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Tintin - Seven Crystal Balls

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 4:04:15 PST

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Tintin

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 4:03:53 PST

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Tintin

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 4:03:45 PST

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Tintin is a world famous series with 75 years of staying power! It has influenced generations of comic artists. Said to have been Herge's favorite of the series, Tintin en el Tibet starts off with Tintin heading to Kathmandu where his friend, Chang, has crash landed in the Himalayas. The search is soon complicated when they discover some strange tracks in the snow - tracks their sherpa claims can ...

Tintin

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 4:03:37 PST

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Tintin is a world famous series with 75 years of staying power! It has influenced generations of comic artists. These Spanish editions feature some of Tintin's most memorable adventures! In La oreja rota, a museum statue has been stolen, and then returned. But Tintin realizes that the returned item is a fake and that there is a deeper secret behind the robbery. His investigation into the mystery ...

Tintin

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 4:03:34 PST

Moomin Book Two

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 4:03:02 PST

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In the second volume of Tove Jansson’s humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack-dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports-loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble and Snorkmaiden find ...

Moomin

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 4:02:58 PST

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Moomin has been swiftly making its way into the hearts of North Americans ever since Drawn & Quarterly began collecting the strip in 2006. It debuted in the London Evening News in 1954 and has become the fastest-selling D+Q series to date. Fifty years ago, Tove Jansson’s observations of everyday life—whimsical but with biting undertones—easily caught the attention of an international audience and ...

Moomin

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 4:02:55 PST

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The enchanting comic strip that introduced adult readers to the wonderful world of Moomin Tove Jansson is revered around the world as one of the foremost children’s authors of the twentieth century for her illustrated chapter books regarding the magical worlds of her creation, the Moomins. The Moomins saw life in many forms but debuted to its biggest audience ever on the pages of the world’s la ...

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 4:02:41 PST

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Thirty years of celebrating the comic genius of Douglas Adams...If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the end of the Universe? Which is exactly what the crew of the Heart of Gold plan to do. There's just the small matter of escaping the Vogons, avoiding being taken to the most totally evil world in the Galaxy and tea ...

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 4:02:29 PST

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The long awaited, brand new series of Hitchhiker's comes to audio on Cd, with 25 minutes of unbroadcast footage. Many of the cast have reunited for this six part dramatization of Douglas Adam's book.

White Shark

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 4:00:13 PST

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At a small marine institute off the coast of Connecticut, only marine biologist Simon Chase realizes that a sixteen-foot pregnant Great White is feeding in the area. But even Simon doesn't know that a far deadlier creature is about to come out of the deep and threaten everything he cares for. A creature whose malevolence is unthinkable. Whose need to feed is insatiable. And whose relentless hunt ...

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 3:58:38 PST

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In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitle ...

Gormenghast

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:57:04 PST

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Enter the world of Gormenghast...the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder - ...

Sophie's Choice

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:56:16 PST

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In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There, he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ulti ...

The Queen of the Damned

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:52:38 PST

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"A welcome chance to catch up with old friends...Fascinating...When we emerge from its folds, there's good news on the last page: 'The chronicle of the vampires will continue.' Yum." PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER A feat of mesmerizing storytelling, a chilling entertainment, THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED unleashes Akasha, the Queen herself, who has risen from a six-thousand year sleep to let loose the powers ...

The Vampire Lestat

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:52:12 PST

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Interview with the Vampire

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:51:59 PST

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In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life ... the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood.

Coraline

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:49:49 PST

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Coraline vient d'emménager dans une étrange maison et, comme ses parents n'ont pas le temps de s'occuper d'elle, elle décide de jouer les exploratrices. Ouvrant une porte condamnée, elle pénètre dans un appartement identique au sien. Identique, et pourtant... Dans la droite ligne d'Alice au pays des merveilles, ce roman magnifique séduira tous les publics.

Wolves in the Walls

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:49:31 PST

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There are sneaking, creeping, crumpling noises coming from inside the walls. Lucy is sure there are wolves living in the walls of their house-;and, as everybody says, if the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over. Her family doesn't believe her. Then one day, the wolves come out. But it's not all over. Instead, Lucy's battle with the wolves is only just beginning.

The Graveyard Book

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:48:19 PST

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Piercing

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:46:49 PST

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Lady Friday

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:42:38 PST

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Four of the seven Trustees have been defeated and their Keys taken, but for Arthur, the week is still getting worse. Suzy Blue and Fred Gold Numbers have been captured by the Piper, and his New Nithling army still controls most of the Great Maze. Superior Saturday is causing trouble wherever she can, including turning off all the elevators in the House and blocking the Front Door. Amidst a ...

Sir Thursday

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:42:29 PST

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Get ready for more brilliant page-turning fantasy from master, Garth Nix. On the fourth day there was war! Pick up with Arthur Penhaligon as his Keys to the Kingdom adventures continue in the mysterious House. Following their adventures in the Border Sea, Arthur and Leaf head for home. But only Leaf gets through the Front Door. Arthur is blocked because someone -- or something -- has assumed his ...

Drowned Wednesday

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:42:08 PST

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Everyone is after Arthur Penhaligon. Strange pirates. Shadowy creatures. And Drowned Wednesday, whose gluttony threatens both her world and Arthur's. With his unlimited imagination and thrilling storytelling, Garth Nix has created a character and a world that become even more compelling with each book. As Arthur gets closer to the heart of his quest, the suspense and mystery grow more and more ...

Grim Tuesday

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:41:46 PST

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Arthur doesn't think he will ever have to return to the strange house that nearly killed him on Monday -- the house that contains an entire world. But Tuesday brings new challenges -- in the form of an enemy named Grim Tuesday, who threatens the well-being of both Arthur's family and his world. Arthur must retrieve the Second Key from Grim Tuesday in order to save everything -- an adventure tha ...

Mister Monday

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:41:35 PST

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Breathtaking new magical adventure series from the author of Sabriel. Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world - where one boy is about to venture and unlock a number of fantastical secrets. Arthur Penhaligon is not supposed to be a hero. He is supposed to die an early death. But then his life is saved by a key shaped like t ...

Deathscent

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:13:30 PST

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Robin Jarvis's latest creation is a world set in an alternate past - in a genre that can only be described as Scyence Fyctione! This strangely familiar Britain consists of ninety-three individual 'blessed isles' floating in the deep darkness and the story begins in December in the Gloriana Kalendar, when Elizabeth Tudor has reigned for one hundred and seventy-eight years. Into this world - a plac ...

The Snow Spider

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:12:09 PST

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AN EYE FOR AN EYE

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:11:47 PST

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In a world where the two classes are divided by colour and never treated as equals, Sephy - a Cross and daughter of a top politician - is six months pregnant. The child's father, Callum, is a Nought, but worse, he is dead and Callum's brother is out for revenge. Can two wrongs make a right?

The Various

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 2:11:27 PST

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The first novel in a gripping trilogy about 11-year-old Midge and her discovery of the Various, a tribe of fairies whose livelihood and existence is becoming increasingly threatened. A gritty and captivating story of courage and strength against terrible odds, this is the story of Midge, left to stay with her eccentric uncle during the holidays, and her adventures with the Various, a band of fa ...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 1:59:27 PST

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International Bestseller #1 National Bestseller in Canada Foreign rights have been sold to the UK, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Japan, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Holland and Brazil. Film rights have been bought by Hey Day (the makers of Harry Potter) together with Brad Grey (producer of The Sopranos) and Brad Pitt in their first acquisition for Warner Bros. Narrated by a fifteen- ...

Abhorsen

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:44:29 PST

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Now available in paperback--the "New York Times" bestselling conclusion to the Abhorsen trilogy. Lirael, now revealed to be Abhorsen-in-Waiting, realizes that she and her three companions are all that stand between an ancient horror and the world. [예스24 제공]

Shade's Children

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:44:17 PST

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On your 14th birthday, you're dead meat! Chilling SF adventure from international bestselling author Garth Nix. In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past his fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the child is the object of an obscene harvest resulting in the construction of a machinelike creature whose sole purpose is to kill. The mys ...

Circle of Fire

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:43:12 PST

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Sixteen teenagers taken from their homes. Eleven bodies recovered, each completely drained of blood. Some believe vampires are responsible, but Jon Barnett knows it's something far worse. To stop the killers in Taurin Bay, he becomes enmeshed in a web of black magic and realizes he needs help. But fate gives him only one choice in the form of recluse Madeline Smith. Madeline Smith has retreated ...

The Miserable Mill

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:39:34 PST

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As the Baudelaire orphans look out the grimy window of the train taking them to the Lucky Smells Lumbermill to live, they can't help but wonder what lies ahead. For Violet, who is an inventor, perhaps there will be machines to observe. Machines that saw wood can be very interesting, even though in the wrong hands they can be the cause of ghastly accidents. And for Klaus, who enjoys reading i ...

The Penultimate Peril

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:39:04 PST

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Lemony Snicket returns with the last book before the last book of his bestselling Series of Unfortunate Events. Scream and run away before the secrets of the series are revealed! Very little is known about Lemony Snicket and A Series of Unfortunate Events. What we do know is contained in the following brief list: o The books have inexplicably sold millions and millions of copies worldwide o Pe ...

Slippery Slope

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:38:58 PST

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Clocking up a whopping 337 pages, The Slippery Slope is the longest volume in Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events so far, but Book the Tenth reads so easily and is so entertaining that it actually feels half that length. With only three more books to go now before this popular saga ends, probably miserably, there is now much more of a sense of a single over-arching storyline that is hea ...

A Series of Unfortunate Events #7

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:38:34 PST

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I can think of no single reason why anyone would want to open a book containing such unpleasant matters as migrating crows, an angry mob, ...

A Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:37:58 PST

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The third book in the horrifically popular A Series of Unfortunate Events is now available in paperback. Are you still there? No? Good. Oh heavens, you're back. That heart palpitation is never a good sign. But neither is a hurricane. Or a leech. Or a signal in a sinking boat full of orphans and a scared aunt. But the worst sign is the one that says, "Over 51 million books in print!" Of course ...

A Series of Unfortunate Events #2

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:37:53 PST

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Imagine tales so terrible that as many as 50 million innocents have been ruined by them – tales so indelibly horrid that the New York Times Bestseller List has been unable to rid itself of it for seven years. Now imagine this scourge suddenly became available in a shameful new edition so sensational, so irresistible, so riddled with lurid new pictures that even a common urchin would wish ...

A Series of Unfortunate Events #1

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:37:50 PST

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Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. In the first two books alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, a lumpy bed, a deadly serpent, a large brass reading lamp, a ...

A Note of Madness

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:34:46 PST

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Life as a student is good for Flynn. As one of the top pianists at the Royal College of Music, he has been put forward for an important concert, the opportunity of a lifetime. But beneath the surface, things are changing. On a good day he feels full of energy and life, but on a bad day being alive is worse than being dead. Sometimes he wants to compose and practise all night, at other times he ca ...

The Tales of the Otori Trilogy: "Across the Nightingale Floor" , "Grass for His Pillow" , "Brilliance of the Moon"

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:34:16 PST

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In a remote mountain village high in the lands of the Three Countries lives Takeo, a boy with the exceptional skills of the deadly Tribe preternatural hearing, the ability to be in two places at once and invisibility. But brought up among the peaceful Hidden, Takeo has yet to discover the dangerous potential of his own abilities. When his life is saved by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru, Takeo ...

Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:33:46 PST

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Let the Right One In

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:33:16 PST

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Twelve-year-old Oskar is an outsider; bullied at school, dreaming about his absentee father, bored with life on a dreary housing estate. One evening he meets the mysterious Eli. As a romance blossoms between them, Oskar discovers Eli's dark secret - she is a 200-years old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 5:26:04 PST

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Billy

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 5:23:57 PST

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 5:23:34 PST

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'Shoot al the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this enchanting classic - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the De ...

Wolf Brother

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 5:17:21 PST

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Thousands of years ago the land is one dark forest. Its people are hunter-gatherers. They know every tree and herb and they know how to survive in a time of enchantment and powerful magic. Until an ambitious and malevolent force conjures a demon: a demon so evil that it can be contained only in the body of a ferocious bear that will slay everything it sees, a demon determined to destroy the world ...

The Breadwinner Trilogy

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 5:16:58 PST

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Deborah Ellis' trilogy has been a phenomenal success, both critically and commercially. Now young readers can experience this entire epic story in one ...

Kafka on the Shore

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 5:11:56 PST

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Sophie's World

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 5:11:22 PST

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This elegant CD-ROM will take you on an interactive journey through the history of Western philosophy, from its beginnings in ancient astronomy and myth up to twentieth-century existentialism. The philosophical adventure is built around a series of exchanges between a naturally curious young girl and her anonymous teacher, in which the user must participate. The pedagogical value of this interact ...

Twilight

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 5:05:57 PST

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Comet in Moominland

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 5:02:33 PST

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Ring

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 5:01:24 PST

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Stunning, cutting-edge thriller with a chilling supernatural twist from Japan's stylish new literary star. Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper's weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn't take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly -- until a chance conversation reveals that another h ...

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:57:49 PST

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Occupying a similarly sinister and macabre world to the American artist Edward Gorey Tim Burton's work is similarly difficult to place. This is a beautifully produced book filled with fine line drawings--many in colour--illustrating 23 small verse stories which all centre on a surreal deformity--the eponymous Oyster Boy, Stain Boy, The Boy with Nails in his Eyes, Junk Girl, The Pin Cushion ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:57:21 PST

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We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devili ...

A Study in Scarlet

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:57:04 PST

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The Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:56:40 PST

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The first volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, revised and with a new foreword and an index by Professor Tolkien. The trilogy recounts the War of the Ring, in which the Third Age of Middle-earth came. This volume opens with the discovery of the Nature of the Ring. "Destined to outlast our time." -- New York Herald Tribune

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King v. 3

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:56:29 PST

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Following THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING and THE TWO TOWERS, a third title in the epic fantasy sequence THE LORD OF THE RINGS, in which men, dwarves, elves and ents come together to do battle against the Dark, while Frodo and Sam push further into Mordor in order to destroy the One Ring.

The Two Towers

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:56:16 PST

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The Hobbit

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:56:03 PST

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Dracula

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:55:40 PST

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The Phantom of the Opera

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:54:41 PST

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The novel that inspired the Lon Chaney film and the hit musical. "The wildest and most fantastic of tales."--New York Times Book Review.

Frankenstein: 1000 Headwords

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:54:25 PST

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Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new 'man'. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And, because he is so strong, the next thing he learns is how to kill ...

Alice in Wonderland

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:54:10 PST

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Poil De Carotte

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:48:20 PST

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Le Silence de la Mer et Autres Recits

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:47:36 PST

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Exquisite Corpse

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:46:50 PST

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To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed ...

I Am Not A Serial Killer

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:46:37 PST

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John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he’s written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation. De ...

Red Tears

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:46:23 PST

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Emily Bowyer is a normal, confident teenager - lots of friends, loving family and a good student. But beneath the surface she has a wretched secret. Because, for Emily, life isn't as much fun as it would appear. Her friends are going off her and her parents only seem to care about her troubled brother. Plus, she's expected to complete hours of homework, to excel in her exams, to be the perfect st ...

Before I Die

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:46:09 PST

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Tessa has just a few months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is sex. Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa's feelings, her relationships with her ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:37:49 PST

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Eric

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:37:10 PST

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Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. The trouble is, he's not very good at it. All he wants is the usual three wishes: to be immortal, rule the world and have the most beautiful woman fall madly in love with him. The usual stuff. But what he gets is Rincewind, and Rincewind's Luggage into the bargain. Terry Pratchett's hilarious take on the Faust legend stars many of the Discwor ...

His Dark Materials

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:36:11 PST

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A luxury edition of all three books in the His Dark Materials trilogy in one volume. Contains 'Northern Lights', 'The Subtle Knife' and 'The Amber Spyglass'.

The Leopard Mask

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:35:23 PST

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The Guin Saga is epic heroic fantasy in the smae vein as Robert E. Howard's Conan, the Barbarian. More than a hundred books strong and growing, the saga has sold more than twenty-five million copies in Japan. Vertical will publish the first five installments that comprise "The Marches Episode" arc. In a single day and night of fierce fighting, the Archduchy of Mongaul has overrun its elegant n ...

The Guin Saga

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 4:34:47 PST

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The third adventure in the Guin epic follows the hero and the orphaned twins into a village of ape-men, where they attempt to create an alliance among the warring apes against a common enemy--Princess Amnelis and her approaching army--before it is too late to save the village. Reprint.

Travelling Light

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:17:39 PST

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This newly translated collection of stories brilliantly evokes the shifting scenes andrestlessness of summer.

The Guin Saga, Book 2

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:16:00 PST

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