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The Hope (The Hope and the Glory, #1)
Herman Wouk is one of this century's great historical novelists, whose peerless talent for capturing the human drama of landmark world events has earned him worldwide acclaim. In The Hope, his long-aw…
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The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
In this "briskly entertaining" ( New York Times Book Review ), "transporting and wholly original" ( People Magazine ) novel, one man banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is sa…
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Benito Cereno (Bedford College Editions)
On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvious distress. Capt. Delano boards the San Dominick, providing…
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The Histories
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history.
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The Pit and the Pendulum
Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories.
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We enter the mind of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition. The dank prison room is without light and he begins to feel hi… -
Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)
Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed he…
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The Litigators
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The Thorn Birds
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Silent Night
Mary Higgins Clark, the "Queen of Suspense," has crafted a very special holiday story about a child's courage in the face of danger, and the power of love. Charged with menace and thrilling suspense, …
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The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New Y…
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Marjorie Morningstar is a love story. It presents one of the greatest characters in modern Marjorie, the pretty 17-year-old who left the respectability of New York's Central Park West to join the thea…
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A Single Thread
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many…
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An Old-Fashioned Girl
It was first serialised in the Merry's Museum magazine between July and August in 1869 and consisted of only six chapters. For the finished product, however, Alcott continued the story from the chapte…
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La amortajada
Envuelta en cierta nostalgia, Ana María rememorará el amor, el desencuentro, la vida, desde el lecho de su muerte.
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Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young and reckless mistress of End House, an imposing structure perched on the rocky cliffs of St. Loo.
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The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)
A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the u…
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