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Abandon : A Romanceby Pico IyerISBN 037541505X (0-375-41505-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Accidental: Library Editionby Ali SmithISBN 0375422250 (0-375-42225-0)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Americana and Other Poemsby John UpdikeISBN 0375412549 (0-375-41254-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Analectsby Arthur Waley, ConfuciusISBN 0375412042 (0-375-41204-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Confucius is one of the most humane, rational, and lucid of moral teachers, concerned not with arcane metaphysics but with practical issues of life and conduct. What is virtue? What sort of life is most conducive to happiness? How should the state be ruled? What is the proper relationship between human beings and their environment?
In this classic translation of The Analects by Arthur Waley, the questions Confucius addressed two and a half millennia ago remain as relevant as ever. [via]More editions of The Analects:
Animal Senseby Diane Ackerman, Peter SisISBN 0375823840 (0-375-82384-0)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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The Animals' Merry Christmasby Kathryn B. Jackson, Richard ScarryISBN 0375833412 (0-375-83341-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Animals' Merry Christmas'Book summary:Golden Books is proud to reissue this beloved Christmas collection, chock-full of funny animal stories and poems. This oversize format features Scarrys earlier, more painterly style and makes a perfect gift. A true holiday treat for Scarry fans! [via]
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A Apple Pie and Traditional Nursery Rhymesby Kate GreenawayISBN 0375415114 (0-375-41511-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Apple Pie and Traditional Nursery Rhymes'Book summary:This charming volume brings back into print some of the finest illustrated children's books from the Arts and Crafts Movement: Kate Greenaway's much-loved alphabet book, A Apple Pie, along with a selection of her illustrated nursery rhymes.
Greenaway's drawings conjure up a never-never land of rural simplicity and innocencean escape from the squalor of Victorian citiesthat is as delightful now as it was when these gems of children's literature first appeared in the 1880s. [via]More editions of A Apple Pie and Traditional Nursery Rhymes:
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Arabian Nights IIby Arabian Nights. English. Selections, Husain HaddawyISBN 0375403213 (0-375-40321-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries.
The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. [via]More editions of Arabian Nights II:
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Are You My Mother?by Philip D. EastmanISBN 0375815996 (0-375-81599-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Are You My Mother?'Book summary:This is the classic from which many of our staff first learned to read, starting us on a path of unremitting bibliophilia. Are You My Mother? follows a confused baby bird who's been denied the experience of imprinting as he asks cows, planes, and steam shovels the Big Question. In the end he is happily reunited with his maternal parent in a glorious moment of recognition. [via]
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As I Lay Dyingby William FaulknerISBN 0375504524 (0-375-50452-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As I Lay Dying'Book summary:Faulkner's distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters--in one of its most successful incarnations here in As I Lay Dying. In the story, the members of the Bundren family must take the body of Addie, matriarch of the family, to the town where Addie wanted to be buried. Along the way, we listen to each of the members on the macabre pilgrimage, while Faulkner heaps upon them various flavors of disaster. Contains the famous chapter completing the equation about mothers and fish--you'll see. [via]
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The Basic Writings of Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels and Other Writingsby Jonathan Swift, Claude RawsonISBN 0375757953 (0-375-75795-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Basic Writings of Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings'Book summary:This edition of Jonathan Swifts basic works contains the authoritative texts of all his most important prose writings as well as many shorter pieces, poems, and letter extracts. Included are Gullivers Travels, Swifts devastating picture of human nature and human foibles; A Tale of a Tub, his scathing attack on the intellectual culture and religious excesses of his time; The Battel of the Books, his defense of the classical tradition; and the unforgettable Modest Proposal, in which he proposes that the Irish, in order to avoid starvation, eat their children. [via]
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Beat Writers at Workby Paris Review, George PlimptonISBN 0375752153 (0-375-75215-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Before We Were Freeby Julia AlvarezISBN 0375815449 (0-375-81544-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Before We Were Free'Book summary:What would life be like for a teen living under a dictatorship? Afraid to go to school or to talk freely? Knowing that, at the least suspicion, the secret police could invade your house, even search and destroy your private treasures? Or worse, that your father or uncles or brothers could be suddenly taken away to be jailed or tortured or killed? Such experiences have been all too common in the many Latin American dictatorships of the last 50 years. Author Julia Alvarez (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) and her family escaped from the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic when she was 10, but in Before We Were Free she imagines, through the stories of her cousins and friends, how it was for those who stayed behind.
Twelve-year-old Anita de la Torre is too involved with her own life to be more than dimly aware of the growing menace all around her, until her last cousins and uncles and aunts have fled to America and a fleet of black Volkswagens comes up the drive, bringing the secret police to the family compound to search their houses. Gradually, through overheard conversations and the explanations of her older sister, Lucinda, she comes to understand that her father and uncles are involved in a plot to kill El Jefe, the dictator, and that they are all in deadly peril. Anita's story is universal in its implications--she even keeps an Anne Frank-like diary when she and her mother must hide in a friend's house--and a tribute to those brave souls who feel, like Anita's father, that "life without freedom is no life at all." (Ages 10 to 14) --Patty Campbell [via]
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The Birth of the Beat Generation : Visionaries, Rebels and Hipsters, 1944-1960by Steven WatsonISBN 0375701532 (0-375-70153-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Blues Poemsby Kevin YoungISBN 0375414584 (0-375-41458-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Book of Warby Sun-TzuISBN 0375754776 (0-375-75477-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of War'Book summary:Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars this century if the influence of Clausewitz's On War had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun-tzu's The Art of Warfare. --B.H. Liddel Hart
For two thousand years, Sun-tzu's The Art of Warfare was the indispensable volume of warcraft. Although his work is the first known analysis of war and warfare, Sun-tzu struck upon a thoroughly modern concept: "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." Karl von Clausewitz, the canny military theorist who famously declared that war is a continuation of politics by other means, also claims paternity of the notion "total war." His is the magnum opus of the era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic vars.
Now these two great military minds are made to share the same tent, metaphorically speaking, in The Book of War. What a bivouac it is, and what a conversation into the night.
Military writer Ralph Peters has written a new Introduction for this Modern Library edition. [via]More editions of The Book of War:
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The Boy Who Loved Wordsby Roni Schotter, Giselle PotterISBN 0375836012 (0-375-83601-2)
Hardcover, Schwartz & Wade Books
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The Captive Mindby Czeslaw MiloszISBN 0374957339 (0-374-95733-9)
Hardcover, Octagon Books
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The Cat in the Hat Comes Backby Dr. SeussISBN 0375875387 (0-375-87538-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat in the Hat Comes Back'Book summary:That behatted and bow-tied cat from Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat is back, and, not surprisingly, is up to all sorts of mischief. This time, Sally and her brother are stuck shoveling snow: "This was no time for play./ This was no time for fun./ This was no time for games./ There was work to be done." But--you guessed it--the laughing Hat Cat has other ideas, as he lets himself in to eat cake in their tub. He leaves behind "a big long pink cat ring," which he then handily cleans with "MOTHER'S WHITE DRESS!" The dress then loses its pink stain to the wall, then Dad's shoes, then the rug in the hall, until finally the Cat must call in some assistance: from inside his hat comes Little Cat A, then Littler Cats B, C, D, E, and so on, nested like dolls in ever tinier hats. With this pack of felines, Sally and her brother may get rid of those stains, but they'll likely never be rid of that rascally cat. As should be expected from the good doctor, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back provides an excellent reader (and alphabet primer) for those just learning, not to mention ample laughs for everyone else. (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes [via]
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Cenotaphby Eric PankeyISBN 0375407642 (0-375-40764-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0375815260 (0-375-81526-0)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'Book summary:Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, along with Roald Dahl's other tales for younger readers, make him a true star of children's literature. Dahl seems to know just how far to go with his oddball fantasies; in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, for example, nasty Violet Beauregarde blows up into a blueberry from sneaking forbidden chewing gum, and bratty Augustus Gloop is carried away on the river of chocolate he wouldn't resist. In fact, all manner of disasters can happen to the most obnoxiously deserving of children because Dahl portrays each incident with such resourcefulness and humor.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a singular delight, crammed with mad fantasy, childhood justice and revenge, and as much candy as you can eat. The book is also available in Spanish (Charlie y la Fabrica de Chocolate). (The suggested age range for this book is 9-12, but nobody this reviewer has met can resist it, including New York City bellhops, flight attendants, and grumpy teenagers.) [via]
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevatorby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0375815252 (0-375-81525-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator'Book summary:Picking right up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory left off, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator continues the adventures of Charlie Bucket, his family, and Willy Wonka, the eccentric candy maker. As the book begins, our heroes are shooting into the sky in a glass elevator, headed for destinations unknown. What follows is exactly the kind of high-spirited magical madness and mayhem we've all come to expect from Willy Wonka and his creator Roald Dahl. The American space race gets a send-up, as does the President, and Charlie's family gets a second chance at childhood. Throw in the Vermicious Knids, Gnoolies, and Minusland and we once again witness pure genius. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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The Collected Storiesby Grace PaleyISBN 0374530289 (0-374-53028-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Dhalgrenby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0375706682 (0-375-70668-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dhalgren'Book summary:What is Dhalgren? Dhalgren is one of the greatest novels of 20th-century American literature. Dhalgren is one of the all-time bestselling science fiction novels. Dhalgren may be read with equal validity as SF, magic realism, or metafiction. Dhalgren is controversial, challenging, and scandalous. Dhalgren is a brilliant novel about sex, gender, race, class, art, and identity.
A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the inhabitants have fled. But others are drawn to the devastated city, among them the Kid, a white/American Indian man who can't remember his own name. The Kid is emblematic of those who live in the new Bellona, who are the young, the poor, the mad, the violent, the outcast--the marginalized.
Dhalgren is many things, but instantly accessible isn't one of them. While most of this big, ambitious, deeply detailed novel is beautifully pellucid, the opening pages will be difficult for some: the novel starts with the second half of an incomplete sentence, in the viewpoint of a man who doesn't know who he is. If you find the early pages rough going, push on; the story soon becomes clear and fascinating. But--fair warning--the central nature of the disaster, of its strange devastations and disruptions, remains a puzzle for many readers, sometimes after several readings.
Spoiler warning: If you want to figure out the secret of the novel as you read Dhalgren, then stop reading this review right now! If you want to know the secret before you start, this is what the novel is about: the experience of existence inside a novel. Time passes differently for different characters. A river changes location. Stairs change their number. The Kid looks in a mirror and sees not himself, but someone who looks an awful lot like Samuel R. Delany. Central images include mirrors, lenses, and prisms, devices that focus, reflect--and distort. The Kid fills a notebook with a journal that may be Dhalgren, and is uncertain if he has written much, or any, of it. The characters don't know they're in a novel, but they know something is wrong. Dhalgren explores the relationship between characters and author (or, perhaps, characters, "author," and author).
The final chapter can be even tougher going than the opening pages, with its viewpoint change and its stretches of braided narrative--and the novel ends with the beginning of an unfinished sentence. But the last chapter becomes clear as you persevere; and when you get to that unfinished closing line, turn to the first line of the novel to finish the sentence and close the narrative circle. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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The Double and the Gamblerby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0375719016 (0-375-71901-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Double and the Gambler'Book summary:The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevskys strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler.The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmareforeshadowing Kafka and Sartrein which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger, a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with his friends and colleagues. The Gambler is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man's exhilarating and destructive addiction to gambling, a compulsion that Dostoevskywho once gambled away his young wife's wedding ringknew intimately from his own experience. In chronicling the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the abyss of ultimate risk that he believed was an essential part of the Russian national character. [via]
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Eloise Wilkin's Poems to Read to the Very Youngby Eloise WilkinISBN 0375804757 (0-375-80475-7)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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En El Nombre De Salomeby Julia AlvarezISBN 037572690X (0-375-72690-X)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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The Eye Bookby Seuss, Joseph MathieuISBN 0375800336 (0-375-80033-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eye Book'Book summary:"My eyes see. His eyes see. I see him. And he sees me." With text as simple as simple can be, Theo. LeSieg (a.k.a. Theodore Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) uses humor and rhythm to encourage the very youngest children to discover the joy of reading. A big-eyed boy and a pink-eyed rabbit cavort through the book, seeing everything there is to see: a girl, a horse, an old tin can, the sun, the moon--even pink underpants (which makes them both blush). Rhyming objects give the brief "story" a lilting, happy cadence, and Joe Mathieu's cartoonish colorful pictures provide easy clues to the text. This is a friendly introduction to the wide, wondrous world of seeing and reading.
An offspring of the world-famous Beginner Books, Bright and Early Books for Beginning Beginners are designed for an even younger age group. Even preschoolers will be inspired to learn to read with these witty, appealing picture books. (Ages 2 to 5) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Eye Bookby Theo. LeSieg, Joe MathieuISBN 0375812407 (0-375-81240-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eye Book'Book summary:"My eyes see. His eyes see. I see him. And he sees me." With text as simple as simple can be, Theo. LeSieg (a.k.a. Theodore Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) uses humor and rhythm to encourage the very youngest children to discover the joy of reading. A big-eyed boy and a pink-eyed rabbit cavort through the book, seeing everything there is to see: a girl, a horse, an old tin can, the sun, the moon--even pink underpants (which makes them both blush). Rhyming objects give the brief "story" a lilting, happy cadence, and Joe Mathieu's cartoonish colorful pictures provide easy clues to the text. This is a friendly introduction to the wide, wondrous world of seeing and reading.
An offspring of the world-famous Beginner Books, Bright and Early Books for Beginning Beginners are designed for an even younger age group. Even preschoolers will be inspired to learn to read with these witty, appealing picture books. (Ages 2 to 5) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorkerby David Remnick, Henry FinderISBN 0375761276 (0-375-76127-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Danteby Charles WilliamsISBN 0374986193 (0-374-98619-3)
Hardcover, Octagon Books
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Girl Coming in for a Landing : A Novel in Poemsby April Halprin Wayland, Elaine ClaytonISBN 0375801588 (0-375-80158-8)
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The Gold Standard: A Book of Playsby Kenneth KochISBN 0375701397 (0-375-70139-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Golden Compassby Philip PullmanISBN 037582345X (0-375-82345-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Compass'Book summary:Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal daemon, the manifestation of their soul in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied:
As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had daemons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them.
Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war." But Lyra's carefree existence changes forever when she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey daemon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.In The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children's book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn't speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel, The Subtle Knife, will help put off that inevitability for a while longer. --Alix Wilber [via]
Good Dogby Maya Gottfried, ROBERT RAHWAY ZAKANITCHISBN 0375830499 (0-375-83049-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Halloween Treeby Ray Bradbury, Joseph MugnainiISBN 0375803017 (0-375-80301-7)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Hello School! : A Classroom of Poemsby Dee Lillegard, Don CarterISBN 037581020X (0-375-81020-X)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writersby Brian Swann, Arnold KrupatISBN 0375751386 (0-375-75138-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers'Book summary:Here First is an important new collection of essays by Native American writers compiled by Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann, the editors of I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers. In Here First, authors such as Sherman Alexie, Greg Sarris, and Elizabeth Woody tell the stories of their lives and their art. Each essay demonstrates the breadth of experience of twenty-seven individuals united in the creative expression of a Native American heritage. Each has a different relation to that heritage, and in describing it through personal and family history, with verse and in anecdotes, the writers give a strong image of the different cultures that have shaped them. This is living history and the kind of collective memoir that makes for fascinating and rewarding reading--one of the most vivid and diverse portraits of Native American culture available today. [via]
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Hypnotic Poetry: A Study of Trance-Inducing Technique in Certain Poems and Its Literary Significanceby Edward D. SnyderISBN 0374975132 (0-374-97513-2)
Hardcover, Octagon Books
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I Like Winterby Lois Lenski, Heidi KilgrasISBN 0375810684 (0-375-81068-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Like Winter'Book summary:Sleds and snowman and singing Christmas carols - the joys of wintertime are celebrated in this beautiful new edition of the 1950 classic by award winner Lois Lenski. Rhyming text and simple illustrations that have been gently recolored make this festive time of year come alive no matter what the season. [via]
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The Imitation of Christ in Four Books: A Translation from the Latinby Thomas A. Kempis, Joseph N. TylendaISBN 0375700188 (0-375-70018-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Imitation of Christ in Four Books: A Translation from the Latin'Book summary:The Thomas à Kempis fan club includes St. Ignatius, Thomas Merton, Thomas More, and even Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. (She reads a chapter of The Imitation of Christ every night before sleep.) Imitation has exerted immense influence on Christian worship, ethics, and church structure, because it gives specific yet broad-minded guidance about the central task of Christian life--learning to live like Jesus. Better to read this book a little here and there, now and then, than to try gobbling it cover to cover. Imitation is no triumph of orderly thinking, but it's a great monument and incentive to deep living. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Inner-Course : A Plea for Real Loveby Toni BlackmanISBN 0375509143 (0-375-50914-3)
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Jelly Roll: (A Blues)by Kevin YoungISBN 0375709894 (0-375-70989-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Journey to a Warby Christopher Isherwood, W. H. AudenISBN 0374903158 (0-374-90315-8)
Hardcover, Octagon Books
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: With the Journal of a Tour to the Hebridesby Allan Massie, James Boswell, Samuel JohnsonISBN 0375414185 (0-375-41418-5)
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In 1773, the great Samuel Johnsonthen 63and his young friend and future biographer, James Boswell, traveled together around the coast of Scotland, each writing his own account of the 83-day journey. Published in one volume, the very different travelogues of this unlikely duo provide a fascinating picture not only of the Scottish Highlands but also of the relationship between two men whose fame would be forever entwined.
Johnson's account contains elegant descriptions and analyses of what was then a remote and rugged land. In contrast, the Scottish-born Boswell's journal of the trip focuses on the psychological landscape of his famously gruff and witty companion, and is part of the material he was already collecting for his future Life of Samuel Johnson, the masterly biography that would make his name.
Read together, the two accounts form both a unique classic of travel writing and a revelation of one of the most famous literary friendships. [via]More editions of A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: With the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides:
Keatsby John Middleton MurryISBN 0374960275 (0-374-96027-5)
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0375757643 (0-375-75764-3)
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The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisiby Ugolino Di Monte Santa Maria, W. Heywood, UgolinoISBN 037570020X (0-375-70020-X)
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Looking for Poetry/Songs from the Quechua: Poems by Carlos Drummond De Andrade and Rafael Alberti and Songs from the Quechuaby Rafael Alberti, Carlos Drummond De Andrade, Mark StrandISBN 0375709886 (0-375-70988-6)
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Lost Illusions: Part I, Two Poetsby Honore De Balzac, Kathleen Raine, Richard HowardISBN 0375757902 (0-375-75790-2)
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Love: Classics from the Modern LibraryISBN 0375753095 (0-375-75309-5)
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Lullabies and Poems for Childrenby Diana Secker LarsonISBN 0375414193 (0-375-41419-3)
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmareby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0375757910 (0-375-75791-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare'Book summary:In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon."
But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare:
Meetings with Remarkable Treesby Thomas PakenhamISBN 0375752684 (0-375-75268-4)
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The Messenger Readerby Sondra Kathryn WilsonISBN 037575539X (0-375-75539-X)
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The Milk of Paradise: The Effect of Opium Visions on the Works of DeQuincey, Crabbe, Francis Thompson, and Coleridgeby M. H. AbramsISBN 0374900280 (0-374-90028-0)
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Modern Times, Modern Places : A Monumental Study of the Transformation of Art and Life in the Twentieth Centuryby Peter ConradISBN 037540113X (0-375-40113-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern Times, Modern Places : A Monumental Study of the Transformation of Art and Life in the Twentieth Century'Book summary:"The earth," said Gertrude Stein in 1938, "is not the same as in the 19th century." And how. Covering a staggeringly vast distance, Peter Conrad traces the development of modern consciousness during the 20th century through the art and thought of Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and Tokyo. He compares the progress to that of a human life, passing from youthful zest to maturity, but only by way of anguish and torment. This sounds simplistic; the book is not. Conrad's prose is as fluid as his ideas are sharp, and the scope of his reference is vast, its application unassailable. This is intellectual writing at its most accessible. He considers Freud and Chaplin, Stravinsky and Einstein, as he pursues his theme of a planet that has shrunk, as we have grown, to a size that we can manipulate and, as Hiroshima showed, we can destroy. Society's greatest advances have been technological, he argues, yet at the expense of reducing the individualism of humankind, of "dumbing down" to a sedative senility. Wisely avoiding the business of prediction, his declaration of faith in laughter when facing the future, and in the reinterpretation of the past in order to escape it, provides a pleasantly unexpected conclusion.
Arranged in 30 chapters, each a rounded essay in its own right, Modern Times, Modern Places is a powerfully evocative appraisal of the 20th century and its achievements that succeeds, quite frankly, where many will fail. --David Vincent [via]
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Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamableby Samuel Beckett, Gabriel JosipoviciISBN 0375400702 (0-375-40070-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable'Book summary:Samuel Beckett's brilliance as a dramatist--as the creator of Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape, and that despairing pas de deux Endgame--has tended to overshadow his gifts as a novelist. Yet he's unmistakably one of the great fiction writers of our century. As a young man he took dictation (literally) from James Joyce, and absorbed everything that myopic maestro had to offer when it came to Anglo-Irish prosody. Still, Beckett's instincts would ultimately steer him away from Joyce's delirious play with high and low diction, toward a more concentrated, even compulsive style. His earlier novels, like Murphy or Watt, give us a taste of what was to come. But Beckett truly hit his stride with a trilogy of early-1950s masterpieces: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. Here he dispenses with all the customary props of contemporary fiction--including exposition, plot, and increasingly, paragraphs--and turns his attention to consciousness itself. Nobody has ever evoked the pain of existence, or the steady slide toward nonexistence, with such poetic, garrulous accuracy. And once you've attuned yourself to the epistemological vaudeville of Beckett's prose, he turns out to be the funniest writer on the planet--ever.
None of the three entries in the trilogy is exactly amenable to summary. It's fair to say, though, that Molloy is the easiest to read, with at least a bare-bones narrative and an abundance of comical set pieces. In one famous episode, the narrator spends page after page figuring out how to vary the sucking stones he carries in his pockets:
And while I gazed thus at my stones, revolving interminable martingales all equally defective, and crushing handfuls of sand, so that the sand ran through my fingers and fell back on the strand, yes, while thus I lulled my mind and part of my body, one day suddenly it dawned on the former, dimly, that I might perhaps achieve my purpose without increasing the number of my pockets, or reducing the number of my stones, but simply by sacrificing the principle of trim. The meaning of this illumination, which suddenly began to sing within me, like a verse of Isaiah, or of Jeremiah, I did not penetrate at once, and notably the word trim, which I had never met with, in this sense, long remained obscure.
This nutty ratiocination goes on for much, much longer, until the narrator loses patience and throws the stones away. And that's a fair encapsulation of Beckett's philosophy: he argues for the essential pointlessness of life--the solitary, wretched splendor of human existence--but does so in a comic rather than a tragic register, which ends up softening or even overpowering the bleakness of his initial premise. So Malone Dies opens with a typically morbid mood-lifter ("I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of it all") and then makes endless comedic hay out of Malone's failure to keel over. And by the time we hit The Unnamable, we're forced to wonder whether the narrator actually exists: "I, say I. Unbelieving. Questions, hypotheses, call them that. Keep going, going on, call that going, call that on." Happily, Beckett worried these same questions and hypotheses to the end of his career, with increasingly minimalistic gusto. But he never topped the intensity or linguistic brilliance of this mind-bending three-part invention. --James Marcus [via]More editions of Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable:
Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero: Poemsby Brooks HaxtonISBN 0375412484 (0-375-41248-4)
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Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and Warby Eve EnslerISBN 0375756035 (0-375-75603-5)
Softcover, Villard Books
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The Opportunity Readerby Sondra Kathryn WilsonISBN 0375753796 (0-375-75379-6)
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Palm-of-the-Hand Storiesby Yasunari Kawabata, Lane Dunlop, J. Martin HolmanISBN 0374530491 (0-374-53049-1)
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The Paris ReviewISBN 0375750495 (0-375-75049-5)
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Pearlby Mary GordonISBN 037542315X (0-375-42315-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pearl'Book summary:Without preamble, Mary Gordon takes the reader straight to the heart of the matter in Pearl. On Christmas night, in 1998, Maria Meyers gets a call from the State Department. Maria, a New York liberal, keeps the illusion of control of her surroundings, and the news she gets is confusing, annoying, and frightening. Confusing because she doesn't understand why Pearl, 20 years old and Maria's only child, has done what she has done, annoying because there has been no forewarning, and frightening because Pearl might die. Maria is definitely not in control here, a condition that makes her vastly uncomfortable. The caller tells Maria that Pearl has chained herself to the flagpole at the American Embassy in Dublin, where she has gone to study the Irish language. Her action is the culmination of six weeks of starvation. She is very ill, dehydrated, and near death. She has left three letters on the sidewalk: one meant for the media, one for her mother, and one for their dearest and oldest family friend, Joseph Kasperman.
The media letter says "...I am giving my life in witness to the death of Stephen Donegan and to the goodness and importance of his life. Second, to show my support, my admiration for the Peace Agreement, and those who have worked toward it. Third, to mark the human will to harm." Pearl believes that, due to a careless remark said in anger, she is responsible for Stephen's death. She has been consorting with members of the Real IRA, those hardliners who will make no accommodation to stop the violence. Pearl breaks with them over an act which places Stephen, a hapless, slow-witted boy, in the hands of the law. Her primary philosophical concern is her conviction that the "human will to harm," is pernicious and pervasive. She wants to opt out of any further possibility of harming anyone.
On this convoluted thread, Mary Gordon marches forward with a stunning exploration of revisited themes, such as Catholic-Jewish heritage, trouble with fathers, and the nature of personal responsibility. A stylistic note: Gordon employs an omniscient narrator to make comments, in the nature of "Gentle Reader" asides. It is sometimes irritating, but a small price to pay for Gordon's careful deconstruction of everyone's thoughts and actions as Maria and Joseph arrive in Dublin, where Maria confronts Mick, the American angel of the Real IRA, Finbar, Pearl's lover, and Pearl's doctors. She is used to directing traffic and is thwarted on all sides by people whose agendas are vastly different from hers. Joseph is a shadowy figure, more acted upon than acting, and when he does decide to stand up he makes a ludicrous error. Gordon has forged an entirely satisfactory and plausible ending for a precarious set of circumstances. The book is thought-provoking, asking and inspiring the reader to take a position on issues as old as time and as new as the headlines. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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The Praise Singerby Mary RenaultISBN 0375714200 (0-375-71420-0)
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Put Me in the Zooby Robert LopshireISBN 0375812156 (0-375-81215-6)
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Random House Treasury of Best-Loved Poemsby Random House, Melanie FleishmanISBN 0375425888 (0-375-42588-8)
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·Features more than 100 poets, including William Blake, Lewis Carroll, John Keats, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, and other familiar greats
·Newly updated. Now includes contemporary voices such as Seamus Heaney, Anne Carson, Czeslaw Miloscz, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Raymond Carver [via]More editions of Random House Treasury of Best-Loved Poems:
The Random House Treasury of Favorite Poems from Cities Around the Worldby Random House Staff, Victoria SamsISBN 037572074X (0-375-72074-X)
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Random House Webster's Pocket Rhyming DictionaryISBN 0375705147 (0-375-70514-7)
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Booksby Azar NafisiISBN 0375504907 (0-375-50490-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books'Book summary:An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officially banned by the government, the women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing photocopied pages of the illegal novels. For two years they met to talk, share, and "shed their mandatory veils and robes and burst into color." Though most of the women were shy and intimidated at first, they soon became emboldened by the forum and used the meetings as a springboard for debating the social, cultural, and political realities of living under strict Islamic rule. They discussed their harassment at the hands of "morality guards," the daily indignities of living under the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime, the effects of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, love, marriage, and life in general, giving readers a rare inside look at revolutionary Iran. The books were always the primary focus, however, and they became "essential to our lives: they were not a luxury but a necessity," she writes.
Threaded into the memoir are trenchant discussions of the work of Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, and other authors who provided the women with examples of those who successfully asserted their autonomy despite great odds. The great works encouraged them to strike out against authoritarianism and repression in their own ways, both large and small: "There, in that living room, we rediscovered that we were also living, breathing human beings; and no matter how repressive the state became, no matter how intimidated and frightened we were, like Lolita we tried to escape and to create our own little pockets of freedom," she writes. In short, the art helped them to survive. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Red to the Rindby Stan RiceISBN 0375709797 (0-375-70979-7)
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Selected Works: Including the Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Nicholas Boyle, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Mayer, David Constantine, Barker Fairley, Louise BoganISBN 0375410449 (0-375-41044-9)
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Snowby Manya StojicISBN 0375823484 (0-375-82348-4)
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Some Assembly Required : Poemsby George BradleyISBN 037541195X (0-375-41195-X)
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Tabooby Yusef KomunyakaaISBN 0374530157 (0-374-53015-7)
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The Takingby Dean KoontzISBN 0375433694 (0-375-43369-4)
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To Criticize the Criticby T. S. EliotISBN 0374925313 (0-374-92531-3)
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True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hallby Mark SalzmanISBN 0375727612 (0-375-72761-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall'Book summary:When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeless most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goesexpecting the worstand is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks is an account of Salzmans first years teaching at Central. Through it, we come to know his students as he did: in their own words.
At times impossible and at times irresistible, they write with devastating clarity about their pasts, their fears, their confusions, their regrets, and their hopes. They write about what led them to crime and to gangs, about love for their mothers and anger toward their (mostly absent) fathers, about guilt for the pain they have caused, and about what it is like to be facing life in prison at the age of seventeen. Most of all, they write about trying to find some reason to believe in themselvesand othersin spite of all that has gone wrong.
Surprising, charming, upsetting, enlightening, and ultimately hopefuldriven by the insight and humor of Salzmans voice and by the intelligence, candor, and strength of his students, whose writing appears throughout the bookTrue Notebooks is itself a reward of the self-expression Mark Salzman teaches: a revelatory meditation on the process, power, and meaning of writing. [via]More editions of True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall:
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0375507949 (0-375-50794-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Editionby Eve EnslerISBN 0375756981 (0-375-75698-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition'Book summary:"I say vagina because I want people to respond," says playwright Eve Ensler, creator of the hilarious, disturbing soliloquies in The Vagina Monologues, a book based on her one-woman play. And respond they do--with horror, anger, censure, and sparks of wonder and pleasure. Ensler is on a fervent mission to elevate and celebrate this much mumbled-about body part. She asked hundreds of women of all ages a series of questions about their vaginas (What do you call it? How would you dress it?) that prompt some wondrous answers. Standouts among the euphemisms are tamale, split knish, choochi snorcher, Gladys Siegelman--Gladys Siegelman?--and, of course, that old standby "down there." "Down there?" asks a composite character springing from several older women. "I haven't been down there since 1953. No, it had nothing to do with [American president] Eisenhower." Two of the most powerful pieces include a jagged poem stitched together from the memories of a Bosnian woman raped by soldiers and an American woman sexually abused as a child who reclaims her vagina as a place of wild joy. [via]
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The Vintage Book of African American Poetryby Michael S. Harper, Anthony WaltonISBN 0375703004 (0-375-70300-4)
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The Way of Zenby Alan WattsISBN 0375705104 (0-375-70510-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way of Zen'Book summary:After D.T. Suzuki, Alan Watts stands as the godfather of Zen in America. Often taken to task for inspiring the flimsy spontaneity of Beat Zen, Watts had an undeniably keen understanding of his subject. Nowhere is this more evident than in his 1957 classic The Way of Zen, which has been reissued. Watts takes the reader back to the philosophical foundations of Zen in the conceptual world of Hinduism, follows Buddhism's course through the development of the early Mahayana school, the birth of Zen from Buddhism's marriage with Chinese Taoism, and on to Zen's unique expression in Japanese art and life. As a Westerner, Watts anticipates the stumbling blocks encountered with such concepts as emptiness and no-mind, then illustrates with flawlessly apt examples. Many popular books have been written on Zen since Watts' time, but few have been able to muster the rare combination of erudition and clarity that have kept The Way of Zen in readers' hands decade after decade. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Wet Pet, Dry Pet, Your Pet, My Petby Dr. SeussISBN 0375833862 (0-375-83386-2)
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Where the Red Fern Growsby Wilson RawlsISBN 0375806814 (0-375-80681-4)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Red Fern Grows'Book summary:Author Wilson Rawls spent his boyhood much like the character of this book, Billy Colman, roaming the Ozarks of northeastern Oklahoma with his bluetick hound. A straightforward, shoot-from-the-hip storyteller with a searingly honest voice, Rawls is well-loved for this powerful 1961 classic and the award-winning novel Summer of the Monkeys. In Where the Red Fern Grows, Billy and his precious coonhound pups romp relentlessly through the Ozarks, trying to "tree" the elusive raccoon. In time, the inseparable trio wins the coveted gold cup in the annual coon-hunt contest, captures the wily ghost coon, and bravely fights with a mountain lion. When the victory over the mountain lion turns to tragedy, Billy grieves, but learns the beautiful old Native American legend of the sacred red fern that grows over the graves of his dogs. This unforgettable classic belongs on every child's bookshelf. (Ages 9 and up) [via]
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood AndersonISBN 0375753133 (0-375-75313-3)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:Library Journal praised this edition of Sherwood Anderson's famed short stories as "the finest edition of this seminal work available." Reconstructed to be as close to the original text as possible, Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In "Hands," Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania town, a tale represented by his hands. In "Adventure," lonely Alice Hindman impulsively walks naked into the night rain. Threaded through the stories is the viewpoint of George Willard, the young newspaper reporter who, like his creator, stands witness to the dark and despairing dealings of a community of isolated people. [via]
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Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on Npr's All Things Consideredby Catherine BowmanISBN 0375713158 (0-375-71315-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0375756442 (0-375-75644-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Antes De Ser Libresby Julia Alvarez, Liliana ValenzuelaISBN 0375815457 (0-375-81545-7)
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