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  The Plague Dogs

  by Richard Adams

  Richard Adams moves us more deeply than he has ever done with his impassioned vision of the fate of animals at our mercy, with his splendid tale of flight and pursuit, with the three creatures whose story he tells. Two dogs escape one night from an animal experimentation laboratory in the English Lake District. Weakened by their ordeals, unused to freedom, the two runaways are scarcely prepared for survival in... (more)
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  Beklan Empire: Book 2

  Maia

  by Richard Adams

  A young girl named Maia is sold as a concubine, but uses her position among the rich and powerful to improve her society.
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  Watership Down: Book 2

  Tales from Watership Down

  by Richard Adams

  Return Again to the Warren for the All-New Adventures of Fiver, Hazel, BigWig, Dandelion, and The Legendary El-Ahrairah. In one of the most enduring classics of contemporary literature, author Richard Adams enthralled millions of readers by creating a glorious world of danger and discovery at once uniquely strange and strikingly similar to our own. Come back now to this remarkable society hidden beneath the... (more)
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  Beklan Empire: Book 1

  Shardik

  by Richard Adams

  " Shardik is a powerful work, dipping deep into old forms-allegory, epic, myth-resonating in the caverns of the readers' unconscious . . . It is an exciting story, the adventures compelling." ( Los Angeles Times ) "Grips with suspense, haunts with mystery . . . a memorable work, not to be read once only but to be reread as loved books are . . . a human saga." ( The Wall Street Journal ) Richard Adams's ... (more)