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The Abduction Enigmaby Kevin D. Randle, Russ Estes, William P. ConeISBN 0312872704 (0-312-87270-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Amnesia Moonby Jonathan LethemISBN 0312862202 (0-312-86220-2)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amnesia Moon'Book summary:A funny post-apocalyptic road noir tale of Chaos, who lives in an abandoned projection booth at the Multiplex in Hatfork, Wyoming, and his journey to find the truth at the heart of his own American nightmare. [via]
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Amphigorey Alsoby Edward GoreyISBN 0312920237 (0-312-92023-7)
Hardcover, Congdon & Weed
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amphigorey Also'Book summary:GOREY FANS WILL LOVE THIS BOOK =) [via]
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At Swim-Two-Birdsby Flann O'BrienISBN 0246108908 (0-246-10890-8)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon
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The Atrocity Exhibitionby J.G. BallardISBN 0224618385 (0-224-61838-5)
Hardcover, Cape
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Bad Magicby Stephan ZielinskiISBN 0312878621 (0-312-87862-1)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the Worldby Paul CollinsISBN 0312300336 (0-312-30033-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World'Book summary:The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets are classic celebrations of the greatest, the brightest, the eternally constellated.[via]
Paul Collins' Banvard's Folly is a different kind of book. Here are thirteen unforgettable portraits of forgotten people: men and women who might have claimed their share of renown but who, whether from ill timing, skullduggery, monomania, the tinge of madness, or plain bad luck-or perhaps some combination of them all-leapt straight from life into thankless obscurity. Among their number are scientists, artists, writers, entrepreneurs, and adventurers, from across the centuries and around the world. They hold in common the silenced aftermath of failure, the name that rings no bells.
Collins brings them back to glorious life. John Banvard was an artist whose colossal panoramic canvasses (one behemoth depiction of the entire eastern shore of the Mississippi River was simply known as "The Three Mile Painting") made him the richest and most famous artist of his day. . . before he decided to go head to head with P. T. Barnum. René Blondot was a distinguished French physicist whose celebrated discovery of a new form of radiation, called the N-Ray, went terribly awry. At the tender age of seventeen, William Henry Ireland signed "William Shakespeare" to a book and launched a short but meteoric career as a forger of undiscovered works by the Bard -- until he pushed his luck too far. John Symmes, a hero of the War of 1812, nearly succeeded in convincing Congress to fund an expedition to the North Pole, where he intended to prove his theory that the earth was hollow and ripe for exploitation; his quixotic quest counted Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe among its greatest admirers.
Collins' love for what he calls the "forgotten ephemera of genius" give his portraits of these figures and the other nine men and women in Banvard's Folly sympathetic depth and poignant relevance. Their effect is not to make us sneer or revel in schadenfreude; here are no cautionary tales. Rather, here are brief introductions-acts of excavation and reclamation-to people whom history may have forgotten, but whom now we cannot.More editions of Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World:
Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luckby Paul CollinsISBN 0312268866 (0-312-26886-6)
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The Basic Eightby Daniel HandlerISBN 0312253737 (0-312-25373-7)
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The Big Timeby Fritz LeiberISBN 0312890788 (0-312-89078-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Big Time'Book summary:Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) is best known as a fantasy writer, but his achievements and influence are also considerable in the horror and science fiction fields. One of his major SF works is the Change War series, about rival time-traveling armies locked in a bitter, age-old war for control of existence; the battles frequently alter the course of human history. The most important work of Leiber's Change War series is the Hugo Award-winning novel The Big Time, in which doctors, entertainers, and wounded soldiers find themselves treacherously trapped with an activated atomic bomb inside the Place, a room existing outside of space-time. It's not one of Leiber's strongest novels: the cutesy-girlish narrative voice is unconvincing, while the demands of describing time travel and time paradoxes inevitably strain the prose. But The Big Time is a tense, claustrophobic SF mystery, and possibly the ultimate locked-room whodunit.
In addition to the Hugo, Nebula, Derleth, Lovecraft, and World Fantasy Awards, Fritz Leiber received the Grand Master of Fantasy (Gandalf) Award, the Life Achievement Lovecraft Award, and the Grand Master Nebula Award. --Cynthia Ward [via]
The Book Of Imaginary Beingsby Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita GuerreroISBN 0224619136 (0-224-61913-6)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Bridgeby Iain BanksISBN 0312028814 (0-312-02881-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Chemical Pink : A Novel of Obsessionby Katie ArnoldiISBN 0312878915 (0-312-87891-5)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chemical Pink : A Novel of Obsession'Book summary:A stunning and compelling portrait of two obsessed personalities and the perversely symbiotic relationship that draws them together.[via]
Aurora Jeanine Johnson is an unwed mother from Savannah, Georgia, desperate to sculpt a new life--and a new body--in California, where the quest for the perfect butt or bicep reaches religious intensity. Spending every spare moment training at the gym, Aurora is barely getting by--until she meets the man who will offer her everything she most desires.
Charles Worthington is a wealthy eccentric, rich enough to indulge his every decadent whim and fantasy. Aurora is his sexual ideal, the raw material from which he will shape his masterpiece. He will transform Aurora into the woman of his dreams -- and fantasies -- no matter the cost.
To achieve their common goal, Aurora hands over complete control of her life to Charles. He dictates her diet, her lifestyle, her training -- and when and how much she'll take of the body-altering drugs he "prescribes" for her. He decides whom she sees and where she goes. And what kinky games of his own devising they will play.
For Aurora, everything that Charles asks is a small price to pay to become the woman she's always dreamed of being. Or is it?
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The Clock of Dreamsby Brian LumleyISBN 0312868685 (0-312-86868-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Concrete Islandby J.G. BallardISBN 031242034X (0-312-42034-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Concrete Island'Book summary:On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament soon turns into horror as Maitland--a wickedly modern Robinson Crusoe--realizes that, despite evidence of other inhabitants, this doomed terrain has become a mirror of his own mind. Seeking the dark outer rim of the everyday, Ballard weaves private catastrophe into an intensely specular allegory.
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Confessionsby Saint Augustine, Henry ChadwickISBN 0192833723 (0-19-283372-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions'Book summary:In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage, and the recovery of the faith his mother Monica had taught him during his childhood. Now, Henry Chadwick, an eminent scholar of early Christianity, has given us the first new English translation in thirty years of this classic spiritual journey. Chadwick renders the details of Augustine's conversion in clear, modern English. We witness the future saint's fascination with astrology and with the Manichees, and then follow him through scepticism and disillusion with pagan myths until he finally reaches Christian faith. There are brilliant philosophical musings about Platonism and the nature of God, and touching portraits of Augustine's beloved mother, of St. Ambrose of Milan, and of other early Christians like Victorinus, who gave up a distinguished career as a rhetorician to adopt the orthodox faith. Augustine's concerns are often strikingly contemporary, yet his work contains many references and allusions that are easily understood only with background information about the ancient social and intellectual setting. To make The Confessions accessible to contemporary readers, Chadwick provides the most complete and informative notes of any recent translation, and includes an introduction to establish the context. The religious and philosophical value of The Confessions is unquestionable--now modern readers will have easier access to St. Augustine's deeply personal meditations. Chadwick's lucid translation and helpful introduction clear the way for a new experience of this cla [via]
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The Confessionsby St Augustine, James J. O'DonnellISBN 0198140754 (0-19-814075-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writingsby Thomas De Quincey, Grevel LindopISBN 0192836544 (0-19-283654-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings'Book summary:This selection of De Quincey's writings includes the title piece--his most famous work--as well as "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth," "The English Mail-Coach," and the Suspiria de Profundis. [via]
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The Confessions of Augustine in Modern Englishby Sherwood Eliot Wirt, AugustineISBN 031034641X (0-310-34641-X)
Hardcover, Zondervan Pub. House
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Cosmic Catastrophesby Gerrit L. VerschuurISBN 0201080990 (0-201-08099-0)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Pub Co
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Covert Culture Sourcebookby Richard KadreyISBN 031209776X (0-312-09776-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Covert Culture Sourcebook 2.0by Richard KadreyISBN 0312112556 (0-312-11255-6)
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Damned If You Doby Gordon HoughtonISBN 0312262884 (0-312-26288-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Dark Sisterby Graham JoyceISBN 0312872542 (0-312-87254-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr Special
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Sister'Book summary:Dark Sister is the third book by British fantasy writer Graham Joyce to be published in the United States--and the author travels further into the realm of pure horror than he did in The Tooth Fairy or Requiem. Maggie, an unfulfilled, restless housewife in England, comes to terms with her nascent, otherworldly power amidst a disheveled and antagonistic domestic life. Her archaeologist-husband Alex is subtly dominating, which makes for an unfulfilling marriage. So, Maggie buries herself in the chaos of her small children, until a chance discovery both liberates her and invokes catastrophe.
During a routine cleaning of a chimney fireplace, she discovers an herbalist's journal; soon after, her life unfurls wildly and runs horribly aground. It seems that the owner of the journal was not just an herb woman, but also a witch with real powers. Inspired by this forgotten woman, Maggie begins to dabble in the arts of Wicca. The gifts it brings her are powerful--a sense of freedom, purpose, even clairvoyance. But every gift has its counterbalance, and Maggie's newfound telepathy allows her to see things she might have wanted to remain hidden. Even more ominously, it seems that in unearthing the journal, Maggie has awakened deep tragedies from an abandoned time, and the evil that now stalks her and her family might be insatiable and unstoppable. --Tamara Hladik [via]
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Dead Sea Scrollsby BaigentISBN 0224027611 (0-224-02761-1)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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The Debt to Pleasureby John LanchesterISBN 0312420366 (0-312-42036-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Debt to Pleasure'Book summary:A gorgeous, dark, and sensuous book that is part cookbook, part novel, part eccentric philosophical treatise, reminiscent of perhaps the greatest of all books on food, Jean-Anthelme Brillat Savarin's The Physiology of Taste. Join Tarquin Winot as he embarks on a journey of the senses, regaling us with his wickedly funny, poisonously opinionated meditations on everything from the erotics of dislike to the psychology of a menu, from the perverse history of the peach to the brutalization of the palate, from cheese as "the corpse of milk" to the binding action of blood. [via]
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Echoes of the Ancient Skies: The Astronomy of Lost Civilizationsby E.C. KruppISBN 0195088018 (0-19-508801-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury, Alfredo CrespoISBN 0307347974 (0-307-34797-4)
Softcover, Plaza Y Janes Mexico
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit 451'Book summary:Fahrenheit 451 ofrece la historia de un sombrío y horroroso futuro. Montag, el protagonista, pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos cuya misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Porque en el país de Montag está terminantemente prohibido leer. Porque leer obliga a pensar, y en el país de Montag está prohibido pensar. Porque leer impide ser ingenuamente feliz, y en el país de Montag hay que ser feliz a la fuerza...
La novela más célebre de Ray Bradbury, maestro de la ficción científica. [via]More editions of Fahrenheit 451:
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George Frazer, Robert FraserISBN 0192835416 (0-19-283541-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:Before Joseph Campbell became the world's most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates "will be long and laborious," Frazer warns readers, "but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs." Chief among those customs--at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination--is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.
While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism--sheer cultural imperialism, really--that finds its most explicit form in Frazer's rhetorical question: "If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?" (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that "primitive" races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that "a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural." And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories--"that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual" (to quote Robert Graves's summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) "are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs." Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Golden Pot and Other Talesby E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ritchie RobertsonISBN 0192837230 (0-19-283723-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Pot and Other Tales'Book summary:Hoffmann, among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics, is renowned for his humorous and sometimes horrifying tales of supernatural beings. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, focuses on those stories in which the real and the supernatural are brought into contact and conflict. This new translation includes The Golden Pot, The Sandman, Princess Brambilla, Master Flea, and My Cousin's Corner Window. [via]
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Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surfaby David StandishISBN 0306813734 (0-306-81373-4)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surfa'Book summary:Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as old as humanity. But the idea that the earth has a hollow interior was first proposed as a scientific theory in 1691 by Sir Edmond Halley (of comet fame), who also suggested that there might be life down there as well. Hollow Earth traces the many surprising, marvelous, and just plain weird permutations his ideas have taken over the centuries. Both Edgar Allan Poe and (more famously) Jules Verne picked up the torch in the nineteenth century, the latter with his science fiction epic A Journey to the Center of the Earth. The notion of a hollow earth even inspired a religion at the turn of the twentieth century-Koreshanity, which held not only that the earth was hollow, but also that were all living on the inside. Utopian novels and adventures abounded at this same time, including L. Frank Baums hollow earth addition to the Oz series and Edgar Rice Burroughss Pellucidar books chronicling a stone-age hollow earth. In the 1940s an enterprising science-fiction magazine editor convinced people that the true origins of flying saucers lay within the hollow earth, relics of an advanced alien civilization. And there are still devout hollow earthers today, some of whom claim there is a New Age utopia lurking beneath the earths surface, with at least one entrance near Mt. Shasta in California. Hollow Earth travels through centuries and cultures, exploring how each eras relationship to the idea of a hollow earth mirrored its hopes, fears, and values. Illustrated with everything from seventeenth-century maps to 1950s pulp art to movie posters and more, Hollow Earth is for anyone interested in the history of strange ideas that just wont go away.[via]More editions of Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surfa:
Humpty Dumptyby Damon Francis KnightISBN 0312862237 (0-312-86223-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Humpty Dumpty : An Ovalby Damon KnightISBN 0312863837 (0-312-86383-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Humpty Dumpty : An Oval'Book summary:The former editor of Orbit, the influential series of hard-cover anthologies of science fiction that flourished from 1966 to 1980, Damon Knight is a distinguished writer, editor, and critic of science fiction. In his latest work the hero, Wellington Stout, wakes up with a bullet in his head and a distorted perception of the world. Strangely, others seem to think he holds the answers to the questions that confound him. With Stout threatened by forces he only dimly understands, Knight offers an inspired and fast-paced race towards enlightenment. [via]
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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffmanby Angela CarterISBN 0246105453 (0-246-10545-3)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis
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King Ratby China MievilleISBN 0312890729 (0-312-89072-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Rat'Book summary:Saul Garamond returns from a journey in late evening and sneaks into his bedroom to avoid a confrontation with his estranged father. He awakes to the intrusion of police and the news that his father has been murdered and he is the number-one suspect. Forgotten in a jail cell, he is freed by a peculiar, stinking, and impossibly strong stranger--only to find rescue may be worse than imprisonment. The plot moves through subterranean and rooftop London quick as a techno beat, as Saul discovers his curious heritage and finds himself marked for death in an age-old secret war among frightful inhuman powers.
China Miéville's urban fantasy novel, King Rat, is an impressive, even daring, debut. It is a Lost Prince story that avoids both black-and-white morality and the standard fantasy-novel adoration of royalty. Furthermore, it is inspired by the unlikeliest of sources, the Rat King legend and the Pied Piper of Hamelin fairy tale. Finally, King Rat, powered and propelled by the rhythms of jungle/drum-'n'-bass music, is a fantasy novel set in the 1990s that genuinely captures the 1990s. --Cynthia Ward [via]
Lovecraft's Legacyby Martin Harry Greenberg, Robert E. WeinbergISBN 0312850913 (0-312-85091-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Lovecraft's Legacyby Robert E. Weinberg, Martin Harry GreenbergISBN 0312861400 (0-312-86140-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lovecraft's Legacy'Book summary:[via]H.P. Lovecraft is one of the most influential modern horror writers. Lovecraft's fiction is a category unto itself. Eschewing the traditional werewolves, vampires, and ghosts of most horror fiction, he wrote of dread Elder Gods and cosmic, earth-shattering horrors. Lovecraft mined rich veins of terror uniquely his own, and wherever in the known and unknown universe his imagination sped, readers followed--fascinated, enrapt, and terrified by the scope of his dark vision.
More than fifty years after his death, Lovecraft's fiction continues to influence each new generation of horror readers&and writers. Lovecraft's Legacy collects 13 stories by critically-acclaimed, award-winning horror and dark fantasy writers, including F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Gene Wolfe, and Gahan Wilson. With an introduction by Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, this splendid anthology pays well-deserved homage to the late, great master of the weird tale.More editions of Lovecraft's Legacy:
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The Magusby John FowlesISBN 0224013920 (0-224-01392-0)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Memory Artistsby Jeffrey MooreISBN 0312349254 (0-312-34925-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Middlesexby Jeffrey EugenidesISBN 0312422156 (0-312-42215-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlesex'Book summary:"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal." So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. [via]
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Morvern Callarby Alan WarnerISBN 0224040111 (0-224-04011-1)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Musrumby Eric Thacker, Anthony EarnshawISBN 0224005677 (0-224-00567-7)
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Talesby Edgar Allan Poe, J. Gerald KennedyISBN 0192837710 (0-19-283771-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0198185219 (0-19-818521-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Orlando: A Biographyby Virginia WoolfISBN 0192834738 (0-19-283473-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orlando: A Biography'Book summary:In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th century wits, has a baby, and drives a car. This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both of lesbian literature and the Western canon. [via]
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The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscienceby Clifford A. PickoverISBN 0312294115 (0-312-29411-5)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alasby Michael BishopISBN 0312890028 (0-312-89002-8)
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Or has he? Psychiatrist Lia Pickford, M.D., is nonplussed when Dick walks into her office in small-town Georgia, with a cab idling outside, to ask for help. And Cal Pickford, a longtime Dick fan stunned by the news of his hero's death, is electrified when his wife tells him of the visit.
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde, Isobel MurrayISBN 0192833650 (0-19-283365-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-Textby William Langland, A.V.C. SchmidtISBN 0192836463 (0-19-283646-3)
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The Private Memoirs And Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James Hogg, John CareyISBN 0192835904 (0-19-283590-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Private Memoirs And Confessions of a Justified Sinner'Book summary:Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader, while recognizing the stranger as Satan, is prevented by the subtlety of the novel's structure from finally deciding whether, for all his vividness and wit, he is more than a figment of the boy's imagination. This edition reprints the text of the unexpurgated first edition of 1824, later 'corrected' in an attempt to placate the Calvinists. [via]
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The Reader's Digest Book of Strange Stories, Amazing Facts: Stories That Are Bizarre, Unusual, Odd, Astonishing, Incredible ... but Trueby Reader's Digest AssociationISBN 0276000803 (0-276-00080-3)
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Return to the Stars: Evidence for the Impossibleby Erich Von DanikenISBN 0285502980 (0-285-50298-0)
Hardcover, Souvenir
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Return to the Stars: Evidence for the Impossible'Book summary:PLATE ILLUSTRATIONS Translated from the German by Michael Heron. "It is not enough merely to look at the oddities which archaeologists have not been able to explain away...." Very good black cloth. Very good color pictorial DJ. Some wear and tear, chipping to DJ, previous owner name inside. (1970), 8vo, [4], 5-190pp. [via]
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Ripley's Believe It or Notby Robert Le Roy RipleyISBN 0307158047 (0-307-15804-7)
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The Scheme for Full Employment : A Novelby Magnus MillsISBN 0312310293 (0-312-31029-3)
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The Secret Ascensionby Michael BishopISBN 0312930313 (0-312-93031-3)
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The Secret Country: An Intrepretation of the Folklore of Ancient Sites in the British Islesby Janet Bord, Colin BordISBN 0236400487 (0-236-40048-7)
Hardcover, P. Elek
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The Secret Life Of The Lonely Doll: The Search For Dare Wrightby Jean NathanISBN 0312424922 (0-312-42492-2)
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinsonby Camille PagliaISBN 0300091273 (0-300-09127-3)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul 1789-1794by William Blake, Geoffrey KeynesISBN 0195199774 (0-19-519977-4)
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Strange Brains and Genius : The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmenby Clifford A. PickoverISBN 0306457849 (0-306-45784-9)
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Surfing Through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessonsby Clifford A. PickoverISBN 0195142411 (0-19-514241-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surfing Through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons'Book summary:Clifford Pickover is IBM's Renaissance-guy-in-residence. His job is to play with cool ideas--time travel (Time: A Traveler's Guide), extraterrestrials (The Science of Aliens), and the line between genius and crackpot (Strange Brains and Genius). His latest game is an oldie but goodie: trying to imagine the fourth dimension.
Like a number of his other books, Surfing is structured as a fiction, in this case an X-Files romance--Pickover clearly has a deep and personal appreciation for Scully (whom he calls "Sally," presumably on advice of counsel). You, dear reader, are the FBI's chief investigator of four-dimensional phenomena. As you and your cohorts chase bizarre manifestations from "upsilon" (4-D up) and "delta" (4-D down), Pickover provides explanations, paradoxes, and problems, with many helpful drawings and computer-generated illustrations.
Pickover's book, like every work on higher dimensions, is something of a sequel to Edwin Abbott's classic story, Flatland. Like Abbott, Pickover doesn't just look at the mathematics: "I want to know if humankind's Gods could exist in the fourth dimension." Not for the theologically squeamish, this book is lively, provocative, outrageous, and fascinating. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Three to See the Kingby Magnus MillsISBN 0312306105 (0-312-30610-5)
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Time: A Traveler's Guideby Clifford A. PickoverISBN 0195130960 (0-19-513096-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time: A Traveller's Guide'Book summary:The thought that humans might one day be able to harness time, traveling freely from one age to another, has been a fixture of science fiction for years. Science fact is beginning to catch up to the long-held dream: in this entertaining survey, researcher-writer Clifford Pickover observes that current theories of physics support--or at least do not rule out--the possibilities of time travel.
In chapters that mix whimsical science-fiction scenarios with brief essays on matters of fact, Pickover takes a leisurely stroll through various chrono-cosmological theories and discusses their attendant virtues, flaws, and inherent paradoxes. One modern notion, Kurt Gödel's addendum to Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, posits a rotating universe in which it is possible for a traveler to move between states of time and return to the present (assuming, of course, that there is such a thing as the present); the theory depends on a universe that rotates slowly, which seems not to be the case, but, as Pickover points out, it nevertheless provides a mathematical basis for time travel--which, he suggests, is a fine and worthy start. Pickover peppers his well-illustrated text with learned asides on such matters as light-cone diagrams, rocket clocks, string theory, parallel universes, and other topics real and speculative. What he turns up in the course of his narrative is fascinating--and fuel for anyone who entertains dreams of interdimensional wandering. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Titus Crowby Brian LumleyISBN 0312868669 (0-312-86866-9)
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The Tooth Fairyby Graham JoyceISBN 0312868332 (0-312-86833-2)
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Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Realityby Paul BarberISBN 0300048599 (0-300-04859-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality'Book summary:In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires, his book is fascinating reading. [via]
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Vathekby William Beckford, Roger H. LonsdaleISBN 0192836560 (0-19-283656-0)
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Vision of William Concerning Piersby LanglandISBN 0198113668 (0-19-811366-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vision of William Concerning Piers'Book summary:The title Piers Plowman or, as I prefer to write it, Piers CP lowman, is one which has been frequently misconstrued 1misunderstood by many authors, and concerning which many books have blundered inextricably. It is most important the reader should have a clear idea of what it means, and as is rather a difficult point to explain accurately, I must ask him give me his best attention; and I cannot refrain from adding hope that, if he succeeds in mastering the explanation of it, will refrain from using the phrase in future in the old slovenly The difficulty is three-fold, as originating in a three-fold error. three mistakes commonly made are these. First, Piers man is used as though it were the name of an author tndiy, two poems which are quite distinct, and the respective of which are familiarly expressed as The Vision of Piers )man and Pierce the Ploughmar CsC rede have been frequently founded together; and thirdly, the name of The Vision of Plowman is commonly given to what is really the Liber de :ro Plowman, of which the Vision forms only about a third I must ask the reader to bear in mind that, in what I am going to say, I make no reference whatever to the Crede, do not make any assertion about it till I again expressly tntion it by its full title. Unless this be remembered, our ice of arriving at the truth is much lessened. Just as Christian is not the author of Bunyans Pilgrim s Probut only the subject of it, so Piers the Plowman is not the lor of the Vision, but the subject of it; he is the personage T bif mistake occurs, for instance, in Chaucer s England, vol. ii. p. 230, Matthew Browne; who should have known better.
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Vurtby Jeff NoonISBN 0312141440 (0-312-14144-0)
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Weird Europe: A Guide to Bizarre, Macabre, and Just Plain Weird Sightsby Anneli S. Rufus, Kristan LawsonISBN 0312198736 (0-312-19873-6)
Softcover, Griffin
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The Weird Taleby S. T. JoshiISBN 0292790570 (0-292-79057-0)
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Wieland; Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquistby Charles Brockden Brown, Emory ElliottISBN 0192836803 (0-19-283680-3)
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Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Math, Mind, and Meaningby Clifford A. PickoverISBN 0195133420 (0-19-513342-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Math, Mind, and Meaning'Book summary:If we actually received messages from the stars, what would we do with them? Who were the five strangest mathematicians in history? What are the ten most interesting numbers? Who is the Number King? Jam-packed with thought-provoking mathematical mysteries, puzzles, and games--as well as the answers to all of the above questions--Wonders of Numbers will enchant even the most left-brained of readers.
Hosted by the quirky Dr. Googol--who resides on an island in Sri Lanka and occasionally collaborates with Clifford Pickover--Wonders of Numbers focuses on creativity and the delight of discovery. Here is a potpourri of common and unusual number theory problems of varying difficulty--each presented in brief chapters that convey to readers the essence of the problem rather than the extraneous, convoluted history of it. Want to know about undulating numbers? Turn to Chapter 53 and in just a few pages you'll have a quick challenge. Interested in Fibonacci numbers? Turn to Chapter 74 for the same. Peppered throughout with illustrations that clarify many of the problems, Wonders of Numbers also includes fascinating "math gossip." How would we use numbers to communicate with aliens? Check out Chapter 31. What are the five saddest mathematical scandals? You'll find them in Chapter 35. Did you know that there is a Numerical Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? There is, and it's in Chapter 46.
Indeed, each chapter in Wonders of Numbers is a paradox and a mystery. From the beautiful formula of India's most famous mathematician to the Leviathan number so big it makes a trillion look small, Dr. Googol's witty, disarming, and straightforward approach to numbers will entice students, educators, and scientists alike to pick up a pencil and work a problem. [via]More editions of Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Math, Mind, and Meaning:
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Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Mathematics, Mind, and Meaningby Clifford A. PickoverISBN 0195157990 (0-19-515799-0)
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Hosted by the quirky Dr. Googol--who resides on a remote island and occasionally collaborates with Clifford Pickover--Wonders of Numbers focuses on creativity and the delight of discovery. Here is a potpourri of common and unusual number theory problems of varying difficulty--each presented in brief chapters that convey to readers the essence of the problem rather than its extraneous history. Peppered throughout with illustrations that clarify the problems, Wonders of Numbers also includes fascinating "math gossip." How would we use numbers to communicate with aliens? Check out Chapter 30. Did you know that there is a Numerical Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? You'll find it in Chapter 45.
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Wraeththuby Storm ConstantineISBN 0312890001 (0-312-89000-1)
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Mujer Del Viajero en el Tiempoby Audrey NiffeneggerISBN 0307344835 (0-307-34483-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mujer Del Viajero en el Tiempo'Book summary:Clare y Henry son en apariencia una pareja normal que lleva una vida corriente en Chicago. Él es bibliotecario y ella artista, pero la terrible verdad es que Henry sufre una extraña enfermedad que lo hace viajar en el tiempo, al pasado o al futuro sin previo aviso, normalmente fruto de una situación de estrés previa. Lo transporta desnudo, con desagradables malestares y vulnerable.
Cuando Henry tiene 31 años y Clare 23 se encuentran por primera vez. Y allí nace en tiempo presente su historia de amor, su vida en común de la que ocasionalmente Henry se ausenta propulsado a otras épocas de su vida y revisitando otros momentos felices o tristes, a veces encontrándose a sí mismo cuando era niño, con el temor de Clare de que no regrese de uno de esos viajes.
La historia se va desplegando contada a dos voces, bajo los puntos de vista de Clare y Henry, y enfoca las consecuencias de esta particularidad en su matrimonio y el amor apasionado que se tienen. Clare y Henry intentar llevar vidas normales, buscar una cura médica para la disfunción de Henry, ponerse objetivos a futuro, disfrutar de sus amigos y familia; aunque a veces se presenta la tentación de utilizar su capacidad de conocer el futuro para manejar el presente o evitar algún peligro... Pero todo ello está amenazado por algo que no pueden controlar ni prevenir: Henry puede viajar un día al futuro y descubrir que él ya no forma parte de ese tiempo, descubrir su propia muerte o la de sus seres queridos, ver a una Clare sola y envejecida, conocer a una hija que todavía no ha tenido y que heredará su extraña disfunción. [via]More editions of Mujer Del Viajero en el Tiempo:
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Un Mal Principioby Nestor Busquets, Brett HelquistISBN 0307209342 (0-307-20934-2)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Una Academia Muy Austera: Quinto Libro De Limony Snicketby Lemony Snicket, Veronica Canales, Brett HelquistISBN 0307209369 (0-307-20936-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Una Academia Muy Austera: Quinto Libro De Limony Snicket'Book summary:Book 5 of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Since they've already gone through several potential caregivers with disastrous results,Violet, Klaus, and baby Sunny are now being sent to the Prufrock Preparatory School, where they will meet some of the most boring and tedious teachers to be found anywhere. [via]
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