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McSweeney's Issue 26

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 3:13:19 PST

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McSweeney's began in 1998 as a literary journal edited by Dave Eggers that published only works rejected from other magazines. But after the first issue, the journal began to publish pieces written with McSweeney's in mind. Soon after, McSweeney's attracted works from some of the finest writers in the country, including David Foster Wallace, Ann Cummins, Rick Moody, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethe ...

Endgame and Act Without Words

Wed, 14 May 2008 8:33:29 PST

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Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. "Endgame, " originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw mi ...

The Smartest Guys in the Room

Fri, 9 May 2008 5:57:11 PST

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Just as Watergate was the defining political story of its time, so Enron is the biggest business story of our time. And just as All the Presidents Men was the one Watergate book that gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance, The Smartest Guys in the Room is the one book you have to read to understand this amazing business saga.

When Genius Failed

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:32:27 PST

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On September 23, 1998, the boardroom of the New York Fed was a tense place. Around the table sat the heads of every major Wall Street bank, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, and representatives from numerous European banks, each of whom had been summoned to discuss a highly unusual prospect: rescuing what had, until then, been the envy of them all, the extraordinarily successful bond-t ...

Armageddon in Retrospect

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 1:12:02 PST

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The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death—a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity’s tendency toward violence. Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut’s trademark rueful humor, the pieces range from a viscera ...

The Biography of a Dollar

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 1:11:38 PST

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Will the sun set on the greatest currency in the history of the world? For decades the dollar has been the undisputed champ. It’s not only the currency of America but much of the world as well, the fuel of global prosperity. As the superengine of the world’s only superpower, it’s accepted everywhere. When an Asian company trades with South America, those transactions are done in dollars, the cu ...

Dreams from My Father

Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:17:51 PST

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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small ...

The Man in the High Castle

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 2:15:57 PST

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From Hell

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:27:52 PST

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From Hell is the story of Jack the Ripper, perhaps the most infamous man in the annals of murder. Detailing the events leading up to the Whitechapel killings and the cover-up that followed, From Hell is a meditation on the mind of a madman whose savagery and violence gave birth to the 20th century. The serialized story, presented in its entirety in this volume, has garnered widespread attention f ...

GTO Vol. 3

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 4:35:14 PST

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Eikichi Onizuka lands his first teaching job and gets ready to make all of his dreams come true. But he's got to take on the toughest class of kids in his new school to prove his worth! When his brand-new class hatches a plan that involves humiliating Onizuka into early retirement at every turn, Onizuka`s ready to set the record straight one bully at a time. Now, he just needs to stay out of t ...

Baseball Haiku

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 4:33:49 PST

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This remarkable new collection, which includes poems from both America and Japan, captures perfectly the thrill of baseball - a double play, a game of catch or the hushed pause as a pitcher looks in before hurling his pitch. Like haiku, the game is concerned with the nature of the seasons: joyous in the spring, thrilling in summer's heat, ripening with the descent of the autumn and remembered fon ...

McSweeney's Issue 25

Tue, 4 Mar 2008 1:39:20 PST

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The Road

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 3:24:42 PST

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE WINNER National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to b ...

Teenage Wasteland

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 3:20:29 PST

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The Good Die Young

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 3:18:35 PST

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The world as we know it is about to end and the Runaways are the only hope to prevent it! But if our fledgling teenage heroes are going to succeed, they may have to become just as evil as their villainous parents. The Runaways have learned how their parents' criminal organization began, and now they must decide how it should end. As the Runaways' epic battle against their evil parents reaches its ...

Runaways, Vol. 1

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 3:17:20 PST

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All young people believe their parents are evil ... but what if they really are? Meet Alex, Karolina, Gert, Chase, Molly and Nico - whose lives are about to take an unexpected turn. When these six young friends discover their parents are all secretly super-powered villains, the shocked teens find strength in one another. Together, they run away from home and straight into the adventure of their l ...

Gto #2

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 3:16:10 PST

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Former gangster Onizuka is ready to put aside his punkish ways and join the working world as a teacher. All that stands between him and a regular paycheck and dozens of hot girls to flirt with is the big teaching exam. Oh, wait he accidentally used his study book as toilet paper! Now, without credentials, the only place he can land a job is at the Holy Forest Academy where he only barely gets ...

Gto #1

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 3:14:47 PST

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Meet Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old virgin and ex-biker. He's crude, foul-mouthed, and has a split second temper. His goal: to be the Greatest High School Teacher in the World! Of course the only reason he wants to be a teacher is so he can try and score with the hot students Before he can become a teacher, he's got to work as a student teacher to earn his credentials. Onizuka may think he's ...

John Adams

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 3:14:10 PST

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In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all bu ...

Ghost Circles

Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:21:43 PST

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The Amber Spyglass

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 2:15:39 PST

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『The Amber Spyglass』は、冒頭のシーンからいきなりスリリングな展開で読者の心をむんずとつかむ。差し障りのない範囲であらすじを紹介しよう。前作『The Subtle Knife』（邦題『神秘の短剣』）でライラを捕らえたのは誰かという謎はすぐに解き明かされる。だが、その人物のもくろみが善なのか悪なのか、それとも心を決めかねているのかは依然として謎のままだ。また、世界を分断するよう託された剣はまだウィルの手の中にある。そしてその彼をアスリエル卿がいる山頂の要塞まで導くように定められた、翼をもつ2人の天使が仲間に加わる。だが、この少年ウィルの目的はただひとつ。それは、友を救い、彼女に「真理計」（アレシオメーター）を返すことだった。アレシオメーターとは、彼女にとっても『The Golden Compass』（邦題『黄金の羅針盤』）と続編『The Subtle Knife ...

Bad Monkeys

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 1:49:59 PST

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Close Range

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 5:59:49 PST

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The 9/11 Report

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 5:59:02 PST

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The 9/11 Report for Every American On December 5, 2005, the 9/11 Commission issued its final report card on the government’s fulfillment of the recommendations issued in July 2004: one A, twelve Bs, nine Cs, twelve Ds, three Fs, and four incompletes. Here is stunning evidence that Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón, with more than sixty years of experience in the comic-book industry between them, wer ...

The Subtle Knife

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:05:13 PST

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Read by the author and a full cast 8 hours 55 minutes, 8 CDs The universe has broken wide, and Lyra's friend lies dead. Desperate for answers and set on revenge, Lyra bursts into a new world in pursuit of his killer. Instead, she finds Will, just twelve years old and already a murderer himself. He's on a quest as fierce as Lyra's, and together they strike out into this sunlit otherworld. ...

Notes for a War Story

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 0:32:08 PST

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"The war arrived in our village on the 18th of January. Obviously there were other wars going on, but they didn’t have anything to do with us. There were wars for blacks. Wars for Arabs. Wars for Slavs. Our war started on the 18th of January, and in a few days, everything had changed." So recounts Giuliano, a loner among outsiders, one of three young drifters caught up in the whirlwind of a war ...

The Golden Compass

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 3:52:37 PST

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In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of my ...

The Black Swan

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 3:29:08 PST

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Bestselling author Nassim Nicholas Taleb continues his exploration of randomness in his fascinating new book, The Black Swan, in which he examines the influence of highly improbable and unpredictable events that have massive impact. Engaging and enlightening, The Black Swan is a book that may change the way you think about the world, a book that Chris Anderson calls, "a delightful romp through hi ...

McSweeney's Issue 24

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 1:50:21 PST

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With a special section on Donald Barthelme, including remembrances from Ann Beattie, David Gates, and Oscar Hijuelos, and some of Barthelme’s barely published and never-collected early work, and a highly theoretical but potentially amazing Z-binding that we can’t describe very well here, or even to each other, McSweeney’s 24 will never be mistaken for anything else. (Except possibly the June 1978 ...

After the Trade Is Made, Revised Third Ed.

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 1:48:39 PST

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The fully updated classic guide to the mechanics of securities processinga must for professional investors This third edition of After the Trade Is Made reflects the changes that have taken place in recent years as a result of new products, technological breakthroughs, and the globalization of the securities industry. Comprehensive and easy to understand, it provides brokers, operations perso ...

The Age of Turbulence

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:18:10 PST

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In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good reason to fear the worst: the stock market crash of October 1987, his first major crisis as Federal Reserve C ...

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 22

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:29:50 PST

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McSweeney's Issue 22 is a three-part exercise in inspired restriction — of author, of content, and of form. In section one, poets (yes — poets!) including Mary Karr, Denis Johnson, C. D. Wright, and D. C. Berman initiate poet-chains, picking a poem of their own and one by another poet. The next poet will then do the same, and then again, and again, and so on. In section two, Fitzgerald (yes — F. ...

Chicken with Plums

Tue, 2 Oct 2007 6:09:19 PST

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In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new instrument. His beloved tar has been broken. But no matter what tar he tries, none of them sound right. Brokenhearted, Nasser Ali Khan decides that life is no longer worth living. He takes to his bed, renouncing the world and all of its pleasures. This is the story of the eight days he spends prepa ...

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 0:45:11 PST

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The latest volume in the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker that discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome.Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and d ...

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 7

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 0:45:04 PST

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The saga of Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, continues in PAPER DOLLS, writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra's award-winning VERTIGO series. In addition to catching up on the adventures of Yorick's monkey Ampersand (whose body holds the key to stopping the male-killing plague) and telling the origin of Agent 355, PAPER DOLLS chronicles Yorick and 355's search for Yorick's fiancee Beth ...

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 0:44:47 PST

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Rose

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 1:05:07 PST

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The hit comic book mini-series Rose now comes to you in a single handsome package with a brand new cover! Released over a yearlong period to rave reviews (and an Eisner nomination for best painter), the BONE prequel by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess can now be read as it was originally intended - -as one massive epic. In the old days, when BONE'S Gran'ma Ben was a teenager, a terrifying dragon laid ...

Fun Home

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:57:32 PST

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Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis — a story exhilaratingly suited to the graphic memoir form. This autobiography by the author of the long-running strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, deals with her childhood with a closeted gay father, a family in which a man's secrets make his wife a tired husk and overshadow his daughter's burgeoning womanhood and homosexuality. "A pioneering work, pushing two gen ...

High Fidelity

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:16:33 PST

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In "as funny, compulsive and contemporary a first novel as you could wish for" (GQ), a young pop music junkie finds that his myriad diversions after the breakup with his longtime girlfriend are not as entertaining as he thought they would be. "A total howl".--Mirabella. [예스24 제공]

Transmetropolitan Vol. 0

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 4:28:14 PST

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Transmetropolitan Vol. 9

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 4:28:04 PST

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Transmetropolitan Vol. 5

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 4:28:02 PST

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Nobody ever accused Warren Ellis of lacking imagination. The latest collection of the Spider Jerusalem saga, Transmetropolitan: Lonely City, is packed with laser-guided satire and neo-adolescent wish fulfillment in the form of a bowel disruptor. Sliding his story of government manipulation and counter-manipulation between moments of reflection and observation makes Ellis's downbeat ending a bit l ...

Transmetropolitan Vol. 8

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 4:27:45 PST

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Transmetropolitan Vol. 3

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 4:27:36 PST

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Transmetropolitan Vol. 2

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 4:27:35 PST

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Transmetropolitan Vol. 1

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 4:27:33 PST

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Warren Ellis (whose recent work includes the excellent The Authority) is a fine comics writer. Spider Jerusalem, his tortured journalist protagonist, is a wonderful creation. Back on the Street is the first in the Transmetropolitan series and essential as an introduction to Spider and his world. Preacher's Garth Ennis introduces the book, rightly praising "the finest, blackest humour, and the pur ...

Chicken with Plums

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 4:26:40 PST

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In her acclaimed Persepolis books and in Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi rendered the events of her life and times in a uniquely captivating and powerful voice and vision. Now she turns that same keen eye and ear to the heartrending story of her great-uncle, a celebrated Iranian musician who gave up his life for music and love. We are in Tehran in 1958, and Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran’s most rev ...

Wanting Seed

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 4:26:10 PST

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"The Wanting Seed" is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world that overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world of spacelessness where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality ("It's Sapiens to be Homo"). This time of the near future is eventually transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility r ...

Persepolis 1

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 5:31:05 PST

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Jimmy Corrigan

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 4:32:10 PST

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Ware's graphically inventive, wonderfully realized novel-in-comics follows the sad fortunes of four generations of phlegmatic, defeated men while touching on themes of abandonment, social isolation and despair within the sweeping depiction of Chicago's urban transformation over the course of a century. Ware uses Chicago's World's Colombian Exposition of 1893, the great world's fair that signaled ...

Against the Gods

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 4:01:09 PST

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A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller "Ambitious and readable ...an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism." -The New York Times "An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book." -The Wall Street Journal "A lively panoramic book ...Against t ...

See No Evil

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 3:57:53 PST

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In See No Evil, one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century recounts his career running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East. In the process, Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides compelling evidence about how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA's efforts to root out the world's deadliest terrorists. On the morning o ...

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 3:56:53 PST

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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13 is all comics. It is edited by Chris Ware (author of Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth), and features so many artists to know and love: R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Lynda Barry, Los Bros Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, Julie Doucet, and on and on. The issue also includes essays from Michael Chabon, Ira Glass, John Updike, Chip Kidd, and others. A hardco ...

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 3:54:05 PST

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Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The I ...

A History of Violence

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 3:48:12 PST

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It was just another quiet day at McKenna's Diner--until a couple of wanted killers walked in looking for trouble. Instead, they got bullets, and Tom McKenna got to be an instant media celebrity. That got him a lot of attention from some people he thought he'd escaped long ago. The kind of people who never forget a face--even after twenty years... Now Tom must confront a group of cold-blooded ...

Ego & Hubris

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 3:46:06 PST

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“Michael Malice is one of the most puzzling twenty-first century Americans I have ever met.” –Harvey Pekar Who’s Michael Malice, and how did he become the subject of a graphic novel by Harvey Pekar, the curmudgeon from Cleveland? First of all, Michael Malice is a real person. He’s 5’6” and weighs 130 pounds. Although on the cusp of thirty, he could easily pass for a scrawny teenager. One ...

City Of Light, City Of Dark

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 3:14:43 PST

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Bone Volume 5

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 3:13:32 PST

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In this fifth volume of the BONE saga, Fone and Smiley Bone strike out into the wilderness to return a lost rat creature cub to the mountains. It doesn't take long before they run smack into Rock Jaw, "Master of the Eastern Border," an enormous mountain lion with a none-too-friendly disposition. Life gets even more complicated when they befriend a group of baby animals who are being orphaned by r ...

Bone Volume 3

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 3:12:49 PST

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In "Eyes of the Storm," volume three of the nine-book BONE saga, Lucius, Smiley, and Phoney survive an attack by the rat creatures and return safely to Lucius' tavern in Barrelhaven. Phoney, desperate to win a bet with Lucius, stokes the townspeople's fear of dragons and boasts that he is a professional dragonslayer. Back at the farm, Fone Bone and Thorn are troubled by strange dreams, and Gran'm ...

Bone Volume 2

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 3:12:30 PST

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In THE GREAT COW RACE, volume 2 of this 9-book epic, Fone Bone and his cousins plan to return home after visiting the village of Barrelhaven with Thorn and Gran'ma Ben. But Phoney risks everything on one last get-rich-quick scheme for the town's annual Great Cow Race. As usual, Phoney's plans go disastrously awry, and Boneville seems further away than ever. Meanwhile, ominous signs indicate th ...

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 0:53:44 PST

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One of the 20th century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicome ...

Fooled by Randomness

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 0:52:41 PST

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Finally in paperback, the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about the markets and the world. This book is about luck: more precisely how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill–the world of business–Fooled by Randomness is an irreverent, iconoclastic, eye- ...

Big Fish

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 0:52:14 PST

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In his prime, Edward Bloom was an extraordinary man. Or at least that's what he told his son. Faced with the prospect of his father's death, William Bloom sets about to discover who the man really is. Daniel Wallace's magical first novel, Big Fish, is told as a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts that William knows. Through these tall tales-hilarious and wrenching, tender and ou ...

Eragon

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 0:51:46 PST

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When Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic and powe ...

Now I Can Die in Peace

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 0:50:13 PST

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ESPNs beloved Sports Guy replays the years leading up to the Boston Red Sox historic championship season and says goodbye to a lifetime of suffering. At least for now. "The Red Sox won the World Series." To Citizen No. 1 of Red Sox Nation, those seven words meant "No more 1918 chants. No more smug glances from Yankee fans. No more worrying about living an entire life -- thats 80 years, follo ...

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Wed, 8 Aug 2007 21:36:47 PST

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"EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered." A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his ...

Werewolves in Their Youth

Wed, 8 Aug 2007 21:35:59 PST

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The author of Wonder Boys returns with a powerful and wonderfully written collection of stories. Caught at moments of change, Chabon's men and women, children and husbands and wives, all face small but momentous decisions. They are caught in events that will crystallize and define their lives forever, and with each, Michael Chabon brings his unique vision and uncanny understanding of our deepest ...

To Kill a Mockingbird

Wed, 8 Aug 2007 21:35:24 PST

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The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Moc ...

Tortilla Flat

Wed, 8 Aug 2007 21:34:35 PST

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Frankenstein

Wed, 8 Aug 2007 1:05:39 PST

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Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering ?the cause of generation and life? and ?bestowing animation upon lifeless matter,? Frankenstein assembles a human being from ...

Liar's Poker

Wed, 8 Aug 2007 0:53:00 PST

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Michael Luewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street's premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to New York - and London-based bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar's Poker i the culmination of those heady, frenzi ...

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Wed, 8 Aug 2007 0:52:03 PST

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Moneyball

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 23:27:55 PST

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Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in Baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-bedget Oakland Athletic's visionary general manager Billy Beane, and a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge - insights that will give the little fellow who i ...

Heart of Darkness

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 23:26:52 PST

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"Heart of Darkness" has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad's narrator encounters at the end of the story a man named Kurtz, dying, insane, and guilty of unspe ...

A Clockwork Orange

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 23:26:27 PST

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A brilliant reading from the novel by one of the wittiest commentators and literary figures of this century. "Antony Burgess reads chapters of his novel A Clockwork Orange" with hair-raising drive and energy. Although it is a fantasy set in an Orwellian future, this is anything but a bedtime story."-- "New York Times"

You Shall Know Our Velocity

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 21:24:33 PST

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In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 21:01:34 PST

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Memories of My Melancholy Whores is Gabriel García Márquez’s first work of fiction in ten years, written at the height of his powers, the Spanish edition of which Ilan Stavans called, “Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is disturbing” (Los Angeles Times). On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, our unnamed protagonist–an undistinguished journalist and lifelong bachelor–decides to give himse ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 3:43:12 PST

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Farewell To Arms

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 3:42:09 PST

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The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his descript ...

The Old Man and The Sea

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 3:42:07 PST

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The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of perso ...

The picture of Dorian Gray

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 3:40:35 PST

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Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting inf ...

Wuthering Heights

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 3:39:49 PST

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The novel "Wuthering Heights" is the name of the large home of the family, located on the isolated moorlands of England. One of the main themes in this novel is love and hate between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. It is not your typical romance novel. It unquestionably has its dark moments, as well as its brilliant moments.

Catch-22

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 3:39:31 PST

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Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he fu ...

Siddhartha

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 3:39:05 PST

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In the novel, "Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life -- the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally, w ...

How to Be Good

Tue, 7 Aug 2007 0:02:57 PST

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ニック・ホーンビィの『How to Be Good』の主人公、ケイティ・カーは、確かに「良い人間」であろうとがんばっている。だからこそ彼女は一般開業医になったのだし、第三世界の債務やホームレスの問題を気にかけているのも、分別ある母親として必死に子どもたちと向き合おうとしているのも、そのためだ。そして、自称「ホロウェーで一番怒っている男」である、夫のデイヴィッドにずっと我慢してきたのも、ひとえに良い人間でありたいがためなのである。ところがある運命の日、彼女はリーズの駐車場で、別の男と寝てしまう。その不貞は、しかし、ラッシュアワーのインターステートハイウェイよりも苦痛な崇高なる旅路への第一歩となった。なぜなら、妻の行動に触発されたデイヴィッドが、怒るのをやめようと決心したからである。彼は良い人間になろうとしはじめる。といっても、政治的に公正な、オーガニックフードを食するタイプの ...

Deadeye Dick

Mon, 6 Aug 2007 23:49:13 PST

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Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors–a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb–Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what w ...