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New Books Posted, August 2014

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Book 4 by Aleister Crowley
The Facts on File Dictionary of Cliches by Christine Ammer (2nd Edition)
Science’s Trickiest Questions by Paul Kuttner
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (A Norton Critical Edition)
Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa
The North China Lover by Marguerite Duras
The Duel by Anton Chekhov (Movie Cover)
Seven Japanese Tales by Junichiro Tanizaki
How to Read a French Fry by Russ Parsons
The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend by Sir Thomas Malory, a retelling by Peter Ackroyd
The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain
Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir by Bill Hayes
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
Mythology by Edith Hamilton (1998)
Dreammakers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers at Work by Charles Platt
On The Road by Jack Kerouac

 

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The Girls’ Book of Excellence: Even More Ways to Be the Best at Everything (Hardbound)
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa
What Women Want: The Science of Female Shopping by Paco Underhill
God and the Philosophers: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (Hardbound)
How Things Are Made: From Automobiles to Zippers (Hardbound)
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Wizards: Stories of Mischief, Magic and Mayhem
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula K. Le Guin
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection
Widdershins (Newford) by Charles de Lint
The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
The Portable James Joyce
The Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry by Kathryn & Ross Petras
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

 

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The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Rocks of Ages by Stephen Jay Gould
Don’t Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
Sperm are from Men, Eggs are from Women by Joe Quirk (Hardbound)
Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
Marx for Beginners by Rius (Comic Book Form)
Introducing Aristotle by Rupert Woodfin and Judy Groves (Comic Book Form)
Introducing Muhammad by Ziauddin Sardar and Zafar Abbas Malik (Comic book form)
Peace for Beginners by Ian Kellas (Comic Book Form)
Bukowski for Beginners by Carlos Polimeni (Comic Book Form)
Peanuts Classics: The Way of the Fussbudget Is Not Easy by Charles M. Schulz (Comics)

New Books Posted, October 2012

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (Hardbound)
Chances Are…: Adventures in Probability (Hardbound)
History of Food by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat (Hardbound)
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (Hardbound)
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby (Hardbound)
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link (Hardbound)
A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut (Hardbound)
Dragons: Worlds Afire (R.A. Salvatore, Weis & Hickman, etc)
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (Pre-movie cover)
Sleeping Beauty by K.Y. Craft (Hardbound)
The Enchanted World: Wizard and Witches (Hardbound)
Masterpieces of World Literature (Hardbound)

They Have Not Seen The Stars: The Collected Poetry of Ray Bradbury (HB 1/500)
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (HB, SIGNED)
My Favorite Science Fiction Story (Hardbound)
The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes by Caleb Carr (HB)
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Art & Lies by Jeanette Winterson
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (1964 Nobel Prize Winner)
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (Movie Cover)
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill (HB)
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (Hardbound)


French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano (HB)
The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss (Hardbound)
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Hardbound)
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
The Modern Witch’s Spellbook by Sarah Lyddon Morrison
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl (Hardbound)
Just After Sunset by Stephen King (Hardbound)
99 More Unuseless Japanese Inventions by Kenji Kawakami
Acquired Tastes by Peter Mayle
Vurt by Jeff Noon (Cyberpunk, Drug Culture)
That Book of Perfectly Useless Information by Mitchell Symons (Trivia)
Practically Useless Information: Food & Drink by Norman Kolpas (HB)
March to Ultimatum, Ultimatum and Ultimatum Companion Comics Hardbound Set

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New Books Posted, July 2012

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Will Eisner: Comics and Sequential Art
Understanding Manga and Anime by Robin E. Brenner
The Essential Feminist Reader (Modern Library Classics)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cosse
Poems, Protest, and a Dream by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Cannibalism: The Last Taboo! By Brian Marriner
Moksha by Aldous Huxley: Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories (Matheson, Lee, Stoker, Bloch)
A Dog’s Life by Peter Mayle (Hardbound)
Lamb by Christopher Moore

 

 

The Rose and the Beast by Francesca Lia Block
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
On a Bed of Rice: An Asian American Erotic Feast
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl (Hardbound)
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Everything Explained Through Flowcharts by Doogie Horner
Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (George Mann, 2001)

 

Women of the Night, Hardbound (Gaiman, Dick, King)
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda (Hardbound)
One Times One by E. E. Cummings
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell (Advance Reader’s Edition)
Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis/ Penal Colony/ Other Stories
Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem
Grateful Dead Scrapbook: The Long, Strange Trip in Stories, Photos, and Memorabilia
How to See Faeries by Brian Froud & John Matthews (HB)
The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Decorum by Kim Izzo and Ceri Marsh
Wide Open: Inspiration and Techniques for Art Journaling on the Edge (Book & Card Kit)
The Secret World of Fairies (Figurines)
Marvels by Alex Ross, Kurt Busiek (Hardbound, Comics)

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