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  Paradise Lost (A Norton Critical Edition)

  by John Milton

  This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic. Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized,... (more)
• The Pearl Cannon (Toope Morvari)Sadegh Hedayat

  

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  The Pearl Cannon (Toope Morvari)

  by Sadegh Hedayat

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  The Pearl Cannon (Toope Morvari)

  by Sadegh Hedayat

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  Blue Fire Burning

  by Hobb Whittons

  In the dead of night, a covered wagon driven by a hooded, faceless being is careering through the forest at breakneck speed. Inside the wagon, sit two jittery Goblin men: Grot and Mouldy. Suddenly, the contents of the sack they are staring at begin to glow... Consumed by the desire for revenge, the Goblins’ wicked Dark Mistress sets diminutive winged telepaths, the Pahleen, a riddle they must work out if they... (more)
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  A Separate Peace

  by John Knowles

  Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. A bestseller for... (more)
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  From the Earth to the Moon

  by Jules Verne

  Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness! But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had the cost, when you adjust for inflation, almost exactly right. There are other similarities, too.... (more)
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  Stellaluna

  by Janell Cannon

  Knocked from her mother’s safe embrace by an attacking owl, Stellaluna lands headfirst in a bird’s nest. This adorable baby fruit bat’s world is literally turned upside down when she is adopted by the occupants of the nest and adapts to their peculiar bird habits. Two pages of notes at the end of the story provide factual information about bats. “Delightful and informative but never didactic; a splendid... (more)
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  Crickwing

  by Janell Cannon

  Crickwing never set out to be a bully--he wanted only to create his art in peace. But the little cockroach is an easy target for the bigger creatures in the forest. In his frustration he decides to even the score by bullying the leafcutter ants. They're just so easy to pick on. Big mistake. Nobody angers the leafcutter queen and gets away with it.
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  The Entailed Hat

  Or, Patty Cannon's Times

  by George Alfred Townsend

  George Alfred Townsend (1841-1914) was a correspondent during the American Civil War who wrote under the pen name "Gath". His works include: The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth (1865), Campaigns of a Non-Combatant and His Romaunt Abroad During the War (1866), New Washington (1874), Bohemian Days (1880), Tales of the Chesapeake (1880), The Entailed Hat; or, Patty Cannon's Times (1884), Katy of... (more)
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  1434

  The Year A Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance

  by Gavin Menzies

  The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical... (more)
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  Robinson Crusoe

  by Daniel Defoe

  First published in 1719, it is sometimes considered to be the first novel in English. It is believed his story is based on the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived four years on the Pacific island called "Más a Tierra."