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The Sun Also Rises

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 8:33:36 PST

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The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation. This poignantly beautiful story of a group of American and English expatriates in Paris on an excursion t ...

I Capture the Castle

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 8:32:10 PST

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This enchanting novel tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her unusual family who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Cassandra’s eccentric father is a writer whose first book took the literary world by storm but he has since failed to write a single word and now spends his time reading detective fiction. Cassandra’s sister, Rose, despairs of her fami ...

Green Grass of Wyoming

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 4:25:37 PST

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As well as Ken's battle against the odds to achieve his dream, 'Green Grass of Wyoming' shows a boy's growth into maturity, taking his first steps in love. This classic story is aimed at the 9+ age group.

Thunderhead

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 4:25:22 PST

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A follow-up to the childhood classic My Friend Flicka. "That rare achievement, a sequel to a great and richly deserved success that in no way falls short of its distinguished predecessor . . . a fine and singing story."--New York Times

My Friend Flicka

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 4:25:04 PST

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A timeless favorite of children and adults alike, this resides in "that borderland where some of the best-loved books in the English tongue hold their immortality."--New York Herald Tribune

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 3:12:16 PST

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Sometimes called "cozy murder mysteries," traditional British detective stories like this one are as compelling in audio form as on the page, especially when delivered in the proper English tones of actor Hugh Fraser. In this mystery, dentist Dr. Morley is found shot not long after Hercule Poirot himself has paid a visit. When Morley's last patient also turns up dead and the prime minister is sho ...

Agatha Christie

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 3:03:12 PST

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The Power of One

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 3:02:38 PST

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"Unabashedly uplifting." THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER Set in a world torn apart, where man enslaves his fellow man and freedom remains elusive, THE POWER OF ONE is the moving story of one young man's search for the love that binds friends, the passion that binds lovers, and the realization that it takes only one to change the world. A weak and friendless boy growing up in South Africa during Worl ...

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:55:52 PST

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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, ...

The Giving Tree

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:55:50 PST

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This story of a boy who grows to manhood and of a tree that gives him her bounty through the years, is a moving parable about the gift of giving and capacity to love.

Mere Christianity

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:55:48 PST

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THE BELOVED BESTSELLING CLASSIC OF CHRISTIAN FAITH Mere Christianity is C. S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books -- The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality -- Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the fundamental truths of the religion. Reje ...

The Color Purple

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:55:47 PST

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Get your "A" in gear! They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes™ has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'™ motto is Smarter, Better, ...

Little House on the Prairie

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:55:44 PST

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The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for Kansas. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their little house on the prairie. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. Sometimes pioneer life is h ...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:55:43 PST

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이 책은 약물을 흡입하고, 혼란스러울 정도로 정신이 없었지만 매우 좋았던 시간들을 인쇄물로 옮겨적은 이야기이다. 이상한 여정을 지나온 미국 대중 문화의 연대기 속으로 긴 주말 여행을 떠나는 이야기이다. 기자라는 신분의 라울 듀크는 그의 변호사 곤조와 함께 일탈을 꿈꾸며 라스베가스로 향한다.그들의 일탈은 갖가지 종류의 마약을 입속에 털어넣음으로 시작된다. 머릿속에선 끊임없이 왜곡된 영상을 만들어내고,아무도 모르는 공포에 시달리고,모두가 혐오스러워하는 괴물로 변해가는데... 1998년 조니 뎁, 베네치오 델 토로 주연의 영화로 만들어져 감독인 테리 길리엄이 칸느 영화제 감독상 후보에 오르기도 했다. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of ...

All Quiet on the Western Front

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:55:41 PST

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Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generati ...

Where the Wild Things are

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:55:30 PST

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Where the Wild Things Are is one of those truly rare books that can be enjoyed equally by a child and a grown-up. If you disagree, then it's been too long since you've attended a wild rumpus. Max dons his wolf suit in pursuit of some mischief and gets sent to bed without supper. Fortuitously, a forest grows in his room, allowing his wild rampage to continue unimpaired. Sendak's colour illustr ...

To the Lighthouse

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:55:29 PST

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Virginia Woolf is one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century, and To the Lighthouse is perhaps her crowning achievement. The story of the Ramsay family and the guests visiting their summer house in the Hebrides, Woolf?

Steppenwolf

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:55:28 PST

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"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 this novel can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of the intellectual hypocrisy of ...

Tender Is the Night

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:55:26 PST

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Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year. "It's amazing how excellent much of it is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now," John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald, "Tender Is the Night is in the early stages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side of Paradise." And Archibald MacLeish exclaimed: "Great God, Scott...You are a ...

As I Lay Dying

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:55:20 PST

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As I Lay Dying is Faulkner's harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in turns by each of the family members--including Addie herself--the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. This edition follows the text of As I Lay Dying as corrected in 1985. It includes an editor's note by Noel Polk ...

The Call Of The Wild

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:55:14 PST

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Stolen from his family, a dog named Buck must quickly learn the harsh law of survival among the men and dogs of the goldcrazed North. With an introduction by award-winning author, Avi.

The Velveteen Rabbit

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:54:52 PST

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子どもに愛されたことで、本物になったぬいぐるみのウサギ。本書は、時代を超えて、作りものを本物に変える愛の力を語り伝えてくれる。クリスマスプレゼントとして1人の男の子に贈られたビロードのウサギは、ほかのおもちゃたちと一緒に子ども部屋に住んでいた。いつか、男の子が自分を遊び相手に選んでくれる日を待ち望んで。恥ずかしがりやのウサギの友だちは、ぼろぼろの革のウマ。子ども部屋の住人の中でも一番かしこいウマは、ウサギにおもちゃたちの願いを教えてくれた。それは、「人間の愛を受けて、『本物』になる」こと。「本物っていうのは、身体の作りのことではないんだ」と、革のウマは言う。「きみの身に起こることさ。人間の子どもが長い間きみを愛してくれたとき、ただの遊び相手じゃなくて、心からきみを愛してくれたとき、きみは本物になれるんだ」 1922年に初版が刊行されて以来、多くのこどもたちを魅了してきた、セン ...

Goodnight Moon

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:54:49 PST

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子どもが眠る前のひとときにおあつらえむきの本といえるだろう。『Goodnight Moon』（邦題『おやすみなさいおつきさま』）は、これから眠りにつこうとしている（というより、まだ眠りたくなくて時間を稼いでいる）子ウサギのおやすみのあいさつを短い詩にしたものだ。子ウサギは目に入るものすべてに、そして声の届くところにあるものすべてに「おやすみ」を言う。「静かにしなさい、とそっとささやいているおばあさん」にも。クレメント・ハードの絵はシンプルで印象的だ。ページをめくると、白黒の小さな絵と、見開きいっぱいに鮮やかな色が広がる子ウサギの部屋の絵が交互に現れる。本の中で子ウサギが呼びかけているもの全部を絵の中に見つける遊びをすると、寝る前のひとときが一段と楽しくなる。繰り返し登場する小さなネズミはちょっと手ごわいが、子ウサギのおやすみの詩は、最後には小さなささやきに変わっている。夜の ...

Flowers for Algernon

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:54:46 PST

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With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until i ...

Watchmen

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:54:43 PST

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Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, but Watchmen remains the critics' favorite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga ...

Dubliners

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:54:35 PST

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'I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its wort ...

Breakfast of Champions

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:54:35 PST

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A Midwestern automobile salesman with a troubled marriage meets an illustrious writer in Vonnegut´s savage satire of middle America. Made into a 1998 Bruce Willis movie.

Swann's Way (Classics Deluxe Edition)

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:54:29 PST

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Marcel Prousts In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics brings Prousts masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Daviss internationally ac ...

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:54:25 PST

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If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the crucial truth about our times. "Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book." TEH NEW YORKTIMES

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:54:20 PST

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The Cider House Rules

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:54:18 PST

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First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted.

Native Son

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:54:17 PST

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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings ...

The Silmarillion

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:54:16 PST

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The tales of The Silmarillion were the underlying inspiration and source of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing; he worked on the book throughout his life but never brought it to a final form. Long preceding in its origins The Lord of the Rings, it is the story of the First Age of Tolkien's world, the ancient drama to which characters in The Lord of the RIngs look back and in which some of them, ...

Midnight's Children

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:54:12 PST

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Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India’s independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. But this coincidence of birth has consequences Saleem is not prepared for: telepathic powers that connect him with 1,000 other “midnight’s children” – all born in the initial hour of India’s independence ...

A Room of One's Own

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:54:07 PST

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Collecting two book-length essays, "A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas" is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist writing, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Michele Barrett. "A Room of One's Own", based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, is o ...

The Plague

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:53:53 PST

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A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.

A Streetcar Named Desire.

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:53:50 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 Crying of Lot 49

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:53:43 PST

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"The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes" praised the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune agreed: "The work of a virtuoso with prose. . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses."

A Room With a View

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:53:39 PST

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If you liked the movie, read the book.

Doctor Zhivago

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:53:14 PST

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n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.

The Clan of the Cave Bear

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:53:12 PST

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The Clan of the Cave Bear is the start of Jean M Auel's epic Earth's Children series. When her parents are killed by an earthquake, five-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same d ...

Anne of Avonlea

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:52:52 PST

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Our heroine, now 16, finds adventure and romance in the first sequel to Lucy Maud Montgomerys Anne of Green Gables.

Me Talk Pretty One Day

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:52:30 PST

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Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious new pieces, including 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that 'every day spent with you is like having a ...

The Age of Innocence

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:52:29 PST

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Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.” This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York a ...

The Remains of the Day

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:52:27 PST

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A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:52:15 PST

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An ocean voyage of unimaginable consequences Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however: If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I ...

Brideshead Revisited

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:52:05 PST

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One of Waugh's most famous books, Brideshead Revisited tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder, and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. Taking place in the years after World War II, Brideshead Revisited shows us a part of upper-class English culture that has been disappearing steadily.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:51:53 PST

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A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women, Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting, but always affecting picture of the people--and the times--th ...

Exodus

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:51:20 PST

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Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glo ...

The Jungle

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:51:13 PST

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For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair's classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown. When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial edition edited out much of the ethnic flavor of the original, as well as some of the goriest descriptio ...

Peter Pan

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:51:05 PST

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Peter Pan, the book based on J. M. Barrie's famous play, is filled with unforgettable characters: Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up; the fairy, Tinker Bell; the evil pirate, Captain Hook; and the three children-Wendy, John, and Michael-who fly off with Peter Pan to Neverland, where they meet Indians and pirates and a crocodile that ticks. Renowned children's-book artist Michael Hague has b ...

The Westing Game

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:51:00 PST

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When an eccentric millionaire dies mysteriously, sixteen very unlikely people are gathered together for the reading of the will . . . and what a will it is!

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:50:46 PST

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One of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live . . . and a breathtaking meditation on how to live better. Here is the book that transformed a generation: an unforgettable narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, ...

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:50:29 PST

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Island of the Blue Dolphins

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:50:00 PST

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In the Pacific, there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea birds abound. Karana is the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Hers is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery.

Sons and Lovers

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:49:48 PST

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With a new Introduction by Geoff Dyer Commentary by Anthony Burgess, Jessie Chambers, Frieda Lawrence, V.S. Pritchett, Kate Millett, and Alfred Kazin Of all Lawrence's work, Sons and Lovers tells us most about the emotional source of his ideas," observed Diana Trilling. "The famous Lawrence theme of the struggle for sexual power--and he is sure that all the struggles of civilized life have the ...

Cold Mountain

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:49:39 PST

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In 1997, Charles Frazier’s debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history when it sailed to the top of The New York Times best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Award, and went on to sell over three million copies. Now, the beloved American epic returns, reissued by Grove Press to coincide with the publication of Frazier’s eagerly-antici ...

The Witches

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:49:17 PST

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Would you know a real witch if you saw one?They don't ride on broomsticks. They don't wear black capes or pointy hats. In fact, they don't look like witches at all. But one thing is certain: A real witch is the most dangerous of all living creatures. So you'd better learn to know one when you see one! The young hero of this award-winning story learns that lesson in a hurry when he encouters a who ...

Snow Falling on Cedars

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:48:44 PST

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Ishmael Chambers, the one-man staff of the newspaper on San Piedro Island in Puget Sound, is covering the 1954 trial of a high school classmate accused of killing another classmate over a land dispute. Actor Peter Marinker--a stage veteran who has appeared in such movies as The Russia House and The Emerald Forest--takes us deep inside the world created by David Guterson in his award-winning 1994 ...

The Phantom Tollbooth

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:48:17 PST

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Wind in the Willows

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:48:13 PST

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Kenneth Graham's "The Wind in the Willows" is one of the most celebrated works of literature for children, and this "Penguin Classics" edition contains notes and an introduction by Gillian Avery. Meek little Mole, wilful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant, boastful Toad: over one hundred years since their first appearance in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentrici ...

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:48:02 PST

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A Deluxe Edition of the National Bestseller with Over 2 Million Copies Sold: Eight Pages of Full-Color Plates Include Every Vermeer Painting Discussed in the Book French Flaps Rough Front Larger Trim Size Premium Stock With a New Foreword Celebrate Tracy Chevalier's modern classic Girl With A Pearl Earring, featuring a gorgeous new edition illustrated with eight pages of Verme ...

Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:47:31 PST

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In Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the local people. Marlow's struggle to fathom his experience involves him in a radical questioning of not only his own nature and valu ...

Winnie-the-Pooh

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:46:38 PST

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Back by popular demand, the four full-color gift editions of the original Pooh classics are available again. These elegant books, larger in format than the classic editions, include all of Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations, each meticulously hand-painted in delicate watercolors. Here are the two great storybooks chronicling the adventures of Christopher Robin and all the inhabitants of the Hundr ...

Bridge to Terabithia

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:46:20 PST

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Winner of the 1978 Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to American Literature for Children.

Godel, Escher, Bach

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:46:02 PST

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence.

The House at Pooh Corner

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:45:54 PST

The Fall

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:45:48 PST

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Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.

The Glass Bead Game

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:45:41 PST

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The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, " The Glass Bead Game" is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature Set in the 23rd century, "The Glass Bead Game" is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to gro ...

Stuart Little

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:45:27 PST

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This is the first children's book by the distinguished author, E. B. White. Stuart Little, the hero, is a mouse in the family of the Frederick C. Littles and is a pleasantly debonair little character, with a shy, engaging manner and a somewhat philosophical turn of mind. He is a great help around the house, and everybody except Snowbell the cat likes him a great deal. In spite of his small size, ...

Norwegian Wood

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:45:19 PST

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"I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me" "Norwegian Wood" (Lennon/McCartney). With Norwegian Wood Murakami, best known as the author of off-kilter classics such as the Wind Up Bird Chronicle, A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard Boiled Wonderland, finally achieved widespread acclaim in his native Japan. The novel sold upwards of 4 million copies and forced the author to retreat to Europe, fea ...

The Polar Express

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:44:55 PST

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The Polar Express book and CD gift set is a charming collage of enchanting sounds, lyrical words, and climatic storytelling. Read by Academy Award-winning actor William Hurt, author Chris Van Allsburg's children's classic--a winner of the Caldecott Medal--is accompanied by a handsome melody and the sweet sounds of sleigh bells, train whistles, and spirited cheers from hundreds of Santa's elves. T ...

The Borrowers

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:44:16 PST

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Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock's huge adventures have been thrilling children young and old for fifty years--and their appeal is as strong as ever in these handsome new paperback packages. While the original beloved interior illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush have been retained, Marla Frazee's striking cover illustrations capture these little people with a larger-than-life appeal.

Matilda

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:44:02 PST

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For hundreds of kids, "The Trunchbull" is pure terror. For Matilda, she's a sitting duck.

Mythology

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:43:58 PST

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This volume aims to bring to life for the modern reader, the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture - the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. Readers are introduced to the Greek gods on Olympus and Norse gods in Valhalla and can follow the drama of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus. We hear the ta ...

The Phantom of the Opera

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:43:56 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.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:43:40 PST

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A much-loved classic, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" has won over millions of readers with its vivid and colourful collage illustrations and its deceptively simply, hopeful story. With its die-cut pages and finger-sized holes to explore, this is a richly satisfying book for children.

Speak, Memory

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:43:12 PST

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'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Young love, butterflies ...

Amerika

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:41:37 PST

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Harold and the Purple Crayon

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:41:35 PST

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One evening Harold decided to go for a walk in the moonlight. But there wasn't any moon, and Harold needed a moon for a walk in the moonlight. Fortunately, he had brought his purple crayon. So he drew a moon. He also needed something to walk on. So he drew a path... And thus begins one of the most imaginative and enchanting adventures in all of children's books. The creative concept behind this ...

Are You There God? It's Me Margaret

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:41:33 PST

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3 hours, 9 minutes 2 cassettes Performed by Laura Hamilton Being eleven-going-on-twelve is hard enough, but when Margaret Simon's family moves to New Jersey she knows she needs to talk to someone. Is God listening?

Orlando

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:41:25 PST

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In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the ...

Old Yeller

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:41:21 PST

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When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is "Old Yeller;" to read this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience.

Black Boy

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:41:09 PST

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With an introduction by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man's coming off age during a particular time and place, Black Boy remains a seminal text in our history about what it means to be a man, black, and Southern in Americ ...

Why I Am Not a Christian

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:40:51 PST

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Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom, education, and sexual ethics. He brings to his treatment of these questions the same courage, scr ...

The Subtle Knife

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:40:34 PST

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Here is the highly anticipated second installment of Philip Pullman's epic fantasy trilogy, begun with the critically acclaimed The Golden Compass. Lyra and Will, her newfound friend, tumble separately into the strange tropical otherworld of Cittàgazze, "the city of magpies," where adults are curiously absent and children run wild. Here their lives become inextricably entwined when Lyra's alethio ...

Ella Enchanted

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:40:02 PST

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Arcadia

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:39:57 PST

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Arcadia is a brilliantly inventive play that moves back and forth between centuries, populated by a varied and vastly entertaining cast of characters who discuss such topics as the nature of truth and time, the difference between the classical and the romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life-according to the author, "the attraction which Newton left out.

A Year in Provence

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:39:31 PST

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:39:14 PST

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Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper and embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life to her stifled existence. Can she find a true equality with Mellors, ...

Dharma Bum

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:39:01 PST

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Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after "On the Road" put the Beat Generation on the map, "The Dharma Bums" is sparked by Kerouac's expansiveness, humor, and a contagious zest ...

The Perfect Storm

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:38:40 PST

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In October 1991, three weather systems collided off the coast of Nova Scotia to create a storm of singular fury, boasting waves over one hundred feet high. Among its victims was the Gloucester, Massachusetts -- based swordfishing boat the Andrea Gail, which vanished with all six crew members aboard. Through the story of the doomed crew, Sebastian Junger's phenomenal bestseller takes us into the v ...

Number the Stars

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:38:30 PST

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Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to sa ...

The Winter of Our Discontent

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:38:14 PST

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From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American morality—two classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts IN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American.” Eth ...

A Lesson before Dying

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:38:09 PST

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From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

The Captive & The Fugitive

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:37:45 PST

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The Modern Library's fifth volume of Proust's masterpiece, À la recherche du temps perdu, contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust's narrator describes living with his lover, Albertine, in his mother's Paris apartment. He finds himself, by turns, falling out of love with Albertine and obsessing about whom she may or may not love. In The Fugitive, the narrat ...

Walden

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:37:20 PST

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Originally published in 1854, Walden, or Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the 150th anniversary of this classic work. Much of Walden's material ...

These Happy Golden Years

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:36:57 PST

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Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty twelve miles from home. She is very homesick, but keeps at it so that she can help pay for her sister Mary's tuition at the college for the blind. During school vacations Laura has fun with her singing lessons, going on sleigh rides, and best of all, helping Almanzo Wilder drive his new buggy ...

Wind, Sand and Stars

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:36:53 PST

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Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined with lyrical prose and the spirit of a philosopher, makes it one of the most popular works ever written about flying. Translated by Lewis Galantière.

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 3:36:50 PST

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Meg Murry O'Keefe and her family are just sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner when her father gets a phone call from the White House about a madman's threat of nuclear war. Only an old Irish rune seems to hold a clue to averting worldwide disaster, and and when Meg's brother Charles Wallace, now fifteen, recites it, a radiant white beast--the unicorn Gaudior--appears to join him on his quest. But ...