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Why We Read : On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
Reed, ShannonHanover Square Press 2024*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *A Good Housekeeping Reads pick*A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a "beloved and wonderful writer" (George Saunders), teacher,...
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B. J. Harrison Reads Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Other Stories : The Classic Tales with B. J. Harrison
Stevenson, Robert LouisSaga Egmont 2020 1. editionHenry Jekyll is an idealistic young scientist whose main goal it is to unlock the secrets of the human soul. He creates many different potions and chemical mixtures in his lab, but...
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain : In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Saunders, GeorgeRandom House Publishing Group 2021NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and wh...
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Under the Rainbow : A Novel
Laskey, CeliaPenguin Publishing Group 2020"Essential." - The New York Times Book Review When outsiders on a mission arrive to change a small town's attitudes, residents and newcomers alike end up transformed.Big Burr, Kans...
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Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L. M.Andrews UK 2012 1. editionThe first of a series of Montgomery's novels written about Anne Shirley. The story is about Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert who are siblings and live on Prince Edward Island. They wan...
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Chronicles of Avonlea
Montgomery, L.M.Andrews UK 2012 2. editionSet in the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea, which was also the setting for Montgomery's 'Anne of Green Gables' series, this collection of short stories have been delighting r...
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Anne of the Island
Montgomery, L. M.Andrews UK 2012 1. editionThe third of a series of Montgomery's novels written about Anne Shirley from the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea. Follow Anne, who was introduced in 'Anne of Green Gables', a...
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Anne's House of Dreams
Montgomery, L. M.Andrews UK 2012 1. editionThe fifth of a series of Montgomery's novels written about Anne Shirley from the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea. Follow Anne, who was introduced in 'Anne of Green Gables', a...
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Anne of Avonlea
Montgomery, Lucy MaudAndrews UK 2012 1. editionThe second of a series of Montgomery's novels written about Anne Shirley of the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea. Follow Anne, who was introduced in 'Anne of Green Gables', as...
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Black Beauty
Sewell, AnnaAndrews UK 2012 2. editionWritten by Anna Sewell in the last years of her life in 1877, this was her only novel but is one of the best selling children's books of all time. The story is narrated in the firs...
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The Phantom of the Opera
Leroux, GastonDreamscape Media, LLC 2017The lights dim at the Paris Opera House. The exquisite Christine Daae enraptures the audience with her mellifluous voice. Immediately, Raoul de Chagny falls deeply in love. But the...
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Harry Mount's Odyssey : Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus
Mount, HarryBloomsbury Publishing 2015Harry Mount's Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus is a journey round Greece inspired by the heroes, locations and tales of the Odyssey and tracing ancient Greek ci...
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It Can't Happen Here
Lewis, SinclairPenguin Publishing Group 2014“The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—Salon It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Ba...
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Frankenstein
Shelley, MaryDover Publications 2013 UpdatedFew creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terr...
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The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Raspe, Rudolf ErichMelville House 2012The restored, unbowdlerized text of Raspe’s slapstick travel epic featuring the classic illustrations from Strang & Clark (1895) No one has journeyed to as many foreign lands as...
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The Trial : A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
Kafka, FranzKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012A brilliant translation of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, revealing a tale that is as full of energy and power as it was when it was first written. From...
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Gravity's Rainbow
Pynchon, ThomasPenguin Publishing Group 2012Winner of the 1974 National Book Award "The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." - The New Republic“A screaming comes across the sky. . .”...
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The Railway Children
Nesbit, E.HarperCollins Publishers 2012HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '...when the Green Dragon tore shrieking out of the mouth of its dark lair, which was the tunnel,...
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Fahrenheit 451 : A Novel
Bradbury, RaySimon & Schuster 2011Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian...
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Alias Grace : A Novel
Atwood, MargaretKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel"...