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10,000 Baby Namesby Bruce LanskyISBN 0671556924 (0-671-55692-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: '10,000 Baby Names'Book summary:Designed to let you scan through the most contemporary list of girl's and boy's names to find the right name for your baby. Includes variations, nicknames and covers a variety of racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds. [via]
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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 067143473X (0-671-43473-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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95 Pounds of Hopeby Gill Rosner, Anna GavaldaISBN 0670036722 (0-670-03672-2)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: '95 Pounds of Hope'Book summary:Gregory has never liked school. And now that he's in sixth grade, life has only gotten worse. He's been held back twice and expelled once. His parents think he should go to boarding school, but his only happy moments have been found in his grandfather's cluttered shed, among the tools he uses to build his inventions. Grandfather has been his only supporter, but now even he is urging Gregory to take control of his life. Gregory has to wonder if a fresh start-in school and in life-might not be such a terrible idea after all. This fresh, funny, direct story will resonate with every reader who has ever felt like a square peg in a round hole. [via]
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Adelante!: A Cultural Approach to Intermediate Spanishby Eduardo Neale-Silva, Robert L. NicholasISBN 0673154122 (0-673-15412-2)
Hardcover, Scott, Foresman
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Alice in Wonderland and Other Favoritesby Lewis CarrollISBN 0671617052 (0-671-61705-2)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Arthur RackhamISBN 0670112771 (0-670-11277-1)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Brian Sibley, Lewis Carroll, Walt Disney Productions, David HallISBN 0671635654 (0-671-63565-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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And Then There Were Noneby Agatha ChristieISBN 067170608X (0-671-70608-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Arrow to the Sunby Gerald McDermottISBN 0670059382 (0-670-05938-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arrow to the Sun'Book summary:An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men. [via]
Aventuras Literariasby Francisco Mena-Ayllon, Ana C. Jarvis, Raquel LebredoISBN 0669053392 (0-669-05339-2)
Softcover, D.C. Heath
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Bomarzoby Manuel Mujica LainezISBN 0671204068 (0-671-20406-8)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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A Brief Lifeby Juan Carlos OnettiISBN 0670190691 (0-670-19069-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Brothers Lionheartby Astrid Lindgren, J. K. LambertISBN 0670192430 (0-670-19243-0)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothers Lionheart'Book summary:Two brothers share many adventures after their death when they are reunited in Nangiyala, the land where sagas come from. [via]
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Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexicoby Hugh ThomasISBN 0671511041 (0-671-51104-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Contemporary Latin American Literature: Original Selections from the Literary Giants for Intermediate and Advanced Studentsby Gladys Varona-LaceyISBN 0658015060 (0-658-01506-0)
Softcover, Ntc Pub Group
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Continuemos!by Ana C. JarvisISBN 0669208868 (0-669-20886-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Continuemos!by Francisco Mena-Ayllon, Ana C. Jarvis, Raquel LebredoISBN 0669337625 (0-669-33762-5)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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Continuemos!: Workbook/Laboratory Manualby Ana C. Jarvis, Raquel LebredoISBN 0669337641 (0-669-33764-1)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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Discourse on Methodby Rene DecartesISBN 067260180X (0-672-60180-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Epic of the Cidby J. Gerald MarkleyISBN 0672602598 (0-672-60259-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyISBN 067187036X (0-671-87036-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit 451: A Novel'Book summary:In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman [via]
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Fahrenheit Four Hundred Fifty Oneby Ray BradburyISBN 0671239775 (0-671-23977-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit Four Hundred Fifty One'Book summary:In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman [via]
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Farewell to the Seaby Reinaldo ArenasISBN 0670529605 (0-670-52960-5)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farewell to the Sea'Book summary:The broad-based tension between Hector, a disillusioned Cuban poet, disenchanted revolutionary, and closet homosexual, and his wife mirror the harsh reality of life under Castro's rule. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Janet Allison Brown, Graham RustISBN 0670899119 (0-670-89911-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:A simplified retelling of ten-year-old Mary coming to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovering an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Shirley Hughes, Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0670825719 (0-670-82571-9)
Hardcover, Kestrel Pr
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The Green Mileby Stephen KingISBN 0671041789 (0-671-04178-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Mile'Book summary:Read this history-making serial novel -- from cliffhanger to cliffhanger -- in its entirety. When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller list -- simultaneously -- and delighted millions of fans the world over. Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs...and yours. [via]
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The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novelby Stephen KingISBN 0671032658 (0-671-03265-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel'Book summary:This novel taps into what Stephen King does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The charming narrator is an old man looking back on the events, decades later. Maybe it's a little too cute, maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. As Time magazine put it, "Like the best popular art, The Green Mile has the courage of its cornier convictions ... the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel work as well as it finally does." And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome can be easily skipped by the squeamish. The Green Mile was nominated for a 1997 Bram Stoker Award. [via]
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 0671042866 (0-671-04286-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:In this edition of Hamlet, as in all other plays in the Folger Library, the text is set on right-hand pages. All notes are placed on facing left-hand pages and are keyed exactly to the text by line numbers. [via]
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A History of Readingby Alberto ManguelISBN 0670843024 (0-670-84302-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Reading'Book summary:A history of reading presents tales of book thieves, book burners, censors, anarchists, women of eleventh century Japan who had to invent their own reading material, and African-American slaves who were forbidden to read under penalty of death. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Iliad and Odyssey Gift Setby HomerISBN 0670779644 (0-670-77964-4)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iliad and Odyssey Gift Set'Book summary:This is a boxed gift edition of Fagles's two widely acclaimed translations of Homer.
The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to call it a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the 10th and final year of the Greek siege of Troy. The Odyssey is, quite simply, the story of Odysseus, who wants to go home. But Poseidon, god of oceans, doesn't want him to make it back across the wine-dark sea to his wife, Penelope, son, Telemachus, and their high-roofed home at Ithaca. The story is told in easy-going, beautiful poetry; the characters speak naturally, the action happens briskly. Even the gods come across as real people, despite the divine powers they exercise constantly. Both works have been hailed by scholars and the public for the powerful language that brings clashing, pulsing life to these ancient masterpieces. [via]
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J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0671006916 (0-671-00691-6)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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Juan the Landlessby Juan GoytisoloISBN 0670410047 (0-670-41004-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Juan the Landless'Book summary:Juan Goytisolo has radically revised his masterpiece Juan the Landless for this new translation by renowned translator Peter Bush. Marking a turning point in Goytisolo's work from outright hostility for his homeland towards a growing appreciation and celebration of the many Muslim contributions to western culture, Juan the Landless is a desperate, sympathetic, erotic, and anarchic attempt by the greatest living novelist from Spain to reconcile himself to seeing the world as a man without a home, without a country. [via]
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The Jungle Bookby Rudyard Kipling, Christian BroutinISBN 0670867977 (0-670-86797-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Book'Book summary:Mowgli has lived in the jungle all his life, but when Shere Khan the tiger arrives, he is in great danger. In the seriess DISNEY, and based on the animated film. [via]
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The Klingon Hamletby William Shakespeare, Nick Nicholas, Andrew Strader, Klingon Language Institute, Will Martin, Mark Shoulson, D'Armond SpeersISBN 0671035789 (0-671-03578-9)
Softcover, Star Trek
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Klingon Hamlet'Book summary:Prepared by the Klingon Language Institute, The Klingon Hamlet presents full English and Klingon versions of Shakespeare's play side by side. Only experienced Klingon speakers will be able to fully appreciate the nuances of the Klingon-language version, but for anyone who has dabbled in the language, this is an excellent opportunity to acquire large chunks of authentic text to practice on. Most of the vocabulary used can be found in either The Klingon Dictionary or Klingon for the Galactic Traveler.
For non-Klingon speakers, there is Shakespeare's original text, an English-language introduction, and detailed endnotes, very wittily presented. These put forward the case that Shakespeare himself was a Klingon, and underline the essentially Klingon nature of this famous play, with its themes of honor and revenge. In creating the tragic figure of Hamlet, with his very un-Klingon propensity for brooding and procrastination, Shakespeare is believed to have been commenting on a culture becoming alienated from its traditional warlike virtues, and we are told that most Klingons find it a deeply disturbing play.
All in all, this is a very clever, well-presented interpretation of one of the world's most famous plays. The Klingon translation, in all the glory of its iambic pentameter, has been lovingly constructed, and is well worth the effort of reading at least a few favorite passages aloud. --Elizabeth Sourbut, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Lecturas Periodisticasby Milton M. Azevedo, Kathryn K. McMahonISBN 0669040266 (0-669-04026-6)
Softcover, D.C. Health
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Let's Speak Spanish!by Katherine Farris, Linda HendryISBN 0670849944 (0-670-84994-4)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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The Lions Of Al-rassanby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 067085896X (0-670-85896-X)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lions Of Al-rassan'Book summary:Set in a medieval world suggestive of Moorish Spain (but never to be confused with the real thing), Guy Gavriel Kay's The Lions of Al-Rassan draws us into the historical muddle that is Al-Rassan, a land made up of city states ruled by Asharite kings, and the home of three distinctive religious faiths--Asharite, Jaddite, and Kindath. Kay focuses his story on two rivals: Rodrigo Belmonte, captain of the finest cavalry company in the Jaddite kingdoms, and Ammar ibn Khairan, poet, assassin, and former adviser to the self-styled Lion of Al-Rassan, King Amalik of Cartada. When Amalik betrays Ammar, Ammar ups the odds by joining forces with the king's son and successor, who exiles Ammar from Cartada.
The exiled adviser, in turn, travels to the court of King Badir of Ragosa, where he finds an instant connection with Rodrigo, a connection that is at the very heart of Kay's novel. Rodrigo and Ammar are also drawn together by Jehane bet Ishak, a Kindath physician who is friend, companion, healer, and lover to each of the two men at one time or another. The Lions of Al-Rassan is a big, juicy fantasy novel of the kind that we've come to expect from Kay, drawing brilliantly on history, but always on Kay's own uniquely imaginative terms. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!/Preparate, Kindergarten! Alla Voyby Teresa Mlawer, Nancy CarlsonISBN 0670036730 (0-670-03673-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Massacre in Mexicoby Elena PoniatowskaISBN 0670461377 (0-670-46137-7)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Massacre in Mexico'Book summary:[via]Now available in paper is Elena Poniatowska's gripping account of the massacre of student protesters by police at the 1968 Olympic Games, which Publishers Weekly claimed "makes the campus killings at Kent State and Jackson State in 1970 pale by comparison."
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Matildaby Quentin Blake, Roald DahlISBN 0670824399 (0-670-82439-9)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matilda'Book summary:Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Mrs. ("The") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.
She warms up with some practical jokes aimed at her hapless parents, but the true test comes when she rallies in defense of her teacher, the sweet Miss Honey, against the diabolical Trunchbull. There is never any doubt that Matilda will carry the day. Even so, this wonderful story is far from predictable--the big surprise comes when Matilda discovers a new, mysterious facet of her mental dexterity. Roald Dahl, while keeping the plot moving imaginatively, also has an unerring ear for emotional truth. The reader cares about Matilda because in addition to all her other gifts, she has real feelings. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Mexican Boleroby Angeles MastrettaISBN 0670818852 (0-670-81885-2)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0671028359 (0-671-02835-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Herman Melville's peerless allegorical masterpiece is the epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who swears vengeance on the mammoth white whale that has crippled him. Often considered to be the Great American Novel, Moby-Dick is at once a starkly realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure, and a searing drama of heroic courage, moral conflict, and mad obsession. It is world-renowned as the greatest sea story ever told.
Moby-Dick, widely misunderstood in its own time, has since become an indubitable classic of American literature. [via]
Moo, Baa, LA LA LAby Sandra BoyntonISBN 067144901X (0-671-44901-X)
Hardcover, Little Simon
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Mundo Twenty Oneby Fabian A. SamaniegoISBN 0669217883 (0-669-21788-3)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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Murder Is Announcedby Agatha ChristieISBN 0671552678 (0-671-55267-8)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder Is Announced'Book summary:A notice in the Gazette reads: A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29, at Little Paddocks. The guests arrive, thinking they have come to a mystery party. When death and chaos ensue, the indomitable Miss Marple sorts it out. Another enthralling tale from the best mystery writer of the 20th century (Bouchercon Mystery Writers Convention). [via]
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The Odysseyby Homer, Samuel ButlerISBN 0671015486 (0-671-01548-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:Robert Fagles's translation is a jaw-droppingly beautiful rendering of Homer's Odyssey, the most accessible and enthralling epic of classical Greece. Fagles captures the rapid and direct language of the original Greek, while telling the story of Odysseus in lyrics that ring with a clear, energetic voice. The story itself has never seemed more dynamic, the action more compelling, nor the descriptions so brilliant in detail. It is often said that every age demands its own translation of the classics. Fagles's work is a triumph because he has not merely provided a contemporary version of Homer's classic poem, but has located the right language for the timeless character of this great tale. Fagles brings the Odyssey so near, one wonders if the Hollywood adaption can be far behind. This is a terrific book. [via]
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Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited - The Odyssey: ISBN 0671745824 (0-671-74582-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Odyssey: ISBN 0671638076 (0-671-63807-6)
Hardcover, Pocket Books - The Odyssey: ISBN 0671015486 (0-671-01548-6)
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The Odyssey of Homerby HomerusISBN 0672614154 (0-672-61415-4)
Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill Co
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Open Your Eyes: Extraordinary Experiences in Far Away Placesby Lois LowryISBN 0670036161 (0-670-03616-1)
Hardcover, Viking Childrens Books
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Place Where the Sea Remembersby Sandra BenitezISBN 0671892673 (0-671-89267-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Place Where the Sea Remembers'Book summary:Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Fiction
Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction
Member of the National Writer's Voice Project
Finalist Los Angeles Times Book Award
In A Place Where the Sea Remembers, Sandra Benitez invites us into a mesmerizing world filled with, love and betrayal, tragedy and hope. This rich and bewitching story is a bittersweet portrait of the people in Santiago, a Mexican village by the sea. Chayo, the flower seller, and her husband Candelario, the salad maker, are finally blessed with the child they thought they would never have. Their cause for happiness, however, triggers a chain of events that impact the lives of everyone in their world.
The hopes, triumphs, failures, and shortcomings of the novel's enchanting array of characters create a graceful picture of life that is both a universal portrait and an insider's look at life in Latin America. [via]
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The Poem Itselfby Stanley BurnshawISBN 0671678086 (0-671-67808-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Lifeby Dennis TedlockISBN 0671617710 (0-671-61771-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Prizeby Daniel YerginISBN 0671799320 (0-671-79932-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prize'Book summary:Daniel Yergin's first prize-winning book, Shattered Peace, was a history of the Cold War. Afterwards the young academic star joined the energy project of the Harvard Business School and wrote the best-seller Energy Future. Following on from there, The Prize, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, is a comprehensive history of one of the commodities that powers the world--oil. Founded in the 19th century, the oil industry began producing kerosene for lamps and progressed to gasoline. Huge personal fortunes arose from it, and whole nations sprung out of the power politics of the oil wells. Yergin's fascinating account sweeps from early robber barons like John D. Rockefeller, to the oil crisis of the 1970s, through to the Gulf War. [via]
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Saharaby Clive CusslerISBN 0671521101 (0-671-52110-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sahara'Book summary:While searching for a treasure on the Nile, Dirk Pitt discovers that a raging epidemic, caused by pollution, has driven thousands of North Africans into madness and death. Reprint. [via]
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Schindler's Listby Thomas KeneallyISBN 0671511718 (0-671-51171-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Schindler's List'Book summary:Winner of the Booker Prize Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's Jews, Thomas Keneally artfully depicts the courage and shrewdness of an unlikely savior, a man who is a flawed mixture of hedonism and decency and who, in the presence of unutterable evil, transcends the limits of his own humanity. [via]
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A Season in Spainby Ann Walker, Larry WalkerISBN 0671696629 (0-671-69662-9)
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Seattleby H.M. GoushaISBN 0671553569 (0-671-55356-9)
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Simon and Schuster's International Dictionary, English/Spanish, Spanish/Englishby AnonISBN 0671212672 (0-671-21267-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan General Reference
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Simon and Schuster's International Dictionary, English/Spanish, Spanish/English'Book summary:The leading Spanish--English dictionary-now part of the esteemed Webster's New World family
For over 30 years, this resource (previously The Simon & Schuster International Spanish Dictionary) has been widely recognized as the most authoritative Spanish--English dictionary available. Now reissued as Webster's New World International Spanish--English Dictionary, it contains over 210,000 up-to-date entries covering the latest technical and scientific terminology and featuring a rich selection of idioms and slang from 21 Spanish and six English regional variants. [via]More editions of Simon and Schuster's International Dictionary, English/Spanish, Spanish/English:
Spanish Extra!by Juan Kattan-IbarraISBN 0658004905 (0-658-00490-5)
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Barry V. QuallsISBN 0671532103 (0-671-53210-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Sylvester and the Magic Pebbleby William SteigISBN 0671662694 (0-671-66269-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sylvester and the Magic Pebble'Book summary:Imagine all the happiness and wealth you could achieve if you found a magic pebble that granted your every wish! Sylvester Duncan, an unassuming donkey who collects pebbles "of unusual shape and color," experiences just such a lucky find. But before he can make all his wishes come true, the young donkey unexpectedly encounters a mean-looking lion. Startled, Sylvester wishes he were a rock, but in mineral form he can no longer hold the pebble, and thus cannot wish himself back to his equine trappings. His parents, thinking he has disappeared, are at first frantic, then miserable, and then plunge into donkey ennui. Meanwhile, Sylvester is gravely depressed, but tries to get used to being a rock.
In 1970, William Steig won the Caldecott Medal for Sylvester and the Magic Pebble--the first of his many Newbery and Caldecott honors. In this donkey's tale, Steig imbues his characteristically simple illustrations of animals sporting human garb with evocative, irresistible, and heartbreakingly vivid emotions. The text is straightforward and the dialogue remarkably touching. Children will feel deeply for Sylvester and his parents, all wishing for the impossible--that the family will one day be reunited. Sylvester's sweet story is one that endures, reminding us all that sometimes what we have is all we really need. (Ages 4 to 8) [via]
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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledgeby Carlos CastanedaISBN 0671600419 (0-671-60041-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge'Book summary:The first book in Carlos Castaneda's fascinating saga detailing his spiritual journey toward knowledge and enlightenment via the Yaqui sorcerer, Don Yuan. This classic book is a dazzling work of wisdom, mystery and magic, and an intriguing look at the world of alternate reality. Advertising in The New York Times Book Review. [via]
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarkby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 067172262X (0-671-72262-X)
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Trilceby David Smith, Cesar VallejoISBN 0670730602 (0-670-73060-2)
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Tropical Night Fallingby Manuel Puig, Suzanne Jill LevineISBN 0671679961 (0-671-67996-1)
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The True Story of the 3 Little Pigsby Jon ScieszkaISBN 0670827592 (0-670-82759-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs'Book summary:"There has obviously been some kind of mistake," writes Alexander T. Wolf from the pig penitentiary where he's doing time for his alleged crimes of 10 years ago. Here is the "real" story of the three little pigs whose houses are huffed and puffed to smithereens... from the wolf's perspective. This poor, much maligned wolf has gotten a bad rap. He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, with a sneezy cold, innocently trying to borrow a cup of sugar to make his granny a cake. Is it his fault those ham dinners--rather, pigs--build such flimsy homes? Sheesh.
This 10th-anniversary edition of Jon Scieszka's New York Times Best Book of the Year, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, includes a special, impassioned letter from prisoner A. Wolf himself and a snappy new jacket by Caldecott Honor artist Lane Smith, whose quirky perspectives still color the illustrations throughout. As with The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, the collaborators take a classic story and send it through the wisecracker machine, much to the glee of kids young and old. (Ages 4 to 8 or much, much older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0671555782 (0-671-55578-2)
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The World According to Garpby John IrvingISBN 0671523694 (0-671-52369-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World According to Garp'Book summary:"Garp was a natural storyteller," says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. "He could make things up one right after the other, and they seemed to fit."
Irving packs wild characters and weird events into his classic--officially recognized as such in a Modern Library edition with a new introduction by the author--while amazingly maintaining the rough feel of realism in every scene and the pulse of life in every heart. Many novelists of his time might have populated a novel with a novelist protagonist whose life and books comment on each other and the novel we're reading. Transsexual football players, ball turret gunners lobotomized in battle, multiple adultery, unicycling bears, mad feminists who amputate their tongues in sympathy with the celebrated victim of a horrifying rape--Irving made them all people. Even the bear is a fitting character.
In a crucial episode, Garp's wife's seduction of a young man coincidentally occurs at the moment when Garp is delighting their young sons with a reckless car trick (one of the few scenes beautifully, eerily, heartbreakingly captured in the film version as well). Many authors would have been content with the harsh comedy of the scene, but Irving respects its integrity, and he builds the rest of the book on the consequences of the event. How does he get away with his killer cocktail of slapstick and horror? Because it's simply what we all face daily, rearranged into soul-satisfying art. "Life is an X-rated soap opera," according to Garp, and who can contradict him?
Rereading Garp 20 years later, one is struck by how elegantly Irving structures his bizarre and complex story. Take the two most celebrated bits in the book, the Under Toad and Garp's story "The Pension Grillparzer," which shimmers like an exquisite Kafkaesque insect in the amber of the novel. When Garp warns his son about the "undertow" at the beach, the boy imagines a monster out of Beowulf who lurks beneath the waves to suck you under: the "Under Toad." It's funny at first, but we soon find that the Under Toad is a metaphor with teeth--he connects with a prophetic dream of death in "The Pension Grillparzer," set in Vienna. Garp's son's last words are, "It's like a dream!" And as Irving--who studied at the University of Vienna--can certainly tell you, the German word for "death" sounds precisely like the English word "toad."
All that death, and yet Garp is mainly exuberant. This story is, as Garp's stuttering writing teacher puts it, "rich with lu-lu-lunacy and sorrow." It enriches literature, and our lives. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Don Quijote De LA Manchaby AndradeISBN 0658005715 (0-658-00571-5)
Softcover, Ntc Pub Group
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Entre Nosotrosby Littell McDougalISBN 066914908X (0-669-14908-X)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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Flecha al Sol : Un Cuento de los Indios Puebloby Gerald McDermottISBN 0670837482 (0-670-83748-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Mejor Dichoby Emily Spinelli, Carmen GarciaISBN 066928906X (0-669-28906-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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La Verdadera Historia de los Tres Cerditos!by Jon Scieszka, Lane SmithISBN 0670841625 (0-670-84162-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Verdadera Historia de los Tres Cerditos!'Book summary:For those who think they know the story of the Three Little Pigs and the Big, Bad Wolf, here it is as they've never heard it before. In this highly acclaimed collaboration between Scieszka and Smith, Alexander T. Wolf tells his side of the incident. Was it premeditated swineacide or simply an accident? Readers can decide for themselves in this laugh-aloud tale that's sure to tickle the funny bone. A New York Times Best Book of the Year. An ALA Notable Book. Full color. [via]
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Vistazos: Lecturas Faciles 2by Jean-Paul Valette, Rebecca M. Valette, Teresa Carrera-HanleyISBN 0669102911 (0-669-10291-1)
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