Featured Titles in At the Movies-Big Fish:
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel Publisher Comments The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new...
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American Gods: A Novel
by Neil Gaiman Publisher Comments Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming a battle for the very...
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An Invisible Sign of My Own
by Aimee Bender Powells.com Staff Pick Bender's imagination takes her writing in fresh new directions that make comparison with her contemporaries difficult. The novel's narrator is soon-to-be-twenty-year-old Mona Gray. Just a week before the start of classes, with no advance warning (and no...
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The Fortress of Solitude
by Jonathan Lethem Powells.com Staff Pick Lethem's ambitious new novel introduces readers to Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude, two boys, best friends, growing up in 1970s Brooklyn. Dylan is white. Mingus is black. Raised by sullen, single fathers, together and alone the young neighbors awaken to life...
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Big Fish
by Daniel Wallace Publisher Comments Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Tim Burton, and starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi and Danny DeVito. In his prime, Edward Bloom was an extraordinary man. He could...
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Lenore: Noogies
by Roman Dirge Publisher Comments Noogies: Collecting issues 1 through 4 of the Lenore series. A romp into a dark, surreal world, complete with the adventures of a cute little dead girl, limbless cannibals, clock monsters, cursed vampire dolls, taxidermied friends, an obsessed would...
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The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy And Other Stories
by Tim Burton Publisher Comments From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burton has become known for his unique visual brilliance -- witty and macabre at once. Now he gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children...
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The Verificationist
by Donald Antrim Powells.com Staff Pick "Donald Antrim's novels are smart, surreal, deliciously neurotic, and hilariously funny. Based on his first two, The New Yorker crowned him one of 'The 20 Writers for the 21st Century.' In The Verificationist, his latest (and the one that will likely...
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Tim Burton: Virgin Film
by Jim Smith Publisher Comments This indispensable guide examines Burton's directorial career, from his CalArts shorts to the recent blockbuster "Planet of the Apes," as well as side projects such as "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and his animated Internet series "Stainboy...
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Ray in Reverse
by Daniel Wallace Publisher Comments Regret looms large in Daniel Wallace's latest novel, Ray in Reverse, the funny and poignant story of a life, told backward. Sitting in the Last Words support group in Heaven, Ray Williams ruminates on his short life of fifty years, his episodes of...
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The Watermelon King
by Daniel Wallace Publisher Comments An endearing, often outrageous blend of fable, tall tale, and page-turner, The Watermelon King brings readers to Ashland, Alabama -- the fictional town immortalized in Daniel Wallace's Big Fish -- whose reputation is based on the long-ago abundance of...
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White Apples
by Jonathan Carroll Publisher Comments Vincent Ettrich, a genial philanderer, discovers he has died and come back to life, but he has no idea why, or what the experience was like. Gradually, he discovers he was brought back by his true love, Isabelle, because she is pregnant with their child &...
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To Kill a Common Loon
by Mitch Luckett Publisher Comments "I had to become a bird to become a man," Grandfather Two-loons told the boy. The boy grew up into a latter-day minstrel, wandering the highways with his dog, Medusa. He's lost his way. He's lost his knack for carrying a tune. He's thrust into the...
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The Marriage of Sticks
by Jonathan Carroll Powells.com Staff Pick As Marriage of Sticks opens, Miranda Romanac is preparing to attend her fifteen year high school reunion. She is hoping to see James Stillman, "the first man I ever loved with an adult heart," only to be informed that he died three...
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The River Why
by David James Duncan Publisher Comments Not in recent memory has there been such a unique and vibrant fictional character a character who could make us laugh so easily, feel so deeply, who speaks with such startling truth about the way we live as Gus Orviston, the irreverent young...
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Amphigorey: Fifteen Books
by Edward Gorey
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Tim Burton :an unauthorized biography of the filmmaker
by Ken Hanke Description Filmography: p. 223-238. Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-244) and index....
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Nightmare Before Christmas: The Film, the Art, the Vision
by Frank Thompson
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