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44 Scotland Street

by Alexander McCall Smith, Iain McIntosh

Welcome to 44 Scotland Street, home to some of Edinburgh's most colorful characters. There's Pat, a twenty-year-old who has recently moved into a flat with Bruce, an athletic young man with a keen awareness of his own appearance. Their neighbor, Domenica, is an eccentric and insightful widow. In the flat below are Irene and her appealing son Bertie, who is the victim of his mother’s desire for him to learn the... (more)

Lady Audley's Secret

by M. E. Braddon, David Skilton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon

This Victorian bestseller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her as the main rival of the master of the sensational novel, Wilkie Collins. A protest against the passive, insipid 19th-century heroine, Lady Audley was described by one critic of the time as "high-strung, full of passion, purpose, and movement." Her crime (the secret of the title) is shown to threaten the apparently... (more)

Green Mile Complete Set of 6 Books Signet Series 1996 (The Green Mile)

Green Mile Complete Set of 6 Books Signet Series 1996 (The Green Mile)

by Stephen King

50/50 Killer

by Steve Mosby

The breakthrough thriller from a new talent in psychological crime ...

Serial

by J. A. Konrath

Remember the twin golden rules of hitchhiking? # 1: Don't go hitchhiking, because the driver who picks you up could be certifiably crazy. # 2: Don't pick up hitchhikers, because the traveler you pick up could be raving nutcase. So what if, on some dark, isolated road, Crazy #1 offered a ride to Nutcase #2? When two of the most twisted minds in the world of horror fiction face off, the result is SERIAL, a... (more)

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations, described by G. K. Chesterton as a “study in human weakness and the slow human surrender,” may be called Charles Dickens ’s finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career. In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan named Pip. The convict terrifies the young boy and threatens to kill him unless Pip helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in the... (more)

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was one of the most remarkable figures in English literature. Born in Poland, and originally named Josef Teodor Konrad Walecz Korzeniowski, he went to sea at the age of seventeen and eventually joined the crew of an English vessel, becoming a British citizen in the process. He retired from the sea in 1894 and took up the pen, writing all his works in English, a language he had only... (more)

Mayor of Casterbridge (New Windmill Classics)

Mayor of Casterbridge (New Windmill Classics)

by Thomas Hardy

This series provides unabridged versions of pre-20th-century novels, complete with an introduction, glossary, extended writing questions and activities. Their sewn binding and hard laminated covers make them hardwearing for class use.

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy’s master epic. War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count... (more)

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Leonard J. Kent and Nina Berberova

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Introduction by Malcolm Jones; Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the... (more)

44 Scotland Street: Book 4

The World According to Bertie

by Alexander McCall Smith

The latest completely charming installment in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series. There is never a quiet moment on 44 Scotland Street. In The World According to Bertie, Pat deals with the reappearance of Bruce, which has her heart skipping—and not in a pleasant way. Angus Lordie's dog Cyril has been taken away by the authorities, accused of being a serial biter. Unexpectedly, Domenica has offered to help... (more)

Losing Latitude, Part 1: Death, Dads, and Demons

Losing Latitude, Part 1: Death, Dads, and Demons

by Cory Cramer

Losing Latitude Part One: Death, Dads, and Demons is the first episode of a five part supernatural thriller. From the back cover: Lilly North needs answers. But will she believe the answers she finds – or will they put her on the same fateful path as her family? Buck McGee needs sanctuary. The mysterious death of his father and the recurring appearance of a menacing demon have left him no other options. ... (more)

Fuck Vision: La Vision de La Fucktory: El Libro Que Cambiara Para Siempre Tu Vision del Mundo (Rompeolas)Jm Jose Maria Martinez

Fuck Vision: La Vision de La Fucktory: El Libro Que Cambiara Para Siempre Tu Vision del Mundo (Rompeolas)

by jm Jose? Mari?a Marti?nez

Losing Latitude Part 2: The Past Comes Back to Haunt Us

Losing Latitude Part 2: The Past Comes Back to Haunt Us

by Cory Cramer

The Journey Continues... Lilly North is beginning to put together the pieces behind her parents puzzling actions out at sea, decisions which ultimately cost them their lives. The answers lay somewhere in the pages of Buck McGee s journal, the young runaway who lost his own father to unknown forces. Now, as Lilly delves deeper into his story and Buck floats farther south on the Mississippi, new characters... (more)

Losing Latitude Part 3: Goodbyes and Getaways

Losing Latitude Part 3: Goodbyes and Getaways

by Cory Cramer

While Lilly North is on the verge of release from the hospital, Buck begins the fight of his life in the French Quarter. What comes out of the costly encounter will change his path forever. With voodoo and gang violence swirling around him, Buck turns to the one man he can trust: an old trumpet player named Reggie. And the only way he can save Buck from this world of occult and crime is to escape with him to a... (more)

Losing Latitude Part 4: The Last Place to Run

Losing Latitude Part 4: The Last Place to Run

by Cory Cramer

After losing his friend and mentor in a fierce storm, Buck McGee finds himself on his own again. With little in the way of experience, Buck must find a way to sail his storm-damaged vessel to port or risk being lost at sea forever. Will he make it? What awaits him at his journey s end? Is it the fresh start he seeks or the watery grave he fears? Meanwhile, Lilly finally finishes Buck's journal. But will it... (more)

Losing Latitude Part 5: Revelations

by Cory Cramer

The final installment of the Losing Latitude series: A story about people who leave home seeking better lives...and the demons that follow them.

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by Alexander McCall Smith, Iain McIntosh

by M. E. Braddon, David Skilton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon

by Stephen King

by Steve Mosby

by J. A. Konrath

by Charles Dickens

by Charles Dickens

by Joseph Conrad

by Thomas Hardy

by Leo Tolstoy

by Leo Tolstoy

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

by Ernest Hemingway

by Alexander McCall Smith

by Cory Cramer

by jm Jose? Mari?a Marti?nez

by Cory Cramer

by Cory Cramer

by Cory Cramer

by Cory Cramer