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In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales—an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama. The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them. Each member of... (more)

George's Marvelous Medicine

by Roald Dahl

George’s grouchy grandma needs a taste of her own medicine, and George knows just the right ingredients to put into it!

The Giant's House: A Romance (P.S.)

by Elizabeth McCracken

The year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod twenty-six-year-old librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. Until the day James Carlson Sweatt -- the "over-tall" eleven-year-old boy who's the talk of the town -- walks into her library and changes her life. Two misfits whose lonely paths cross at the circulation desk, Peggy and James are odd candidates for friendship, but nevertheless... (more)

Odd Thomas: Book 4

Odd Hours

by Dean Koontz

Only a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas is one of those rare literary heroes who have come alive in readers’ imaginations as he explores the greatest mysteries of this world and the next with his inimitable wit, heart, and quiet gallantry. Now Koontz follows Odd as he is irresistibly drawn onward to a destiny he cannot imagine and to undreamed of places... (more)

Remainder

by Tom McCarthy

A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it. Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can’t quite place. How he goes about bringing his visions to life–and what happens afterward–makes for one of the most riveting, complex, and unusual novels in recent memory. Remainder is about the... (more)

The Hallo-wiener

by Dav Pilkey

Oscar is short, like all dachshunds, and all the other dogs make fun of him. On Halloween he takes more ridicule than ever in his hot-dog costume, but one brave act makes him a Grade-A hero.

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by Edgar Allan Poe

A sweet little cat drives a man to insanity and murder.... The grim death known as the plague roams a masquerade ball dressed in red.... A dwarf seeks his final revenge on his captors.... A sister calls to her beloved twin from beyond the grave.... Prepare yourself. You are about to enter a world where you will be shocked, terrified, and, though you'll be too scared to admit it at first,... (more)

M. C. Higgins, the Great

by Virginia Hamilton

Fudge-A-Mania

by Judy Blume

The PowerBook

by Jeanette Winterson

A 21st-century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. Set in London, Paris, Capri and cyberspace, using fairy tales, contemporary myths and popular culture, it works at the intersection between the real and the imagined. Its territory is you.

Fan Man

by William Kotzwinkle

$THE READER\'S DIGEST BOOK OF STRANGE STORIES AMAZING FACTS,STORIES THAT ARE BIZARRE, UNUSUAL, ODD, ASTONISHING, INCREDIBLE ... BUT TRUE$ THE READER\'S DIGEST BOOK OF STRANGE STORIES AMAZING FACTS,STORIES THAT ARE BIZARRE, UNUSUAL, ODD, ASTONISHING, INCREDIBLE ... BUT TRUEREADER\'S DIGEST ASSOCIATION LIMITED

THE READER\'S DIGEST BOOK OF STRANGE STORIES AMAZING FACTS,STORIES THAT ARE BIZARRE, UNUSUAL, ODD, ASTONISHING, INCREDIBLE ... BUT TRUE

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Homer & Langley

by E. L. Doctorow

From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World’s Fair, and The March , the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work. Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers–the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps... (more)

Chronic City

by Jonathan Lethem

The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies. Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called Martyr & Pesty . Chase owes his current social cachet to... (more)

Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical

Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical

by Various

Freaks, magicians, psychics, and the passing strange take center stage in ten original tales by top YA authors and graphic novelists. Molly is a bearded girl who joins the circus, only to fi nd that her former tormentor faces a far hairier plight. Tia claims that her lamented mom is a three-thousand-year-old mummy, but is it really an act? Cody sets out to foil a pop psychic, but the shocking result is not what... (more)

The Watermelon King

by Daniel Wallace

An endearing, often outrageous blend of fable, tall tale, and page-turner, The Watermelon King brings readers to Ashland, Alabama -- the fictional town immortalized in Daniel Wallace's Big Fish -- whose reputation is based on the long-ago abundance of watermelons. Thomas Rider knows almost nothing about his parents, only that his mother died the day he was born in Ashland. He travels there in search of his past,... (more)

Ray in Reverse

by Daniel Wallace

"Daniel Wallace brings to his role as author wit, a subtle compassion, and an offbeat originality that begins, but certainly doesn't end, with the backward unreeling of this refreshingly savvy novel." (The Boston Globe) Regret looms large in Daniel Wallace's latest novel, Ray in Reverse , the funny and poignant story of a life, told backward. Sitting in the Last Words support group in Heaven, Ray Williams... (more)

Jahanara: Princess of Princesses, India, 1627 (The Royal Diaries)

The Royal Diaries

Jahanara: Princess of Princesses, India, 1627 (The Royal Diaries)

by Kathryn Lasky

In the 1600s, the Mughal emperors of India were among the greatest rulers of the East. Jahanara is the daughter of one of these ultra-rich and powerful figures, Shah Jahan The Magnificent. The oldest and favorite of his children, she is showered with emeralds, diamonds, and rubies, and is attended by numerous servants and learned tutors. Yet, her world is not one of pure contentment. It is rife with intrigue... (more)

The Ripley's Believe It or Not! Encyclopedia of the Bizarre (Ripley's Believe It or Not!)

The Ripley's Believe It or Not! Encyclopedia of the Bizarre (Ripley's Believe It or Not!)

by Julie Mooney

Black Dog & Leventhal’s bestselling Encyclopedia of the Bizarre is now available in a handier, more reasonably priced edition that retains every word and image of the original. From stupefying stunts to wacky world’s records, all of Ripley’s riveting findings are here, in an easy-to-browse, impossible-to-put-down color volume. Where else could you learn that: • It’s estimated that... (more)

Among the Dolls

by Trina Schart Hyman, William Sleator

A dark awakening . . . When her parents give her a gloomy old dollhouse for her birthday instead of the ten speed bike she’s expecting, Vicky is disappointed. But she soon becomes fascinated by the small shadowy world and its inhabitants. The hours she spends playing with the dolls is a good way to escape from her parents’s arguments. As Vicky’s life becomes more troubled, she starts to take out her frustration on... (more)

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by Karen Maitland

by Roald Dahl

by Elizabeth McCracken

by Dean Koontz

by Tom McCarthy

by Dav Pilkey

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Virginia Hamilton

by Judy Blume

by Jeanette Winterson

by William Kotzwinkle

by READER\'S DIGEST ASSOCIATION LIMITED

by E. L. Doctorow

by Jonathan Lethem

by Various

by Daniel Wallace

by Daniel Wallace

by Kathryn Lasky

by Julie Mooney

by Trina Schart Hyman, William Sleator