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  Alice

  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

  by Lewis Carroll

  The edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoymentof them.Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversaion and idiom. So too,... (more)
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  Alice: Book 1

  Alice in Wonderland

  by Lewis Carroll

  The classic tale of ALICE IN WONDERLAND has been read and loved by children for generations. Filled with humor, adventure, and imagination for children of all ages. The fantastical tale begins when Alice falls into a rabbit hole, literally a dream land.
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  The Annotated Alice

  The Definitive Edition

  by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Martin Gardner

  The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, The Annotated Alice is a landmark event in the rich history of Lewis Carroll and cause to celebrate the remarkable career of Martin Gardner. For over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one of the world's leading authorities on Lewis Carroll. His Annotated Alice, first published in 1960, has over half a million copies in print around the world and... (more)
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  The Land of Laughs

  by Jonathan Carroll

  Have you ever loved a magical book above all others? Have you ever wished the magic were real? Welcome to The Land of Laughs. A novel about how terrifying that would be. Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, unsure son of a film star, doesn't know who he is or what he wants--in life, in love, or in his relationship with the strange and intense Saxony Gardner. What he knows is that in his whole life nothing has touched... (more)
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  The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

  by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Edward Mendelson

  Everything that Lewis Carroll ever published in book form appears in this volume. In addition, at least ten of the shorter pieces have never appeared in print except in their original editions. Included are: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" "Through the Looking-Glass" "Sylvie and Bruno" "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded" "The Hunting of the Snark" & all of the poetry, essays, phantasmagoria along with a... (more)
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  Rondua: Book 1

  Bones of the Moon

  by Jonathan Carroll

  Cullen James is a young woman whose life dictates her dreams-and whose dreams control her life. In her first dream, she found the perfect man-and the same thing promptly happened in life. Now, she has begun to dream dreams set in Rondua, a fantasy world of high adventure, full of tests of her courage and strength. Slowly and quietly, her dream world is spilling over into her New York City reality and beginning to... (more)
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  Kissing the Beehive

  by Jonathan Carroll

  When bestselling novelist Sam Bayer decides it's time he wrote his "Great Book", he chooses as his subject the death of a teenage beauty, Pauline Ostrova - the 'Beehive'. The town of Crane's view never felt the same after he discovered her body, floating in the lake, over twenty years before. Her boyfriend, Edward Durant, was arrested for the murder, tried and imprisoned. He died in Sing Sing jail. Sam Bayer's new... (more)
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  The Annotated Hunting of the Snark

  by Lewis Carroll, Henry Holiday, Adam Gopnik, Martin Gardner

  The definitive guide to one of the most baffling epics of nineteenth-century literature—a companion to The Annotated Alice . "It's a Snark!"…for whatever else can it be?" Published on April Fools' Day in 1876, Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark remains one of the most amusing and bizarre works of modern verse. Carroll, who completed this classic poem eleven years after the publication of Alice in... (more)
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  Voice of Our Shadow

  by Jonathan Carroll

  For Joe Lennox, successful young writer, Vienna provides a refuge from the tragedy of his brother's death, until he starts up a friendship with the eccentric India Tate and her magician husband Paul. Gradually Joe falls in love with India, but Paul finds out - before he suddenly drops dead. And now Joe has two deaths on his conscience and a voice calling from beyond the grave ...
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  The Marriage of Sticks

  by Jonathan Carroll

  A hip young woman sees an uncanny old woman in a wheelchair by the freeway in the middle of nowhere. Back home in New York City, she falls in love and marries an older man. When they go to live in a large old house in the suburbs, she begins to see apparitions. Then, as in the best vintage Carroll, things get really strange.
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  Rondua: Book 3

  A Child Across the Sky

  by Jonathan Carroll

  Just as the the word "weird" has many implications and shades of meaning, so too does the latest--weird--work by this gifted and perplexing writer. As Carroll ( Bones of the Moon ; Sleeping in Flame ) himself says, "Life has a habit of turning dark corners." Applied here, this observation seems an understatement: these convoluted corners are both light and dark, are many, varied and constantly challenging.... (more)
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  From the Teeth of Angels

  by Jonathan Carroll

  A critically acclaimed novel explores the meaning of death through the intertwined fates of three characters--a man who meets Death in a dream, a film actress who gives up everything for her lover, and a terminally ill patient. Reprint. NYT.
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  Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series

  Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy

  Curiouser and Curiouser

  by Richard Brian Davis, William Irwin

  The perfect companion to Lewis Carroll's classic book and director Tim Burton's March 2010 remake of Alice in Wonderland Alices Adventures in Wonderland has fascinated children and adults alike for generations. Why does Lewis Carroll introduce us to such oddities as blue caterpillars who smoke hookahs, cats whose grins remain after their heads have faded away, and a White Queen who lives backwards and... (more)
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  Rondua: Book 2

  Sleeping in Flame

  by Jonathan Carroll

  Walker Easterling is a retired actor turned successful screenwriter living in the Vienna of strong coffee, fascinating friends, and mysterious cafes. When he falls in love with Maris York, a beautiful artist who creates cities, his life becomes alive in fantastic and unsettling ways. As Walker's love for Maris grows, his life gets more and more bizarre-he discovers he can see things happening just before they... (more)
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  After Silence

  by Jonathan Carroll

  Cult favorite Jonathan Carroll has surpassed himself with his first mainstreamnovel. After Silence is an electrifying, unforgettable novel that unfolds with the logic of a Greek tragedy. Carroll writes with uncompromising honesty about how secrets gnaw and kill when truth is just as devastating.
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  Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles (French Edition)

  by Lewis Carroll

  Cette édition de « Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles » présente la première traduction en français de 1869 pour le lecteur moderne. La traduction d'Henri Bué fut la deuxième traduction d'Alice dans une autre langue. Bué demanda l'avis de Lewis Carroll pour cette traduction, que l'on qualifia de « traduction autorisée ». Un petit nombre de modifications ont été apportées au texte, de manière à rendre le... (more)
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  Sylvie and Bruno

  by Lewis Carroll

  Two little children meet adventure in such places as Dogland, Outland, and Elfland.
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  St. Leger Family: Book 3

  Midnight Bride

  by Susan Carroll

  In her award-winning historical novel The Bride Finder, bestselling author Susan Carroll bewitched readers with the legend of the St. Leger men--the descendants of a medieval sorcerer haunted by an unnatural past. Now Carroll once again conjures the unforgettable castle by the sea--a place where love is as mysterious and invincible as the family legacy. . . . Valentine St. Leger is a healer with a wounded heart.... (more)
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  The Mediator: Book 1

  Shadowland (The Mediator, Book 1)

  by Meg Cabot

  There's a hot guy in Susannah Simon's bedroom. Too bad he's a ghost.Suze is a mediator -- a liaison between the living and the dead. In other words, she sees dead people. And they won't leave her alone until she helps them resolve their unfinished business with the living. But Jesse, the hot ghost haunting her bedroom, doesn't seem to need her help. Which is a relief, because Suze has just moved to sunny... (more)
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  The Mediator: Book 3

  Reunion

  by Meg Cabot

  Accidents happen. With ghostly consequences, if you're Susannah Simon.The RLS Angels are out for blood, and only Suze can stop them-since she's the only one who can see them. The four ghostly teenagers died in a terrible car accident, and they blame Suze's classmate Michael.and they'll stop at nothing until he's joined them in the realm of the dead.As Suze desperately fends off each attempt on... (more)