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By Marvel,
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THIS IS IT! The historic 50th anniversary of the Fantastic Four, and they're celebrating in style! Featuring top creative talent, Reed Richards and the rest of the Future Foundation prepare for war and unexpected surprises.
- Fifty Shades of Grey
By E L James, 2012
ISBN 9781612130286
When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind -- until he happens to turn up...
- House of Night
By P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast,
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House of Night is a series of vampire-based fantasy / romance novels by American author P. C. Cast and her daughter Kristin Cast . It follows the adventures of Zoey Redbird, a sixteen-year old girl who has just become a fledgling vampyre and is required to attend the House of Night boarding school...
- Generation Hope
By Marvel,
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It's training day as Hope and the rest of her team settle in on Utopia. As the team goes head to head against Cyclops' Extinction Team, a new mutant is waiting to be found. But when the team heads out into hostile territory, can they make it out alive?.
- I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
By Tucker Max, 2009
ISBN 0806532254
My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead.
- Bro on the Go
By Barney Stinson, 2009
ISBN 1439173133
From the mind of New York Times bestselling author Barney Stinson comes the ultimate companion to The Bro Code - a handy reference guide crafted for today's active Bro. With new rules, inspirations, and wisdom, coupled with classics staples from the original Code, Bro on the Go is designed to...
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892
ISBN 0812504240
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June...
- The Green Mile : The Complete Serial Novel
By Stephen King, 2000
ISBN 0743210891
Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death-row facility, The Green Mile is the riveting and tragic story of John Coffey, a giant, preternaturally gentle inmate condemned to death for the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls. It is a story narrated years later by Paul...
- The Funny Thing Is...
By Ellen DeGeneres, 2004
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Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point...and I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book.
- Marie Antoinette: The Journey
By Antonia Fraser, 2002
ISBN 0385489498
France’s beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate and speculation and the fascination so often accorded tragic figures in history.
- Glass Houses
By Rachel Caine, 2006
ISBN 0451219945
From the author of the popular Weather Warden series. Welcome to Morganville, Texas. Just don't stay out after dark. College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social...
- A Giraffe and a Half
By Shel Silverstein, 1964
ISBN 0060256559
If you had a giraffe and he stretched another half ... you would have a giraffe and a half. And if you glued a rose to the tip of his nose ... And ... if he put on a shoe and then stepped in some glue ... And if he used a chair to comb his hair ...And so it goes until ... but that would be telling.
- Gossip Girl: It Had To Be You: The Gossip Girl Prequel
By Cecily von Ziegesar, 2009
ISBN 0316017698
Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live in luxe Fifth Avenue apartments and attend Manhattan's most exclusive private schools. We're smart, we've inherited classic good looks, we wear fantastic clothes, and we know how to party.
- Siddhartha
By Hermann Hesse, 1922
ISBN 1934648035
Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse is a deceptively simple, intense, and lyrical allegorical tale of a man in ancient India striving for enlightenment at the time of Buddha. Siddhartha is a man whose life journey runs in parallel and who may or may not be another version of Buddha himself.
- American Psycho
By Bret Easton Ellis, 1991
ISBN 0679735771
The controversial novel about a handsome serial killer who moves among the young and trendy in 1980s New York.
- Uglies
By Scott Westerfeld, 2005
ISBN 0689865384
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive...
- As You Like It
By William Shakespeare, 2004
ISBN 074348486X
Frederick has usurped the Duchy and exiled his older brother, Duke Senior. The Duke's daughter Rosalind has been permitted to remain at court because she is the closest friend and cousin of Frederick's only child, Celia. Orlando, a young gentleman of the kingdom who has fallen in love at first...
- The Walking Dead Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire
By Robert Kirkman, 2005
ISBN 1582405301
Life in the prison starts to get interesting for Rick Grimes and the rest of our survivors. Relationships heat up, fizzle out, and change entirely almost overnight. By the end of this volume, relationships between key characters are radically changed, setting the stage for future events in...
- The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
By Karen Page, 2008
ISBN 0316118400
Great cooking goes beyond following a recipe--it's knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. Drawing on dozens of leading chefs' combined experience in top restaurants across the country, Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg present the definitive guide to...
- His Excellency: George Washington
By Joseph J. Ellis, 2005
ISBN 1400032539
To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount...
- Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
By Karl Weber, 2009
ISBN 1586486942
Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “more than a terrific movie—it’s an important movie.” Aided by expert commentators such as Michael...
- Thirteen Reasons Why
By Jay Asher, 2007
ISBN 1595141715
Hannah leaves a suicide note in the form of 13 sides of recorded cassette tapes: each side explaining how 1 of the 13 reasons why she killed herself revolves around that person. If you get the tapes, you're one of the 13; listen and then send the tapes to the name after you. Clay Jensen can't...
- Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
By Nelson Mandela, 1995
ISBN 0316548189
The best-selling memoirs, begun during the South African president's years in prison, traces the Nobel Prize-winner's historic life from his traditional tribal childhood to his triumphant rise to power. Reprint. NYT.
- Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth
By Christopher Tolkien, 2001
ISBN 0618154043
A New York Times bestseller for twenty-one weeks upon publication, UNFINISHED TALES is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and further relates events as told in THE SILMARILLION and THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
- The Importance of Being Earnest
By Oscar Wilde, 2005
ISBN 158049580X
This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists. Oscar WildeÂ’s madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and loversÂ’ entanglements still delights readers...
- The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
By Ann Brashares, 2006
ISBN 0553495011
Can't wait for the next installment of the Pants? Check out the SPECIAL EDITION of The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, in stores now!Inside you'll find an exclusive "Who's Your Soul Mate Quiz" and a sneak peak at the third book, Girls in Pants.With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the...
- Mansfield Park
By Jane Austen, 2003
ISBN 0141439807
New chronology and further reading; Tony Tanner's original introduction reinstated Edited with an introduction by Kathryn Sutherland.
- The Civil War: A Narrative
By Shelby Foote, 1986
ISBN 0394749138
Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox.
- Eleven Minutes
By Paulo Coelho, 2005
ISBN 0060589280
Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A...
- Haunted
By Chuck Palahniuk, 2006
ISBN 1400032822
Stuffing only what they need into one suitcase, seventeen people board a bus for what promises to be the most creative three months of their lives. Each character tells their story as they are instructed to write the next great American novel during the three month writing retreat.
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven
By Mitch Albom, 2003
ISBN 0786868716
Plot Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart.
- Perfume
By Patrick Suskind, 2006
ISBN 0307277763
An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste...
- The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country
By Neil Gaiman, 1991
ISBN 156389016X
The third book of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories. What's remarkable here (considering the publisher and the time that this was originally published) is that the main character of the book--the Sandman, King of Dreams--serves only as a minor character in each of...
- Where the Red Fern Grows
By Wilson Rawls, 1996
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Where the Red Fern Grows is a children's novel written by Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys and trains two redbone coonhound hunting dogs.
- Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
By Morgan Spurlock, 2006
ISBN 0425210235
The nauseating truth from the producer, director, and guinea pig of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Super Size Me. Just when you figured it was safe to scarf fries again comes the factpacked and funny new alarm bell from the man whose month-long McDonald's diet became the subject of an...
- Graceling
By Kristin Cashore, 2009
ISBN 0547258305
Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the...
- The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You
By Neil Gaiman, 1993
ISBN 1563890895
You may have heard somewhere that Neil Gaiman's Sandman series consistedof cool, hip, edgy, smart comic books. And you may have thought, "What the helldoes that mean?" Enter A Game of You to confound the issue even more, while at the same time standing as a fine example of such a description.
- The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections
By Neil Gaiman, 1994
ISBN 1563891050
From the mists of the past to the nightmares of the present, Neil Gaiman's THE SANDMAN touches the lives of kings and knaves, explorers, storytellers, monsters and children. This collection of short tales explores historical figures from Augustus Caesar to Marco Polo, from The Arabian Nights to...
- The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl
By Ree Drummond, 2009
ISBN 0061658197
My name is Ree. Some folks know me as The Pioneer Woman. After years of living in Los Angeles, I made a pit stop in my hometown in Oklahoma on the way to a new, exciting life in Chicago. It was during my stay at home that I met Marlboro Man, a mysterious cowboy with steely blue eyes and a...
- Idoru
By William Gibson, 1997
ISBN 0425158640
In twenty-first century Tokyo, Rez, one of the world's biggest rock stars, prepares to marry Rei Toe, Japan's biggest media star, who is known as the Idoru and who exists only in virtual reality. Reprint.".
- It's Always Something
By Gilda Radner, 2000
ISBN 038081322X
"I had wanted to wrap this book up in a neat little package. I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end."The world fondly remembers the many faces of Gilda Radner: the adamant but misinformed...
- Ford County: Stories
By John Grisham, 2009
ISBN 0385532458
John Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his immensely popular first novel, A Time to Kill. This wholly surprising collection of stories reminds us once again why Grisham is America’s favorite storyteller.
- The New Best Recipe: All-New Edition
By Cook's Illustrated Magazine, 2004
ISBN 0936184744
With The New Best Recipe, we invite you into America’s Test Kitchen where you will stand by our side as we try to develop the best macaroni and cheese, the best meatloaf, the best roast chicken, the best brownie, and nearly 1,000 more best recipes for all your favorite home-cooked foods.
- Blackwood Farm
By Anne Rice, 2003
ISBN 0345443683
In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets.Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious...
- Divine Misdemeanors
By Laurell K. Hamilton, 2009
ISBN 0345495969
You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kins treachery...
- The Heart of a Woman
By Maya Angelou, 1984
ISBN 9780553246896
Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman , her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters...
- The House at Pooh Corner
By A. A. Milne, 1992
ISBN 0140361227
Here are Pooh and Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and of course Christopher Robin, doing what they've done for generations--enchanting young readers.
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
By Michael Lewis, 2004
ISBN 0393324818
"One of the best baseball—and management—books out....Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."—Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange...
- City of Ashes
By Cassandra Clare, 2009
ISBN 1416972242
Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it...
- Batman: Haunted Knight
By Jeph Loeb, 1996
ISBN 1563892731
In the city of the demented villains, Halloween brings out the worst of the lot. This edition collects three of Batman's Halloween adventures in which he takes on some of the most fearsome and twisted foes--The Scarecrow, The Mad Hatter, and The Penguin.
- Paradise Lost
By John Milton, 2003
ISBN 0140424393
Edited with an introduction and notes by John Leonard.
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
By Stephen King, 2000
ISBN 0671042858
On a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland quickly tires of the constant bickering between her older brother, Pete, and her recently divorced mother. But when she wanders off by herself, and then tries to catch up by attempting a...
- The Secret Life of Bees
By Sue Monk Kidd, 2008
ISBN 0143114557
Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was...
- Digital Fortress
By Dan Brown, 2009
ISBN 055216125X
Digital Fortress is the best and most realistic techno-thriller to reach the market in years. Dan Brown's ability to paint in living color the gray area between personal freedom vs. National security is awesome. The story line is so good, readers will feel a chilling thrill a minute as the...
- Looking for Alaska
By John Green, 2008
ISBN 014241221X
Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter’s whole life has been one big non-event. Then he heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-butboring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young.
- Love, Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey
By Betty Degeneres, 2000
ISBN 0688176887
"Mom, I'm gay."With three little words, gay sons and daughters can change their parents' lives forever. Twenty years ago, during a walk on a Mississippi beach, Ellen DeGeneres spoke those simple, powerful words to her mother. That emotional moment eventually brought mother and daughter closer...
- Three Weeks with My Brother
By Nicholas Sparks, 2006
ISBN 0446694851
DESCRIPTION: In January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother Micah set off on a three-week trip around the world. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at 37 and 38 respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family. As Nicholas and Micah travel the globe, the intimate...
- The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives
By Neil Gaiman, 1995
ISBN 1563891387
Delirium, youngest brother of the Endless, prevails upon her brother, Dream, to help her find their missing sibling. Their travels take them through the world of the waking until a final confrontation with the missing member of the Endless and the resolution of Dream's relationship with his son...
- Danny the Champion of the World
By Roald Dahl, 2007
ISBN 0142410330
anny’s dad had a secret, but now the secret’s out and it’s going to lead Danny on the adventure of a lifetime.
- Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning
By Dan Brown, 2006
ISBN 0321392353
Most discussion about Web design seems to focus on the creative process, yet turning concept into reality requires a strong set of deliverables—the documentation (concept model, site maps, usability reports, and more) that serves as the primary communication tool between designers and...
- Dance upon the Air
By Nora Roberts, 2001
ISBN 0515131229
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author-the first book in the reissued Three Sisters Island trilogy is a tale of friendship, fate, and the mysterious ways of the heart.
- The Sandman Vol. 8: Worlds' End
By Neil Gaiman, 1995
ISBN 1563891719
When Brant and Charlene wreck their car in a horrible snowstorm in the middle of nowhere, the only place they can find shelter is a mysterious little inn called World's End. Here they wait out the storm and listen to stories from the many travelers also stuck at this tavern.
- The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
By Deepak Chopra, 2005
ISBN 1400098343
Every life is a book of secrets, ready to be opened. The secret of perfect love is found there, along with the secrets of healing, compassion, faith, and the most elusive one of all: who we really are. We are still mysteries to ourselves, despite the proximity of these answers, and what we most...
- The Undomestic Goddess
By Sophie Kinsella, 2007
ISBN 044024238X
Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere.
- Killing Floor
By Lee Child, 2006
ISBN 0515141429
Ex-MP Jack Reacher goes into action to find his brother's killers, after a series of brutal crimes terrorizes tiny Margrave, Georgia, only to uncover the dark and deadly conspiracy concealed behind the town's peaceful facade. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
- Cell
By Stephen King, 2006
ISBN 1416524517
WHERE WERE YOU ON OCTOBER 1ST AT 3:03 P.M.?Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction.
- iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
By Jeffrey S. Young, 2006
ISBN 0471787841
iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating...
- Inkspell
By Cornelia Funke, 2007
ISBN 0439554012
Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of INKHEART, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to...
- Lauren Bacall: By Myself
By Lauren Bacall, 1985
ISBN 0345333217
The epitome of class, instinctive talent, and razor-sharp wit, Lauren Bacall continues to project an audacious spirit and pursue on-screen excellence. The product of an extraordinary mother and a loving extended family, she produced, with Humphrey Bogart, some of the most electric and memorable...
- Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
By Michael Pollan, 2009
ISBN 014311638X
Michael Pollan, our nation's most trusted resource for food-related issues, offers this indispensible guide for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible, and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable rules for eating wisely, many drawn from a variety of ethnic or cultural...
- Peter Pan
By J. M. Barrie, 2003
ISBN 0805072454
A fabulously redesigned edition of a Michael Hague backlist classicPeter Pan, the book based on J. M. Barrie's famous play, is filled with unforgettable characters: Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up; the fairy, Tinker Bell; the evil pirate, Captain Hook; and the three children-Wendy, John...
- The Rule of Four
By Ian Caldwell, 2005
ISBN 0440241359
An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Four?a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery. It's Easter at Princeton.
- Mort
By Terry Pratchett, 2001
ISBN 0061020680
In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse -- especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory. Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of...
- Along Came a Spider
By James Patterson, 2003
ISBN 0446692638
A missing little girl named Maggie Rose. A family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. The thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher. A psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who calls himself the Son of Lindbergh.
- Your Heart Belongs to Me
By Dean Koontz, 2008
ISBN 0553807137
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psyche—and the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. Here a brilliant young man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts...
- An Ice Cold Grave
By Charlaine Harris, 2008
ISBN 0425224244
Harper Connelly heads to Doraville, North Carolina, to find a missing boy—one of several teenage boys who have disappeared over the last five years. And all of them are calling for Harper. She finds them, buried in the frozen ground. Soon Harper will learn more than she cared to about the dark...
- Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment
By Deepak Chopra, 2008
ISBN 0060878819
Deepak Chopra brings the Buddha back to life in this gripping New York Times bestselling novel about the young prince who abandoned his inheritance to discover his true calling. This iconic journey changed the world forever, and the truths revealed continue to influence every corner of the globe...
- Fever Pitch
By Nick Hornby, 1998
ISBN 1573226882
This is a chronicle of Nick Hornby's obsession with British football, and his extraordinary devotion to one team, Arsenal.
- Ultimate Comics Ultimates Vol. 1
By Jonathan Hickman,
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The countrys last stand of defense may be on its last legs! Nick Fury must lead his newly formed meta human task force to ensure the safety of the world!.
- Sputnik Sweetheart
By Haruki Murakami, 2002
ISBN 0375726055
Haruki Murakami, the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, plunges us into an urbane Japan of jazz bars, coffee shops, Jack Kerouac, and the Beatles to tell this story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited loves.
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
By Jon Krakauer, 2004
ISBN 1400032806
Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000...
- The Robots of Dawn
By Isaac Asimov, 1994
ISBN 0553299492
Called to the Spacer world to solve a case of roboticide, New York City detective Elijah Baley teams up with humanoid robot R. Daneel Olivaw to prove that the prime suspect, a renowned roboticist, is innocent of the crime. Reprint.
- Miles
By Miles Davis, 1990
ISBN 0330313827
For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. The subject of several biographies, now Miles speaks out himself about his extraordinary life...
- Family Ties
By Danielle Steel, 2010
ISBN 9780385343169
Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her handuntil a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her...
- The Runaway Bunny
By Margaret Wise Brown, 2005
ISBN 0060775823
A little bunny keeps runningaway from his mother in an imaginative and imaginary game of verbal hide-and-seek; children will be profoundly comforted by this lovingly steadfast mother who finds her child every time. The Runaway Bunny, first published in 1942 and never out of print, has indeed become...
- The Poet
By Michael Connelly, 2002
ISBN 0446690457
New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly has written one explosive thriller after another featuring Detective Harry Bosch. Now, in an electrifying departure, he presents a novel that breaks all the rules and will keep your heart racing and your mind guessing until the very last page.
- The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake
By Neil Gaiman, 1997
ISBN 1563892790
This is the conclusion to the much talked about Sandman series. It may be best to start your Sandman acquaintance with earlier episodes, but The Wake stands as one of Neil Gaiman's strongest and most consistent Sandman volumes to date.
- Lasher
By Anne Rice, 1995
ISBN 0345397819
"SEDUCTIVE MAGIC...SPELLBINDING...Rice stages her scenes in a wide variety of times and locales, tapping deeply into the richest veins of mythology and history."--San Francisco Chronicle"STEAMY...FAST-PACED AND HUGELY ENGROSSING...Rice's title character--a seductive, evil, highly sexual and...
- Flying Changes
By Sara Gruen, 2007
ISBN
Anxiety rules Annemarie Zimmer's days—the fear that her relationship with the man she loves is growing stagnant; the fear that equestrian daughter Eva's dreams of Olympic glory will carry her far away from her mother . . . and into harm's way. For five months, Annemarie has struggled to make...
- The God of Small Things
By Arundhati Roy, 2008
ISBN 0812979656
Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel is a modern classic that has been read and loved worldwide. Equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama, it is the story of an affluent Indian family forever changed by...
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
By Jane Austen, 2009
ISBN 1594743347
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
By L. Frank Baum, 2000
ISBN 0060293233
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900. The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM...
- Henry V
By William Shakespeare, 2004
ISBN 0743484878
Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in approximately 1599. Its full titles are The Chronicle History of Henry the Fifth (in the First Quarto text) and The Life of Henry the Fifth (in the First Folio text). It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing...
- Y: The Last Man Vol. 2: Cycles
By Brian K. Vaughan, 2003
ISBN 1401200761
The series that has taken the US by storm comes to the UK in the second of an all-new Titan graphic novel series! From writer Brian K. Vaughan (Swamp Thing, The Hood) and up-and-coming artist Pia Guerra comes a view of a dystopian society where suddenly - and without warning - a mysterious plague...
- City of Bones
By Michael Connelly, 2006
ISBN 0446699535
Since his first appearance in 1992's Edgar-winning The Black Echo, Detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch has joined Dennis Lehane's Patrick and Angie, George Pelecanos's Derek Strange, and Greg Rucka's Atticus Kodiak in the pantheon of new-school hard-boiled detectives.
- Cryptonomicon
By Neal Stephenson, 2002
ISBN 0060512806
With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.
- Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
By Neil Gaiman, 2008
ISBN 0061450162
In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion . . . and anything is possible. In Smoke and Mirrors, Gaiman's imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders—where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins...
- The Name of the Wind
By Patrick Rothfuss, 2009
ISBN 0756405890
The New York Times bestselling novel. This is the riveting first-person narrative of Kvothe, a young man who grows to be one of the most notorious magicians his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city...
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