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Othello

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:20:23 PST

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Folger Shakespeare LibraryThe world's leading center for Shakespeare studiesEach edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best earlyprinted version of the play Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Scene-by-scene plot summaries A key to famous lines and phrases An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language An essay by an outstanding sc ...

The Historian

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 0:38:40 PST

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If your pulse flutters at the thought of castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page of Elizabeth Kostova's long but beautifully structured thriller The Historian. The story opens in Amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a medieval book and a cache of yellowed letters in her diplomat father's library. The pages of the book are empty except for ...

Blood Meridian

Sun, 24 May 2009 2:56:56 PST

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An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indi ...

A Brief History of Time

Tue, 19 May 2009 5:16:58 PST

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A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and t ...

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Tue, 19 May 2009 5:16:38 PST

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I used to have a copy of the Portable Nietzche from Penguin or whoever. Most of part three from Zarathustra was gone, replaced by a repeated big chunk from part II, then went straight to part IV. You won't have that problem.

Candide

Tue, 19 May 2009 5:16:18 PST

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One of the finest satires ever written, Voltaire’s Candide savagely skewers this very “optimistic” approach to life as a shamefully inadequate response to human suffering. The swift and lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunégonde, and tortured by the Inqu ...

The Inferno

Tue, 19 May 2009 5:15:20 PST

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Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark For the straightforward pathway had been lost. With these words, Dante plunges readers into the unforgettable world of the Inferno—one of the most graphic visions of Hell ever created. In this first part of the epic The Divine Comedy, Dante is led by the poet Virgil down into the nine circles of Hell, where he travels throu ...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners

Tue, 19 May 2009 5:14:57 PST

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Widely regarded as the greatest stylist of twentieth-century English literature, James Joyce deserves the term “revolutionary.” His literary experiments in form and structure, language and content, signaled the modernist movement and continue to influence writers today. His two earliest, and perhaps most accessible, successes—A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners—are here brought ...

The End of Faith

Mon, 18 May 2009 0:18:56 PST

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This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes-heinous crimes. He asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we can no longer toler ...

The Sound and the Fury

Mon, 18 May 2009 0:15:10 PST

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First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.

God Is Not Great

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:44:49 PST

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The Confessions of Nat Turner

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 5:22:11 PST

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Powerful, prize-winning 1967 novel depicts the odyssey of Nat Turner, leader of first slave revolt in the US. Styron's novel was profoundly controversial; some felt that's a white author had no right to the subject matter. By the acclaimed author of SOP

Duma Key

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:03:02 PST

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No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through...A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he ha ...

Danny the Champion of the World

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:18:28 PST

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Danny's dad had a secret, but now the secret's out and it's going to lead Danny on the adventure of a lifetime.

The Time Machine

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:18:06 PST

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The Time Traveller has ridden his machine hundreds of years into the future. Buildings, cities, and civilizations rise and fall before his eyes. He is welcomed to 802701 by the frail and simple Eloi.The future seems safe--until the Time Traveller encounters the shadowy, carnivorous Morlocks, inhabitants of the Underworld. The Morlocks terrorize the Eloi, hunt the Time Traveller, and capture th ...

The Man with the Golden Gun

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:17:54 PST

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A brainwashed James Bond has triedand failedto assassinate M, his boss. Now Bond has to prove he is back on form and can be trusted again. All 007 has to do is kill one of the most deadly freelance hit men in the world: Paco "Pistols" Scaramanga, the Man with the Golden Gun. But despite his license to kill, 007 is no assassin, and on finding Scaramanga in the sultry heat of Jamaica, he decides ...

The Dark Half

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:17:40 PST

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Bestselling author Thad Beaumont would like to say he has nothing to do with the evil that has resulted in a series of monstrous murders. But he can't. He created it.

The War of the Worlds

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:17:30 PST

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H.G. Wells's science fiction classic, the first novel to explore the possibilities of intelligent life from other planets, it still startling and vivid nearly after a century after its appearance, and a half-century after Orson Wells's infamous 1938 radio adaptation. The daring portrayal of aliens landing on English soil, with its themes of interplanetary imperialism, technological holocaust and ...

Watchers

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:17:20 PST

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From a top-secret government laboratory come two genetically altered life forms. One is a magnificent dog of astonishing intelligence. The other, a hybrid monster of a brutally violent nature. And both are on the loose...

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:16:22 PST

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Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant are French priests who are sent to the American Southwest region to restructure New Mexico's Catholic diocese. They have been friends since their childhood in France and their mission includes the correction of backsliding priests and the restoration of the Catholic culture. Themes of Indian relations, slavery, heresy, insubordinate clerical conduct, ...

A Scanner Darkly

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:15:39 PST

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Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself. Caustically ...

Insomnia

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:15:27 PST

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Ralph Roberts hasn't been sleeping well lately. Every morning he wakes just a little bit earlier until pretty soon, he isn't sleeping at all. It wouldn't be so bad if not for the strange hallucinations--and the nightmares that keep coming to life.

Matarese Circle

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:15:15 PST

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The world's top--secret agents--the American, Scofield and the Russian, Taleniekov-have each sworn to kill the other. Yet know they must becomes allies in order to destroy the Matarese, an international circle of killers dedicated to reducing the world to chaos by assassination and terror. "This is a chase story that will leave readers gasping for breath...(Booklist) "It's a blockbuster!" (The ...

Roadwork

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:14:59 PST

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They're tearing down Bart Dawes's home, leveling his memories, and destroying his past, all for a new highway extension. Funny what that kind of progress can do to a man. Scary, too.

Needful Things

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:14:29 PST

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A new store has opened in the town of Castle Rock, Maine. It has whatever your heart desires...if you're willing to pay the price. In this chilling novel by one of the most potent imaginations of our time, evil is on a shopping spree and out to scare you witless.

The Eyes of the Dragon

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:14:13 PST

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A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, this is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it.

The Firm

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:13:52 PST

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AT THE TOP OF HIS CLASS AT HARVARD LAW, HE HAS HIS CHOICE OF THE BEST IN AMERICA. HE MADE A DEADLY MISTAKE. When Mitch McDeree signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage, and hired him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother ...

A Walk Across America

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:13:15 PST

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Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote about that journey -- a classic account of the reawakening of his faith in himself and his country. "I started out searching for myself and my country," Peter Jenkins writes, "and found both." In this timeless classic, Jenkins describes how disillusionment with society in the 1970s drove ...

The Godfather

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:12:56 PST

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a #1 New York Times bestseller. A classic american crime novel. An offer you can't refuse... Since its first publication in 1969, Mario Puzo's epic The Godfather has earned a permanent place in the American psyche and culture. In this story of family, loyalty, and the men who rule the American underworld, Puzo introduced a cast of singularly crafted characters, and offered an unforgettabl ...

A Clockwork Orange

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:12:37 PST

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"Anthony Burgess reads chapters of his novel A Clockwork Orange with hair-raising drive and energy. Although it is a fantasy set in an Orwellian future, this is anything but a bedtime story." -The New York Times Told by the central character, Alex, this brilliant, hilarious, and disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism.Anthony Bur ...

The Colorado Kid

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:12:14 PST

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The Dark Tower, Book 6

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:11:58 PST

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Cell

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:11:27 PST

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On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. He's just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable him to support his family by making art instead of teaching it. He's already picked up a small (but expensive!) gift for his long-suffering wif ...

The Dark Tower, Book 5

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:11:00 PST

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In Wolves of the Calla, volume five of Stephen King's epic fantasy western The Dark Tower, coincidence has, as Eddie Dean observes, been cancelled. Everything the gunslinger Roland and his companions encounter has taken on symbolic significance. So when they come to Calla Bryn Sturgis, named after the director of The Magnificent Seven, its clear that King will follow the classic western archetype ...

A Man in Full

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:10:40 PST

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Atlanta conglomerate king, Charles Croker, has expansionist ambitions and an outsize ego. He also has a young and demanding second wife and a half-empty office tower running up debts. When a football star from Atlanta's grimmest slum is accused of rape, the city's racial balance is shattered.

The Hunt for Red October

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:09:54 PST

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Beneath the Atlantic's chilly waters, the captain of Russia's top secret missile submarine, Red October, secretly intends to defect--and U.S. intelligence agent Jack Ryan is eager to help him succeed. The Hunt for Red October is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so accurate and convincing that the author was rumored to have been debriefed by ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:09:39 PST

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The great American writer Ernest Hemingway, had this to say about Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: "All modern, literature, stems from this one book." In this quintessential American novel, Tom Sawyer's best friend, Huckleberry Finn, travels down the Mississippi River on a raft with a slave named Jim, getting himself in and out of danger along the way.

The Manchurian Candidate

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:09:02 PST

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As compelling and disturbing as when it was first published in the midst of the Cold War, The Manchurian Candidate continues to enthrall readers with its electrifying action and shocking climax.... Sgt. Raymond Shaw is a hero of the first order. He's an ex-prisoner of war who saved the life of his entire outfit, a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, the stepson of an influential senator ...

Casino Royale

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:08:25 PST

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In the first of Ian Fleming's tales of 007, Bond finds himself on a mission to neutralize lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called "le Chiffre."

Holes

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:08:05 PST

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The book that inspired the popular movie "Holes."

Danny the Champion of the World

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:07:52 PST

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The hilarious adventures of Danny and the best dad a boy ever had can be found in this "imaginative and entertaining story".--Booklist.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:07:37 PST

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The gates of Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory are opening at last -- and only five children will be allowed inside.

Odd Thomas

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:07:20 PST

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“The dead don't talk. I don't know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it’s a cur ...

Forever Odd

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:07:01 PST

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Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enough—readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz t ...

A Night to Remember

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:06:47 PST

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She was the world's biggest-ever ship. A luxurious miracle of twentieth-century technology, the Titantic was equipped with the most ingenious safety devices of the time. Yet on a moonlit night in 1912, the "unsinkable" Titantic raced across the glassy Atlantic on her maiden voyage, with only twenty lifeboats for 2,207 passengers. A Night To Remember is the gut-wrenching, minute-by minute accou ...

One L

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:06:27 PST

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One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school introduces and a best-seller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not only does it introduce with remarkable clarity the ideas and issues that are the stuff of legal education; it brings alive the anxiety and competiveness--with others and, even more, with oneself--that ...

Eye of the Needle

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:06:04 PST

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One enemy spy knows the secret if the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin--code name: "The Needle"--who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is coming to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life. Ken Follett's unsurpassed and unforgettable masterwork of su ...

Midway

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:05:47 PST

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This landmark study was first published in English by the Naval Institute in 1955 and was added to the Classics of Naval Literature series in 1992. Widely acknowledged for its valuable Japanese insights into the battle that turned that tide of war in the Pacific, the book has made a great impact on American readers over the years. Two Japanese naval aviators who participated in the operation prov ...

The Pelican Brief

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:04:26 PST

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Anthony Heald gives an uncommonly compelling performance narrating this fast-paced legal thriller. The action begins with the fierce assassinations of two Supreme Court justices. Too unlikely to be coincidental, the murders have no identifiable connection until a young law student uncovers a hidden link, exposing herself and those around her to deadly consequences. Heald uses the flexibility of h ...

The Phantom of the Opera

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:03:06 PST

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Filled with all the color and spectacle of the Paris Opera House in the nineteenth century, and the ageless fascination of love transformed into murderous obsession, this classic work of mystery and suspense remains a riveting journey into the darkest regions of the human heart.

The Catcher in the Rye

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:02:35 PST

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Stormbreaker

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:02:20 PST

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They told him his uncle died in a car accident. But fourteen-year-old Alex knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's windshield confirm his suspicions. But nothing could prepare him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for MI6-Britain's top secret intelligence agency. Recruited to find his uncle's killers and complete his final mission, Alex suddenl ...

Sounder

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:01:58 PST

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Sounder by William H. Armstrong is a favorite middle grade novel. This companion gives background on the author, questions to guide reading, clues to themes, plot, characters, and setting of the book, a glossary, writing and other activities, and more. If you loved Sounder, you need this reading companion

Captains Courageous

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:01:08 PST

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It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his band on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky. That was magnificent, in spite of Disko saying that it would break a snake's back to follow his wake. But, as usual, pride ran before a fall.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:59:21 PST

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Published in 1949 by John Lehman. Very good copy in a very good dust jacket with slight wear. There are minor foxing, nicks, and wear to the dust jacket, with an ink inscription. The basis of the 1951 film (winner of three Academy Awards) starring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, Williams's play is one of the works by which 20th-century America defines itself. First Engli ...

The Last Battle

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:57:35 PST

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The final book in the series which began with The Magician's Nephew, Jill and Eustace must find the true Aslan and bring peace to Narnia.

The Silver Chair

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:57:14 PST

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Jill and Eustace must rescue the Prince from the evil Witch.

The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader"

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:57:02 PST

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The Dawn Treader will take you places you never dreamed existed.

The Horse and His Boy

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:56:35 PST

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The Horse and his Boy is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta on the run from his homeland with the talking horse, Bree. When the pair discover a deadly plot by the Calormen people to conquer the land of Narnia, the race is on to warn the inhabitants of the impending danger and to rescue them all from certain death. None of the sheer magic of the Horse ...

The Magician's Nephew

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:56:15 PST

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The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventure.

Crime and Punishment

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:55:47 PST

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A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinati ...

Herzog

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:52:50 PST

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In one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption. Introduction by Philip Roth

Triple

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:52:21 PST

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As Egypt comes closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad's number-one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race...

Reversible Errors

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:51:36 PST

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A super-charged, exquisitely suspenseful novel about a vicious triple murder and the man condemned to die for it Rommy "Squirrel" Gandolph is a Yellow Man, an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder in Kindle County. His slow progress toward certain execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer who is Rommy's reluctant court-appointed representative, receives word ...

The Bfg

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:51:14 PST

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Luckily for Sophie, the BFG is nothing like his neighbors, whose favorite pastime is guzzling little children!

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:50:58 PST

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If you could see with your eyes closed, how would you use your power? That’s what Henry has to decide in "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,"one of the seven stories in this extra-ordinary collection. In addition to imaginative and magical tales, this book also contains the true story of how Roald Dahl became a writer, as well as a copy of the very first nonfiction story he wrote for The Saturda ...

Boy

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:50:44 PST

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"'I am only eight years old,' I told myself. 'No little boy of eight has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.'" So thought Roald Dahl in 1924 when his plan to get revenge on the mean and disgusting candy-store owner Mrs. Pratchett seemed to have worked all too well. Writing about this and other boyhood adventures, the author has recalled only those that stand out as spectacular. "Some are f ...

The Street Lawyer

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:50:06 PST

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Award-winning narrator Frank Muller delivers a poignant and candid reading in this unabridged courtroom drama. Muller's first-person delivery embraces Michael Brock's complexities as he grapples with a burgeoning conscience. With Brock's revelation that "I am a human first, then a lawyer," he is transformed from a rigid middle-class male into a compassionate Robin Hood-like character. Muller flaw ...

The Broker

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:49:52 PST

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In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a full pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. It's a controversial move, but what no one else knows is that the presidential pardon comes as a result of enormous pressure from the CIA. They claim that Backman may have obtained secrets that woul ...

The Chancellor Manuscript

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:48:50 PST

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DID J. EDGAR DIE A NATURAL DEATH? . . . OR WAS HE MURDERED? Inver Brass--a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals who see a monstrous threat to the country in Hoover's unethical use of his scandal-ridden private files. They decide to do away with him--quietly, efficiently, with no hint of impropriety. Until best-selling thriller writer Peter Chancellor stumbles onto information t ...

A Time to Kill

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:48:36 PST

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With a chillingly calm, even delivery, Michael Beck, a regular Grisham reader (The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury), turns the narrative of this disturbing tale of racism, ignorance, and brutality into an almost visceral experience. "Cobb strung a length of quarter inch ski rope over a limb ... he grabbed her and put the noose around her head." The story is frighteningly believable and expertly craft ...

The Brethren

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:48:25 PST

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They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a littl ...

Catch-22

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:47:08 PST

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Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he fu ...

Portnoy's Complaint

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:46:47 PST

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Portnoy's Complaint "n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issu ...

The Plot Against America

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:46:28 PST

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"What if" scenarios are often suspect. They are sometimes thinly veiled tales of the gospel according to the author, taking on the claustrophobic air of a personal fantasia that can't be shared. Such is not the case with Philip Roth's tour de force, The Plot Against America. It is a credible, fully-realized picture of what could happen anywhere, at any time, if the right people and circumstanc ...

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:46:12 PST

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Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like ...

Monster

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:45:40 PST

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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

The Satanic Verses

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:45:18 PST

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No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the h ...

Our Man in Havana

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:44:58 PST

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Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, becomes a spy to earn extra income.

Point Blank

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:44:03 PST

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When an investigation into a series of mysterious deaths leads agents to an elite prep school for rebellious kids, MI6 assigns Alex Rider, fourteen-year-old reluctant spy, to the case. Before he knows it, Alex is hanging out with the sons of the rich and powerful, and something feels wrong. Very wrong. These former juvenile delinquents have turned well-behaved, studious-and identical-overnight. ...

The Communist Manifesto

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:43:50 PST

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Critically and textually up-to-date, this new edition of the classic translation (Samuel Moore, 1888) features an introduction and notes by the eminent Marx scholar David McLellan, prefaces written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels subsequent to the original 1848 publication, and corrections of errors made in earlier versions. Regarded as one of the most influential political tracts ever written ...

The Metamorphosis

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:43:16 PST

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"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider i ...

The Great Divorce

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:42:29 PST

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C. S. Lewis takes us on a profound journey through both heaven and hell in this engaging allegorical tale. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis introduces us to supernatural beings who will change the way we think about good and evil.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 9:42:09 PST

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The Constant Gardener

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:58:54 PST

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Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has disappeared. Her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. His quest takes him t ...

The Crossing

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:56:13 PST

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In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, ...

The Road

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:55:47 PST

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE WINNER National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to b ...

All the Pretty Horses

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:55:32 PST

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1992年度全米図書賞、全米書評家協会賞受賞作。教養小説でありウェスタンでもある本書は、「勇気」と「名誉」について深く掘り下げた作品である。あらすじはいたってシンプル。時は1949年。16歳のカウボーイ、ジョン・グレディ・コールは、牧場を失ったテキサスの家に見切りをつけ、一花咲かせようと愛馬と共にリオグランデ川を渡っていた。目指すはメキシコ、同行するのは親友レイシー・ロリンズだ。道中、射撃上手の家出少年ジミー・ブレビンスを加えた一行3人は、数々の冒険を重ねながら南進。ついにある大牧場へと到着する。はじめは天国のように思えた牧場での生活だったが、そこで出会った女性との恋がコールの運命を狂わせていく…。 W・フォークナーを思わせる著者マッカーシーの筆致は、『Suttree』『Blood Meridian』よりもさらに抑えが利いている。初めてマッカーシー作品を読んだ者は、主 ...

The Orchard Keeper

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:55:18 PST

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An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest, most celebrated novelists. Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father. Together with Rattner's Uncle Ather ...

Cities of the Plain

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:54:51 PST

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In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. Their l ...

No Country for Old Men

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:54:31 PST

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The Leopard

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:54:01 PST

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A classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Amityville Horror

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:53:30 PST

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Bleak House

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:52:59 PST

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Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Nicola Bradbury.

The Alamo

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:52:44 PST

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Although The Alamo fell in the early morning of March 6, 1836, the death of the Alamo defenders has come to symbolize courage and sacrifice for the cause of liberty. The memories of James Bowie, Davy Crockett, and William B. Travis are as powerful today as when the Texan Army routed Santa Anna to the cry "Remember the Alamo!" This book is more than a tribute to those who fell defending the missio ...

The Dark Tower, Book 1

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:51:35 PST

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Stephen King has recently concluded his masterpiece Dark Tower series with The Dark Tower, bringing new readers to this odyssey. This edition of The Gunslinger includes newly-written material and an introduction by the author.

Desperation

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:51:19 PST

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Kathy Bates, the award-winning actress who has starred in two film adaptations of King's work (Dolores Claiborne, Misery) showcases her storytelling talent in the audio version of Desperation. In nine chilling hours of narration, Bates brings to life the story of two doomed travelers headed down Highway 50, a.k.a. the loneliest highway in America, in the brutal Nevada desert. Her even, full-bodie ...

The Dark Tower, Book 2

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:51:06 PST

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Beginning with a short story appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1978, the publication of Stephen King's epic work of fantasy-what he considers to be a single long novel and his magnum opus-has spanned a quarter of a century. Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is King' ...

The Children of Men

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:50:53 PST

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Told with P. D. James' s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, "The Children of Men" is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future w ...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 7:50:33 PST

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Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You'll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic di ...