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The American Short Storyby NtcISBN 0658000381 (0-658-00038-1)
Hardcover, Natl Textbook Co
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Animal Farmby Naura HaydenISBN 0582530083 (0-582-53008-3)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Annotated H. P. Lovecraftby H. P. LovecraftISBN 0613226771 (0-613-22677-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Aquaby Mary Anne MohanrajISBN 0609806564 (0-609-80656-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Ballad of the Sad Cafeby Carson McCullersISBN 0618565868 (0-618-56586-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ballad of the Sad Cafe'Book summary:A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullerss best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Café. A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose café serves as the towns gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes Wunderkind, McCullerss first published story written when she was only seventeen about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist. Newly reset and available for the first time in a handsome trade paperback edition, The Ballad of the Sad Café is a brilliant study of love and longing from one of the Souths finest writers.[via]More editions of Ballad of the Sad Cafe:
Beastly Tales from Here and Thereby Vikram Seth, Ravi ShankarISBN 0670846570 (0-670-84657-0)
Hardcover, Viking
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005by Dave EggersISBN 0618570489 (0-618-57048-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006by Dave Eggers, Matt GroeningISBN 0618570519 (0-618-57051-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006'Book summary:From Dave Eggers: For this years edition of The Best American Nonrequired Reading, we wanted to expand the scope of the book to include shorter pieces, and fragments of stories, and transcripts, screenplays, television scripts -- lots of things that we hadnt included before. Our publisher readily agreed, and so youll see that this years edition is far more eclectic in form than previous editions. Along the way to making the book, we also came across a variety of things that didnt fit neatly anywhere, but which we felt should be included, so we conceived the front section, which is a loose Best American roundup of notable words and sentences from 2005. It is, like this book in general, obviously and completely incomplete, but might be interesting nevertheless.[via]More editions of The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006:
The Best American Short Stories 2005by Katrina KenisonISBN 0618427058 (0-618-42705-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Best American Short Stories 2005by Michael Chabon, Katrina KenisonISBN 0618423494 (0-618-42349-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories 2005'Book summary:The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-Selling[via]
The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.
The Best American Short Stories 2005 includes
Dennis Lehane " Tom Perrotta " Alice Munro " Edward P. Jones " Joy Williams " Joyce Carol Oates " Thomas McGuane " Kelly Link " Charles D'Ambrosio " Cory Doctorow " George Saunders " and others
Michael Chabon, guest editor, is the best-selling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, A Model World, and, most recently, The Final Solution. His novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000.More editions of The Best American Short Stories 2005:
The Best American Short Stories 2006by Ann Patchett, Katrina KenisonISBN 0618543511 (0-618-54351-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Best American Short Stories 2006by Katrina Kenison, Ann PatchettISBN 061854352X (0-618-54352-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004by Philip Zaleski, Jack MilesISBN 0618443037 (0-618-44303-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Best of Rumpoleby John MortimerISBN 0670849782 (0-670-84978-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Blanchot Readerby Maurice BlanchotISBN 0631190848 (0-631-19084-8)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Book of Guysby Garrison KeillorISBN 067084943X (0-670-84943-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Guys'Book summary:A loosely affiliated collection of pieces culled from Harper's and the New Yorker, The Book of Guys supplies Garrison Keillor's brand of pathos-inspired belly laughs in great measure. Since Keillor is not only, by all appearances, a mensch but also the possessor of an extremely amiable voice in his writing (and who can say, with him, where his prose voice ends and the aural one begins?), you tend to forget the darker elements of his work. In fact, those are the things that make his writing so amusing.
The Book of Guys parades a collection of Joe Nobodies, average guys like Garry Keillor, "sixteen, six foot two, with the metabolism of a wolverine." But these are guys with a darker side: longings, misgivings, psychoses. There's Lonesome Shorty, the cowboy who lusts for town life, but as soon as he settles down, the trail calls him again. Or the mayor of Zenith, who has everything a man could want, his life darkened solely by a senseless vendetta carried out by the editor of the local newspaper. "I have spent thirty minutes [writing this letter to the Editor] and my wife, her black hair tumbling over her bare shoulders touched with freckles under the pale-blue gossamer negligee hanging light as a leaf on her pale breasts and bold etcetera..." But Keillor's guys are too preoccupied with everyday angst to take hold of their good fortune. "In a minute, dear," says the mayor, continuing his screed.
The Book of Guys doesn't give one much faith in the future of male-dom, but it is funny. And don't let the paucity of competition fool you; Keillor's a humorist par excellence, a fine, thoughtful, and witty writer. --Michael Gerber [via]
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Celtic Fairy Talesby Joseph JacobsISBN 0584109350 (0-584-10935-0)
Hardcover, F. Muller
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The Cockatoos: Storiesby Patrick WhiteISBN 0670226483 (0-670-22648-3)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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The Collected Storiesby William TrevorISBN 0670848972 (0-670-84897-2)
Hardcover, Viking in association with the Bodley Head
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Come Along With Me; Part of a Novel, Sixteen Stories, and Three Lecturesby Shirley JacksonISBN 0670231584 (0-670-23158-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Talesby Brothers GrimmISBN 0613718933 (0-613-71893-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A definitive compilation of more than 200 traditional fairy tales, compiled by the Brothers Grimm, is accompanied by explanatory and historical material, as well as commentary by Joseph Campbell. [via]
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The Complete Just So Storiesby Rudyard Kipling, Neil Philip, Isabelle BrentISBN 0670851965 (0-670-85196-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Just So Stories'Book summary:Presents twelve familiar stories--including the tale of the elephant child with the 'satiable curiosity who journeyed to the Limpopo river--along with two lesser-known pieces. [via]
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The Complete Short Stories of D.h. Lawrenceby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0670000965 (0-670-00096-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dark Forcesby Kirby McCauleyISBN 0670256536 (0-670-25653-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfishby Neil GaimanISBN 0613789369 (0-613-78936-9)
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Exterminator!by William S. BurroughsISBN 0670302813 (0-670-30281-3)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exterminator!'Book summary:A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man's face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning everyone else into doubles of himself; a Colonel lays out the precepts of the life of DE (Do Easy); conspirators posthumously succeed in blowing up a train full of nerve gas; a mandrill known as the Purple Better One runs for the presidency with brutal results; and the world drifts towards apocalypses of violence, climate and plague. The hallucinatory landscape of William Burroughs' compellingly bizarre, fragmented novel is constantly shifting, something sinister always just beneath the surface. [via]
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Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Kay Rasmus NielsenISBN 0670305650 (0-670-30565-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fictions 88by Frank MoorhouseISBN 0642531072 (0-642-53107-2)
Hardcover, ABC Enterprises for the Australian Broadcast Corp
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The Fire Next Timeby James BaldwinISBN 0613186397 (0-613-18639-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fire Next Time'Book summary:It's shocking how little has changed between the races in this country since 1963, when James Baldwin published this coolly impassioned plea to "end the racial nightmare." The Fire Next Time--even the title is beautiful, resonant, and incendiary. "Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?" Baldwin demands, flicking aside the central race issue of his day and calling instead for full and shared acceptance of the fact that America is and always has been a multiracial society. Without this acceptance, he argues, the nation dooms itself to "sterility and decay" and to eventual destruction at the hands of the oppressed: "The Negroes of this country may never be able to rise to power, but they are very well placed indeed to precipitate chaos and ring down the curtain on the American dream."
Baldwin's seething insights and directives, so disturbing to the white liberals and black moderates of his day, have become the starting point for discussions of American race relations: that debasement and oppression of one people by another is "a recipe for murder"; that "color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality"; that whites can only truly liberate themselves when they liberate blacks, indeed when they "become black" symbolically and spiritually; that blacks and whites "deeply need each other here" in order for America to realize its identity as a nation.
Yet despite its edgy tone and the strong undercurrent of violence, The Fire Next Time is ultimately a hopeful and healing essay. Baldwin ranges far in these hundred pages--from a memoir of his abortive teenage religious awakening in Harlem (an interesting commentary on his first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain) to a disturbing encounter with Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad. But what binds it all together is the eloquence, intimacy, and controlled urgency of the voice. Baldwin clearly paid in sweat and shame for every word in this text. What's incredible is that he managed to keep his cool. --David Laskin [via]
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First Meetings in the Enderverseby Orson Scott CardISBN 060634330X (0-606-34330-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Full Cupboard of Lifeby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 0606335463 (0-606-33546-3)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Full Cupboard of Life'Book summary:Here is the fifth novel in the internationally bestselling No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency hit series. Once again we are transported to Gaborone, capital city of Botswana, and into the world of Mma Ramotswe and her friends.
THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY.
FOR ALL CONFIDENTIAL MATTERS AND ENQUIRIES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FOR ALL PARTIES.
UNDER PERSONAL MANAGEMENT.
Mma Ramotswe and Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni are still engaged, but with no immediate plans to get married. Mma Ramotswe wonders when a wedding date will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting pressure on her fiancé. For indeed he has other things on his mind -- particularly a frightening request (involving a parachute jump) made by Mma Potokwani, the persuasive matron of the orphan farm.
Mma Ramotswe herself has weighty matters on her mind. She has been approached by a wealthy lady to check up on several suitors. Are these men interested in her or just her money? This may be difficult to find out, but its just the kind of case Mma Ramotswe likes and she is, as we know, a very intuitive lady.
Meanwhile, Mma Makutsi -- plucky assistant detective and deputy manager of the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors garage -- is moving. Her entrepreneurial venture, the Kalahari Typing School for Men, is thriving and with this new income she has rented two rooms in a house. Her spare time is occupied with planning the move, the décor and her new life in a house with running water all to herself.
In the background of all this is Botswana, a country of empty spaces and echoing skies, a country so beautiful and entrancing that it breaks your heart. Mma Ramotswe has prepared the bush tea and is waiting for us to join her. [via]More editions of Full Cupboard of Life:
Goldby Isaac AsimovISBN 0614155452 (0-614-15545-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Great Esquire Fictionby L. Rust HillsISBN 0670159220 (0-670-15922-0)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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The Green Manby Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, Charles VessISBN 0670035262 (0-670-03526-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Man'Book summary:One of our most enduring, universal myths is that of the Green Man-the spirit who stands for Nature in its most wild and untamed form, a man with leaves for hair who dwells deep within the mythic forest. Through the ages and around the world, the Green Man and other nature spirits have appeared in stories, songs, and artwork, as well as many beloved fantasy novels, including Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
Now Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, the acclaimed editors of over twenty anthologies, have gathered some of today's finest writers of magical fiction to interpret the spirits of nature in short stories and poetry. Charles Vess (Stardust) brings his stellar eye and brush to the decorations, and Windling provides an introduction exploring Green Man symbolism and forest myth.
The Green Man will become required reading for teenagers and adults alike-not only for fans of fantasy fiction, but for anyone interested in mythology and the mysteries of the wilderness. [via]More editions of The Green Man:
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Arthur RackhamISBN 0670355321 (0-670-35532-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:Twenty tales collected from German folklore and immortalized by the brothers Grimm. [via]
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Haroun and the Sea of Storiesby Salman RushdieISBN 0670838047 (0-670-83804-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories'Book summary:Immediately forget any preconceptions you may have about Salman Rushdie and the controversy that has swirled around his million-dollar head. You should instead know that he is one of the best contemporary writers of fables and parables, from any culture. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a delightful tale about a storyteller who loses his skill and a struggle against mysterious forces attempting to block the seas of inspiration from which all stories are derived. Here's a representative passage about the sources and power of inspiration:
So Iff the water genie told Haroun about the Ocean of the Stream of Stories, and even though he was full of a sense of hopelessness and failure the magic of the Ocean began to have an effect on Haroun. He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand thousand thousand and one different currents, each one a different colour, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story, that each coloured strand represented and contained a single tale. Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns. It was not dead, but alive.
[via]"And if you are very, very careful, or very, very highly skilled, you can dip a cup into the Ocean," Iff told Haroun, "like so," and here he produced a little golden cup from another of his waistcoat pockets, "and you can fill it with water from a single, pure Stream of Story, like so," as he did precisely that.
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The Heath Introduction to Fictionby John Jacob ClaytonISBN 0669064440 (0-669-06444-0)
Softcover, D.C. Heath
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Heavy Water and Other Storiesby Martin AmisISBN 0609601296 (0-609-60129-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Hermit's Storyby Rick BassISBN 0618380442 (0-618-38044-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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High Spiritsby Robertson DaviesISBN 0670371548 (0-670-37154-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Spirits'Book summary:Robertson Davies first hit upon the notion of writing ghost stories when he joined the University of Toronto's Massey College as a Master. Wishing to provide entertainment at the College's Gaudy Night, the annual Christmas party, Professor Davies created a "spooky story," which he read aloud to the gathering. That story, "Revelation from a Smoky Fire," is the first in this wonderful, haunting collection. A tradition quickly became established and, for eighteen years, Davies delighted and amused the Gaudy Night guests with his tales of the supernatural. Here, gathered together in one volume, are those eighteen stories, just as Davies first read them. [via]
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Homer Priceby Robert McCloskeyISBN 0670377295 (0-670-37729-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer Price'Book summary:Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; where houses are built in a day; and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using nothing but his wits and a pet skunk. The comic genius of Robert McCloskey and his wry look at small-town America has kept readers in stitches for generations! [via]
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan Doyle, NicolletISBN 0670036544 (0-670-03654-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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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 Human Fly And Other Storiesby T. C. BoyleISBN 0670060542 (0-670-06054-2)
Hardcover, Viking Childrens Books
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I Sing the Body Electric, and Other Storiesby Ray BradburyISBN 061308036X (0-613-08036-X)
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Indonesiaby David G. Dufty, Intercultural Studies ProgramISBN 0589091689 (0-589-09168-9)
Hardcover, Published by Reed Education with assistance from the Asian Studies Co-ordinating Committee
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Interzoneby William S. Burroughs, James GrauerholzISBN 0670813478 (0-670-81347-8)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interzone'Book summary:[via]In 1954 William Burroughs settled in Tangiers, finding a sanctuary of sorts in its shadowy streets, blind alleys, and lowlife decadence. It was this city that served as a catalyst for Burroughs as a writer, the backdrop for one of the most radical transformations of style in literary history.
Burroughs's life during this period is limned in a startling collection of short stories, autobiographical sketches, letters, and diary entries, all of which showcase his trademark mordant humor, while delineating the addictions to drugs and sex that are the central metaphors of his work. But it is the extraordinary "WORD," a long, sexually wild and deliberately offensive tirade, that blends confession, routine, and fantasy and marks the true turning point of Burroughs as a writer-the breakthrough of his own characteristic voice that will find its full realization in Naked Lunch. James Grauerholz's incisive introduction sets the scene for this series of pieces, guiding the reader through Burroughs's literary evolution from the precise, laconic, and deadpan writer of Junky and Queer to the radical, uncompromising seer of Naked Lunch. Interzone is an indispensable addition to the canon of his works.
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Just So Storiesby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0613524179 (0-613-52417-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories'Book summary:Kipling began these stories in Vermont, to amuse his daughter when they were living in his wife's home town. The comic explanations, such as "how the camel got his hump" and "how the whale got his throat", are complemented by the author's illustrations, with their extensive and ridiculous captions. [via]
The Knife Thrower and Other Storiesby Steven MillhauserISBN 0609600702 (0-609-60070-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, the Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.by Washington Irving, Alice HoffmanISBN 0606310746 (0-606-31074-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The List of All Answers: Collected Storiesby Peter GoldsworthyISBN 0670042218 (0-670-04221-8)
Softcover, Viking
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Mark Twain's Bestby Mark TwainISBN 059008562X (0-590-08562-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Martiansby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0613354206 (0-613-35420-6)
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Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day Of The Locustby Nathanael WestISBN 061399762X (0-613-99762-X)
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Modern Irish Short Storiesby Ben ForknerISBN 0670483249 (0-670-48324-9)
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A More Perfect Union: Documents In Us History, To 1877by Paul F. Boller, Ronald StoryISBN 0618436839 (0-618-43683-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A More Perfect Union: Documents In Us History, To 1877'Book summary:This reader provides a wealth of political and diplomatic primary source documents, including many selections illustrated with photographs. Each document is preceded by a headnote that places the document within a historical context. Headnotes conclude with Questions to Consider, which stimulate comprehension of the document and provide comparative analysis of related selections. [via]
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Night Frightsby J. B. StamperISBN 0590460463 (0-590-46046-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Ocean of Story: The Uncollected Stories of Christina Steadby Christina SteadISBN 0670809969 (0-670-80996-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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On Picking Fruitby Arthur WootenISBN 0595346073 (0-595-34607-3)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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The Penguin Book of International Gay Writingby Mark MitchellISBN 0670853372 (0-670-85337-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Storiesby Margaret ReynoldsISBN 0670854255 (0-670-85425-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Womenby Richard Glyn Jones, A. Susan WilliamsISBN 0670859079 (0-670-85907-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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A Place I'Ve Never Beenby David LeavittISBN 0670821969 (0-670-82196-9)
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Portable Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0670561789 (0-670-56178-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and culturally engaged Poe. Along with the authors familiar masterworks in poetry and fiction, this new Portable Poe includes satirical tales that reflect his critique of American culture. [via]More editions of Portable Poe:
The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Readerby Clarence BrownISBN 0670805319 (0-670-80531-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Prussian Officer, and Other Storiesby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0670580538 (0-670-58053-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Real Mother Gooseby Blanche Fisher WrightISBN 0590003682 (0-590-00368-2)
Hardcover, Cartwheel Books
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The Red Fairy Bookby Brian Alderson, Andrew LangISBN 0670591106 (0-670-59110-6)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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The Rest of Lifeby Mary GordonISBN 0670838284 (0-670-83828-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sherlock Holmes Short Storiesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0582529115 (0-582-52911-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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The Short Stories: The First Forty-Nine Stories With a Brief Introduction by the Authorby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0606022627 (0-606-02262-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0590422936 (0-590-42293-6)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:The Pit and the Pendulum...The Purloined Letter...The Tell-Tale Heart...A Descent into Maelstrom...and six other choice chillers by the acknowledged master of mystery, fantasy, and horror. These ten absorbing stories, selected by a famed anthologist of science-fiction and the supernatural, prove that even after a century Poe's imagination still works it macabre magic. 210 pages [via]
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Through the Safety Netby Charles BaxterISBN 0670804770 (0-670-80477-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Tortilla Flatby John SteinbeckISBN 0670721093 (0-670-72109-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earthby J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 0618154051 (0-618-15405-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth'Book summary:A New York Times bestseller for twenty-one weeks upon publication, UNFINISHED TALES is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and further relates events as told in THE SILMARILLION and THE LORD OF THE RINGS.[via]
The book concentrates on the lands of Middle-earth and comprises Gandalf's lively account of how he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the story of the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan and the journey of the Black Riders during the hunt for the Ring.
UNFINISHED TALES also contains the only surviving story about the long ages of Númenor before its downfall, and all that is known about the Five Wizards sent to Middle-earth as emissaries of the Valar, about the Seeing Stones known as the Palantiri, and about the legend of Amroth.
Writing of the Appendices to THE LORD OF THE RINGS, J.R.R. Tolkien said in 1955, "Those who enjoy the book as a 'heroic romance' only, and find 'unexplained vistas' part of the literary effect, will neglect the Appendices, very properly." UNFINISHED TALES is avowedly for those who, to the contrary, have not yet sufficiently explored Middle-earth, its languages, its legends, it politics, and its kings.More editions of Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth:
Voices of the Downs: A Collection of Stories and Poemsby Association of Writers at WorkISBN 0646174851 (0-646-17485-1)
Hardcover, Association of Writers at Work
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We Are Still Marriedby Garrison KeillorISBN 0670826472 (0-670-82647-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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William Trevorby William TrevorISBN 0670841293 (0-670-84129-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Without a Heroby T. C. BoyleISBN 0670849634 (0-670-84963-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Wizard's Dozenby Michael StearnsISBN 0590865420 (0-590-86542-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Women of Brewster Placeby Gloria NaylorISBN 0613176146 (0-613-17614-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Words in Commotion and Other Storiesby Tommaso Landolfi, Kathrine JasonISBN 0670805181 (0-670-80518-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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The Yellow Fairy Bookby Erik Blegvad, Brian Alderson, Andrew LangISBN 067079385X (0-670-79385-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writingsby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0613501438 (0-613-50143-8)
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), a leading figure in the women's movement of the early twentieth century, is a pillar of the American feminist canon. This edition of her work includes her best-known story, "The Yellow Wall-paper," a terrifying tale about a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the "rest cure" she is ordered to follow by her doctor to relieve her postpartum depression. Also included is a wide range of other short stories; an abridged version of her little-known but brilliant utopian novel, Herland, about a peaceful all-female world; and selections from her landmark treatise, Women and Economics, first published in 1898 to universal acclaim. [via]More editions of The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings:
Youth Writes 1973 & 1974;: A Collection of Verse and Prose by Young Writers of Secondary School Age in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacificby Marcia KirstenISBN 0589091298 (0-589-09129-8)
Hardcover, Reed Education
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LA Casa En Mango Street/the House on Mango Streetby Sandra Cisneros, Elena PoniatowskaISBN 0613046889 (0-613-04688-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Casa En Mango Street/the House on Mango Street'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, but she tries to rise above the hopelessness. [via]
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