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Aiding & Abettingby Muriel SparkISBN 078623184X (0-7862-3184-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Always Room for One Moreby Sorche Leodhas, Nonny HogrogianISBN 0805003304 (0-8050-0330-4)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Always Room for One More'Book summary:Say you're traveling across Scottish fields and a storm breaks out. Where do you stay for the night? Whether you're a tailor or a sailor or a gallowglass or a fishing lass, you'll be relieved to hear good Lachie MacLachlan shouting from his doorstep, "There's room galore. Och, Come awa' in! There's room for one more, always room for one more!" In this sing-song story, derived from an old Scottish nursery tale, Lachie's boundless magnanimity, while well-received, backfires. The welcoming chap invites all passersby into his home, until the wee house literally explodes with his goodwill. Luckily, the grateful visitors devise a plan to help Lachie and his family (and themselves as well).
Sorche Nic Leodhas tells Lachie's story in the lilting, rhyming brogue of a time-worn Scottish folktale. A glossary helps readers through the less intuitive dialect, and Loedhas also provides a musical score so the main chorus of the legend can be sung as originally intended. Nonny Hogrogian's illustrations combine intricately crosshatched line drawings with sponge smudges of moss and berry hues. The effect, impressive enough to earn Hogrogian the Caldecott Medal, is one of a dreamy, watery heath, populated by jovial elfin sprites. The generosity of this tale is addictive, and readers will love being welcomed into Lachie's fold, time and time again. (Picture Book) [via]
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At the Villa of Reduced Circumstancesby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 073932568X (0-7393-2568-X)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Atonement: A Novelby Ian McEwanISBN 0786239212 (0-7862-3921-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atonement: A Novel'Book summary:Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-nominated Atonement is his first novel since Amsterdam took home the prize in 1998. But while Amsterdam was a slim, sleek piece, Atonement is a more sturdy, more ambitious work, allowing McEwan more room to play, think, and experiment.
We meet 13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to stage a production of her new drama "The Trials of Arabella" to welcome home her older, idolized brother Leon. But she soon discovers that her cousins, the glamorous Lola and the twin boys Jackson and Pierrot, aren't up to the task, and directorial ambitions are abandoned as more interesting prospects of preoccupation come onto the scene. The charlady's son, Robbie Turner, appears to be forcing Briony's sister Cecilia to strip in the fountain and sends her obscene letters; Leon has brought home a dim chocolate magnate keen for a war to promote his new "Army Ammo" chocolate bar; and upstairs, Briony's migraine-stricken mother Emily keeps tabs on the house from her bed. Soon, secrets emerge that change the lives of everyone present....
The interwar, upper-middle-class setting of the book's long, masterfully sustained opening section might recall Virginia Woolf or Henry Green, but as we move forward--eventually to the turn of the 21st century--the novel's central concerns emerge, and McEwan's voice becomes clear, even personal. For at heart, Atonement is about the pleasures, pains, and dangers of writing, and perhaps even more, about the challenge of controlling what readers make of your writing. McEwan shouldn't have any doubts about readers of Atonement: this is a thoughtful, provocative, and at times moving book that will have readers applauding. --Alan Stewart, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Beside the Ocean of Timeby George MacKay BrownISBN 0719553687 (0-7195-5368-7)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Blackstone's Pursuitsby Quintin JardineISBN 0747254605 (0-7472-5460-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Book of Prefaces: A Short History of Literate Thought in Words by Great Writers of Four Nations from the 7th to the 20th Centuryby Alasdair GrayISBN 0747544433 (0-7475-4443-3)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Prefaces: A Short History of Literate Thought in Words by Great Writers of Four Nations from the 7th to the 20th Century'Book summary:The preface usually contains one of four pleasures, says anthologist Alasdair Gray. There is the biographical snippet, full of gossipy details that "make us feel at home in earlier times." There is the author's attempt to forestall criticism (in first editions) or to answer it (in later ones). There is the report on the state of civilization, both favorable (see Walt Whitman) and unfavorable (see Karl Marx). And there is the attack on other writers or translators, sometimes bridging centuries and containing spears thrown at the long dead. All four pleasures are well represented in this 640-page treasury of English and American intros, which runs from an A.D. 675 translation of Genesis to the 1920 poems of Wilfred Owen. Why stop there? "The flow is stopped at 1920," admits Gray in his own disarmingly self-effacing preface, "by costs of using work still in copyright."
This is anything but anthology-on-the-cheap, however. Gray (Lanark and A History Maker) poured 16 years of research into The Book of Prefaces, and adds considerable value with his own running commentary, which straggles down the margins in brash red ink. Gray on the God of Genesis: "This God, with revenge in mind, first makes earth ugly as hell." Among God's anthologized fellows are Mark Twain, who defends his use of Southern dialect in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Lewis Carroll, who anticipates his critics' charges of writing nonsense in The Hunting of the Snark and proceeds to prove their case; and Charles Darwin, who recalls how the seeds of The Origin of Species were sown aboard the HMS Beagle. Gray mixes scholarly research with playful eccentricities: When was the last time you saw a book's typesetter, typist, and publisher memorialized in pen-and-ink drawings? And "with this in their lavatory," writes the cheeky author, "everyone else can read nothing but newspaper supplements and still seem educated." He may be right. --Claire Dederer [via]
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Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763by James Boswell, Frederick Albert PottleISBN 0748602623 (0-7486-0262-3)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Bruach Blendby Lillian BeckwithISBN 0755102797 (0-7551-0279-7)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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A Coffin for Twoby Quintin JardineISBN 0747254613 (0-7472-5461-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Cosmonaut Keepby Ken MacLeodISBN 0765340739 (0-7653-4073-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmonaut Keep'Book summary:Like a British--specifically, Scottish--counterpart of Bruce Sterling, Ken MacLeod is an SF author who has thought hard about politics and delights in making unlikely alternatives plausible, grippingly readable, and often downright funny.
Cosmonaut Keep swaps between two timelines whose characters share the ultimate goal of interstellar travel. In an uncertain future on the far world of Mingulay, human colonists live in the title's ancient, alien-built Keep--coexisting with reptilian "saurs," trading with visiting ships piloted by krakens, and hiding their laborious "Great Work" of developing human-guided navigation between the stars.
Meanwhile, alternate chapters present a mid-21st-century Earth whose EU is (to America's horror) Russian-dominated with a big red star in the middle of its flag. Rumors of alien contact abound, and computer whiz kid Matt Cairns finds himself carrying a data disk of unknown origin that offers antigravity and a space drive.
Clearly, the later storyline's Gregor Cairns is Matt's descendant. There are ingenious connections and surprises, with witty resonances between their wild careers, their travels, and their bumpy love lives. The foreground action adventure points to a bigger picture and a master plan known only to the godlike hive-minds who built the "Second Sphere" of interstellar culture, and who regard traditional SF dreams of unlimited human expansion through space as precisely equivalent to floods of e-mail spam polluting the tranquil galactic net.
Cosmonaut Keep opens MacLeod's new SF sequence, Engines of Light. It's highly entertaining and intelligent, promising more good things to come. --David Langford [via]
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The Daughter of Timeby Josephine TeyISBN 076218888X (0-7621-8888-X)
Hardcover, Readers Digest
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Dic Scottish Gaelic English English Scottish Gaelicby R.W. Renton, J.A. MacDonaldISBN 0781803160 (0-7818-0316-0)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books
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The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novelsby Walter Scott, David HewittISBN 0748605371 (0-7486-0537-1)
Hardcover, Edinburgh University Press
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Espresso Talesby Alexander McCall Smith, Iain McIntoshISBN 0739326465 (0-7393-2646-5)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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Exileby Denise MinaISBN 0786709626 (0-7867-0962-6)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Fallen Godsby Quintin JardineISBN 0747263892 (0-7472-6389-2)
Softcover, Headline Book Pub Ltd
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Force 10 from Navaroneby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0753164639 (0-7531-6463-9)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Gallery Whispersby Quintin JardineISBN 0747256675 (0-7472-5667-5)
Softcover, Headline Book Pub Ltd
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The Golden Key and Other Storiesby G. MacDonald, Craig YoeISBN 0802818595 (0-8028-1859-5)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Head Shotby Quintin JardineISBN 0747263884 (0-7472-6388-4)
Softcover, Headline Book Pub Ltd
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Highland Laddie Goneby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0727844180 (0-7278-4418-0)
Hardcover, Severn House Pub Ltd
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The Hills Is Lonelyby Lillian BeckwithISBN 075510269X (0-7551-0269-X)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Brook, Bob HarveyISBN 0794505740 (0-7945-0574-0)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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- The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0812966066 (0-8129-6606-6)
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Hardcover, Candlewick Pr - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0804900620 (0-8049-0062-0)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0805236023 (0-8052-3602-3)
Softcover, Schocken Books - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0719529484 (0-7195-2948-4)
Hardcover, J. Murray : Cape - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0794505740 (0-7945-0574-0)
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The Incredible Adam Sparkby Alan BissettISBN 0755326466 (0-7553-2646-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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James Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscriptby James Boswell, Marshall WaingrowISBN 0748604715 (0-7486-0471-5)
Hardcover, Edinburgh University Press
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Keeping Up With Magdaby Isla DewarISBN 0747251126 (0-7472-5112-6)
Softcover, Headline Book Pub Ltd
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Lethal Intentby Quintin JardineISBN 0755304071 (0-7553-0407-1)
Softcover, Headline Book Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lethal Intent : A Bob Skinner Crime Novel'Book summary:[via]"If we are right about this, the stakes are higher than anything Ive ever faced." Gangsters have infiltrated Edinburgh. MI5 are on their case and, unknown to DCC Bob Skinner, have set up a drug-dealing sting to flush them out. The resulting mayhem throws everyone into confusion until they realize the gangsters are preparing a hit on one of the Royal family. Meanwhile two policemen mourn the loss of a son and a daughter in mysterious circumstances, and another witnesses his son being abducted. Is someone trying to wreak revenge on the police force? Are the crimes linked? Quintin Jardine keeps readers guessing until the end in this tautly plotted and powerful novel.
Lightly Poachedby Lillian BeckwithISBN 0755102754 (0-7551-0275-4)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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Looking for the Possible Danceby A. L. KennedyISBN 0749397586 (0-7493-9758-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Macdiarmid: Christopher Murray Grieve A Critical Biographyby Alan BoldISBN 0719545854 (0-7195-4585-4)
Hardcover, John Murray Pubs Ltd
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The Magehoundby Elaine CunninghamISBN 0786915617 (0-7869-1561-7)
Softcover, Wizards of the Coast
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magehound'Book summary:Some are born with magic.[via]
Some without.
Matteo, un-magical counselor to the mighty of Halruaa, has devoted his life to the truth -- until he finds that he may have a hidden spark of magic after all. Now, with only a street waif for a companion, he's on the run from the mysterious Cabal. In the dismal Swamp of Akhlaur, Matteo will seek his own truth while battling a creature out of his nightmares.
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Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnleyby Alison WeirISBN 0812971515 (0-8129-7151-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley'Book summary:Handsome, accomplished and charming, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, staked his claim to the English throne my marrying Mary Staurt, who herself claimed to be the Queen of England. It wa snot long beofre Mary discovered that her new husband was interested only in securing soverign power for himself. Then, on February 10, 1567, an explosion at his lodgings left Darnley dead; the intrigue thickened after it was discovered that he had apparently been suffocated before the blast. Afetr an exhaustive re-evaluation of the source material, Alison Weir has come up with a soultion to this enduring mystery. Employing her gift for vidid characterization and gripping storytelling, Weir has written one of her most engaging excursions yet into Braitain's bloodstained, power-obsessed past....... [via]
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Memento Moriby Muriel SparkISBN 0811214389 (0-8112-1438-9)
Softcover, New Directions
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0809597357 (0-8095-9735-7)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:Stephen King started writing Storm of the Century as a novel, but it evolved into the teleplay of an ABC TV miniseries. Set in Maine's remote Little Tall Island, the tale is all about vivid small-town characters, feuds, infidelities, sordid secrets, kids in peril, and gory portents in scrambled letters. The calamitous snowstorm is nothing compared to the mysterious mind-reading stranger Linoge, who uses magic powers to turn people's guilt against them--when he's not simply braining them with his wolf-head-handled cane. Don't even glance at that cane--it can bring out the devil in you. Just as The Shining was concerned with marriage and alcoholism as much as it was with bad weather and worse spirits, Storm of the Century is more than a horror story. It's creepy because it's realistic.
But it's also unusually visual. Linoge's eyes ominously change color, wind and sea wreak havoc, a basketball leaves blood circles with each bounce. The 100-year storm no doubt hits harder onscreen than on the page, but the snow is a symbol of the more disturbing emotional maelstrom that words evoke perfectly. And the murders of folks we've gotten to know is entirely terrifying in print. The crisp discipline of the screenplay format makes this book better than lots of King's more sprawling novels--the end doesn't wander and the dialogue crackles. Here's the real test: It's impossible to read parts 1 and 2 and not read part 3, "The Reckoning." --Tim Appelo [via]
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Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: ISBN 0805236228 (0-8052-3622-8)
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Morality For Beautiful Girlsby R. A. McCall Smith, Alexander McCall SmithISBN 0748662979 (0-7486-6297-9)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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The Munros in Winter: 227 Summits in 83 Daysby Martin MoranISBN 0715388363 (0-7153-8836-3)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Murmuring the Judgesby Quintin JardineISBN 0747259623 (0-7472-5962-3)
Softcover, Headline Book Pub Ltd
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The New Companion to Scottish Cultureby David DaichesISBN 0748661484 (0-7486-6148-4)
Softcover, Birlinn, Limited
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The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verseby Mick Imlah, Robert CrawfordISBN 0713992387 (0-7139-9238-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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New Scottish Writingby Harry RitchieISBN 0747528241 (0-7475-2824-1)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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Niccolo Risingby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0718127064 (0-7181-2706-4)
Hardcover, M. Joseph
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Niccolo Rising'Book summary:Set against a 15th-century background, this story begins the saga of Nicholas Vanderpoele, the dyer's apprentice from Flanders who plays dangerous games for the highest stakes with the greatest powers in Europe during the time of the War of the Roses and the Fall of Constantinople. [via]
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On Honeymoon With Deathby Quintin JardineISBN 0747264716 (0-7472-6471-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Original Illustrated Strand Sherlockby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0792454154 (0-7924-5415-4)
Hardcover, World Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Original Illustrated Strand Sherlock'Book summary:It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson. The stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive and who first equipped Holmes with his famous deerstalker hat. The literary cult of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of fading with time as each new generation comes to love and revere the penetrating mind and ruthless logic which were the undoing of so many Victorian master criminals. [via]
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Peter Panby J. M. Barrie, Charles VessISBN 0765347199 (0-7653-4719-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:"All children, except one, grow up." Thus begins a great classic of children's literature that we all remember as magical. What we tend to forget, because the tale of Peter Pan and Neverland has been so relentlessly boiled down, hashed up, and coated in saccharine, is that J.M. Barrie's original version is also witty, sophisticated, and delightfully odd. The Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, live a very proper middle-class life in Edwardian London, but they also happen to have a Newfoundland for a nurse. The text is full of such throwaway gems as "Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter Pan when she was tidying up her children's minds," and is peppered with deliberately obscure vocabulary including "embonpoint," "quietus," and "pluperfect." Lest we forget, it was written in 1904, a relatively innocent age in which a plot about abducted children must have seemed more safely fanciful. Also, perhaps, it was an age that expected more of its children's books, for Peter Pan has a suppleness, lightness, and intelligence that are "literary" in the best sense. In a typical exchange with the dastardly Captain Hook, Peter Pan describes himself as "youth... joy... a little bird that has broken out of the egg," and the author interjects: "This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form." A book for adult readers-aloud to revel in--and it just might teach young listeners to fly. (Ages 5 and older) --Richard Farr [via]
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- Peter Pan: ISBN 0765308096 (0-7653-0809-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - Peter Pan: ISBN 0766607658 (0-7666-0765-8)
Hardcover, Modern Pub - Peter Pan: ISBN 0805072454 (0-8050-7245-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - Peter Pan: ISBN 0811822974 (0-8118-2297-4)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc - Peter Pan: ISBN 0789461994 (0-7894-6199-4)
Softcover, Dk Pub - Peter Pan: ISBN 0743214498 (0-7432-1449-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Peter Pan: ISBN 0805002766 (0-8050-0276-6)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - Peter Pan: ISBN 0765347199 (0-7653-4719-9)
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Peter Panby Anne McCaffrey, J. M. Barrie, Francis D. BedfordISBN 081297297X (0-8129-7297-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:Peter, Wendy, Captain Hook, the lost boys, and Tinker Bell have filled the hearts of children ever since Barrie's play first opened in London in 1904 and became an immediate sensation. Now this funny, haunting modern myth is presented with Bedford's wonderful illustrations, which first appeared in the author's own day, have long been out of print, and have never been equaled.
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Peter Panby Dk, Chris Molan, Michael Johnstone, Dawn FrenchISBN 0756612756 (0-7566-1275-6)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:Reading level: Ages 7 and up Paperback: 48 pages Publisher: DK CHILDREN (April 4, 2005) Language: English ISBN-10: 0756612756 ISBN-13: 978-0756612757 Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 9.3 x 1 inches Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews) Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,335 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) [via]
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Poetic Gemsby W. McGonagallISBN 0715631519 (0-7156-3151-9)
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The Princess and the Goblinby George MacDonaldISBN 0804901562 (0-8049-0156-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess and the Goblin'Book summary:As always with George MacDonald, everything here is more than meets the eye: this in fact is MacDonald's grace-filled vision of the world. Said to be one of J.R.R. Tolkien's childhood favorites, The Princess and the Goblin is the story of the young Princess Irene, her good friend Curdie--a minor's son--and Irene's mysterious and beautiful great great grandmother, who lives in a secret room at the top of the castle stairs. Filled with images of dungeons and goblins, mysterious fires, burning roses, and a thread so fine as to be invisible and yet--like prayer--strong enough to lead the Princess back home to her grandmother's arms, this is a story of Curdie's slow realization that sometimes, as the princess tells him, "you must believe without seeing." Simple enough for reading aloud to a child (as I've done myself more than once with my daughter), it's rich enough to repay endless delighted readings for the adult. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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The Return of John MacNabby Andrew GreigISBN 0747253536 (0-7472-5353-6)
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The Rising Sunby Douglas GalbraithISBN 0802138640 (0-8021-3864-0)
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Rope in Caseby Lillian BeckwithISBN 075510272X (0-7551-0272-X)
Hardcover, House of Stratus, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rope in Case'Book summary:When Lillian Beckwith first arrived in Bruach in the remote Hebrides, she was advised to 'always carry a rope - in case'. It was sensible advice, as the rope was useful for mending a fence, mooring a boat or securing the roof of the local taxi. Like The Sea for Breakfast and The Loud Halo, this is another collection of tales about island life, packed with humorous incidents and people with charming characters. [via]
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Scotland: The Story of a Nationby Magnus MagnussonISBN 0802139329 (0-8021-3932-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scotland: The Story of a Nation'Book summary:Near Stirling, Scotland, stands a memorial to the warrior William Wallace, put to death at the orders of the English king Edward I in 1305. Within that memorial stands a glass case, and inside of it stands a broadsword 1.7 meters long. Legend has it that the hero himself wielded the weapon, and so "Wallace's Sword" it is.
Magnus Magnusson, a native of Iceland who has long lived in and written about Scotland, may spoil it for some readers when he writes that Wallace's Sword probably wasn't Wallace's. To use it, Wallace would have had to have stood at least 6-foot-6 in height and to have lived two centuries later. The business of the sword is just one of the "cherished conceptions" about Scottish history that Magnusson picks apart and then, corrected and improved, restores. At other turns he considers the true identity of the legendary king Macbeth (and entertains some surprising but plausible theories about the king's alter ego); reconstructs decisive battles such as Otterburn, Flodden, and Glencoe; and looks closely at the complicated negotiations (and, many would say, treacheries) that led to the union with England of 1707. Magnusson closes with an account of modern independence movements and the recent return of some measure of national autonomy, opening a "new chapter in a nation's story, which the people of Scotland are now beginning to write."
Lucid, witty, and unafraid of controversy, Magnusson's book does a fine job of condensing a complex history, stretching out for 10 millennia, into a single volume. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Scottish Ghost Stories 1911by Elliott O'DonnellISBN 0766159094 (0-7661-5909-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scottish Ghost Stories 1911'Book summary:1911. This little volume contains a myriad of Scottish ghost stories, told throughout the ages to amuse and spook. Sample contents: Jane of George Street, Edinburgh; top attic in Pringle's mansion, Edinburgh; grey piper and the heavy coach of Donaldgowerie House, Perth; white lady of Rownam Avenue, near Stirling; ghost of the Hindoo child, or the hauntings of the White Dove Hotel, near St. Swithin's Street, Aberdeen; Glamis Castle; and many others. [via]
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The Scottish Insurrection of 1820by P. Berresford Ellis, Seumas Mac A'GhobhainnISBN 0745302858 (0-7453-0285-8)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Screen Saversby Quintin JardineISBN 0747259631 (0-7472-5963-1)
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The Sea for Breakfastby Lillian BeckwithISBN 0755102703 (0-7551-0270-3)
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories With Illustrations from the Strand Magazineby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 078819173X (0-7881-9173-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories With Illustrations from the Strand Magazine'Book summary:The ascetic, gaunt & enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary & pioneering Strand Magazine began serializing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal & lovably pedantic friend & companion, Dr. Watson. The stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes & his world derive & who first equipped Holmes with his famous deerstalker hat. [via]
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Skinner's Festivalby Quintin JardineISBN 0747241406 (0-7472-4140-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skinner's Festival'Book summary:[via]An explosion rocks Princes Street in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival. Responsibility is claimed by a group supposedly demanding political separation from Britain, but as atrocities escalate, Head of CID Bob Skinner realizes this is no gang of fanatics, but a highly professional team.More editions of Skinner's Festival:
Skinner's Ghostsby Quintin JardineISBN 0747256659 (0-7472-5665-9)
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Skinner's Missionby Quintin JardineISBN 074725043X (0-7472-5043-X)
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Skinner's Ordealby Quintin JardineISBN 0747250421 (0-7472-5042-1)
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Skinner's Roundby Quintin JardineISBN 0747250413 (0-7472-5041-3)
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Skinner's Trailby Quintin JardineISBN 0747241414 (0-7472-4141-4)
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The Smiling School for Calvinistsby Bill DuncanISBN 0747557578 (0-7475-5757-8)
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The Star Fractionby Ken MacLeodISBN 0765301563 (0-7653-0156-3)
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Stay of Executionby Quintin JardineISBN 0747263906 (0-7472-6390-6)
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The Talismanby Walter ScottISBN 0766187764 (0-7661-8776-4)
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Thursday Legendsby Quintin JardineISBN 0747256683 (0-7472-5668-3)
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Walt Disney's Peter Panby Random House Disney, Ron Dias, Studio OrlandoISBN 0736412956 (0-7364-1295-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walt Disney's Peter Pan'Book summary:Journey to Never Land with John, Wendy, and Michael and join in the adventures of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys! A wonderful way to introduce young fans to the classic Walt Disney movie! [via]
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Watchmanby Ian RankinISBN 075286033X (0-7528-6033-X)
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Wearing Purpleby Quintin JardineISBN 0747256667 (0-7472-5666-7)
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