Title: Smithsonian - Simple Stargazing: A first-time skywatcher's guide
Author: Anton Vamplew

ISBN-10: 0-06-084994-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-084994-8
Year: 2006

Summary: A fun and informative skywatcher's guide for the astronomy novice. This book will make sense of the night sky for beginners of all ages. And contrary to popular belief, you don't need ( Read more... )

Title: Sky & Telescope- Observer's Guides: City Astronomy
Author: Robin Scagell

ISBN: 0-933346-75-1
Year: 1994

Summary/Back Cover: Believe it or not, you do not need pitch black, rural skies to enjoy the hobby of astronomy! In City Astronomy, you'll learn

• how you can enjoy amateur astronomy from cities and suburbs
• which celestial objects are best ( Read more... )

Moribito II Guardian of the Darkness, by Nahoko Uehashi (or Uehashi Nahoko in Japanese)
Title in Japanese: Yami no Moribito
Translator: Cathy Hirano
Illustrator: Yuko Shimizu
Publication date: May 2009 (original in Japanese: 1999)
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.
Format: hardcover
# of pages: 245
Source: ( Read more... )

A Severed Head, by Iris Murdoch
Publication date: 1961
Edition: 1976
Publisher: Penguin Group
Format: print paperback
# of pages: 205
Source: Library
Summary/Back of the book: Martin Lunch-Gibbon believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged ( Read more... )