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The Poe Reader

by Edgar Allan Poe

This grand tour of Edgar Allan Poe's greatest works provides ample evidence for the assertion that Poe is the undisputed father of horror, mystery, and science fiction. His astonishing, often profoundly macabre stories of deduction, fantasy and satire portray a world of uncompromising poetic and spiritual intensity in American letters. Includes the Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue... (more)

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Bathsheba Everdene is a strong, confident woman who becomes a powerful farmer. But her emotional life descends into chaos as she becomes involved with three very different men.

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

Hardy's masterpiece traces a poor stonemason's ill-fated romance with his free-spirited cousin. No Victorian institution is spared — marriage, religion, education — and the outrage following publication led the embittered author to renounce fiction. Modern critics hail this novel as a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought.

The Eyes of the Dragon

by Stephen King

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER-THE PRELUDE TO THE CLASSIC DARK TOWER SERIES. A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it.

D'Artagnan Romances: Book 5

The Man in the Iron Mask

by Alexandre Dumas, pere

Alexandre Dumas was already a best-selling novelist when he wrote this historical romance, combining (as he claimed) the two essentials of life--"l'action et l'amour." The Man in the Iron Mask climactically concludes the epic adventures of the three Musketeers: here, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and their friend D'Artagnan, once invincible, meet their destinies.

Travis McGee: Book 8

One Fearful Yellow Eye

by John D. MacDonald

Travis McGee arrives in Chicago to investigate the theft of thousands of dollars during Glory Doyle's husband's last painful year and uncovers a particulary sadistic blackmailer. Reissue.

Peter Pan

by Laura F. Marsh, J. M. Barrie

It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the backyard. The poor dog was barking, for she could smell danger. And she was right - this was the night that Peter Pan would take the Darling children on the most breath-taking adventure of their lives, to a place called Neverland, a strange country where the lost boys live and never grow up, a land with mermaids, fairies and... (more)

1984

by George Orwell

George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision of "Negative Utopia" is timelier than ever-and its warnings more powerful.

Breeds: Book 7

Megan's Mark

by Lora Leigh

An erotic fan favorite makes her mark with a sexy new paranormal series. In an intriguing new world, genetically altered Breeds and the humans who created them commingle-and sometimes cross the boundaries of desire. Now, an empathetic sheriff's deputy and an arrogant Feline Breed hunt elusive killers while falling prey to their insatiable hunger for one another.

Elephant Song

by Wilbur Smith

WHITE GOLD Ivory. In Africa, it is the tragic and thrilling object of greed, corruption, and senseless death. In this dangerous world of poachers and blood money, one determined man and one dedicated woman risk their lives to stop the senseless slaughter of a species on the brink of extinction. Following a trail that leads from the Mountains of the Moon and the deep forests of central Africa to the secret opulence... (more)

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway's last work published during his lifetime remains one of his most popular and best known. A man's symbolic quest to land the catch of a lifetime engages classic themes of the human struggle against nature as well as explores the intersection of expectation and desire. Filled with fresh essays about the book, the new edition of this invaluable literary guide features a bibliography and notes on the essay... (more)

Ender's Shadow: Book 1

Ender's Shadow

A Parallel Novel to Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

The novel that launched the bestselling Ender’s Shadow series—available for the first time on unabridged cd The human race is at War with the “Buggers”, an insect-like alien race. As Earth prepares to defend itself from total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable enemy, all focus is on the development of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The long distances of interstellar space have given... (more)

Waking the Dead tie-in

by Scott Spencer

Fielding Pierce, the narrator of this novel, "has lived his life according to a strict master plan that should guarantee him a shot at Congress before he turns 40. When a freespirited young woman falls in love with him, he isastounded at his unexpected luck. But then she is murdered while attempting to aid Chilean rebels, and Pierce throws himself back into politics with manic determination.

Robicheaux Series: Book 2

Heaven's Prisoners

by James Lee Burke

Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective's badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana's bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life -- and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception, and homegrown crime. Suddenly Robicheaux is confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood he's known since... (more)

Two Little Girls in Blue : A Novel

by Mary Higgins Clark

In a riveting thriller, worldwide bestselling suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark brilliantly weaves the mystery of twin telepathy into a mother's search for a kidnapped child, presumed dead. When Margaret and Steve Frawley come home to Connecticut from a black-tie dinner in New York, their three-year-old twins, Kathy and Kelly, are gone. The police found the babysitter unconscious, and a ransom note from the... (more)

JPod

by Douglas Coupland

Very evil....very funny A lethal joyride into today’s new breed of technogeeks, Douglas Coupland’s new novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers are bureaucratically marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver video game design company. The six JPodders wage daily battle against the demands of a boneheaded marketing... (more)

Skinny Dip (Hiaasen, Carl)

by Carl Hiaasen

Charles "Chaz" Perrone fancies himself a take-charge kind of guy. So when this "biologist by default" suspects that his curvaceous wife, Joey, has stumbled onto a profitable pollution scam he's running on behalf of Florida agribusiness mogul Red Hammernut, he sets out right away to solve the problem--by heaving Joey off the deck of a luxury cruise liner and into the Atlantic Ocean, far from Key West.... (more)

The Night Trilogy

Night; Dawn; The Accident

by Elie Wiesel

Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective, "Night"... (more)

The Queen of the South

by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Andrew Hurley

Guero Davila is a pilot engaged in drug-smuggling for the local cartels. Teresa Mendoza is his girlfriend, a typical narco's morra, quiet, doting, submissive. But then Guero's caught playing both sides and in Sinaloa that means death. Teresa finds herself alone, terrified, friendless and running to save her life, carrying nothing but a gym bag containing a pistol and a notebook that she has been forbidden to read.... (more)

Capital Crimes: Book 4

Murder in the Smithsonian

by Margaret Truman

"Nonstop action and a brillianly evocative setting make this another winner!" BOOKLIST Dr. Lewis Tunney, a brilliant historian who had stumbled onto an international art scandal, was brutally murdered in front of two hundred guests at an elegant party at the Smithsonian. When his fiancee, Heather McBea, flies in from Scotland to learn more, Mac Hanrahan, the captain in charge of the case, takes a heated interest... (more)

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by Edgar Allan Poe

by Thomas Hardy

by Thomas Hardy

by Stephen King

by Alexandre Dumas, pere

by John D. MacDonald

by Laura F. Marsh, J. M. Barrie

by George Orwell

by Lora Leigh

by Wilbur Smith

by Ernest Hemingway

A Parallel Novel to Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

by Scott Spencer

by James Lee Burke

by Mary Higgins Clark

by Douglas Coupland

by Carl Hiaasen

Night; Dawn; The Accident

by Elie Wiesel

by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Andrew Hurley

by Margaret Truman