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American Indian Myths and Legendsby Richard ErdoesISBN 0712673687 (0-7126-7368-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Indian Myths and Legends'Book summary:Gathering 160 tales from 80 tribal groups, this collection offers a panorama of Native American mythic heritage. There are tales of creation and love, of heroes and war, of animals, and the end of the world. The authors have added a selection of contemporary voices to 19th-century tales. [via]
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The Best American Short Stories 2002by Sue Miller, Kartina KenisonISBN 0618131736 (0-618-13173-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Best American Short Stories 2003by Katrina KenisonISBN 0618197338 (0-618-19733-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories 2003'Book summary:Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.[via]
Lending a fresh perspective to a perennial favorite, Walter Mosley has chosen unforgettable short stories by both renowned writers and exciting newcomers. The Best American Short Stories 2003 features poignant tales that explore the nuances of family life and love, birth and death. Here are stories that will, as Mosley writes in his introduction, "live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders of our nations and our prejudices and our beliefs."
Dorothy Allison Edwidge Danticat E. L. Doctorow Louise Erdrich Adam Haslett ZZ Packer Mona Simpson Mary Yukari WatersMore editions of The Best American Short Stories 2003:
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The Best American Short Stories 2004by Lorrie Moore, Katrina KenisonISBN 0618197354 (0-618-19735-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories 2004'Book summary:Contemplating the appeal of the short story, Lorrie Moore writes in her introduction, "A story's very shortness ensures its largeness of accomplishment, its selfhood and purity. Having long lost its ability to pay an author's rent (in that golden blip between Henry James and television, F. Scott Fitzgerald, for one, wrote stories to fund his novels), the short story has been freed of its commercial life to become serious art, by virtually its every practitioner. As a result, short or long, a story lies less. It sings and informs and blurts. It has nothing to lose." The twenty stories in this year's volume sing to and inform the reader with honesty, intelligence, and often humor. Charles D'Ambrosio's story, "Screenwriter," explores romance in a mental hospital. In "Limestone Diner," Trudy Lewis lays bare one family's strained history in central Missouri. Angela Pneuman's hilarious "All Saints Day" gives readers a child's-eye view of religious fundamentalism. And in John Edgar Wideman's profound story, "What We Cannot Speak About We Must Pass Over in Silence," friendship leads to a meditation on freedom and fairness.[via]
Lorrie Moore has selected twenty stories that rejoice in the absurdities of life, consider the hard truths, and arrive at potent moments of understanding. With The Best American Short Stories 2004 "Lorrie Moore has done writers and readers a great service," Katrina Kenison writes in her foreword, "for her own love of the form and keen sensibility have resulted in a volume that fairly hums with life."More editions of The Best American Short Stories 2004:
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Bluebeard's Eggby AtwoodISBN 0771008082 (0-7710-0808-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bluebeards Eggs'Book summary:By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, Bluebeard's Egg infuses a Canada of the 1940s, '50s and '80s with glowing childhood memories, the harsh realities of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty that men and women inflict on each other. Here is the familiar outer world of family summers at remote lakes, winters of political activism, and seasons of exotic friends, mudane lives and unexpected loves. But here too is the inner world of hidden places and all that emerges from them--the intimately personal, the fantastic and the shockingly real...whether it's what lies in a mysterious locked room or in the secret feelings we all conceal.
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Breakfast at Tiffany'sby Truman CapoteISBN 0679745653 (0-679-74565-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
House of Flowers
A Diamond Guitar
A Christmas Memory [via]More editions of Breakfast at Tiffany's:
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Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Storiesby Not AvailableISBN 0606192166 (0-606-19216-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories'Book summary:In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.
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This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory, which the Saturday Review called one of the most moving stories in our language. It is a tale of two innocentsa small boy and the old woman who is his best friendwhose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.More editions of Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories:
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 075533437X (0-7553-3437-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:'Mr Sherlock Holmes, the well-known private detective, was the victim of a murderous assault this morning which has left him in a precarious position'. Dr Watson stops dead in his tracks when he reads of the attempt on his friend's life. The forces of nature turn against man, love breeds hatred and cowardice, mothers appear to attack their own children, and Sherlock Holmes, the one man who can redress the balance, seemingly lies at death's door ...When an assassination attempt is made on the great detective's life it seems that no one can escape the death and dread which blights Britain... [via]
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Collected Stories of Issac Babelby Isaac BabelISBN 0685697746 (0-685-69774-6)
Hardcover, S G Phillips
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The Collected Stories of Wallace Stegnerby Wallace StegnerISBN 0517121883 (0-517-12188-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Complete Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0553328255 (0-553-32825-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1; Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2. 2 Vols. [via]
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Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingwayby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684843323 (0-684-84332-3)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway'Book summary:THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury. [via]
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway/the Finca Vigia Editionby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684186683 (0-684-18668-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twainby Mark TwainISBN 0553211951 (0-553-21195-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain'Book summary:For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain s inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years.
Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, to the bitter vision of humankind in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, to the delightful hilarity of Is He Living or Is He Dead? Surging with Twain s ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of human nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of in the words of H. L. Mencken the father of our national literature. [via]More editions of The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain:
- The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain: ISBN 0808522760 (0-8085-2276-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain: ISBN 0848803418 (0-8488-0341-8)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd - The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain: ISBN 0553211951 (0-553-21195-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
- The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain: ISBN 0808522760 (0-8085-2276-0)
Complete Short Stories of Twainby Mark TwainISBN 084880340X (0-8488-0340-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination ; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym ; The Raven and Other Poemsby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0706415523 (0-7064-1552-3)
Hardcover, Octopus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination ; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym ; The Raven and Other Poems'Book summary:1984 Amaranth Press / Octopus Books; Treasury of World Masterpieces: The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination / The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / The Raven and Other Poems [via]
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The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Poohby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525457232 (0-525-45723-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh'Book summary:When Christopher Robin asks Pooh what he likes doing best in the world, Pooh says, after much thought, "What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying 'What about a little something?' and Me saying, 'Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet,' and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing."
Happy readers for over 70 years couldn't agree more. Pooh's status as a "Bear of Very Little Brain" belies his profoundly eternal wisdom in the ways of the world. To many, Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and the others are as familiar and important as their own family members. A.A. Milne's classics, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, are brought together in this beautiful edition, complete and unabridged, with recolored illustrations by Milne's creative counterpart, Ernest H. Shepard. Join Pooh and the gang as they meet a Heffalump, help get Pooh unstuck from Rabbit's doorway, (re)build a house for Eeyore, and try to unbounce Tigger. A childhood is simply not complete without full participation in all of Pooh's adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Cyberiad; Fables for the Cybernetic Ageby Stanislaw LemISBN 081649164X (0-8164-9164-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cyberiad; Fables for the Cybernetic Age'Book summary:Trurl and Klapaucius are the archrival constructor robots, who, ransacking myth, technology and the secrets of cybernetic generation, race to create an invention even more improbable than the last. [via]
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A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summerby Christine SchuttISBN 0810151537 (0-8101-5153-7)
Hardcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Storiesby A. S. ByattISBN 0679762221 (0-679-76222-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories'Book summary:The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable.
The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. They range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy; they draw us into narratives that are as mesmerizing as dreams and as bracing as philosophical meditations; and they all us to inhabit an imaginative universe astonishing in the precision of its detail, its intellectual consistency, and its splendor.
"A dreamy treat.... It is not merely strange, it is wondrous."
--Boston Globe
"Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful.... If Scheherazade ever needs a break, Byatt can step in, indefinitely."
--Chicago Tribune
"Byatt's writing is crystalline and splendidly imaginative.... These [are] perfectly formed tales."
--Washington Post Book World
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories:
- The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye : Five Fairy Stories: ISBN 0679420088 (0-679-42008-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories: ISBN 0701162783 (0-7011-6278-3)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus - The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories: ISBN 0679762221 (0-679-76222-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
- The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye : Five Fairy Stories: ISBN 0679420088 (0-679-42008-8)
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East, Westby Salman RushdieISBN 0679757899 (0-679-75789-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'East, West'Book summary:From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this book renews Rushdie's stature as a storyteller who can enthrall and instruct us with the same sentence. [via]
Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery and Imaginationby Edgar Allan Poe, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517643588 (0-517-64358-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Gates of Edenby Ethan CoenISBN 0688159141 (0-688-15914-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gates of Eden'Book summary:Even if it didn't contain a chomped ear and a decapitated head, Ethan Coen's debut fiction collection would resemble the horrifically giggly crime films of the Coen brothers (Fargo, etc.). You've got the bleakly realistic Midwest settings: a frazzled dad driven crazy driving his kids on a camping trip in "The Boys." You've got the minutia of the middle-class life captured down to the last speck of "abstractly speckled linoleum" ("The Old Country"). You've got comically incompetent thugs (Mafiosi spectacularly failing to bring Mob rule to Minneapolis in "Cosa Minapolidan," a college-boy boxer turned private dick in "Destiny"). You've got ghastly, amusing caricatures of showbiz moguls: the record-company guy soliloquizing in "Have You Ever Been to Electric Ladyland" could be as real as his allusions to the personal foibles of Cat Stevens and Danny Thomas. Above all, you've got a mockingly self-conscious yet vibrantly original style of pulp-culture homage and spoofy, sharp, vulgar dialogue like nobody else on earth can write, except Joel Coen (who cowrites movies with brother Ethan).
In print, Coen can show off a descriptive gift that can't fit into screenplays. His fiction is bright and never boring, but not ambitious--it lacks the obbligato of grim mystery and lyricism that throbs in some of his films. It's on the light side--more like Raising Arizona than Miller's Crossing. It's also the most penetrating glimpse into a Coen brother's mystery-crammed skull since the revealing The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishingby Melissa BankISBN 0786221690 (0-7862-2169-0)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing'Book summary:Jane Rosenal, the narrator of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is wise beyond her years. Not that that's saying much--since none of her elders, with the exception of her father, is particularly wise. At the age of 14, Jane watches her brother and his new girlfriend, searching for clues for how to fall in love, but by the end of the summer she's trying to figure out how not to fail in love. At twice that age, Jane quickly internalizes How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, even though that retro manual is ruining her chances at happiness. In the intervening years, Melissa Bank's heroine struggles at love and work. The former often seems indistinguishable from the latter, and her experiences in book publishing inspire little in the way of affection. As Jane announces in "The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine": "I'd been a rising star at H----- until Mimi Howlett, the new executive editor, decided I was just the lights of an airplane."
Bank's first collection has a beautiful, true arc, and all the sophistication and control her heroine could ever desire. In "The Floating House," Jane and her boyfriend, Jamie, visit his ex-girlfriend in St. Croix, and right from the start she can't stop mimicking her beautiful competitor, in a notably idiotic fashion. "I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive," she realizes--one of several thousand of Bank's ruefully funny phrases. But even as Jane clowns around, desperately trying to keep up appearances, she is so hyperaware it hurts. Again and again, the author explores the dichotomy between life as it happens and the rehearsed anecdote, the preferred outcome. In The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, even suburban quiet has "nothing to do with peace." Bank's much-anticipated debut merits all its buzz and, more to the point, transcends it. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Holidays on Iceby David SedarisISBN 0613674545 (0-613-67454-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holidays on Ice'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
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I, Robotby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553294385 (0-553-29438-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Robot'Book summary:The three laws of Robotics:
1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
2) A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the laws governing their behavior. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.
Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world--all told with the dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction that has become Asmiov's trademark. [via] -
The Jungle Bookby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0582421152 (0-582-42115-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Book'Book summary:Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each titleoffering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.[via]
This edition of The Jungle Book includes a Biographical Note, Foreward, Preface, and Afterword by Jane Yolen.
Run with them. Or fear them--
Bagheera the Panther: A silken shadow of boldness and cunning.
Kaa the Python: A thirty foot battering ram driven by a cool, hungry mind.
Baloo the Bear: who keeps the lore and the Law, and teaches the Secret Words.
Rikki the Mongoose: The young protector who sings as he slays.
Akela and Raksha the Wolves: Demon warriors of the Free People.
Shere Khan the Tiger: The dreaded enemy of all.
And Mowgli the Man-cub: The orphan baby raised by the wolves, taught by Baloo, trained by Bagheera and Kaa. The sorcerer who knows the ways of the jungle and speaks the language of the wild...More editions of The Jungle Book:
- The Jungle Book: ISBN 0812504690 (0-8125-0469-0)
Softcover, Tor Books - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0679436375 (0-679-43637-5)
Hardcover, Everymans Library - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0688099793 (0-688-09979-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0763623172 (0-7636-2317-2)
Hardcover, Candlewick Pr - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0766612120 (0-7666-1212-0)
Hardcover, Modern Pub - Jungle Book and the Second Jungle Book: ISBN 0848800931 (0-8488-0093-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0590503235 (0-590-50323-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0670867977 (0-670-86797-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0816725535 (0-8167-2553-5)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0816772371 (0-8167-7237-1)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C. - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0517679027 (0-517-67902-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0670869198 (0-670-86919-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0716631997 (0-7166-3199-7)
Hardcover, World Book - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0805239065 (0-8052-3906-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0816728682 (0-8167-2868-2)
Hardcover, Troll Communications Llc - The Jungle Book: ISBN 083170747X (0-8317-0747-X)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub - The Jungle Book: ISBN 0582421152 (0-582-42115-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
- The Jungle Book: ISBN 0812504690 (0-8125-0469-0)
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The Jungle Books and Just So Storiesby Kipling RudyardISBN 0553211994 (0-553-21199-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Books and Just So Stories'Book summary:First published in 1894 and 1895, The Jungle Books remain some of the most beloved tales of all time. Adored by readers of all ages, these classic stories in two volumes spin the unforgettable story of Mowglia boy raised by a pack of wolvesas he learns indelible lessons about the laws of the jungle as well as the needs of the heart. Through Mowglis journey, readers also meet the tiger Shere Khan, who stalks man and beast alike, the rock python Kaa, who dispenses wisdom, and the aging wolf Akela, who struggles as his leadership of the pack is challenged. Set in India, Kiplings great masterpiece is an allegory for Britains imperialism, filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters. The mythic tale of a boy looking for where he truly belongseither with the man-pack of the village or the wolf-pack of the wildThe Jungle Books touch both our intellect and our emotions, while Kiplings dazzling storytelling makes them the timeless archetype for popular tales to come. [via]
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Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Healby Rachel Naomi Remen, Dean OrnishISBN 078389340X (0-7838-9340-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Little Black Book Of Storiesby A. S. ByattISBN 0701173246 (0-7011-7324-6)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Little Womenby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0716631970 (0-7166-3197-0)
Hardcover, World Book
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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Storiesby Tim BurtonISBN 0688156819 (0-688-15681-9)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories'Book summary:This unassuming hardcover in black buckram with a dark lavender title plate is the door into a world of twisted pleasures. Filmmaker Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas) tells 23 winsomely macabre stories about boys and girls who don't fit in. Their bodies are misshapen, their habits are odd, and their parents are appalled by them. But they do try hard to be human, like poor unwanted Mummy Boy, who's "a bundle of gauze": he goes for a walk in the park with his mummy dog. Some kids are having "a birthday party for a Mexican girl." They think Mummy Boy is a piñata: "They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes." For all its simple humor, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a peculiarly disturbing book about the violence that children suffer. It is illustrated in pen and ink, watercolor, and crayon. The themes and imagery are at a young-adult to adult level. [via]
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The Middleman and Other Storiesby Bharati MukherjeeISBN 0802136508 (0-8021-3650-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Night Shiftby Stephen KingISBN 0816156875 (0-8161-5687-5)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Poe Short Storiesby Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur RackhamISBN 0706426517 (0-7064-2651-7)
Hardcover, Octopus Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poe Short Stories'Book summary:Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children. [via]
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozenby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0553212419 (0-553-21241-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen'Book summary:Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Novels and Stories
Volume I
Since his first appearance in Beetons Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyles classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmess adventures in crime!
Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmess famous seven percent solution and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery.
Also included are Holmess feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling The Adventure of the Speckled Band, the baffling riddle of The Musgrave Ritual, and the ingeniously plotted The Five Orange Pips, tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time. [via]More editions of Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen:
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Short Cutsby Raymond CarverISBN 0679748644 (0-679-74864-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Slow Learnerby Thomas PynchonISBN 0553249622 (0-553-24962-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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A Sportsman's Notebookby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0679410457 (0-679-41045-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Storiesby Katherine MansfieldISBN 0679733744 (0-679-73374-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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T'nT Telzey & Triggerby James H. Schmitz, Eric Flint, Guy GordonISBN 0671578790 (0-671-57879-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'T'nT Telzey & Trigger'Book summary:The Federation of the Hub: thousands of rough, ornery and tough-minded human worlds with only the subtlest of governments holding them together. It's prime real estate for criminals, unscrupulous corporations, and invaders from beyond Federation space. But in Hub space, a citizen is expected to stand up for herself, blaster in hand; so when Trouble comes Hubward in large doses, there's an armed citizenry waiting for it. [via]
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Tales from Earthseaby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0613555430 (0-613-55543-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales from Earthsea'Book summary:Winner of five Nebula and five Hugo Awards, the National Book Award, the Newbery, and many other awards, Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest authors ever to write science fiction and fantasy. Her greatest creation may be the powerful, beautifully written, and deeply imagined Earthsea Cycle, which inhabits the rarified air at the pinnacle of modern fantasy with J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and Jane Yolen's Chronicles of Great Alta. The books of the Earthsea Cycle are A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1971), The Farthest Shore (1972), the Nebula-winning Tehanu (1990), and now, Tales of Earthsea (2001).
If you have never read an Earthsea book, this collection isn't the place to start, as the author points out in her thoughtful foreword; begin with A Wizard of Earthsea. If you insist on starting with Tales of Earthsea, read the foreword and the appended "Description of Earthsea" before proceeding to the five stories (three of which are original to this book).
The opening story, "The Finder," occupies a third of the volume and has the strength and insight of a novel. This novella describes the youth of Otter, a powerful but half-trained sorcerer, and reveals how Otter came to an isle that cannot be found, and played a role in the founding of the great Roke School. "Darkrose and Diamond" tells of two lovers who would turn their backs on magic. In "The Bones of the Earth," an aging wizard and his distant pupil must somehow join forces to oppose an earthquake. Ged, the Archmage of Earthsea, appears in "On the High Marsh" to find the mad and dangerous mage he had driven from Roke Island. And in "Dragonfly," the closing story, a mysterious woman comes to the Roke School to challenge the rule that only men may be mages. "Dragonfly" takes place a few years after Tehanu and is the bridge between that novel and the next novel, The Other Wind (fall 2001). --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Tales of Mystery and Imaginationby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0582528917 (0-582-52891-7)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'Book summary:Award-winning fantasy illustrator Gary Kelley writes, "I have selected three of Edgar Allan Poe's best short stories.... I chose 'The Fall of the House of Usher' for its classic Gothic images and its dark, melancholic central characters, including the house itself. 'The Black Cat' is ... appealing to me for its use of mystery and foreboding that takes us to a horrifying climax. 'The Cask of Amontillado' ... my personal favorite, [is] a simple narrative of revenge set in the contrasting worlds of carnival and catacomb." Click on the book's cover for a closer look, but the reproduction doesn't really do justice to the richness of color in Kelley's shadowy, atmospheric paintings. (The cat's eye is green, and its tongue is pink.) This gorgeous edition has 20 full- and double-page paintings, including a melancholy portrait of Poe; each page of text is surrounded by subtle decorative frames. The images of Roderick and Madeleine Usher are especially effective. [via]
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Telzey Amberdonby James H. SchmitzISBN 0671578510 (0-671-57851-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Three Livesby Gertrude Stein, Brenda WineappleISBN 0743436547 (0-7434-3654-7)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Lives'Book summary:The first published work of fiction by legendary author and poet Gertrude Stein, Three Lives is a collection of two short stories and a novella focusing on the bleak existence that faced immigrant and minority women in turn-of-the-century America.
Each impoverished woman must labor as a domestic worker to survive, and all three protagonists have their own tales of hardship. "The Good Anna" tells the story of a young German servant who must decide between loyalty to her employer and love. In "The Gentle Lena," another German servant girl marries the wrong man, and finds herself trapped as a wife and mother. And the introspective "Melanctha" examines the tragic life of a mulatto woman and those she loved.
Pocket Books' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enriched for the contemporary reader. This edition of Three Lives has been prepared by Brenda Wineapple, professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies at Union College. It includes her introduction, a selection of critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading, as well as a unique visual essay of period illustrations and photographs. [via]
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The Thurber Carnivalby James ThurberISBN 0679600892 (0-679-60089-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thurber Carnival'Book summary:After the chuckles and amidst the chortles, the first-time reader of The Thurber Carnival is bound to utter a discreetly voiced "Huh?" Like Cracker Jacks, there are surprises inside James Thurber's delicious 1945 smorgasbord of essays, stories, and sketches. This festival is, surprises and all, a collection of earlier collections (mostly), including, among others, gems from My World--and Welcome to It, Let Your Mind Alone!, and The Middle Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze. Needless to say, there are also numerous cartoons that, by themselves, are worth the price of admission. While redoubling Thurber's deserved reputation as a laugh-out-loud humorist and teller-of-gentle-tales, it reintroduces him as a thinker-of-thoughts. To wit: his 1933 "Preface to a Life," in which he observes himself while discussing "writers of light pieces running from a thousand to two thousand words":
To call such persons "humorists," a loose-fitting and ugly word, is to miss the nature of their dilemma and the dilemma of their nature. The little wheels of their invention are set in motion by the damp hand of melancholy.
Enjoy the surprises, certainly, but revel in the candy-coated popcorn and peanuts. As in "More Alarms at Night," in which a teenaged Thurber intrudes upon his sleeping father, a skittish man named Charles, because he can't recall the name Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Coincidentally, his father has just been frightened half to death by Thurber's brother, who had earlier stalked into his room saying coldly, "Buck, your time has come.""Listen," I said. "Name some towns in New Jersey quick!" It must have been around three in the morning. Father got up, keeping the bed between him and me, and started to pull his trousers on. "Don't bother about dressing," I said. "Just name some towns in New Jersey." While he hastily pulled on his clothes--I remember he left his socks off and put his shoes on his bare feet--father began to name, in a shaky voice, various New Jersey cities. I can still see him reaching for his coat without taking his eyes off me. "Newark," he said, "Jersey City, Atlantic City, Elizabeth, Paterson, Passaic, Trenton, Jersey City, Trenton, Paterson--" "It has two names," I snapped. "Elizabeth and Paterson," he said.
Of course, things turn out fine, as well they should. And why not? The best of Thurber, which The Thurber Carnival arguably is, is sublime; surprising insight and wry observations tossed lightly and served constantly with effortless good humor and an obvious love for all things gently eccentric. --Michael Hudson [via]More editions of The Thurber Carnival:
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The Toughest Indian in the Worldby Sherman AlexieISBN 0802138004 (0-8021-3800-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Toughest Indian in the World'Book summary:Call Sherman Alexie any number of things--novelist, poet, filmmaker, thorn in the side of white liberalism--just don't call him "universal." Aside from his well-documented distaste for the word, its fuzziness misses the point. The Toughest Indian in the World, Alexie's second collection, succeeds as brilliantly as it does because of its particularity. These aren't stories about the Indian Condition; they're stories about Indians--urban and reservation, street fighters and yuppies, husbands and wives. "She understood that white people were eccentric and complicated and she only wanted to be understood as eccentric and complicated as well," thinks the Coeur d'Alene narrator of "Assimilation," who's married (unhappily) to a white man. And yet the issue of race has taken up permanent residence inside her house: the marriage survives, but it's love that's the most thorough assimilation of all.
Like The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, much of The Toughest Indian in the World combines deft psychological realism with the kind of narrative logic more commonly found in dreams. In "South by Southwest," a white drifter finds love on a "nonviolent killing spree" with an overweight Indian he calls Salmon Boy; in "Dear John Wayne," the cowboy actor falls in love with a young Spokane woman and proves himself a charmingly feminist hero. ("Oh, sons, you're just engaging in some harmless gender play," he tells his boys when he finds them trying on lipstick.) But for every bear hibernating on top of the Catholic church, there's also a GAP-wearing, Toyota-driving urban Indian on a quest for his roots. In both realist and surrealist modes, Alexie writes incantatory prose--as well as the kind of dialogue that makes even secondary characters leap into sudden focus: "'What?' asked Wonder Horse, as simple a question as could possibly be tendered, though he made it sound as if he'd asked Where's the tumor?"
Alexie is sometimes guilty of painting his white characters with too broad a brush. (Is any anthropologist truly as obtuse as the one in "Dear John Wayne"? Could any reader really want Mary Lynn, the narrator of "Assimilation," to stay with her boorish white husband?) Yet his kind of firebrand politics still has the power to shock. A harrowing fable about whites kidnapping Indians for the medical properties of their blood, "The Sin Eaters" could be dismissed as paranoid if it weren't so hauntingly written:
On that morning, the sun rose and bloomed like blood in a glass syringe. The entire Spokane Indian Reservation and all of its people and places were clean and scrubbed. The Spokane River rose up from its bed like a man who had been healed and joyously wept all the way down to its confluence with the Columbia River. There was water everywhere: a thousand streams interrupted by makeshift waterfalls; small ponds hidden beneath a mask of thick fronds and anonymous blossoms; blankets of dew draped over the shoulders of isolated knolls. An entire civilization of insects lived in the mud puddle formed by one truck tire and a recent rain storm. The blades of grass, the narrow pine needles, and the stalks of roadside wheat were as sharp and bright as surgical tools.
It's a hard story to read, and that's only right. The Toughest Indian in the World offers so many pleasures, who could deny it the power to disturb us as well? Funny, dreamlike, heartbreaking, angry--these are stories that could have been written by no one but Sherman Alexie. --Mary Park [via]More editions of The Toughest Indian in the World:
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When Spring Comesby Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, Stacey SchuettISBN 0525450084 (0-525-45008-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Whore's Child and Other Storiesby Richard RussoISBN 0786248904 (0-7862-4890-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Whore's Child and Other Stories'Book summary:In The Whore's Child, Richard Russo's first collection of short fiction, the 2002 Pulitzer Prize-wining author of Empire Falls explores difficult emotional territory while retaining the assured wisdom and humour of his best work. Infidelity, self-reflection, and the fallibility of memory come into consideration in this entertaining and perceptive collection. The book's titular story sets the tone for the whole: an elderly nun crashes a college writing workshop and composes her own life story, sharing the details of her childhood growing up in a convent as the abandoned daughter of a prostitute. As her troubling story unfolds, the class realizes the fictions she has unknowingly imposed upon it. Other stories examine familial relationships and responsibility: the bittersweet "Joyride" follows the desperate road trip of a mother and son, each running from troubles they won't admit to. The collection's best and most lighthearted story, "The Mysteries of Linwood Hart," explores the daydreaming, curious mind of 10-year-old Linwood as he ponders the self-defeating behaviour of his family, the desires of inanimate objects, and his perceived place at the center of the universe. Russo surveys these subjects with skilled ease and accuracy, communicating a quiet understanding of his characters and their personal yet universal concerns. Russo, like Flannery O'Connor, has a gift for conveying the absurdity and severity of everyday life with brutal honesty, humor, and compassion:
It was an awful place, but Lin understood it was as perfectly real as every place else in the world, which was large beyond imagining, containing every single place he himself had ever been or never would see in his entire life.
Uncommon in its natural insight, The Whore's Child recognizes the often unwelcome realities of experience and is all the more exceptional for it. --Ross Doll [via]More editions of The Whore's Child and Other Stories:
Will You Please Be Quiet, Pleaseby Raymond CarverISBN 0679735690 (0-679-73569-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Winnie-La-Puby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard, Ralph A. Lewin, Humphrey Tonkin, Ivy Kellerman ReedISBN 0525430105 (0-525-43010-5)
Hardcover, E.P. Dutton
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Winnie-The-Poohby A. A. MilneISBN 0771058918 (0-7710-5891-8)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Winnie-The-Pooh and the House at Pooh Cornerby A. A. Milne, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0525468048 (0-525-46804-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winnie-The-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner'Book summary:Handsomely packaged in a wood-branded gift box, this unabridged collection marks the first time that all of Milne's 10 classic stories from Winnie-the-Pooh and 44 delightful verses from When We Were Very Young have been recorded. 4 cassettes. [via]
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Winnie-Ille-Pu/Winnie the Poohby A. A. MilneISBN 0525242678 (0-525-24267-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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