Category: New Books

New Books

New Titles Posted, Jul-Aug 2009 (1st)

The Reader

Unsorted:

The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri (1972)
Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
Tatterhood and Other Tales
The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera
Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs
The Government Manual for New Wizards
Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage by Kurt Vonnegut
Angels & Insects: Two Novellas by A.S. Byatt
How Rich Countries Got Rich… and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor by Erik S. Reinert (HB)
100 selected poems by e.e. cummings
Food: True Stories of Life on the Road (Travelers’ Tales)
Slam by Nick Hornby (Hardbound)
Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories (Bradbury, Matheson)
A Song for Lya by George R.R. Martin
Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Vol. 1
Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
Just Curious, Jeeves : What Are The 1001 Most Intriguing Questions..
Surely, You’re Joking.. + What Do You Care… Richard P. Feynman 2-in-1
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (HB)
The Works of H.G. Wells (Leatherbound Collection)
The Awful Truths: Famous Myths, Hilariously Debunked
The Best American Poetry 1991 (Mark Strand)

Wicked
Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Introducing Postmodernism (Comic Book Form)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Vintage Bradbury by Ray Bradbury
Good Benito by Alan Lightman (Einstein’s Dreams)
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
Identity by Milan Kundera
Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Directory of Possibilities by Colin Wilson & John Grant
Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles by David Thomson
Cosmic Critiques: How & Why Ten Science Fiction Stories Work
The Lost Wine: Seven Centuries of French into English Lyrical Poetry by John Theobald
The Best American Poetry 2000 (Rita Dove, Guest Editor)
Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories by Italo Calvino
Origami Sourcebook: Beautiful Projects & Mythical Characters by Jay Ansill
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan
The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Atonement by Ian McEwan (Movie Cover)

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New Titles Posted, June 2009 (1st)

Collected Poems Sylvia Plath

Fiction:

Lord of the Flies by William Golding (HB, 50th Anniversary Ed.)
All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland (HB)
Science Fiction of the 30’s (Edited by Damon Knight)
Einstein’s Dreams (RARE Hardbound Slip-Case edition, SIGNED)

House of Leaves

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (SIGNED HB, Remastered Full-Color Edition)
Starlight 3 (Ted Chiang, Susanna Clarke, Jane Yolen, etc)
One Man’s Bible by Gao Xingjian
Belinda by Anne Rice
The Infinite Plan by Isabel Allende
The Works of Jules Verne (Leatherbound Edition)
The Law of Love by Laura Esquivel (with Audio CD)
Peter Beagle’s The Immortal Unicorn (Hardbound)
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath
The Chronicles of Narnia (Complete, Movie Cover)
Adverbs by Daniel Handler
Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket)
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (Legendary SF Classic)
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury
The Cat’s Pajamas Stories by Ray Bradbury
The Color of Love: An Artist’s Book of Poetry & Passion
Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
The Collected Poems: Sylvia Plath

Nigella Express

Non-Fiction:

A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future by Charles Van Doren
Nigella Express: Good Food, Fast by Nigella Lawson (Hardcover)
Forever Summer by Nigella Lawson (Hardcover)
Feast: Food to Celebrate Life by Nigella Lawson (Hardbound)
How to be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson (Hardbound)
The Cannabis Companion: The Ultimate Guide to Connoisseurship by Steven Wishnia
Marijuana Grower’s Insider Guide by Mel Frank
Sadomasochism by Hans-Jurgen Dopp (Hardbound)
The Kiss by Hans-Jurgen Dopp (Hardbound)
New Ideas From Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought
The Little Book of Forensics by David Owen
Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and the American Comic Book Revolution
Mathematical Brain Benders by Stephen Barr
The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking by David Perkins
Letters of E.B. White (Revised Edition)
Everything I Know About Business I Learned From Monopoly
Monopoly: The World’s Most Famous Game & How It Got That Way
Publicity Stunt! Great Staged Events That Made The News
My Invented Country by Isabel Allende
The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard (Hardbound)
Dream Makers, Vol. 2: The Uncommon Men & Women Who Write Science Fiction
The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
Field Guide to Tools by John Kelsey
The Encyclopedia of Kidnappings (374pp, 2002 edition)
Encyclopedia of The FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List: 1950-Present
Quirky QWERTY: A Biography of the Typewriter and its Many Characters
Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers by Jacques Barzun
Scatterbrained: Connecting the World in 486 Mind-blowing Facts
What Are You Optimistic About? Today’s Leading Thinkers on Why Things are Good and Getting Better
The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (Hardbound, Ralph Steadman)
Bradbury Speaks: Essays on the Past, Future, Everything
Fork It Over: The Intrepid Adventures of a Professional Eater by Alan Richman
Where Do Nudists Keep Their Hankies? by Mitchell Symons
Why Girls Can’t Throw.. and other questions you always wanted answered
Mental Floss Presents: In the Beginning…
The Professor & the Madman (Dictionary Origin)

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New Titles Posted, April 2009 (1st)

Skywriting

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Hardbound)
The Best Horror from Fantasy Tales
The Mammoth Book of Monsters (Edited by Stephen Jones)
Horror: Another 100 Best Books (Edited by Stephen Jones & Kim Newman)
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases (SIGNED)
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis (Signed)
Spearwielder’s Tale by R.A. Salvatore (Trilogy)
All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland (Hardbound)
Naughty Fairy Tales from A to Z
The Works of H.G. Wells (Leatherbound Collection)
Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Borders Leatherbound Classics)
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual
Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton

A History of Photography

A History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present
Anime Poster Art: Japan’s Movie House Masterpieces
The Physics of Superheroes by James Kakalios (Hardbound)
Fortune Teller’s Dictionary by Antonia Beattie (Hardbound)
The Cannabis Cookbook by Tim Pilcher
Departed Angels: The Lost Paintings (Jack Kerouac)
What Would MacGyver Do? by Brendan Vaughan (Hardbound)
101 Things To Do Before You Die by Richard Horne
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (Hardbound)
Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook (Hardbound)
A Light in the Attic: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein (HB)
21st-Century Etiquette: Manners for the Modern Age (Hardbound)
The Clumsiest People in Europe… (Hardbound)
Trading Up: Why Consumers Want New Luxury Goods- (HB)
Why Read? by Mark Edmundson
Skywriting by Word of Mouth by John Lennon
The Art of Reading Poetry by Harold Bloom
Three Great American Poets: Whitman, Dickinson, Frost
Introducing Foucault (Comic Book Form)
Freud for Beginners (Comic Book Form)
Travelers’ Tales: Food – True Stories of Life on the Road
Schott’s Sporting Gaming & Idling Miscellany (Hardbound)
Schott’s Food & Drink Miscellany (Hardbound)
How to Cook by Raymond Sokolov (Revised Edition)
mondomanila by Norman Wilwayco
Monlee & Roxlee’s Cesar Asar in the Planet of the Noses

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