12th Aug2009

The Shadow: The Man Who Murdered Time

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This week for Books In Motion we bring you an episode of the old time radio show The Shadow: The Man Who Murdered Time.   The Shadow was a serialized radio drama starting in 1930 and continuing on into the 40s.  Since then, The Shadow has been featured in a wide variety of media, including comic books, comic strips, T.V. and film.   These stories, written by Walter B. Gibson under the pen-name Maxwell Grant, were originally published in Detective Story Magazine during the time of the serialization.  Gibson wrote 282 of the 325 stories over twenty years, including two novel length stories a month.  With an  occasional guest writer like Lester Dent, author of the Doc Savage series, and fantastic radio personalities like Orson Wells as a narrator, The Shadow quickly became one of the most popular pulp heroes of the 20th century.

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The Man Who Murdered Time was originally broadcast on January 1st 1939, read by Bill Johnstone

You can find the popular Maxwell Grant books of The Shadow at Logos for $6.98 while supplies last. Titles include:

The Shadow: The Murder Master and the Hydra

The Shadow: The Fate Joss and the Golden Pagoda

The Shadow: City of Crime plus Shadow Over Alcatraz

The Shadow: The Shadow Unmasks plus The Yellow Band

The Shadow: The Unseen Killer and The Golden Masks

Special thanks to the Old Time Radio archive for the recording.

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10th Aug2009

Weekly Picks (8/10)

by Janina

Every week Logos employees come together to pick the books and music generating the most interest from their departments

From the New Book Department:

1. Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

2. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

3. When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris

4. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor

5. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

From the Used Book Department

1. Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

2. Plainsong by Kent Haruf

3. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

4. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

From the Music Department

1. It’s Blitz! by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, on CD and Vinyl

2. The E. N. D. / Energy Never Dies by Black Eyed Peas, on CD and Vinyl

3. Rising Sand by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, on CD

4. Night Flier by Tony Rice, on CD

5. A Little Bit Faster A Little Bit Worse by The Devil Makes Three on CD

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08th Aug2009

News This Week (8/2-8)

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Every week Logos employees collect the most interesting news bits from the book and music world.

Sherman Alexie writes for the New Yorker.

President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, uses his influence to promote reading.

Twicon, the Twilight convention, sells out with 3,000 guests.

Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s pet chimp, will publish his memoirs.

Neil Gaiman predicts the end of our current vampire wave.

Modest Mouse releases their video directed by Heath Ledger (and it’s pretty gory, consider yourself warned).

Twilight books break the best seller records previously held by Harry Potter.

The Diary of a Wimpy Kid books by Jeff Kinney will become a film staring Steve Zahn.

Screen writer Budd Schulberg dies at 95.

Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boylan Girl, plans to release a condensed version of her new novel with Twitter.

Two beautiful facsimiles of Edward Lear books are being published this week.

Salman Rushdie did not answer the call of the siren after all.

Stephenie Meyer is accused of plagiarism, Little Brown has dismissed the charge as “frivolous”.

Harper Collins launches a short story competition.

Terry Pratchett, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, defends his right to take his own life, saying “I live in hope I can jump before I am pushed”.

Tim Burton defends fairy tales.

Rumors fly about the voice in Thomas Pynchon’s book trailer for his new book Inherent Vice.

A new Tennyson museum opened this week to mark the bicentenary of his birth.

School vetting rules in the UK are still be debated after the author outcry.

Bob Dylan is recording a Christmas album.

Director John Hughes dies at 59.

Beastie Boy Adam Yauch is home after having a cancerous tumor removed.

Israeli writer Amos Kenan dies at 82.

Michael Pollan writes on Julie and Julia and the state of American home cooking.

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07th Aug2009

Spectacular Box Sets In Store Now!

by The Music Department

U2 BoxLogos has some of the best box sets for the best prices in town! CDs, DVDs and LPs, we have them all!
Here are a few of the gems we have in stock right now…

In CDs, we have the brand new U2 “No Line On The Horizon” limited edition set. It includes the full length CD, a DVD with exclusive film by Anton Corbijn, a 64 page book, and a fold out poster. Brand new for only $50! This is half of the list price!

Buffy_CompleteCollectionIn DVDs, we have the complete collector’s series of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Box set includes all seven seasons, a disc of exclusive extras and interviews and a full color episode summary book. All this slayer action for a mere $120!

In LPs, we have a rockin’ Metallica limited edition set! This set is still sealed and is metallicanumbered 1566 out of 5000. Albums in the set include : Kill ‘Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, And Justice For All, The $5.98 ep Garage Days Re-Revisted and the Creeping Death picture disc. All are on 180 gram vinyl and have gatefold sleeves. Get it now for $350!

These are in store now…but hurry! Once they’re gone, they’re gone!

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06th Aug2009

New Roberto Bolaño Books In Stock!

by Janina

Skating Rink Today we received a stack of new books by Roberto Bolaño, best selling author of The Savage Detectives and 2666.  New titles include:

The Skating Rink $14.95

Nazi Literature in the Americas $14.95

Distant Star $14.95

Romantic Dogs $13.95

Check back soon for Amulet and By Night in Chile which are on their way, and again in January for the new release of Monsieur Pain.

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05th Aug2009

The Master and Margarita, Animated

by Logos

This week’s Books in Motion: Every week Logos employees search for interesting interviews or performances from authors and books.

A short Russian animated film called Margarita, based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita. From Argus International, Argus Film School.

You can find more of their films on Rambler Vision.

Available Now at Logos
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov, Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
$14.00

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04th Aug2009

Now Taking Pre-Orders for Jung’s Red Book

by Janina

PRE-ORDERS ARE NOW CLOSED – thank you for your consideration

Pre-order your copy of this book by August 31 with a $50 deposit* and receive a 10% discount (discount not available with trade). Orders taken at the Buy Desk.

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The Red Book
Carl G. Jung
Edited and Introduced by Sonu Shamdasani, Translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani
416 pages
15.4 x 11.6 x 1 inches
Limited Print Run of 5,000
Available September 16th, $195

When Carl Jung embarked on the extended self-exploration he called his “confrontation with the unconscious”, the heart of it was The Red Book, a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. Here he developed his principal theories—of the archetypes, the collective unconscious and the process of individuation—that transformed psychotherapy from a practice concerned with treatment of the sick intotranslation, it is available to scholars and the general public. It is an astonishing example of calligraphy and art on a par with The Book of Kells and the illuminated manuscripts of William Blake. The publication of The Red Book is a watershed that will cast new light on the making of modern psychology.

*deposit is only refundable in the event that the publishing date is canceled

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03rd Aug2009

Weekly Picks (8/3)

by Logos

Every week Logos employees come together to pick the books generating the most interest from their departments.

From the New Book Department

1. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

3. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Do-It-Yourself by Jeff Kinney

5. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

6. Phobia: An Art Decco Graphic Masterpiece by John Vassos

7. All That the Rain Promises and More by David Aurora

8. Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting by Louise Riotte

9. The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks

10. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Mathew Frederick

Check back next week for lists from the Used Book  and Music Departments!

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01st Aug2009

News This Week (7/26-8/1)

by Logos

Every week Logos employees collect the most interesting news bits from the book and music world.

The conflict rages on over Amazon’s Orwellian move.

Bestselling author of novels dealing with personal and sexual identity in black men, E. Lynn Harris, died last week at age 54.

Hanif Kureishi will adapt Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger for film.

David Cronenberg will begin filming for Don Dellio’s Cosmopolis next year.

Random House will reprint Michael Jackson’s autobiography, Moonwalk.

Shakespeare Santa Cruz performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, and Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as told by himself) started last week.

Scribner and Stephen King defend the book as object.

Does Hogwarts have a drinking problem?

Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox is animated as a new Wes Anderson film.

Houghton Mifflin will publish the new José Saramago novel The Elephant’s Journey.

Prince of Theives by Chuck Hogan will become a film, The Town, with Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, and Rebbecca Hall.

Control of Kerouac’s estate is called into question.

Dan Brown is taken advantage ofor is he?

Author Stanley Middleton dies at the age of 89.

Green Apple Books in San Francisco takes on the Kindle.

A battle rages between two Civil War histories on the State of Jones.

A fictional character gives out real scholarships.

91-year-old Louise Brown has borrowed 25,000 books from her local Scotland library.

Library fans scream for ice cream.

Merge Records turned 20 last week.

Rafael Sabatini’s classic novel Captain Blood soars into space!

Ron Howard and David Self take Robert Ludlum’s The Parsifal Mosaic to the big screen.

Pocket books buys a Beatles zombie mashup- this time Paul is dead.

A Roald Dahl biography is put on hold in light of 300 newly discovered letters.

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