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About a Boyby Nick HornbyISBN 1573227331 (1-57322-733-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'About a Boy'Book summary:Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient and blithely living off his father's novelty song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children and he's increasingly left out in the cold. How can someone brilliantly equipped for meaningless relationships ensure that he'll continue to meet beautiful Julie Christie-like women and ensure that they'll throw him over before things get too profound? A brief encounter with a single mother sets Will off on his new career, that of "serial nice guy." As far as he's concerned--and remember, concern isn't his strong suit--he's the perfect catch for the young mother on the go. After an interlude of sexual bliss, she'll realise that her child isn't ready for a man in their life and Will can ride off into the Highgate sunset, where more damsels apparently await. The only catch is that the best way to meet these women is at single-parent get-togethers. In one of Nick Hornby's many hilarious (and embarrassing) scenes, Will falls into some serious misrepresentation at SPAT ("Single Parents-- Alone Together"), passing himself off as a bereft single dad: "There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word."
What interferes with Will's career arc, of course, is reality--in the shape of a 12-year-old boy who is in many ways his polar opposite. For Marcus, cool isn't even a possibility, let alone an issue. For starters, he's a victim at his new school. Things at home are pretty awful, too, since his musical-therapist mother seems increasingly in need of therapy herself. All Marcus can do is cobble together information with a mixture of incomprehension, innocence, self-blame and unfettered clear sight. As fans of Fever Pitch and High Fidelity already know, Hornby's insight into laddishness magically combines the serious and the hilarious. About a Boy continues his singular examination of masculine wish-fulfilment and fear. This time, though, the author lets women and children onto the playing field, forcing his feckless hero to leap over an entirely new--and entirely welcome--set of emotional hurdles. [via]
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Amelia's Notebookby Marissa MossISBN 1562477846 (1-56247-784-6)
Softcover, Amer Girl Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amelia's Notebook'Book summary:Nothing gets by Amelia. She's one of those kids who is always wondering why things are the way they are and she puts it all down in her notebook. There's a family move to ponder and a bratty sister to deal with. Amelia's thoughts and pictures are sure to be an inspiration to young writers and artists everywhere. Full-color illustrations. [via]
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And Then There Were Noneby Agatha ChristieISBN 1568497369 (1-56849-736-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And Then There Were None'Book summary:Considered the best mystery novel ever written by many readers, And Then There Were None is the story of 10 strangers, each lured to Indian Island by a mysterious host. Once his guests have arrived, the host accuses each person of murder. Unable to leave the island, the guests begin to share their darkest secrets--until they begin to die. [via]
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As You Like Itby William Shakespeare, Neil FreemanISBN 1557834423 (1-55783-442-3)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As You Like It'Book summary:(Applause Books). If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances. [via]
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Bacchaeby Euripides, Nicholas RudallISBN 1566630673 (1-56663-067-3)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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Barney & Baby Bopby Mark S. Bernthal, Dennis FullISBN 1570640750 (1-57064-075-0)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Bhagavad Gitaby PrabhavanandaISBN 1566198534 (1-56619-853-4)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bhagavad Gita'Book summary:Uses the beauty of verse to express the highest truths of Vedanta. Includes an introduction to the Gita, and a study of non-violence versus the need to fight a just war. The critics have singled out this translation: The book is self-contained. A complete stranger to the Hindu Gospel can pick it up and in one or two evenings follow the poem from its terrific beginnings to its sublime end. -- New York Times [via]
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Cold Mountainby Charles FrazierISBN 157490101X (1-57490-101-X)
Hardcover, Thomas t Beeler
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Mountain'Book summary:The hero of Charles Frazier's beautifully written and deeply-imagined first novel is Inman, a disillusioned Confederate soldier who has failed to die as expected after being seriously wounded in battle during the last days of the Civil War. Rather than waiting to be redeployed to the front, the soul-sick Inman deserts, and embarks on a dangerous and lonely odyssey through the devastated South, heading home to North Carolina, and seeking only to be reunited with his beloved, Ada, who has herself been struggling to maintain the family farm she inherited. Cold Mountain is an unforgettable addition to the literature of one of the most important and transformational periods in American history. [via]
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Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interfaceby David PattersonISBN 155860491X (1-55860-491-X)
Softcover, Elsevier Science Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface'Book summary:The authors provide a comprehensive, detailed, and highly technical overview of computer design, going right to the hardware/software interface where data and instructions have their physical representation. While much of the book centers on processor architectures and memory design, it also offers strong background sections on computer arithmetic, machine instructions, performance measurement, and the historical development of computer systems. A natural for any electrical engineer interested in the field of computer architecture and design, this volume will also prove highly valuable for computer scientists and programmers in any low- or high-level language. [via]
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Mitsu YamamotoISBN 1577656849 (1-57765-684-9)
Hardcover, Spotlight
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:Sent to prison on a false accusation in 1815, Edmond Dantes escapes many years later and finds a treasure which he uses to exact his revenge. [via]
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Critique of Judgmentby Immanuel Kant, J.H. BernardISBN 1573928372 (1-57392-837-2)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critique of Judgment'Book summary:Considered by Kant to be the culmination of his critical philosophy, "The Critique of Judgement" was the last work in the trilogy begun with "The Critique of Pure Reason" and continued with "The Critique of Practical Reason". In this work Kant seeks to establish the a priori principles underlying the faculty of judgement, just as he did in his previous analyses of pure and practical reason. The first part deals with the subject of our aesthetic sensibility; we respond to certain natural phenomena as beautiful, says Kant, when we recognise in nature a harmonious order that satisfies the mind's own need for order. The second half of the critique concentrates on the apparent teleology in nature's design of organisms, i.e., organisms display a complex inter-working of parts, which are subordinated as means to serve the purpose of the whole. All of this suggests, concludes Kant, that our minds are inclined to attribute a final purpose to nature's design and to life as a whole. This natural tendency to see purpose in nature is the main principle underlying all of our judgements. Although this might imply a super-sensible Designer behind nature and a theistic interpretation of the world, in the final analysis Kant maintains an agnostic stance. Ever the objective philosopher he insists that though we are predisposed to read design and purpose into nature, we cannot therefore prove a supernatural dimension or the existence of God. Such considerations are beyond reason and are solely the province of faith. [via]
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The Crying of Lot 49by Thomas PynchonISBN 1568493207 (1-56849-320-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crying of Lot 49'Book summary:The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Anthony Burgess, Edmond RostandISBN 1557832307 (1-55783-230-7)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cyrano De Bergerac'Book summary:(Applause Books). This acclaimed adaptation for the stage has garnered such reviews as: "Emotional depth Rostand himself would surely have envied...Burgess' extravagant verse keeps its contours, yet trips off the tongue almost as though it were contemporary speech." London Times . Performance rights available from Applause. [via]
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Sherwood Smith, Edmond Rostand, Ken Fitch, Alex BlumISBN 1578400309 (1-57840-030-9)
Softcover, Acclaim Books
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 1561797618 (1-56179-761-8)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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A Doll's Houseby Henrik Ibsen, Nicholas RudallISBN 1566632250 (1-56663-225-0)
Hardcover, Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Doll's House'Book summary:Ibsen's seminal play, which changed modern drama, is a searing view of a male-dominated and authoritarian society, presented with a realism that elevates theatre to a level above mere entertainment. The reverberations of Nora's slamming the door as she leaves Torvald continue to the present day. Plays for Performance Series. [via]
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The Doll's House: A Playby Henrik Ibsen, Nicholas RudallISBN 1566632269 (1-56663-226-9)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doll's House: A Play'Book summary:Ibsens seminal play, which changed modern drama, is a searing view of a male-dominated and authoritarian society, presented with a realism that elevates theatre to a level above mere entertainment. The reverberations of Noras slamming the door as she leaves Torvald continue to this present day. Nicholas Rudall, justly celebrated for his translations of Ibsen, again provides a play of power and speakability. [via]
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Don Quixoteby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Manual Boix, Magda BoginISBN 1556702019 (1-55670-201-9)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote'Book summary:A faithful presentation of Cervantes' masterpiece, Borgin retells the adventures of the brave and chivalrous Don Quixote with care and grace. Boix's complementary art is filled with humor, delicacy, vigor, strength and the vibrant colors of the Spanish landscape. 46 full-color illustrations. [via]
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Don Quixote De LA Manchaby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Charles JarvisISBN 1566197317 (1-56619-731-7)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote De LA Mancha'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Yearby Esme Raji CodellISBN 1565122798 (1-56512-279-8)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year'Book summary:Esmé Raji Codell has written a funny, hip diary filled with one-liners and unadorned thoughts that speak volumes about the raw, emotional life of a first-year teacher. Like Ally McBeal in the classroom, the miniskirted and idealistic Codell sometimes fantasizes her career is a musical. Her inner-city Chicago elementary school fades to black as the lunch lady strikes an arabesque or a struggling student performs the dance of the dying swan, all set to her interior soundtrack. (Tina Turner's "Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter" echoes whenever her idea-stealing, dimwitted principal harangues her.) She's a rash, petite, white lady who roller-skates through the halls and insists that her fifth-graders call her "Madame Esmé." But it's not all fun and games: she introduces us to children who fling their desks and apologize in tears, and at one point, after reporting a disruptive student to her mother, who subsequently thrashes the young girl, she dry heaves into her classroom's trash can.
Codell's 24-year-old voice is loud and clear ("Serious gross out," she writes after the scorned principal hugs her), though, on the principle that kids say the darnedest things, she often simply repeats their comments for comic effect. She's got sass, maybe too much self-confidence at times, and though there's no deep introspection in Educating Esmé, you'll be convinced her 10-year-old charges emerge the better for knowing her. --Jodi Mailander Farrell [via]
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Faustby Carl R. Mueller, Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 1575253607 (1-57525-360-7)
Softcover, Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:As much poem as it is play, Goethe's Faust is the spiritual quest of a soul determined to explore the very nature of Reality, a revolutionary work that refuses to accept limitations, but, like Romanticism itself, embraces all, the Natural World of everyday life, as well as the Great World of universal experience, the macrocosm as well as the microcosm. The Faust character, the Faustian soul, has become a universal concern. As multifarious as Hamlet and as mythic as Oedipus, he takes us on a journey to the depths and heights of experience and leaves us not the person we were before we met him. It is in Part One of Goethe's masterpiece that we discover Faust as the hero in whose being two contradictory forces collide. He is self-alienated man struggling to expand beyond the limitations of intellect and the known world, desperate to achieve a state, indeed mystical, where the opposites of Knowledge and Sensuality are One. Part One of Faust records that attempt in the context of earthly existence. Goethe's Faust has rightly been called the most audacious work in Western Civilization. [via]
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Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Debra Doyle, Norman NodelISBN 1578401860 (1-57840-186-0)
Softcover, Acclaim Books
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The Federalistby Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Madison JamesISBN 1573927767 (1-57392-776-7)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Federalist'Book summary:In September 1787, a series of persuasive and skillfully argued essays began appearing in New York newspapers urging approval of the newly drafted Constitution of the United States, the ratification of which was being hotly debated in state legislatures. Most of these essays bore the mysterious signature of a certain "Publius," later revealed to be the collective nom de plume of Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. By May 1788, a total of eighty-five articles had been published and they were then collected in a book entitled The Federalist.
Through clear, logical exposition and elegant language, The Federalist essays made a forceful case for strong, representative federal government as defined by the Constitution. Hamilton, Jay, and Madison argued that to protect itself against foreign threat and domestic strife the United States needed a unifying federal government to look after the interests of the new nation as a whole. They also emphasized the importance of federal government for maintaining an efficient and healthy economic system, and they exposed the obvious inadequacies of the much weaker Articles of Confederation, which the Constitution was designed to replace.
Today historians rank The Federalist among our nation's most important historical documents. These fascinating essays bring to life the political drama surrounding the ratification of the Constitution, while providing insights into the minds of some of America's greatest political thinkers and their interpretation of America's founding charter. This edition includes the complete text of the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, along with a highly detailed index. [via]More editions of The Federalist:
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Freedom of the Willby Jonathan EdwardsISBN 1573580333 (1-57358-033-3)
Hardcover, Ligonier Ministries Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom of the Will'Book summary:Jonathan Edwards is celebrated as America's finest Christian thinker. In FREEDOM OF THE WILL he presents an analysis of Calvinist and Arminian ideas about free will. In doing so, he pursues a relentless logic and cites hundreds of pieces of evidence from Scripture. Edwards was a preacher and missionary in colonial America. The son of a minister, he attended Yale while still a teenager and went on to study theology. While he was pastoring a church in Northampton, the Great Awakening reached the town. Amid the fervor of religious revival, Edwards preached both encourage to true Christianity and to alert congregations to superficial imitations. Toward the end of his life, Edwards was appointed president of Princeton University. FREEDOM OF THE WILL is Jonathan Edwards' masterpiece of profound analysis and his most important contribution to Christian thought. [via]
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From The Mixed-up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweilerby E. L. KonigsburgISBN 1557360367 (1-55736-036-7)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From The Mixed-up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler'Book summary:After reading this book, I guarantee that you will never visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or any wonderful, old cavern of a museum) without sneaking into the bathrooms to look for Claudia and her brother Jamie. They're standing on the toilets, still, hiding until the museum closes and their adventure begins. Such is the impact of timeless novels . . . they never leave us. E. L. Konigsburg won the 1967 Newbery Medal for this tale of how Claudia and her brother run away to the museum in order to teach their parents a lesson. Little do they know that mystery awaits! [via]
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Girl With a Pearl Earringby Tracy ChevalierISBN 1568951868 (1-56895-186-8)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'Book summary:With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.
Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:
I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.
In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton [via]More editions of Girl With a Pearl Earring:
The Good Person of Szechwanby Bertolt Brecht, John WillettISBN 1559702354 (1-55970-235-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Good Person of Szechwan: Mother Courage and Her Children, Fear and Misery 3rd Reichby Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Hugh RorrisonISBN 1559701897 (1-55970-189-7)
Softcover, Arcade Publishing, Incorporated
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Harriet the Spyby Louise FitzhughISBN 155736012X (1-55736-012-X)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harriet the Spy'Book summary:Ages 8-12. Thirty-two years before it was made into a movie, Harriet the Spy was a groundbreaking book: its unflinchingly honest portrayal of childhood problems and emotions changed children's literature forever. Happily, it has neither dated nor become obsolete and remains one of the best children's novels ever written. The fascinating story is about an intensely curious and intelligent girl, who literally spies on people and writes about them in her secret notebook, trying to make sense of life's absurdities. When her classmates find her notebook and read her painfully blunt comments about them, Harriet finds herself a lonely outcast. Fitzhugh's writing is astonishingly vivid, real and engaging, and Harriet, by no means a typical, loveable heroine, is one of literature's most unforgettable characters. School Library Journal wrote, "a tour de force... bursts with life." The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books called it "a very, very funny story." And The Chicago Tribune raved, "brilliantly written... a superb portrait of an extraordinary child." [via]
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunterby Carson McCullersISBN 1557360863 (1-55736-086-3)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Heather Has 2 Mommiesby Leslea NewmanISBN 155583180X (1-55583-180-X)
Softcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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Heather Has Two Mommiesby Leslea Newman, Diana SouzaISBN 1555835430 (1-55583-543-0)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heather Has Two Mommies'Book summary:This handsome 10-anniversary edition of a minor classic presents the story of Heather, a preschooler with two moms who discovers that some of her friends have very different sorts of families. Juan, for example, has a mommy and a daddy and a big brother named Carlos. Miriam has a mommy and a baby sister. And Joshua has a mommy, a daddy, and a stepdaddy. Their teacher Molly encourages the children to draw pictures of their families, and reassures them that "each family is special" and that "the most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other." In the afterword, the author (whose other children's books include Matzo Ball Moon) explains that although she grew up in a Jewish home, in a Jewish neighborhood, there were no families like hers on the television or in picture books. She came to regard her family as somehow "wrong," since there was no Christmas tree in the living room and no Easter egg hunt. Whatever the religious right may wish to think about nontraditional families, there is no denying that any child enrolled in an American school will encounter friends with single parents, gay parents, stepparents, or adoptive parents. This new, revised version of Heather Has Two Mommies offers an enjoyable, upbeat, age-appropriate introduction to the idea of family diversity. The book is essential for children (ages 2 to 6) with gay parents or family members, and a great addition to a Rainbow Curriculum. --Regina Marler [via]
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The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar WildeISBN 1576466507 (1-57646-650-7)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists.
Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers' entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades.
Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gewndolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend, the rivals to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the Ernests to claim their beloved's pandemonium breaks loose.
Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day! [via]
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Jacob Have I Lovedby Katherine PatersonISBN 1557361673 (1-55736-167-3)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Julie of the Wolvesby Jean Craighead George, John SchoenherrISBN 1557360537 (1-55736-053-7)
Hardcover, Abc-Clio Inc
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 1566195667 (1-56619-566-7)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Imports
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The Jungleby Emily Russell, Peter KuperISBN 1561634115 (1-56163-411-5)
Softcover, Nbm Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Peter Kupers Classics Illustrated adaptation of Upton Sinclair`s whistle-blowing novel on the conditions at the Chicago slaughter houses in the early 20th century is brought back to press in a beautiful larger size hardcover. One of his best and most poignant works. [via]
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The Jungleby Peter Kuper, Emily RussellISBN 1561634042 (1-56163-404-2)
Hardcover, Nbm Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Peter Kuper's Classics Illustrated adaptation of Upton Sinclair's whistle-blowing novel on the conditions at the Chicago slaughter houses in the early 20th century is brought back to press in a beautiful larger size hardcover. One of his best and most poignant works. [via]
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 1560005017 (1-56000-501-7)
Hardcover, Transaction Pub Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:These wonderful and fanciful stories delight adult and child alike with their amusing and clever responses to such questions as how the leopard got his spots or why an elephant has a trunk. Kipling was born in India of English parents, and the impressions that exotic and fascinating country left on him in his early years would influence his writing in later years. Even in the deceptively simple Just So Stories, the reader recognizes Kipling's gifted ear for language and his vivid imagery.
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Killer Angelsby Michael ShaaraISBN 1560546697 (1-56054-669-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Lady Audley's Secretby Mary E. Braddon, Natalie M. HoustonISBN 1551113570 (1-55111-357-0)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Audley's Secret'Book summary:Lady Audley's Secret (1862) was one of the most widely read novels in the Victorian period. The novel exemplifies "sensation fiction" in featuring a beautiful criminal heroine, an amateur detective, blackmail, arson, violence, and plenty of suspenseful action. To its contemporary readers, it also offered the thrill of uncovering blackmail and criminal violence within the homes of the upper class. The novel makes trenchant critiques of Victorian gender roles and social stereotypes, and it creates significant sympathy for the heroine, despite her criminal acts, as she suffers from the injustices of the "marriage market" and rebels against them. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a broad selection of primary source material, including reproductions of the twenty-two woodcut illustrations from the London Journal serialization of the novel, extracts from two Victorian dramatizations of the work, satirical commentaries, and contemporary reviews. [via]
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Learning Perlby Randal L. SchwartzISBN 1565920422 (1-56592-042-2)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Learning Perl'Book summary:In this update of a bestseller, two leading Perl trainers teach you to use the most universal scripting language in the age of the World Wide Web. With a foreword by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, this smooth, carefully paced book is the "official" guide for both formal (classroom) and informal learning. It is now current for Perl version 5.004. Learning Perl is a hands-on tutorial designed to get you writing useful Perl scripts as quickly as possible. Exercises (with complete solutions) accompany each chapter. A lengthy new chapter in this edition introduces you to CGI programming, while touching also on the use of library modules, references, and Perl's object-oriented constructs. Perl is a language for easily manipulating text, files, and processes. It comes standard on most UNIX platforms and is available free of charge on all other important operating systems. Perl technical support is informally available -- often within minutes -- from a pool of experts who monitor a USENET newsgroup (comp.lang.perl.misc) with tens of thousands of readers. Contents include: A quick tutorial stroll through Perl basics Systematic, topic-by-topic coverage of Perl's broad capabilities Lots of brief code examples Programming exercises for each topic, with fully worked-out answers How to execute system commands from your Perl program How to manage DBM databases using Perl An introduction to CGI programming for the Web [via]
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Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 1573920401 (1-57392-040-1)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:In his quest for a truly native idiom, Walt Whitman (1819-1892) incarnated the American geography and its people in a new and transcendent poetic form. His monumental work, Leaves of Grass, celebrates sexuality, gender equality, and the astonishing beauty of the everyday. For Whitman, "The true use for the imaginative faculty of modern times is to give ultimate vivification to facts, to science and to common lives, endowing them with glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong to real things, and to real things only."
This complete edition of Leaves of Grass, which includes "Sands at Seventy" (from November Boughs) and "Good-bye My Fancy," contains those poems that have become part of the great American literature, including "Song of Myself," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "I Sing the Body Electric," and "O Captain, My Captain." [via]More editions of Leaves of Grass:
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Les Miserablesby Victor Hugo, Sherwood SmithISBN 1578400171 (1-57840-017-1)
Softcover, Acclaim Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:Against the background of the fiery revolution in 1840s' Paris, escaped convict Jean Valjean seeks to outwit his nemesis, the relentless inspector Javert, and redeem his past. Full color illustrations. [via]
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrongby James W. LoewenISBN 156584100X (1-56584-100-X)
Hardcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong'Book summary:A tenth anniversary commemorative hardcover edition of James w. Loewen's classic retelling of American history.
Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half a million copies in its various editions.
What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the Mai Lai massacre, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should and could be taught to American students.
This 10th anniversary edition features a handsome new cover and a new introduction by the author. [via]
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The Life of Galileoby Ralph Manheim, Bertolt Brecht, John WillettISBN 1559702540 (1-55970-254-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Neil Dickson, Roy Dotrice, Jeannie Elias, Jill Gascoine, Stacy Keach, Peter Lavin, Robert Machray, Christopher Neame, Moira Quirk, Darren Richardson, Alan Shearman, Simon Templeman, Joanne Whalley, Matthew Wolf [via]
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Mammary Plays: How I Learned to Drive and the Mineola Twinsby Paula Vogel, Paula How Learned to Drive VogelISBN 1559361441 (1-55936-144-1)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Management Basics for Information Professionalsby G. Edward Evans, Bendik Rugaas, Patricia Layzell WardISBN 1555703704 (1-55570-370-4)
Softcover, Neal Schuman Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Management Basics for Information Professionals'Book summary:This new, current, and comprehensive introduction to the management of libraries is both a successor to and a revision of Evans's classic Management Techniques for Librarians . The focus is exclusively on library and other information environments and provides conceptual overviews and library/information examples to illustrate the basic skills good library managers must exercise: how to plan; how to delegate; how to make decisions; how to communicate; and how to lead. Equal emphasis is placed on managing a library's resources-its people, its money, its technology, and its building.
Including timely issues such as women in management and diversity as well as practical charts and forms, this text will appeal to LIS educators, librarians in new management positions, and experienced librarians in management positions who want to become more effective. A companion Web page features readings on topics such as women in library management, cultural diversity, management goals, and career development, as well as annual reviews of library management literature. [via]
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Medeaby Euripides, Nicholas RudallISBN 1566633214 (1-56663-321-4)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medea'Book summary:Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one of the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage. In the play she kills her own children. Plays for Performance Series. [via]
The Mixed-up Morningby Mercer MayerISBN 1577688082 (1-57768-808-2)
Softcover, School Specialty Childrens Pub
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Oliver Twistby Charles DickensISBN 1551117584 (1-55111-758-4)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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Oliver Twistby Dalmatian Press StaffISBN 1577595548 (1-57759-554-8)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press
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One Teacher in 10by Kevin JenningsISBN 1555838693 (1-55583-869-3)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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Perfectby Natasha FriendISBN 1571316515 (1-57131-651-5)
Softcover, Milkweed Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perfect'Book summary:Isabelle Lee has a problem, and it's not just Ape Face, her sister, or group therapy for an eating disorder, or even that her father died and her mother is depressed and in denial. It's that Ashley, the most popular girl in school, is inviting Isabelle to join her at lunch and at sleepovers at her house, and this is presenting Isabelle with a dilemma. Pretty Ashley has moved Isabelle up the social ladder, but is it worth keeping the secret they share?[via]
Caught in the orbit of popularity and appearances, Isabelle must navigate a world with mixed messages, false hopes, and potentially harmful turns, while coping with her own flailing family and emotions. The author brings a depth of characterization, humor, and a real adolescent's voice to this multileveled story about the desire to be perfect in an imperfect world.-
The Personal History of David Copperfieldby Charles Dickens, Frederick BarnardISBN 1551114291 (1-55111-429-1)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Personal History of David Copperfield'Book summary:Beginning in 1854 up through to his death in 1870, Charles Dickens abridged and adapted many of his more popular works and performed them as staged readings. This version, each page illustrated with lovely watercolor paintings, is a beautiful example of one of these adaptations.
Because it is quite seriously abridged, the story concentrates primarily on the extended family of Mr. Peggotty: his orphaned nephew, Ham; his adopted niece, Little Emily; and Mrs. Gummidge, self-described as "a lone lorn creetur and everythink went contrairy with her." When Little Emily runs away with Copperfield's former schoolmate, leaving Mr. Peggotty completely brokenhearted, the whole family is thrown into turmoil. But Dickens weaves some comic relief throughout the story with the introduction of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, and David's love for his pretty, silly "child-wife," Dora. Dark nights, mysterious locations, and the final destructive storm provide classic Dickensian drama. Although this is not David Copperfield in its entirety, it is a great introduction to the world and the language of Charles Dickens. [via]
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Philosophy of Rightby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, S. W. DydeISBN 157392105X (1-57392-105-X)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Poeticsby Aristotle, Kenneth McLeishISBN 1559361700 (1-55936-170-0)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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Purple Hibiscusby Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieISBN 1565123875 (1-56512-387-5)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purple Hibiscus'Book summary:Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at homea home that is silent and suffocating.
As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their fathers authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.
Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom. [via]More editions of Purple Hibiscus:
Ramona Quimby, Age 8by Beverly Cleary, Alan TiegreenISBN 1557360006 (1-55736-000-6)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadershipby Terrence E. Deal, Lee G. BolmanISBN 155542323X (1-55542-323-X)
Softcover, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership'Book summary:At a time when managers everywhere are seeking strong but sensible ways to reorient their companies for the coming millennium, a new edition of Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership, by Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal, reintroduces the bestselling authors' clear and insightful approach to "big picture" management. Updated examples add to those previously drawn from business, education, health care, and the public sector to help today's leaders prepare more creatively for tomorrow's needs. [via]
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Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Menby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 1555460631 (1-55546-063-1)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia WoolfISBN 1568493665 (1-56849-366-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room of Ones' Own'Book summary:"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."First published in 1929, Virginia Woolf's pioneering work on women in literature is an accessible yet fiercely astute essay. It is a crystallization of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austen's pandering to a male writing style, to imagining the dreadful fate of Shakespeare's talented, intelligent sister, Woolf makes the topic an enjoyable journey through her imagination, filling in for the undocumented in female history, and exploring the loss to the literary landscape in her own entertaining, convincing prose. The recording also includes a booklet with further information, including a contribution by Ali Smith, author of The Accidental. Unabridged.[via]More editions of Room of Ones' Own:
A Room With a Viewby E. M. ForsterISBN 1566191440 (1-56619-144-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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Sarah, Plain and Tallby Patricia MacLachlanISBN 1557360804 (1-55736-080-4)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Sing Down the Moonby Scott O'DellISBN 1557361428 (1-55736-142-8)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Somebody Catch My Homeworkby David L Harrison, Betsy LewinISBN 1563975203 (1-56397-520-3)
Softcover, Boyds Mills Prwhse
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Summer Halfby Angela ThirkellISBN 1559213116 (1-55921-311-6)
Softcover, Moyer Bell Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summer Half'Book summary:The denouement of Philip Winter's ill-begotten engagement to featherbrained Rose Birkett is enacted in full view of Southbridge School's extended family during a holiday break. Everyone, including her parents, is rooting for Philip's escape which occurs when Rose breaks it off as the utter dullness of being engaged overwhelms her. Along the way, we enjoy the tea party where Rose, "through sheer want of personality bring(s) the talk to her own level" and confounds her audience by insisting that Hamlet and Shakespeare are both names of plays (and probably the same one). As in many of Thirkell books, the characters refer to a body of literature, both classic and modern, with a casualness that would be improbable today; the assumption of a shared background and culture having been lost. The ceremony of the "Cleaning of the Pond" by Lydia, Eric Swan and a much improved Tony Morland brings the holiday to a satisfactory conclusion as does a match between Kate Keith and Everard Carter. [via]
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothingby Judy Blume, Roy DotyISBN 1557360154 (1-55736-015-4)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Neil FreemanISBN 1557833818 (1-55783-381-8)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom/Large Printby Louis SacharISBN 1557361746 (1-55736-174-6)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Time Machineby H. G. Wells, Nicholas RuddickISBN 1551113058 (1-55111-305-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Machine'Book summary:This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. [via]
To Sir, With Loveby Edward Ricardo BraithwaiteISBN 1567232086 (1-56723-208-6)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Tragedy of Richard the Third: With the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battel at Bosworth Fieldby William Shakespeare, Neil FreemanISBN 1557834229 (1-55783-422-9)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Richard the Third: With the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battel at Bosworth Field'Book summary:If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan 'look' none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances. [via]
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Villetteby Kate Lawson, Lynn ShakinovskyISBN 1551114615 (1-55111-461-5)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette'Book summary:Charlotte Brontë's contemporary George Eliot wrote of Villette, "There is something almost preternatural in its power." The deceptive stillness and security of a girls school provide the setting for this 1853 novel, Brontës last. Modelled on Brontës own experiences as a student and teacher in Brussels, Villette is the sombre but engrossing story of Lucy Snowe, an unmarried Englishwoman making her way in a culture deeply foreign to her. The heroines relationships with the fiery professor M. Paul, the cool Englishman Dr. John, and the schools powerful headmistress, Madame Beck, are described in her compelling and enigmatic first-person narration. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction by Kate Lawson and Lynn Shakinovsky. The many contextual documents include contemporary writings on surveillance and espionage, anti-Catholicism, and working women, as well as letters describing Brontës own time in Brussels. [via]
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A Vindication of the Rights of Womenby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 1576468119 (1-57646-811-9)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub
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War of the Worldsby Martin A. DanahayISBN 1551113538 (1-55111-353-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War of the Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Weby Mirra Ginsburg, Eugene ZamiatinISBN 1560004770 (1-56000-477-0)
Hardcover, Transaction Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We'Book summary:First published in the West in 1924, We is an adventurous story of the future nameless "numbers," the two-tenths of the world's population that survived the Great Two Hundred Years War. Their food is derived from petroleum, and they believe that their totally restricted existence under the watchful eye of the Benefactor is the ideal. They do not mourn the passing of the creative human spirit; indeed, they are hardly aware it ever existed. More than half a century later, We remains a strange and telling tragicomedy of love and death. The author, an acknowledged satirist in his own right, set the stage for Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984.
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White Fangby Jack London, Malvina G. Vogel, Ross VeraISBN 1577658108 (1-57765-810-8)
Hardcover, Spotlight
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William Faulkner's the Sound and the Furyby William FaulknerISBN 1555460429 (1-55546-042-9)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Faulkner's the Sound and the Fury'Book summary:The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner's fourth novel, is his first attempt at a wholly self-conscious style. Faulkner's willingness to experiment affords his readers no stable perspective from which to comprehend the decline of the Compson family.
The title, William Faulkners The Sound and the Fury, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on William Faulkners The Sound and the Fury through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on William Faulkner, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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The Winter's Taleby William Shakespeare, Neil FreemanISBN 155783296X (1-55783-296-X)
Softcover, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
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The Witch of Blackbird Pondby Elizabeth George SpeareISBN 155736138X (1-55736-138-X)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Editionby Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elaine HedgesISBN 1558611584 (1-55861-158-4)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition'Book summary:First published in 1892, The Yellow Wall-Paper is written as the secret journal of a woman who, failing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a country rest cure. Though she longs to write, her husband and doctor forbid it, prescribing instead complete passivity. In the involuntary confinement of her bedroom, the hero creates a reality of her own beyond the hypnotic pattern of the faded yellow wallpaper a pattern that has come to symbolize her own imprisonment. Narrated with superb psychological and dramatic precision, The Yellow Wall-Paper stands out not only for the imaginative authenticity with which it depicts one womans descent into insanity, but also for the power of its testimony to the importance of freedom and self-empowerment for women.[via]
Suggested for course use in:
Family studies
Feminist thought
History of medicine
19th-century U.S. literature
Psychology
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935) was a feminist writer, lecturer, and activist. Her many other works include Herland and Women and Economics.More editions of The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition:
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