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We're as pleased as punch and just as excited to share this summer's new releases with all of you. As always we remain eclectic yet focused, with a concentration on a wide variety of accessible yet cerebral titles. Please visit our booth, #35B in Kentia Hall. Justin Celine, our VP of marketing, is the one in the hilarious mad scientist outfit ( Read more... )

In my father's novel Bull Fire, the four holidays that most cultures share are named as follows:

The Greater Sunstop
The Lesser Sunstop
Pandemonium
The Springing

Happy Pandemonium, everyone!

Best viewed in full screen. So pretty!

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Thanks to yoscott for this:

http://community.livejournal.com/found_objects/3655743.html

The Young Visiters 2008. YEAH!

do_not_lick reminded me of a favorite Internet book reviewer, and linked me to two of his critical pieces I had not seen.

1. Moby-Dick "The plot could be wholly told in about 15 pages, none ommitted. The rest is philosophy and whale-encyclopedia."
   
   
2. Mrs. Dalloway "Just WTF is this book about ? Making fun of the London "drawing rooms" society of 100 years ago ? M ( Read more... )

I was soured after my trip to B&N and nicholasjamesb and I started riffing on the "publishing market." Here are some sure fire books we came up with ( Read more... )

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Obama wrote what


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These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.
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