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All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930by Andrea BarnetISBN 1565123816 (1-56512-381-6)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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Amazing Spider-man: Until the Stars Turn Coldby J. Michael StraczynskiISBN 1417660228 (1-4176-6022-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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And Now You Can Goby Vendela VidaISBN 1400032415 (1-4000-3241-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And Now You Can Go'Book summary:The premise of Vendela Vida's terrific debut novel, And Now You Can Go, seems at first a tad depressing, in a Bernard Goetz, New-York-in-the-1980s kind of way. The narrator, a young woman named Ellis, is walking in Riverside Park when she is held up at gunpoint. The man assures her he doesn't want her money, and he doesn't push her into the bushes to rape her. Ellis notices the designer name on his glasses: Giorgio Armani; she begins to obsess on this detail. Then she starts to recite poetry to him to cheer him up about life. The encounter ends as abruptly as it began, when the man simply runs away down the street. Even though no blood has been shed, Ellis's life is utterly changed.
In fast, clean, funny prose, we find Ellis slipping adrift from her routine as Columbia grad student and falling into a series of mini-romances. When she goes home to San Francisco for winter break, her mom suggests Ellis join her on a medical mission to the Philippines. The work and the heat and the exhaustion settle her down for the first time since the attack, and she returns to New York a little refreshed. There's one more encounter with the gunman, which Vida plays more comic than tragic. In fact, the strength of this novel is in the way Vida toys with her priorities. The scenes that ought to be fraught and suspenseful have a goofy kind of oh-well voice to them; the scenes that ought to be dull--like Ellis's run-ins with her annoying roommate--exert a weirdly compelling narrative drive. Both the author and her protagonist charm us utterly. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Animal Farmby Bill WillinghamISBN 140120077X (1-4012-0077-X)
Softcover, DC Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Collecting FABLES #6-10, the second story arc of the fan-favorite, critically acclaimed VERTIGO series. Travel to upstate New York, where the non-human Fable characters have found refuge on a farm, miles from mankind. But all is not well on the farm and a conspiracy to free them from the shackles of their perceived imprisonment may lead to a war that could wrest control of the Fables community away from Snow White. Starring Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Plus, a sketchbook section featuring art by Willingham, Buckingham and Jean. [via]
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Applause: New York's Guide to the Performing Artsby Ruth LeonISBN 1557830967 (1-55783-096-7)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Ask Me No Questionsby Marina Tamar Budhos, Ferdinando SciannaISBN 1416903518 (1-4169-0351-8)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ask Me No Questions'Book summary:Nadira and her family are illegal aliens, fleeing to the Canadian border -- running from the country they thought was their home. For years since emigrating from Bangladesh, they have lived on expired visas in New York City, hoping they could someday realize their dream of becoming legal citizens of the United States. But after 9/11, everything changes. Suddenly, being Muslim means being dangerous, a suspected terrorist. And when Nadira's father is arrested and detained at the border, Nadira and her older sister, Aisha, are sent back to Queens and told to carry on, as if everything is the same.
But of course nothing is the same. Nadira and Aisha live in fear they'll have to return to a Bangladesh they hardly know. Aisha, always the responsible one, falls apart. It's up to Nadira to find a way to bring her family back together again.
Critically acclaimed author Marina Budhos has given us a searing portrait of contemporary America in the days of terrorism, orange alerts, and the Patriot Act, and a moving and important story about something most people take for granted -- citizenship and acceptance in their country. [via]
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At Sea in the City: New York from the Water's Edgeby William Kornblum, Oliver Williams, Pete HamillISBN 1565122658 (1-56512-265-8)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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Auraby Gary GlickmanISBN 1560235047 (1-56023-504-7)
Softcover, Haworth Pr Inc
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Bergdorf Blondesby Plum SykesISBN 1401359604 (1-4013-5960-4)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bergdorf Blondes'Book summary:Plum Sykes's beguiling debut welcomes readers to the glamorous world of Park Avenue Princesses, the girls who careen through Manhattan in search of the perfect Fake Bake (tan acquired from Portofino Tanning Salon), a ride on a PJ (private jet) with the ATM (rich boyfriend), and the ever-elusive fianc.
With invitations to high-profile baby showers and benefits, more Marc Jacobs clothes than is decent, and a department store heiress for a best friend, our heroine known only as Moi is living at the peak of New York society. But what is Moi to do when her engagement falls apart? Can she ever find happiness in a city filled with the distractions of Front Row Girls, dermatologists, premieres, and eyebrow waxes? Is it possible to find love in a town where her friends think that the secret to happiness is getting invited to the Van Cleef and Arpels ber-private sample sale? And how is she going to deal with the endless phone calls from her mother in England demanding that she get married to the Earl next door?
With enormous wit and an insider's eye, Sykes captures the nuances of the rich and spoiled in a heartwarming social satire, featuring a loveable "champagne bubble of a girl" who's just looking for love (and maybe the perfect pair of Chlo jeans).
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Best Selling One-Story Home Designsby Homestyles.ComISBN 1565471083 (1-56547-108-3)
Softcover, Bookworld Services
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Charmed Thirdsby Megan McCaffertyISBN 1400080436 (1-4000-8043-6)
Softcover, Crown Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charmed Thirds'Book summary:Jessica Darlings in college!
Things are looking up for Jessica Darling. She has finally left her New Jersey hometown/hellhole for Columbia University in New York City; shes more into her boyfriend, Marcus Flutie, than ever (so what if hes at a Buddhist college in California?); and shes making new friends who just might qualify as stand-ins for her beloved best friend, Hope.
But Jessica soon realizes that her bliss might not last. She lands an internship at a snarky Brooklyn-based magazine, but will she fit in with the überhip staff (and will she even want to)? As she and Marcus hit the rocks, will she end up falling for her GOPunk, neoconservative RA . . . or the hot (and married!) Spanish grad student shes assisting on a summer project . . . or the oh-so-sensitive emo boy down the hall? Will she even make it through college now that her parents have cut her off financially? And what do the cryptic one-word postcards from Marcus really mean?
With hilarious insight, the hyperobservant Jessica Darling struggles through her college yearsand the summers in betweenwhile maintaining her usual mix of wit, cynicism, and candor.
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The Chartreuse Clueby William F. LoveISBN 1556112114 (1-55611-211-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Cherries in the Snow: A Novel of Lust, Love, Loss, and Lipstickby Emma ForrestISBN 140005365X (1-4000-5365-X)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Configurations: New and Selected Poems 1958-1998by Clarence MajorISBN 1556590903 (1-55659-090-3)
Softcover, Copper Canyon Pr
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Contract With Godby Will EisnerISBN 1563896745 (1-56389-674-5)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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Crystal Visionby Gilbert SorrentinoISBN 1564781593 (1-56478-159-3)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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Daddy Was a Number Runnerby Louise Meriwether, James BaldwinISBN 1558614427 (1-55861-442-7)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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de Kooning: An American Masterby Mark Stevens, Annalyn SwanISBN 1400041759 (1-4000-4175-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'de Kooning: An American Master'Book summary:Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true painters painter whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism. Of all the painters in that group, he worked the longest and was the most prolific, creating powerful, startling images well into the 1980s.
The first major biography of de Kooning captures both the life and work of this complex, romantic figure in American culture. Ten years in the making, and based on previously unseen letters and documents as well as on hundreds of interviews, this is a fresh, richly detailed, and masterful portrait. The young de Kooning overcame an unstable, impoverished, and often violent early family life to enter the Academie in Rotterdam, where he learned both classic art and guild techniques. Arriving in New York as a stowaway from Holland in 1926, he underwent a long struggle to become a painter and an American, developing a passionate friendship with his fellow immigrant Arshile Gorky, who was both a mentor and an inspiration. During the Depression, de Kooning emerged as a central figure in the bohemian world of downtown New York, surviving by doing commercial work and painting murals for the WPA. His first show at the Egan Gallery in 1948 was a revelation. Soon, the critics Harold Rosenberg and Thomas Hess were championing his work, and de Kooning took his place as the charismatic leader of the New York schooljust as American art began to dominate the international scene.
Dashingly handsome and treated like a movie star on the streets of downtown New York, de Kooning had a tumultuous marriage to Elaine de Kooning, herself a fascinating character of the period. At the height of his fame, he spent his days painting powerful abstractions and intense, disturbing pictures of the female figureand his nights living on the edge, drinking, womanizing, and talking at the Cedar bar with such friends as Franz Kline and Frank OHara. By the 1960s, exhausted by the feverish art world, he retreated to the Springs on Long Island, where he painted an extraordinary series of lush pastorals. In the 1980s, as he slowly declined into what was almost certainly Alzheimers, he created a vast body of haunting and ethereal late work.
This is an authoritative and brilliant exploration of the art, life, and world of an American master. [via]More editions of de Kooning: An American Master:
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Death: The High Cost of Livingby Dave McKean, Chris Bachalo, Mark BuckinghamISBN 1563891328 (1-56389-132-8)
Hardcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death: The High Cost of Living'Book summary:Teenager Sexton Furnival is contemplating suicide when he is befriended by death. Death herself is being hunted by evil forces which prey on her new vulnerability now that she is human. Meanwhile, Mad Hettie threatens to kill Death's suicidal friend if Death won't help her find her heart. [via]
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Death: The High Cost of Livingby Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Chris BachaloISBN 1563891336 (1-56389-133-6)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death: The High Cost of Living'Book summary:Written by Neil Gaiman; Art by Chris Bachalo, Mark Buckingham, and Dave McKean From the pages of Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN comes the young, pale, perky, and genuinely likable Death. One day in every century, Death walks the Earth to better understand those to whom she will be the final visitor. Today is that day. As a young mortal girl named Didi, Death befriends a teenager and helps a 250-year old homeless woman find her missing heart. What follows is a sincere musing on love, life and (of course) death. [via]
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The Debutante Divorcee: A Novelby Plum SykesISBN 1401360238 (1-4013-6023-8)
Softcover, Miramax
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Debutante Divorcee: A Novel'Book summary:"Married girls in New York these days put almost as much effort into losing husbands as they once did into finding them."
In 2004, Plum Sykes jet-setted to bestsellerdom with Bergdorf Blondes, a playful debut novel that introduced readers to the glamorous world of PAPs (Park Avenue Princesses). Now the fabulous girls from the world of Bergdorf Blondes are back.
Lauren Blounts life is beautifully arranged: shes very rich, very young, very thin, very pretty -- and very, very divorced. She is the most reckless and glamorous of Manhattans Debutante Divorcée set. Lauren captivates Sylvia Mortimer, the groups token newlywed. But while Lauren sets out on a morality-lite, orgasm-heavy "Make Out Challenge," Sylvia discovers her marriage isnt exactly an Eternity ad -- especially when the citys most notorious Husband Huntress zeros in on her spouse.
Navigating a world of Divorce Showers and Power Christenings, Socialite Babies, Professional Friends, Gorgeous West Village Wives, and Un-Googleable Men, Sylvia fears her husband is straying and starts asking, as Lauren says, "Who needs a husband anyway?" With her delightful mix of charm, cheek, and satire, Sykes has written a second novel that promises to be every bit as beloved as her smash debut. [via]
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Diary Of A Mad Housewifeby Sue Kaufman, Maggie EstepISBN 1560256877 (1-56025-687-7)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Down Hereby Andrew H. VachssISBN 1400076110 (1-4000-7611-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Duchess of Bloomsbury Streetby Helene HanffISBN 155921144X (1-55921-144-X)
Softcover, Moyer Bell
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street'Book summary:A zesty memoir of the celebrated writer's travels to England where she meets the cherished friends from 84, Charing Cross Road. [via]
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Ex Machina 3: Fact V. Fictionby Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris, Tom FeisterISBN 1401209882 (1-4012-0988-2)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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Ex Machina,Tag book 2: Tagby Brian K. Vaughan, Tony HarrisISBN 1401206263 (1-4012-0626-3)
Softcover, Wildstorm
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Fodor's Flashmaps New York Cityby Fodor'sISBN 1400015103 (1-4000-1510-3)
Softcover, Fodors Travel Pubns
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For Your Paws Onlyby Heather Vogel Frederick, Sally Wern ComportISBN 1416940251 (1-4169-4025-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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For Your Paws Onlyby Sally Wern ComportISBN 1416905731 (1-4169-0573-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Four Millionby O. HenryISBN 1406501735 (1-4065-0173-5)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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From The Velvets To The Voidoids: The Birth Of American Punk Rockby Clinton HeylinISBN 1556525753 (1-55652-575-3)
Softcover, Chicago Review Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From The Velvets To The Voidoids: The Birth Of American Punk Rock'Book summary:Exhaustively researched and packed with unique insights, this history journeys from the punk scene's roots in the mid-1960s to the arrival of "new wave" in the early 1980s. With a cast that includes Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, Television, Blondie, the Ramones, the MC5, the Stooges, Talking Heads, and the Dead Boys, this account is the definitive story of early American punk rock. Extraordinarily balanced, it tells the story of the music's development largely through the artists' own words, while thoroughly analyzing and evaluating the music in a lucid and cogent manner. First published in 1993, this was the first book to tell the stories of these then-little-known bands; now, this edition has been updated with a new discography, including imports and bootlegs, and an afterword detailing the post-1970s history of these bands. Filled with insights from interviews with artists such as Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, David Byrne, Patti Smith, and Richard Hell, this book has long been considered one of the essential reads on rock rebellion.[via]More editions of From The Velvets To The Voidoids: The Birth Of American Punk Rock:
Funerals for Friendsby Michael MartinISBN 1430304707 (1-4303-0470-7)
Hardcover, Lulu.Com
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Gangsters And Gold Diggersby Jerome CharynISBN 1560256435 (1-56025-643-5)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoirby Janice ErlbaumISBN 1400064228 (1-4000-6422-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir'Book summary:Just two hours ago, I had been heating up some lentil soup at my moms in Brooklyn, thinking Id eat it and maybe read some Edith Wharton before bed. Now here I was at a runaway shelter, staring at a nuns mustache and wondering where I was going to spend the rest of my adolescence.
At fifteen, sick of her moms spineless reactions to abusive menand afraid of her stepfathers unpredictable behaviorJanice Erlbaum walked out of her familys apartment and never returned. What followed that fateful decision is the heart of this amazing, fascinating, and disturbing memoir.
From her first frightening night at a shelter, trying to sleep in a large room filled with yelling girls, Janice knew she was in over her head. She was beaten up, shaken down, and nearly stabbed by a pregnant girl. But it was still better than living at home. Just like that, she was halfway homeless, always one step away from being sent upstate to Lockdown.
As Janice slipped further into street life, she nevertheless continued to attend high school, harbor crushes, even play the lead in the spring production of Guys and Dolls. She also roamed the streets, clubs, bars, and parks of New York City with her two best girlfriends, on the prowl for hard drugs and boys on skateboards. Together they scored coke at Danceteria, smoked angel dust in East Village squats, commiserated over their crazy mothers, and slept with one anothers boyfriends on a regular basis.
Janice Erlbaum paints a wry, mesmerizing portrait of being underprivileged, underage, and underdressed in the 1980s, bouncing from shelters to group homes, from tenement squats to legendary nightclubs. A moving and tremendously entertaining ride through the seediest parts of New York City, Girlbomb provides an unflinching look at street life, survival sex, female friendships, and first loves. [via]More editions of Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir:
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The Givenchy Codeby Julie KennerISBN 1416543376 (1-4165-4337-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Givenchy Code'Book summary:A mind-bending code spawned from the mind of a madman...or maybe just a jealous ex.
A desperate race through the cathedrals and hotels of New York City...with a teeny bit of time for shopping, it's true.
An astonishing truth concealed for years, unveiled at last...with more than a little help from a supercute new guy.
As if a recent breakup, scrounging for rent money, and lusting after designer shoes weren't enough, Melanie Prescott starts receiving obscure codes and clues from a menacing stranger. She attempts to solve the mysteries -- enlisting the help of a tall, dark, and handsome new friend -- with high hopes for the multimillion-dollar reward guaranteed at the end (handbags, sunglasses, and shoes, oh my!). That is, if she can survive the deadly game. [via]
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Go: A Novelby John C. HolmesISBN 1560254246 (1-56025-424-6)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Hippieby Barry MilesISBN 1402728735 (1-4027-2873-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hippie'Book summary:Its the celebration of an era. At a mind-blowing price, this ultimate, beautiful, illuminating, and really groovy look at the 1960s counterculture is rich in illustrations and filled with the history, politics, sayings, and slogans that defined the age. For those who were there, this volume will flash them back. For those who werent, theyll wish they had been.[via]
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll; peace rallies and riots in the ghettos; Flower Power, Black Power, and Gay Power; Mothers of Invention and Womens Liberation; Woodstock, Monterey Pop, and Altamont. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: it all depends on whom you ask. But without a doubt the hippies transformed society. Every significant moment of the era comes vibrantly alive once again in psychedelic images, rare portraits of writers and musicians, dynamite poster and album artwork, and photographic records of political events that shook the world. Hundreds of unforgettable quotations come from seminal figures such as Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Grace Slick and George Harrison. Proceeding year by year from 1965 to 1971, Hippie gives an unprecedented degree of shape and coherence to an agethat is kaleidoscopically astounding.
Barry Miles was a central figure in the counterculture milieu. He wrote Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, as well as The Beatles: A Diary; contributed to I Want to Take You Higher, the Rock Music Hall of Fames chronicle of psychedelic music. The Sixties is Miles own memoir of the decade. 
A History of Violenceby John Wagner, Vince LockeISBN 1563893673 (1-56389-367-3)
Softcover, DC Comics
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Home Designs: 259 Home Designs Featuring Master Suites and Bathsby Homestyles Pub & Mktg IncISBN 156547046X (1-56547-046-X)
Softcover, Homestyles Pub
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How to Kill a Rock Starby Tiffanie DeBartoloISBN 140220521X (1-4022-0521-X)
Softcover, Sourcebooks, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Kill a Rock Star'Book summary:Written in her wonderfully honest, edgy, passionate and often hilarious voice, Tiffanie DeBartolo tells the story of Eliza Caelum, a young music journalist, and Paul Hudson, a talented songwriter and lead singer of the band Bananafish. Eliza's reverence for rock is equaled only by Paul's, and the two fall wildly in love.
When Bananafish is signed by a big corporate label, and Paul is on his way to becoming a major rock star, Eliza must make a heartbreaking decision that leads to Paul's sudden disappearance and a surprise knock-your-socks-off ending.
Praise for Tiffanie DeBartolo's God-Shaped Hole
"From highs to heartbreak, DeBartolo conjures an affair to remember."--People
"Honest, raw, and engaging."--Booklist
"This generation's Love Story."--Kirkus Reviews
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Impressionist New Yorkby William H. GerdtsISBN 1558593284 (1-55859-328-4)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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In Search of Ancient Ireland : The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the Englishby Carmel McCaffrey, Leo EatonISBN 1561310727 (1-56131-072-7)
Hardcover, Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
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Invitation Onlyby Kate BrianISBN 1416918744 (1-4169-1874-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invitation Only'Book summary:Reed Brennan's future is looking as bright as the two-karat diamonds in her new housemates' ears. Being accepted to the most prestigious private boarding school in the country wasn't enough for Reed. She had to break every rule to do it, but she has accomplished the impossible:
Reed is a Billings Girl now.
And with her new status come respect, envy, and, most important, opportunity. Not to mention the parties. Unfortunately, at the next illicit party in the Easton campus woods, her roommate snaps some pictures of Reed in more than one compromising position. She uses the photos to blackmail Reed: Dig up dirt on the most powerful and popular Billings Girls or she will have Reed expelled.
And speaking of parties, the Legacy is coming up. It's the invitation-only Halloween party in NYC and it's rumored that Thomas -- Reed's MIA boyfriend -- will be making an appearance there. Too bad Reed isn't even close to invited.
Life as a Billings Girl is every bit as glamorous as Reed imagined. What she didn't bargain for is the tangled web of private lies these girls weave.
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King Kongby Christopher GoldenISBN 1416503919 (1-4165-0391-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Knickerbocker's History of New Yorkby Washington IrvingISBN 1565549457 (1-56554-945-7)
Softcover, Pelican Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Knickerbocker's History of New York'Book summary:This is a reissue of the two-volume satire subtitled A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. [via]
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Macdougal Alleyby Tatheena RobertsISBN 1555835406 (1-55583-540-6)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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Maggieby Stephen Crane, Adrian HunterISBN 1551115972 (1-55111-597-2)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maggie'Book summary:First published in 1893, when Stephen Crane was only twenty-one years old, Maggie is the harrowing tale of a young woman s fall into prostitution and destitution in New York City's notorious Bowery slum. In dazzlingly vivid prose and with a sexual candour remarkable for his day, Crane depicts an urban sub-culture awash with alcohol and patrolled by the swaggering gangland "tough." Presented here with its companion piece George s Mother and a selection of Crane s other Bowery stories, this edition of Maggie includes a detailed introduction that places the novel in its social, cultural, and literary contexts. The appendices provide an unrivalled range of documentary sources covering such topics as religious and civic reform writing, slum fiction, the "new journalism," and literary realism and naturalism. An up-to-date bibliography of scholarly work on Crane is also included. [via]
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Maggie a Girl of the Streetsby Stephen CraneISBN 1420925245 (1-4209-2524-5)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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Mind Fieldby Gregory CorsoISBN 1560252014 (1-56025-201-4)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Operaby Johanna FiedlerISBN 1400032318 (1-4000-3231-8)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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Mr. Cheap's New York: Bargains, Factory Outlets, Off-Price Stores, Deep Discount Stores, Cheap Eats, Cheap Places to Stay, and Cheap Fun Things to Dby Mark WaldsteinISBN 1558502564 (1-55850-256-4)
Softcover, Adams Media Corp
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New Yorkby Will EisnerISBN 1563896826 (1-56389-682-6)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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New York Enclavesby William HempISBN 1400047358 (1-4000-4735-8)
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New York Literary Lights: William Corbettby William CorbettISBN 1555972721 (1-55597-272-1)
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The New York School: Photographs, 1936-1963by Jane LivingstonISBN 1556702396 (1-55670-239-6)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Newsday: A Candid History of the Respectable Tabloidby Robert F. KeelerISBN 1557100535 (1-55710-053-5)
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Not for Tourists 2006 Guide to New York Cityby Jane PironeISBN 0975866478 (0-9758664-7-8)
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Only Bread, Only Lightby Stephen KuusistoISBN 1556591500 (1-55659-150-0)
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Playing Easy to Getby Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kresley Cole, Jaid BlackISBN 1416510877 (1-4165-1087-7)
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Preacher Proud Americansby Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, Matt HollingsworthISBN 1563893274 (1-56389-327-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Preacher Proud Americans'Book summary:The Reverend Jesse Custer is a Texas minister who swears worse than a sailor and is not above killing people who get in his way. One might say he's lost his faith. No, he's just looking for God, and when he finds Him... Proud Americans is another sick and fun addition to the Preacher series. This book contains three story lines: One, a short tale about Custer's father in Vietnam. Two, a recounting of the transformation of Custer's Irish buddy Cassidy into a vampire and his coming to America. And three, the conclusion to the story begun in Preacher: Until the End of the World, the story of the angelic mafia (known as the Grail) who have come after Reverend Custer and the secret power inside him called "Genesis." --Jim Pascoe [via]
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Pride's Crossingby Tina HoweISBN 1559361530 (1-55936-153-0)
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The Prince of Tidesby Pat ConroyISBN 1417617640 (1-4176-1764-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince of Tides'Book summary:PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born.
Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country as well as the dusty glitter of New York City, The Prince of Tides is PAT CONROY at his very best. [via]More editions of The Prince of Tides:
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Privateby Kate BrianISBN 1416918736 (1-4169-1873-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Private'Book summary:Tradition, Honor, Excellence...and secrets so dark they're almost invisible
Fifteen-year-old Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to Easton Academy -- the golden ticket away from her pill-popping mother and run-of-the-mill suburban life. But when she arrives on the beautiful, tradition-steeped campus of Easton, everyone is just a bit more sophisticated, a bit more gorgeous, and a lot wealthier than she ever thought possible. Reed realizes that even though she has been accepted to Easton, Easton has not accepted her. She feels like she's on the outside, looking in.
Until she meets the Billings Girls.
They are the most beautiful, intelligent, and intensely confident girls on campus. And they know it. They hold all the power in a world where power is fleeting but means everything. Reed vows to do whatever it takes to be accepted into their inner circle.
Reed uses every part of herself -- the good, the bad, the beautiful -- to get closer to the Billings Girls. She quickly discovers that inside their secret parties and mountains of attitude, hanging in their designer clothing-packed closets the Billings Girls have skeletons. And they'll do anything to keep their secrets private. [via]
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Prodigal Days - the Untold Story of Evelby Evelyn NesbitISBN 1411637097 (1-4116-3709-7)
Softcover, Lulu.com
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The Promiseby Chaim PotokISBN 1400095417 (1-4000-9541-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Promise'Book summary:Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, hes in love, and hes studying to be a rabbi. He also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die.
One day, worried about a disturbed, unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven takes him sailing and cloud-watching. Reuven also introduces him to an old friend, Danny Saundersnow a psychologist with a growing reputation. Reconnected by their shared concern for Michael, Reuven and Danny each learns what it is to take on lifewhether sacred truths or a troubled childaccording to his own lights, not just established authority.
In a passionate, energetic narrative, The Promise brilliantly dramatizes what it is to master and use knowledge to make ones own way in the world [via]More editions of The Promise:
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Psmith Journalistby P. G. WodehouseISBN 1419143344 (1-4191-4334-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Psmith Journalist'Book summary:When I gaze at your broad, bulging forehead, when I see the clear light of intelligence in your eyes, and hear the grey matter splashing restlessly about in your cerebellum, I say to myself without hesitation, 'Comrade Windsor must have more scope.'" He looked at Mike, who was turning over the leaves of his copy of Cosy Moments in a sort of dull despair. "Well, Comrade Jackson, and what is your verdict?" [via]
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Quentinsby Maeve BinchyISBN 1410401626 (1-4104-0162-6)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quentins'Book summary:Maeve Binchy delivers a timely and topical tale on the fickle nature of docu-soaps in Quentins. In an age where everyday people are becoming overnight celebrities via the medium of television, Ella Brady is a documentary filmmaker who wants to bring the tale of the eponymous Dublin restaurant to the screen. Quentin's has had its fair share of ups and downs over the years and has become the meeting point for a lot of characters, including some familiar faces from previous Binchy novels. As Ella makes more and more headway with her documentary, the secrets, betrayals and stories of love that emerge make her question whether or not she wants to bring the tale of Quentin's to the screen after all; especially as she is also forced to confront a devastating dilemma from her own past.
Regarded by many as the true queen of the romantic Irish drama, Binchy has once again produced another fine page-turner that will please her army of loyal fans and hopefully win her many more. She has a real eye for character and exploring the often painful choices people are forced to make in their everyday lives. This is a tale of normal people, ordinary folk and the heartaches that have made them who they are. Fans will welcome the return of some familiar Binchy characters and Ella is a strong, likeable heroine, a woman who, in exploring the lives of these people, is forced to consider some choices she has made in her own life. So make a reservation at Quentin's, sit back and relax--you'll be in very good company. --Jane Warren [via]
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Resident Alien: The New York Diariesby Quentin CrispISBN 1555834663 (1-55583-466-3)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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Richard Wright's Native Sonby Harold BloomISBN 1555460550 (1-55546-055-0)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Richard Wright's Native Son'Book summary:Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to arrest, prison, or death, driven by despair, frustration, poverty, and incomprehension. As a young black man in the Chicago of the '30s, he has no way out of the walls of poverty and racism that surround him, and after he murders a young white woman in a moment of panic, these walls begin to close in. There is no help for him--not from his hapless family; not from liberal do-gooders or from his well-meaning yet naive friend Jan; certainly not from the police, prosecutors, or judges. Bigger is debased, aggressive, dangerous, and a violent criminal. As such, he has no claim upon our compassion or sympathy. And yet...
A more compelling story than Native Son has not been written in the 20th century by an American writer. That is not to say that Richard Wright created a novel free of flaws, but that he wrote the first novel that successfully told the most painful and unvarnished truth about American social and class relations. As Irving Howe asserted in 1963, "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. It made impossible a repetition of the old lies [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture."
Other books had focused on the experience of growing up black in America--including Wright's own highly successful Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of five stories that focused on the victimization of blacks who transgressed the code of racial segregation. But they suffered from what he saw as a kind of lyrical idealism, setting up sympathetic black characters in oppressive situations and evoking the reader's pity. In Native Son, Wright was aiming at something more. In Bigger, he created a character so damaged by racism and poverty, with dreams so perverted, and with human sensibilities so eroded, that he has no claim on the reader's compassion:
"I didn't want to kill," Bigger shouted. "But what I killed for, I am! It must've been pretty deep in me to make me kill! I must have felt it awful hard to murder.... What I killed for must've been good!" Bigger's voice was full of frenzied anguish. "It must have been good! When a man kills, it's for something... I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em. It's the truth..."
Wright's genius was that, in preventing us from feeling pity for Bigger, he forced us to confront the hopelessness, misery, and injustice of the society that gave birth to him. --Andrew Himes [via]More editions of Richard Wright's Native Son:
The Rise of David Levinskyby Abraham CahanISBN 1414207506 (1-4142-0750-6)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Scarlet Womenby J. D. ChristilianISBN 1556114753 (1-55611-475-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Silver Palate Cookbookby Michael McLaughlin, Julee Rosso, Sheila LukinsISBN 1563052830 (1-56305-283-0)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 1417934743 (1-4179-3474-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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Small Wonderby Barbara Kingsolver, Paul MirochaISBN 1410400913 (1-4104-0091-3)
Softcover, Walker Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Small Wonder'Book summary:Readers familiar with Barbara Kingsolver will find that Small Wonder, a collection of 23 essays, shows the same sensitivity and thoughtfulness, the same rich knowledge of and love for the natural world, as her spellbinding novels. In "Knowing Our Place," she describes the two places in which she writes: a tin-roof cabin in Appalachia and her home in the Tucson desert. In "Setting Free the Crabs," she uses her daughter's decision not to take home a beautiful (and occupied) red conch shell from a Mexican beach to illustrate our own need to give up our sense of ownership of the earth, to resist "the hunger to possess all things bright and beautiful." Many of these pieces, like the lovely title essay, were written (or rewritten) in response to the events of September 11, which threw into relief the growing social and economic inequities that are so little remarked on in the American media. These are political essays, although Kingsolver is not a natural rhetorician; her prose is too supple and inclusive. She is more inclined to follow the turns of her mind, like water in a curving stream bed, than to hammer home a point or two. But she has a rare gift for apt allusion (from sources as wide-ranging as Robert Frost to Beanie Babies) and for the elegant use of facts and figures. And she is highly quotable. It is easy to imagine the speechwriters and activists of the next 10 years dipping into Small Wonder for inspiration and the perfect phrase. --Regina Marler [via]
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Sparky Fights Back: A Little Dog's Big Battle Against Cancerby John Clifton, Josee ClerensISBN 0976084600 (0-9760846-0-0)
Softcover, Foley Square Books
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Speak of the Devil: A Novelby Richard HawkeISBN 1400064252 (1-4000-6425-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Squid And the Whale: The Shooting Scriptby Noah Baumbach, Wes AndersonISBN 1557047006 (1-55704-700-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Subways : The Tracks That Built New York Cityby Lorraine B. DiehlISBN 1400052270 (1-4000-5227-0)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.by Ron ChernowISBN 1400077303 (1-4000-7730-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.'Book summary:John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book will indelibly alter our image of this most enigmatic capitalist.
Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world's richest man by creating America's most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America.
Rockefeller was likely the most controversial businessman in our nation's history. Critics charged that his empire was built on unscrupulous tactics: grand-scale collusion with the railroads, predatory pricing, industrial espionage, and wholesale bribery of political officials. The titan spent more than thirty years dodging investigations until Teddy Roosevelt and his trustbusters embarked on a marathon crusade to bring Standard Oil to bay.
While providing abundant new evidence of Rockefeller's misdeeds, Chernow discards the stereotype of the cold-blooded monster to sketch an unforgettably human portrait of a quirky, eccentric original. A devout Baptist and temperance advocate, Rockefeller gave money more generously--his chosen philanthropies included the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago, and what is today Rockefeller University--than anyone before him. Titan presents a finely nuanced portrait of a fascinating, complex man, synthesizing his public and private lives and disclosing numerous family scandals, tragedies, and misfortunes that have never before come to light.
John D. Rockefeller's story captures a pivotal moment in American history, documenting the dramatic post-Civil War shift from small business to the rise of giant corporations that irrevocably transformed the nation. With cameos by Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Jay Gould, William Vanderbilt, Ida Tarbell, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Jung, J. Pierpont Morgan, William James, Henry Clay Frick, Mark Twain, and Will Rogers, Titan turns Rockefeller's life into a vivid tapestry of American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is Ron Chernow's signal triumph that he narrates this monumental saga with all the sweep, drama, and insight that this giant subject deserves.
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The Titan's Curseby Rick RiordanISBN 1423101456 (1-4231-0145-6)
Hardcover, Miramax
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Upper West Side Story : A History and Guideby Peter SalwenISBN 1558594299 (1-55859-429-9)
Softcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Upper West Side Story : A History and Guide'Book summary:This work is both a biography and an architectural history of a city within a city spiced with lively anecdotes. Any estate agent or restauranteur will tell you that the Upper West Side is "hot"; but despite what recent urban trends suggest, it was not discovered by a band of Young Urban Professionals in the 1980s. Dutch farmers with names like Theunis Idens (he lived on what would be West End Avenue and 97th Street) and Egbert Woutersen settled it 300 years ago. The names of later residents are much more familiar: William Tecumseh Sherman, U.S. Grant, Flo Ziegfeld, Humphrey Bogart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arturo Toscanini, William Randolph Hearst, Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Leonard Bernstein and John Lennon. Peter Salwen tells the whole story, from the colonial merchants whose mansions commanded views of the lordly Hudson to the 19th century, when the Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum at 116th and Broadway (now the site of Columbia University) was a prime tourist attraction; from the turn of the century, when "The West End" became synonymous with fashionable society through 50 years of decline to today's galloping renaissance. [via]
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Washington Squareby Henry JamesISBN 1420925199 (1-4209-2519-9)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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Watchmen : The Absolute Editionby Alan Moore, Dave GibbonsISBN 1401207138 (1-4012-0713-8)
Hardcover, DC Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watchmen : The Absolute Edition'Book summary:Has any comic been as lauded as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns but Watchmen remains the critics' favourite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga of the Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, and recently From Hell, with Eddie Campbell) first put out Watchmen in 12 issues for DC in 1986-87. It won a comic award at the time (the 1987 Jack Kirby Comics Industry Awards for Best Writer/Artist combination) and has continued to garner praise since.
The story concerns a group called the Crimebusters and a plot to kill and discredit them. Moore's characterisation is as sophisticated as any novel's. Importantly the costumes do not get in the way of the storytelling, rather they allow Moore to investigate issues of power and control--indeed it was Watchmen, and to a lesser extent Dark Knight, that propelled the comic genre forward, making "adult" comics a reality. The artwork of Gibbons (best known for 2000AD's Rogue Trooper and DC's Green Lantern) is very fine too, echoing Moore's paranoid mood perfectly throughout. Packed with symbolism, some of the overlying themes (arms control, nuclear threat, vigilantes) have dated but the intelligent social and political commentary, the structure of the story itself, its intertextuality (chapters appended with excerpts from other "works" and "studies" on Moore's characters, or with excerpts from another comic book being read by a child within the story), the fine pace of the writing and its humanity mean that Watchmen more than stands up--it retains its crown as the best the genre has yet produced. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War IIby Joshua B. FreemanISBN 1565847121 (1-56584-712-1)
Softcover, New Pr
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The Year of Magical Thinkingby Joan DidionISBN 1400078431 (1-4000-7843-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Year of Magical Thinking'Book summary:From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage-and a life, in good times and bad-that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later-the night before New Year's Eve-the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." [via]
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