ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIPA collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century.THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A chronology of the author's life a...more
From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family--and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art. Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, writes of Byatt: "When it comes to probing characters her...more
First published in 1926, this book is Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and oddly prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of happiness and the sanctity of the hearth.
Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he's hearing the private thoughts of the people around him--and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know. But as Tom's existence becomes a waking nightmare, greater jolts are in store when he becomes the unwilling recipient o...more
While young orphan Peter and his friends are sent away to an island ruled by the villainous King Zarboff and are forced to set sail aboard the Never Land, Peter decides he must take action into his own hands if he ever plans to escape and so decides to find out the mystery behind the cargo being carried deep within the ship. Reprint.
Jasper Fforde returns to BookWorld in this New York Times bestselling installment of his Thursday Next series Jasper Fforde has thrilled readers everywhere with his gloriously outlandish novels in the Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series. Now, after a two-year hiatus, the demand for Thursday Next has more than tripled. And with Thursday Next: Fir...more
Successful New York artist Mignon Thibeaux has returned to her hometown in northern Louisiana to investigate her mothers disappearance 25 years ago. Everyone believes Mignons mother ran off with her married lover, Luc St. Michel, one of the richest and most powerful men in the parish and a descendant of a long line of wealthy plantation owners, but...more
Everyone knows Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, as the king of workplace humor. But why should a humorist stick to the workplace when there are so many other great subjects to explore? Despite some fans who wish he would a oeStick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!a Adams now offers more than 150 short pieces on every slice of human existence, fr...more
The passing remarks of an elderly lady to a police detective about the facility of murder lead Scotland Yard to suspect the woman of such a crime, until her body is discovered along with two others. Reprint.
Andy Carpenter gains possession of an adorable Bernese puppy whose owner was brutally murdered. Few can rival Andy's affection for dogs, and he will do whatever it takes to insure that this little pup doesn't fall into the wrong hands. However, his playful new friend is valued by several people, many of whom are willing to resort to violence to g...more
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