Month: March 2010

New Titles Posted, Mar 2010 (2nd)

New titles in stock posted. Here’s our top picks:

Ancient Inventions: Wonders of the Past – Brimming with odd facts and entertaining curiosities, written with zest and humor, comprehensive and fun to read, Ancient Inventions is a wonderful celebration of the endless inventiveness of the human mind.

The Collected Poems: Sylvia Plath – To this day, Sylvia Plath’s writings continue to inspire and provoke. Her only published novel, The Bell Jar, remains a classic of American literature, and The Colossus (1960), Ariel (1965), Crossing the Water (1971), Winter Trees (1971), and The Collected Poems (1981) have placed her among this century’s essential American poets.

James Bond 007: Five Complete Novels (HB, Casino Royale) – Here are five complete and completely satisfying thrillers starring the incomparable, indestructible, ultra-sexy, ever-loving, ever-living James Bond, Special Agent 007, now available in one volume and licensed to be read by you!

Devilish Doings: 20 Fiendish Tales (Hardbound) – Does the Devil exists? Only God knows for sure. But judging by the evidence in this collection, Devilish Doings, if he doesn’t exist, humanity needed to create him.

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Devilish Doings
Devilish Doings: 20 Fiendish Tales (Hardbound)
Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon
The New Steinerbooks Dictionary of the Paranormal by George Riland
Lenin: For Beginners (Cartoon format)
Away by Amy Bloom
Ancient Inventions: Wonders of the Past
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams (Hardbound)
The Reunion by Alan Lightman
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1989)
In Favor of the Sensitive Man & Other Essays by Anais Nin
Winter of Artifice: Three Novelettes by Anais Nin
Anais: The Erotic Life of Anais Nin by Noel Riley Fitch
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
The Stories of Bernard Malamud
Dubliners – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (HB)
Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot (The Princess Diaries)
The Chronicles of Narnia (Complete, Movie Cover)
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
James Bond 007: Five Complete Novels (HB, Casino Royale)
The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved by Colin & Damon Wilson
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (Hardbound)
Panati’s Parade of Fads, Follies and Manias
A Changed Man by Francine Prose (Hardbound)
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and The Supernatural
The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z (Ayn Rand Library)
The Next Fifty Years: New Essays from 25 Scientists (2002)
The Collected Poems: Sylvia Plath
Ancient Inventions
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Your Diet is Driving Me Crazy (Food Conflicts/Love Life)
Uncle John’s Top Secret! Bathroom Reader for Kids Only!
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (Hardbound)
The Best American Erotica 2000 (Edited by Susie Bright)
The Best American Erotica 2003 (Palahniuk, Kaysen)
The Fabulous Girl’s Code Red: A Guide to Grace under Pressure
More of the Straight Dope by Cecil Adams
Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland (Hardbound, Can)
Monsters in our Midst (Edited by Robert Bloch)
The Last Time I Saw Mother by Arlene Chai (Proof)
The October Country by Ray Bradbury
What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier by James Gleick
It’s A Conspiracy! The Shocking Truth About America’s Favorite Conspiracy Theories!
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
Eating Fire and Drinking Water by Arlene Chai
You Did What? Mad Plans & Great Historical Disasters
It Seemed Like a Good Idea…: A Compendium Of Great Historical Fiascoes
The Works of Jules Verne (Leatherbound Edition)
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
King Kong (Hardbound 1976, hard-to-find)
Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem
The Capra Chapbook Anthology
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
Christ Recrucified by Nikos Kazantzakis
Thereby Hangs A Tale (Stories of Curious Word Origins)
Ask the Pilot: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel
Battle Angel Alita: Angel of Redemption (Manga)
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Hollywood Urban Legends by Richard Roeper
The Computers of Star Trek
Been There, Done That! The Balls-to-the-Wall Checklist of Things Worth Doing!

New Titles Posted, Mar 2010 (1st)

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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