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The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Timeby Leslie PockellISBN 044667950X (0-446-67950-X)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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13 Great Stories of Science Fictionby Groff ConklinISBN 0449142280 (0-449-14228-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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13 Phantasms and Other Storiesby James P. BlaylockISBN 0441010148 (0-441-01014-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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145th Streetby Walter Dean MyersISBN 0440229162 (0-440-22916-2)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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Aftermathby Robert Asprin, Lynn AbbeyISBN 0441805973 (0-441-80597-3)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aftermath'Book summary:Aftermath: Thieves' World, Book 10 [via]
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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0448060043 (0-448-06004-3)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice 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 Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0439291496 (0-439-29149-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'Book summary:Welcome to Wonderland! Lewis Carroll's timeless masterpiece is brought to life as never before in this pop-up extravaganza by J.Otto Seibold, the renowned artist of OLIVE, THE OTHER REINDEER.[via]
You've never seen Alice like this before! Acclaimed artist J. Otto Seibold---the creator of OLIVE, THE OTHER REINDEER---brings readers a fantastical Wonderland filled with surprises.
Lewis Carroll's classic tale of magic and discovery comes to life in this pop-up extravaganza. Readers are invited to follow Alice on her journey, down the rabbit hole and through Wonderland, to meet all the colorful characters she encounters along the way. This exceptional interactive feast offers Alice fans of every age an unforgettable glimpse into the adventure and wild fun that is Wonderland.More editions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0440803128 (0-440-80312-8)
Softcover, Dell Distributing - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 043941184X (0-439-41184-X)
Hardcover, Orchard Books - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0440000750 (0-440-00075-0)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press/ S. Lawrence - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 0440003539 (0-440-00353-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0439291496 (0-439-29149-6)
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American Tradition in Literatureby Sculley BradleyISBN 0448131501 (0-448-13150-1)
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Banquets of the Black Widowersby Isaac AsimovISBN 0449209806 (0-449-20980-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Best of All Possible Worldsby Spider RobinsonISBN 0441054838 (0-441-05483-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Black Ticketsby Jayne Anne PhillipsISBN 0440309247 (0-440-30924-7)
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Callahan's Ladyby Spider RobinsonISBN 0441090729 (0-441-09072-9)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Welcome to Lady Sally's, the House that "is" a home -- the internationally (hell, interplanetarily) notorious bordello. At Lady Sally's House, the customer doesn't necessarily come first: even the staff are genuinely enjoying themselves.
Wife of time traveling bartender Mike Callahan, and employer of some of the most unusual and talented performing artists ever to work in the field of hedonic interface, Her Ladyship has designed her House to be an "equal opportunity enjoyer," discreetly, tastefully and joyfully catering to all erotic tastes and fantasies, however unusual. Like her famous husband, Lady Sally doesn't even insist that her customers be "human."..as long as they have good manners.
Small wonder, then, that she and her staff encounter beings as unique and memorable as the superhuman Colt, whose banner never, ever flags...Diana, the deadly dominatrix who "cannot" be disobeyed...Tony Donuts, the moronic man-monster even the Mafia doesn't want to mess with...or Charles, the werewolf with a distinct difference... [via]
Callahan's Secretby Spider RobinsonISBN 0441090745 (0-441-09074-5)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Caribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short Storiesby Stewart BrownISBN 043598814X (0-435-98814-X)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Changing Planesby Ursula K. Le Guin, Eric BeddowsISBN 044101156X (0-441-01156-X)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Changing Planes'Book summary:At first, readers may find Ursula K. Le Guin's collection Changing Planes rather light, if not slight. However, as the reader continues through its sixteen stories (ten of which are original to this volume), the collection achieves considerable weight and power.
A punny conceit links the stories and provides the title of Changing Planes. Conceived before September 11, 2001, this conceit now, unfairly, looks odd. Trapped too many times in the misery of pre-terrorist airports, Sita Dulip discovered how to change planes: not airplanes, but planes of existence. Now the people of Sita's earth travel between alternate universes.
The stories in Changing Planes are strong expressions of Le Guin's considerable anthropological and psychological insight. However, these tales don't follow traditional plot structures or character-development methods. They read more like travelogues, or socio-anthropological articles on foreign nations or tribes. They explore exotic literary planes lying somewhere between Jorge Luis Borges's ficciones and Horace Miner's anthropological satire Body Ritual Among the Nacirema. However, unlike Miner's parody, Le Guin's wise tales are rarely satirical, though "The Royals of Hegn" sharply skewers the absurdity of royalty-worship, and "Great Joy" rightly attacks the boundless corporate criminality familiar to anyone who's read a newspaper since 2001.
One of America's greatest authors, Ursula K. Le Guin has received the National Book Award, the Newberry Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, five Nebula Awards, and five Hugo Awards. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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The Children's Storyby James ClavellISBN 0440204682 (0-440-20468-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children's Story'Book summary:It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavella talk with his young daughter just home from schoolthat inspired this chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five quietly devastating minutes. He writes, "The Children's Story came into being that day. It was then that I really realized how vulnerable my child's mind was any mind, for that matterunder controlled circumstances. Normally I write and rewrite and re-rewrite, but this story came quicklyalmost by itself. Barely three words were changed. It pleases me greatly because I kept asking the questions&
Questions like, What's the use of 'I pledge allegiance' without understanding? Like Why is it so easy to divert thoughts? Like What is freedom? and Why is so hard to explain?
The Children's Story keeps asking me all sorts of questions I cannot answer. Perhaps you canthen your child will...." [via] -
A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, Karen HesseISBN 0439101336 (0-439-10133-6)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]
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Chronicles of Avonleaby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0448025507 (0-448-02550-7)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicles of Avonlea'Book summary:Anne Shirley was curled up on the window-seat of Theodora Dix's sitting-room one Saturday evening, looking dreamily afar at some fair starland beyond the hills of sunset. Anne was visiting for a fortnight of her vacation at Echo Lodge, where Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Irving were spending the summer, and she often ran over to the old Dix homestead to chat for awhile with Theodora. They had had their chat out, on this particular evening, and Anne was giving herself over to the delight of building an air-castle. She leaned her shapely head, with its braided coronet of dark red hair, against the window-casing, and her gray eyes were like the moonlight gleam of shadowy pools.
Then she saw Ludovic Speed coming down the lane. He was yet far from the house, for the Dix lane was a long one, but Ludovic could be recognized as far as he could be seen. No one else in Middle Grafton had such a tall, gently-stooping, placidly-moving figure. In every kink and turn of it there was an individuality all Ludovic's own.
Anne roused herself from her dreams, thinking it would only be tactful to take her departure. Ludovic was courting Theodora. Everyone in Grafton knew that, or, if anyone were in ignorance of the fact, it was not because he had not had time to find out. Ludovic had been coming down that lane to see Theodora, in the same ruminating, unhastening fashion, for fifteen years!
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Clockworkby Philip Pullman, Leonid GoreISBN 043985623X (0-439-85623-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Copper Peacock and Other Storiesby Ruth RendellISBN 0446400556 (0-446-40055-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Crimes of Conscienceby Nadine GordimerISBN 0435906682 (0-435-90668-2)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0448170159 (0-448-17015-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0439295750 (0-439-29575-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The classic, chilling tale of a legendary double life, with an introduction from best-selling author Garth Nix.[via]
Respectable citizen by day . . . killer by night? This is Robert Louis Stevenson's harrowing tale of good and evil -- caught in the same person. 
Dragonfield and Other Storiesby Jane YolenISBN 0441166229 (0-441-16622-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Einstein's Dreamsby Alan LightmanISBN 0446670111 (0-446-67011-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Einstein's Dreams'Book summary:If you liked the eerie whimsy of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Steven Millhauser's Little Kingdoms, or Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, you will love Alan Lightman's ethereal yet down-to-earth book Einstein's Dreams. Lightman teaches physics and writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, helping bridge the light-year-size gap between science and the humanities, the enemy camps C.P. Snow famously called The Two Cultures.
Einstein's Dreams became a bestseller by delighting both scientists and humanists. It is technically a novel. Lightman uses simple, lyrical, and literal details to locate Einstein precisely in a place and time--Berne, Switzerland, spring 1905, when he was a patent clerk privately working on his bizarre, unheard-of theory of relativity. The town he perceives is vividly described, but the waking Einstein is a bit player in this drama.
The book takes flight when Einstein takes to his bed and we share his dreams, 30 little fables about places where time behaves quite differently. In one world, time is circular; in another a man is occasionally plucked from the present and deposited in the past: "He is agonized. For if he makes the slightest alteration in anything, he may destroy the future ... he is forced to witness events without being part of them ... an inert gas, a ghost ... an exile of time." The dreams in which time flows backward are far more sophisticated than the time-tripping scenes in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, though science-fiction fans may yearn for a sustained yarn, which Lightman declines to provide. His purpose is simply to study the different kinds of time in Einstein's mind, each with its own lucid consequences. In their tone and quiet logic, Lightman's fables come off like Bach variations played on an exquisite harpsichord. People live for one day or eternity, and they respond intelligibly to each unique set of circumstances. Raindrops hang in the air in a place of frozen time; in another place everyone knows one year in advance exactly when the world will end, and acts accordingly.
"Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic," writes Lightman. "Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting.... In this world, artists are joyous." In another dream, time slows with altitude, causing rich folks to build stilt homes on mountaintops, seeking eternal youth and scorning the swiftly aging poor folk below. Forgetting eventually how they got there and why they subsist on "all but the most gossamer food," the higher-ups at length "become thin like the air, bony, old before their time."
There is no plot in this small volume--it's more like a poetry collection than a novel. Like Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, it's a mind-stretching meditation by a scientist who's been to the far edge of physics and is back with wilder tales than Marco Polo's. And unlike many admirers of Hawking, readers of Einstein's Dreams have a high probability of actually finishing it. [via]
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Ellis Island & Other Storiesby Mark HelprinISBN 0440322049 (0-440-32204-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ellis Island & Other Stories'Book summary:Winner of the Prix de Rome and the National Jewish Book Award, these ten stories and the title novella, "Ellis Island," exhibit tremendous range and versatility of style and technique, yet are closely unified in their beauty and in their concern with enduring and universal questions.[via]More editions of Ellis Island & Other Stories:
The Fair Folk: Six Tales of the Feyby Marvin KayeISBN 044101481X (0-441-01481-X)
Softcover, Ace Books
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The Fifth Head of Cerberusby Gene WolfeISBN 0441235018 (0-441-23501-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fifth Head of Cerberus'Book summary:A brothel keeper's sons discuss genocide and plot murder; a young alien wanderer is pursued by his shadow double; and a political prisoner tries to prove his identity, not least to himself. Gene Wolfe's first novel consists of three linked sections, all of them elegant broodings on identity, sameness, and strangeness, and all of them set on the vividly evoked colony worlds of Ste. Croix and Ste. Anne, twin planets delicately poised in mutual orbit.
Marsch, the victim in the third story, is the apparent author of the second and a casual visitor whose naïve questions precipitate tragedy in the first. The sections dance around one another like the planets of their settings. Clones, downloaded personalities inhabiting robots, aliens that perhaps mimicked humans so successfully that they forgot who they were, a French culture adopted by its ruthless oppressors--there are lots of ways to lose yourself, and perhaps the worst is to think that freedom consists of owning other people, that identity is won at the expense of others.
It is easy to be impressed by the intellectual games of Wolfe's stunning book and forget that he is, and always has been, the most intensely moral of SF writers. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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A Friend of Kafka and Other Storiesby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0449206955 (0-449-20695-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Gimpel the Fool and Other Storiesby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0449206777 (0-449-20677-7)
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The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapperby John D. MacDonaldISBN 0449133419 (0-449-13341-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper'Book summary:First published between 1964 and 1984, John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series continues to inspire bestselling authors today. Everyone from Stephen King to Jonathan Kellerman has paid homage to MacDonald's work, which defined the genre itself. RHPG now re-releases one of the most perplexing of the wildly popular thrillers, in which Travis McGee tries to figure out what is turning his old friend's daughter slowly mad. [via]
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Great Russian Short Storiesby Norris HoughtonISBN 0440331420 (0-440-33142-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Green Angelby Alice HoffmanISBN 0439443857 (0-439-44385-7)
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Hard Day at the Scaffoldby Alfred HitchcockISBN 044013434X (0-440-13434-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Hard Sellby Piers AnthonyISBN 0441317480 (0-441-31748-0)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Harrowing the Dragonby Patricia A. McKillipISBN 0441014437 (0-441-01443-7)
Softcover, Ace Books
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Heroic Visionsby Jessica A. SalmonsonISBN 0441328210 (0-441-32821-0)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Hotel Andromedaby Jack L. ChalkerISBN 044100010X (0-441-00010-X)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Isaac Asimov's Vampiresby Gardner DozoisISBN 0441003877 (0-441-00387-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Knight and Knave of Swordsby Fritz LeiberISBN 044145125X (0-441-45125-X)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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The Last Man on Earthby Isaac AsimovISBN 0449209903 (0-449-20990-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Lilac Busby Maeve BinchyISBN 0440213029 (0-440-21302-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lilac Bus'Book summary:The Journey... Every Friday night a lilac-colored minibus leaves Dublin for the Irish country town of Rathdoon with seven weekend commuters on board. All of them, from the joking bank porter to the rich doctor's daughter, have their reasons for making the journey. The Destination...Rathdoon is the kind of Irish village where family histories are shared and scandals don't stay secret for long. And this weekend, when the bus pulls in, the riders find the unexpected waiting for them...as each of their private lives unfolds to reveal a sharp betrayal of the heart, a young man's crime, and a chance for new dreams among the eight intriguing men and women on... [via]
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The Lost Valley of Iskanderby Robert E. HowardISBN 044149515X (0-441-49515-X)
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Lovedeathby Dan SimmonsISBN 0446600776 (0-446-60077-6)
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Manhandledby Austin FoxxeISBN 0446679992 (0-446-67999-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manhandled'Book summary:This sexually explicit collection of over 30 short stories is bound to enthrall gay men everywhere. [via]
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Mignon G. Eberhart's Best Mystery Storiesby Nignon EberhartISBN 0446359327 (0-446-35932-7)
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More Tales of the Black Widowersby Isaac AsimovISBN 0449210529 (0-449-21052-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Mythologyby Edith HamiltonISBN 0446607258 (0-446-60725-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mythology'Book summary:Edith Hamilton loved the ancient Western myths with a passion--and this classic compendium is her tribute. "The tales of Greek mythology do not throw any clear light upon what early mankind was like," Hamilton explains in her introduction. "They do throw an abundance of light upon what early Greeks were like--a matter, it would seem, of more importance to us, who are their descendents intellectually, artistically, and politically. Nothing we learn about them is alien to ourselves." Fans of Greek mythology will find all the great stories and characters here--Perseus, Hercules, and Odysseus--each discussed in generous detail by the voice of an impressively knowledgeable and engaging (with occasional lapses) narrator. This is also an excellent primer for middle- and high-school students who are studying ancient Greek and Roman culture and literature. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Naked Came the Manateeby Tananarive Due, James W. Hall, Les Standiford, Elmore Leonard, Dave Barry, Edna Buchanan, Paul Levine, Carl Hiaasen, John Dufresne, Vicki Hendricks, Brian Antoni, Carolina Hospital, Evelyn MayersonISBN 0449001245 (0-449-00124-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Came the Manatee'Book summary:Dave Barry starts the madness in Naked Came the Manatee, introducing a 102-year-old environmentalist named Coconut Grove and a manatee saddled with one of Barry's favorite monikers, Booger. Carl Hiaasen closes down the party, and in between, 11 of Florida's literati, including Elmore Leonard, John Dufresne, and Edna Buchanan, make twisted offerings to the affair: three severed heads, all bearing a remarkable resemblance to Fidel Castro; four murders; some sex; some espionage; even an appearance by Jimmy Carter and one by Castro himself.
Originally published as a serial novel in the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine, Naked Came the Manatee resembles a literary game of telephone, with each writer contributing a chapter and passing it on to the next, who then makes the most of what he or she is given. The result is a novel with wildly fluctuating styles and more crazy plot curves than a daytime drama, but thanks to these 13 masters of the craft this roller coaster of a book is almost as much fun to read as it obviously was to write. [via]
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The Ordinary Princessby M. M. KayeISBN 0440408806 (0-440-40880-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Paingod and Other Delusionsby Harlan EllisonISBN 0441645763 (0-441-64576-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paingod and Other Delusions'Book summary:Robert Heinlein says, "This book is raw corn liquor--you should serve a whiskbroom with each shot so the customer can brush the sawdust off after he gets up from the floor." Perhaps a mooring cable might also be added as necessary equipment for reading these eight wonderful stories: They not only knock you down...they raise you to the stars. Passion is the keynote as you encounter the Harlequin and his nemesis, the dreaded Tictockman, in one of the most reprinted and widely taught stories in the English language; a pyretic who creates fire merely by willing it; the last surgeon in a world of robot physicians; a spaceship filled with hideous mutants rejected by the world that gave them birth. Touching and gentle and shocking stories from an incomparable master of impossible dreams and troubling truths. "Harlan Ellison is the dark prince of American letters, cutting through our corrupted midnight fog with a switchblade prose. He simply must be read." --Pete Hamill "Ellison writes with sensitivity as well as guts--a rare combination." --Leslie Charteris, creator of The Saint [via]
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Partners in Wonderby Harlan EllisonISBN 0441652050 (0-441-65205-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Perpetual Lightby Alan Ryan, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0446300136 (0-446-30013-6)
Hardcover, Warner Books
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Point of Departure : 19 Stories of Youth and Discoveryby Robert S. GoldISBN 0440969832 (0-440-96983-2)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Point of Departure : 19 Stories of Youth and Discovery'Book summary:Adolescence is a very trying, frequently anguished period of life, with seemingly endless variations in the ways it can be difficult. Out of the diversity of their experience, eighteen distinguished authors have written sensitive and honest stories of adolescence, articulating the world teenagers know and the future they anticipate. In clear, compelling language, the stories in this collection probe the mystery, love, pain and affirmation of adolescent experience. [via]
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Rabbit, Runby John UpdikeISBN 0449205061 (0-449-20506-1)
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Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman. But happiness is more elusive than a medal, and Harry must continue to run--from his wife, his life, and from himself, until he reaches the end of the road and has to turn back.... [via]More editions of Rabbit, Run:
A Rare Benedictineby Ellis PetersISBN 0446400882 (0-446-40088-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0440372844 (0-440-37284-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Riverworld Other Storyby Philip Jose FarmerISBN 0441728863 (0-441-72886-3)
Softcover, Rationalist Press Association
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Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Deathby Ramsey Campbell, J. K. Potter, Clive BarkerISBN 0446387835 (0-446-38783-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death'Book summary:British horror master Ramsey Campbell offers 10 sly and disturbing stories of an erotic hue in Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death, an expanded version of the 1988 collection of the same name subtitled Seven Tales of Seduction and Terror. Clive Barker provides an introduction, the author an afterword in which he comments with typical wit on his repressed Catholic upbringing. [via]
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Short & Shivery: Thirty Chilling Talesby Robert D. San Souci, Katherine CovilleISBN 0440418046 (0-440-41804-6)
Softcover, Yearling Books
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Short Stories, Five Decadesby Irwin ShawISBN 0440041473 (0-440-04147-3)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press
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Short Story Masterpiecesby Robert A. WarrenISBN 0440378648 (0-440-37864-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Son of the White Wolfby Robert E. HowardISBN 0441775217 (0-441-77521-7)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Story of Ferdinandby Munro Leaf, Robert LawsonISBN 0448421909 (0-448-42190-9)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Story of Ferdinand'Book summary:What else can be said about the fabulous Ferdinand? Published more than 50 years ago (and one of the bestselling children's books of all time), this simple story of peace and contentment has withstood the test of many generations. Ferdinand is a little bull who much prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree-- just smelling the flowers--to jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. This cow is no coward--he simply has his pacifist priorities clear. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow, until the day he meets with the wrong end of a bee. In a show of bovine irony, the one day Ferdinand is most definitely not sitting quietly under the cork tree (due to a frightful sting), is the selfsame day that five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid.
Ferdinand's day in the arena gives readers not only an education in the historical tradition of bullfighting, but also a lesson in nonviolent tranquility. Robert Lawson's black-and-white drawings are evocative and detailed, with especially sweet renditions of Ferdinand, the serene bull hero. The Story of Ferdinand closes with one of the happiest endings in the history of happy endings--readers of all ages will drift off to a peaceful sleep, dreaming of sweet-smelling flowers and contented cows. [via]
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Thieve's Worldby Robert Lynn Asprin, Lynn AbbeyISBN 0441805728 (0-441-80572-8)
Softcover, Ace Books
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Thieves' Worldby Robert AsprinISBN 0441805914 (0-441-80591-4)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Thirteen Clues for Miss Marpleby Agatha ChristieISBN 0440187559 (0-440-18755-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Thirteen Phantasms And Other Storiesby JAMES R. BLAYLOCKISBN 0441012574 (0-441-01257-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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This Year It Will Be Differentby Maeve BinchyISBN 0440223571 (0-440-22357-1)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Year It Will Be Different'Book summary:From the New York Times bestselling author of Circle of Friends, The Glass Lake, and Evening Class comes a stunning collection of fifteen Christmas stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius. In "A Typical Irish Christmas," a grieving widower heads for a holiday in Ireland and finds an unexpected destination not just for himself, but for a father and daughter in crisis. . . . In "Pulling Together," a teacher not yet out of her twenties sees her affair with a married man at a turning point as Christmas Eve approaches. . . . And in the title story, "This Year It Will Be Different," a woman with a complacent husband and grown children enters a season that will forever alter her life, and theirs. . .
These stories, and a dozen more, powerfully evoke many lives--from step-families grappling with exes to children caught in grown-up tugs-of-war--during the one holiday when feelings cannot be easily hidden. The time of year may be magical, imbued with meaning. But the situations are timeless. And Maeve Binchy makes us care about them all. [via]More editions of This Year It Will Be Different:
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Time Travelers Strictly Cashby Spider RobinsonISBN 0441807135 (0-441-80713-5)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Travelers Strictly Cash'Book summary:The second book continuing the stories of the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space. Pull up a chair, grab a glass, and listen to stories spun by the most entertaining characters in this galaxy and beyond. [via]
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Tricksby Renaud CamusISBN 0441824250 (0-441-82425-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Two-Minute Mysteries Collectionby Donald J. Sobol, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 043964383X (0-439-64383-X)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Ultimate Alienby Byron Preiss, John Betancourt, Keith R.A. DeCandidoISBN 044050631X (0-440-50631-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Ultimate Sportsby Donald R. GalloISBN 0440227070 (0-440-22707-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Velveteen Rabbitby Margery Williams, Florence Graham, Margery Williams BiancoISBN 0448190834 (0-448-19083-4)
Softcover, Price Stern Sloan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Velveteen Rabbit'Book summary:A stuffed toy rabbit (with real thread whiskers) comes to life in Margery Williams's timeless tale of the transformative power of love. Given as a Christmas gift to a young boy, the Velveteen Rabbit lives in the nursery with all of the other toys, waiting for the day when the Boy (as he is called) will choose him as a playmate. In time, the shy Rabbit befriends the tattered Skin Horse, the wisest resident of the nursery, who reveals the goal of all nursery toys: to be made "real" through the love of a human. "'Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'" This sentimental classic--perfect for any child who's ever thought that maybe, just maybe, his or her toys have feelings--has been charming children since its first publication in 1922. (A great read-aloud for all ages, but children ages 8 and up can read it on their own.) [via]
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions)by Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440087171 (0-440-08717-1)
Hardcover, Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions)'Book summary:The bestselling author of Hocus Pocus offers a rare glimpse into his magic world, as he presents this indignant, outrageous, always witty, and deeply-felt collection of his reviews, essays, and speeches. "Vonnegut at his unnerving best."--Providence Bulletin. Reissue. [via]
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Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloonsby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440185335 (0-440-18533-5)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Washington Irving's the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Storiesby Washington Irving, Nenad JakesevicISBN 0448420740 (0-448-42074-0)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Washington Irving's the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories'Book summary:From the "Father of the American Short Story" comes a classic collection of well-loved tales sure to chill the faint of heart and thrill the brave-hearted. Ride with the headless horseman as he makes his rounds through "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," soon to be a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. Find out what happens when a lazy man falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to a strange new world in "Rip Van Winkle." Dare to experience Gothic horror at its best in "The Spectre Bridegroom." With five gorgeously illustrated plates by Nenad Jakesevic, this celebrated anthology belongs on every family's bookshelf.[via]More editions of Washington Irving's the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories:
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The Wizards of Oddby Peter HainingISBN 0441004873 (0-441-00487-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizards of Odd'Book summary:This first-time collection showcases the Wizards of Odd--the masters of science fiction and fantasy at their quirky, comical best. Included are: a rare short story set in the world of Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams, a never-before-anthologized work by Terry Pratchett, unexpected offerings from such luminaries as Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnigut, Jr. and Ursula K. LeGuin, and much, much more. [via]
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Wormwoodby Poppy Z. BriteISBN 0440217989 (0-440-21798-9)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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You Are Here This Is Nowby David LevithanISBN 0439376181 (0-439-37618-1)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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