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Act of Mercy
by Peter Tremayne

ISBN 0451209087 (0-451-20908-7)
Softcover, Signet

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The Aeneid
by Virgil, Patric Dickinson

ISBN 0451528638 (0-451-52863-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Considered the greatest Roman poet, Vergil spent over a decade working on this monumental epic poem, which has been a source of inspiration for more than 2,000 years. Its twelve books tell the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.
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American Tabloid : A Novel
by James Ellroy

ISBN 0449000907 (0-449-00090-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination--in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . .

Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . .

Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty . . .

Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . .

James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open. [via]
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Anne of Windy Poplars
by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 0448025485 (0-448-02548-5)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside--and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she has great allies in the widows Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty--and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. As Anne learns Summerside's strangest secrets, winning the support of the prickly Pringles becomes only the first of her delicious triumphs. [via]
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Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne, Jacqueline Rogers

ISBN 0451525450 (0-451-52545-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days -- and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompaned by his hot-blooded manservant Passepartout. Traveling by train, steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings, natural disasters, Sioux attacks, and the dogged Inspector Fix of Scotland Yard -- who believes that Fogg has robbed the Bank of England -- to win the extraordinary wager. Around the World in 80 Days gripped audiences on its publication and remains hugely popular, combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time.

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Badger's Moon: A Mystery of Ancient Ireland
by Peter Tremayne

ISBN 045121904X (0-451-21904-X)
Softcover, Signet

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Beardsleys Illustrations for Le Morte D'Arthur
by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

ISBN 0486223485 (0-486-22348-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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The Black Dahlia
by James Ellroy

ISBN 0445405252 (0-445-40525-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing

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On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard; Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches-into a region of total of madness. [via]
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California Gold
by John Jakes

ISBN 0451203976 (0-451-20397-6)
Softcover, Signet

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Cyrano De Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand, Lowell Bair, Eteel Lawson

ISBN 0451528921 (0-451-52892-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Cyrano, the gallant soldier and brilliant wit, also is a timid lover, and, because of his nose, woos his love by proxy of a more handsome man. [via]
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Devil's Bargain
by Judith Tarr

ISBN 0451458966 (0-451-45896-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The Face of a Stranger
by Anne Perry

ISBN 0449905306 (0-449-90530-6)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books

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The Haunted Abbot: A Mystery of Ancient Ireland
by Peter Tremayne

ISBN 0451217160 (0-451-21716-0)
Softcover, Signet

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Hawk That Dare Not Hunt
by Scott O'Dell

ISBN 0440936772 (0-440-93677-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
by Henry Fielding

ISBN 0451523342 (0-451-52334-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Tom Jones isn't a bad guy, but boys just want to have fun. Nearly two and a half centuries after its publication, the adventures of the rambunctious and randy Tom Jones still makes for great reading. I'm not in the habit of using words like bawdy or rollicking, but if you look them up in the dictionary, you should see a picture of this book. [via]
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The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton

ISBN 0451527569 (0-451-52756-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth," warns Ecclesiastes 7:4, and so does the novel by Edith Wharton that takes its title from this call to heed. New York at the turn of the century was a time of opulence and frivolity for those who could afford it. But for those who couldn't and yet wanted desperately to keep up with the whirlwind, like Wharton's charming Lily Bart, it was something else altogether: a gilded cage rather than the Gilded Age.
One of Wharton's earliest descriptions of her heroine, in the library of her bachelor friend and sometime suitor Lawrence Selden, indicates that she appears "as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing room." Indeed, herein lies Lily's problem. She has, we're told, "been brought up to be ornamental," and yet her spirit is larger than what this ancillary role requires. By today's standards she would be nothing more than a mild rebel, but in the era into which Wharton drops her unmercifully, this tiny spark of character, combined with numerous assaults by vicious society women and bad luck, ultimately renders Lily persona non grata. Her own ambivalence about her position serves to open the door to disaster: several times she is on the verge of "good" marriage and squanders it at the last moment, unwilling to play by the rules of a society that produces, as she calls them, "poor, miserable, marriageable girls.
Lily's rather violent tumble down the social ladder provides a thumbnail sketch of the general injustices of the upper classes (which, incidentally, Wharton never quite manages to condemn entirely, clearly believing that such life is cruel but without alternative). From her start as a beautiful woman at the height of her powers to her sad finale as a recently fired milliner's assistant addicted to sleeping drugs, Lily Bart is heroic, not least for her final admission of her own role in her downfall. "Once--twice--you gave me the chance to escape from my life and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward," she tells Selden as the book draws to a close. All manner of hideous socialite beasts--some of whose treatment by Wharton, such as the token social-climbing Jew, Simon Rosedale, date the book unfortunately--wander through the novel while Lily plummets. As her tale winds down to nothing more than the remnants of social grace and cold hard cash, it's hard not to agree with Lily's own assessment of herself: "I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else." Nevertheless, it's even harder not to believe that she deserved better, which is why The House of Mirth remains so timely and so vital in spite of its crushing end and its unflattering portrait of what life offers up. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Ill Met by Moonlight
by Sarah A. Hoyt

ISBN 0441009832 (0-441-00983-2)
Softcover, Ace Books

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Jubilee Trail
by Gwen Bristow

ISBN 0445083069 (0-445-08306-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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The history of California in the mid-19th century comes alive in this captivating historical novel. Garnet Cameron, a fashionable young lady of New York, is leading a neat, proper life, full of elegant parties and polite young men, yet the prospect of actually marrying any of them appalls her. Yearning for adventure, she instead marries Oliver Hale, a wild trader who is about to cross the mountains and deserts to an unheard-of land called California. During Garnet and Oliver's honeymoon in New Orleans, she meets a dance-hall performer on the lam who calls herself Florinda Grove and is also traveling to California. Along the Jubilee Trail, Garnet and Florinda meet kinds of men never known to them before, and together they make their painstaking way over the harsh trail to Los Angeles, learning how to live without compromise and discover both true friendship and true love.
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Kim
by Rudyard Kipling

ISBN 0486445089 (0-486-44508-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"
In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Kleopatra
by Karen Essex

ISBN 0446679178 (0-446-67917-8)
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Even as a young child, Kleopatra is demonstrating the charisma and intelligence that will ensure her destiny-and make her the target of her jealous sibling's betrayal. During an Egyptian coup, she and the king are banished to the wordly capital of Rome, where at just 12 years old, she casts off her childhood and accepts the terms of her rightful ascent to power. But the return to Egypt proves less than glorious when her beloved father dies, leaving her vulnerable to banishment once again. This time, however, Kleopatra who has blossomed into not only a shrewd politician but a great beauty, is undaunted. With a warrior's heart, she charges handsome kinsman and lover Archimedes to gather an army, while she readies herself for her most royal challenge yet: to reclaim her throne by forming an alliance with the renowned Julius Caesar-using her most seductive gifts at hand. [via]
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A Lantern in Her Hand
by Bess Streeter Aldrich

ISBN 0451161688 (0-451-16168-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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The Last Plantagenets
by Thomas Bertram Costain

ISBN 0445085142 (0-445-08514-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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The final volume in A History of the Plantagenets covers the century from 1377 to 1485 when civil war ravaged England, rebellious peasants marched on London and wandering preachers sowed dissent in the credulous poor.
The last Plantagenet monarchs governed in violence and confusion. Kings came and went, deposed or murdered. Princes and nobles slaughtered or were slaughtered in bloody battles or private feuds. It was an era of brilliant successes, tragic reverses and wild extravagance.
"No man writes popular history with greater understanding." (The New York Times)
A History of the Plantagenets includes The Conquering Family, The Magnificent Century, The Three Edwards and The Last Plantagenets. [via]
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The Last Templar
by Raymond Khoury

ISBN 0451219953 (0-451-21995-3)
Softcover, Signet

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"The Last Templar" miniseries is now available on DVD! For more information, click here.

"It has served us well, this myth of Christ."
Pope Leo X, 16th Century

In a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, The Last Templar opens with a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escaping to the sea carrying a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's dying Grand Master. The ship vanishes without a trace.

In present day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights emerge from Central Park and ride up the Fifth Avenue steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the blacktie opening of a Treasures of the Vatican exhibit. Storming through the crowds, the horsemen brutally attack anyone standing between them and their prize. Attending the gala, archaeologist Tess Chaykin watches in silent terror as the leader of the horsemen hones in on one piece in particular, a strange geared device. He utters a few cryptic Latin words as he takes hold of it with reverence before leading the horsemen out and disappearing into the night.

In the aftermath, an FBI investigation is led by anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly. Soon, he and Tess are drawn into the dark, hidden history of the crusading Knights, plunging them into a deadly game of cat and mouse with ruthless killers as they race across three continents to recover the lost secret of the Templars.
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Le Morte D'Arthur
by Thomas Malory

ISBN 0460010468 (0-460-01046-8)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death.
Edited and first published by William Caxton in 1485, Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's unique and splendid version of the Arthurian legend. Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot's fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenever, the quest for the Holy Grail; all the elements are there woven into a wonderful completeness by the magic of his prose style.
The result is not only one of the most readable accounts of the knights of the Round Table but also one of the most moving. As the story advances towards the inevitable tragedy of Arthur's death the effect is cumulative, rising with an impending sense of doom and tragedy towards its shattering finale. [via]
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Malory's Le Morte D' Arthur
by Thomas Malory, Keith Baines

ISBN 0451528166 (0-451-52816-6)
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From the incredible wizardry of Merlin to the undeniable passion of Sir Launcelot, these tales of Arthur and his knights offer epic adventures with the supernatural-as well as timeless battles with our own humanity. [via]
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Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur
by Malory Thomas

ISBN 0451625676 (0-451-62567-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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New rendition of the classic tale of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. [via]
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Matilda Bone
by Karen Cushman

ISBN 0440418224 (0-440-41822-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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Orphaned Matilda is not at all pleased when she arrives at Blood and Bone Alley to become an assistant to Red Peg the Bonesetter. She is a religious, well-educated girl who cant picture herself doing dirty chores or helping sickly patients.

Each day is very different from her former quiet life. Matildas not used to being around so many people who are coming and going, laughing and eating. Not one of them seems interested in prayer or study.

Self-centered Matilda thinks no one understands her. But Peg does, and gives her time to get used to this new way of life and teaches her through kindness and friendship. Matilda is as surprised as anyone when she begins seeing the world around her in a different way. [via]
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Milkweed
by Jerry Spinelli

ISBN 0440420059 (0-440-42005-9)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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My Heart Laid Bare
by Joyce Carol Oates

ISBN 0452280060 (0-452-28006-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The Night Before Christmas
by Clement Clarke Moore, Jean Hirashima

ISBN 0448404826 (0-448-40482-6)
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In this version of the famous poem, Santa pays a visit to a rabbit hutch. [via]
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The Night Before Christmas
by Clement C. Moore, Gyo Fujikawa

ISBN 0448029359 (0-448-02935-9)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley

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The Night Before Christmas is the most enduring and memorable of all holiday poems. Celebrated artist Gyo Fujikawa brings new levels of excitement and joy to the verse, concocting a variety of goodies to feed sugarplum visions. From the first lovable image of a pink-eared mouse to the final spread of Papa waving goodbye as Santa and his reindeer fly away into the sky, Fujikawa provides pure enchantment. Kittens and dogs curl up everywhere in the old-fashioned home; stockings hang by the fireplace; and a group of irresistibly adorable children nestle next to cakes, cookies, and candy canes on a bed of soft dreamy clouds. Young readers and adults alike will be mesmerized. This edition of The Night Before Christmas was originally published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1961.
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The Night Before Christmas
by Gyo Fujikawa

ISBN 0448496194 (0-448-49619-4)
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The Night Before Christmas a Visit from St. Nicholas
by Clement Clarke Moore, Arthur Nicholas Hosking

ISBN 0486227979 (0-486-22797-9)
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Whose tiny faces are peeking out from Santa's golden sleigh? Yikes! It's two of Santa's elves who are Christmas Eve stowaways. Beloved illustrator Jan Brett's version of The Night Before Christmas lets these two mischievous elves add their rambunctious spirit to this familiar 1823 rhyming story. Here, Santa and his reindeer land on the snowy roof of a Victorian mansion in New England. While Santa delivers the toys inside, the elves and the reindeer frolic around the lawn, as a pig (earmarked for a girl named Jan) and a few alphabet blocks spill out of sacks into the snow. Santa swiftly reins in the mischief-makers and "away they all flew like the down on a thistle." Brett's richly illustrated borders are lavishly decorated with antique toys, ornaments, and sweet treats, all surrounded with twisting golden ribbons. They also give us a window on the mansion's inhabitants, including the children watching Santa's departure in awe. A sugarplum of a Christmas story, just right for a reading before "a long winter's nap." (Click to see a sample spread. Illustrations ©1998 by Jan Brett. Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers.) (Ages 3 to 6) --Marcie Bovetz [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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On Stranger Tides
by Tim Powers

ISBN 0441626866 (0-441-62686-6)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley

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On Stranger Tides is Tim Powers's great Disneyland ride through pirates, puppeteers, treasure, and thrill a minute action that carries on from page one. [via]
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Passionate Enemies
by Victoria Holt, Jean Plaidy, Philippa Carr, Eleanor Hibbert

ISBN 0449243907 (0-449-24390-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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The Pathfinder
by James Fenimore Cooper

ISBN 0460000780 (0-460-00078-0)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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The Pathfinder or The Inland Sea
by Thomas Berger, Berger, Thomas (AFT)

ISBN 0451530195 (0-451-53019-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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The Pioneers
by James Fenimore Cooper

ISBN 0451525213 (0-451-52521-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PIONEERS, on Tub SOUECES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA. CHAPTER I. Hoc, Winter comes, to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train ; Vapors, and clouds, and storms. Tbomiox. Near the centre of the State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whoso surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys. It is among these hills that the Delaware takes its rise ; and flowing from the limpid lakes and thousand springs of this region, the numerous sources of the Susquehanna meander through the valleys, until, uniting their streams, they form one of the proudest rivers of the United States. The mountains are generally arable to the tops, although instances are not wanting where the sides are jutted with rocks, that aid greatly in giving to the country that romantic and picturesque character which it so eminently possesses. The vales are narrow, rich, and cultivated; with a stream uniformly winding through each. Beautiful and thriving villages are found interspersed along the margins of the small lakes, or situated at those points of the streams which are favorable to manufacturing; and neat and comfortable farms, with every indication of wealth about them, are scattered profusely through the vales, and even to the mountain tops. Roads diverge in every direction, from the even and gracefulbottoms of tbe valleys, to the most rugged and intricate passes of the hills. Academies, and minor edifices of learning, meet the eye of the stranger at every few miles, as he winds his way through this uneven territory; and places for the worship of God abound with that frequency which characterizes a moral and reflecting people, and with that variety of exterior and canonical g... [via]
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The Power of One
by Bryce Courtenay

ISBN 0440239133 (0-440-23913-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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Pride of Kings
by Judith Tarr

ISBN 0451458478 (0-451-45847-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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The Prince of Darkness
by Jean Plaidy

ISBN 0449245292 (0-449-24529-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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The Quality of Mercy
by Faye Kellerman

ISBN 0449218929 (0-449-21892-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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Queen in Waiting
by Jean Plaidy

ISBN 0449210960 (0-449-21096-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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Revolt of the Eaglets
by Victoria Holt, Jean Plaidy, Philippa Carr, Eleanor Hibbert

ISBN 0449244601 (0-449-24460-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Sarah Canary
by Karen Joy Fowler

ISBN 0452286476 (0-452-28647-6)
Softcover, Plume

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When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort "the ugliest woman he could imagine" away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower. In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum. Chin has run afoul of the law and Sarah has been committed for observation. Their escape from the asylum in the company of another inmate sets into motion a series of adventures and misadventures that are at once hilarious, deeply moving, and downright terrifying.
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Savannah: Or a Gift for Mr. Lincoln
by John Jakes

ISBN 0451215702 (0-451-21570-2)
Softcover, Signet

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Shaman
by Noah Gordon

ISBN 0451177010 (0-451-17701-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Signal - Close Action!
by Alexander Kent

ISBN 0515074373 (0-515-07437-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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A seafaring adventure featuring Richard Bolitho. Now Commodore of a newly formed squadron, in a British fleet, Bolitho faces one of the toughest commissions of his career: to ascertain the fighting strength of the French - then seek, find and bring them to battle. [via]
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A Song for Arbonne
by Guy Gavriel Kay

ISBN 0451458974 (0-451-45897-4)
Softcover, Roc

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A peaceful, gentle, and passionate kingdom named Arbonne is invaded by ruthless northern warriors, and Arbonne's goddess and Arbonne's people must band together to fight the invaders. Reprint. PW. [via]
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Straight into Darkness
by Faye Kellerman

ISBN 0446611506 (0-446-61150-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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New York Times bestselling author Kellerman traveled to Germany for the meticulous research conducted for this new novel that takes readers on an edge-of-your-seat journey to 1920s Munich: a city stalked by a ruthless killer. [via]
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The Sword in the Stone
by T. H. White

ISBN 0440984459 (0-440-98445-9)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books

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The Sword And The Stone recreates, against the background of magnificent pageantry and dark magic that was medieval England, the education and training of young King Arthur, who was to become the greatest of Britain's legendary rulers.

Growing up in a colorful world peopled by knights in armor and fair damsels, foul monsters and evil witches, young Arthur slowly learns the code of being a gentleman. Under the wise guidance of Merlin, the all-powerful magician for whom life progresses backwards, the king-to-be is trained in the gusty pursuits of falconry, jousting, hunting and sword play. He is even transformed by his remarkable old tutor into various animals, so that he may experience life from all points of view. In every conceivable and exciting way he is readied for the day when he, and he alone of all Englishmen, is destined to draw forth the marvelous sword from the magic stone and become the rightful King of' England. [via]
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Tales of the South Pacific
by James A. Michener

ISBN 0449206521 (0-449-20652-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 0486415899 (0-486-41589-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Hardy's best-selling novel about a country girl who is forced to sin against her will. Includes a reader's supplement. [via]
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Tess of the D'urbervilles: A Pure Woman
by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 0451530276 (0-451-53027-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin-a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition. [via]
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A Tradition of Victory
by Alexander Kent

ISBN 0515078719 (0-515-07871-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Turquoise
by Setonm Anya

ISBN 0449230880 (0-449-23088-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Valley of the Shadow
by Peter Tremayne

ISBN 0451203305 (0-451-20330-5)
Softcover, Signet

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Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls

ISBN 0440412676 (0-440-41267-6)
Softcover, Yearling Books

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Author Wilson Rawls spent his boyhood much like the character of this book, Billy Colman, roaming the Ozarks of northeastern Oklahoma with his bluetick hound. A straightforward, shoot-from-the-hip storyteller with a searingly honest voice, Rawls is well-loved for this powerful 1961 classic and the award-winning novel Summer of the Monkeys. In Where the Red Fern Grows, Billy and his precious coonhound pups romp relentlessly through the Ozarks, trying to "tree" the elusive raccoon. In time, the inseparable trio wins the coveted gold cup in the annual coon-hunt contest, captures the wily ghost coon, and bravely fights with a mountain lion. When the victory over the mountain lion turns to tragedy, Billy grieves, but learns the beautiful old Native American legend of the sacred red fern that grows over the graves of his dogs. This unforgettable classic belongs on every child's bookshelf. (Ages 9 and up) [via]
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William's Wife
by Jean Plaidy

ISBN 0449222845 (0-449-22284-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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Fortune placed Lady Mary, elder daughter of the Duke of York, in line for England's throne -- and thrust this gentle beauty, at age fifteen, into a loveless political marriage with her cold-hearted Protestant cousin, William of Orange.

In her own poignant words, Lady Mary recounts her strange and haunting story: a happy childhood in merry England under King Charles II, her dark and lonely years in Holland, and the upheavals that brought her home once more as England's honored queen. Hers is a richly royal story, with kings and queens, princesses and princes, playing their noble or shameful roles upon Europe's brilliant stage. Among these towering figures Lady Mary's lot had been cast, among them she would grow strong or perish.... [via]
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With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War
by G. A. Henty, Gordon Browne

ISBN 0486434567 (0-486-43456-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Zia
by Scott O'Dell

ISBN 0440410010 (0-440-41001-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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A young Indian girl, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the mission, is helped by her Aunt Karana, whose story was told in Island of the Blue Dolphins.
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