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After Glow
by Jayne Castle

ISBN 1587247291 (1-58724-729-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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A New York Times Bestseller
Life is complicated for Lydia Smith. She's working at that tacky, third-rate museum, Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, trying to salvage her career in para-archaeology - and dating the most dangerous man in town. Then she stumbles over a dead body and discovers that her lover has a secret past that could get him killed. And, worst of all, Lydia has been invited to the Restoration Ball and she hasn't got a thing to wear. [via]
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The Annotated Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN 0679727299 (0-679-72729-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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In 1954 Vladimir Nabokov asked one American publisher to consider "a firebomb that I have just finished putting together." The explosive device: Lolita, his morality play about a middle-aged European's obsession with a 12-year-old American girl. Two years later, the New York Times called it "great art." Other reviewers staked a higher moral ground (the editor of the London Sunday Express declaring it "the filthiest book I've ever read"). Since then, the sinuous novel has never ceased to astound. Even Nabokov was astonished by its place in the popular imagination. One biographer writes that "he was quite shocked when a little girl of eight or nine came to his door for candy on Halloween, dressed up by her parents as Lolita." And when it came time to casting the film, Nabokov declared, "Let them find a dwarfess!"
The character Lolita's power now exists almost separately from the endlessly inventive novel. If only it were read as often as it is alluded to. Alfred Appel Jr., editor of the annotated edition, has appended some 900 notes, an exhaustive, good-humored introduction, and a recent preface in which he admits that the "reader familiar with Lolita can approach the apparatus as a separate unit, but the perspicacious student who keeps turning back and forth from text to Notes risks vertigo." No matter. The notes range from translations to the anatomical to the complex textual. Appel is also happy to point out the Great Punster's supposedly unintended word play: he defends the phrase "Beaver Eaters" as "a portmanteau of 'Beefeaters' (the yeoman of the British royal guard) and their beaver hats." [via]
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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood

ISBN 0747549370 (0-7475-4937-0)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd

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"It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward," writes Margaret Atwood, towards the end of her impressive and complex new novel, The Blind Assassin. It's a melancholic account of why writers write--and readers read--and one that frames the different lives told through this book. The Blind Assassin is (at least) two novels. At the end of her life, Iris Griffen takes up her pen to record the secret history of her family, the romantic melodrama of its decline and fall between the two World Wars. Conjuring a world of prosperity and misery, marriage and loneliness, the central enigma of Iris's tale is the death of her sister, Laura Chase, who "drove a car off a bridge" at the end of the Second World War. Suicide or accident? The story gradually unfolds, interspersed with sketches of Iris's present-day life--confined by age and ill-health--and a second novel, The Blind Assassin by Laura Chase. Allowing a glimpse into a clandestine love affair between a privileged young woman and a radical "agitator" on the run, this version of The Blind Assassin is an overt act of seduction: the exchange of sex and story about an imaginary world of Sakiel-Norn (a play with the potential, and convention, of fantasy and sci-fi).
With the intelligence, subtlety and remarkable characterisation associated with Atwood's writing (from her first novel, The Edible Woman through to the best-selling Alias Grace), these two stories play with one another--sustaining an uncertainty about who has done what to who and why to the very end of this compelling book. --Vicky Lebeau [via]
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The Cayman Islands: The Beach & Beyond
by Martha K. Smith

ISBN 0965034909 (0-9650349-0-9)
Softcover, Cuchipanda Inc

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From the author of the critically acclaimed "The Handmaid's Tale" comes this 2000 novel-within-a-novel centering on entangled relationships in 1930s-40s Ontario, Canada. [via]
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Charles Dickens' Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens, Holly Hughes

ISBN 0812034147 (0-8120-3414-7)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]
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Don Quijote De LA Mancha
by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Florencio Sevilla Arroyo

ISBN 1400093015 (1-4000-9301-5)
Softcover, Random House Espanol

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Don Quixote
by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Manual Boix, Magda Bogin

ISBN 1556702019 (1-55670-201-9)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc

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Our ceaseless human quest for something larger than ourselves has never been represented with more insight and love than in this story of Don Quixotepursuing his vision of glory in a ?mercantile ageand his shrewd, skeptical man?servant, Sancho Panza. As they set out to right the worlds wrongs in knightly combat, the narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy, taking in pastoral, farce, and fantasy on the way. The first and still the greatest of all European novels, Don Quixote has been as important for the modern world as the poems of Homer were for the ancients.

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Don Quixote
by Miguel De Cervantes, Stephanie Kirk, Carlos Fuentes, Tobias George Smollett

ISBN 0812972104 (0-8129-7210-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way across sixteenth-century Spain. Milan Kundera calls Cervantes the founder of the Modern Era and Lionel Trilling observes that it can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition reproduces the acclaimed Tobias Smollett translation; as Salman Rushdie declares, To my mind, this is the only English rendering of the Quixote that reads like a great novel, a novel of immense daring, much wildness and many colours. It releases Don Quixote from the grey academic prison of many more recent translations, unleashing him upon the English language in all his brilliant, foolish glory. This edition also contains new endnotes.

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Don Quixote of the Mancha: Harvard Classics 1909
by Miguel De Cervantes, Thomas Shelton

ISBN 0766181804 (0-7661-8180-4)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. [via]
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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De LA Mancha
by Tom Lathrop

ISBN 158977003X (1-58977-003-X)
Softcover, Juan De LA Cuesta

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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote De La Mancha
by Miguel Cervantes Saavedra

ISBN 1589770242 (1-58977-024-2)
Softcover, Linguatext Ltd

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This Spanish edition of Lathrop's Don Quijote (ISBN 9781589770249) is out-of-print. It has been replaced by the new Legacy edition, ISBN 9781589771000. [via]
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The First Part of the Life and Achievements of the Renowned Don Quixote De La Mancha
by Salvador Dali, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Peter Anthony Motteux

ISBN 0896590232 (0-89659-023-2)
Hardcover, Abbeville Press

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Forever . . .
by Judy Blume

ISBN 1416934006 (1-4169-3400-6)
Softcover, Simon Pulse

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"Going all the way" is still a taboo subject in young adult literature. Judy Blume was the first author to write candidly about a sexually active teen, and she's been defending teenagers' rights to read about such subjects ever since. Here, Blume tells a convincing tale of first love--a love that seems strong and true enough to last forever. Katherine loves Michael so much, in fact, that she's willing to lose her virginity to him, and, as the months go by, it gets harder and harder for her to imagine living without him. However, something happens when they are separated for the summer: Katherine begins to have feelings for another guy. What does this mean about her love for Michael? What does this mean about love in general? What does "forever" mean, anyway? As always, Blume writes as if she's never forgotten a moment of what it's like to be a teenager. [via]
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Fruits Basket 2
by Natsuki Takaya, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Alethea Nibley, Athena Nibley

ISBN 1591826047 (1-59182-604-7)
Softcover, Tokyopop

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Ever since Tohru Honda discovered the Zodiac secret of the Sohma clan, her eyes have been opened to a world of magic and wonder. But with such a great secret comes great responsibility. When her best friends Hana-chan and Uo-chan come to the Sohma house for a sleepover, Tohru has her work cut out for her keeping the "Cat" in the bag and the "Dog" on a leash. [via]
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Full Blast: Library Edition
by Charlotte Hughes, Janet Evanovich

ISBN 0786287098 (0-7862-8709-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens, Graham Law, Adrian Pinnington

ISBN 1551111748 (1-55111-174-8)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

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An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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Great Expectations With Readers Guide
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 087720800X (0-87720-800-X)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc

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Highland Velvet
by Jude Deveraux

ISBN 0671739727 (0-671-73972-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
by Martin C. Battestin, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, O.m Brack, Tobias George Smollett

ISBN 0820324302 (0-8203-2430-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Georgia Pr

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This authoritative textual edition presents Tobias Smollett's translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. It includes Francis Hayman's twenty-eight illustrations engraved for the original edition, Smollett's explanatory notes, and his prefatory "Life of Cervantes."
Smollett's Don Quixote first appeared in 1755 and was for many years the most popular English-language version of Cervantes's masterpiece. However, soon after the start of the nineteenth century, its reputation began to suffer. Rival translators, literary hucksters, and careless scholars initiated or fed a variety of charges against Smollett--even plagiarism. For almost 130 years no publisher risked reprinting it.
Redemption began in 1986, when the distinguished Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, in his foreword to a new (albeit flawed) edition of Smollett's translation, declared it to be "the authentic vernacular version" of Don Quixote in English. Fuentes's opinion was in accord with that of the preeminent Cervantist, Francisco Rodríguez Marín, who decades earlier had declared Smollett's Don Quixote to be his preferred English version.
Martin C. Battestin's introduction discusses the composition, publication, and controversial reception of Smollett's Don Quixote. Battestin's notes identify Smollett's sources in his "Life of Cervantes" and in his commentary, provide cross-references to his other works, and illustrate Smollett's originality or dependence on previous translations. Also included is a complete textual apparatus, a glossary of unfamiliar terms, and an appendix comparing a selection of Francis Hayman's original illustrations with the engraved renderings used in the book.
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The Invitation
by Jude Deveraux

ISBN 0671744585 (0-671-74458-5)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN 0679723161 (0-679-72316-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.
Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:
She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.
Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguistic jouissance is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido. --Simon Leake [via]
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Lolita
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791009610 (0-7910-0961-0)
Hardcover, Facts on File

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Mars 13
by Elizabeth Hurchalla, Shirley Kubo, Fuyumi Soryo

ISBN 1591821053 (1-59182-105-3)
Softcover, Tokyopop

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Anime Paperback, Easily Read from Right to Left, Cleverly Illustrated [via]
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Mars 13
by Fuyumi Soryo

ISBN 1591821290 (1-59182-129-0)
Softcover, Tokyopop

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The Moonspinners
by Mary Stewart

ISBN 0688021050 (0-688-02105-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins

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Mr. Perfect
by Linda Howard

ISBN 0743482883 (0-7434-8288-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Oliver Twist ; Great Expectations ; A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0706416716 (0-7064-1671-6)
Hardcover, Octopus Books

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Collectable Leather padded hardcover [via]
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One Little Sin
by Liz Carlyle

ISBN 0743496108 (0-7434-9610-8)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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Sel 43 Tess D'urbervilles
by S. E. L. 43 HUGMAN

ISBN 071315506X (0-7131-5506-X)
Softcover, Ashgate Publishing, Limited

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When John Durberyfield discovers a family connection to the ancient Norman family, the d'Urbervilles, the fate of daughter Tess is transformed. [via]
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Something Wicked
by Jo Beverley

ISBN 0786216034 (0-7862-1603-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Surrender My Love
by Johanna Lindsey

ISBN 0783811241 (0-7838-1124-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Table for Two
by Nora Roberts

ISBN 0786252588 (0-7862-5258-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Give your customers a taste of extraordinary reading with this spectacular 2-in-1 from America's #1 storyteller. "Table for Two" brings together two of Nora's classic novels, Summer Desserts and Lessons Learned, which have been unavailable for almost 10 years. In these stories, two world-class chefs and their distractingly attractive partners are the perfect base in an irresistible recipe for romance! [via]
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 1419151053 (1-4191-5105-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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Tess first appeared in a serializedand bowdlerizedform in The Graphic in 1891. 'A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented,' as Hardy subtitled the work, represented a direct challenge to conventional notions of sexuality and femininityand, though conventions have radically changed in the past century, the character of Tess has remained a challenging one. In her introduction Maier argues that we should not see Tess merely as a passive victim; she suggests that a combination of sexual vigour and moral rigour makes Tess not just one of the greatest but also one of the strongest women in the canon of English literature. [via]
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Tess of the D'urbervilles : A Pure Woman
by Thomas Hardy

ISBN 0679603182 (0-679-60318-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

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Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's "bestseller," and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men--Alec d'Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who seduces her in a lonely wood, and Angel Clare, her provincial, moralistic, and unforgiving husband--Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act.
----"Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination," said Irving Howe. "In Tess he stakes everything on his sensuous apprehension of a young woman's life, a girl who is at once a simple milkmaid and an archetype of feminine strength. . . . Tess is that rare creature in literature: goodness made interesting."
----Now Tess of the d'Urbervilles has been brought to television in a magnificent new co-production from A&E Network and London Weekend Television. Justine Waddell (Anna Karenina) stars as the tragic heroine, Tess; Oliver Milburn (Chandler & Co.) is Angel Clare; and Jason Flemyng is Alec d'Urberville. The cast also includes John McEnery (Black Beauty) as Jack Durbeyfield and Lesley Dunlop (The Elephant Man) as Joan Durbeyfield. Tess of the d'Urbervilles is directed by Ian Sharp and produced by Sarah Wilson, with a screenplay by Ted Whitehead; it was filmed in Hardy country, the beautiful English countryside in Dorset where Thomas Hardy set his novels.

The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-
dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. [via]
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Three Weddings and a Kiss
by Catherine Anderson, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, Lisa Kleypas, Loretta Lynda Chase

ISBN 0786206144 (0-7862-0614-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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The Unsung Hero
by Suzanne Brockmann

ISBN 080411952X (0-8041-1952-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Untamed
by Elizabeth Lowell

ISBN 156054757X (1-56054-757-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Valley of Horses
by Jean M. Auel

ISBN 0808521926 (0-8085-2192-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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The World's Great Classics

ISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books

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Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Adventuras del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha : An Adaptation for Intermediate and Advanced Students
by Marcel C. Andrade

ISBN 0844273619 (0-8442-7361-9)
Softcover, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill

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This edition of "Don Quixote" has been specially adapted and abridged for intermediate and early advanced Spanish-language students. Numerous vocabulary and cultural notes clarify and illuminate the text. In addition, archaic language has been modernized and difficult constructions simplified. [via]
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Don Quijote de la Mancha (I)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

ISBN 1400093007 (1-4000-9300-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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Expertly adapted for a younger audience, this accessible and illustrated edition is an excellent introduction to one of Western literatures great works. Parents will have a wonderful time reading Cervantes classic to their children.

Expertamente adaptada para una audiencia joven, esta edición accesible e ilustrada es una excelente introducción a unas de las grandes obras de la literatura occidental. Los padres tendrán un tiempo maravilloso leyendo el clásico de Cervantes a sus hijos.
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El Valle De Los Caballos
by Jean M. Auel, Leonor Tejada Conde-Pelayo

ISBN 0743236033 (0-7432-3603-3)
Softcover, Fireside

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Esta inolvidable odisea hacia un pasado lejano nos conduce de nuevo a los asombrosos misterios del mundo exótico y primitivo de El clan del oso cavernario, y a Ayla, convertida ahora en una hermosa y valiente jovencita. Cruelmente expulsada por el nuevo lÍder del antiguo Clan que la adoptó cuando era niña, Ayla deja atrás a sus seres queridos y viaja sola a través de un paisaje abierto y desolado, lleno de animales peligrosos y poco poblado, en busca de los Otros, que son altos y rubios como ella. El breve verano le proporciona escaso tiempo para buscarlos, y cuando encuentra un abrigado valle habitado por una manada de robustos caballos esteparios, decide permanecer allÍ y prepararse para el largo invierno glacial que tiene por delante. Con el Clan, Ayla ha aprendido mucho pero no realmente a cazar. Al final se da cuenta de que puede sobrevivir cuando captura un caballo, el cual le da carne y una piel caliente para el invierno, pero el destino le ha deparado un regalo aún mayor: una potranca huérfana con la que desarrolla una afinidad especial. Un invierno se convierte en varios; Ayla descubre una manera más rápida de hacer fuego, y un cachorro de puma herido se une a su peculiar familia; pero sus queridos animales no satisfacen su inquietante necesidad de tener compañÍa humana. Entonces oye el grito de dolor de un hombre. Le salva la vida al alto y apuesto Jondalar, quien le trae un lenguaje hablado y el despertar del amor y el deseo, pero Ayla está dividida entre el temor de abandonar su valle y la esperanza de vivir junto a su propia gente. [via]
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Don Ciochotae
by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Gabriel Rosenstock, Peter O'Leary

ISBN 0861679172 (0-86167-917-2)
Hardcover, Clo Thalboid

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