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10,000 Baby Namesby Bruce LanskyISBN 0671556924 (0-671-55692-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: '10,000 Baby Names'Book summary:Designed to let you scan through the most contemporary list of girl's and boy's names to find the right name for your baby. Includes variations, nicknames and covers a variety of racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds. [via]
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Anne of Green Gablesby L.M. Montgomery, Deborah FelderISBN 0679854673 (0-679-85467-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne of Green Gables'Book summary:When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effronteryby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0679768203 (0-679-76820-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Art of Fictionby John GardnerISBN 0679734031 (0-679-73403-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Fiction'Book summary:This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writersand will continue to do so for many years to come.
John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works. In this practical, instructive handbook, based on the courses and seminars that he gave, he explains, simply and cogently, the principles and techniques of good writing. Gardners lessons, exemplified with detailed excerpts from classic works of literature, sweep across a complete range of topicsfrom the nature of aesthetics to the shape of a refined sentence. Written with passion, precision, and a deep respect for the art of writing, Gardners book serves by turns as a critic, mentor, and friend. Anyone who has ever thought of taking the step from reader to writer should begin here. [via]More editions of The Art of Fiction:
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklasby Gertrude SteinISBN 067972463X (0-679-72463-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspaceby James J. O'DonnellISBN 067400194X (0-674-00194-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Baby Names from Around the Worldby Maxine FieldsISBN 0671727605 (0-671-72760-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Book of Disquietby Fernando Pessoa, Alfred MacAdamISBN 0679402349 (0-679-40234-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Book That Changed My Life: Interviews With National Book Award Winners and Finalistsby Diane Osen, Neil BaldwinISBN 0679783512 (0-679-78351-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Bridget Jones's Diaryby Helen FieldingISBN 0670880728 (0-670-88072-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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This laugh-out-loud chronicle charts a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single girl on a permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement--in which she resolves to: visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and not fall for any of the following: misogynists, megalomaniacs, adulterers, workaholics, chauvinists or perverts. And learn to program the VCR.
Caught between her Singleton friends, who are all convinced they will end up dying alone and found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian, and the Smug Marrieds, whose dinner parties offer ever-new opportunities for humiliation, Bridget struggles to keep her life on an even keel (or at least afloat). Through it all, she will have her readers helpless with laughter and shouting, "BRIDGET JONES IS ME!"
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The Brontes: A Life in Lettersby Juliet R.V. BarkerISBN 0670872121 (0-670-87212-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie 1775-1800by Robert DarntonISBN 0674087860 (0-674-08786-0)
Softcover, Belknap Pr
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The Cabin: Reminiscence and Diversionsby David MametISBN 0679747206 (0-679-74720-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Capote: A Biographyby Gerald ClarkeISBN 0671228110 (0-671-22811-0)
Hardcover, Linden Pub
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Consciousness & the Novelby David LodgeISBN 0674013778 (0-674-01377-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Craft of the Screenwriterby John Joseph BradyISBN 0671252305 (0-671-25230-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Crazy Englishby Richard Lederer, Elaine PfefferblitISBN 067168907X (0-671-68907-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crazy English'Book summary:One of the most unforgettable moments of my youth was learning the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I was in third grade. So what if Richard Lederer has come up with a chemical compound that consists of 1,913 letters? Owning a word like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is empowering at any age. If you have ever been completely wowed by the power you can have over language, or its power over you, Richard Lederer is your patron saint. His oft-reprinted introduction to Crazy English, which was originally published in 1989, claims that English is "the most loopy and wiggy of all tongues." And then he demonstrates: "In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway? ... Why do they call them apartments when they're all together?" And so on. Lederer's pace is frenetic. He alights on oxymorons ("pretty ugly," "computer jock"), redundancies, confusing words (are you sure you know the meaning of enormity?), phobias, contronyms, heteronyms, retroactive terms (acoustic guitar, rotary phone), and a host of other linguistic delights.
Though English may be one of the crazier languages--Lederer claims that about 80 percent of our words are not spelled phonetically--they are all, he says, a little crazy. "That's because language is invented ... by boys and girls and men and women, not computers. As such, language reflects the creative and fearful asymmetry of the human race, which, of course, isn't really a race at all." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Crazy English: The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Languageby Richard LedererISBN 0671023233 (0-671-02323-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crazy English: The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language'Book summary:One of the most unforgettable moments of my youth was learning the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I was in third grade. So what if Richard Lederer has come up with a chemical compound that consists of 1,913 letters? Owning a word like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is empowering at any age. If you have ever been completely wowed by the power you can have over language, or its power over you, Richard Lederer is your patron saint. His oft-reprinted introduction to Crazy English, which was originally published in 1989, claims that English is "the most loopy and wiggy of all tongues." And then he demonstrates: "In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway? ... Why do they call them apartments when they're all together?" And so on. Lederer's pace is frenetic. He alights on oxymorons ("pretty ugly," "computer jock"), redundancies, confusing words (are you sure you know the meaning of enormity?), phobias, contronyms, heteronyms, retroactive terms (acoustic guitar, rotary phone), and a host of other linguistic delights.
Though English may be one of the crazier languages--Lederer claims that about 80 percent of our words are not spelled phonetically--they are all, he says, a little crazy. "That's because language is invented ... by boys and girls and men and women, not computers. As such, language reflects the creative and fearful asymmetry of the human race, which, of course, isn't really a race at all." --Jane Steinberg [via]
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A Dictionary of Literary, Dramatic, and Cinematic Termsby Sylvan BarnetISBN 0673391949 (0-673-39194-9)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Don't Panicby Neil GaimanISBN 0671664263 (0-671-66426-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Panic'Book summary:Told in the same fanciful, irreverent style as the Hitchhiker trilogy, with scraps of scripts, letters and comments from Adams, Don't Panic is the perfect companion to one of the most successful series in publishing history. [via]
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The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Pathby Peter DavisonISBN 0679406581 (0-679-40658-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Path'Book summary:"A beautiful and richly instructive book, a worthy and welcome sequel to Eileen Simpson's Poets in Their Youth."
Louis S. Auchincloss
An intimately perceptive account, by a poet who knew them all, of the brilliant circle of poets who lived and worked in Boston through the half-decade beginning in 1955. That was the year Peter Davison, coming to Boston as a book editor. was swept up in a world -- in a tumult -- of poetry. He rediscovered his father's old friend Robert Frost. He briefly squired Sylvia Plath. He came to know Robert Lowell (whose poems and private disasters dominated the period) and Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Richard Wilbur. Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, and others who, closely bound together in friendship or rivalry or both, defined the shape of American poetry at mid-century Through their eves as well as his own, and often in their words, Davison presents a sharply fresh vision of the shift from confidence to a troubled questioning that overtook America -- a transformation that was, in a sense, foreshadowed in the sensibilities, in the writings, sometimes in the lives, of some of our finest poets. [via]More editions of The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Path:
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Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel : The Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Showby Michael BarsonISBN 0679720367 (0-679-72036-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel : The Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Show'Book summary:This is a collection of radio scripts of the comedy series starring Groucho, Waldorf and Chico Marx which ran for six months from November 1932. They have recently been discovered and are published here for the first time. [via]
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For Argument's Sake: A Guide to Writing Effective Argumentsby Katherine J. MayberryISBN 0673398269 (0-673-39826-9)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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For Your Eye Alone: The Letters of Robertson Daviesby Robertson Davies, Judith Skelton GrantISBN 0670892912 (0-670-89291-2)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Golden Notebookby Doris May LessingISBN 0671287702 (0-671-28770-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Grammar for Smart People: Your User-Friendly Guide to Speaking and Writing Better Englishby Barry Tarshis, R.J. MatsonISBN 0671750445 (0-671-75044-5)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grammar for Smart People: Your User-Friendly Guide to Speaking and Writing Better English'Book summary:Good grammar is essential for effective communication. Yet many of us are plagued by the same nagging question:
If I'm so smart why does grammar make me feel so dumb? Grammar For Smart People can help.
Here at last, is a lively, user-friendly guide that zeroes in on the areas that give everyone the most trouble, and it does it with an advantage most grammar books lack - a light touch. You won't feel as though you're back in the fifth grade, diagramming sentences and struggling with a grammar textbook filled with dull, unbreakable rules.
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Handbook of Current Englishby Jim W. Corder, John J. RuszkiewiczISBN 067315968X (0-673-15968-X)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Honk If You're a Writer: Unabashed Advice, Undiluted Experience, and Unadulterated Inspiration for Writers and Writers-To-Beby Arthur PlotnikISBN 0671778137 (0-671-77813-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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How Proust Can Change Your Lifeby Alain De BottonISBN 0679779159 (0-679-77915-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Proust Can Change Your Life'Book summary:This is a genius-level piece of writing that manages to blend literary biography with self-help and tongue-in-cheek with the profound. The quirky, early 1900s French author Marcel Proust acts as the vessel for surprisingly impressive nuggets of wisdom on down-to-earth topics such as why you should never sleep with someone on the first date, how to protect yourself against lower back pain, and how to cope with obnoxious neighbors. Here's proof that our ancestors had just as much insight as the gurus du jour and perhaps a lot more wit. De Botton simultaneously pokes fun at the self-help movement and makes a significant contribution to its archives. [via]
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How Proust Can Change Your Life : Not a Novelby Alain de BottonISBN 0679442758 (0-679-44275-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Proust Can Change Your Life : Not a Novel'Book summary:This is a genius-level piece of writing that manages to blend literary biography with self-help and tongue-in-cheek with the profound. The quirky, early 1900s French author Marcel Proust acts as the vessel for surprisingly impressive nuggets of wisdom on down-to-earth topics such as why you should never sleep with someone on the first date, how to protect yourself against lower back pain, and how to cope with obnoxious neighbors. Here's proof that our ancestors had just as much insight as the gurus du jour and perhaps a lot more wit. De Botton simultaneously pokes fun at the self-help movement and makes a significant contribution to its archives. [via]
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How to Do Things With Wordsby J.L. AustinISBN 0674411528 (0-674-41152-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Do Things With Words'Book summary:John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic How to Do Things with Words.
For this second edition, the editors have returned to Austin's original lecture notes, amending the printed text where it seemed necessary. Students will find the new text clearer, and, at the same time, more faithful to the actual lectures. An appendix contains literal transcriptions of a number of marginal notes made by Austin but not included in the text. Comparison of the text with these annotations provides new dimensions to the study of Austin's work.
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I Six Non Lecturesby E. E. CummingsISBN 0674440102 (0-674-44010-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Imagining Characters: Conversations About Women Writers Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrisonby A. S. Byatt, Ignes Sodre, Rebecca SwiftISBN 0679777539 (0-679-77753-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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In Search of J. D. Salingerby Ian HamiltonISBN 0679722203 (0-679-72220-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Institutio Oratoria Quintilianby QuintilianISBN 0674991397 (0-674-99139-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Language of Argumentby Daniel McDonald, Larry W. BurtonISBN 0673995070 (0-673-99507-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Lincoln at Gettysburgby Garry WillsISBN 0671769561 (0-671-76956-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lincoln at Gettysburg'Book summary:A former professor of Greek at Yale University, Wills painstakingly deconstructs Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and discovers heavy influence from the early Greeks (Pericles) and the 19th century Transcendentalists (Edward Everett). The author also probes Lincoln's decision to rely more on the Declaration of Independence than the U.S. Constitution, a decision Wills says represented a "revolution in thought." He speaks effusively of the 272-word address: "All modern political prose descends from [it]. The Address does what all great art accomplishes. [I]t tease[s] us out of thought." Wills' book won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. [via]
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Lincoln at Gettysburg : The Words That Remade Americaby Garry WillsISBN 0671867423 (0-671-86742-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, James PrunierISBN 0670877069 (0-670-87706-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:"Little Women" is an American classic, adored for Louisa May Alcott's lively and vivid portraits of the endearing March sisters: talented tomboy Jo, pretty Meg, shy Beth, temperamental Amy. Millions have shared in their joys, hardships, and adventures as they grow up in Civil War New England, separated by the war from their father and beloved mother, "Marmee", blossoming from "little women" into adults. Jo searches for her writer's voice and finds unexpected love... Meg prepares for marriage and a family... Beth reaches out to the less fortunate, tragically... and Amy travels to Europe to become a painter. Based on Louisa May Alcott's own Yankee childhood, "Little Women" is a treasure-- a story whose enduring values of patience, loyalty, and love have kept this extraordinary family close to the hearts of generation after generation of delighted readers. [via]
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Little Womenby Janet Allison Brown, Dinah DryhurstISBN 0670899127 (0-670-89912-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Little Womenby Laurie Lawlor, Louisa May AlcottISBN 0671519026 (0-671-51902-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Little Women, Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amyby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0679436421 (0-679-43642-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Lord of Emperorsby Guy Gavriel KayISBN 0670880922 (0-670-88092-2)
Hardcover, Viking
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Monster : Living off the Big Screenby John Gregory DunneISBN 0679455795 (0-679-45579-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monster : Living off the Big Screen'Book summary:This is a story of a screenplay, how it was initially conceived, "developed" by a number of studio heads and producers, and finally transformed into a movie even its writers admit is mediocre. In 1988, John Gregory Dunne and his wife Joan Didion began work on a film script based on the tragic life of anchorwoman Jessica Savitch. Over the next eight years, studio executives coaxed them to transform it into Up Close and Personal, a toothless star vehicle for Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer. In his account of the script's metamorphosis, Dunne also mentions other potential masterpieces of excess that he and Didion worked on, including Dharma Blue, an aborted Jerry Bruckheimer-Don Simpson movie about UFOs and Ultimatum, a nuclear thriller that was abandoned after its studio spent $3 million on script development! Dunne makes no bones about being in show biz for the money--his film work financed his heart surgery, legal costs, and vacations in Honolulu. Still, this account of a screenplay's devolution unmasks an industry spoiled rotten by wealth and power. [via]
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Music for Chameleonsby Truman CapoteISBN 0679745661 (0-679-74566-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Music for Chameleons'Book summary:In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise; and a proper Connecticut householder with a ruinous obsession for a twelve-year-old he has never met. And we meet Capote himself, who, whether he is smoking with his cleaning lady or trading sexual gossip with Marilyn Monroe, remains one of the most elegant, malicious, yet compassionate writers to train his eye on the social fauna of his time.
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The New York Public Library Desk ReferenceISBN 0671850148 (0-671-85014-8)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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On Histories and Stories: Selected Essaysby A. S. ByattISBN 0674008332 (0-674-00833-2)
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One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0679444653 (0-679-44465-3)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'Book summary:"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Open Workby Umberto Eco, Anna CancogniISBN 0674639766 (0-674-63976-6)
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The Princeton Review: Word Smart Building an Educated Vocabularyby Adam RobinsonISBN 0679745890 (0-679-74589-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princeton Review: Word Smart Building an Educated Vocabulary'Book summary:1) Do you know that to peruse a book is not to skim it?
2) Do you know the difference between enormous and enormity?
3) Do you know the adjective form of admonish, or the noun form of dubious?
If you answered no to any of these questions, you need Word Smart.
Improving your vocabulary is important, but where do you start? The English language has hundreds of thousands of words. To find out which words you absolutely need to know, The Princeton Review researched the vocabularies of educated adults. It analyzed newspapers from The New York Times to The Wall Street Journal, magazines from Time to Scientific American and books from current bestsellers to classics. It threw out the words that most people know and focused on the words that people misunderstand or misuse. From these, it selected 823 words that appeared most frequently.
And for students, The Princeton Review did the same thing. It analyzed the PSAT, the SAT, and GRE to determine which words are tested more frequently. Word Smart is the only vocabulary book you'll ever need.
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1) Despite what most people think, peruse means to read carefully.
2) Enormity can refer to the state of being large, but it also means a wicked or depraved act.
3) Admonitory, dubiety.) [via]More editions of The Princeton Review: Word Smart Building an Educated Vocabulary:
Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readersby David GrambsISBN 0679728600 (0-679-72860-0)
Hardcover, Random House Information Group
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The Ravenous Muse : A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Booksby Karen E. GordonISBN 067941861X (0-679-41861-X)
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Reading Culture: Contexts for Critical Reading and Writingby John Trimbur, Diana GeorgeISBN 0673990249 (0-673-99024-9)
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The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dickby Philip K. Dick, Lawrence SutinISBN 0679747877 (0-679-74787-7)
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The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick : Selected Literary and Philosophical Writingsby Philip K. Dick, Lawrence Sutin, Sutin LawrenceISBN 0679426442 (0-679-42644-2)
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A Short Guide to Writing About Biologyby Jan A. PechenikISBN 0673521281 (0-673-52128-1)
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A Short Guide to Writing About Social Scienceby Lee J. CubaISBN 067352194X (0-673-52194-X)
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The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumberby Nicholson BakerISBN 0679776249 (0-679-77624-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber'Book summary:Novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker has had a small but well-deserved cult following since his first book, The Mezzanine, and the publication of the literary sex-bomb Vox saw his popularity mushroom. Baker's great gift is a precision of observational detail that has a peculiarly incisive effect on a reader's consciousness. Here is over a decade's worth of his essays and articles, including the much-praised card catalogue article first published in the New Yorker. The Size of Thoughts, through its varied forays into the realms of the overlooked, the underfunded, and the wrongfully scrapped, is a funny and thought-provoking book by one of the most distinctive stylists and thinkers of our time. [via]
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Slang: The Authoritative Topic-By-Topic Dictionary of American Lingoes from All Walks of Lifeby Paul DicksonISBN 0671549197 (0-671-54919-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slang: The Authoritative Topic-By-Topic Dictionary of American Lingoes from All Walks of Life'Book summary:The first edition of Paul Dickson's Slang was selected by William Safire of The New York Times as one of the best language books of the year. Completely updated -- with more than twice as many entries as before -- this latest volume truly encompasses the whole colorful range of current American slang. Divided into twenty-nine broad categories, these are the words that make American English as expressive as it is fascinating. From advertising offices to prisons, from high schools to the halls of Congress, this invaluable resource reveals the way Americans speak and think today.
Whether burgeoning from the web of new words on the Internet, the fluid language of the drug culture, or the brutal and ironic parlance of the Vietnam and Gulf wars, these verbal inventions have carved their places in the vernacular. The vitality of American slang is reflected in such recent coinages as digerati (digital equivalent of literati), spam (to deploy mass postings on the Internet), and phat (good, cool). And the flexibility of the language has given rise to a mountain biker's claims to feeling hammered (exhausted, beaten to a pulp), the Pentagon brass' declaration cubed out (filled to capacity), and the meteorologist's scud (a low, fast-moving cloud).
Drawing from fields as diverse as aviation, the media, and real estate, Dickson has unearthed thousands of pithy expressions for the common denominators of American life, including: wrong side of the curtain (tourist or economy class on an airline), roboanchor (a TV anchor who reads but does not understand the news) and house on steroids (a small home that's bigger after major remodeling work). The breadth and power of the slang collected here brings to life whole new worlds -- and rich new ways to communicate.
With each section prefaced by illuminating discussions of that particular culture's language, Slang goes well beyond the role of a traditional dictionary; it lays claim to a treasured place in any language lover's library. [via]
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Slang!: The Topic-by-Topic Dictionary of Contemporary American Lingoesby Paul Dickson, Paul McCarthyISBN 0671672517 (0-671-67251-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Sportswriterby Richard FordISBN 0679762108 (0-679-76210-8)
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To the Lighthouseby Virginia WoolfISBN 0679405372 (0-679-40537-2)
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Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of its prose, To the Lighthouse is above all the story of a quest, and as such it possesses a brave and magical universality.
Observed across the years at their vacation house facing the gales of the North Atlantic, Mrs. Ramsay and her family seek to recapture meaning from the flux of things and the passage of time. Though it is the death of Mrs. Ramsay on which the novel turns, her presence pervades every page in a poetic evocation of loss and memory that is also a celebration of domestic life and its most intimate details. Virginia Woolfs great book enacts a powerful allegory of the creative consciousness and its momentary triumphs over fleeting material life. [via]More editions of To the Lighthouse:
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U and Iby Nicholson BakerISBN 0679735755 (0-679-73575-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'U and I'Book summary:Nicholson Baker is most famous for Vox, the phone-sex novel Monica Lewinsky gave President Clinton, but the vastly superior U and I contains Baker's own dirty little secret: an obsession with John Updike. Not since Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus has one man's genius so publicly tormented another. Baker's ambition is a naked thing shivering with sensitivity, like a snail bereft of its shell. Yet his book about himself thinking about Updike is as hilariously self-knowing as it is excruciatingly sincere. And Baker is not mad (not quite). He does have a few things in common with his idol: fiction precociously published in The New Yorker, psoriasis, insomnia, a keen eye for everyday minutiae, and a mischievously felicitous prose style. He is, however, funnier. Hunting for Updike at The Atlantic's 125th anniversary party, he gets brutally snubbed by Miss Manners--U and I is a fine comedy of literary manners--and cheers up when Tim O'Brien chats with him. But when O'Brien mentions that he golfs with Updike, Baker is hurt:
It didn't matter that I hadn't written a book that had won a National Book Award, hadn't written a book of any kind, and didn't know how to golf: still, I felt strongly that Updike should have asked me and not Tim O'Brien.
He justifies this reaction with a remarkably intricate series of associations between his life and Updike's, starting with the major impact a golf joke in an Updike essay once had on him. When Baker reads in the paper that his local cops offer to X-ray kids' candy for razors, he plausibly imagines the droll "Talk of the Town" piece Updike might have spun from the item, glumly noting that Updike's piece would have been better. He even teasingly confesses that U and I constitutes "a little trick-or-treating of my own on Updike's big white front porch." By the time he actually meets his hero (at Rochester's Xerox Auditorium!) in 1981, Baker has transformed him into a character in a Baker story. Quite a trick--and a treat.
In his elegy for Yeats, Auden wrote that a great poet's words are modified in the guts of the living, but Baker proves what really happens: at best we misremember and mangle, shamelessly remaking the master in our own image. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0679722769 (0-679-72276-9)
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Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Storiesby Tobias WolffISBN 0679745130 (0-679-74513-0)
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0679735747 (0-679-73574-7)
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By virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreaus account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one of the signposts by which the modern mind has located itself in an increasingly bewildering world. Deeply sane, invigorating in its awareness of humanitys place in the moral and natural order, Walden represents the progressive spirit of nineteenth-century America at its eloquent best. [via] 
Wanderlust : A History of Walkingby Rebecca SolnitISBN 0670882097 (0-670-88209-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Watching My Languageby William SafireISBN 0679423877 (0-679-42387-7)
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Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Languageby Merriam-Webster StaffISBN 067141819X (0-671-41819-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Writer's Lifeby Gay TaleseISBN 0679410961 (0-679-41096-1)
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The Writer's Mind: Making Writing Make Senseby Michael AdamsISBN 0673158101 (0-673-15810-1)
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Writing Great Screenplays for Film and TVby Dona CooperISBN 067184783X (0-671-84783-X)
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Writing Novels That Sellby Jack M. BickhamISBN 0671683934 (0-671-68393-4)
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You Can Write a Romanceby Yvonee MacManusISBN 0671458590 (0-671-45859-0)
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