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Author:Douglas Adams
Title:Deeper Meaning of Liff;The
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Copyright:1990
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Humour
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:#Oshkosh:# The noise made by someone who has just been grossly
flattered and is trying to make light of it.
Comment:"A dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet."
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Author:Douglas Adams
Title:Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy;The
Series:Hitch Hiker's Guide
SeriesOrder:1
Copyright:1979
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*"But the plans were on display..."
    "On display?  I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find
them."
    "That's the display department."
    "With a torch."
    "Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
    "So had the stairs."
    "But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
    "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did.  It was on display in the bottom
of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign
on the door saying #Beware of the Leopard#."*
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Author:Douglas Adams
Title:Restaurant at the End of the Universe;The
Series:Hitch Hiker's Guide
SeriesOrder:2
Copyright:1980
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
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Status:owned
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Author:Douglas Adams
Title:Life, the Universe and Everything
Series:Hitch Hiker's Guide
SeriesOrder:3
Copyright:1982
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
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Status:owned
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Author:Douglas Adams
Title:So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
Series:Hitch Hiker's Guide
SeriesOrder:4
Copyright:1984
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
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Status:owned
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Author:Richard Adams
Title:Watership Down
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Copyright:1972
Binding:paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*What Robin Hood is to the English and John Henry to the American
Negroes, Elil-Hrair-Rah, El-ahrairah - The Prince with a Thousand Enemies -
is to rabbits. Uncle Remus might well have heard of him, for some of
El-ahrairah's adventures are those of Brair Rabbit. For that matter,
Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero,
for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to decieve his
enemies.*
Comment:First of what later became its own genre of fantasy;
(realistic) animals as protagonists, with their own culture and myths.
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Author:Louisa May Alcott
Title:Eight Cousins
Series:Eight Cousins
SeriesOrder:1
Copyright:1955
Binding:hardback
Genre:Kids
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Status:owned
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Comment:old-fashioned wholesome story of an orphan and her heaps of aunts
and cousins.  Kept for nostalgia purposes.
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Author:Louisa May Alcott
Title:Rose in Bloom
Series:Eight Cousins
SeriesOrder:2
Copyright:1876
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Kids
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Status:owned
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Comment:even more preachy than the first book; kept for completeness
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Author:Hans Christian Andersen
Title:Complete Illustrated Stories of Hans Christian Andersen;The
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Copyright:1982
Binding:hardback
Genre:Fantasy
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Status:owned
Quote:*One day he was in very good spirits, for he had made a mirror
which had this peculiarity, that everything good and beautiful that was
reflected in it shrank together into almost nothing, but that whatever was
worthless and looked ugly became prominent and looked worse than ever.
The most lovely landscapes seen in this mirror looked like boiled spinach,
and the best people became hideous, or stood on their heads or had no
bodies; their faces were so distorted as to be unrecognisable, and a single
freckle was shown spread out over nose and mouth.*
    ("The Snow Queen")
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Author:Allen Andrews
Title:Pig Plantagenet;The
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Copyright:1980
Binding:hardback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:unread
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Author:Pauline Ashwell
Title:Project Farcry
Series:
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Copyright:1995
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:SF
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Status:owned
Quote:
Comment:more like a related set of short stories than a novel.
Still, it's got telepathy and interesting aliens; lightly enjoyable.
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Author:Tony Attwood
Title:Blake's 7 the Program Guide
Series:Blake's 7
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Copyright:1983
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF/TV
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Status:owned
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Comment:useful reference, so long as one ignores the inaccuracies
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Author:Jane Austen
Title:Persuasion
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Binding:paperback
Genre:Historical
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Status:owned
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Author:Jane Austen
Title:Pride and Prejudice
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Binding:short hardback
Genre:Historical
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Status:owned
Quote:*It is a truth universally aknowledged, that a single man in
posession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
    However little known the feelings or views of such
a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well
fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as
the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.*
Comment:classic classic witty and observant; her best book
(strictly speaking, not historical, since it was contemporary)
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Author:Jane Austen
Title:Sense and Sensibility
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Binding:short hardback
Genre:Historical
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Status:owned
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Author:Natalie Babbit
Title:Tuck Everlasting
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Copyright:1975
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Kids Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:*The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of
the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses
in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy
spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first
week of August is motionless, and hot.  It is curiously silent, too, with
blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much
color.  Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There
is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days,
the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry
for later.*
    (opening paragraph)
Comment:I heard of this on HIGHLA-L and then found it secondhand
a week later.  Cool, huh?
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Author:Cicely Mary Barker
Title:Flower Fairies of the Garden
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Binding:short hardback
Genre:Kids Fantasy
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Status:owned
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Comment:more flower fairies
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Author:Cicely Mary Barker
Title:Flower Fairies of the Spring
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Binding:short hardback
Genre:Kids Fantasy
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Status:owned
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Comment:cute beautiful pictures with rhymes; a treasured childhood book
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Author:Peter S. Beagle
Title:A Fine and Private Place
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Copyright:1960
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:Fantasy
GenreCom:
Status:owned
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Comment:a man, a raven, and a romance between two ghosts
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Author:Peter S. Beagle
Title:The Last Unicorn
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Binding:paperback
Genre:Fantasy
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Status:owned
Quote:*The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.
She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer
the careless color of sea foam, but rather the color of snow falling
on a moonlit night.  But her eyes were still clear and unwearied,
and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.*
    (opening paragraph)
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Author:H Belloc
Title:Selected Cautionary Verses
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Copyright:1940
Binding:paperback
Genre:Kids Poetry
GenreCom:
Status:owned
Quote:#The Microbe#

*The Microbe is so very small
You cannot make him out at all
But many sanguine people hope
To see him through a microscope.
His jointed tongue that lies beneath
A hundred curious rows of teeth;
His seven tufted tails with lots
Of lovely pink and purple spots,
On each of which a pattern stands,
Composed of forty separate bands;
His eyebrows of a tender green;
All these have never yet been seen --
But Scientists, who ought to know,
Assure us that they must be so...
Oh! let us never, never doubt
What nobody is sure about!*
Comment:I memorized "Matilda" when I was in primary school...
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Author:Alfred Bester
Title:The Demolished Man
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Copyright:1953
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:SF
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Status:owned
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Comment:a man plans the perfect crime, in a future where telepaths make
all crime impossible.
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Author:Alfred Bester
Title:The Decievers
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Copyright:1981
Binding:paperback
Genre:SF
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Status:owned
Quote:*He was wearing a jumpsuit of radiation armor, colored white,
signifying executive level. He wore a white helmet with the visor down. He
was armed, as all executives were in this quasi-military installation. He
walked statelily across the floodlit concrete plain toward the giant hangar
looming in the night. His control seemed massive.
    As the towering hangar, shaped like a domed observatory, a squad of
black-armored guards lay dozing before an entry hatch. The executive kicked
the sergeant brutally but quite dispassionately. The squad leader exclaimed
and scrambled to his feet, followed by the rest of his men. They opened the
hatch for the man in white who stepped through into pitch black. Then,
almost as an afterthought, he turned back into the light, contemplated the
squad standing fearfully at attention and, quite dispassionately, shot
their sergeant.*
    (opening paragraphs)
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Author:Alfred Bester
Title:Tiger Tiger
Title:The Stars My Destination
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Copyright:1956
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:SF
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Status:owned
Quote:*This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living, and
hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and
theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it.
This was an age of extremes, a fascinationg century of freaks... but nobody
loved it.*
    (opening paragraph)
Comment:Also known as "Tiger! Tiger!".  This is where the Tomorrow
People series got the word "jaunt" for teleport from.
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Author:Alfred Bester
Title:Virtual Unrealities
Series:
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Copyright:1997
Binding:trade paperback
Genre:SF
GenreCom:
Status:owned
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Comment:collected short stories
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