Tag: poetry

New Books Posted, February 2014

Consilience

Unsorted:

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Thief by Myles J. Connor Jr.
Don’t Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World’s Greatest Chefs
About the Author by Alfred and Emily Glossbrenner
The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (Complete)
The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Advance Reading Copy)
The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism by Karen Armstrong
Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
1,000 Places To See Before You Die: A Traveler’s Life List
A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Useless Knowledge by Joe Edelman & David Samson
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

 

Emma Watson

 

The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997 (Harold Bloom)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (Hardbound)
The Plague by Albert Camus
Other Fires: Short Fiction by Latin American Women
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
It Must’ve Been Something I Ate by Jeffrey Steingarten
The Marquise of O – and Other Stories by Heinrich Von Kleist
The Watsons & Emma Watson: Jane Austen’s Unfinished Novel Completed by Joan Aiken
The Science of Aliens by Clifford Pickover
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

In Another Part of the Forest

 

Sappho: Poems & Fragments (Balmer)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
You Did What? Mad Plans & Great Historical Disasters
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (HB)
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid… by Ben Mezrich
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Movie Cover)
Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber by Stephen Yafa
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
When is a Pig a Hog? By Bernice Randall

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New Books Posted, January 2014

storiesofyourlife

Unsorted:

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell (illustrated)
Freud for Beginners (Comic Book Form)
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic by Terry Jones
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Art of Creative Writing by Lajos Egri (1965)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Movie Cover)
More Amazing Stories (Edited by Kim Mohan)
Mr. Wroe’s Virgins by Jane Rogers
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Earthbound by Richard Matheson (I Am Legend author)
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

germanitalianlyrics

German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages
The New Kings of Nonfiction (Gladwell, Orlean & more)
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Six American Poets: An Anthology
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman
Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology
Last House by M.F.K. Fisher
Strange Gifts: Eight Stories of Science Fiction (Hardbound)
Exotic Weapons of the Ninja by Sid Campbell
Introducing Plato (Comic Book Form) by Dave Robinson and Judy Groves
Aristotle: The Art of Rhetoric
The Essential Tao by Thomas Cleary
Salon.com’s Wanderlust: real-life Tales of Adventure and Romance
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics)
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt

goldenratio

The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio
Where Do Nudists Keep Their Hankies? by Mitchell Symons
Fortune Teller’s Dictionary by Antonia Beattie (Hardbound)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
The Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris
Great House by Nicole Krauss
Lit Riffs: Writers cover songs they love
White Apples by Jonathan Carroll
The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

manbook
The Man Book by Otto DeFay
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote
Orlando by Virginia Woolf (Movie Cover)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams

Happy Shopping!

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New Books Posted, October 2013

chekhovcomic

 

Unsorted:

Literary Las Vegas: The Best Writing About America’s Most Fabulous City
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (Third Edition)
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost
Lovecraft Unbound: Tales inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft (Edited by Ellen Datlow)
The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka (hardbound)
The Unvanquished by William Faulkner
Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature by L. Sprague de Camp
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Trotsky for Beginners: A Graphical Guide by Tariq Ali
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (Third Edition)
Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land by John Crowley
The Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1789-1850 by Charles Breunig (2nd edition)

 

100greatoperas

 

The Penguin Dictionary of Third World Terms by Kofi Buenor Hadjor
Order and Chaos: 50th Anniversary Series (The Great Books Foundation)
Giorgio Vasari: Lives of the Artists Volume II (Penguin Classics)
Why Fish Fart & Other Useless or Gross Information About the World by Francesca Gould
The Comic Stories by Anton Chekhov
The Giant, O’Brien by Hilary Mantel
The Essential Plato
100 Great Operas and Their Stories by Henry W. Simon
Book of Urban Legend by Rodney Dale (Wordsworth Reference Series)
How to Repair Food by Marina and John Bear
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
Scientific Blunders by Robert Youngson
The Best American Poetry 2009 (David Wagoner)
An Opened Grave: Sherlock Holmes Investigates His Ultimate Case by L. Frank James
A Dictionary of Literary Terms (1960, 10th Printing)
The Metaphysics by Aristotle

 

criticalthinking

 

Critical Thinking (University of Phoenix, 1999)
The Culture of the Meiji Period by Irokawa Daikichi
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (Movie Cover)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Elves and Ellefolk: Tales of the Little People by Natalia M. Belting (Hardbound)
Basic Writings of Kant (The Modern Library Classics)
The World’s Greatest Crooks & Conmen by Nigel Blundell
The World’s Greatest Mistakes by Nigel Blundell
The World’s Most Infamous Murders by Roger Boar & Nigel Blundell

Thanks for looking!

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