age and his handling of the increasingly determined threats to his own life.
This book is pivotal, not just for the author for whom the heat is well and truly on, but for Harry and his readers who, by the last chapter, are left in little doubt that there is much more to come. (Ages 10 to adult) --Susan Harrison [via]
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenixby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandpreISBN 0439358078 (0-439-35807-8)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'Book summary:As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. It's been yet another infuriating and boring summer with the despicable Dursleys, this time with minimal contact from our hero's non-Muggle friends from school. Harry is feeling especially edgy at the lack of news from the magic world, wondering when the freshly revived evil Lord Voldemort will strike. Returning to Hogwarts will be a relief& or will it?
Book five in JK Rowling's Harry Potter series follows the darkest year yet for our young wizard, who finds himself knocked down a peg or three after the events of last year. Over the summer, gossip (usually traced back to the magic world's newspaper, the Daily Prophet) has turned Harry's tragic and heroic encounter with Voldemort at the Triwizard Tournament into an excuse to ridicule and discount the teenager. Even Professor Dumbledore, headmaster of the school, has come under scrutiny from the Ministry of Magic, which refuses to officially acknowledge the terrifying truth: that Voldemort is back. Enter a particularly loathsome new character: the toad-like and simpering ("hem, hem") Dolores Umbridge, senior undersecretary to the minister of Magic, who takes over the vacant position of defence against dark arts teacher--and in no time manages to become the high inquisitor of Hogwarts. Life isn't getting any easier for Harry Potter. With an overwhelming course load as the fifth years prepare for their examinations, devastating changes in the Gryffindor Quidditch team line-up, vivid dreams about long hallways and closed doors, and increasing pain in his lightning-shaped scar, Harry's resilience is sorely tested.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, more than any of the four previous novels in the series, is a coming-of-age story. Harry faces the thorny transition into adulthood, when adult heroes are revealed to be fallible, and matters that seemed black and white suddenly come out in shades of gray. Gone is the wide-eyed innocent, the whiz kid of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Here we have an adolescent who's sometimes sullen, often confused (especially about girls), and always self-questioning. Confronting death again, as well as a startling prophecy, Harry ends his year at Hogwarts exhausted and pensive. Readers, on the other hand, will be energised as they enter yet again the long waiting period for the next title in the marvellous magical series. --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Hardcover, Scholastic - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: ISBN 0439358078 (0-439-35807-8)
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandpreISBN 0439136369 (0-439-13636-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'Book summary:Harry Potter has to sneak back to Hogwarts, after accidentally inflating his horrible Aunt Petunia. But once there everyone is whispering about a prizoner who has escaped from the famous wizard prizon, Azkaban. His name is Sirius Black, and as a follower of Lord Voldemort he is determined to track Harry Potter down -- even if it means laying siege to the very walls of Hogwarts! [via]
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stoneby J. K. RowlingISBN 043936213X (0-439-36213-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'Book summary:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Cassette Travel Bag is a complete and unabridged reading by Stephen Fry on six cassettes, contained in a travel box. A CD travel bag is also available.
Just when it seems that there cannot possibly be another twist to the Harry Potter tale, Stephen Fry dons his haughtiest and naughtiest tones to bring Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to vibrant life on audio. Harry Potter has spent the first 10 years of his life at the mercy of the dreadful Dursleys--the aunt, uncle and fat, spoilt brat of a cousin who reluctantly gave him a home after the death of his mother and father. But on his 11th birthday Harry discovers that he is no ordinary boy, and despite the best efforts of his hideous relatives he escapes to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his new life as a trainee wizard. And the rest, as they say, is history...
As Harry battles against the evils thrown in his path, Stephen Fry injects the proceedings with a wry, dry and extremely contagious humour that perfectly suits the tale, wringing out the best in Harry and his cohorts as they get to grips with their new lives at the sharp end of Hogwarts. Fry's innate upper-class drone is perfectly suited to the telling of this most magical tale, cracking into the high-pitched squawking of Hermione the swat, or the gentle tones of the firm but fair Dumbledore, or the evil sniping of slimey Snape at precisely the right moments.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a fine story and much has been written about its success, but until you have heard Fry's cracking reading of this most magical of stories then you simply haven't lived. As with any audio book, this one is perfect for car journeys and an ideal way of introducing reluctant readers to the magic that is Harry Potter. (Ages 9 and over) --Susan Harrison
Running time: 8 hrs 25 mins [via]
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stoneby Jill Daniels, Rodger Smith, Jill DaneilsISBN 0439294827 (0-439-29482-7)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone'Book summary:With six two-page spreads featuring the key scenes from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, this Harry Potter pop-up book allows younger children to begin to experience the thrilling saga of Harry Potter's first year at Hogwarts. Every page literally pops out with creative 3-D engineering in full color, while pull-tabs allow readers to bring a Quidditch game to life or help Harry see his heart's desire in the Mirror of Erised. The cartoonish art is muddy and unspectacular, but fans and collectors blinded by their enthusiasm for the boy wizard may not care a bit. (Ages 4 and older) [via]
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Houseby Tracy KidderISBN 0395363179 (0-395-36317-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Howl's Moving Castleby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0441346642 (0-441-34664-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Howl's Moving Castle'Book summary:In the land of Ingary, such things as spells, invisible cloaks, and seven-league boots were everyday things. The Witch of the Waste was another matter.
After fifty years of quiet, it was rumored that the Witch was about to terrorize the country again. So when a moving black castle, blowing dark smoke from its four thin turrets, appeared on the horizon, everyone thought it was the Witch. The castle, however, belonged to Wizard Howl, who, it was said, liked to suck the souls of young girls.
The Hatter sisters--Sophie, Lettie, and Martha--and all the other girls were warned not to venture into the streets alone. But that was only the beginning.
In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. Destinies are intertwined, identities exchanged, lovers confused. The Witch has placed a spell on Howl. Does the clue to breaking it lie in a famous poem? And what will happen to Sophie Hatter when she enters Howl's castle?
Diana Wynne Jones's entrancing fantasy is filled with surprises at every turn, but when the final stormy duel between the Witch and the Wizard is finished, all the pieces fall magically into place. [via]
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Immediate Actionby Andy McNabISBN 0440222451 (0-440-22245-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoirby William ZinsserISBN 0395483719 (0-395-48371-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoirby Jill Ker Conway, William Zinsser, Russell BakerISBN 0395731011 (0-395-73101-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir'Book summary:Every time Inventing the Truth appears in a new edition, editor William Zinsser can't help but add to it. The first edition (1987) evolved from a series of New York Public Library talks, for which the mandate was not to lecture about the genre of the memoir but to explain how a specific memoir came to be written. In the book's 1995 edition, Russell Baker, Annie Dillard, Alfred Kazin, and Toni Morrison were joined by Jill Ker Conway, Eileen Simpson, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Ian Frazier. This time around, Zinsser has added a rich and charming reminiscence by Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes).
The authors do stick to their assignment: Russell Baker credits his huge family with helping him "learn a lot about humanity from close-up observation"; Jill Ker Conway talks about her desire to write a female memoir that was not a romantic happily-ever-after; and Henry Louis Gates Jr. discusses "want[ing] to write a book that imitated the specialness of black culture when no white people are around." But there is also plenty of advice for writers here, and some general thoughts about the genre. Conway addresses the difficulty of "going back as a historian" and trying to understand "all the things you took as a given when you were a child." Gates warns us to "be prepared for the revelation of things you don't even dream are going to come up." And Annie Dillard contemplates the strangeness of spending "more time writing about [a scene or an event] than you did living it." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoirby Russell Baker, William Knowlton ZinsserISBN 0395901502 (0-395-90150-2)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir'Book summary:Every time Inventing the Truth appears in a new edition, editor William Zinsser can't help but add to it. The first edition (1987) evolved from a series of New York Public Library talks, for which the mandate was not to lecture about the genre of the memoir but to explain how a specific memoir came to be written. In the book's 1995 edition, Russell Baker, Annie Dillard, Alfred Kazin, and Toni Morrison were joined by Jill Ker Conway, Eileen Simpson, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Ian Frazier. This time around, Zinsser has added a rich and charming reminiscence by Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes).
The authors do stick to their assignment: Russell Baker credits his huge family with helping him "learn a lot about humanity from close-up observation"; Jill Ker Conway talks about her desire to write a female memoir that was not a romantic happily-ever-after; and Henry Louis Gates Jr. discusses "want[ing] to write a book that imitated the specialness of black culture when no white people are around." But there is also plenty of advice for writers here, and some general thoughts about the genre. Conway addresses the difficulty of "going back as a historian" and trying to understand "all the things you took as a given when you were a child." Gates warns us to "be prepared for the revelation of things you don't even dream are going to come up." And Annie Dillard contemplates the strangeness of spending "more time writing about [a scene or an event] than you did living it." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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James Clavell's King Ratby James ClavellISBN 0440043921 (0-440-04392-1)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Clavell's King Rat'Book summary:The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are human courage, unblinking understanding of human weaknesses, and total willingness to exploit every opportunity to enlarge his power and corrupt or destroy anyone who stands in his path. [via]
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King Ratby James ClavellISBN 0440145465 (0-440-14546-5)
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Kon-Tikiby Thor HeyerdahlISBN 039486364X (0-394-86364-X)
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The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans As Told by Themselvesby Hamilton Holt, Werner SollorsISBN 041592510X (0-415-92510-X)
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Me and My Little Brainby John D. FitzgeraldISBN 0440455332 (0-440-45533-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Middlemarchby George Eliot, Gordon S. HaightISBN 0395051053 (0-395-05105-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, . Her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes. During the following year Eliot resumed work, fusing together several stories into a coherent whole, and during 187172 the novel appeared in serial form. The first one-volume edition was published in 1874, and attracted large sales. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during the period 183032. It has multiple plots with a large cast of characters, and in addition to its distinct though interlocking narratives it pursues a number of underlying themes, including the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism and self-interest, religion and hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (187172), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. [via]
Narrative in Culture: The Uses of Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy, and Literatureby Cristopher NashISBN 0415103444 (0-415-10344-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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A Natural History of the Sensesby Diane AckermanISBN 0394573358 (0-394-57335-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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October Sky: A Memoirby Homer HickamISBN 0440235502 (0-440-23550-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'October Sky: A Memoir'Book summary:Inspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-old Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood, West Virginia, a mining town that everyone knew was dying--everyone except Sonny's father, the mine superintendent and a company man so dedicated that his family rarely saw him. Hickam's smart, iconoclastic mother wanted her son to become something more than a miner and, along with a female science teacher, encouraged the efforts of his grandiosely named Big Creek Missile Agency. He grew up to be a NASA engineer and his memoir of the bumpy ride toward a gold medal at the National Science Fair in 1960--an unprecedented honor for a miner's kid--is rich in humor as well as warm sentiment. Hickam vividly evokes a world of close communal ties in which a storekeeper who sold him saltpeter warned, "Listen, rocket boy. This stuff can blow you to kingdom come." Hickam is candid about the deep disagreements and tensions in his parents' marriage, even as he movingly depicts their quiet loyalty to each other. The portrait of his ultimately successful campaign to win his aloof father's respect is equally affecting. --Wendy Smith [via]
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On Storiesby Richard KearneyISBN 0415247985 (0-415-24798-5)
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On Personalityby Peter GoldieISBN 0415305144 (0-415-30514-4)
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The Other Sideby Jacqueline Woodson, Earl B. LewisISBN 0399231161 (0-399-23116-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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With the addition of a brand-new author's note, this special edition celebrates the tenth anniversary of this classic book. As always, Woodson moves readers with her lyrical narrative, and E. B. Lewis's amazing talent shines in his gorgeous watercolor illustrations.More editions of The Other Side:
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gayby Cornelia Otis SkinnerISBN 0396024017 (0-396-02401-7)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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Petuniaby Roger DuvoisinISBN 0440417546 (0-440-41754-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Pioneer Lady's Country Christmas: A Gift of Old-Fashioned Recipes and Memories of Christmas Pastby Jane Watson HoppingISBN 039457902X (0-394-57902-X)
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The Political Unconscious; Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Actby F. JamesonISBN 0415287510 (0-415-28751-0)
Softcover, Taylor and Francis
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Portrait of Americaby Stephen OatesISBN 0395359546 (0-395-35954-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Co
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Portrait of America: From the European Discovery to the End of Reconstructionby Stephen B. OatesISBN 0395554276 (0-395-55427-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Return of the Great Brainby John D. FitzgeraldISBN 0440459419 (0-440-45941-9)
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The Rime of the Ancient Marinerby Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dean MotterISBN 042512763X (0-425-12763-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Riverside Chaucerby Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. BensonISBN 0395290317 (0-395-29031-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Shadowtime: History and Representation in Hardy, Conrad and George Eliotby Jim ReillyISBN 041511893X (0-415-11893-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Sophie's Worldby Jostein GaarderISBN 0425152251 (0-425-15225-1)
Softcover, Boulevard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophie's World'Book summary:Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated. A young girl, Sophie, becomes embroiled in a discussion of philosophy with a faceless correspondent. At the same time, she must unravel a mystery involving another young girl, Hilde, by using everything she's learning. The truth is far more complicated than she could ever have imagined. [via]
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Stories and Talesby Hans Christian Andersen, H. W. Dulcken, A. W. BayesISBN 0415285984 (0-415-28598-4)
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Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literatureby Jonathan D. CullerISBN 0415289890 (0-415-28989-0)
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The Tales of Canterbury: Completeby Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert A. PrattISBN 0395140528 (0-395-14052-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Things They Carriedby Tim O'BrienISBN 039551598X (0-395-51598-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Things They Carried'Book summary:"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."
A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. --Alix Wilber [via]
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0446310786 (0-446-31078-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Kill a Mockingbird'Book summary:"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Tropic of Cancerby Henry Miller, Anais NinISBN 0394604350 (0-394-60435-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Waldenby Henry David Thoreau, Walter HardingISBN 0395720427 (0-395-72042-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond. Now, on the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin is proud to publish an exceptional new edition of what is perhaps the most important book in our history as a publisher. Walden: An Annotated Edition features the definitive text of the book with extensive notes on Thoreau's life and times by the distinguished biographer and critic Walter Harding. In the third chapter, Thoreau writes, "How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book?" For many readers, Walden is that book. Written a century and a half ago, it grows more meaningful every day, and whether you are reading it for the first time or the hundredth, Walter Harding's insightful comments will open your eyes to the true depths of this masterpiece.[via]More editions of Walden:
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0395051134 (0-395-05113-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Civil Disobedience'Book summary:Henry David Thoreau was a sturdy individualist and a lover of nature. In March, 1845, he built himself a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived until September 1847. Walden is Thoreaus autobiograophical account of his Robinson Crusoe existence, bare of creature comforts but rich in contemplation of the wonders of nature and the ways of man. On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience is the classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty, and is considered one of the most famous essays ever written. This newly repackaged edition also includes a selection of Thoreau's poetry. [via]
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Walden and Other Writingsby Henry David Thoreau, Brooks Atkinson, Townsend ScudderISBN 0394604210 (0-394-60421-0)
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We Have Always Lived in the Castleby Shirley JacksonISBN 0445083212 (0-445-08321-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Women in the House of Fiction: Post-War Women Novelistsby Lorna SageISBN 0415906598 (0-415-90659-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral Historyby Sherna Berger Gluck, Daphne PataiISBN 0415903726 (0-415-90372-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History'Book summary:Women's Words is the first collection of writings devoted exclusively to exploring the theoretical, methodological, and practical problems that arise when women utilize oral history as a tool of feminist scholarship. In thirteen multi-disciplin ary esays, the book takes stock of the implicit presuppositions , contradictions, and prospects of oral history at the hands of feminist scholars. [via]
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