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The Key to the Indian (An Avon Camelot Book)

Lynne Reid Banks

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He felt a draft of cold air. Instinctively he put his arms around his body. Then he looked down at himself and got a shock. He was naked...His first instinct was to hid. he scrambled over the earth floor of the longhouse and ducked under the curtain. Beyond was deeper darkness, but he could make out a sort of room with a raised section against the ...more

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All Editions	The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, No. 1) Gertrude Chandler Warner (59 reviews ) Description One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny were orphans--Boxcar Children--looking for a place to live, determined to make it on their own. Popular Tags: fiction - children fiction - children
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Judith Viorst

(90 reviews )

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Alexander knew it was going to be a terrible day when he woke up with gum in this hair. And it got worse... His best friend deserted him. There was no dessert in his lunch bag. And, on top of all that, there were lima beans for dinner and kissing on TV! This handsome new edition of Judith Viorst's classic picture book is sure to charm readers of al...more

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Oedipus (Drama Classics)

Sophocles

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The great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex. King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that Jocasta, his wife, is also his mother.

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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Trilogy)

Douglas Adams

(196 reviews )

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"DOUGLAS ADAMS IS A TERRIFIC SATIRIST."--The Washington Post Book WorldFacing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability--and desperately in search ...more

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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Day One) (Kingkiller Chronicles)

Patrick Rothfuss

(102 reviews )

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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, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a...more

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Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, Book 11)

Robert Jordan

(132 reviews )

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The Wheel of Time turns, and Robert Jordan gives us the eleventh volume of his extraordinary masterwork of fantasy.The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable: All are signs of the imminence of Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, when Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must confront the ...more

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All Editions	The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, Book 3) Robert Jordan (118 reviews ) Description In book three of the Wheel of Time series, The Dragon Reborn is the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it. The savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him is on the run from his destiny.
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Lord of Chaos (The Wheel of Time, Book 6)

Robert Jordan

(113 reviews )

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In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Fires of Heaven, we plunge again into Robert Jordan's extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world:On the slopes of Shayol Ghul, the Myrddraal swords are forged, and the sky is not the sky of this world;In Salidar the White Tower in exile prepares an embassy to Caemlyn, where Rand ...more

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The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, Book 1)

Robert Jordan

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The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.