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Dave Eggers (ed.) Sufjan Stevens (intro)
This collection of the unexpected boasts the best in fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics, screenplays, blogs, and anything else, compiled by McSweeney's editor Dave Eggers and students from his 826 Valencia writing center in San Francisco. Here are written pieces from Stephen Colbert, Scott Carrier, Lee Klein, and Matt Klam, while Alison Bechdel offers a comic-strip memoir of her mortician-father's death. Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction.
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Judy Jones & Willian Wilson
What's the difference between Whigs and Tories? Deduction and induction? Why aren't all Shakespearean comedies necessarily thigh-slappers? How do you tell the Balkans from the Caucasus? What are transcendental numbers, and what are they good for? Is postmodernism dead or just having a bad-hair day? And for extra credit, when should you use the adjective "continual" and when should you use "continuous"? This lively book answers these and thousands of other questions about topics from Art History and Economics to Religion and Science, with wit and clarity.
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Andrew Eames
"While Agatha Christie is world renowned as a prolific mystery writer, her numerous archaeological expeditions to Iraq are not well known. In 1928, she took the Orient Express from London and days later arrived by bus in Iraq, where she met the archaeologist who would eventually become her husband. Journalist [Andrew] Eames re-creates Christie's first journey to Iraq by following her route, taking the Orient Express to Venice and traveling by train through the Balkan countries, Turkey, and Syria." -- Library Journal
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Bruce Wagner
The author of the PEN/Faulkner Award finalist The Chrysanthemum Palace here leaves Hollywood to look at the fragmented lives of four scattered family members. Venice Beach architect Joan, dreaming of becoming a "starchitect" like a Meier or a Koolhaas finds herself on the shortlist to design a Napa Valley billionaire's vanity memorial to relatives killed in the Christmas tsunami. Her brother Chester, in a failing career as a location scout, falls victim to a prank that leads to addiction, delusion, paranoia, and transcendence. Mother, widow, and dreamer Marjorie is taken in by a sadistic con scheme, while their father, who disappeared decades ago, suddenly resurfaces in the local news.
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Sean Taylor (Bruce Ingman Illus)
As the Great Elastic Marvel, five-time World Trampoline Champion, practices his deadly difficult quadruple flip, he doesn't notice that the window is open, and he flips right out of it. With lots of onomatopoetic sound effects, he bounces and boings from one unlikely landing to the next across the city. Bruce Ingman, winner of the Mother Goose Award and the author-illustrator of Bad News! I'm in Charge!, provides energetic acrylic and ink illustrations in this book for readers 4 to 7.
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Marcus Sedgwick
Nominated for the Edgar Award and shortlisted for the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction and for the Carnegie Medalfor such books as Witch Hill and The Dark HorseMarcus Sedgwick here explores the "dead days" between Christmas and New Year's Eve, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly beneath the surface of our lives. In this tale for young adults, a magician named Valerian must save his own life or surrender to the evil pact he made years ago.
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William Shakespeare (Jonathan Bate ed.)
Commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company to be a definitive 21st-century edition, this tome reflects recent Shakespearean scholarship in its numerous features, including explanatory notes and references, production notes and sources, modern stage directions and photos from RSC productions, and even a scene from Sir Thomas More in Shakespeare's own hand. Jonathan Bate, professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature at the University of Warwick and the author of Shakespeare and Ovid and The Genius of Shakespeare, offers a rich general introduction and short introductions to each play.
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Constance M. Lewallen & Steve Seid
This heavily illustrated exhibit catalog provides an intriguing and often funny overview of Ant Farm, the radical San Francisco-based architecture and art collective best known for creating Cadillac Ranch—ten Cadillacs buried nose-down along I-40 in Amarillo, Texas. Though much of their works in progress and the artifacts of their completed projects were destroyed in a 1978 fire that precipitated the group's disbanding, the media-conscious Ant Farmers had extensively documented their finished works.
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Jacques Pepin
In this memoir, the man whom Julia Child called "the best chef in America" tells the story of his rise from a frightened apprentice in an Old World kitchen to an Emmy Award-winning personality who taught millions how to cook and helped shape America's tastes. Jacques Pépin recalls his youth in war-torn France, the hustle of working in his mother's café, working his way up in a famous French restaurant, and becoming Charles de Gaulle's personal chef. When he came to America he fell in with a group of as-yet-unknown food lovers including Child and James Beard.
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Sarah Gristwood
She was bred to be a queen by her domineering grandmother Bess of Hardwick; she was the niece of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the cousin of James I; and she was at one time named by Elizabeth I as her successor, but Lady Arbella Stuart was destined to be used as a pawn and was ultimately sidelined in Britain's royal lineage. Here a journalist and Oxford-trained historian resurrects this forgotten aristocrat, illuminating the frailties of the Tudor and Stuart dynasties while portraying a woman who married in secret for her own happiness but met the fate of many other political "liabilities," imprisoned in the Tower of London.
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