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  To Kill a Mockingbird

  by Harper Lee

  The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, "To Kill a Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film and stage production, both classics.Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving,... (more)
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  Bloodlines (Mead): Book 1

  Bloodlines

  by Richelle Mead

  LOVE AND LOYALTY RUN DEEPER THAN BLOOD…Sydney protects vampire secrets -- and human lives. As an alchemist, she is part of a secret group who dabbles in magic and serves to bridge the world of humans and vampires.But when Sydney is torn from her bed in the middle of the night, she fears she’s still being punished for her complicated alliance with dhampir Rose Hathaway. What unfolds is far worse.... (more)
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  Veil Series: Book 1

  Through the Veil

  by Shiloh Walker

  A thrilling new sensual paranormal from the author of Hunter’s Salvation . Lee Ross always knew she was not entirely human. But when the man who has plagued her dreams her entire life appears in the flesh, can she give up everything she knows to follow him to another realm?
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  The Civil War: A Narrative

  The Civil War: A Narrative

  Fort Sumter To Perryville / Fredericksburg to Meridian / Red River To Appomattox

  by Shelby Foote

  "I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant's and Lee's armies.... Foote stays with the human strife and suffering, and unlike most Southern commentators, he does not take sides. In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject.... It stands... (more)
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  The Claidi Journals

  The Claidi Collection

  Wolf Tower / Wolf Star / Wolf Queen

  by Tanith Lee

  Servant. Lady's Maid. Handmaiden. Her masters have called sixteen-year-old Claidi many things, but she has always known she is a slave. Then -- in a small act of rebellion -- Claidi steals a clank diary from her mistress and begins 'The Claidi Journals'.When a charming stranger arrives and is imprisoned, Claidi decides to risk everything to free him and deliver him home to a distant kingdom. At its heart... (more)
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  Trip to Quiapo: Scriptwriting Manual

  by Ricky Lee

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  Inherit the Wind

  by Jerome Lawrence

  One of the most moving and meaningful plays in American theatre--based on the famed Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was tried for teaching evolution--now on Broadway starring Tony Award®   Winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy, and Directed by Tony Award® Winner Doug Hughes The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman... (more)
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  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

  A Year of Food Life

  by Barbara Kingsolver

  Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the... (more)
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  Hyde Park Gate News: The Stephen Family Newspaper (Modern Voices Series)

  by Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Thoby Stephen

  As children, Virginia Woolf, sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby, collaborated on their own family newspaper. Published here for the first time ever, the Hyde Park Gate News also includes their original drawings. Ingeniously mimicking the style of the leading newspapers of their day, the Stephen children—Virginia, Vanessa, and Thoby—present a charming and candid portrayal of the day-to-day events at the... (more)
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  The Tycoon's Trophy Wife

  by Miranda Lee

  Reece knew that Alanna would make the perfect trophy wife! Stunning and sophisticated, she wanted nothing more than a marriage of convenience. And that was fine by Reece! But suddenly, their comfortable life together was turned upside down when Reece discovered that his wife had a dark past. But, he realized, he wasn't prepared to lose Alanna--even if the only thing they shared was passion...
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  Aloft

  by Chang-rae Lee

  Being a solo flyer made sense to Jerry Battle right from the start. For his 56th birthday, his longtime (and recently ex-) girlfriend Rita Reyes had given him a gift certificate for a flying lesson. Once Jerry was up there he thought, 'here was the little space I was looking for, my private box seat in the world and completely outside of it too.' From a half-mile over the earth, everything looked perfect to... (more)
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  Spike Lee

  That's My Story and I'm Sticking To It

  by Spike Lee, Kaleem Aftab

  A candid account of one of America's most provocative filmmakers that belongs on the shelf of any serious movie lover. Spike Lee tells the cinematic story of the preeminent director, whose pioneering films—from Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever , and Malcolm X to 25th Hour , Bamboozled , and The Inside Man —helped transform the face of late twentieth-century America. With unprecedented access to the Lee... (more)
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  The science of war: A collection of essays and lectures, 1891-1903

  by G. F. R. Henderson

  This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because... (more)
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  Merlin Dreams

  by Peter Dickinson

  Nine stories of blood, magic, and fabulous creatures, set in the framing device of dreams coming to the enchanted wizard Merlin as he lies imprisoned under a great stone.
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  While We Were Out (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))

  by Ho Baek Lee

  PreSchool-Grade 1-While a family is visiting Grandma, their pet rabbit finds her way into the apartment through an unlocked terrace door. Left to explore, she enjoys all the comforts of human life, including a well-stocked fridge, popcorn and a video, dressing up, a good book, toys to play with, and finally a snooze in a warm bed. The uninvited guest wakes in time to retreat to the terrace, closing the door,... (more)
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  God in Between

  by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso

  From award-winning author Sandy Eisenberg Sasso comes a new story to delight children and adults from all faiths and backgrounds. This is the magical, mythical tale of a poor village at the foot of a hill--a topsy-turvy town with no roads and no windows, where the people sneeze through tall weeds and trip over rocks as big as watermelons. Surely God would help them, they decide. But "how" can God be found? The... (more)
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  Jefferson Davis's Generals

  by G. S. Boritt

  Confederate General P.G.T.Beauregard once wrote that "no people ever warred for independence with more relative advantages than the Confederates." If there was any doubt as to what Beauregard sought to imply, he later to chose to spell it out: the failure of the Confederacy lay with the Confederate president Jefferson Davis. In Jefferson Davis' Generals, a team of the nation's most distinguished Civil War... (more)
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  The Living Nativity

  by Helen Haidle

  The award-winning author and illustrator of "The Candymaker's Gift" tell the story of how the tradition of the living nativity began.
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  Suite Française

  by Irène Némirovsky

  Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart.... (more)
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  The Mysterious Benedict Society: Book 1

  The Mysterious Benedict Society

  by Trenton Lee Stewart, Carson Ellis

  "Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?" When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of mysterious, mind-bending tests. (And you, dear reader, can test your wits right alongside them.) But in the end just four very special children will succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and resourceful children could... (more)