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62:a Model Kit: A Model Kitby Julio CortazarISBN 0394468228 (0-394-46822-8)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Michelle WigginsISBN 0394532279 (0-394-53227-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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- Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 039486915X (0-394-86915-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 039490592X (0-394-90592-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 0394532279 (0-394-53227-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
- Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 039486915X (0-394-86915-X)
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Anthony Browne, Lewis CarrollISBN 0394805925 (0-394-80592-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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All the Pretty Horsesby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0394574745 (0-394-57474-5)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the Pretty Horses'Book summary:Part bildungsroman, part horse opera, part meditation on courage and loyalty, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. The plot is simple enough. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance. Readers familiar with McCarthy's Faulknerian prose will find the writing more restrained than in Suttree and Blood Meridian. Newcomers will be mesmerized by the tragic tale of John Grady Cole's coming of age. [via]
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Are You My Mother?by Philip D. EastmanISBN 0394800184 (0-394-80018-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Are You My Mother?'Book summary:This is the classic from which many of our staff first learned to read, starting us on a path of unremitting bibliophilia. Are You My Mother? follows a confused baby bird who's been denied the experience of imprinting as he asks cows, planes, and steam shovels the Big Question. In the end he is happily reunited with his maternal parent in a glorious moment of recognition. [via]
Avalovaraby Osman LinsISBN 0394498518 (0-394-49851-8)
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The Berenstain Bears and the Sitterby Stan Berenstain, Jan BerenstainISBN 0394848373 (0-394-84837-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Berenstain Bears Go to Schoolby Stan Berenstain, Jan BerenstainISBN 0394837363 (0-394-83736-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Berenstain Bears in the Darkby Stan Berenstain, Jan BerenstainISBN 0394854438 (0-394-85443-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Berenstain Bears: We Like Kitesby Stan Berenstain, Jan BerenstainISBN 0394873319 (0-394-87331-9)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Book of Latin American Cookingby Elisabeth L. OrtizISBN 0394745140 (0-394-74514-0)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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The Book of Lost Talesby J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 0395354390 (0-395-35439-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Lost Tales'Book summary:The Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Tolkien, begun in 1916-1917 when he was twenty-five years old and left incomplete several years later. It stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor, for the Lost Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Embedded in English legend and English association, they are set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriel (or AElfwine) to Tol Eressea, the Lonely Isle, where Elves dwelt; from them he learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. In the Tales are found the earliest accounts and original ideas of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs, and Orcs; of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor; of Nargothrond and Gondolin; of the geography and cosmography of the invented world.[via]
The Book of Lost Tales will be published in two volumes; this first part contains the Tales of Valinor; and the second will include Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, and the only full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin. Each tale is followed by a commentary in the form of a short essay; together with the texts of associated poems; and each volume contains extensive information on names and vocabulary in the earliest Elvish languages. Further books in this series are planned to extend the history of Middle-earth as it was refined and enlarged in later years, and will include the Long Lays of Beleriand, the Ambarkanta or Shape of the World, the Lhammas or Account of Tongues, annals, maps, and many other unpublished writings of J.R.R. Tolkien.More editions of The Book of Lost Tales:
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The Buenos Aires Affairby Manuel PuigISBN 0394744748 (0-394-74474-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Buenos Aires Affair'Book summary:A tongue-in-cheek thriller involving the abduction of a woman, an insidious threat of sexual violation and an impending murder. It portrays a failed sculptor and a successful critic tormented, respectively, by sexual fantasies and guilt which surfaces in repeated sexual failure. The author has also written "Pubis Angelical", "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and "Blood of Requited Love". [via]
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Burning Patienceby Antonio SkarmetaISBN 0394555767 (0-394-55576-7)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary in Spanishby P.D. EastmanISBN 0394815424 (0-394-81542-4)
Hardcover, Random House Espanol
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A Change of Light and Other Storiesby Julio Cortázar, Gregory RabassaISBN 0394507215 (0-394-50721-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Communicating in Spanishby Enrique LamadridISBN 0395327075 (0-395-32707-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Crossingby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0394574753 (0-394-57475-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crossing'Book summary:The opening section of The Crossing, book two of the Border Trilogy, features perhaps the most perfectly realized storytelling of Cormac McCarthy's celebrated career. Like All the Pretty Horses, this volume opens with a teenager's decision to slip away from his family's ranch into Mexico. In this case, the boy is Billy Parham, and the catalyst for his trip is a wolf he and his father have trapped, but that Billy finds himself unwilling to shoot. His plan is to set the animal loose down south instead.
This is a McCarthy novel, not Old Yeller, and so Billy's trek inevitably becomes more ominous than sweet. It boasts some chilling meditations on the simple ferocity McCarthy sees as necessary for all creatures who aim to continue living. But Billy is McCarthy's most loving--and therefore damageable--character, and his story has its own haunted melancholy.
Billy eventually returns to his ranch. Then, finding himself and his world changed, he returns to Mexico with his younger brother, and the book begins meandering. Though full of hypnotically barren landscapes and McCarthy's trademark western-gothic imagery (like the soldier who sucks eyes from sockets), these latter stages become tedious at times, thanks partly to the female characters, who exist solely as ghosts to haunt the men.
But that opening is glorious, and the whole book finally transcends its shortcomings to achieve a grim and poignant grandeur. --Glen Hirshberg [via]
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Dear Diegoby Elena Poniatowska, Katherine SilverISBN 0394553837 (0-394-55383-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Democracy in Americaby Thomas Bender, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 039432675X (0-394-32675-X)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Classic analysis of america's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of alexis de tocqueville (1805-1859), a french aristocrat who visited the united states in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeede in penning this penetrating study of america's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, i confess that in america i saw more than america; i sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress [via]
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The Demon-Haunted World : Science As a Candle in the Darkby Carl SaganISBN 039453512X (0-394-53512-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Demon-Haunted World : Science As a Candle in the Dark'Book summary:Carl Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought, which offers him marvelous opportunities to entertain us with his own childhood experiences, the newspaper morgues, UFO stories, and the assorted flotsam and jetsam of pseudoscience. Along the way he debunks alien abduction, faith-healing, and channeling; refutes the arguments that science destroys spirituality, and provides a "baloney detection kit" for thinking through political, social, religious, and other issues. [via]
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Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Wordsby Milorad PavicISBN 0394571835 (0-394-57183-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words'Book summary:A novel despite its title, this book spans five centuries and is a mixture of fable, fiction and history. This is the male edition which differs slightly but significantly from the accompanying female edition. [via]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0394847199 (0-394-84719-9)
Softcover, Pendulum Pr
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En Camino!: A Cultural Approach to Beginning Spanishby Eduardo Neale-Silva, Robert L. Nicholas, Maria Canteli DominicisISBN 039433664X (0-394-33664-X)
Hardcover, Random House
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En Directo!: Spanish in Action A Beginning Courseby Patricia Boylan, John Lett, Dorothy RisselISBN 0394364856 (0-394-36485-6)
Hardcover, Random House
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Federico Garcia Lorca: A Lifeby Ian GibsonISBN 0394509641 (0-394-50964-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life'Book summary:Back in print to coincide with the release of the upcoming motion picture Death in Granada on the life of Lorca, this "monumental biography" (New York Times) goes to the heart of his explosive genius. When, at the age of 38, Federico Garcia Lorca was executed by anti-republican rebels during the Spanish Civil War, he was already one of the world's most celebrated poets and playwrights. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0394554310 (0-394-55431-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Fundamentals of Spanish Grammarby Richard ArmitageISBN 0395198658 (0-395-19865-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamonby Jorge AmadoISBN 0394425979 (0-394-42597-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon'Book summary:Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonça discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot...
No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in townleast of all Gabriela herselfwill be the agent of change. Nacib Saad has just lost the cook at his popular café and in desperation hires Gabriela. To his surprise she turns out to be a great beauty as well as a wonderful cook and an enchanting boon to his business. But what would people say if Nacib were to marry her?
Lusty, satirical and full of intrigue, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon is a vastly entertaining panorama of small town Brazilian life. [via]More editions of Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon:
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Goyaby Robert HughesISBN 0394580281 (0-394-58028-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goya'Book summary:Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art (The Culture of Complaint), now turns his renowned critical eye to one of art historys most compelling, enigmatic, and important figures, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. With characteristic critical fervor and sure-eyed insight, Hughes brings us the story of an artist whose life and work bridged the transition from the eighteenth-century reign of the old masters to the early days of the nineteenth-century moderns.
With his salient passion for the artist and the art, Hughes brings Goya vividly to life through dazzling analysis of a vast breadth of his work. Building upon the historical evidence that exists, Hughes tracks Goyas development, as man and artist, without missing a beat, from the early works commissioned by the Church, through his long, productive, and tempestuous career at court, to the darkly sinister and cryptic work he did at the end of his life.
In a work that is at once interpretive biography and cultural epic, Hughes grounds Goya firmly in the context of his time, taking us on a wild romp through Spanish history; from the brutality and easy violence of street life to the fiery terrors of the Holy Inquisition to the grave realities of war, Hughes shows us in vibrant detail the cultural forces that shaped Goyas work.
Underlying the exhaustive, critical analysis and the rich historical background is Hughess own intimately personal relationship to his subject. This is a book informed not only by lifelong love and study, but by his own recent experiences of mortality and death. As such this is a uniquely moving and human book; with the same relentless and fearless intelligence he has brought to every subject he has ever tackled, Hughes here transcends biography to bring us a rich and fiercely brave book about art and life, love and rage, impotence and death. This is one genius writing at full capacity about anotherand the result is truly spectacular. [via]More editions of Goya:
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Heartbreak Tangoby Manuel PuigISBN 0394746600 (0-394-74660-0)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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History of the Conquest of Mexicoby William H. PrescottISBN 0394604717 (0-394-60471-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A House in the Countryby Jose DonosoISBN 0394736575 (0-394-73657-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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How the Grinch Stole Christmasby SeussISBN 0394800796 (0-394-80079-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas'Book summary:"The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! / Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason." Dr. Seuss's small-hearted Grinch ranks right up there with Scrooge when it comes to the crankiest, scowling holiday grumps of all time. For 53 years, the Grinch has lived in a cave on the side of a mountain, looming above the Whos in Whoville. The noisy holiday preparations and infernal singing of the happy little citizens below annoy him to no end. The Grinch decides this frivolous merriment must stop. His "wonderful, awful" idea is to don a Santa outfit, strap heavy antlers on his poor, quivering dog Max, construct a makeshift sleigh, head down to Whoville, and strip the chafingly cheerful Whos of their Yuletide glee once and for all.
Looking quite out of place and very disturbing in his makeshift Santa get-up, the Grinch slithers down chimneys with empty bags and stealing the Whos' presents, their food, even the logs from their humble Who-fires. He takes the ramshackle sleigh to Mt. Crumpit to dump it and waits to hear the sobs of the Whos when they wake up and discover the trappings of Christmas have disappeared. Imagine the Whos' dismay when they discover the evil-doings of Grinch in his anti-Santa guise. But what is that sound? It's not sobbing, but singing! Children simultaneously adore and fear this triumphant, twisted Seussian testimonial to the undaunted cheerfulness of the Whos, the transcendent nature of joy, and of course, the growth potential of a heart that's two sizes too small. This holiday classic is perfect for reading aloud to your favorite little Whos. (Ages 4 to 8) [via]
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Instructor's Guide: Class Plans and Testsby Enrique LamdridISBN 0395327083 (0-395-32708-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Jurassic Parkby Michael CrichtonISBN 0394588169 (0-394-58816-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jurassic Park'Book summary:Unless your species evolved sometime after 1993 when Jurassic Park hit theaters, you're no doubt familiar with this dinosaur-bites-man disaster tale set on an island theme park gone terribly wrong. But if Speilberg's amped-up CGI creation left you longing for more scientific background and ... well, character development, check out the original Michael Crichton novel. Although not his best book (get ahold of sci-fi classic The Andromeda Strain for that), Jurassic Park fills out the film version's kinetic story line with additional scenes, dialogue, and explanations while still maintaining Crichton's trademark thrills-'n'-chills pacing. As ever, the book really is better than the movie. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Katy No-Pocketby Emmy Payne, H.A. ReyISBN 0395137179 (0-395-13717-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Loraxby SeussISBN 0394823370 (0-394-82337-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lorax'Book summary:When Dr. Seuss gets serious, you know it must be important. Published in 1971, and perhaps inspired by the "save our planet" mindset of the 1960s, The Lorax is an ecological warning that still rings true today amidst the dangers of clear-cutting, pollution, and disregard for the earth's environment. In The Lorax, we find what we've come to expect from the illustrious doctor: brilliantly whimsical rhymes, delightfully original creatures, and weirdly undulating illustrations. But here there is also something more--a powerful message that Seuss implores both adults and children to heed.
The now remorseful Once-ler--our faceless, bodiless narrator--tells the story himself. Long ago this enterprising villain chances upon a place filled with wondrous Truffula Trees, Swomee-Swans, Brown Bar-ba- loots, and Humming-Fishes. Bewitched by the beauty of the Truffula Tree tufts, he greedily chops them down to produce and mass-market Thneeds. ("It's a shirt. It's a sock. It's a glove. It's a hat.") As the trees swiftly disappear and the denizens leave for greener pastures, the fuzzy yellow Lorax (who speaks for the trees "for the trees have no tongues") repeatedly warns the Once-ler, but his words of wisdom are for naught. Finally the Lorax extricates himself from the scorched earth (by the seat of his own furry pants), leaving only a rock engraved "UNLESS." Thus, with his own colorful version of a compelling morality play, Dr. Seuss teaches readers not to fool with Mother Nature. But as you might expect from Seuss, all hope is not lost--the Once-ler has saved a single Truffula Tree seed! Our fate now rests in the hands of a caring child, who becomes our last chance for a clean, green future. (Ages 4 to 8) [via]
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave Flaubert, Paul De Man, Margaret Cohen, Eleanor Marx AvelingISBN 0393979172 (0-393-97917-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Manual for Manuelby Julio CortazarISBN 0394496612 (0-394-49661-2)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five (as Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three)by Doris May LessingISBN 0394749782 (0-394-74978-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five (as Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three)'Book summary:The second in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle "Canopus in Argos: Archives". It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history. [via]
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Memoirs Of Hadrian: and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrianby Marguerite YourcenarISBN 0394605055 (0-394-60505-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs Of Hadrian: and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrian'Book summary:In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his accession, military triumphs, love of poetry and music, and the philosophy that informed his powerful and far-flung rule. A work of superbly detailed research and sustained empathy, "Memoirs of Hadrian" captures the living spirit of the Emperor and of Ancient Rome. [via]
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Metamorphosisby Franz Kafka, Stanley CorngoldISBN 0393967972 (0-393-96797-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metamorphosis'Book summary:Franz Kafka's 1915 masterpiece is presented in this Norton Critical Edition in the acclaimed translation by Stanley Corngold based on the definitive German edition.
The novella is fully annotated and is accompanied by selected textual variants. Backgrounds and Contexts introduces readers to The Metamorphosis in the richest possible setting. The links between the author's life and his work are explored through an examination of his personal writings. Kafka's letters and diary entries illuminate the creative process behind his portrait of Gregor Samsa, his family, and their nightmarish ordeal. Criticism collects seven essays from the period 1970-95 representing the most important currents in literary theorysemiotics, feminism, identity philosophy, New Historicism, and post-Freudian cultural psychoanalysis. The essays offer a variety of perspectives on the novella by Iris Bruce, Nina Pelikan Straus, Kevin W. Sweeney, Mark Anderson, Hartmut Binder, Eric Santner, and Stanley Corngold. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]More editions of Metamorphosis:
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovelby Virginia Lee BurtonISBN 0395259398 (0-395-25939-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Mind-Body Problemby Rebecca GoldsteinISBN 0394524748 (0-394-52474-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mind-Body Problem'Book summary:Wonderful book from perhaps the greatest living author today. Volume One of his "Border Trilogy." Hardcover. Original jacket. Stated First Edition. Light bumping. PO writing on front end page. Jacket price intact. Looks great. Very Good/Near Fine condition. [via]
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Hershel Parker, Harrison HayfordISBN 0393972836 (0-393-97283-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Moby Dick is a vast and dangerous white whale. An enemy for many years after the whale bit off his leg, the crazed Captain Ahab is obsessed with his quarry. Together with his extraordinary crew, Ahab braves the oceans of the world to hunt the fearsome Moby Dick. Geraldine McCaughrean is one of the most distinguished living children's authors. She has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award (twice), and The Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Geraldine's most recent best-selling novel "The Kite Rider" was published to universal acclaim in March 2001. [via]
The Monkey Grammarianby Octavio PazISBN 0394178092 (0-394-17809-2)
Softcover, Seaver Books
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Motivos De Conversacion: Essentials of Spanishby Eduardo Neale-Silva, Robert L. Nicholas, Maria Canteli DominicisISBN 0394365097 (0-394-36509-7)
Hardcover, Random House
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My Last Sighby Luis BuñuelISBN 0394725018 (0-394-72501-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Penguin Islandby Anatole FranceISBN 0394605160 (0-394-60516-0)
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Persian Warsby George RawlinsonISBN 0394309545 (0-394-30954-5)
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Popol Vuh: The Great Mythological Book of the Ancient Mayaby Popol Vuh. EnglishISBN 0395251680 (0-395-25168-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Primeras Lecturas En Espanol, Book 1by Homero CastilloISBN 0395133890 (0-395-13389-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Prophetby Kahlil GibranISBN 0394404289 (0-394-40428-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prophet'Book summary:In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have. --Brian Bruya [via]
Puntos De Partida: An Invitation to Spanishby Marty KnorreISBN 0394326180 (0-394-32618-0)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Queen of the Damnedby Anne RiceISBN 0394558235 (0-394-55823-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Queen of the Damned'Book summary:Did you ever wonder where all those mischievous vampires roaming the globe in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles came from? In this, the third book in the series, we find out. That raucous rock-star vampire Lestat interrupts the 6,000-year slumber of the mama of all bloodsuckers, Akasha, Queen of the Damned.
Akasha was once the queen of the Nile (she has a bit in common with the Egyptian goddess Isis), and it's unwise to rile her now that she's had 60 centuries of practice being undead. She is so peeved about male violence that she might just have to kill most of them. And she has her eye on handsome Lestat with other ideas as well.
If you felt that the previous books in the series weren't gory and erotic enough, this one should quench your thirst (though it may cause you to omit organ meats from your diet). It also boasts God's plenty of absorbing lore that enriches the tale that went before, including the back-story of the boy in Interview with the Vampire and the ancient fellowship of the Talamasca, which snoops on paranormal phenomena. Mostly, the book spins the complex yarn of Akasha's eerie, brooding brood and her nemeses, the terrifying sisters Maharet and Mekare. In one sense, Queen of the Damned is the ultimate multigenerational saga. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Random House Spanish Dictionaryby D.F. SolaISBN 039440064X (0-394-40064-X)
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The Reiversby William FaulknerISBN 0394442296 (0-394-44229-6)
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The Secret Garden : A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Storyby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thomas B. Allen, James HoweISBN 0394864670 (0-394-86467-0)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane Austen, Claudia L. JohnsonISBN 039397751X (0-393-97751-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sense And Sensibility'Book summary:Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly", she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon, however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr Willoughby, a new neighbour. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behaviour begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. misfortunes and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber, Amazon.com [via]More editions of Sense And Sensibility:
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Shikastaby Doris May LessingISBN 0394749774 (0-394-74977-4)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shikasta'Book summary:This is the first volume in the series of novels Doris Lessing calls collectively Canopus in Argos: Archives. Presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, this purports to be a general study of the planet Shikastaclearly the planet Earthto be used by history students of the higher planet Canopus and to be stored in the Canopian archives. For eons, galactic empires have struggled against one another, and Shikasta is one of the main battlegrounds.Johar, an emissary from Canopus and the primary contributor to the archives, visits Shikasta over the millennia from the time of the giants and the biblical great flood up to the present. With every visit he tries to distract Shikastans from the evil influences of the planet Shammat but notes with dismay the ever-growing chaos and destruction of Shikasta as its people hurl themselves towards World War III and annihilation. [via]
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Shikasta : Re: Colonised Planet 5by Doris LessingISBN 0394507320 (0-394-50732-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Silmarillionby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395346460 (0-395-34646-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silmarillion'Book summary:Although The Silmarillion takes place in the same imaginary world as J.J.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and was originally published four years after the author's death and over two decades after the former book, it is set much earlier, in the First Age of the World. The tales and the book which reads as a fusion between a story collection and historical chronicle, are a matter of legend even to the characters of The Lord of the Rings:
In the beginning Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Ilúvatar, made the Ainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him
Tolkien wrote the heart of this material very early in his career, and continued to work on it throughout his life. It fell to his son, Christopher Tolkien, to edit it into book form, and such proved the unquenchable public appetite that he subsequently oversaw 12 volumes of The History of Middle-Earth. This edition features 20 highly evocative colour plates by Ted Nasmith, themselves worth the price of admission, while reinforcing the sense of a historical work are genealogical tables, an extensive index, appendix and colour map. Far removed from the genial style of The Hobbit, this is Tolkien at his most formal, his prose austere, poetically beautiful, his storytelling capturing the epic scale, high drama and melancholy wonder of myth. These stories of elves and heroes and old gods are quite literally the foundation of the entire modern fantasy-publishing revival, and are therefore essential reading. --Gary S. Dalkin [via] 
The Sirian Experimentsby Doris LessingISBN 0394512316 (0-394-51231-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Sirian Experimentsby Doris May LessingISBN 0394751957 (0-394-75195-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Stepsby Jerzy N. KosinskiISBN 0394757165 (0-394-75716-5)
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The Strange Cases of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hydeby Katherine Linehan, Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0393974650 (0-393-97465-0)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Cases 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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The Success and Failure of Picassoby John BergerISBN 0394739000 (0-394-73900-0)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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In this stunning critical assessment, John Bergerone of this century's most insightful cultural historianstrains his penetrating gaze upon this most prodigious and enigmatic painter and on the Spanish landscape and very particular culture that shpaed his life and work. Writing with a novelist's sensuous evocation of character and detail, and drawing on an erudition that embraces history, politics, and art, Berger follows Picasso from his childhood in Malaga to the Blue Period and Cubism, from the creation of Guernica to the pained etchings of his final years. He gives us the full measure of Picasso's triumphs and an unsparing reckoning of their costin exile, in loneliness, and in a desolation that drove him, in his last works, into an old man's furious and desperate frenzy at the beauty of what he could no longer create. [via]More editions of The Success and Failure of Picasso:
Time Machineby H. G. WellsISBN 0394847210 (0-394-84721-0)
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Twenty-Four Conversations With Borges: Interviews by Roberto Alifano, 1981-1983by Roberto AlifanoISBN 0394621921 (0-394-62192-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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We Love Glenda So Much and a Change of Lightby Julio CortazarISBN 0394722973 (0-394-72297-3)
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What Is History?by Edward Hallett CarrISBN 039470391X (0-394-70391-X)
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Eres Tu Mi Mama?/Are You My Motherby Philip D. EastmanISBN 0394815963 (0-394-81596-3)
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Un pequeño pajarito ha salido del huevo mientras su madre no está. Se cae del nido y sale a buscarla, preguntando a todo al que se encuentra--a un perro, una vaca, un aeroplano y a algunos más. --"¿Eres mi madre?" Los niños adoran al pajarito y disfrutan enormemente el final feliz. ¿Eres mi madre? Es un clásico para los que comienzan a leer. [via]More editions of Eres Tu Mi Mama?/Are You My Mother:
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