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Grammy-nominee Taylor Swift is the top-selling artist of 2008, and the first in the history of Nielsen SoundScan to have two different titles in the Top 10 on the year-end album chart. Our matching folio to her latest chart-topper features the crossover hit single "Love Story" and a dozen more: The Best Day * Breathe * Change * Fearless * Fifteen * Forever and Always * Hey Stephen * Tell Me Why * The Way I Loved... (more)

Roughing It (Mark Twain Library)

by Mark Twain

o Includes all 304 first-edition illustrations by True Williams, Edward F. Mullen, and others o Provides the first and only text that adheres to the author's wishes in details of wording, spelling, and punctuation, restored from original sources. o Features expert annotation, specially prepared maps, facsimile manuscript pages, and other supplementary documents o Reproduces the text and notes of the Mark... (more)

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to... (more)

Doctor Faustus

by Thomas Mann

"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." --The New Yorker "Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods." --The New Republic Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells... (more)

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess. We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house,... (more)

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

by Roald Dahl

"A sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory finds the familiar characters orbiting through space in a magic glass elevator. It's all good fun and suspense."--Publishers Weekly.

The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of... (more)

Dead in Dixie

by Charlaine Harris

Night Prey By John Sandford

by John Sandford

"Minneapolis Lieutenant Lucas Davenport returns in a mesmerizing shocker that continues Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford's best-selling "Prey" series. To police detectives, the dead body in the dumpster is just another homicide to add to the files. To state investigator Meagan Connell, however, it is confirmation of her worst fear. A serial sex-killer who preys on vulnerable young women is on the loose---and... (more)

Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.)

by Louise Erdrich

The stunning first novel in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, Love Medicine tells the story of two families -- the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Written in Erdrich's uniquely poetic, powerful style, it is a multigenerational portrait of strong men and women caught in an unforgettable drama of anger, desire, and the healing power that is love medicine. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of... (more)

Aurora Teagarden: Book 1

Real Murders

by Charlaine Harris

Though a small town at heart, Lawrenceton, Georgia, has its dark side-and crime buffs. One of whom is librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, a member of the Real Murders Club, which meets once a month to analyze famous cases. It's a harmless pastime-until the night she finds a member killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss. And as other brutal "copycat" killings follow, Roe will... (more)

The Painted Drum: A Novel (P.S.)

by Louise Erdrich

While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined. ... (more)

Murder With Mirrors

by Agatha Christie

Gideon's Fire

by John Creasey

Commander George Gideon of the Scotland Yard is met at the office one morning with news of a sex maniac on the loose and a fire in an old tenement building south of the Thames. Two separate crimes of stunning savagery -- a fourteen-year-old girl raped and murdered, and a family of seven wiped out by an arsonist.

Gideon's Fog

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Taylor Swift-Fearless

by Taylor Swift

Roughing It (Mark Twain Library)

by Mark Twain

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann

Doctor Faustus

by Thomas Mann

Memoirs of a Geisha

by Arthur Golden

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

by Roald Dahl

The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann

Dead in Dixie

by Charlaine Harris

Night Prey By John Sandford

by John Sandford

Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.)

by Louise Erdrich

Real Murders

by Charlaine Harris

The Painted Drum: A Novel (P.S.)

by Louise Erdrich

Murder With Mirrors

by Agatha Christie

Gideon's Fire

by John Creasey

Gideon's Fog