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Nightmares and Dreamscapes

by Stephen King

Wonderful...an illusionist extraordinaire, King peoples his fiction with believable characters. ( Publishers Weekly )

Ralph Roberts hasn't been sleeping well lately. Every morning he wakes just a little bit earlier until pretty soon, he isn't sleeping at all. It wouldn't be so bad if not for the strange hallucinations--and the nightmares that keep coming to life.

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Noted Fitzgerald biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli draws upon years of research to present the Fitzgerald's Jazz Age romance exactly as he intended according to the original manuscript, revisions, and corrections--with explanatory notes. Reprint.

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, As, Praise, and Other Bribes

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, As, Praise, and Other Bribes

by Alfie Kohn

The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way we train the family pet. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research, Alfie Kohn points the way to a more successful strategy based on working with people instead of... (more)

Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

by Peter Guralnick

A prize-winning biography draws on almost a decade of research to recreate, in vivid detail, the beginning of the King's career. Reprint. National ad/promo. NYT.

Delta of Venus

by Anaïs Nin

This is a collection of short stories which explore the ultimate in sexual possiblility, from a female angle.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

by John Berendt

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction.... (more)

The Vampire Chronicles: Book 1

Interview With the Vampire

by Anne Rice

The time is now.We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks - as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the leaving dead ...

Glory Field

by Walter Dean Myers

Follows five generations of an African-American family, from the capture and enslavement of the first ancestor, through the Civil War and the end of segregation, to a troubled cousin's reunion with his family. Reprint. AB. K. PW. SLJ.

Owl in Love

by Patrice Kindl

Part bird of prey, part teenage girl in love, and now part stalker, Owl Tycho"s life is complicated. It becomes even more so when an inept new shape-shifter appears on the scene. Funny, smart, and supernatural, Owl is a young woman worth getting to know.

Tai-Pan

by James Clavell

Dirk Straun, a pirate, smuggler, and ruthless individual, finds glory beyond his dreams as the Tai-Pan, or supreme leader, of Hong Kong. Reissue.

Seascape: A PlayEdward Albee

Seascape: A Play

by Edward Albee

On the heels of the success of Edward Albee's The Collected Plays of Edward Albee , Overlook brings back--in a stand-alone volume--one of Albee's most cherished plays, a fantastic story of what it means to be alive--winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. On a deserted stretch of beach, a middle-aged couple relaxes after a picnic lunch and converse idly about home, family, and their life together. She... (more)

Rachel The Clever (American Storytelling)

Rachel The Clever (American Storytelling)

by Josepha Sherman

The 46 stories in this collection are as varied as their origins--Poland, Morocco, Yemen, and Spain, to name a few--yet all possess a unifying element: a uniquely Jewish flavor, "an emphasis on doing the right thing, on surviving by cleverness and kindness--and the need for keeping a good sense of humor."

Thrush Green (Miss Read (Paperback))

by Miss Read

Miss Read's charming chronicles of small-town life have achieved an almost legendary popularity worldwide by offering a welcome return to a gentler time and "wit, humor, and wisdom in equal measure" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). This volume introduces Thrush Green, the neighboring village to Fairacre: its blackthorn bushes, thatch-roofed cottages, enchanting landscape, and jumble sales. Readers will delight in a new... (more)

Plagiarist

by Benjamin Cheever

Arthur Prentice, the son of an aging, alcoholic, much-celebrated American author, embarks on a career with a prestigious magazine and finds himself undertaking an emotional journey that transforms every facet of his life. "An ingenious first novel."--Newsweek.

Noble House

by James Clavell

To Kill a Mocking Bird

by Harper Lee

clasic novel

The Cricket in Times Square

Harry Cat's Pet Puppy

by George Selden

Harry Cat who lives with Tucker Mouse in a drainpipe in the Times Square subway station, is an unlikely kind of adoptive father for a soggy, homeless, New York puppy. But strange things happen in that drainpipe, as readers of The Cricket in Times Square know. Tucker and Harry set about being solicitous guardians, and all is well until the pup grows too big for the drainpipe. A home must be found for him -- but... (more)

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by Stephen King

by Stephen King

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

by Alfie Kohn

by Peter Guralnick

by Anaïs Nin

by John Berendt

by Anne Rice

by Walter Dean Myers

by Patrice Kindl

by James Clavell

by Edward Albee

by Josepha Sherman

by Miss Read

by Benjamin Cheever

by James Clavell

by Harper Lee

by George Selden

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