C.'s bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:53:34 -0800 60 C.'s bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Darkness on the Edge of Town 6969107
Surrounding their town was a wall of inky darkness, plummeting Walden into permanent night. Nothing can get in - not light, not people, not even electricity, radio, TV, internet, food, or water. And nothing can get out. No one who dared to penetrate the mysterious barrier has ever been seen again. Only their screams were heard.

But for some, the darkness is not the worst of their fears. Driven mad by thirst, hunger, and perpetual night, the residents of Walden are ready to explode. The last few sane prisoners of this small town must prepare a final stand against their neighbors, themselves, and something even worse . . . something out there . . . in the darkness . . .]]> 264 Brian Keene 0843960914 C. 5 favorites 3.67 2008 Darkness on the Edge of Town
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]]> The Graveyard Book 2213661
There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.

But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.

A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean.]]> 312 Neil Gaiman 0060530928 C. 0 currently-reading 4.15 2008 The Graveyard Book
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]]> No Exit and Three Other Plays 10037 275 Jean-Paul Sartre C. 5 favorites 4.08 1947 No Exit and Three Other Plays
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]]> No Exit 123933 The play is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for all eternity. It is the source of Sartre's especially famous and often misinterpreted quotation "L'enfer, c'est les autres" or "Hell is other people", a reference to Sartre's ideas about the Look and the perpetual ontological struggle of being caused to see oneself as an object in the world of another consciousness.]]> 60 Jean-Paul Sartre 0573613052 C. 0 4.13 1944 No Exit
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]]> <![CDATA[A History of Western Philosophy]]> 243685 A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject—unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. Among the philosophers considered are: Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the Atomists, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Cynics, the Sceptics, the Epicureans, the Stoics, Plotinus, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Benedict, Gregory the Great, John the Scot, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, the Utilitarians, Marx, Bergson, James, Dewey, and lastly the philosophers with whom Lord Russell himself is most closely associated -- Cantor, Frege, and Whitehead, co-author with Russell of the monumental Principia Mathematica.]]> 906 Bertrand Russell 0671201581 C. 5 favorites 4.12 1945 A History of Western Philosophy
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]]> The Portable Beat Reader 534647 645 Ann Charters 0140151028 C. 5 4.17 1992 The Portable Beat Reader
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]]> Interzone 257582 Naked Lunch. James Grauerholz's incisive introduction sets the scene for this series of pieces, guiding the reader through Burroughs's literary evolution from the precise, laconic, and deadpan writer of Junky and Queer to the radical, uncompromising seer of Naked Lunch. Interzone is an indispensable addition to the canon of his works.]]> 194 William S. Burroughs 0140094512 C. 0 currently-reading 3.77 1987 Interzone
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]]> Exterminator! 156484
Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all play their parts in this mosaiclike, experimental novel. Here is William S. Burroughs at his coruscating and hilarious best.]]> 176 William S. Burroughs 0140050035 C. 5 favorites 3.75 1973 Exterminator!
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]]> The Yage Letters 63885 66 William S. Burroughs 0872860043 C. 5 3.70 1963 The Yage Letters
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]]> Queer 23942 160 William S. Burroughs 0330300164 C. 4 3.56 1985 Queer
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]]> <![CDATA[Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader]]> 23938 576 William S. Burroughs 080213694X C. 5 4.17 1998 Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
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]]> Junky 23940 The definitive edition of Burroughs’s seminal first novel.

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first novel. It is a candid eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post-war underground.

Unafraid to portray himself in 1953 as a confirmed member of two socially-despised under classes (a narcotics addict and a homosexual), Burroughs was writing as a trained anthropologist when he unapologetically described a way of life - in New York, New Orleans, and Mexico City - that by the 1940s was already demonized by the artificial anti-drug hysteria of an opportunistic bureaucracy and a cynical, prostrate media.

For this fiftieth-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly recreated the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts and places the book's contents against a lively historical background in a comprehensive introduction. Here as well, for the first time, are Burroughs' own unpublished introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many “lost� passages, as well as auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others.]]> 166 William S. Burroughs 0142003166 C. 4 3.87 1953 Junky
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]]> <![CDATA[Naked Lunch: The Restored Text]]> 7437 Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangier, and ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, its formal innovation, taboo subject matter, and tour de force execution have exerted a significant influence on authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship of art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media generally. Naked Lunch: The Restored Text includes many editorial corrections to errors present in previous editions, and incorporates Burroughs’s notes on the text, several essays he wrote over the years about the book, and an appendix of 20 percent new material and alternate drafts from the original manuscript, which predates the first published version. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume is a valuable and fresh experience of this classic of our culture.]]> 289 William S. Burroughs 0802140181 C. 5 3.48 1959 Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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]]> Cat’s Cradle 135479 Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...

Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh...]]> 306 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. C. 5 4.17 1963 Cat’s Cradle
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]]> Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle 4983
- After the bomb, Dad came up with ice / Terry Southern
- Vonnegut's Cat's cradle / William S. Doxey
- The private person as public figure / Jerome Klinkowitz
- Cat's cradle / Richard Giannone
- Tangled up in you : a playful reading of Cat's cradle / John L. Simons
- From formula toward experiment : Cat's cradle and God bless you, Mr. Rosewater / Jerome Klinkowitz
- Playful genesis and dark revelation in Cat's cradle / Leonard Mustazza
- Bokononism as a structure of ironies / Zoltan Ab di-Nagy
- Mother night, Cat's cradle, and The crimes of our time / Jerome Klinkowitz
- Vonnegut's invented religions as sense-making systems / Peter Freese
- Icy solitude : magic and violence in Macondo and San Lorenzo / Wendy B. Faris
- Vonnegut's cosmos / David H. Goldsmith
- Cosmic irony / James Lundquist
- Cat's cradle : Jonah and the whale / Lawrence R. Broer
- Hurting 'til it laughs : the painful-comic science fiction stories of Kurt Vonnegut / Peter J. Reed
- The paradox of "awareness" and language in Vonnegut's fiction / Loree Rackstraw.]]> 258 Harold Bloom 0791071685 C. 0 4.36 2002 Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
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]]> Slaughterhouse-Five 4981 Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.�

An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it.

Fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut's portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.]]> 275 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. C. 5 favorites 4.10 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five
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]]> <![CDATA[Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson l Summary & Study Guide]]> 12528217 0 BookRags C. 5 4.47 2011 Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson l Summary & Study Guide
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]]> <![CDATA[Reality Is What You Can Get Away With]]> 96727 176 Robert Anton Wilson 1561840807 C. 5 favorites 3.84 1992 Reality Is What You Can Get Away With
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]]> The Illuminati Papers 4241
Robert Anton Wilson developed the story of the Illuminati, a conspiracy as old as time itself, as a vehicle to amuse and enlighten. His best-selling books, The Illuminati Trilogy and Cosmic Trigger, have delighted readers the world over and made the Illuminati conspiracy the perfect metaphor for our time. In the Illuminati Papers, Robert Anton Wilson speaks through characters from his novels and other realities and presents his views on our future way of life.]]> 168 Robert Anton Wilson 1579510027 C. 4 3.86 1980 The Illuminati Papers
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]]> The Illuminatus! Trilogy 57913
Filled with sex and violence—in and out of time and space—the three books of The Illuminatus! Trilogy are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the cover-ups of our time—from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill—and suggest a mind-blowing truth.]]> 805 Robert Shea 0440539811 C. 5 4.02 1983 The Illuminatus! Trilogy
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]]> <![CDATA[Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups]]> 361838 X-Files, before alt.conspiracy, there was Robert Anton Wilson and his legendary Illuminatus! Trilogy. Now this avatar of conspiriology, renowned for his razor wit and progressive philosophy, takes you on a fascinating, eclectic ride through what Wilson has termed the "Cultic Twilight" where conspiracy theories flourish. Everything Is Under Control covers the range of Wilson's kaleidoscopic knowledge, from John Adams to the Voronezh (former Soviet Union) UFO sighting, the Campus Crusade for Cthulhu to the Mothman prophecies, and everything in between. What do the Freemasons, the Kennedys, and Princess Diana have in common? All are at the center of gigantic conspiracy theories with incredibly complex and endlessly multiplying twists, turns, highways and byways. Arranged by alphabetical entries which include cross-references to other entries in the book and also provide addresses to related sites on the Web, this book is truly interactive � you can dip in, read through, or follow one of the URLs from an interesting entry onto the internet.

What some famous people say about Robert Anton Wilson:
"A dazzling barker hawking tickets to the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway to higher consciousness."
--Tom Robbins
"Wilson managed to reverse every mental polarity in me, as if I had been pulled through infinity."
—Philip K. Dick
"One of the most important scientific philosophers of his century � scholarly, witty, scientific, hip and hopeful."
—Dr. Timothy Leary
]]> 435 Robert Anton Wilson 0062734172 C. 5 3.80 1998 Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups
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]]> <![CDATA[Down to Earth (Cosmic Trigger #2)]]> 48622 288 Robert Anton Wilson C. 3 4.15 1991 Down to Earth (Cosmic Trigger #2)
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]]> Prometheus Rising 28597 284 Robert Anton Wilson 1561840564 C. 3 4.25 1983 Prometheus Rising
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]]> Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy 62567
The missing plutonium a terrorist group turns into nuclear devices, the Mad Fishmonger, the future America called Unistat, our hero Benny "Eggs" Benedict, and the Invisible Hand are real but beyond the Black Hole, out of space, out of time—in the universe next door.]]> 560 Robert Anton Wilson 0440500702 C. 5 favorites 4.08 1981 Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy
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]]> Siddhartha 52036 152 Hermann Hesse C. 5 4.07 1922 Siddhartha
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse]]> 13514
Containing all the themes common in Hesse's great novels Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, and Demian—and mirroring events in his own life, these exquisite short pieces exhibit the same mystical and romantic impulses that contribute to the haunting brilliance of his major works. Several stories, including "The Poet," "The Fairy Tale About the Wicker Chair," and "The Painter," examine the dilemma of the artist, torn between the drive for perfection and the temptations of pleasure and social success. Other tales reflect changes and struggles within society: in "Faldum," a city is irrevocably transformed when each resident is granted his or her fondest wish; in "Strange News from Another Planet," "If the War Continues," and "The European," nightmarish landscapes convey Hesse's devastating critiques of nationalism, barbarism, and war.

Illuminating and inspiring, The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse will challenge and enchant readers of all ages. A distinguished and historic publication, this fine translation by Jack Zipes captures their subtlety and elegance for decades nto come.]]> 266 Hermann Hesse 0553377760 C. 5 favorites 4.04 1919 The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
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]]> Steppenwolf 16631 Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse's searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. Yet his novel can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of the intellectual hypocrisy of the period. As Hesse himself remarked, "Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any of the others".]]> 256 Hermann Hesse 0140282580 C. 4 4.15 1927 Steppenwolf
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]]> <![CDATA[Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)]]> 9969571 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.

But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.]]> 480 Ernest Cline 030788743X C. 5 4.21 2011 Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Neverwinter Campaign Guide (Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition)]]> 10871388
Neverwinter has long been one of the most popular locations in the Forgotten Realms ® campaign world. This book presents a complete heroic-tier campaign setting that plunges players into the politics, skullduggery, and peril of a city on the brink of destruction or greatness. A wealth of information about Neverwinter and its environs is maps, quests, encounters, and statistics -- everything a Dungeon Master needs for his heroic tier adventures.]]> 224 Wizards of the Coast 0786958146 C. 5 4.04 2011 Neverwinter Campaign Guide (Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[Draconomicon: Chromatic Dragons (Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition)]]> 3016370 D&D--the dragons!

Draconomicon I: Chromatic Dragons describes several varieties of dragons, including red, blue, green, black, and white dragons, as well as three completely new chromatic dragons.

This sourcebook gives details of each dragon's powers, tactics, myths, lairs, servitors, and more. In addition, this book provides new information about draconic nations (such as Arkhosia) and organizations, and how chromatic dragons fit into the D&D game. Wide-ranging story and campaign elements in the book give DMs ready-to-play material that is easily incorporated into a gane, including adventure hooks, quests, and pregenerated treasure hoards.]]> 256 Wizards of the Coast 0786949805 C. 5 3.66 2008 Draconomicon: Chromatic Dragons (Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[Eberron Campaign Guide (Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition)]]> 6098741
This books contains all the information any DM would need about the world of Eberron . This exciting world is complete with soaring cities, viscious wars, and a gritty mean-streets style that harkens back to the traditions of film noir.

The Eberron campaign setting is updated into the 4th edition D&D family with the Eberron Campaign Guide . Featuring all of the character elements from the core rulebooks, this updated version of the Eberron world is a must for any gamer that likes the magic-as-technology, film noir, high-adventure campaign setting that was chosen from over 15,000 game submissions.]]> 288 Wizards of the Coast 0786950994 C. 4 3.81 2009 Eberron Campaign Guide (Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[Eberron Player's Guide (Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition)]]> 6098740
The Eberron Player's Guide presents the film noir world of Eberron from the point of view of the adventurer exploring it. This product includes everything a player needs to create their character for a D&D (R) campaign in the Eberron setting, including new feats, new character powers, new paragon paths and epic destinies, and even a new 4th edition version of a classic Eberron the Artificer!]]> 160 Wizards of the Coast 0786951001 C. 4 3.62 2009 Eberron Player's Guide (Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and Truename Magic (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying Supplement)]]> 47686 Unlock the Magical Power of Vestiges, Shadows, and Syllables

Tome of Magic presents three new kinds of magic that you can integrate easily into any Dungeons & Dragons ® campaign. These magic subsystems function alongside the existing D&D ® magic system and offer new game mechanics, character options, and adventure possibilities. Within this tome you'll find three new standard classes -- one for each new kind of magic -- as well as new spells, feats, prestige classes, monsters, and magic items tied thematically to each.

Pact Magic

Powerful entities known as vestiges exist beyond the boundaries of life, death, and undeath. The binder uses pact magic -- a combination of symbols and secret rituals -- to summon these entities, strike bargains with them, and gain their formidable and sometimes bizarre supernatural powers.

Shadow Magic

The Plane of Shadow is a dark, twisted reflection of the real world. The shadowcaster, by understanding the fundamental properties of the plane and unlocking its magical mysteries, learns to harness and channel its umbral gloom, shaping the darkness to serve her whim.

Truename Magic

Every creature has a truename -- the word of its creation. The truenamer knows the primal language of the universe -- the language of Truespeech -- and learns the truenames of creatures and objects to gain control over them, transform them, or destroy them.]]> 288 Matt Sernett 0786939095 C. 5 3.80 2006 Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow, and Truename Magic (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying Supplement)
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]]> <![CDATA[Heroes of Horror (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying Supplement)]]> 182539 Ěý

Heroes of Horror provides everything players and Dungeon Masters need to play and run a horror-oriented campaign or integrate elements of creepiness & tension into their existing campaigns. Players can develop heroes or anti-heroes using new feats, new spells, new base classes and prestige classes, and new magic items. The book presents new mechanics for different types of horror, including rules for dread and tainted characters, as well as plenty of new horrific monsters and adventure seeds. Different types and genres of horror are discussed in detail.]]> 160 James Wyatt 0786936991 C. 5 3.73 2005 Heroes of Horror (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying Supplement)
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]]> <![CDATA[Complete Mage (Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5rd Edition)]]> 524241 160 Ari Marmell 0786939370 C. 5 3.78 2006 Complete Mage (Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5rd Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[Cityscape (Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5rd Edition)]]> 1050987 160 Ari Marmell 0786939397 C. 3 3.39 2006 Cityscape (Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5rd Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[Tomb of Horrors (Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition)]]> 7409437 D&D® world returns!

For generations, the Tomb of Horrors� has held an inescapable allure. It draws adventurers to it like a beacon then devours them utterly like some monstrous predator. Within its sepulchral, trap-ridden halls and chambers lay the secrets and treasures of the demilich Acererak and, some say, the demilich himself.
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Tomb of Horrors features a modular design that allows Dungeon Masters to build campaigns around the events herein, or pick and choose from the various chapters for use as standalone adventures. It presents a variety of challenges, from intricate combat encounters to traps and tricks evocative of the classic Tomb of Horrors adventure.
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This D&D adventure is designed for characters of 10th�22nd level and includes a full-color, double-sided battle map designed for use with D&D Miniatures.]]> 160 Wizards of the Coast 0786954914 C. 5 3.70 2010 Tomb of Horrors (Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition)
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Foreword by Stephen Jones
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Still by Tia V. Travis
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