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Wish: Book 1

When Shuichiro rescues an angel he is granted a single wish. The problem? Shuichiro can’t think of any wishes that he couldn’t grant himself. Refusing to leave Shuichiro without granting a wish Amber, the angel, moves in with the young doctor to help out around the house and wait for a chance to return the favor. Of course, angels aren’t the only supernatural beings wandering the Earth. Soon, demons and... (more)

Wish: Book 3

Wish #3

by Clamp

When Shuichiro rescues an angel he is granted a single wish. The problem? Shuichiro can’t think of any wishes that he couldn’t grant himself. Refusing to leave Shuichiro without granting a wish Amber, the angel, moves in with the young doctor to help out around the house and wait for a chance to return the favor. Of course, angels aren’t the only supernatural beings wandering the Earth. Soon, demons and... (more)

Wish: Book 4

Wish, Vol. 4

by Clamp

Now that Kohahu has returned to heaven, Shuichiro realises how much he cared for his former angel companion. Kohaku still longs to return to Earth, but God has forbidden it. They both saw how much trouble can result when angels explore forbidden relationships. Will Kohaku give up her divinity for her wish?

Half Magic

by N. M. Bodecker, Edward Eager

Since Half Magic first hit bookshelves in 1954, Edward Eager’s tales of magic have become beloved classics. Now four cherished stories by Edward Eager about vacationing cousins who stumble into magical doings and whimsical adventures are available in updated hardcover and paperback formats. The original lively illustrations by N. M. Bodecker have been retained, but eye-catching new cover art by Kate Greenaway... (more)

Wish: Book 2

Wish #2

by Clamp

When Shuichiro rescues an angel he is granted a single wish. The problem? Shuichiro can’t think of any wishes that he couldn’t grant himself. Refusing to leave Shuichiro without granting a wish Amber, the angel, moves in with the young doctor to help out around the house and wait for a chance to return the favor. Of course, angels aren’t the only supernatural beings wandering the Earth. Soon, demons and... (more)

The Blind Watchmaker

Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

by Richard Dawkins

Patiently and lucidly, this Los Angeles Times Book Award and Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize winner identifies the aspects of the theory of evolution that people find hard to believe and removes the barriers to credibility one by one. "As readable and vigorous a defense of Darwinism as has been published since 1859."--The Economist.

A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

by Ray Bradbury

With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder , tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric... (more)

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.

The Wish List

by Eoin Colfer

Meg Finn is in a tough spot. Really tough. For her last act on Earth, she committed a crime - and lost her life as a result. Now Meg's spirit is stuck in limbo, due to a dead-even tally of good and evil deeds. Meg's only chance at salvation is to return to Earth and stack on a few more good deeds - namely, helping the old man whose apartment she was robbing during her last appearance. For better or worse,... (more)

Five Children and It

by E. Nesbit, Sandra Kemp

A long-time favorite story of five children who discover a magical creature who grants wishes.

The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain

The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain

by Nicholas B. Dirks

Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men—Warren Hastings—was put on trial by Edmund Burke, it brought the Company’s exploits to the attention of the public. Through the trial and after, the British... (more)

Rules of Engagement (A Sir John Fielding Mystery)

Rules of Engagement (A Sir John Fielding Mystery)

by Bruce Alaxander

The suicide of a lord happens at the same time a hypnotism specialist arrives in London--a man patronized by the lord's beautiful wife. It's a coincidence the blind Sir John Fielding can't fail to notice.

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

by Susan Wise Bauer

An engaging, accessible guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition. Surrounded by more books than ever, readers today are frequently daunted by the classics they have left unread. The Well-Educated Mind , debunking our own inferiority complexes, is a wonderful resource for anyone wishing to explore and develop the mind's capacity to read and comprehend the "greatest hits" in fiction,... (more)

Person or Persons Unknown (Sir John Fielding)

Person or Persons Unknown (Sir John Fielding)

by Bruce Alaxander

Eighteenth-century London: prostitutes are being brutally murdered in Covent Garden. Sir John Fielding, the blind magistrate who confounded London's first police force, must call upon his keen intellect and uncommon detecting skills to solve this shocking series of crimes with a plan that is as daring as it is desperate...

The Hunger Games: Book 1

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience... (more)

The Garden of Last Days: A Novel

by Andre Dubus

From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog --a new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel. One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April's usual babysitter is in the hospital, so she decides it's best to have her three-year-old daughter close by, watching children's videos in the office, while she ... (more)

Is Your Lord Large Enough?: How C. S. Lewis Expands Our View of God

Is Your Lord Large Enough?: How C. S. Lewis Expands Our View of God

by Peter J. Schakel

"Every year you grow, you will find me bigger." --Aslan to Lucy in Prince Caspian C. S. Lewis was, of course, a brilliant apologist, and his books contain much to feed your intellect. But Lewis was also very concerned about Christian formation and strongly desired to help believers deepen their faith and broaden their vision of God. In this book Peter Schakel opens to you the more practical parts of... (more)

When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel

by Kate Atkinson

On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever... On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound... At the end of a long day, 16-year-old Reggie is looking forward to watching a little TV. Then a... (more)

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

by Rick Perlstein

Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency. Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson's historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus... (more)

Among the Cannibals: Adventures on the Trail of Man's Darkest Ritual

Among the Cannibals: Adventures on the Trail of Man's Darkest Ritual

by Paul Raffaele

It's the stuff of nightmares, the dark inspiration for literature and film. But astonishingly, cannibalism does exist, and in Among the Cannibals travel writer Paul Raffaele journeys to the far corners of the globe to discover participants in this mysterious and disturbing practice. From an obscure New Guinea river village, where Raffaele went in search of one of the last practicing cannibal cultures on Earth;... (more)

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by N. M. Bodecker, Edward Eager

by Clamp

Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

by Richard Dawkins

by Ray Bradbury

by J. D. Salinger

by Eoin Colfer

by E. Nesbit, Sandra Kemp

by Nicholas B. Dirks

by Bruce Alaxander

by Susan Wise Bauer

by Bruce Alaxander

by Suzanne Collins

by Andre Dubus

by Peter J. Schakel

by Kate Atkinson

by Rick Perlstein

by Paul Raffaele