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New Titles Posted, Mar 2010 (1st)

March 2nd, 2010 No comments

Omni Visions

Omni: Visions One & Two (Ellen Datlow)
Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block (Weetzie Bat)
The Pessimist’s Guide to History: Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres and Mayhem
Swithering by Robin Robertson
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
love poems by Anne Sexton
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Cave by Jose Saramago
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Cubicle Warfare: 101 Office Traps and Pranks by John Austin
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Henry Miller on Writing (Edited by Thomas H. Moore)
Military Errors of World War Two by Kenneth Macksey
Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
Slow Hand: Women Writing Erotica
The Great Wall of China and Other Short Works by Franz Kafka
Diamonds and Precious Stones by Patrick Voillot (Abrams Discoveries)
The Secret Services Handbook by Michael Bradley
Time Travel in Einstein’s Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
Henry and June: the Unexpurgated Diary (1931-1932) by Anais Nin
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (Hardbound)
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
The Mosaic Crimes by Giulio Leoni
Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories by Susanna Clarke
Blood Lite (Charlaine Harris, Sherrilyn Kenyon, etc)
Four Centuries of Great Love Poems
Tom Wolfe 3-in-1: Electric Kool-Aid, Kandy-Kolored Tangerine, Radical Chic…
The Dark: New Ghost Stories edited by Ellen Datlow
A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks
Without: Poems by Donald Hall
Willow Temple: New and Selected Stories by Donald Hall
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Woman Hollering Creek and other stories by Sandra Cisneros
Bill Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words (Hardbound)

Waste Land

Comics & Novelty:

Jay & Silent Bob: Chasing Dogma (HB SIGNED Kevin Smith LTD)
Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
Fables Vol. 10: The Good Prince
Fables Vol. 11: War and Pieces
Daredevil Vol. 1: Guardian Devil (Kevin Smith / Joe Quesada)
Stormwatch: Team Achilles Issues 1-23
Zot! 1987-1991: The Complete Black & White Collection by Scott McCloud
Hey, Mister: Afterschool Special by Pete Sickman-Garner TPB
UNO: The Golden Compass
Poker Night: All You Need to Bet, Bluff, and Win
Sesame Street: Finger Puppets
Unicorn: Postcard Book by Michael Green

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New Titles Posted, Feb 2010 (2nd)

February 9th, 2010 No comments

Dada

Unsorted:

Dot Dot Dash: Designer Toys, Action Figures And Character Art (Hardbound)
The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth (Hardbound)
The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy & Vice
The Voice at 3:00 A.M. by Charles Simic
Harvest Poems 1910-1960 by Carl Sandburg
Honey and Salt by Carl Sandburg
101 Things You Don’t Know About Science….
The Ecstatic Moment: The Best of Libido
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
JPod by Douglas Coupland
Deus Irae by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny
History’s Last Stand by Gerard and Patricia Del Re
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (1964 Nobel Prize Winner)
Six Not So Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
Master of Middle-Earth: The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien (1972)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
How to Survive a Robot Uprising by Daniel H. Wilson
E.B. White: Writings from The New Yorker 1927-1976
Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology
100 Malicious Little Mysteries
100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories
Dada: The Revolt of Art by Marc Dachy
So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
The Food Lover’s Tiptionary (1994)
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (Dave Eggers)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (Dave Eggers)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 (Dave Eggers)
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (and other stories)
Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda
Sugar and Other Stories by A.S. Byatt
101 Things To Do Before You’re Old and Boring by Richard Horne
Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic by Terry Jones (Hardbound)

Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008

Back in stock:

The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the Brave
Dune by Frank Herbert (40th Anniversary Edition)
The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica (Edited by Maxim Jakubowski)
The Mammoth Book of International Erotica
Identity by Milan Kundera
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy by Umberto Eco
1,000 Places To See Before You Die: A Traveler’s Life List
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

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We have a new category – Comics, Graphic Novels, Manga (http://bit.ly/b2dHwl). Please check it out.

Babymouse: Queen of the World! by Jennifer & Matthew Holm
The Golden Age of DC Comics : 365 Days (Hardbound)
The Year’s Best Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga (2005)
North Country: A Graphic Novel by Shane White
X-Men: First Class, Vol. 1: Tomorrow’s Brightest
Marvel Adventures Hulk Vol. 1: Misunderstood Monster
40oz Collected by Jim Mahfood

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New Titles Posted, Feb 2010 (1st)

February 3rd, 2010 No comments

The Children of Hurin

The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Hatrack River by Orson Scott Card (Hardbound)
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (Hardbound)
First Meetings by Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game, HB)
Witpunk (Silverberg, Ford, Morrow, Cadigan)
The Prestige by Christopher Priest (non-movie cover)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (2003, Vol. 14)
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (RARE Advance Reading Copy)
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
His Dark Materials Vol. 1-3 Set, by Philip Pullman
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Hardbound)
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold (Advance Reading Copy)
The Gunter Grass Reader
Slowness by Milan Kundera (Hardbound)
The Gryphon by Nick Bantock (Hardbound)
The Golden Mean by Nick Bantock (Hardbound)
Sixty Poems by Charles Simic
Walking the Black Cat: Poems by Charles Simic
Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot
The Encyclopedia of Ignorance (Duncan/Weston-Smith)
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
Sex in History by Reay Tannahill
Cocaine by Dominic Streatfeild
Quickies: Fascinating Facts About the Facts of Life (Sex)
The Mammoth Book of The History of Murder by Colin Wilson

Being and Nothingness

Back in Stock:

Blindness by Jose Saramago (Movie Cover)
Seeing by Jose Saramago
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Innocent Erendira and other stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
East of Eden by John Steinbeck -Centennial Edition
Chasing Cezanne by Peter Mayle
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (Movie Cover)
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Hardbound)
Chocolat by Joanne Harris (Movie Cover)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Other Woman by Jane Green
The Dim Sum of All Things by Kim Wong Keltner
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart (Daily Show)
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning & Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno
Bettelheim
Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes (Under The Tuscan Sun)
Are You Really Going to Eat That? Reflections of a Culinary Thrill Seeker
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 (Dave Eggers)

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Raw Images (Books – 01/26/10)

January 27th, 2010 5 comments

These books are fresh out of the box and being prepared for processing/posting. They are not yet posted on the www.avalon.ph website.

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New Titles Posted, Oct 2009 (2nd)

October 19th, 2009 No comments

Che Guevara
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
The Solitudes (The Aegypt Cycle) by John Crowley
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville (Hardbound)
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (RARE Advance Reading Copy)
Hers 3: Brilliant New Fiction by Lesbian Writers
Herotica 5: A New Collection of Women’s Erotic Fiction
Adrienne Rich: Poems – Selected and New, 1950-1974
Pablo Neruda: Antologia esencial (All Spanish)
The Paris Review: Fortieth Anniversary Issue
I Want Candy by Kim Wong Keltner
Second Chance by Jane Green
She Went All The Way by Meg Cabot
Big Boned by Meg Cabot

Men of Tomorrow

The 10 Best of Everything: An Ultimate Guide for Travelers
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes (Hardbound)
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
International Dictionary of Gastronomy by Guido Gomez de Silva
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms
The Top 100 Immunity Boosters by Charlotte Haigh
Che Guevara: Revolutionary & Icon by Trisha Ziff
Mental Floss: What’s the Difference?
Pornology by Ayn Carrillo-Gailey (Relationships)
Useless Sexual Trivia by Shane Mooney
Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering by Henry Petroski
Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers by Martin Gardner
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Weddings
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Work
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: College
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature by Brian Stableford (HB Rare)

Science Fiction Literature
Back in Stock:

Shaking A Leg: Collected Writings by Angela Carter
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Written On The Body by Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Anything Considered by Peter Mayle
A Good Year by Peter Mayle
Ulysses by James Joyce (Leatherbound, Facsimile of 1922 ed.)
The Best American Erotica 2005 (Edited by Susie Bright)
The New Kings of Nonfiction (Gladwell, Orlean & more)
Wicked by Gregory Maguire (Play Cover)
Playback: From Victrola to MP3… by Mark Coleman (HB)
Worlds Enough & Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction by Dan Simmons
More Wandering Stars: Anthology of Jewish Fantasy & SF
The Mammoth Book of New Historical Whodunits
The Ultimate Alien (Clarke, Silverberg, McCaffrey..)
The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore

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New Titles Posted, Oct 2009 (1st)

October 5th, 2009 No comments

Electric Sheep

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (Edited by Michael Chabon)
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Story-Teller: Thirteen Tales by Saki
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (Rackham)
Stories From A Ming Collection: The Art of the Chinese Story-Teller
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem (Hardbound)
Reflections on The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (HB)
Buddha Baby by Kim Wong Keltner
The Big U by Neal Stephenson
Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction
Yellow Silk: Erotic Arts and Letters
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (Billy Collins)
180 more: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Billy Collins)

How to Eat

How to Eat: The Pleasure and Principles of Good Food by Nigella Lawson (Hardcover)
Unexplained Phenomena: A Rough Guide Special
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (Hardbound)
The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (3rd Edition)
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose (Hardbound)
The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson
Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual
What’s Science Ever Done For Us? (The Simpsons) by Paul Halpern
Eat This! 1,001 Things to Eat Before You Diet by Ian Jackman
Secret Weapons of World War II by William B. Breuer
Was Napoleon Poisoned: and Other Unsolved Mysteries of Royal History
Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade
The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality
Human Monsters : An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World’s Most Vicious Murderers
The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died by Michael Largo
The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism by Karen Armstrong
The Riddles of the Sphinx.. and the Puzzles… by David J. Bodycombe
The James Beard Cookbook (3rd Revised Edition)

Lovecraft
Back in Stock:

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist (HB)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 (Dave Eggers)
The Music of the Primes: Mathematics Mystery
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Hardbound)
Under The Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
Girl Anatomy by Rebecca Bloom (Hardbound)
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
The Holy Grail: Its Origins, Secrets & Meaning Revealed
The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest… by A.J. Jacobs
Anime Poster Art: Japan’s Movie House Masterpieces
Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart (Daily Show)
The Short Story: 50 Masterpieces (Edited by Ellen C. Wynn)

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