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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Kazin, Alfred (AFT)ISBN 0553210793 (0-553-21079-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:"Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]
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Softcover, Prentice Hall - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0582528240 (0-582-52824-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0553210793 (0-553-21079-3)
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Alexandre Dumas: Genius of Lifeby Claude SchoppISBN 0531150933 (0-531-15093-3)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Autobiography of a One-Year-Oldby Rohan CandappaISBN 055338130X (0-553-38130-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Baseball's Greatest Managersby Harvey FrommerISBN 053109779X (0-531-09779-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Big Muddy: Down the Mississippi Through America's Heartlandby B.C. Hall, C.T. WoodISBN 0525934766 (0-525-93476-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bud, Not Buddyby Christopher Paul CurtisISBN 0553494104 (0-553-49410-4)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bud, Not Buddy'Book summary:"It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud--"not Buddy"--Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes and Hoovervilles in 1930s Michigan. And the idea that's planted itself in his head is that Herman E. Calloway, standup-bass player for the Dusky Devastators of the Depression, is his father.
Guided only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows--a small, blue poster that had mysteriously upset his mother shortly before she died--Bud sets off to track down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on. And, being 10, Bud-not-Buddy gets into all sorts of trouble along the way, barely escaping a monster-infested woodshed, stealing a vampire's car, and even getting tricked into "busting slob with a real live girl." Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, once again exhibits his skill for capturing the language and feel of an era and creates an authentic, touching, often hilarious voice in little Bud. (Ages 8 to 12) --Paul Hughes [via]
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryby Roald DahlISBN 0553154540 (0-553-15454-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'Book summary:Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, along with Roald Dahl's other tales for younger readers, make him a true star of children's literature. Dahl seems to know just how far to go with his oddball fantasies; in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, for example, nasty Violet Beauregarde blows up into a blueberry from sneaking forbidden chewing gum, and bratty Augustus Gloop is carried away on the river of chocolate he wouldn't resist. In fact, all manner of disasters can happen to the most obnoxiously deserving of children because Dahl portrays each incident with such resourcefulness and humor.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a singular delight, crammed with mad fantasy, childhood justice and revenge, and as much candy as you can eat. The book is also available in Spanish (Charlie y la Fabrica de Chocolate). (The suggested age range for this book is 9-12, but nobody this reviewer has met can resist it, including New York City bellhops, flight attendants, and grumpy teenagers.) [via]
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Colour of Magicby Terry PratchettISBN 0552124753 (0-552-12475-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colour of Magic'Book summary:paperback, vg++ [via]
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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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A Death in White Bear Lakeby Barry SiegelISBN 0553290487 (0-553-29048-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Townby Barry SiegelISBN 0553057901 (0-553-05790-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Dream House: On Building a House by a Pondby Joe CoomerISBN 0571198066 (0-571-19806-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Edward Geinby Robert H. GollmarISBN 0523422105 (0-523-42210-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Equal Ritesby Terry PratchettISBN 0552131059 (0-552-13105-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equal Rites'Book summary:The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did before he died was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic world of magic, he failed to check on the newborn baby's sex. From the author of GUARDS! GUARDS!, WYRD SISTERS, and HOGFATHER. [via]
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The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesseby Hermann Hesse, Jack David ZipesISBN 0553377760 (0-553-37776-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse'Book summary:A collection of twenty-two fairy tales by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, most translated into English for the first time, show the influence of German Romanticism, psychoanalysis, and Eastern religion on his development as an author. [via]
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The Feather Quest: A North American Birder's Yearby Pete Dunne, Linda DunneISBN 0525933921 (0-525-93392-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feather Quest: A North American Birder's Year'Book summary:A naturalist tells of the year he and his wife devoted entirely to bird-watching across the continent, from California to Canada, with photographs of species from hummingbirds, to golden eagles, to the elusive Ross gull. Tour. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 055321201X (0-553-21201-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mary Lennox is a pale, sickly child when she goes to live with her uncle in a big, old house in the country. In the grounds, there is a garden, which has high walls all around it and no door. Mary becomes very curious about the garden but how can she get into it? And will it help her? [via]
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Getting Your Baby to Sleepby Vicki LanskyISBN 0553344315 (0-553-34431-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Getting Your Baby to Sleep (and Back to Sleep)by Vicki LanskyISBN 0553341715 (0-553-34171-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Graphologyby Thomas G. AylesworthISBN 053100323X (0-531-00323-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0582275156 (0-582-27515-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:The titles in this series are mainly new editions of titles in the "Longman Simplified English Series". They are suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate. Every book has been re-edited to ensure ease of understanding and naturalness of language and keeps within the 2000 word Defining Vocabulary of the "Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English". Any additional vocabulary used is explained in the glossary. All titles feature a four to five page introduction to the authors, characters and themes of the texts, giving students not only background information, but also help in literary appreciation. Additionally, there is exercise material at the back of each book: 50 questions on factual detail, with a further 20 more open-ended questions for written work or to stimulate discussion. [via]
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Green Grass, Running Waterby Thomas KingISBN 0553373684 (0-553-37368-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Green Grass, Running Water'Book summary:Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor who would like to trade her two boyfriends for a baby but no husband; Lionel is forty and still sells televisions for a patronizing boss; Eli and his log cabin stand in the way of a profitable dam project. These threeand othersare coming to the Blackfoot reservation for the Sun Dance and there they will encounter four Indian elders and their companion, the trickster Coyoteand nothing in the small town of Blossom will be the same again& [via]
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Guards! Guards!by Terry PratchettISBN 0575046066 (0-575-04606-6)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0582426626 (0-582-42662-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:Gulliver arrives in Lilliput, a country where the people are no bigger than his hand. What will they do with him? How can he talk to them? Why are the Big-enders fighting the Little-enders and will Gulliver be able to leave Lilliput? Jonathan Swift's classic story is for readers of all ages. [via]
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Gulliver's Travels and Other Writingsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 055321232X (0-553-21232-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings'Book summary:Considered one of English literature's first and greatest satirists, Jonathan Swift possessed a timeless genius for pointing out the foibles of human nature that still has the power to provoke, amuse, and, at times, even outrage our modern sensibilities. This representative collection of Swift's major writings includes the complete Gulliver's Travels as well as A Tale of a Tub, "The Battle of the Books," "A Modest Proposal," "An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity," "The Bickerstaff Papers," and many more of his brilliantly satirical works. Here too are selections from Swift's poetry and portions of his Journal to Stella. Swift's savage ridicule, corrosive wit, and sparkling humor are fully displayed in this comprehensive collection. [via]
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The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Ageby Sven BirkertsISBN 057119849X (0-571-19849-X)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age'Book summary:What hath the inexpensive personal computer, the portable cassette player, and the CD-ROM wrought? Are books as we know them dead? And does--or should--it matter if they are? Birkerts, a renowned critic, examines the practice of reading with an eye to what the future will bring. [via]
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Historic Speeches of African Americansby Warrenj HalliburtonISBN 0531110346 (0-531-11034-6)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Hunger of Memoryby Richard RodriguezISBN 0553382519 (0-553-38251-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguezby Richard RodriguezISBN 0553272934 (0-553-27293-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Inheritorsby William GoldingISBN 0571225470 (0-571-22547-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inheritors'Book summary:From the author of Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors is a startling recreation of the lost world of the Neanderthals, and a frightening vision of the beginnings of a new age. [via]
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Interesting Timeby Terry PratchettISBN 0552142352 (0-552-14235-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interesting Time'Book summary:Marvelous Discworld, which revolves on the backs of four great elephants and a big turtle, spins into Interesting Times, the 17th outing in Terry Pratchett's rollicking fantasy series. The gods are playing games again, and this time the mysterious Lady opposes Fate in a match of "Destinies of Nations Hanging by a Thread." --Blaise Selby [via]
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Is This a House for Hermit Crabby Megan McDonald, S. D. SchindlerISBN 0531070417 (0-531-07041-7)
Softcover, Scholastic, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Is This a House for Hermit Crab?'Book summary:"Across flecked, sand-colored pages crawls Hermit Crab . . . hunting for a new house. . . . This wonderful marriage of words and illustrations is destined to become a well-loved story-hour tale."--School Library Journal, starred review. This Reading Rainbow Feature will air nationwide in October. Full color. [via]
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James and the Giant Peachby Roald DahlISBN 055315317X (0-553-15317-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James and the Giant Peach'Book summary:Roald Dahl's classic children's novel is now a motion picture from The Walt Disney Company, and this version of James and the Giant Peach grew out of the making of the movie. Lane Smith, conceptual artist for the film, has given James and company a new and arresting look, much in the style of his many highly regarded books, such as Math Curse and The Stinky Cheeseman. Karey Kirkpatrick, the film's screenwriter, created a text that is true to the spirit of Dahl's original, and deftly pulls young readers into the remarkable story. All in all, it's a peach of a book sure to be the pick of every child's bookshelf! [via]
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Jane Austen's Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0573018499 (0-573-01849-9)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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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:A family of wolves takes a little boy into their home in the jungle. The child learns and plays with the other cubs. But can he really live in the jungle? And will the dangerous tiger, Shere Khan, catch him? Rudyard Kipling's much-loved tale of jungle animals with real personalities is popular with readers of all ages. [via]
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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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Kokoby Peter StraubISBN 0525246606 (0-525-24660-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Little Rascalby S. NorthISBN 0525338543 (0-525-33854-3)
Hardcover, Dutton Childrens Books
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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Languageby Eva HoffmanISBN 0525246010 (0-525-24601-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Making and Using Scientific Modelsby Robert Gardner, Eric KemerISBN 0531156621 (0-531-15662-1)
Softcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Maskeradeby Terry PratchettISBN 0575058080 (0-575-05808-0)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maskerade'Book summary:There are strange goings-on at the Opera House in Ankh-Morpork. A ghost in a white mask is murdering, well, quite a lot of people, and two witches (it really isn't wise to call them "meddling, interfering old baggages"), or perhaps three, take a hand in unraveling the mystery. Fans of the popular Discworld will be happy to see some old friends again in Maskerade, the 18th novel in the series. --Blaise Selby [via]
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Master Harold & the Boysby Athol FugardISBN 0573640394 (0-573-64039-4)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Master Harold & the Boys'Book summary:Drama / 3m (1 white, 2 black) / Int.
The role that won Zakes Mokae a Tony Award brought Danny Glover back to the New York stage for the Roundabout Theatre's revival of this searing coming of age story, considered by many to be Fugard's masterpiece. A white teen who has grown up in the affectionate company of the two black waiters who work in his mother's tea room in Port Elizabeth learns that his viciously racist alcoholic father is on his way home from the hospital. An ensuing rage unwittingly triggers his inevitable passage into the culture of hatred fostered by apartheid.
"One of those depth charge plays [that] has lasting relevance [and] can triumphantly survive any test of time...The story is simple, but the resonance that Fugard brings to it lets it reach beyond the narrative, to touch so many nerves connected to betrayal and guilt. An exhilarating play...It is a triumph of playmaking, and unforgettable."-New York Post
"Fugard creates a blistering fusion of the personal and the political."-The New York Times
"This revival brings out [the play's] considerable strengths."-New York Daily News [via]
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Men at Arms: A Novel of Discworldby Terry PratchettISBN 0552140287 (0-552-14028-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Men at Arms: A Novel of Discworld'Book summary:Another wild romp through Discworld! Corporal Carrot, a young dwarf, is newly in charge of the recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork. Edward, the 37th Lord d'Eath, has just discovered that Ankh-Morpork, kingless for generations, has a sovereign ruler, who must be convinced that he is, in fact, the King. The fate of Ankh-Morpork rides on a young man's courage, an ancient sword's magic, and a three-legged poodle's bladder. [via]
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Mortby Terry PratchettISBN 0552131067 (0-552-13106-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mort'Book summary:[via]Adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs, this tells the story of Mort, who has been chosen as Death's apprentice. He gets board and lodging and free use of company horse, and doesn't even need time off for his grandmother's funeral. The trouble begins when instead of collecting the soul of a princess, he kills her would-be assassin, and changes history. -
Mort Big Comicby PratchettISBN 0575056991 (0-575-05699-1)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mort Big Comic'Book summary:An illustrated version of one of Terry Pratchett's comic science-fiction novels. Mort has been chosen as Death's apprentice. He gets board and lodging, free use of company horse, and doesn't even need time off for his grandmother's funeral. Looking like a skeleton is not compulsory, either. [via]
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Mousetrapby Agatha ChristieISBN 0573619239 (0-573-61923-9)
Softcover, Varsitybooks.Com
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Moving Picturesby Terry PratchettISBN 0575047631 (0-575-04763-1)
Hardcover, V. Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moving Pictures'Book summary:One of the "Discworld" novels. All hell breaks loose when some bright inhabitants of Discworld discover the romance of the silver screen and start selling it to the other inhabitants. As the alien cliches of Tinsel Town pour into the world, the dark secret of Holy Wood Hill must be uncovered. [via]
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Murder in the Cathedralby Nevill Coghill, T. S. EliotISBN 0571063276 (0-571-06327-6)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder in the Cathedral'Book summary:T. S. Eliots Murder in the Cathedral is both a fascinating retelling of the twelfth-century assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket and a compelling call for resistance in the face of intimidation. Written against the backdrop of rising Fascism in twentieth-century Europe, Eliots classic verse play is as relevant now as it ever was. This re-release of the original 1953 recording stars Robert Donat whose commanding performance as the Archbishop, alongside a full cast, is widely celebrated. [via]
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Murder With Mirrorsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0553350277 (0-553-35027-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder With Mirrors'Book summary:Murder With Mirrors (The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) [Apr 01, 1985] Christie, Agatha [via]
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane AustenISBN 0553211978 (0-553-21197-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Notes from Undergroundby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 0553211447 (0-553-21144-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from Underground'Book summary:"I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man," the irascible voice of a nameless narrator cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the brutal self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn and iconoclasm of alienated individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature. Notes From Underground , published in 1864, marks a tuming point in Dostoevsky's writing: it announces the moral political, and social ideas he will treat on a monumental scale in Crime And Punishment , The Idiot , and The Brothers Karamazov . And it remains to this day one of the most searingly honest and universal testaments to human despair ever penned. "The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century...confirm the status of Notes from Underground as one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction." -from the Introduction by Donald Fanger [via]
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One Person Can Make a Difference: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Thingsby Gerald G. JampolskyISBN 0553070258 (0-553-07025-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Pyramidsby Terry PratchettISBN 0575044632 (0-575-04463-2)
Hardcover, V. Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pyramids'Book summary:The seventh novel in the "Discworld" series concentrates on the problems of being a teenage pharaoh and humorously explores Egyptian history. The other novels in the series include "The Colour of Magic", "Sourcery" and "Wyrd Sisters". [via]
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The Railway Childrenby E. NesbitISBN 0553214152 (0-553-21415-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Reaper Manby Terry PratchettISBN 0575049790 (0-575-04979-0)
Hardcover, Victor Gollancz
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Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymesby Roald DahlISBN 0553153617 (0-553-15361-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryby Mildred D. TaylorISBN 0553244027 (0-553-24402-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Science and Sportsby Robert GardnerISBN 0531105938 (0-531-10593-8)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Shadow Syndromesby Catherine Johnson, John J. RateyISBN 0553379593 (0-553-37959-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Shape of Further Things: Speculations on Changeby Brian AldissISBN 0571094724 (0-571-09472-4)
Hardcover, Faber
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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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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:
Sign Languageby Laura Greene, Caren Caraway, Eva Barash DickerISBN 0531041956 (0-531-04195-6)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0553213741 (0-553-21374-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Sleeping Murderby Agatha ChristieISBN 0553256785 (0-553-25678-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Sourceryby Terry PratchettISBN 0552131075 (0-552-13107-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Tallulah:Darling of the Gods: An Intimate Portraitby Kieran TunneyISBN 0525213953 (0-525-21395-3)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Tehanuby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0575022744 (0-575-02274-4)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Terry Pratchett's Lords and Ladiesby Terry Pratchett, Irana BrownISBN 057301888X (0-573-01888-X)
Hardcover, Samuel French
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The Tombs of Atuanby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0553239031 (0-553-23903-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tombs of Atuan'Book summary:Often compared to Tolkien's Middle-earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu) tell the whole Earthsea cycle--a tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who becomes a wizard's apprentice after the wizard reveals Sparrowhawk's true name. The boy comes to realize that his fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible. Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world. Teens, especially, will be inspired by the way Le Guin allows her characters to evolve and grow into their own powers.
In this second book of Le Guin's Earthsea series, readers will meet Tenar, a priestess to the "Nameless Ones" who guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan. Only Tenar knows the passageways of this dark labyrinth, and only she can lead the young wizard Sparrowhawk, who stumbles into its maze, to the greatest treasure of all. Will she? [via]
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0553214624 (0-553-21462-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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When People Dieby Rosmarie Hausherr, Stephen Gullo, Joanne E. BernsteinISBN 0525425454 (0-525-42545-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Wind in the Willowsby Kenneth GrahameISBN 0553213687 (0-553-21368-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wind in the Willows'Book summary:If you ever feel like falling into a beautiful comic-book story--in the same way one falls back into a warm field of grass--reach for Michel Plessix's lush adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows. The artwork is an aquarelle, with thin, precise, detailed lines. It's no wonder he received numerous awards for his previous effort, Julien Boisvert, a contemporary take on the Tintin character type. In Wind in the Willows, Plessix breathes life into Mole, Rat, and Toad (of Toad Hall) as they picnic on the riverbank, indulge in Toad's latest fad, and get lost in Wild Wood. The pacing is masterful: each panel lingers just long enough to make you appreciate the simple pleasures of life.
This review refers to ISBN 1561631965. [via]
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Witches Abroadby Terry PratchettISBN 0575049804 (0-575-04980-4)
Hardcover, V. Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Witches Abroad'Book summary:One of the "Discworld" novels. The witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick travel to the distant city of Genua to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince. But all they've got is Mrs Gogol's voodoo, a one-eyed cat and a secondhand magic wand that can only do pumpkins. [via]
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Wizard of Earthseaby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0553262505 (0-553-26250-5)
Softcover, Skylark
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In this first book, A Wizard of Earthsea readers will witness Sparrowhawk's moving rite of passage--when he discovers his true name and becomes a young man. Great challenges await Sparrowhawk, including an almost deadly battle with a sinister creature, a monster that may be his own shadow. [via]
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The Woman in Whiteby Wilkie CollinsISBN 055321263X (0-553-21263-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman in White'Book summary:One night on the road to London, a young drawing master, Walter Hartright, meets a mysterious woman dressed all in white and answers her pleas for help. But who is she and why is she being followed by two men? And what is her connection with his pupil Laura Fairlie, the woman he secretly loves? Wilkie Collins' masterpiece of terrible secrets, concealed identities, abductions, fraud, cruel aristocrats and sinister foreigners is a mesmerising read and now also a powerful television drama starring Tara Fitzgerald and Simon Callow. [via]
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Wyrd Sistersby Terry PratchettISBN 0552144304 (0-552-14430-4)
Softcover, Transworld Pub
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The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesseby Jack D. Zipes, David Frampton, Hermann HesseISBN 0553100238 (0-553-10023-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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