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Philistines at the Hedgerow by Steven Gaines

Philistines at the Hedgerow

by Steven Gaines



ISBN-13: 9780316309073
ISBN: 0316309079
Copyright © 1999
April 2010

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From the Publisher:
"Philistines at the Hedgerow traces the roots of fabulosity in New York's most famous vacation spot, providing an insider's, gossip-filled look at the scandals and quirks of the area and its inhabitants. Gaines examines the relationships between property and personality that have developed over the years at the beachfront, from building castles to accumulating mass amounts of acreage where parties can be thrown and paparazzi shots can be taken. Philistines at the Hedgerow provides yet another glimpse into the celebrity backdrop of American life in an area that has radically altered itself over time from simple farmland to idyllic playground."

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Internet
David Busch's Quick Snap Guide
to Photoblogging with Word Press: 
An Instant Start-Up Manual for 
Creating and Promoting 
Your Own Photoblog 
by David D. Busch, 
Rebekkah Hilgraves

David Busch's Quick Snap Guide
to Photoblogging with Word Press:

An Instant Start-Up Manual for Creating & Promoting
Your Own Photoblog

by David D. Busch
Rebekkah Hilgraves


ISBN-13: 9781435454354
ISBN: 1435454359
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"Photoblogs have become a very important tool for advanced photographers and professionals who want to market their work, as well as a popular forum for casual photographers to share personal photos.

David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Photoblogging with WordPress: An Instant Start-Up Manual for Creating and Promoting Your Own Photoblog is a complete start-to-finish guide on how to create a photoblog using WordPress, the most popular blogging software among photographers..."

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Fiction

That Summer in Paris

by Morley Callaghan


ISBN-13: 9781550966886
ISBN: 155096688X
Copyright © 1963
December 2009

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From the Publisher:
"It was the fabulous summer of 1929 when the literary capital of North America moved to La Rive Gauche-the Left Bank of the Seine River-in Paris. Ernest Hemingway was reading proofs of A Farewell to Arms, and a few blocks away F. Scott Fitzgerald was struggling with Tender Is the Night. As his first published book rose to fame in New York, Morley Callaghan arrived in Paris to share the felicities of literary life, not just with his two friends, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, but also with fellow writers James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Robert McAlmon. Amidst these tangled relations, some friendships flourished while others failed. This tragic and unforgettable story comes to vivid life in Callaghan's lucid, compassionate prose."

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Science Fiction
The Humanoid Touch
by Jack Williamson
(1985 cover)
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The Humanoid Touch

by Jack Williamson


ISBN-13: 9780553249675
ISBN: 0553249673
Copyright © 1980
December 2009

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From the Back Cover:
"Decades before the current headlines about automation, computers and robots, Jack Williamson was examining the relationship between humankind and machines in his stories of the humanoids. Now, in The Humanoid Touch, the Grand Master of Science Fiction carries that saga to its final irresistible step. This is science fiction at its best: thoughtful, thought provoking, and thoroughly engrossing." --Ben Bova

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Science Fiction
Greener Than You Think 
by Ward Moore
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Greener Than You Think

by Ward Moore


ISBN: 0559107919
ISBN-13: 9780559107917
Copyright © 1947
Greener Than You Think 
by Ward Moore
1975 cover

Greener Than You Think

1975 Cover

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Amazon.com Sales Rank:  3,476,358

     Hardback:  322pp
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     Used:  $1.99
From the Publisher:
"Ward Moore's classic novel "Greener Than You Think" posits a world with Bermuda grass running out of control -- choking out every other plant and destroying the food supply of animals and humanity alike."

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Fiction
A Confederate General
from Big Sur, Dreaming of 
Babylon, and the 
Hawkline Monster 
by Richard Brautigan
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A Confederate General
from Big Sur, Dreaming of
Babylon, & the Hawkline Monster

by Richard Brautigan


ISBN: 0395547032
ISBN-13: 9780395547038
Copyright © 1991
September 2009

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From the Publisher:
"Richard Brautigan's comic genius and countercultural vision of American life made him a literary idol of the 1960s and early 1970s. He wrote ten novels, nine volumes of poetry, and a collection of short stories entitled REVENGE OF THE LAWN. His books became required reading for the beat generation, and TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA sold more than two million copies throughout the world. Brautigan committed suicide in 1984 at the age of fourty-nine."

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Terrorism

Espionage

Triple Cross: 
How bin Laden's Master Spy 
Penetrated the CIA, the 
Green Berets, and the FBI 
by Peter Lance
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Triple Cross:
How bin Laden's Master Spy
Penetrated the CIA, the Green
Berets, and the FBI
by Peter Lance


ISBN: 0061189413
ISBN-13: 9780061189418
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August 2009

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From the Publisher:
" 'This is the most dangerous man I have ever met. We cannot let this man out on the street.'    —Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, 1997

In the years leading to the 9/11 attacks, no single agent of al Qaeda was more successful in compromising the U.S. intelligence community than Ali Mohamed. A former Egyptian army captain, Mohamed succeeded in infiltrating the CIA in Europe, the Green Berets at Fort Bragg, and the FBI in California—even as he helped to orchestrate the al Qaeda campaign of terror that culminated in 9/11. As investigative reporter Peter Lance demonstrates in this gripping narrative..."

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History

Sociology - General

Business Ethics

The Salaried Masses 
by Siegfried Kracauer, 
Quintin Hoare (Translator)
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The Salaried Masses

by Siegfried Kracauer,
Quintin Hoare (Translator)


ISBN: 1859841872
ISBN-13: 9781859841877
Copyright © 1930
July 2009

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From the Publisher:
A fascinating study of Germany society on the eve of Nazism. First published in 1930, Siegfried Kracauer's work was greeted with great acclaim and soon attained the status of a classic. The object of his inquiry was the new class of salaried employees who populated the cities of Weimar Germany.

Spiritually homeless, divorced from all custom and tradition, these white-collar workers sought refuge in entertainment -- or the "distraction of industries," as Kracauer put it -- but, only three years later, were to flee into the arms of Adolf Hitler. Eschewing the instruments of traditional sociological scholarship, but without collapsing into mere journalistic reportage, Kracauer explores the contradictions of this caste.

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Almanac
The Twentieth Century: 
An Almanac 
by Robert H. Ferrell 
(Editor), 
John S. Bowman 
(Editor), 
Averell Harriman 
(Introduction)
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The Twentieth Century:
An Almanac

by Robert H. Ferrell (Editor),
John S. Bowman (Editor)


ISBN: 0345317084
ISBN-13: 9780345317087
Copyright © 1984
July 2009

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From Mr. Wonderful:
This book order has an interesting history. I ordered the tome through Barnes & Noble's 'used copy' service and it arrived promptly from one of my favorite used book dealers, Sea Shell Books out of Clearwater Florida.

The only problem was, I ordered  The Twentieth Century  by Albert Robida, who in the 1880s (that would be the "19th Century" for you government-school-educated kids) wrote a science fiction book about the 20th Century.

Further checking with Sea Shell Books revealed that Barnes & Noble had assigned the Albert Robida authored book, The Twentieth Century, the same ISBN as The Twentieth Century: An Almanac.

This is what happens when you have a non-bibliophile working with books, when you have someone who doesn't get an almost turgid delight viewing the first twenty minutes of The Ninth Gate and someone whose spirit doesn't soar the instant he steps into a building with the aromas of paper, ink, and glued bindings swirling through the air.

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History

American (First)
Civil War

April 1865: 
The Month That
Saved America 
by Jay Winik
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April 1865
The Month that Saved America

by Jay Winik



ISBN: 0641979371
ISBN-13: 9780641979378
Copyright © 2001
July 2009

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From the Publisher:
"It was a month that could have unraveled the nation. Instead, it saved it. In April 1865, Jay Winik masterfully breathes new life into the end of a war and the events we only thought we knew. This gripping, panoramic narrative takes readers on a breathless ride through these tumultuous 30 days, showing that the nation's future rested on a few crucial decisions and twists of fate.   Here is Richmond's dramatic fall, Lee's harrowing retreat, and the intense debate in Confederate circles over unleashing guerrilla warfare. Here, too, is the rebel surrender at Appomattox, Lincoln's assassination five days later, and the ensuing fears of chaos and a coup, the shaky transfer of presidential power, and, finally, the start of national reconciliation. "

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Fiction
The Broom of the System 
by David Foster Wallace
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The Broom of the System

by David Foster Wallace
(B:1962 - D:2008)



ISBN: 0142002429
ISBN-13: 9780142002421
Copyright © 1987
June 2009

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From the Publisher:
"Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore's great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of..."

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Science Fiction
House of Suns 
by Alastair Reynolds
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House of Suns

by Alastair Reynolds



ISBN: 0441017177
ISBN-13: 9780441017171
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June 2009

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From the Publisher:
"Reynolds (The Prefect) returns to the universe of his 2005 novella "Thousandth Night" in this sprawling novel of intergalactic intrigue. It is 6.4 million years in the future and humanity has spread throughout the Milky Way. Some cultures have established transient empires across space; others, the Lines, have used relativistic travel to colonize deep time. Clone-siblings Campion and Purslane are delayed on their way to a Gentian Line reunion, a coincidence that saves them from a massacre..."

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Reference
Aircraft
Jane's Aircraft 
Recognition Guide 
by Michael J. Gething, 
Gunter Endres
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Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide

by Michael J. Gething,
Gunter Endres


ISBN: 0061346195
ISBN-13: 9780061346194
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June 2009

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From the Publisher:
"The essential guide to the world's aircraft Over 500 color photographs Civilian and military aircraft Technical data Recognition silhouettes Aircraft markings identification..."

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Science Fiction
Eternity Artifact 
by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
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Eternity Artifact

by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.


ISBN: 0765353458
ISBN-13: 9780765353450
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June 2009

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     Paperback:  480pp
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From the Publisher:
"Five thousand years in the future, humankind has spread across the galaxy and more than a dozen different planetary and system governments exist in an uneasy truce. Human beings have found no signs of other life anywhere approaching human intelligence. Until scientists discover a sunless planet they name Danann.

Moving at unnaturally high speed, Danann travels the void just beyond the edge of the galaxy. Its continents and oceans have been sculpted and shaped and there is but a single, almost perfectly-preserved megaplex upon the surface--with tens of thousands of near-identical metallic-silver-blue towers set along curved canals. Yet, Danann has been abandoned for so long that even the atmosphere has frozen solid"

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World War II
The Brenner Assignment: 
The Untold Story of the Most 
Daring Spy Mission of World War II 
by Patrick K. O'Donnell
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The Brenner Assignment:
The Untold Story of the Most Daring
Spy Mission of World War II

by Patrick K. O'Donnell


ISBN: 030681577X
ISBN-13: 9780306815775
Copyright © October 2008
June 2009

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From the Publisher:
"An impossible mission--Behind enemy lines--The never-before-told true story of a small team of American saboteurs with orders to sever the Third Reich’s main supply artery—the Brenner Pass.

Like a scene from Where Eagles Dare, a small team of American special operatives parachutes into Italy under the noses of thousands of German troops. Their orders: link up with local partisans in the mountains and sabotage the well-guarded Brenner Pass, the crucial route through the Alps for the Nazi war machine. Without the supplies that travel this route, the German war effort in Italy will grind to a halt."

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Science Fiction
The Prefect 
by Alastair Reynolds
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The Prefect

by Alastair Reynolds



ISBN: 0441015913
ISBN-13: 9780441015917
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May 2009

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From the Publisher:
"Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the Glitter Band habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead. But then he uncovers an even greater threat—a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band."

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Biography
Boggs: A Comedy of Values
by Lawrence Weschler
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Boggs:
A Comedy of Values

by Lawrence Weschler


ISBN: 0226893952
ISBN-13: 9780226893952
Copyright © 1999
May 2009

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     Hardcover:  161pp
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From the Publisher:
"In this highly entertaining book, Lawrence Weschler chronicles the antics of J. S. G. Boggs, an artist whose consuming passion is money, or perhaps more precisely, value. Boggs draws money-paper notes in standard currencies from all over the world-and tries to spend his drawings. It is a practice that regularly lands him in trouble with treasury police around the globe and provokes fundamental questions regarding the value of art and the value of money."

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Science Fiction
Death's Head
by David Gunn
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Death's Head

by David Gunn



ISBN: 0345503767
ISBN-13: 9780345503763
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May 2009

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     Hardcover:  358pp
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From the Publisher:
"At the top of the galactic pecking order is the United Free, a civilization of awe-inspiring technological prowess so far in advance of other space-faring powers as to seem untouchable gods. Most of the known universe has fallen under their inscrutable sway. The rest is squabbled over by two empires: one ruled with an iron fist by OctoV, a tyrant who appears to his followers as..."

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Science Fiction
The Digital Plague
by Jeff Somers
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The Digital Plague

by Jeff Somers



ISBN: 0316022101
ISBN-13: 9780316022101
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May 2009

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From the Publisher:
"Avery Cates is a very rich man. He's probably the richest criminal in New York City. But right now, Avery Cates is pissed. Because everyone around him has just started to die - in a particularly gruesome way. With every moment bringing the human race closer to extinction, Cates finds himself in the role of both executioner and savior of the entire world."

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Science Fiction
The Unincorporated Man by Dani Kollin, Eytan Kollin read more

The Unincorporated Man

by Dani Kollin, Eytan Kollin



ISBN: 0765318997
ISBN-13: 9780765318992
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May 2009

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     Hardcover:  480pp
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From the Publisher:
" 'The incredible has happened. A billionaire businessman from our time, frozen in secret in the early twenty-first century, is discovered in the far future and resurrected, given health and a vigorous younger body. He awakens into a civilization in which every individual is formed into a legal corporation at birth and spends many years trying to attain control over their own life by getting a majority of his or her own shares. Life extension has made life very long indeed.' Justin Cord is the only unincorporated man in the world, a true stranger in this strange land."

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