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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

ISBN 0451526503 (0-451-52650-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, James Dickey

ISBN 0451522729 (0-451-52272-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 0451528824 (0-451-52882-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Annotated Mother Goose
by William S. Baring-Gould, Ceil Baring-Gould

ISBN 0452009715 (0-452-00971-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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The timeless classic! Missing dustjacket, some signs of age. [via]
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
by Fred Saberhagen, James V. Hart

ISBN 0451175751 (0-451-17575-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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A novelisation of the film of the book. This novel is a great deal shorter than the original novel and it is much more direct and erotic. Fred Saberhagen is the author of the "Berserker" books. James Hart is the screenwriter of "Hook". [via]
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0486268659 (0-486-26865-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has been continuously in print since it was first published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story. What makes this charming edition of Dickens's immortal tale so special is the collection of 80 vivid illustrations by Everett Shinn (1876-1953). Shinn, a well-known artist in his time, was a popular illustrator of newspapers and magazines whose work displayed a remarkable affinity for the stories of Charles Dickens, evoking the bustling street life of the mid-1800s. Printed on heavy, cream-colored paper stock, the edges of the pages have been left rough, simulating the way in which the story might have appeared in Dickens's own time. Though countless editions of this classic have been published over the years, this one stands out as particularly beautiful, nostalgic, and evocative of the spirit of Christmas. [via]
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
by Jean M. Auel

ISBN 0517189186 (0-517-18918-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-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 disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.
Although Jean Auel obviously takes certain liberties with the actions and motivations of all our ancestors, her extensive research into the Ice Age does shine through--especially in the detailed knowledge of plants and natural remedies used by the medicine woman and passed down to Ayla. Mostly, though, this first in the series of four is a wonderful story of survival. Ayla's personal evolution is a compelling and relevant tale. --Sara Nickerson [via]
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Come to Grief
by Dick Francis

ISBN 0515119520 (0-515-11952-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain

ISBN 0451529588 (0-451-52958-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Hank Morgan finds himself transported back to England's Dark Ages - where he is immediately captured and sentenced to death at Camelot. Fortunately, he's quick-witted, and in the process of saving his life he turns himself into a celebrity - winning himself the position of prime minister as well as the lasting enmity of Merlin. [via]
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Dictionary of Quotations
by Bergen Evans

ISBN 0517262800 (0-517-26280-0)
Hardcover, Avenel Books

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This comprehensive compendium of famous and clever sayings--arranged alphabetically according to topic and author--contains a quotation for every occasion. [via]
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker

ISBN 0451523377 (0-451-52337-7)
Softcover, Signet

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Grim tale recounts the horrible deeds of the monstrous count of Transylvania. A ghoul-lover's delight, this horror classic follows the vampire to London where a British lawyer and his friends summon all their strength and resources to exterminate the fiend. Printed in easy-to-read type, this specially abridged edition streamlines the story for young readers. 25 illustrations.
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The Eyes of the Dragon
by Stephen King

ISBN 0451166582 (0-451-16658-2)
Softcover, Signet

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Girl With a Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier

ISBN 0452282152 (0-452-28215-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.
Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:
I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.
In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Guilty Pleasures
by Laurell K. Hamilton

ISBN 051513449X (0-515-13449-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Anita Blake may be small and young, but vampires call her the Executioner. Anita is a necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when vampires are protected by law--as long as they don't get too nasty. Now someone's killing innocent vampires and Anita agrees--with a bit of vampiric arm-twisting--to help figure out who and why.
Trust is a luxury Anita can't afford when her allies aren't human. The city's most powerful vampire, Nikolaos, is 1,000 years old and looks like a 10-year-old girl. The second most powerful vampire, Jean-Claude, is interested in more than just Anita's professional talents, but the feisty necromancer isn't playing along--yet. This popular series has a wild energy and humor, and some very appealing characters--both dead and alive. [via]
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Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, Robert Blaisdell, John Green

ISBN 0486403491 (0-486-40349-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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Jane Austen
by Jane Austen

ISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
Hardcover, Grammercy

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Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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Joy of Cooking
by Irma S. Rombauer

ISBN 0451925114 (0-451-92511-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Since its first private printing in 1931, The Joy of Cooking has been teaching Americans how to cook. Craig Claiborne calls it "a masterpiece of clarity" and Julia Child says it's the one book she'd keep if she could only have one English title on the shelf. The nearly 5,000 recipes are handily organized by meal and ingredient, and no cooking instruction goes unexplained, so you can finally understand the difference between poaching and braising. The book includes nutritional information as well as an extremely helpful list of measures and equivalents. You'll find a version of every recipe your mother ever cooked, along with straightforward instructions for cooking more exotic specialties such as turtles and muskrats. [via]
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The Joy of Cooking: The American Household Classic
by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ginnie Hofmann, Ikki Matsumoto

ISBN 0452279151 (0-452-27915-1)
Softcover, Plume

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The Joy of Cooking Vol. 2 : Appetizers, Desserts & Baked Goods
by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion R. Becker

ISBN 0451168259 (0-451-16825-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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The Last Unicorn
by Peter S. Beagle, Mel Grant

ISBN 0451450523 (0-451-45052-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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The Last Unicorn is one of the true classics of fantasy, ranking with Tolkien's The Hobbit, Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Beagle writes a shimmering prose-poetry, the voice of fairy tales and childhood:

The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.
The unicorn discovers that she is the last unicorn in the world, and sets off to find the others. She meets Schmendrick the Magician--whose magic seldom works, and never as he intended--when he rescues her from Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, where only some of the mythical beasts displayed are illusions. They are joined by Molly Grue, who believes in legends despite her experiences with a Robin Hood wannabe and his unmerry men. Ahead wait King Haggard and his Red Bull, who banished unicorns from the land.
This is a book no fantasy reader should miss; Beagle argues brilliantly the need for magic in our lives and the folly of forgetting to dream. --Nona Vero [via]
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
by Frances H. Burnett

ISBN 0486423689 (0-486-42368-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Little Lord Fauntleroy
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Phyllis Bixler

ISBN 0451525590 (0-451-52559-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen

ISBN 0451526295 (0-451-52629-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Marvelous Land of Oz
by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill

ISBN 0486206920 (0-486-20692-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Metamorphoses
by Ovid, Horace Gregory

ISBN 0451527933 (0-451-52793-3)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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This collection of poetry is one of the foremost sources of tales of Roman mythology. [via]
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Clemen

ISBN 0451526961 (0-451-52696-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeare's more romantic and enchanting plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale with confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena escape parental control and the "sharp Athenian law" of their elders by eloping into the forest outside the city. Unfortunately they stumble into civil war in fairyland, where King Oberon and Queen Titania fight over possession of a beautiful young Indian "changeling" boy. The appearance of the "rude mechanicals", a group of Athenian workers, including the weaver Nick Bottom, compounds the confusion. Chaos, confusion and "shaping fantasies" reign before the final settlement of the play, but underneath all the hilarity many critics have discerned more ambivalent attitudes towards coercive parental control, bestial sexuality and the destructive power of desire. These approaches in no way detract from the exquisite lyricism of many sections of the play, but make it a more complex and effective comedy than has often been appreciated. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Mort
by Terry Pratchett

ISBN 0451451139 (0-451-45113-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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The fourth Discworld novel.

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

For Mort however, it is about to become one of the tools of his trade. From henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an end. He has received an offer he can't refuse. As Death's apprentice he'll have free board, use of the company horse and being dead isn't compulsory. It's the dream job until he discovers that it can be a killer on his love life. [via]
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Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen, Margaret Drabble

ISBN 0451526368 (0-451-52636-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Obsidian Butterfly
by Laurell K. Hamilton

ISBN 0515134503 (0-515-13450-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Anita Blake, the tough, sexy vampire executioner, zombie animator, and police consultant for preternatural crimes in St. Louis, hunts monsters in New Mexico in the ninth book of Laurell K. Hamilton's excellent series. Edward, Anita's mentor in slaying, asks Anita to return the favor that she has owed him since she killed a backup he brought in to protect her. He needs Anita's preternatural expertise as well as her firepower. Something is skinning and mutilating a few of its chosen victims, and dismembering others. Edward has no idea what creature could be responsible for such heinous crimes.
Summoning Anita has its downside for Edward, since it means letting her onto his turf. Anita is surprised to find that this normally aggressive man has a personal life, and shocked by his ability to be entirely different from the stone cold killer she's known. She also has problems with the cop in charge in Albuquerque, who believes her powers must be evil, and with the other backups Edward has brought in. Most of all, she has to deal with her own vulnerability--she's tried to shut down her ties to her vampire and werewolf lovers and go it alone, but it turns out to be harder than she thought.
Anita's usual supporting cast is missing, and she's taking time out from her complex love life, but there's plenty of bloody action, vampires, werewolves, and Aztec ritual. Plus a lot more about Edward. Fans will find this installment similar to the earlier books in the series, particularly The Laughing Corpse. --Nona Vero. [via]
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Oedipus Plays of Sophocles
by Paul Roche

ISBN 0451628470 (0-451-62847-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
by Sophocles, Paul Roche

ISBN 0452011671 (0-452-01167-1)
Softcover, Plume

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Revising and updating his classic 1958 translation, Paul Roche captures the dramatic power and intensity, the subtleties of meaning, and the explosive emotions of Sophocles' great Theban trilogy. In vivid, poetic language, he presents the timeless story of a noble family moving toward catastrophe, dragged down from wealth and power by pride, cursed with incest, suicide, and murder. [via]
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Poems by Robert Frost
by Robert Frost, William Pritchard

ISBN 0451527879 (0-451-52787-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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100th Anniversary Edition
Poems by Robert Frost A Boys Will and North of Boston

The publication of A Boys Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) marked the debut of Robert Frost as a major talent and established him as the true poetic voice of New England. Four of his volumes would win the Pulitzer Prize before his death in 1963, and his body of work has since become an integral part of the American national heritage.

This is the only edition to present these two classics in their original form. A Boys Will introduced readers to Frosts unmistakable poetic voice, and in North of Boston, we find two of his most famous poems, Mending Wall and The Death of the Hired Man. With an introduction by distinguished critic and Amherst professor William H. Pritchard and an afterword by poet and critic Peter Davison, this centennial edition stands as a complete and vital introduction to the work of the quintessential modern American poet.

Introduction by William H. Pritchard
Afterword by Peter Davison

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Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe

ISBN 0451527011 (0-451-52701-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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A shipwreck's sole escapee, Robinson Crusoe endures 28 years of solitude on a Caribbean island and manages not only to survive but also to prevail. A warm humanity, evocative details of his struggle to tolerate his lonely existence, and lively accounts of his many exploits make Robinson Crusoe the most engaging of narrators. [via]
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Robinson Crusoe
by Robert Blaisdell, John Green

ISBN 0486288161 (0-486-28816-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Classic adventure story recounts struggles of an Englishman marooned on an uninhabited island for 24 years: his efforts to build a shelter and develop a food supply, his dramatic encounter with the native Friday, and their eventual escape and return to civilization. Enhanced with 6 new full-page illustrations. Abridged.
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Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream
by Arthur Rackham

ISBN 0486428338 (0-486-42833-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Shakespeare's romantic comedy takes on a new and vivid life with these brilliant images by one of the 20th century's leading illustrators. This faithful reprint rivals the limited and first editions of 1908. Includes the complete text of the play, along with 40 full-color and numerous black-and-white illustrations. [via]
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The Theban Plays
by Sophocles, George Young

ISBN 048645049X (0-486-45049-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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The stirring tale of a legendary royal family's fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of Greek drama. Sophocles' 3-play cycle, chronicling Oedipus's search for the truth and its tragic results, remains essential reading for English and classical studies majors as well as for all students of Western civilization. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative. [via]
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The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough

ISBN 0517201658 (0-517-20165-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0451527046 (0-451-52704-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Walden And Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau, Miller, Perry (AFT), W.S. Merwin

ISBN 0451529456 (0-451-52945-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. His simple but profound musingsas well as Civil Disobedience, his protest against the government's interference with civil libertyhave inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature.

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods and "on the Duty of Civil Disobedience"
by Henry David Thoreau

ISBN 0451527070 (0-451-52707-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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A philosophy of life and observations on government included in these famous books. [via]
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