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5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn the Boy from Mars, Slaves of Spiegel, the Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, the Last Guru, Young Adult Novelby Daniel PinkwaterISBN 0374423296 (0-374-42329-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Performing chickens, a New Jersey Martian, an orangutan orchestra conductor from Ceylon ... the details are what jump out of his novels. The ice cream dish in Slaves of Spiegel, for example, consisting of an eggplant, two slabs of whole-wheat pizza dough, 16 flavors of ice cream, fresh figs, pistachio nuts, a lobster, and assorted fresh garden vegetables and fruit. (It's served piping hot from the microwave, in a freshly laundered regulation army knapsack, to the accompaniment of Franz Liszt music.) This is what Pinkwater is all about. A junior-high schooler's dream of an author.
In 5 Novels, you can feast upon five beloved and quirky favorites: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars, Slaves of Spiegel, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, The Last Guru, and Young Adult Novel. And if you still need more Pinkwater novels (and you definitely do), explore 4 Fantastic Novels. (Ages 9 and much, much older.) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, Jenny ThorneISBN 0361028008 (0-361-02800-8)
Hardcover, Purnell, Alice Kelly
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glass'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, and the Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 0370109279 (0-370-10927-9)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Awakeningby James AxlerISBN 037363840X (0-373-63840-X)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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The Barbed Roseby Gail DaytonISBN 0373802250 (0-373-80225-0)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Bidding Warby Warren Murphy, Richard SapirISBN 0373632169 (0-373-63216-9)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Binary Divineby Jon HartridgeISBN 0356026604 (0-356-02660-4)
Hardcover, Macdonald & Co
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Borderlinersby Peter Hoeg, Barbara HavelandISBN 0374115540 (0-374-11554-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Boxy a Starby Daren KingISBN 0349111928 (0-349-11192-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Cast In Shadowby Michelle Sagara WestISBN 0373802366 (0-373-80236-6)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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Caught in the Organ Draftby Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg, Charles G. WaughISBN 0374312281 (0-374-31228-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Clewiston Testby Kate WilhelmISBN 0374125007 (0-374-12500-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus Giroux
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The Complete Short Storiesby Evelyn Waugh, Ann Pasternak SlaterISBN 0375404309 (0-375-40430-9)
Hardcover, Everymans Library
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Evelyn Waugh's short stories are the marvelous, concentrated riffs of his comic genius, revealing in miniaturized perfection all the elements that made him the greatest comic writer of our century. We find in them Waugh's almost superhuman technical skill as a writer and his quicksilver attentiveness to the minutiae of human absurdity, as well as his worldly knowledge, his tenderness, his perceptive compassion, and his sophisticated, disabused, but nevertheless forceful idealism.
The thirty-nine stories collected here include such small masterpieces as "Mr. Loveday's Little Outing" and "Scott-King's Modern Europe"; an alternative ending to Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust; a "missing chapter" in the life of Charles Ryder, the hero of Brideshead Revisited; and two linked stories, remnants of an abandoned novel that Waugh considered his best writing.
This edition contains the original illustrations to "Love Among the Ruins," as well as more than thirty graphics produced by the author as an Oxford undergraduate in the 1920s. [via]More editions of The Complete Short Stories:
Crash Landing on Idunaby Arthur TofteISBN 0373720033 (0-373-72003-3)
Hardcover, Harlequin Enterprises
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Crater Lakeby James AxlerISBN 0373485980 (0-373-48598-0)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crater Lake'Book summary:Near what was once the Pacific Northwest, Ryan Cawdor and his roving band of post-holocaust survivors discover a beautiful valley untouched by the nuclear blast that changed the earth forever. Resisting the temptation to settle in the idyllic land, the group is captured and forced deep beneath an extinct volcano to an isolated community of in-bred scientists who are blindly laboring to find better ways of genocide, unaware that the world they are striving to slaughter has already died. [via]
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The Crow Roadby Iain BanksISBN 0349103232 (0-349-10323-2)
Hardcover, Abacus
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Cursed Earth Asylumby David BishopISBN 0352328932 (0-352-32893-2)
Softcover, Virgin Books Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cursed Earth Asylum'Book summary:Judge Dredd is a character in best-selling comics "2000 AD" and "Judge Dredd The Magazine". Lawman of the future, he is judge, jury and executioner patrolling the streets of Mega-City One. This novel is based on the characters of Judge Dredd and his associates. [via]
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Dark Carnivalby James AxlerISBN 0373625146 (0-373-62514-6)
Softcover, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Limited
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The Destroyerby Warren Murphy, Richard SapirISBN 0373632185 (0-373-63218-5)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Disappearing Nightlyby Laura ResnickISBN 0373802331 (0-373-80233-1)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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This explains how I wound up prancing around stage half naked the night Golly Gee -- the female lead in the off-Broadway show "Sorceror!" -- disappeared into thin air. Literally.
Now other performers are also vanishing, and a mysterious stranger is warning me: There is evil among us. But the producers want me to take over Golly's part.
Looks as if I'm going to need a little magical help if I want to keep my starring role . . . [via]
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Doctor Who Classics: The Daemons; The Time MonsterISBN 0352323825 (0-352-32382-5)
Softcover, General Publishing Company, Limited
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Doctor Who Classics : The Seeds of Doom; The Deadly Assassinby Philip Hinchcliffe, Terrance DicksISBN 0352324163 (0-352-32416-3)
Softcover, General Publishing Company, Limited
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Dread Dominionby Stephen MarleyISBN 0352329297 (0-352-32929-7)
Softcover, Virgin Books Limited
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Druid of Shannaraby Terry BrooksISBN 0345911318 (0-345-91131-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Echelonby Josh ConviserISBN 0345485025 (0-345-48502-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Elf Queen of Shannaraby Terry BrooksISBN 0345911326 (0-345-91132-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Elsewhereby Gabrielle ZevinISBN 0374320918 (0-374-32091-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. Its quiet and peaceful. You cant get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewheres museums. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroes psychiatric practice.Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her drivers license. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. And now that shes dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesnt want with a grandmother she has only just met. And it is not going well. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward? This moving, often funny book about grief, death, and loss will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned.[via]Elsewhere is a 2006 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.More editions of Elsewhere:
Equinox Zeroby James AxlerISBN 037363837X (0-373-63837-X)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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ES 1by Fuyumi SoryoISBN 0345491882 (0-345-49188-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Ryousuke Akiba calls himself ES, a code name taken from a mysterious scientific experiment. Ryousuke will live to be at least two centuries old and possesses strange mental powers: He can enter peoples minds, discover their darkest secrets, even rearrange their memories so that complete strangers will treat him like family. Ryousuke acts not out of malice but for survivalwandering Tokyo for reasons known only to him. No one recognizes him for what he is . . . until Dr. Mine Kujyou, a determined researcher, meets someone who challenges everything she knows about scienceES, possessor of the Eternal Sabbath gene. But is he the only one?
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ES 3: Eternal Sabbathby Fuyumi Soryo, Hiroe, Ikoi (RTL)ISBN 0345491904 (0-345-49190-4)
Softcover, Del Rey
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What does it mean to be human? Dr. Mine Kujyou thought she knew, but then she met Isaac and Shurogenetically engineered superhumans who can read minds and control people with their thoughts. For support, Mine turns to her oldest friend, Kimiko, whom she trusts more than anyone in the world. Isaac and Shuro, the products of a cruel scientific experiment, are difficult to understand, but could her own best friend be just as mysterious? Though Mine is enjoying her quality time with Kimiko, tensions are brewing just beneath the surfacehidden jealousies and resentments that Mine is too innocent to notice. But Isaac can see them, and in Isaacs hands, nothings more dangerous than a dark secret. [via]More editions of ES 3: Eternal Sabbath:
ES 4: Eternal Sabbathby Fuyumi Soryo, Ikoi HiroeISBN 0345491912 (0-345-49191-2)
Softcover, Del Rey
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ES: Eternal Sabbath 2by Fuyumi Soryo, Akira Tsubasa, Alex KentISBN 0345491890 (0-345-49189-0)
Softcover, Del Rey
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The First Century after Beatriceby Dorothy S. Blair, Amin MaaloufISBN 0349105995 (0-349-10599-5)
Hardcover, Abacus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Century after Beatrice'Book summary:A French entomologist, attending a symposium in Cairo, finds a cruious kind of bean being on a market stall. It is claimed the beans, derived from the scarab beetle, have magic powers; specifically the power to guarantee the brith of a male infant - and when the entomologist does some research in to the matter, discovering the incidence of female birth has become increasingly rare, he is left in no doubt that the world has entered intoa critical phase of its history. As this beloved daughter Beatrice approaches maturity, the entomologist and his partner question the validity of gender bias, and attempt to redress the growing imbalance before it reaches irreversible proportions. But in the poverty and famine of the South, where male children can mean the difference between survival and starvation, the popularity of the scarab beans is already taking devastating effect. [via]
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The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasyby Harold BloomISBN 0374156441 (0-374-15644-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Galatea 2.2/a Novelby Richard PowersISBN 0374199485 (0-374-19948-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Gates of the Universeby Robert Coulson, Gene DeweeseISBN 0373720041 (0-373-72004-1)
Hardcover, Harlequin Enterprises
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gates of the Universe'Book summary:Number 4 in the Laser Books series of original science fiction novels, released in September 1975. Three novels were be issued per month until the line folded in February 1977. [via]
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Gundam Seed Destiny 1by Yoshiyuki Tomino, Ballantine, Masatsugu IwaseISBN 0345492749 (0-345-49274-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Herdsby Stephen GoldinISBN 0373720025 (0-373-72002-5)
Hardcover, Laser Books
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A House Like a Lotusby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374333858 (0-374-33385-8)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A House Like a Lotus'Book summary:"Seventeen-year-old Polly can accept her dying patron's lesbianism until Max, overcome by pain and alcohol, attempts to seduce her. While on a working trip to Greece and Cyprus, previously arranged by Max, Polly learns what forgiveness and love really are. Polly is a remarkable heroine." --Children's Book Review Service[via]
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The Hundredfold Problemby John GrantISBN 0352329424 (0-352-32942-4)
Softcover, Virgin Pub
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Judge Dredd : Deathmasquesby Dave StoneISBN 0352328738 (0-352-32873-8)
Softcover, Virgin Books Limited
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Jules Verne: A Biographyby Jean Jules-VerneISBN 0356081966 (0-356-08196-6)
Hardcover, Macdonald and Jane's
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King Kongby E. Wallace, Merian C. Cooper, Delos Wheeler LovelaceISBN 0345484967 (0-345-48496-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Bookby Walker PercyISBN 0374191654 (0-374-19165-4)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book'Book summary:The late Walker Percy's mordant contribution to the self-help book craze of the 1980s deals with the heavy abstraction of the Western mind and speculates about why writers may be the most abstracted and least grounded of all. (Before taking up novel writing, Percy was a medical doctor who became a patient in the very institution where he had worked.) The book disappeared for a time. Now it's back in print. Take the quizzes in it, then take a walk--you need to be back in the world before you write another word. [via]
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The Lotteryby Shirley JacksonISBN 0374516812 (0-374-51681-2)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Love in the Ruinsby Walker PercyISBN 0374193029 (0-374-19302-9)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love in the Ruins'Book summary:[via]A great adventure . . . So outrageous and so real, one is left speechless. Chicago Sun TimesIn Walker Percys future America, the country is on the brink of disaster. With citizens violently polarized along racial, political, and social lines, and a fifteen-year war still raging abroad, America is crumbling quickly into ruin. The countrys one remaining hope is Dr. Thomas More, whose lapsometer is capable of diagnosing the spiritual afflictionsanxiety, depression, alienationdriving everyones destructive and disastrous behavior.But such a potent machine has its pitfalls. As Dr. More soon learns, in the wrong hands, the powerful lapsometer could lead to open warfare, pushing America into anarchy at full-speed.More editions of Love in the Ruins:
Mask of the Sphinxby James AxlerISBN 0373638434 (0-373-63843-4)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Meet the Austinsby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374349290 (0-374-34929-0)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meet the Austins'Book summary:Reading award-winning author Madeleine L'Engle's Meet the Austins is like taking a vacation with the warm, compassionate Austins--an extraordinary family who takes a little girl named Maggy Hamilton under its wing when her father is killed in a plane accident. Adjusting to a new household member is not easy, as the 12-year-old narrator, Vicky, will testify. Maggy is spoiled, "ubiquitous," laughs in a "horrid, screechy way," and appears to be a child of an entirely different species from the thoughtful, intelligent, kind, yet not cloyingly so, Austin kids. Still, Vicky and her other siblings (Rob, Suzy, and John) grit their collective teeth and struggle to understand her, which becomes easier and easier as the loving family seems to rub off on the newly orphaned Maggy.
The Austins are beyond question a charming family, but their path is by no means rock-free: Vicky sneaks off to a friend's house and severely injures herself in a bike accident, they all get the measles, John is beat up after his guest sermon in church, and they almost lose little Rob. Despite ordinary family setbacks, there's no use pretending this is a run-of-the-mill family. When Vicky is sick, her older brother, John, comes into her room and soothes her with a discussion of the solar system, our atomic composition, and the relativity of size. Family dinner-table talk includes the ethics of meat eating, and a chat with Grandfather ends up with a discussion of whether Einstein believed in God. As in all of L'Engle's novels, she asks the big questions: What is the meaning of life, and how does death fit into that? Are there different kinds of intelligence? What happens when you remove a screw from a radiator? This strangely comforting novel, first published in 1960, is an ALA Notable Book, and was followed by four other books featuring the Austin Family: The Moon by Night, The Young Unicorns, A Ring of Endless Light (a Newbery Honor Book), and Troubling a Star. (Ages 9 to 12) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Michael Crichton's Jurassic Worldby Michael CrichtonISBN 0375401075 (0-375-40107-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Midworldby Alan Dean FosterISBN 0354041541 (0-354-04154-1)
Hardcover, Ultramarine Pub Co
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The Misted Cliffsby Catherine AsaroISBN 0373802269 (0-373-80226-9)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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The Moon by Nightby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374350493 (0-374-35049-3)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Morning, Noon and Nightby Spalding GrayISBN 0374299854 (0-374-29985-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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In Morning, Noon and Night that master of the confessional, Spalding Gray, tells the event-filled, emotionally charged and outrageously funny story of one day of his life in October 1997, after the birth of his son Theo. Horrified by the prospect of having another son, considering what he and his two brothers did to their father, and ambivalent about the idea of living in a small, quaint town on eastern Long Island that seems an odd detour for a man destined for California, Spalding comes to feel, of course, a profound affinity for his baby boy, born with the looks of "a wet, blue beaver." But this is not merely a father's account of an infant son; it's the story of his new life with his girlfriend Kathie; his regally precocious eleven-year-old stepdaughter, Marissa ("Please don't let me die a virgin!"); and his older son, Forrest, who stymies Spalding time and again with his metaphysical inquisitiveness: "Daddy, what's behind the stars?" "How do flies celebrate?" Cosmic questions that for Gray are reinforced by the view from his bedroom window-a seventeenth-century graveyard-a cold reminder to the author of the impermanence of things, the transient nature of his life, the strange calling of his profession, which brilliantly confirms Wordsworth's dictum that the child is father to the man.
A richly comic work about parenthood , about adults who don't grow up and children who do, that stands as Spalding Gray's most mature work to date.More editions of Morning, Noon and Night:
Neutron Starby Larry NivenISBN 0356026523 (0-356-02652-3)
Hardcover, Macdonald & Co
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The Newlywedsby Elizabeth BevarlyISBN 0373613938 (0-373-61393-8)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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Known more for her work ethic than for her romantic history, FBI agent Bridget Logan landed an assignment that involved issues too close to home-and a "husband" as part of the sting. If Agent Samuel Jones weren't so sexy, Bridget would have had no problem handling this case. But he was, and for the first time in her career, Bridget had trouble keeping a cool head under fire. A lot was at stake, though, and Bridget was determined to solve this case and move on, no harm done. But then her "husband" made love to her. . .and suddenly their role as a devoted couple transformed into a passion over which neither had control! [via]
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Night Shiftby Stephen KingISBN 0373588585 (0-373-58858-5)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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The Princess of Neptuneby Quentin DoddISBN 0374361193 (0-374-36119-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Robotech the New Generation: The Invid Invasionby Jack McKinneyISBN 0345499018 (0-345-49901-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Savage Amusementby David BishopISBN 0352328746 (0-352-32874-6)
Softcover, Virgin Books Limited
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Seedlingby James AxlerISBN 0373625138 (0-373-62513-8)
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Serving in Timeby Gordon EklundISBN 0373720068 (0-373-72006-8)
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Sharing the Darknessby Marilyn TracyISBN 0373270348 (0-373-27034-8)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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Solomon's Jarby Alex ArcherISBN 0373621205 (0-373-62120-5)
Softcover, Gold Eagle
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Sophie's Worldby Jostein Gaarder, Paulette MollerISBN 0374530718 (0-374-53071-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophie's World'Book summary:Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated. A young girl, Sophie, becomes embroiled in a discussion of philosophy with a faceless correspondent. At the same time, she must unravel a mystery involving another young girl, Hilde, by using everything she's learning. The truth is far more complicated than she could ever have imagined. [via]
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Specimen Daysby Michael CunninghamISBN 0374299625 (0-374-29962-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Specimen Days'Book summary:Book Description: In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution, as human beings confront the alienating realities of the new machine age. "The Children's Crusade," set in the early twenty-first century, plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it tracks the pursuit of a terrorist band that is detonating bombs, seemingly at random, around the city. The third part, "Like Beauty," evokes a New York 150 years into the future, when the city is all but overwhelmed by refugees from the first inhabited planet to be contacted by the people of Earth.
Presiding over each episode of this interrelated whole is the prophetic figure of the poet Walt Whitman, who promised his future readers, "It avails not, neither time or place ... I am with you, and know how it is." Specimen Days is a genre-bending, haunting, and transformative ode to life in our greatest city and a meditation on the direction and meaning of America's destiny. It is a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today.
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A Home at the End of the World
Flesh and BloodWhitman Sampler 
The Portable Walt Whitman
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Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose
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Star Trek Logs Nine And Tenby Alan Dean FosterISBN 0345495853 (0-345-49585-3)
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Star Trek Logs Three and Fourby Alan Dean FosterISBN 0345495829 (0-345-49582-9)
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Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manualby Franz JosephISBN 0345495861 (0-345-49586-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual'Book summary:OFFICIAL USE ONLY
MARK R5PC
STARFLEET COMMAND
STARFLEET HEADQUARTERS
UNITED FEDERATION OF PLANETS
FRANZ JOSEPH
UNITED FEDERATION REPRESENTATIVE
STARDATE 7512.02
To: Ballantine Books
Planetary Agents, NA, USA, 10019
1. A printed Terran version of the Starfleet Technical Manual was approved by the Federation Council for release to civilians and civilian auxiliaries on your planet. We have reviewed copies of this version as printed by you, and wish to assure you and the others that these copies are precisely correct and complete as authorized. We believe some of your civilians are confused because they are unfamiliar with the system and arrangement of Technical Orders, therefore, we offer the following by way of clarification.
2. The print-out version of the Starfleet Technical Manual, as used by the Starfleet Academy, is a collection of only those Technical Orders necessary to the indoctrination of new cadets until such time as they become experienced in the use of the data read-out stations of Mastercom/SFHQ. Further, the Terran version contains even fewer Technical Orders because of the prohibition of the Prime Directive. Neither version is a book of pages as the questioners seem to thinknor do they contain all of the technical information stored in the data banks of Mastercom/SFHQ. Your civilians must understand these technical data banks contain all the knowledge presently known to the United Federation of Planets from all the member planets. If it were to be published in book form, the sum total would amount to more books than you now have stored in your libraries. Obviously, this cannot be done. It is equally obvious that you cannot have the galactic knowledge of future centuries given to your planet as a gift; you must earn it by your own efforts just as others have done.
3. In the Terran version, the General Index summarizes the subject area groupings by Technical Order number blocks as a part of the total system of classification. It does not give the total classification system, nor does it indicate whether or not such subject matter is available. The Introduction (T.0:00:00:06) for instance, is not included because it has not been authorized for release at this time. Each Section Index lists the Technical Orders currently approved for
each section, and shows the correct issue by authentication date (and amendment codeif required). Thus a Section Index shows whether or not a particular manual contains the correct issues. Those listed with an asterisk may become available in a future print-out from Mastercom/SFHQ. Other Technical Order numbers that are missing do not appear by reason of the prohibition of the Prime Directive, or they have not been approved for release at this time.
4. In as gentle and as diplomatic a manner as we may, we would like to point out that this confusion is just another example of the many primitive attributes of your planet that prevents its acceptance into the United Federation of Planets at this time in your current calendar. But be patient, the day will come when your planet will have finally overcome these obstacles, and take its place in the intergalactic community of intelligent life forms.
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Star Warsby Brian DaleyISBN 034591208X (0-345-91208-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Star Warsby James KahnISBN 0345911849 (0-345-91184-9)
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Star Warsby Matthew Woodring StoverISBN 0345485564 (0-345-48556-4)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Wars'Book summary:The turning point for the entire Star Wars saga is at hand
After years of civil war, the Separatists have battered the already faltering Republic nearly to the point of collapse. On Coruscant, the Senate watches anxiously as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine aggressively strips away more and more constitutional liberties in the name of safeguarding the Republic. Yoda, Mace Windu, and their fellow Masters grapple with the Chancellors disturbing move to assume control of the Jedi Council. And Anakin Skywalker, the prophesied Chosen One, destined to bring balance to the Force, is increasingly consumed by his fear that his secret love, Senator Padmé Amidala, will die.
As the combat escalates across the galaxy, the stage is set for an explosive endgame: Obi-Wan undertakes a perilous mission to destroy the dreaded Separatist military leader General Grievous. Palpatine, eager to secure even greater control, subtly influences public opinion to turn against the Jedi. And a conflicted Anakintormented by unspeakable visionsedges dangerously closer to the brink of a galaxy-shaping decision. It remains only for Darth Sidious, whose shadow looms ever larger, to strike the final staggering blow against the Republic . . . and to ordain a fearsome new Sith Lord: Darth Vader.
Based on the screenplay of the eagerly anticipated final film in George Lucass epic saga, bestselling Star Wars author Matthew Stovers novel crackles with action, captures the iconic characters in all their complexity, and brings a space opera masterpiece full circle in stunning style. [via]More editions of Star Wars:
Station Gehennaby Andrew WeinerISBN 0373303068 (0-373-30306-8)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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The Stone Princeby Gena ShowalterISBN 0373770073 (0-373-77007-3)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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Tell Me No Liesby Elizabeth LowellISBN 0373771258 (0-373-77125-8)
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The Tenth Planet:Oblivion: Book 2by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn RuschISBN 0345484940 (0-345-48494-0)
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Time and Againby Nora RobertsISBN 0373285337 (0-373-28533-7)
Softcover, Silhouette
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time and Again'Book summary:Two of Roberts's most enchanting novels, out of print for more than ten years, are available in this special volume that connects novels about Caleb and Jacob Hornblower, brothers who travel from the future and fall in love with present-day sisters, Liberty and Sunny Stone. [via]
Tsubasa, No. 9: Reservoir Chronicleby ClampISBN 0345484290 (0-345-48429-0)
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Tsubasa, No.10: Reservoir Chronicleby ClampISBN 0345484304 (0-345-48430-4)
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The godlike being Ashura-ô has killed the equally skilled and mighty rival, Yasha-ô. But now Ashura-ô seems depressed. What this means to the country of Shura, none can tell . . . especially the five friends on a desperate journey through dimensions to find the memories of Princess Sakuramemories in the form of immensely powerful feathers. Theyve been racing from world to world, separated only to be united as enemies. Now young Syaoran is at the center of the maelstromand only wits, luck, and some help from his friends will save the tiny band from destruction. [via]More editions of Tsubasa, No.10: Reservoir Chronicle:
Tsubasa, No.11: Reservoir Chronicleby ClampISBN 0345485289 (0-345-48528-9)
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Walls within Wallsby Arthur TofteISBN 037372005X (0-373-72005-X)
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Wartideby John BarnesISBN 0373636040 (0-373-63604-0)
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Wetworksby Dave StoneISBN 0352329750 (0-352-32975-0)
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A Wind in the Doorby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374384436 (0-374-38443-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wind in the Door'Book summary:"There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden," announces six-year-old Charles Wallace Murry in the opening sentence of The Wind in the Door. His older sister, Meg, doubts it. She figures he's seen something strange, but dragons--a "dollop of dragons," a "drove of dragons," even a "drive of dragons"--seem highly unlikely. As it turns out, Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--though the sea of eyes (merry eyes, wise eyes, ferocious eyes, kitten eyes, dragon eyes, opening and closing) and wings (in constant motion) is actually a benevolent cherubim (of a singularly plural sort) named Proginoskes who has come to help save Charles Wallace from a serious illness.
In her usual masterful way, Madeleine L'Engle jumps seamlessly from a child's world of liverwurst and cream cheese sandwiches to deeply sinister, cosmic battles between good and evil. Children will revel in the delectably chilling details--including hideous scenes in which a school principal named Mr. Jenkins is impersonated by the Echthroi (the evil forces that tear skies, snuff out light, and darken planets). When it becomes clear that the Echthroi are putting Charles Wallace in danger, the only logical course of action is for Meg and her dear friend Calvin O'Keefe to become small enough to go inside Charles Wallace's body--into one of his mitochondria--to see what's going wrong with his farandolae. In an illuminating flash on the interconnectedness of all things and the relativity of size, we realize that the tiniest problem can have mammoth, even intergalactic ramifications. Can this intrepid group voyage through time and space and muster all their strength of character to save Charles Wallace? It's an exhilarating, enlightening, suspenseful journey that no child should miss.
The other books of the Time quartet, continuing the adventures of the Murry family, are A Wrinkle in Time; A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which won the American Book Award; and Many Waters. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Wreath of Fireby James AxlerISBN 0373638256 (0-373-63825-6)
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