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All the President's Men
by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

ISBN 0446322644 (0-446-32264-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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Anne of Avonlea
by L.M. Montgomery, Clare Sieffert

ISBN 0448400634 (0-448-40063-4)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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One of the most beloved books of all time, with an introduction by Jennifer L. Holm.

Anne of Green Gables is all grown up--almost. At sixteen, Anne has transformed from student to teacher, and she's the new big sister to seven-year-old twins, quiet Dora and mischievous Davy. A grumpy new neighbor has moved next door, and Anne's best friend, Diana, is falling in love.
Despite all these changes, she's still the same fun, impulsive Anne--a romantic dreamer with a redheaded temper.
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Anne of Ingleside
by Lucy Maud Montgomery

ISBN 0448025469 (0-448-02546-9)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now, with a new baby on the way and insufferable Mary Maria visiting--and wearing out her welcome--Anne's life is full to bursting.

Still, Mrs. Doctor can't think of any place she'd rather be than her own beloved Ingleside. Until the day she begins to worry that her adored Gilbert doesn't love her anymore. How could that be? She may be a little older, but she's still the same irrepressible, irreplaceable redhead--the wonderful Anne of Green Gables, all grown up. She's ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again! [via]
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- Anne of Ingleside: ISBN 0448025469 (0-448-02546-9)
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Anne of the Island
by L. M. Montgomery, Mark Graham

ISBN 0448403110 (0-448-40311-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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This volume contains "Anne of The Island" and "Anne of Windy Willows". Anne is older now, and her friends are beginning to get married and move away; meanwhile her romance with Gilbert Blythe begins to blossom, and there are developments in her career as a schoolteacher. [via]
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- Anne of the Island: ISBN 0451525345 (0-451-52534-5)
  Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand

ISBN 0451191145 (0-451-19114-5)
Softcover, Signet

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Special 35th anniversary edition of the book that moved the world--and about the man who almost stopped it. Setting forth the fundamentals of Ayn Rand's unique philosophy of Objectivism, Atlas Shrugged is an acclaimed work about the murder--and rebirth--of a man's spirit. [via]
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- Atlas Shrugged: ISBN 0451171926 (0-451-17192-6)
  Softcover, New Amer Library
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Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis

ISBN 0451527089 (0-451-52708-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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A satire on the small-town American business man. [via]
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The Bellmaker
by Brian Jacques

ISBN 044100315X (0-441-00315-X)
Softcover, Ace Books

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Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote

ISBN 0451166515 (0-451-16651-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.

This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory, which the Saturday Review called one of the most moving stories in our language. It is a tale of two innocentsa small boy and the old woman who is his best friendwhose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.
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Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut

ISBN 0440131480 (0-440-13148-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
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- Breakfast of Champions: ISBN 0440131480 (0-440-13148-0)
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The Bungalow Mystery
by Carolyn Keene

ISBN 0448095033 (0-448-09503-3)
Hardcover, Price Stern Sloan

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- The Bungalow Mystery: ISBN 0448195038 (0-448-19503-8)
  Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Clue in the Diary
by Carolyn Keene

ISBN 0448095076 (0-448-09507-6)
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The Clue in the Jewel Box
by Carolyn Keene

ISBN 0448095203 (0-448-09520-3)
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The Clue in the Old Stagecoach
by Carolyn Keene

ISBN 0448095378 (0-448-09537-8)
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For cliffhanging suspense and thrilling action read THE NANCY DREW MYSTERY STORIES-the worlds most popular mystery series for young readers! Millions of fans have matched wits with Nancy Drew, helping her solve more than fifty baffling cases. [via]
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- The Clue in the Old Stagecoach: ISBN 0448195372 (0-448-19537-2)
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The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes
by Carolyn Keene

ISBN 0448095416 (0-448-09541-6)
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Nancy travels with her father and two close friends to visit her great-grandmother in Scotland and discovers the mystery of a missing family hierloom. [via]
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- The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes: ISBN 0448195410 (0-448-19541-0)
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The Double Jinx Mystery
by Carolyn Keene

ISBN 0448095505 (0-448-09550-5)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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Nancy and her friends find they have to overcome people's superstitions and fears in solving the case of a "jinxed" and threatened bird farm. [via]
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- The Double Jinx Mystery: ISBN 044819550X (0-448-19550-X)
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Eric
by Terry Pratchett

ISBN 0451453573 (0-451-45357-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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In an attempt to have three wishes granted--to be immortal, to rule the world, and to have the world's most beautiful woman fall in love with him--Eric, an inept demonologist, summons up Rincewind, the universe's most incompetent wizard, to help him. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett

ISBN 0451528832 (0-451-52883-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic

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Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden
by Kathy Mitchell, Frances Hodgson Burnett

ISBN 0448412500 (0-448-41250-0)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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The Giver
by Lois Lowry

ISBN 0440237688 (0-440-23768-8)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf

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In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of Brave New World, in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to create a more stable society. Gradually Jonas learns just how costly this ordered and pain-free society can be, and boldly decides he cannot pay the price. [via]
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The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams

ISBN 0451151704 (0-451-15170-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Dramatic script relating the interactions of Amanda, her son, and her daughter, Laura and the very important gentleman caller. [via]
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The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford

ISBN 0451525531 (0-451-52553-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling, Mary Grandpre

ISBN 0439554934 (0-439-55493-4)
Hardcover, Scholastic

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Cassette Travel Bag is a complete and unabridged reading by Stephen Fry on six cassettes, contained in a travel box. A CD travel bag is also available.
Just when it seems that there cannot possibly be another twist to the Harry Potter tale, Stephen Fry dons his haughtiest and naughtiest tones to bring Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to vibrant life on audio. Harry Potter has spent the first 10 years of his life at the mercy of the dreadful Dursleys--the aunt, uncle and fat, spoilt brat of a cousin who reluctantly gave him a home after the death of his mother and father. But on his 11th birthday Harry discovers that he is no ordinary boy, and despite the best efforts of his hideous relatives he escapes to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his new life as a trainee wizard. And the rest, as they say, is history...
As Harry battles against the evils thrown in his path, Stephen Fry injects the proceedings with a wry, dry and extremely contagious humour that perfectly suits the tale, wringing out the best in Harry and his cohorts as they get to grips with their new lives at the sharp end of Hogwarts. Fry's innate upper-class drone is perfectly suited to the telling of this most magical tale, cracking into the high-pitched squawking of Hermione the swat, or the gentle tones of the firm but fair Dumbledore, or the evil sniping of slimey Snape at precisely the right moments.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a fine story and much has been written about its success, but until you have heard Fry's cracking reading of this most magical of stories then you simply haven't lived. As with any audio book, this one is perfect for car journeys and an ideal way of introducing reluctant readers to the magic that is Harry Potter. (Ages 9 and over) --Susan Harrison
Running time: 8 hrs 25 mins [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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- The House of Mirth: ISBN 0451523628 (0-451-52362-8)
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Howl's Moving Castle
by Diana Wynne Jones

ISBN 0441346642 (0-441-34664-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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In the land of Ingary, such things as spells, invisible cloaks, and seven-league boots were everyday things. The Witch of the Waste was another matter.
After fifty years of quiet, it was rumored that the Witch was about to terrorize the country again. So when a moving black castle, blowing dark smoke from its four thin turrets, appeared on the horizon, everyone thought it was the Witch. The castle, however, belonged to Wizard Howl, who, it was said, liked to suck the souls of young girls.
The Hatter sisters--Sophie, Lettie, and Martha--and all the other girls were warned not to venture into the streets alone. But that was only the beginning.
In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. Destinies are intertwined, identities exchanged, lovers confused. The Witch has placed a spell on Howl. Does the clue to breaking it lie in a famous poem? And what will happen to Sophie Hatter when she enters Howl's castle?
Diana Wynne Jones's entrancing fantasy is filled with surprises at every turn, but when the final stormy duel between the Witch and the Wizard is finished, all the pieces fall magically into place. [via]
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence

ISBN 0451515196 (0-451-51519-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad, Linda Dryden

ISBN 0451527674 (0-451-52767-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero. A classic novel. [via]
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The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 0446000078 (0-446-00007-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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Marlfox
by Brian Jacques

ISBN 0441006930 (0-441-00693-0)
Softcover, Ace Books

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For this enchanting novel Brian Jacques has brought to bear the experience of his eventful and adventuresome life, a life which has taken him all over the world and seen him variously described as folk singer, playwright, and broadcaster. No doubt his usual writing environment--garden in summer, conservatory in winter--provides him with the ideal theater for observing the wildlife on which the book's unusual central characters are based.
It is, perhaps, appropriate that the story line revolves around the theft of the famous Redwall Tapestry, for Marlfox is a richly woven tapestry, skillfully running together threads of the magical and mythical with the "natural world," to give its audience a heady blend of fairy tale and medieval adventure. The result is a tale of grand themes and conflicting human passions played out against a backdrop of humor and uncertainty; yet the author manages never to lose sight of the reality of life as experienced by the human and animal kingdoms alike.
Young readers will gorge themselves on this literary feast, a spread worthy of comparison to other classics in this vein such as The Hobbit, Duncton Wood, The Mythical Knights of the Round Table, and the stories of C.S. Lewis. [via]
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Mind of My Mind
by Octavia E. Butler

ISBN 0446361887 (0-446-36188-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing

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For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his private breeding stock. But now a young ghetto telepath has found a way to awaken--and rule--her superhuman kind, igniting a psychic battle as she challenges her creator for her right to free her people. [via]
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Moo
by Jane Smiley

ISBN 0449910237 (0-449-91023-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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The hallowed halls of Moo University, a midwestern agricultural institution (aka "cow college"), are rife with devious plots, mischievous intrigue, lusty liaisons, and academic one-upsmanship. In this wonderfully written and masterfully plotted novel, Jane Smiley, the prizewinning author of A Thousand Acres, offers a wickedly funny, darkly poignant comedy. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. [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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Mossflower
by Brian Jacques

ISBN 0441005764 (0-441-00576-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Brian Jacques's superb Redwall series truly captures the finest in storytelling tradition and combines it with the ultimate in upbeat, catch-your-breath adventure. Mossflower tells the story of Martin the Warrior, who finds himself trespassing on the land of Verdagua, King of a Thousand Eyes, as he lies sick and near dying. With his last strength, Verdagua is struggling to make a decision on who should replace him as ruler of Mossflower Country. As Martin and his newfound friend and fellow prisoner Gonff become embroiled in the battle against Verdagua's ruthless daughter, Tsarmina, a bloody fight between good and evil ensues.
Stunning landscapes, brilliant characterization, masterly plots, and a wicked sense of humor unite in this epic tale of derring-do and the triumph of good over evil, making it one of the most addictive and memorable books that anyone is ever likely to read. --Susan Harrison [via]
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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 0446357200 (0-446-35720-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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A 14th-century ex-Inquisitor investigates murder at a monastery and finds mysteries within mysteries. Eco's masterwork of literary genius is a fascinating and challenging read. [via]
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Now We Are Six
by A. A. Milne

ISBN 0440464854 (0-440-46485-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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These high quality editions of the original Milne and Shepard titles Winnie-the-Pooh, The House At Pooh Corner, Now We Are Six and When We Were Very Young are essential titles for every child's library. A. A. Milne's stories about Pooh and his forest friends have been loved by generations of children and their parents since the publication of the first book of stories, Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926. Pooh first appeared as a character in Milne's poetry, but it was the timeless tales of the Hundred Acre Wood that struck a chord with readers- and continues to do so today. [via]
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Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN 0451525566 (0-451-52556-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a clergyman, but Philip sheds his religious faith and begins to study art in Paris. [via]
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Phantom Of The Opera
by Gaston Leroux

ISBN 0451528158 (0-451-52815-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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The lights dim at the Paris Opera House. The exquisite Christine Daae enraptures the audience with her mellifluous voice. Immediately, Raoul de Chagny falls deeply in love. But the legend of the disfigured "opera ghost" haunts the performance, and as Raoul begins his pursuit of Christine, he is pulled into the depths of the opera house, and into the depths of human emotions. Soon Raoul discovers that the ghost is real and that he wields a terrifying power over Christine--a power as unimaginable as the ghost's masked face. As Raoul and the ghost vie for Christine's love, a journey begins into the dark recesses of the human heart, where desire, vulnerability, fear, and violence unravel in a tragic confrontation. [via]
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Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth

ISBN 0449202917 (0-449-20291-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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Pyramids
by Terry Pratchett

ISBN 0451450442 (0-451-45044-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Being trained by the Assassins' Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to him by fate. He inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi earlier than expected, but that was only the beginning of his problems.
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The Rainbow
by D. H. Lawrence, Louise A. DeSalvo

ISBN 0451525299 (0-451-52529-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold Type. You choose the format that is right for you.
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The novel covers the life-span of three generations. Lawrence delves deep into the psychology of his characters and comments on the qualities and their descent through generations. He discusses sexual dynamics and relations between characters of different generations. The book created ripples due to its bold topic when it was published, and is still widely-read.
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Salamandastron
by Brian Jacques

ISBN 0441000312 (0-441-00031-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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The Secret History : A Novel
by Donna Tartt

ISBN 0449911519 (0-449-91151-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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"Powerful...Enthrallling...A ferociously well-paced entertainment."THE NEW YORK TIMESRichard Papen arrived at Hampden College in New England and was quickly seduced by an elite group of five students, all Greek scholars, all worldly, self-assured, and, at first glance, all highly unapproachable. As Richard is drawn into their inner circle, he learns a terrifying secret that binds them to one another...a secret about an incident in the woods in the dead of night where an ancient rite was brought to brutal life...and led to a gruesome death. And that was just the beginning...."A smart, craftsman-like, viscerally compelling novel."TIMESelected by the Book-of-the-Month ClubA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKFrom the Paperback edition. [via]
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The Secret of the Wooden Lady
by Carolyn Keene

ISBN 0448095270 (0-448-09527-0)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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The Sign of the Twisted Candles
by Carolyn Keene

ISBN 0448095092 (0-448-09509-2)
Hardcover, Price Stern Sloan

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A reproduction of the first edition of THE SIGN OF THE TWISTED CANDLE, as it was originally published in 1933. For readers who met Nancy Drew before 1959, this is the book they remember. [via]
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Small World
by David Lodge

ISBN 0446393274 (0-446-39327-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence, Benjamin DeMott

ISBN 0451518829 (0-451-51882-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."
Of course, Mrs. Morel takes neither of her two elder sons (the first of whom dies early, which further intensifies her grip on Paul) as a literal lover, but nonetheless her psychological snare is immense. She loathes Paul's Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will oust her: "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him." Meanwhile, Paul plays his part with equal fervor, incapable of committing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother suffering, then he hated her--and he easily hated her." Soon thereafter he even confesses to his mother: "I really don't love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you."
The result of all this is that Paul throws Miriam over for a married suffragette, Clara Dawes, who fulfills the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him, as ever, without a complete relationship to challenge his love for his mother. As Paul voyages from the working-class mining world to the spheres of commerce and art (he has fair success as a painter), he accepts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out of him. Life for her was rich with promise. She was to see herself fulfilled... All his work was hers."
The cycles of Paul's relationships with these three women are terrifying at times, and Lawrence does nothing to dim their intensity. Nor does he shirk in his vivid, sensuous descriptions of the landscape that offers up its blossoms and beasts and "shimmeriness" to Paul's sensitive spirit. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth. Few books tell such whole, complicated truths about the permutations of love as resolutely without resolution. It's nothing short of searing to be brushed by humanity in this manner. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams

ISBN 0451167783 (0-451-16778-3)
Softcover, Signet

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Starring Rosemary Harris as the vulnerable Blanche DuBois, this dazzling drama of love, lust, and unbridled passion set against the steamy backdrop of New Orleans is an unrivaled classic of modern American theatre. This recording features the cast of the smash revival in 1973 at Lincoln Center. [via]
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A Streetcar Named Desire
by Williams Tennessee

ISBN 0451154452 (0-451-15445-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Starring Rosemary Harris as the vulnerable Blanche DuBois, this dazzling drama of love, lust, and unbridled passion set against the steamy backdrop of New Orleans is an unrivaled classic of modern American theatre. This recording features the cast of the smash revival in 1973 at Lincoln Center. [via]
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Treasury of Winnie-The-Pooh/Deluxe Gift-Box
by A. A. Milne

ISBN 0440495806 (0-440-49580-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot, Helen Hennessy Vendler

ISBN 0451526848 (0-451-52684-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important early poems, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, The Waste land, which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements from many diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speech linked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreated the chaos and disillusionment of Europe in the aftermath of WWI. The Waste Land is a modernist literary masterpiece. Contains a number of early poems, including Spleen, The Death of St. Narcissus, The Love Song of J. Prufrock, Preludes, Gerontion, The Hippopotmaus, and Sweeny Among the Nightingales. T.S. Eliot is the winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, and is one of America's greatest poets. Edited and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler, a foremost scholar of moderism at Harvard University who writes regularly for the New Yorker and The New Republic. Vendler is also the author of books on other essential poets, including W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, George Herbert, and the forthcoming The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnete. @DeadFlowers Note From Ezra Pound: Maybe cut 75%? From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson

ISBN 0445083212 (0-445-08321-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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Welcome to the Monkey House
by Kurt Vonnegut

ISBN 0440194784 (0-440-19478-4)
Softcover, Dell Publishing

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Welcome To The Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnueguts shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. [via]
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When We Were Very Young
by A. A. Milne

ISBN 0440494850 (0-440-49485-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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In all likelihood, your mother or father read you these poems and remember their parents reading the same. This collection of poetry by the creator of Winnie the Pooh was first published in 1924. With its companion volume Now We Are Six, the little books became two of the biggest bestsellers in publishing history. Children all over the world have heard about changing the guard at Buckingham Palace; James James Morrison Morrison Weather by George Dupree; the three little foxes who kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes; and, of course, Christopher Robin, named for A.A. Milne's son. Adults and older children will enjoy Milne's poems too, as some of his humor is subtly directed at a more sophisticated audience. But younger children are the ones who love the naughty Mary Jane (lovely rice pudding again?) and the bears on the corners of London's streets. Read these poems aloud and pass along (or start) a family tradition. (Ages 5 to 9) [via]
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee

ISBN 0451158717 (0-451-15871-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Twelve times a week, answered Uta Hagen when asked how often shed like to play Martha in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albees masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evenings end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the plays razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as a brilliantly original work of artan excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire [that] will be igniting Broadway for some time to come.

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The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame

ISBN 0448171880 (0-448-17188-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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"[Mole] thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along, suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river. Never in his life had he seen a river before--this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling, gripping things with a gurgle and leaving them with a laugh, to fling itself on fresh playmates that shook themselves free, and were caught and held again." Such is the cautious, agreeable Mole's first introduction to the river and the Life Adventurous. Emerging from his home at Mole End one spring, his whole world changes when he hooks up with the good-natured, boat-loving Water Rat, the boastful Toad of Toad Hall, the society- hating Badger who lives in the frightening Wild Wood, and countless other mostly well-meaning creatures. Michael Hague's exquisitely detailed, breathtaking color illustrations on almost every generous spread--along with Kenneth Grahame's elegant, delightfully old-fashioned characterizations of the animals--make this book a wonderful read-aloud. Grahame's The Wind in the Willows has enchanted readers for four generations, and this lavishly illustrated gift edition is perhaps the finest around. (All ages, or 9 to 12) [via]
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Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson

ISBN 0451525698 (0-451-52569-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Library Journal praised this edition of Sherwood Anderson's famed short stories as "the finest edition of this seminal work available." Reconstructed to be as close to the original text as possible, Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In "Hands," Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania town, a tale represented by his hands. In "Adventure," lonely Alice Hindman impulsively walks naked into the night rain. Threaded through the stories is the viewpoint of George Willard, the young newspaper reporter who, like his creator, stands witness to the dark and despairing dealings of a community of isolated people. [via]
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