Tag: New Books

New Titles Posted, December 2008 (2nd)

New Books Posted.

Collected Erotica

Shopping:

Clown Girl by Monica Drake
Seeing by Jose Saramago (Blindness)
Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy (Edited by Al Sarrantonio)
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepulveda
Dune by Frank Herbert (40th Anniversary Edition)
Poet’s Choice by Edward Hirsch
Visible Signs: New and Selected Poems by Lawrence Raab
The Collected Erotica: An Illustrated Celebration of Human Sexuality Through the Ages
The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica (Edited by Maxim Jakubowski)
The Science of Harry Potter by Roger Highfield
The Science of Anime: Mecha-Noids and AI-Super-Bots
Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?
A Slice of Life: Contemporary Writers on Food
Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art
Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch
Fire: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934-1937
Number: The Language of Science
The C.S.I. Effect by Katherine Ramsland
Chances Are…: Adventures in Probability
The Art of the Steal by Frank W. Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can)
13: The Story of the World’s Most Notorious Superstition

Science of Anime

For Auction:

The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte (Book Thriller)
Dream Makers Vol. 2: The Uncommon Men & Women… (Sci-Fi)
My Favorite Science Fiction Story (Hardbound)
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Le Petit Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery (French)
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Belinda by Anne Rice: Writing as Anne Rampling
The Best American Magazine Writing 2004 (Bowden, Eggers)
Field Guide to Tools by John Kelsey
The Directory of Possibilities (Colin Wilson & John Grant)
Hollywood Urban Legends by Richard Roeper
The Mammoth Book of Crime Scene Investigation
Traveler’s Tales: The Fire Never Dies by Richard Sterling
Law & Order in the 20th Century
The Beginner’s Guide to Calligraphy by Margaret Morgan
The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z (Ayn Rand Library)
Unsolved Mysteries of American History (Deluxe Edition HB)
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Uncle Johns Triple Ply Bathroom Reader (Vol. 1-3)
The Elements of Expression by Arthur Plotnik
Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters on Cezanne by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Book of Ballads by Charles Vess (Hardbound)
Battle Angel Alita: Angel of Redemption (Manga)
Fantasy & Science Fiction Sept 2007 (Ted Chiang)
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Anthology 1979 Vol. 1

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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
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