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Historical fiction, Classic fiction
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The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 1 History set her fate in stone... Murderer. Mercenary. Temptress. Trickster. Traitor. Thief. But under…
a hammer that falls like thunder, stone will always shatter. So with her voice she lights the forge. The Voyage of Freydis sings the silenced tale of Freydis Eiriksdottir, the first and only woman to lead a Viking voyage across the Atlantic in this tempestuous retelling of an ancient Icelandic saga set at the dawn of the 11th century. Content notice: spousal abuse. Praise for The Voyage of Freydis: 'Anyone who loves Vikings and historical fiction definitely should pick up this book' Emily, NetGalley reviewer 'Very lyrically written, I felt as if I was reading a song' Tiffany, NetGalley reviewer 'As a lover of mythology and historical fiction I knew immediately I was going to like this book – and I'm pleased to say I not only liked it but I LOVED it!' Libby, NetGalley reviewer 'Tamara Goranson's writing really shines here. I felt the cold, heard the wind, flinched with the blows – that takes a lot of skill' Dawn, NetGalley reviewer 'Took me on a rollercoaster of emotions' Charlotte, NetGalley reviewer
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Historical fiction, Classic fiction, Family stories
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Four young Black sisters come of age during the American Civil War in So Many Beginnings, a warm and powerful…
YA remix of the classic novel Little Women , by national bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow. North Carolina, 1863 . As the American Civil War rages on, the Freedpeople's Colony of Roanoke Island is blossoming, a haven for the recently emancipated. Black people have begun building a community of their own, a refuge from the shadow of the "old life." It is where the March family has finally been able to safely put down roots with four young daughters: Meg, a teacher who longs to find love and start a family of her own. Jo, a writer whose words are too powerful to be contained. Beth, a talented seamstress searching for a higher purpose. Amy, a dancer eager to explore life outside her family's home. As the four March sisters come into their own as independent young women, they will face first love, health struggles, heartbreak, and new horizons. But they will face it all together. Praise for So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix "Morrow's ability to take the lingering stain of slavery on American history and use it as a catalyst for unbreakable love and resilience is flawless . That she has remixed a canonical text to do so only further illuminates the need to critically question who holds the pen in telling our nation's story ." — Booklist , starred review " Bethany C. Morrow's prose is a sharpened blade in a practiced hand, cutting to the core of our nation's history. ... A devastatingly precise reimagining and a joyful celebration of sisterhood. A narrative about four young women who unreservedly deserve the world, and a balm for wounds to Black lives and liberty ." —Tracy Deonn, New York Times- bestselling author of Legendborn "A tender and beautiful retelling that will make you fall in love with the foursome all over again ." —Tiffany D. Jackson, New York Times -bestselling author of White Smoke and Grown
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Classic fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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The cult novel of fin de siècle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde'It will be biggest fiasco of the year -…
but I don't give a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before.' The title page of the first complete English translation of Against Nature (published in the French as À Rebours) included the caption 'the book that Dorian Gray loved and inspired Oscar Wilde.' It was, declared Wilde, one of the best novels he had ever read. It is the story of Jean des Esseintes, the last of a proud and noble family, who retreats from the world in disgust at bourgeois society and leads a life based on cultivation of the senses through art. Des Esseintes distills perfumes from the rarest oils and essences, he creates a garden of poisonous flowers, sets gemstones in a tortoise's gold-painted shell and plans to corrupt a street urchin until he is degraded enough to commit murder. Des Esseintes' aesthetic pilgrimage is described in minutely documented realistic detail and was widely regarded as the guidebook of decadence. This influential novel is now available in a new translation by Theo Cuffe and includes a preface by Luc Sante.
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Classic fiction, Science fiction
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En este cuarto libro de la «Serie de los robots», primer ciclo de la célebre «Saga de la Fundación», Isaac…
Asimov ofrece una visión de lo que puede ser en siglos venideros la vida humana en el cosmos. Los robots del amanecer relata cómo en el planeta Aurora los hombres y sus robots vivían en una armonía aparentemente perfecta hasta el instante en que el robot más avanzado fue asesinado. ¿Ocultaba la muerte del androide una lucha despiadada por el control del Universo?
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Classic fiction, Folklore, fables and fairy tales, Animal stories
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Join in the fun with Rod Campbell's Dear Zoo and Friends Audio , perfect for car journeys and bedtimes. I…
wrote to the zoo to send me a pet . . . Rod Campbell's classic story Dear Zoo has been a firm favourite with toddlers and parents alike ever since it was first published in 1982. Now you and your toddler can listen to a dramatized version of the story and sing along with the Dear Zoo Song. Young children will love discovering the animals the zoo has sent – a monkey, a lion and even an elephant! But will they ever manage to send the perfect pet? Three other favourite stories by bestselling author Rod Campbell are also included on the Dear Zoo and Friends Audio : join in with all your favourite farm animal noises as you listen to Oh Dear! , meet Sam and his friends at his birthday party in My Presents , and help Little Bird discover her own special talent in Little Bird . Then sing along to the rhymes, including nursery favourite, Incy Wincy Spider
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Classic fiction
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Une classe de petits tannants de 3e année arrive à l'École des gars. Une école bien spéciale qui reçoit déjà…
des garçons (et une fille) de 5e et 6e année. Les enfants, accueillis par leurs enseignants sympathiques, sont grandement impressionnés par leur cour d'école aux couleurs flamboyantes. Ils se réjouissent de participer aux activités proposées, tout aussi amusantes les unes que les autres. Cette première journée se déroulerait à merveille, si seulement il n'y avait pas Mavrick, le nouveau au mauvais caractère qui joue les trouble-fêtes
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Contrairement aux autres garçons de sa classe, Xavier est un enfant plutôt timide et tranquille. Pourtant, depuis quelque temps, il…
se fait remarquer en frappant tout ce qui l'entoure. À la demande de monsieur Dussault, le directeur de l'école des gars, Foinfoin mène l'enquête pour tenter de comprendre ce brusque changement de comportement. Ses interrogations l'amènent à élucider le mystère : Xavier est mort de peur à l'idée de faire une présentation devant la classe. Foinfoin, qui a plus d'un tour dans son sac, parviendra-t-il à l'aider à surmonter ses craintes épouvantables ?
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Classic fiction, Mysteries and crime stories
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"It would be difficult to find anywhere more nearly perfect stories of scientific deduction than the Dr. Thorndyke tales of…
R. Austin Freeman." --The New York Times Visiting a lonely hamlet perched on a cliff above the English coast, forensic detective Dr. John Thorndyke goes for a walk on the long, deserted beach. In the sand he finds two sets of footprints, made some hours apart. They lead to a crime scene. A man has been found stabbed through the heart, his body thrown from the cliffs above. The local police are on the hunt for clues, but Thorndyke is certain the killer's identity can be determined from the footprints in the sand. With the tide coming in, he has only a few hours to catch his man. Packed with clever tales of crime and science, John Thorndyke's Cases is an indispensible entry in one of the mystery genre's most popular and influential series. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
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Classic fiction, General fiction
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More fictionalized adventures from the author of The Tropic of Capricorn (DB 91271). Gleefully recounting his exploits in Brooklyn and…
Paris, the unnamed protagonist encounters literature and women as he lives the life of a hedonist. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1963
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Holiday fiction, Historical fiction, General fiction, Classic fiction, Multi-cultural fiction, Family stories
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New York City, 1912. Gertie feels left out while Mama and her four older sisters cook Hanukkah dinner, but Papa…
comes home and asks her help with an important task. Based on the classic books by Sydney Taylor. Sydney Taylor Book Award. For preschool-grade 2. 2018
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Classic fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, General fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Suspense and thrillers, Legal stories
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption - the basis for the…
Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption - about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is now available for the first time as a standalone book.A mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate revenge.Originally published in 1982 in the collection Different Seasons (alongside "The Body," "Apt Pupil," and "The Breathing Method"), it was made into the film The Shawshank Redemption in 1994. Starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, this modern classic was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, is one of the most beloved films of all time and is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.
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Classic fiction
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A classic tour of the wild west In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the…
Wild West?and Roughing It is his hilarious record of his travels come to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales.
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Hemingway made his North American literary debut in 1925 with In Our Time, his first collection of short stories and…
vignettes. Widely praised at the time for what later would be considered the author’s hallmark style—uncomplicated, precise language with an eye for realism—the stories’ themes of alienation, loss, and grief continue the work Hemingway began earlier in his career. Includes two of his best-known Nick Adams stories: “Indian Camp” and “Big Two-Hearted River.”
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Classic fiction, Science fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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A radical new translation of the dystopian classic that influenced George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, introduced by Margaret Atwood.One State…
is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And Chief Engineer D-503 is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes to new ideas of love, sex, and freedom. A foundational work of dystopian fiction, inspiration for both Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, We is a book of radical imaginings--of control and rebellion, surveillance and power, machine intelligence and human inventiveness, sexuality and desire. It is both a warning and a hope for a better world. This new edition also includes Ursula K. Le Guin's essay "The Stalin in the Soul" on the enduring influence of Zamyatin's masterpiece, and George Orwell's 1946 review of We.
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The first new translation of The Plague to be published in the United States in more than seventy years, bringing the…
Nobel Prize winner's iconic novel ("A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair." —The Washington Post) to a new generation of readers.The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation, and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, as well as a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence. In this fresh yet careful translation, award-winning translator Laura Marris breathes new life into Albert Camus's ever-resonant tale. Restoring the restrained lyricism of the original French text, and liberating it from the archaisms and assumptions of the previous English translation, Marris grants English readers the closest access we have ever had to the meaning and searing beauty of The Plague. This updated edition promises to add relevance and urgency to a classic novel of twentieth-century literature.
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Classic fiction, Folklore, fables and fairy tales
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A magnificent and richly illustrated volume?with a groundbreaking translation framed by new commentary and hundreds of images—of the most famous…
story collection of all time. A cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector, and Angela Carter. Now, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of The Annotated Arabian Nights, the acclaimed literary historian Paulo Lemos Horta and the brilliant poet and translator Yasmine Seale present a splendid new selection of tales from the Nights, featuring treasured original stories as well as later additions including “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” and definitively bringing the Nights out of Victorian antiquarianism and into the twenty-first century. For centuries, readers have been haunted by the homicidal King Shahriyar, thrilled by gripping tales of Sinbad’s seafaring adventures, and held utterly, exquisitely captive by Shahrazad’s stories of passionate romances and otherworldly escapades. Yet for too long, the English-speaking world has relied on dated translations by Richard Burton, Edward Lane, and other nineteenth-century adventurers. Seale’s distinctly contemporary and lyrical translations break decisively with this masculine dynasty, finally stripping away the deliberate exoticism of Orientalist renderings while reclaiming the vitality and delight of the stories, as she works with equal skill in both Arabic and French. Included within are famous tales, from “The Story of Sinbad the Sailor” to “The Story of the Fisherman and the Jinni,” as well as lesser-known stories such as “The Story of Dalila the Crafty,” in which the cunning heroine takes readers into the everyday life of merchants and shopkeepers in a crowded metropolis, and “The Story of the Merchant and the Jinni,” an example of a ransom frame tale in which stories are exchanged to save a life. Grounded in the latest scholarship, The Annotated Arabian Nights also incorporates the Hanna Diyab stories, for centuries seen as French forgeries but now acknowledged, largely as a result of Horta’s pathbreaking research, as being firmly rooted in the Arabic narrative tradition. Horta not only takes us into the astonishing twists and turns of the stories’ evolution. He also offers comprehensive notes on just about everything readers need to know to appreciate the tales in context, and guides us through the origins of ghouls, jinn, and other supernatural elements that have always drawn in and delighted readers. Beautifully illustrated throughout with art from Europe and the Arab and Persian world, the latter often ignored in English-language editions, The Annotated Arabian Nights expands the visual dimensions of the stories, revealing how the Nights have always been—and still are—in dialogue with fine artists. With a poignant autobiographical foreword from best-selling novelist Omar El Akkad and an illuminating afterword on the Middle Eastern roots of Hanna Diyab’s tales from noted scholar Robert Irwin, Horta and Seale have created a stunning edition of the Arabian Nights that will enchant and inform both devoted and novice readers alike.
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Classic fiction, Serious and literary fiction, War stories
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This new edition celebrates the art and craft of the quintessential story of the Lost Generation. Presented by the Hemingway…
family with supplementary material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library, this edition provides readers with wonderful insight regarding Hemingway's first great literary masterpiece.The Sun Also Rises is a classic example of Hemingway's spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is "an absorbing, beautifully and tenderly absurd, heartbreaking narrative...a truly gripping story, told in lean, hard, athletic prose" (The New York Times). This new Hemingway Library Edition celebrates Hemingway's classic novel with a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, the author's sole surviving son, and a new introduction by Sean Hemingway, grandson of the author. Hemingway considered the extensive rewriting that he did to shape his first novel the most difficult job of his life. Early drafts, deleted passages, and possible titles included in this new edition elucidate how the author achieved his first great literary masterpiece.
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Emma Bovary is a bored housewife who indulges her romantic fantasies with a series of adulterous affairs. Charged with obscenity…
when first published, the novel became a literary scandal and a bestseller. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader's own interpretations Detailed explanatory notes Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A young woman challenges the conventions of her time in this classic novel about…
nineteenth-century English society. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations Detailed explanatory notes Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
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This darkly satiric indictment of the social ills of Victorian London tells the story of a young orphan who becomes…
involved with a gang of criminals. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that provides the book¼s historical context An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader's own interpretations Detailed explanatory notes Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader¼s experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world¼s finest books to their full potential.