Category: New Books

New Books

New Titles Posted, December 2008 (1st)

New Books Posted:

Shopping:

Wizards: The Quest for The Wizard from Merlin to Harry Potter (HB)
Zorro: A Novel by Isabel Allende
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Match Wits with Mensa: The Complete Quiz Book
The Cornelius Quartet by Michael Moorcock
Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris (Hardbound)
American Gothic Tales (Edited by Joyce Carol Oates)
Dark Delicacies II: Fear
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby (Hardbound)
The Business of Bullshit by Graham Edmonds
The Fair Folk (Elves/Fairies) Edited by Marvin Kaye
The New Life by Orhan Pamuk
The Math Instinct: Why You’re a Mathematical Genius
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (Riverhead Essential Edition)
Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories from the Edge
Three Days to Never by Tim Powers (Hardbound)
Classic Nasty by Jack Murnighan
Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, & Just About Everything Else
100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed by Melissa P.
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century
Nebula Awards Showcase 2007: The Year’s Best SF and Fantasy
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generation
The Science of Vampires by Katherine Ramsland

For Auction:

The Sense of Beauty by George Santayana
The Sandman: King of Dreams, 40 Collectible Postcards
The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories (Out-of-Print)
The Town in the City by Jack Kerouac (1978 edition)
The Science of the X-Men (Out-of-Print)
Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology by Richard Reynolds
Hypermodern Chess: Games of Aron Nimzovich
The Science of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials (HB)
Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing by Martin Gardner
Fury by Salman Rushdie
The North China Lover by Marguerite Duras
The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific & Biblical
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Silmarillion (Hardbound 1977)
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and The Supernatural (1981)
The Leopard by Guiseppe Di Lampedusa
Science Fiction of the 30’s (Edited by Damon Knight)
Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles by David Thomson
Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jacques and his Master: A Play by Milan Kundera
The Wall: And Other Stories by Sartre
Best-Loved Folktales of the World
Seven Theories of Human Nature by Leslie Stevenson
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Women on Women 3: Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction
Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis, Penal Colony & Other Stories

New Titles Posted, November 2008 (3rd)

New Books Posted (www.avalon.ph):

Fiction:

The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye: Five Fairy Stories by A.S. Byatt (HB)
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
A Handbook of American Prayer by Lucius Shepard (HB)
Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Wicked: The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (2004, Vol. 15)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (2007, Vol. 18)
Best Lesbian Erotica 1999 (Edited by Tristan Taormino)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Swapping Lives by Jane Green
Vanishing Acts (Edited by Ellen Datlow)
Charlie Chan is Dead 2: A Home in the World (Edited by Jessica Hagedorn)
Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
The Best American Poetry 1994 (A.R. Ammons)
Collected Poems by Paul Auster
New Poems (1968-1970) by Pablo Neruda

Non-Fiction:

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Conquering Statistics: Numbers Without the Crunch
99 Red Balloons.. and 100 Other All Time Great One-Hit Wonders by Brent Mann
1,000 Places To See Before You Die: A Traveler’s Life List
The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest… by A.J. Jacobs
Why We Run: A Natural History by Bernd Heinrich
Larson’s New Book of Cults by Bob Larson
The Secret Histories: An Anthology by John S. Friedman
The True Stella Awards: Honoring Real Cases of Greedy Opportunists…
What Am I Doing Here by Bruce Chatwin
The Practical Writer : From Inspiration to Publication by Therese Eiben
In Defense of Sin (Edited by John Portmann)
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
A Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman
100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics
Dictionary of Theories: One stop to more than 5,000 theories
To Criticize the Critic & Other Writings by T.S. Eliot
The Pig That Wants to be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
The Little Book of Creativity: Great Ideas & How You Can Use Them
The Occult: A History by Colin Wilson
A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market by John Allen Paulos
Mathematics for the Million: How to Master the Magic of Numbers
Time Travel in Einstein’s Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Return of the Straight Dope by Cecil Adams
Wild Sex: Way Beyond the Birds and the Bees

For Auction:

The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific & Biblical
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Silmarillion (Hardbound 1977)
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and The Supernatural (1981)
Great Journeys of the World -National Geographic Destination
Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis, Penal Colony & Other Stories

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Happy Shopping!

Jasper
www.avalon.ph

New Titles Posted, November 2008 (2nd)

New items on www.avalon.ph:

Labyrinths: Stories & Other Writings of Jorge Luis Borges
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Treasury (2 Vols in 1, HB)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
Life of Pi: Illustrated Edition by Yann Martel (HB)
The Cat’s Pajamas Stories by Ray Bradbury
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk (Hardbound 1st/1st)
When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (Movie Cover, Ewan McGregor)
Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson (HB Signed)
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (Non-Movie Cover)
You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Come to Me by Amy Bloom
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
C’est la Vie by Suzy Gershman (American Woman in Paris…)
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Best Lesbian Erotica 2005 (10th Anniversary Edition)
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Essential)
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill (HB)
Ernesto Che Guevara: The Motorcycle Diaries
The Writer’s Guide to Fantasy Literature: From Dragon’s Lair to Hero’s Quest
Dragons of Fantasy by Anne C. Petty
How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Umberto Eco
Schott’s Original Miscellany by Ben Schott (HB)
The Best of Rilke (Walter Arndt Translation)
The Best American Poetry 1998 (John Hollander, Editor)
Questions About Angels: Poems by Billy Collins
Delaying the Real World: Make the World a Better Place
Best Food Writing 2002 (Edited by Holly Hughes)
A History of God by Karen Armstrong

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For Auction:

Fiction:

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (Movie Cover, used)
Malinche by Laura Esquivel (Hardbound, UK)
Men On Men: Best New Gay Fiction
Men On Men 3: Best New Gay Fiction
Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto (PB)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (The Road)
The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales (HB Illustrated)
The Cave by Jose Saramago
Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac (Hard-to-find)
The Guy Not Taken: Stories by Jennifer Weiner
Shogun by James Clavell (UK)
The Short Story: 50 Masterpieces (Edited by Ellen C. Wynn)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams+Bonus
Mrs. Dalloway’s Party (Short Stories) by Virginia Woolf
Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (UK Cover)
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot
A Tree Within: Poems by Octavio Paz

Non-Fiction:

Saving Face: How to Lie, Fake, & Maneuver…
Are You Normal? About Sex, Love, & Relationships
Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King
Espresso: Culture & Cuisine
The Marx-Engels Reader (2nd Edition)
The Fabulous Girl’s Code Red: A Guide to Grace under Pressure
The Masks of God, Vol. 3: Occidental Mythology
The Masks of God, Vol. 4: Creative Mythology
The Space Tourist’s Handbook
World’s Worst: Guide to the Most Disgusting Things on Earth
Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair
James Joyce: The Critical Writings
The Essential Jung: Selected & Introduced by Anthony Storr
The Art of Creative Writing by Lajos Egri
Ancient Inventions: Wonders of the Past (HB)
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
More of the Straight Dope by Cecil Adams

Definitely more titles in the coming days!  Click and shop!

Jasper
www.avalon.ph