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In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death.

I Capture the Castle

by DODIE SMITH

Twenty Years After

The Invisible Man

by ralph ellison

Where's Spot?

by Eric Hill

For 25 years, children have been looking for Spot. Is he in the piano? Is he under the stairs? This special anniversary edition of Where's Spot? will introduce Spot to a new generation of readers. All dressed up with a shiny silver cover, this perennial favorite is likely to become a collector's item in addition to being a children's classic.

Playing in the Dark : Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization)

Playing in the Dark : Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization)

by Toni Morrison

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race. Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic... (more)

I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine : Poems for Young Feminists

I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine : Poems for Young Feminists

With readable, richly varied contributions from women poets both famous and unknown, both young and old, both English-speaking and in-translation, I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems for Young Feminists is a timely, unique, and exceptionally inclusive anthology. Edited by Carol Ann Duffy, herself a British feminist poet of much renown, this collection of insights and truths will appeal equally to poetry... (more)

Walk a Green Path

by Betsy Lewin

A collection of poems offers gentle instruction on how to live in harmony with nature while presenting young readers with a new way of looking at the world.

Divine Comedy: Book 2

Purgatorio

by Dante Alighieri

This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own... (more)

by Dick Francis

Kelly Hughes is a jockey, labelled a cheat by a Steward's enquiry. To clear his name, he investigates all those who gave evidence, including the Chief Steward who was being blackmailed. Kelly, helped by Roberta, his employer's daughter, finds out who the real villain is and saves the stables.

Divine Comedy: Book 3

Paradiso

by Dante Alighieri

This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's vision now becomes... (more)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

The classic tale of that ever-curious little girl who tumbled down a rabbit hole into Wonderland has enchanted readers for nearly 140 years. Today, Alice and the eccentric creatures that she meets-the Cheshire Cat, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter-continue to be among the most-loved characters in all literature. This deluxe facsimile of a rare edition, illustrated by beloved artist Arthur... (more)

Ash & bone

by John Harvey

In the depths of his Cornish hideaway, retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's solitary life is disturbed by a call from his estranged wife, telling him his seventeen-year-old daughter, Katherine, is running wild, unbalanced by the abduction and rape he feels he should have prevented. Meanwhile, in the heart of London, the takedown of a violent criminal goes badly, and Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch is uneasy... (more)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland A Pop-Up Adaptation

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland A Pop-Up Adaptation

by Robert Sabuda

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is Robert Sabuda's most amazing creation ever, featuring stunning pop-ups illustrated in John Tenniel's classic style. The text is faithful to Lewis Carroll's original story, and special effects like a Victorian peep show, multifaceted foil, and tactile elements make this a pop-up to read and admire again and again.

A Mighty Heart : The Daniel Pearl Story

by Mariane Pearl

The tragic murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is well known. Why he was in Karachi; how he saw his role as an international journalist: why he was singled out for kidnapping; and where the incredible search effort led - are the subject of Mariane Pearl's book. A journalist in her own right, Mariane is, as was her husband, profoundly committed to the idea that a more informed public makes for a... (more)

The Brown Owl: A Fairy Story (1892)

by Ford Madox Hueffer

by Lisa Jackson

"Solidifies Jackson's status as the queen of the modern-day suspense thriller." -- The Providence Journal Kristi Bentz wants to write true crime. All she needs is that one case that will take her to the top. She finds it when she enrolls at All Saints College after learning that four girls have disappeared in less than two years. "Expect the unexpected." -- The Clarion Ledger All four girls were "lost souls"... (more)

The Bedside Book of Beasts

A Wildlife Miscellany

by Graeme Gibson

Book Description In a wonderfully diverse selection of writings and gorgeous illustrations, this stunning companion to The Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationship between predators and their prey. The intricate, complex connection between the hunter and the hunted has defined animal life on earth throughout time. In The Bedside Book of Beasts , Graeme Gibson gathers breathtaking works of art and... (more)

Bright Wings

An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds

by Billy Collins, David Allen Sibley

In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. From Catullus and Chaucer to Robert Browning and James Wright, poets have long treated birds as powerful metaphors for beauty, escape, transcendence, and divine... (more)

More Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-GLewis, Peter Newell [illustrator], Martin Gardner [notes]. Carroll

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by Hilary Mantel

by DODIE SMITH

by ralph ellison

by Eric Hill

by Toni Morrison

by Betsy Lewin

by Dante Alighieri

by Dick Francis

by Dante Alighieri

by Lewis Carroll

by John Harvey

by Robert Sabuda

by Mariane Pearl

by Ford Madox Hueffer

by Lisa Jackson

A Wildlife Miscellany

by Graeme Gibson

An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds

by Billy Collins, David Allen Sibley

by Lewis, Peter Newell [illustrator], Martin Gardner [notes]. Carroll