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10,000 Steps a Day to Your Optimal Weight: Walk Your Way to Better Healthby Greg IsaacsISBN 1566252873 (1-56625-287-3)
Softcover, Volt Pr
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The Afterlife Dietby Daniel PinkwaterISBN 0738804010 (0-7388-0401-0)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Afterlife Diet'Book summary:In a heaven reserved for the obese, Milton Green, a second-rate editor who died under mysterious circumstances, ponders his life, his romance with an equally obese woman, and the conditions of his demise. 15,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
Belinda's Bouquetby Leslea Newman, Michael WillhoiteISBN 1555831540 (1-55583-154-0)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Healthby Steven N. Blair, Glenn A. GaesserISBN 0936077425 (0-936077-42-5)
Softcover, Gurze Designs & Books
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Blubberby Judy BlumeISBN 1557360251 (1-55736-025-1)
Hardcover, Abc-Clio Inc
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Body Clutter: Love Your Body, Love Yourselfby Leanne Ely, Marla CilleyISBN 1416534628 (1-4165-3462-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Body Clutter: Love Your Body, Love Yourself'Book summary:Flylady Trade Paperback with 228 pgs. Join Flylady and Leanne (The Dinner Diva) as they teach you how to adapt the basic principles of the Flylady system and apply them to your Body Clutter, the most personal clutter of all. They do not preach at you about losing weight; they help you discover how you found it in the first place. This book teaches you how to use BabySteps and Rountines to fit your own body. [via]
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Can Reindeer Fly?: The Science of Christmasby Roger HighfieldISBN 0753813661 (0-7538-1366-1)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Clive Barker's the Thief of Alwaysby Kris Oprisko, Gabriel HernandezISBN 1932382690 (1-932382-69-0)
Softcover, Diamond Book Distributors
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clive Barker's the Thief of Always'Book summary:Master of horror Clive Barker's Thief of Always is a fable appealing to horror and fantasy fans young and old. Now IDW brings you its own lavishly illustrated adaptation of the thrilling tale. Mr. Hood's Holiday House has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful round of treats and seasons, where every childhood whim may be satisfied... for a price. [via]
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A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy TooleISBN 0802130208 (0-8021-3020-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Confederacy of Dunces'Book summary:"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.
Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Lana Lee and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807126063 (0-8071-2606-3)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr - A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807126071 (0-8071-2607-1)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr - A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807130087 (0-8071-3008-7)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr - A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 014010934X (0-14-010934-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0394178009 (0-394-17800-9)
Softcover, Grove Press - A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0394179692 (0-394-17969-2)
Softcover, Grove Press - A Confederacy of Dunces : A Novel: ISBN 0517122707 (0-517-12270-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0606200711 (0-606-20071-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media - A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807106577 (0-8071-0657-7)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr - A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0802130208 (0-8021-3020-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
- A Confederacy of Dunces: ISBN 0807126063 (0-8071-2606-3)
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Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolutionby Robert C. AtkinsISBN 1590770021 (1-59077-002-1)
Hardcover, M Evans & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution'Book summary:Designed to catapult your body into a state of fat meltdown, Dr. Atkins's diet has taken America by storm. It targets insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar levels. The bodies of most overeaters are continually in a state of hyperinsulinism; their bodies are so adept at releasing insulin to help convert excess carbohydrates to fat that there's always too much of the hormone circulating through the body. This puts the body into a bind; it always wants to store fat. Even when people with hyperinsulinism try to lose weight--especially when they cut fat but increase carbohydrate consumption--their efforts will fail. This is why Dr. Atkins refers to insulin as "the fat-producing hormone."
Dr. Atkins's diet is extremely low in carbohydrates, which helps to regulate insulin production and decrease circulating insulin; less insulin soon results in less fat storage and fewer food cravings. The diet is far from torturous, though--those who've tried it attest that hunger is not a part of this plan. Ninety percent of Dr. Atkins's patients--more than 25,000 of them--have experienced dramatic weight loss. The book includes recipes for such luscious, low-carb dishes as lobster soup, zabaglione, sea bass, and blueberry ice cream, and even includes a carbohydrate gram counter and menus. [via]
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- Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution: ISBN 0871319918 (0-87131-991-8)
Hardcover, M Evans & Co - Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution: ISBN 087131763X (0-87131-763-X)
Softcover, M Evans & Co - Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution: ISBN 087131679X (0-87131-679-X)
Hardcover, Natl Book Network - Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution: ISBN 0871318865 (0-87131-886-5)
Hardcover, Natl Book Network - Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution: ISBN 1590770021 (1-59077-002-1)
Hardcover, M Evans & Co
- Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution: ISBN 0871319918 (0-87131-991-8)
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Eat Fatby Richard KleinISBN 0679758488 (0-679-75848-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eat Fat'Book summary:Klein, author of Cigarettes are Sublime, is making a profession out of political, and medical, incorrectness. Here he assembles statistics on "healthy fatties," adds the weight of anecdotal evidence that fatness equals happiness, cites the voluminous depiction of plump beauty in art, and piles on the heft of his own forceful opinions to make a case for fatness as the ideal. Given modern culture's unhealthy addiction to a vision of waif-like beauty, leading to the extremes of anorexia and bulimia, and the dangers of more routine crash dieting and weight-loss programs, he certainly has a point. Klein anticipates with pleasure the day when the aesthetic of Rubens becomes normative again. [via]
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Eating Disorders And Obesity: A Comprehensive Handbookby Kelly D. Brownell, Christopher G. FairburnISBN 1593852363 (1-59385-236-3)
Softcover, Guilford Pubn
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eating Disorders And Obesity: A Comprehensive Handbook'Book summary:This unique handbook presents and integrates virtually all that is currently known about eating disorders and obesity in one authoritative, accessible, and eminently practical volume. From leading international authorities, 112 concise chapters encapsulate the latest information on all pertinent topics, from biological, psychological, and social processes associated with risk, to clinical methods for assessment and intervention. Suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter replace extended references and enhance the practical value and readability of the volume.
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Eleanor Rigbyby Douglas CouplandISBN 1582346437 (1-58234-643-7)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleanor Rigby'Book summary:Liz Dunn isn't morbid, she's just a lonely woman with a very pragmatic outlook on life. Overweight, underemployed, and living in a nondescript condo with nothing but chocolate pudding in the fridge, she has pretty much given up on anything interesting ever happening to her. Everything changes when she gets an unexpected phone call from a Vancouver hospital and a stranger takes on a very intimate place in her life. From here the plot of Douglas Coupland's Eleanor Rigby skyrockets into a very bizarre world, rife with reverse sing-alongs and apocalyptic visions of frantic farmers. The style and plot paths are very identifiably Coupland--slightly mystical, off-kilter, and very, very smart. Ultimately a novel about the burden of loneliness, Eleanor Rigby takes its characters through strange and sometimes nearly unimaginable predicaments.
Fans of Douglas Coupland's later novels, particularly Hey Nostradamus! and Miss Wyoming, are bound to like Eleanor Rigby. Like many of his novels, the journey is strange and unexpected but you come out at the other end with a snapshot of a sardonic and bizarre but ever-so-slightly hopeful place. --Victoria Griffith [via]
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Fast Food Nationby Eric SchlosserISBN 0618130977 (0-618-13097-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Food Nation'Book summary:On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.
Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed [via]
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Mealby Eric SchlosserISBN 0060838582 (0-06-083858-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal'Book summary:On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.
Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed [via]
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- Fast Food Nation Tie-in: The Dark Side of the All-american Meal: ISBN 006116139X (0-06-116139-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal: ISBN 0395977894 (0-395-97789-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal: ISBN 0060938455 (0-06-093845-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal: ISBN 0060838582 (0-06-083858-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
- Fast Food Nation Tie-in: The Dark Side of the All-american Meal: ISBN 006116139X (0-06-116139-X)
Fat Girl: A True Storyby Judith MooreISBN 1594630097 (1-59463-009-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern Westby Peter N. StearnsISBN 0814798241 (0-8147-9824-1)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Fat Is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-Diet Guide to Permanent Weight Lossby Susie OrbachISBN 0883659875 (0-88365-987-5)
Hardcover, BBS Publishing Corporation
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Fat Kid Rules the Worldby K. L. GoingISBN 0142402087 (0-14-240208-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fat Kid Rules the World'Book summary:[via]Troy Billings at 6'1", 296 pounds, is standing at the edge of a subway platform seriously contemplating suicide when he meets Curt MacCrae -a sage-like, semi-homeless punk guitar genius who also happens to be a drop-out legend at Troy's school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
"I saved your life. You owe me lunch," Curt tells Troy, and Troy can't imagine refusing; after all, think of the headline: FAT KID ARGUES WITH PIECE OF TWINE.
But with Curt, Troy gets more than he bargained for and soon finds himself recruited as Curt's drummer. "We'll be called Rage/Tectonic. Sort of a punk rock, Clash sort of thing," Curt informs him.
There's only one problem. Troy can't play the drums. Oh yes, and his father thinks Curt's a drug addict. And his brother thinks Troy's a loser. But with Curt, anything is possible. "You'll see," says Curt. "We're going to be HUGE."
In an outstanding, funny, edgy debut, K. L. Going presents two unlikely friends who ultimately save each other.
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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the Worldby Greg CritserISBN 0618380604 (0-618-38060-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World'Book summary:What in American society has changed so dramatically that nearly 60 percent of us are now overweight, plunging the nation into what the surgeon general calls an "epidemic of obesity"? Greg Critser engages every aspect of American life - class, politics, culture, and economics - to show how we have made ourselves the second fattest people on the planet (after South Sea Islanders).[via]
Fat Land highlights the groundbreaking research that implicates cheap fats and sugars as the alarming new metabolic factor making our calories stick and shows how and why children are too often the chief metabolic victims of such foods. No one else writing on fat America takes as hard a line as Critser on the institutionalized lies we've been telling ourselves about how much we can eat and how little we can exercise. His expose of the Los Angeles schools' opening of the nutritional floodgates in the lunchroom and his examination of the political and cultural forces that have set the bar on American fitness low and then lower, are both discerning reporting and impassioned wake-up calls.
Disarmingly funny, Fat Land leaves no diet book - including Dr. Atkins's - unturned. Fashions, both leisure and street, and American-style religion are subject to Critser's gimlet eye as well. Memorably, Fat Land takes on baby-boomer parenting shibboleths - that young children won't eat past the point of being full and that the dinner table isn't the place to talk about food rules - and gives advice many families will use to lose.
Critser's brilliantly drawn futuristic portrait of a Fat America just around the corner and his all too contemporary foray into the diabetes ward of a major children's hospital make Fat Land a chilling but brilliantly rendered portrait of the cost in human lives - many of them very young lives - of America's obesity epidemic.More editions of Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World:
Fat Like Usby Jean Renfro AnspaughISBN 0965449955 (0-9654499-5-5)
Softcover, Windows on History Pr Inc
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Fat No More: The Answer for the Dangerously Overweightby Norman B. AckermanISBN 1573926922 (1-57392-692-2)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fat No More: The Answer for the Dangerously Overweight'Book summary:Dangerously overweight people suffer daily from the negative social, psychological, and physical consequences of excessive weight. The most serious consequence is the great risk to health that obesity presents. For people who weigh 100 or more pounds over their ideal weight, diets, exercise, and other forms of weight loss just don't work.
Fat No More is the amazing story of the surgical solutions that many are seeking. Dr. Ackerman, who has devoted two decades to helping those who fear there's no hope left, offers surgical answers to morbid obesity, from stomach stapling and intestinal bypass to lyposuction and more. This is the complete guide for those who choose these solutions and for those who provide them.
Using the latest research, the author examines the physical and psychological aspects of obesity; discusses his personal experiences in treatment; and offers many success stories of patients who are living new lives, liberated from overeating and excessive weight. [via]More editions of Fat No More: The Answer for the Dangerously Overweight:
Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemicby J. Eric OliverISBN 0195313208 (0-19-531320-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic'Book summary:Our government is telling us that obesity is a major health crisis, that sixty percent of Americans are "overweight," and that one in four is obese. But how true are these claims?
In Fat Politics, Eric Oliver unearths the real story behind America's "obesity epidemic." Oliver shows how a handful of doctors, government bureaucrats, and health researchers, with financial backing from the drug and weight-loss industry, have campaigned to misclassify more than sixty million Americans as "overweight," to inflate the health risks of being fat, and to promote the idea that obesity is a killer disease. In reviewing the scientific evidence, Oliver shows there is little proof either that obesity causes so many diseases and deaths or that losing weight makes people any healthier. Our concern with obesity is fueled more by social prejudice, bureaucratic politics, and industry profit than by scientific fact.
Such misinformation, Oliver argues, is the true problem with obesity in America. By telling us we need to be thin, the proponents of the "obesity epidemic" are pushing millions of Americans towards dangerous surgeries, crash diets, and harmful diet drugs. Oliver goes on to examine the surprising reasons why we hate fatness and why we are gaining weight, and also the real threats to our health that are being displaced by our fat obsession.
Fat Politics not only topples our most basic assumptions about obesity and health, it highlights frightening dangers caused by making our weight a scapegoat for our real problems. [via]More editions of Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic:
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Fat! So?by Marilyn Wann, Wann MarilynISBN 0898159954 (0-89815-995-4)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fat! So?'Book summary:Fat? Chunky? Less than svelte? So what! In this hilarious and eye-opening book, fat and proud activist/zinester Marilyn Wann takes on Americas' biggest fearworse than the fear of public speaking or nuclear weaponsour fear of fat.Statistics tell us that about a third of Americans are fat, and common sense adds that just about everyone, fat or thin, male or female, has worried about their appearance. FAT!SO? weighs in with a more attractive alternative: feeling good about yourself at any weightand having the style and attitude to back it up. Internationally recognized as a fat-positive spokesperson, Wann has learned that you can be absolutely happy, healthy, and successful...and fat. With its hilarious and insightful blend of essays, quizzes, facts, and reporting, FAT!SO? proves that you can be out-and-out fabulous at any size. [via]
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Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About Itby Kelly D. Brownell, Katherine Battle HorgenISBN 0071402500 (0-07-140250-0)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It'Book summary:Advance Praise for Food Fight
"This is a fascinating, empowering book must-read filled with practical ways to take action" -- Shape Magazine
Food Fight is a blueprint for the nation taking action on the obesity crisis. In his analysis, Brownell is balanced but bold, courageous and creative. A public health landmark. --David A. Kessler, M.D., Dean, Yale School of Medicine, Former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration
We are indeed involved in a food fight. It is a fight for the health of America---especially our children. This book provides much of the necessary ammunition to win this fight. --David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., former Surgeon General, Director of the National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine
Provides a compelling approach to reverse the obesity epidemic now gripping our nation. Anyone concerned about this crisis, and that should include all Americans, will find this book enlightening. --Walter C. Willett, M.D., Dr.P.H., Chair, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
Food Fight is a very informative, provocative, and well-written account of the role of food in the growing public health problem of obesity. I highly recommend it. --Steven N. Blair, P.E.D., President and CEO, the Cooper Institute
Food Fight rings the alarm to enlist Americans in an effort to protect children from the toxic environment that is leading to skyrocketing rates of obesity and other health problems. --Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest
Kelly Brownell and colleagues were among the first to sound the alarm, that an increasingly "toxic environment" puts everyone, and especially children, at risk for obesity. Food Fight enters the front lines in the battle between public health and private profit. --David S. Ludwig, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Obesity Program, Childrens Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School
How America is eating itself into a national health crisis and what we can do about it
In Food Fight, one of the world's best-known and most respected experts on nutrition, obesity, and eating disorders delivers the sobering message that America is quickly succumbing to a "toxic" food environment guaranteed to produce obesity, disability, and death.
Dr. Kelly D. Brownell goes beyond the bestselling Fast Food Nation to explore the roots of the obesity epidemic and the enormous toll it is taking on the nation's health, vitality, and productivity. And he offers an unflinching assessment of a culture that feeds its pets better than its children, that targets the poor and children as a market for high-calorie, low-nutrition junk food and manipulates children into poor eating habits with toy giveaways and in-school promotions.
But Food Fight isn't all bad news. It is also an inspiring call to action from one of the nation's most effective public health advocates. Dr. Brownell suggests bold public policy initiatives for stemming the rising tide of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, such as imposing taxes on junk food and using the proceeds to make healthy foods more affordable and available. He describes steps individuals can take to help safeguard their and their families' health, including pressuring schools to remove junk food vending machines. And he offers a workable plan for improving individual and family eating and exercise habits.
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Good in Bedby Jennifer WeinerISBN 0743418174 (0-7434-1817-4)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good in Bed: A Novel'Book summary:Jennifer Weiner's Good in Bed is the story of a year in the life of a late-twentysomething American woman: Cannie, a journalist on the Philadelphia Examiner, who has recently broken up with her boyfriend of three years (cue endless similarities with countless other books aimed at young Western women). Fortunately, Weiner's book has enough originality to break out from the mould, with an overweight heroine and a mother who has recently moved in with her lesbian lover. Good in Bed has its funny moments, dealing with humour and sensitivity with Cannie's status as a "larger woman", her bizarre family and her regrets at splitting up with Bruce, but there is often more a feeling of pathos than laughter. Cannie is not a tragic figure through her dress size--Weiner successfully side-steps any attempt to pity her or her fellow larger women at a weight-loss clinic, taking the humorous path instead--but through her relationship and career predicaments. It is therefore not clear why Weiner cast Cannie as a plus-size, unless to drive home the eternal fact that whatever their size, all women have the same neuroses inside. Cannie's year offers more lows than highs--with a particularly heart-breaking low towards the end of the novel, which is unlikely to be read by anyone with even a wry smile--and it therefore is not a "feel good to be a woman" novel. For laugh-out-loud writing with a dash of pathos try Shannon Olson's Welcome to My Planet, but for sensitive and ultimately tear-inducing touching narration try Good in Bed. --Olivia Dickinson [via]
The Hungry Gene: The Inside Story of the Obesity Industryby Ellen Ruppel ShellISBN 0802140335 (0-8021-4033-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Hungry Gene: The Sciene of Fat and the Future of Thinby Ellen Ruppel ShellISBN 0871138565 (0-87113-856-5)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Hungry Planetby Peter Menzel, Faith D'AluisioISBN 1580086810 (1-58008-681-0)
Hardcover, Ten Speed Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hungry Planet'Book summary:On the banks of Mali's Niger River, Soumana Natomo and his family gather for a communal dinner of millet porridge with tamarind juice. In the USA, the Ronayne-Caven family enjoys corndogs-on-a-stick with a tossed green salad. This age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform diets worldwide. In HUNGRY PLANET, the creative team behind the best-selling Material World, Women in the Material World, and MAN EATING BUGS presents a photographic study of families from around the world, revealing what people eat during the course of one week. Each family's profile includes a detailed description.
Awards
2006 James Beard Cookbook of the Year The Splendid Table Book of the Year
2005 Harry Chapin Media Award
finalist for the 2006 IACP Cookbook Award Reviews
"Arresting, beautiful, enlightening and infinitely human, this is a collection of full-page photos of families around the world surrounded by what they eat in a single week -- from Bhutan to San Antonio. Read the illuminating statistics and the essays. This is a book for the family and for the classroom. You won't see the same old "aren't we better than them" attitude, nor will you be shamed. This book reminds us that what we eat is the simplest, yet most profound, thread that ties us together."Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Host of American Public Media's Public Radio Program, The Splendid Table the politics of food at its most poignant and provocative. A coffee table book that will certainly make coffee interesting. Washington Post While the photos are extraordinary--fine enough for a stand-alone volume--it's the questions these photos ask that make this volume so gripping. This is a beautiful, quietly provocative volume. Publishers Weekly, *Starred Review* This book of portraits reveals a planet of joyful individuality, dispiriting sameness, and heart-breaking disparity. It's a perfect gift for the budding anti-globalists on your list Bon Appetit [A] unique photographic study of global nutrition USA Today Grabs your attention for the startlingly varied stories it tells about how people feed themselves around the world. Its contents are based on detailed research, beautifully photographed, presented with often disturbing clarity. Associated Press "The world's kitchens open to Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, the intrepid couple who created the series of books called Material World.... As always with this couple's terse, lively travelogues, politics and the world economy are never far from view." New York Times Book Review illuminating, thought-provoking, and gloriously colorful Saveur Magazine Richly colored and quietly composed photographs....Hungry Planet is not a book about obesity or corporate villains; it's something much grander. Its premise is simple to the point of obvious and powerful to the point of art. Salon.com A fascinating nutritional and gustatory tour. San Jose Mercury News
A grand culinary voyage through our modern world...a lushly illustrated anthropological study. San Francisco Bay Guardian
The talked-about book of the season...the stories are fascinating. Detroit Free Press
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Hygiene De L'Assassinby Amelie NothombISBN 225311118X (2-253-11118-X)
Softcover, Editions Du Seuil
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The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions: A Philosophical Adventure With the World's Greatest Thinkersby Nicholas FearnISBN 0802143474 (0-8021-4347-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions: A Philosophical Adventure With the World's Greatest Thinkers'Book summary:The work of the classic philosophers is well known. But what do contemporary thinkers say about what it is to be a human being? In his serious, challenging, and remarkably accessible new book, Nicholas Fearn turns to contemporary philosophers to ask the age old questions: Who am I? What do I know? What should I do? In his search for higher meaning, Fearn consults with thinkers from around the world (including John Searle, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, Richard Rorty, Daniel Dennett, Noam Chomsky, Derek Parfit, Nick Bostrom, among many others) to create an impressive survey of recent thought. Variously, they believe that free will, identity, and consciousness are not what they seem; that the difference between virtue and wickedness can be a matter of sheer luck; and that, one day, we will all be vegetarians. Fearn discovers that the topics havent changed, though our world has. Or has it? Moving deftly from pop culture to the writings of Plato, Philosophy is a brilliant and entertaining guide to the current state of the philosophical thought.[via]More editions of The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions: A Philosophical Adventure With the World's Greatest Thinkers:
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Love Hunger Weight-Loss Workbookby Robert HemfeltISBN 0840732201 (0-8407-3220-1)
Softcover, Nelson/Word Canada
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Love Hunger Weight-Loss Workbook's multifaceted approach will help you develop lifelong lifestyle changes. In this workbook, the doctors of the Minirth-Meier Clinic have explored every possible weight-loss aid and provide daily sections for the body, mind, and soul. [via]More editions of Love Hunger Weight-Loss Workbook:
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Marie and Bruce: A Playby Wallace ShawnISBN 0802130186 (0-8021-3018-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Massiveby Julia Bell, Andrew BiscombISBN 1416902074 (1-4169-0207-4)
Softcover, Simon Pulse
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Moon Palaceby Paul AusterISBN 0670825093 (0-670-82509-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moon Palace'Book summary:Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco journeys from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encounters a gallery of characters and a series of events as rich and surprising as any in modern fiction.
Beginning during the summer that men first walked on the moon, and moving backward and forward in time to span three generations, Moon Palace is propelled by coincidence and memory, and illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit. Here is the most entertaining and moving novel yet from an author well known for his breathtaking imagination.
From New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy).
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Myrtle of Willendorfby Rebecca O'ConnellISBN 1886910529 (1-886910-52-9)
Hardcover, Boyds Mills Pr
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Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know Aboutby Kevin TrudeauISBN 097559950X (0-9755995-0-X)
Hardcover, Calcomp Nutrition
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The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Healthby Paul CamposISBN 1592400663 (1-59240-066-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health'Book summary:Is your weight hazardous to your health? According to public-health authorities, 65 percent of us are overweight. Every day, we are bombarded with dire warnings about Americas "obesity epidemic." Close to half of the adult population is dieting, obsessed with achieving an arbitrary "ideal weight." Yet studies show that a moderately active larger person is likely to be far healthier (and to live longer) than someone who is thin but sedentary. And contrary to what the fifty-billion-dollar-per-year weight-loss industry would have us believe medical science has not yet come up with a way to make people thin.
After years spent scrutinizing medical studies and interviewing leading doctors, scientists, eating- disorder specialists, and psychiatrists, Professor Paul Campos is here to lead the backlash against weight hysteriaand to show that we can safeguard our health without obsessing about the numbers on the scale. But The Obesity Myth is not just a compelling argument, grounded in the latest scientific research; its also a provocative, wry exposé of the culture that feeds on our self-defeating war on fat. Campos will show:
* How the nations most prestigious and trusted media sources consistently misinform the public about obesity
* What the movie industrys love affair with the "fat suit" tells us about the relationship between racial- and body-based prejudice in America
* How the skinny elitewith their "supersized" lifestyles and gas-guzzling SUVsproject their anxieties about overconsumption on the poorer and heavier underclass
* How weight-loss mania fueled the impeachment of Bill Clinton
In this paradigm-busting read, Professor Campos challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the medical, political, and cultural meaning of weight and brings a rational and compelling new voice to Americas increasingly irrational weight debate.
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Overcoming Fear of Fatby Esther D. Rothblum, Laura S. BrownISBN 091839371X (0-918393-71-X)
Softcover, Haworth Pr Inc
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Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding Myselfby Frances KuffelISBN 0767912926 (0-7679-1292-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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When she was in her early forties, Frances Kuffel lost half her body weight. In Passing for Thin, Frances describes with unflinching honesty and a wickedly dark sense of humor her first fumbling introductions to her newly slender body, shining a light on the shared human experience of feeling uncomfortable in ones own skin. She gradually moves from observer to playerenjoying for the first time flirting, exercising, and shoppingas she explores the terrain on the Planet of Thin. As Frances gradually comes to knowand lovethe stranger in the mirror, she learns that her body does not define her, but enables her to become the woman shes always wanted to be. [via]More editions of Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding Myself:
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She's Come Undoneby Wally LambISBN 1568954603 (1-56895-460-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'She's Come Undone'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, January 1997: "Mine is a story of craving; an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered." So begins the story of Dolores Price, the unconventional heroine of Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone. Dolores is a class-A emotional basket case, and why shouldn't she be? She's suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists: Her father is a violent, philandering liar; her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-O; and the men in her life are probably the gender's most loathsome creatures. But Dolores is no quitter; she battles her woes with a sense of self-indulgence and gluttony rivaled only by Henry VIII. Hers is a dysfunctional Wonder Years, where growing up in the golden era was anything but ideal. While most kids her age were dealing with the monumental importance of the latest Beatles single and how college turned an older sibling into a long-haired hippie, Dolores was grappling with such issues as divorce, rape, and mental illness. Whether you're disgusted by her antics or moved by her pathetic ploys, you'll be drawn into Dolores's warped, hilarious, Mallomar-munching world. [via]
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The Skinny on Fat : Our Obsession with Weightby Shawna VogelISBN 071673091X (0-7167-3091-X)
Hardcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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The Skinny on Fat : Our Obsession with Weight Controlby Shawna VogelISBN 0716741709 (0-7167-4170-9)
Softcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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The Social Aspects of Obesityby I. De GarineISBN 2884491864 (2-88449-186-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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The South Beach Diet: Exclusive Editionby Arthur AgatstonISBN 1579548148 (1-57954-814-8)
Hardcover, Rodale Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The South Beach Diet: Exclusive Edition'Book summary:The verdict is in: those simple carbs we've been living on are killing us. For good health, we've got to get our blood sugar under control and stop the incessant cravings. Or so says Dr. Arthur Agatston, author of The South Beach Diet. The first half of the book details the science behind the diet. Most of the explanations revolve around why things you thought were healthy-orange juice, wheat toast, carrots-are actually evil. To avoid blood sugar surges, Agatston created a modified carbohydrate plan, recommending plenty of high-fiber foods, lean proteins, and healthy fats, while cutting bread, rice, pastas, and fruits. Major differences from other diets include a lack of concern over portion size and a serious indifference to exercise. Feeling full while on a diet is a beautiful thing, but it seems odd that a cardiologist buries his exercise recommendations in a solitary sentence.
The last half of the book covers his three-stage plan; daily diets are mixed with recipes, some of which are from South Beach restaurant chefs. The most restrictive period lasts just two weeks, enough time to stabilize your urges and lose a few pounds; stage two adds fruits and a handful of other carbs, while stage three is meant to last the remainder of your life, with occasional lapses for white bread or birthday cake. While the diet is sound, the book could be better organized. The first half mixes scientific study with anecdote in a seemingly random way, while the mix of meal plans and recipes can be confusing. Still, the recipes are varied and tasty, and you'll never feel deprived, unless you currently happen to live by bread alone. --ll Lightner [via]
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The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide: The Complete and Easy Reference for All Your Favorite Foodsby Arthur AgatstonISBN 1579549586 (1-57954-958-6)
Softcover, Rodale Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide: The Complete and Easy Reference for All Your Favorite Foods'Book summary:You Don't Have to Give Up Fat or Carbs-- You Just Need to Choose the Right Ones![via]
All fats and carbohydrates aren't created equal. The good kinds nourish your body as they help you lose weight. The bad kinds--found in sugary, fatty foods like doughnuts, snack foods, and fast-food meals--damage your body's ability to burn off what you eat. Worse, eating them actually triggers cravings and makes you even hungrier!
On the South Beach Diet, by best-selling author and Miami Beach cardiologist Arthur Agatston, M.D., you eat plenty of good carbs and good fats--delicious, healthy foods that crush cravings, curb overeating, and leave you satisfied rather than starving. And now, with The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide, you have all the information you'll need to make the right meal choices--anytime, anywhere.
This Guide Does All the Work--More Than 1,200 Food Listings at Your Fingertips
You'll know at a glance if a food is compatible with the South Beach Diet--each entry lists its carbohydrate, sugar, and fat grams, plus all the foods are ranked "Good," "Limited," "Very Limited," or "Avoid," according to the nutritional principles Dr. Agatston explains in his introduction. Packed with essential information, food lists, shopping tips, meal makeovers, a Dining-Out Guide to stay on track at your favorite restaurants, and more, The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide is your key to lifelong health and weight loss.More editions of The South Beach Diet Good Fats/Good Carbs Guide: The Complete and Easy Reference for All Your Favorite Foods:
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The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Lossby Arthur S. AgatstonISBN 1579546463 (1-57954-646-3)
Hardcover, Rodale Pr
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The last half of the book covers his three-stage plan; daily diets are mixed with recipes, some of which are from South Beach restaurant chefs. The most restrictive period lasts just two weeks, enough time to stabilize your urges and lose a few pounds; stage two adds fruits and a handful of other carbs, while stage three is meant to last the remainder of your life, with occasional lapses for white bread or birthday cake. While the diet is sound, the book could be better organized. The first half mixes scientific study with anecdote in a seemingly random way, while the mix of meal plans and recipes can be confusing. Still, the recipes are varied and tasty, and you'll never feel deprived, unless you currently happen to live by bread alone. --ll Lightner [via]
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The Thief of Alwaysby Clive BarkerISBN 0785727396 (0-7857-2739-6)
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This Will All End in Tearsby Joe OllmannISBN 1897178069 (1-897178-06-9)
Softcover, Insomniac Pr
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In these six beautifully illustrated stories, Joe Ollmann peers into the cracks of every-day life, finding inspiration in those slightly uncomfortable moments, both extra-ordinary and mundane, that make life . . . well . . . interesting. Influenced by a variety of artists, such as Ben Katchor, Charles Schulz, Ralph Steadman, and Edward Gorey, Ollmann draws the inhabitants of his world with remarkable craft and an eye for detail, making each character unforgettable.More editions of This Will All End in Tears:
What's Eating Gilbert Grapeby Peter HedgesISBN 0671038540 (0-671-03854-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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When Zachary Beaver Came to Townby Kimberly Willis HoltISBN 0805061169 (0-8050-6116-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Zachary Beaver Came to Town'Book summary:Summer in the tiny Texas town of Antler is traditionally a time for enjoying Wylie Womack's Bahama Mama snow cones and racking up the pins at Kelly's Bowl-a-Rama, but this year it's not going well for Toby Wilson. His 13-year-old heart has been broken twice: once by his mother, who left him and his father to become a country singer in Nashville, and then again by his crush Scarlett Stalling, the town beauty who barely acknowledges Toby's existence. But when Zachary Beaver, "The World's Fattest Boy," comes to Antler as part of a traveling sideshow, Toby begins to realize that there might just be people who have it worse than him. By reaching out to Zachary in small ways--such as helping him realize his lifelong dream of being baptized--Toby is better able to put his own problems into perspective. At the baptism, Toby finally feels at peace: "Zachary smiles and I wonder if he's feeling different. Because standing here waist deep in Gossimer's Lake... I'm feeling different--light and good and maybe even holy." By summer's end, Toby's friendship with Zachary has provided him with the emotional stamina to begin dealing with his mother's decision and to gracefully accept the fact that Scarlett will forever be just beyond his reach.
With Zachary Beaver, Kimberly Willis Holt, author of the award-winning My Louisiana Sky, further explores southern-flavored small town life. Toby's quirky, yet ultimately rewarding coming of age story will serve as a gentle reminder to teens that sometimes the best way to work through your problems is by helping others with theirs. (Ages 11 to 15) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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La Conjura De Los Neciosby T.j. KennedyISBN 8433920421 (84-339-2042-1)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Conjura De Los Necios'Book summary:El protagonista de esta novela es uno de los personajes mas memorables de la literatura norteamericana: Ignatius Reilly, quien a los treinta anos vive con una estrafalaria madre, ocupado en escribir una extensa y demoledora denuncia contra nuestro siglo, tan carente de "teologia y geometria" como de "decencia y buen gusto". Un alegato desquiciado contra una sociedad desquiciada. Por una inesperada necesidad de dinero, se ve "catapultado en la fiebre de la existencia contemporanea", fiebre a la que Igantius anadira unos cuantos grados mas. En Francia, esta novela fue galardonada como la mejor del ano en lengua extranjera. [via]
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La Conjura De Los Necios/a Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy TooleISBN 8496333604 (84-96333-60-4)
Softcover, Quinteto
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La dieta South Beach: el delicioso plan disenado por un medico para asegurar el adelgazamiento rapido y saludable / The South Beach Dietby Arthur AgatsonISBN 1579549462 (1-57954-946-2)
Softcover, Rodale Pr
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El Palacio De La Luna/ Moon Palaceby Paul Auster, Maribel De JuanISBN 8433914545 (84-339-1454-5)
Softcover, Editorial Anagrama
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Hygiene De L'Assassinby Amelie NothombISBN 202025462X (2-02-025462-X)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Mercure: Romanby Amelie NothombISBN 2226104992 (2-226-10499-2)
Hardcover, A. Michel
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Gut Im Bettby Jennifer WeinerISBN 3442450470 (3-442-45047-0)
Softcover, Goldmann Wilhelm Verlag Gmbh
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