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This revised volume follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Contains the original foreword by the author and the historic court ruling to remove the federal ban. It also contains page references to the first American edition of 1934.

Nursery Crimes: Book 1

The Big Over Easy

by Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde does it again with a dazzling new series starring Inspector Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crime Division Jasper Fforde’s bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy. In The Big Over Easy , Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. Meet... (more)

Ecstasy

by Beth Saulnier

Just weeks after solving the brutal murder of a controversial Benson University scientist, reporter Alex Bernier follows a new story lead - one that will test both her deductive skills and her sanity. A flaky free-lancer has skipped town forcing Alex to cover a four-day indie music, complete with braless hippies, psychotropic drugs, and ritual drum circles. As she dispatches her reports from a tent, Alex watches... (more)

Spellman: Book 1

The Spellman Files: A Novel

by Lisa Lutz

Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to Get Smart reruns and prefer entering homes through windows rather than doors -- but the upshot is she's good at her job as a licensed private investigator with her family's firm, Spellman Investigations.... (more)

Rhett Butler's People

by Donald McCaig

Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate , Rhett Butler’s People is the astonishing and long-awaited novel that parallels the Great American Novel, Gone With The Wind . Twelve years in the making, the publication of Rhett Butler’s People marks a major and historic cultural event. Through the storytelling mastery of award-winning writer Donald McCaig, the life and times of the dashing Rhett Butler... (more)

Good Cop/Bad Cop

by Rebecca H. Dartt, David McElligott

Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again

Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again

by Norah Vincent

A journalist’s provocative and spellbinding account of her eighteen months spent disguised as a man Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man , her take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a man’s world. Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin ( Black Like Me ), Norah spent a year and a half disguised as her male alter ego, Ned, exploring... (more)

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Ulysses

by James Joyce