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Emma

by Jane Austen

New chronology and further reading; Tony Tanner's original introduction reinstated Edited with an introduction and notes by Flora Stafford.

White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction)

White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction)

by Don Delillo

Jack Gladney, a professor of Nazi history at a Middle American liberal arts school, and his family try to handle normal family life as a black cloud of lethal gaseous fumes threatens their town.

One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind.... (more)

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway's last work published during his lifetime remains one of his most popular and best known. A man's symbolic quest to land the catch of a lifetime engages classic themes of the human struggle against nature as well as explores the intersection of expectation and desire. Filled with fresh essays about the book, the new edition of this invaluable literary guide features a bibliography and notes on the essay... (more)

Bourne Trilogy: Book 3

The Bourne Ultimatum

by Robert Ludlum

The world's two deadliest spies in the ultimate showdown. At a small-town carnival two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne. Only they know Bourne's true identity and understand the telegram is really a message from Bourne's mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world's deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And ... (more)

Southern Vampire Mysteries: Book 1

Dead Until Dark

by Charlaine Harris

Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks out.... Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn't such a bright idea. A fun, fast, funny, and wonderfully intriguing blend of vampire and mystery that's hard to put down, and should not be missed. (Susan Sizemore) Praise for Charlaine Harris: ... (more)

A Room With a View

by E. M. Forster

Published in 1908, A Room with A View is one of E. M. Forster's most celebrated works. Forster explores love among a cast of eccentric characters gathered in an Italian pension and in a corner of Surrey, England. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Lucy Honeychurch must make a decision that will decide the course of her future: She is forced to choose between convention and passion.

The Vampire Chronicles: Book 1

Interview With the Vampire

by Anne Rice

The time is now.We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks - as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the leaving dead ...

His Dark Materials: Book 1

The Golden Compass (Northern Lights)

by Philip Pullman

"SUPERB . . . WONDER-FILLED." --The Washington Post Book World It was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford's motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra's greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust--found... (more)

The Autumn of the Patriarch

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One of Gabriel García Márquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly... (more)

The Little Drummer Girl

by John Le Carre

John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow world's of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. In this thrilling and though-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young English actress, is lured into "the theatre of the real" by an Israeli intelligence... (more)

Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (Vintage)

Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (Vintage)

by John Ralston Saul

Argues that the rationalist political and social experiments of the Enlightenment have degenerated into societies dominated by technology and a crude code of managerial efficiency. These are societies enslaved by manufactured fashions and artificial heroes, divorced from natural human instinct.

The Nine Nations of North AmericaJoel Garreau

The Nine Nations of North America

by Joel Garreau, John Garreau

Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720

by Sara Heller Mendelson

This is an original, accessible, and comprehensive survey of life as it was experienced by most Englishwomen during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The authors examine virtually all aspects of women's lives: female life-stages from birth to death; the separate culture of women, including female friendship and feminist consciousness; the diverse roles of women in the religious and political movements of... (more)

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral MindJulian, and Jaynes, Jolian Jaynes

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

by Julian, and Jaynes, Jolian Jaynes

Fan Mail

by Ronald Munson

In a thriller narrated entirely through e-mail, letters, faxes, messages, memos, and transcripts, beautiful newscaster Joan Carpenter is stalked by ""The Watcher,"" a twisted psychopath with an ardent obsession for her. Reprint. LJ. PW.

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Robert A. Caro The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power.

by Robert A. Caro. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power

Cut: Movies in Fifteen Minutes (Gollancz S.F.)

Cut: Movies in Fifteen Minutes (Gollancz S.F.)

by Cleolinda Jones

The Dust of 100 Dogs

by A. S. King

A Spring 2009 Children's Indie Next List Pick for Teens! In the late seventeenth century, famed teenage pirate Emer Morrisey was on the cusp of escaping the pirate life with her one true love and unfathomable riches when she was slain and cursed with "the dust of one hundred dogs," dooming her to one hundred lives as a dog before returning to a human body-with her memories intact. Now she's a... (more)

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