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Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest single work of the twentieth century. Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the original French. Now Viking makes Proust's masterpiece accessible to a whole new generation, beginning with Lydia Davis's new translation of the first volume,... (more)

How Walmart Is Destroying America And The World: And What You Can Do About It

How Walmart Is Destroying America And The World: And What You Can Do About It

by Bill Quinn

After carving up the once lovingly cared-for downtowns of Small Town America, Wal-Mart launched a frontal assault on mom-and-pop businesses all over the globe. With 1.5 million employees operating more than 3, 500 stores, Wal-Mart is now the world’s largest private employer. In this third edition of HOW WAL-MART IS DESTROYING AMERICA (AND THE WORLD), intrepid Texas newspaperman Bill Quinn continues the fight.... (more)

Moon: Book 5

Shadow of the Moon

by Rebecca York

Lance Marshall has a nose for great news stories-not surprising, since he's aided by his werewolf abilities. Now he's prowling outside an ultra-exclusive Washington, D.C. nightclub-"The Castle." But he is not alone. Savannah Carpenter wants to know how her sister ended up in a coma, and she knows that The Castle has something to do with it. But when Lance and Savannah pretend to be lovers to gain entrance, they... (more)

Moon: Book 3

Witching Moon

by Rebecca York

A Georgia swamp is the perfect place for forest ranger Adam Marshall to hide his werewolf nature. But when he finds himself irresistibly drawn to biologist Sara Weston, their future is threatened by a coven of witches with a score to settle with the locals.

Jennifer Scales and the Messenger of Light

Jennifer Scales: Book 2

Jennifer Scales and the Messenger of Light

by Anthony Alongi, MaryJanice Davidson

Where can you find weredragons, beaststalkers, and werachnids all in one room? Jennifer Scales's family reunion. Getting through high school is hard enough. Jennifer Scales has the added pressure of her weredragon life, taking trips to Crescent Lake to morph into a dragon under the constant threat of enemy attack. What's worse, she's also half beaststalker from her Mom's side. Beaststalkers and weredragons... (more)

A Kidnapped Mind: A Mother's Heartbreaking Story of Parental Alienation Syndrome

A Kidnapped Mind: A Mother's Heartbreaking Story of Parental Alienation Syndrome

by Pamela Richardson

How do we begin to describe our love for our children? Pamela Richardson shows us with her passionate memoir of life with and without her estranged son, Dash. From age five Dash suffered Parental Alienation Syndrome at the hands of his father. Indoctrinated to believe his mother had abandoned him, after years of monitored phone calls and impeded access eight-year-old Dash decided he didn't want to be "forced" to... (more)

The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace

The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace

by Jack Kornfield

You hold in your hand an invitation : To remember the transforming power of forgiveness and lovingkindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible. In this beautiful and graceful little book, internationally renowned Buddhist teacher and meditation master Jack Kornfield has collected age-old teachings, modern stories, and time-honored practices for... (more)

Moon: Book 1

Killing Moon

by Rebecca York

Private investigator Ross Marshall has a special talent for tracking--a talent that has helped him locate missing persons when the police's trail has gone cold. Now his current case has led him to a body buried in an isolated rural area--and a serial killer who is looking for a new victim. But while gathering evidence for the police, something goes very wrong...The last thing genetic researcher Megan... (more)

The Climb Up to Hell

by Jack Olsen

"One of the best accounts of true high mountain adventure ever written." -Trevanian, bestselling author of The Eiger Sanction"One of the most dramatic rescues in mountaineering history." -Jim Wickwire, Everest climber and coauthor of Addicted to Danger In the heart of the Swiss Alps stand the three majestic peaks of the Bernese Oberland, Europe's most famous mountain range.The highest, at 13,638 feet, is the... (more)

Give a Boy a Gun: A True Story of Law and Disorder in the American WestJack Olsen

Give a Boy a Gun: A True Story of Law and Disorder in the American West

by Jack Olsen

Claude Dallas Jr. was raised in Upper Michigan and Ohio by a father whose philosophy was "give a boy a gun and you're makin' a man." After high school, the young man went to the rugged border area of Idaho, Oregon and Nevada and worked as a cow-puncher and handyman on several ranches. But his dream was evidently to become a 19th centurystyle mountain man and so he turned to poaching, often killing animals even... (more)

The Den of Shadows: Book 4

Midnight Predator

by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Though she was once a happy teenager with a wonderful family and a full life, Turquoise Draka is now a hunter, committed to no higher purpose than making money and staying alive. In a deadly world of vampires, shape-shifters, and powerful mercenaries, she’ll track any prey if the price is right. Her current assignment: to assassinate Jeshikah, one of the cruelest vampires in history. Her employer: an unknown... (more)

The Den of Shadows: Book 2

Demon in My View (Laurel-Leaf Books)

by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Though nobody at her high school knows it, Jessica is a published author. Her vampire novel, Tiger, Tiger, has just come out under the pen name Ash Night. Now two new students have just arrived in Ramsa, and both want Jessica’s attention. She has no patience with overly friendly Caryn, but she’s instantly drawn to Alex, a self-assured, mysterious boy who seems surprisingly familiar. If Jessica didn’t know... (more)

Book by Book: Notes on Reading And Life

by Michael Dirda

A Pulitzer Prize–winning critic’s often surprising meditation on those places where life and books intersect and what might be learned from both Once out of school, most of us read for pleasure.Yet there is another equally important, though often overlooked, reason that we read: to learn how to live. Though books have always been understood as life-teachers, the exact way in which they instruct, cajole, and... (more)

The Princess of FlamesRu Emerson

The Princess of Flames

by Ru Emerson

The Young Visiters: Or, Mr Salteena's Plan

The Young Visiters: Or, Mr Salteena's Plan

by Daisy Ashford

Fiction by nine-year-olds is rare, but the precocious Ashford redeems her unremarkable story in ways she could never have imagined. Written in 1890 but not published until 1919 (and kept in print in Britain since that time), this novel proves to be a completely innocent yet inadvertently amusing spoof of Victorian society. The guileless author writes of 42-year-old Alfred Salteena, who, born on the wrong side of... (more)

Sisters of Isis: Book 2

Divine One

by Lynne Ewing

Following the incredible success of Daughters of the Moon , Lynne Ewing has created an all new fun and hip teen fantasy series. Based in Egyptian mythology and set in modern-day Washington, D.C., Sisters of Isis follows the lives of Meri, Sudi, and Dalila, three fifteen-year-old girls who have just discovered they are descendants of very powerful ancestors--Egyptian pharaohs. From these ancestors they've... (more)

Night World: Book 8

Black Dawn

by L. J. Smith

When young vampire prince Delos falls in love with his captive slave Maggie Neely, he frees her and demands that she join him in his life of dark pleasure. Maggie can hardly resist the handsome prince. But did he kill her brother? Maggie won't give up until she learns the truth--even if it means destroying Delos and his secret land. If he doesn't destroy her first.

Moon: Book 2

Edge Of The Moon

by Rebecca York

A police detective and a woman who files a missing persons report become the pawns of an unholy serial killer in a game of deadly attraction.

Doppelgangsters

by Laura Resnick

A waiting game . . . Nothing can tank a Broadway magic act faster than too much authenticity. So -- with Sorceror! shut down -- Esther Diamond is doing what out-of-work actresses do best: waiting tables in Little Italy while hoping for the next good audition. But magical mischief is as obvious as an aging ingenue's plastic surgery (once you know what to look for), and when the same man walks into the... (more)

Luthiel's Song: Dreams of the Ringed Vale

Luthiel's Song: Book 1

Luthiel's Song: Dreams of the Ringed Vale

by Robert Fanney

Luthiel's Song, Dreams of the Ringed Vale is the first novel in the Luthiel's Song series written by Robert Fanney. The story of an orphan who goes on a perilous journey for the sake of her foster sister, it is a favorite among teens and fantasy lovers alike who have nominated the book for three prominent fiction awards and compared it with such well-loved tales as "The Neverending Story," "The Hobbit," and "Harry... (more)

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by Marcel Proust

by Bill Quinn

by Rebecca York

by Rebecca York

by Anthony Alongi, MaryJanice Davidson

by Pamela Richardson

by Jack Kornfield

by Rebecca York

by Jack Olsen

by Jack Olsen

by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

by Michael Dirda

by Ru Emerson

by Daisy Ashford

by Lynne Ewing

by L. J. Smith

by Rebecca York

by Laura Resnick

by Robert Fanney