Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Richard Scarry
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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Illus. in full color. Five funny tales featuring Lowly Worm, Huckle Cat, Bananas Gorilla, and the rest of Scarry’s memorable menagerie are collected in a sleepytime anthology.
Rating: (34 reviews)
Author: Melissa De La Cruz
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Book Description
Schuyler Van Alen wants an explanation for the mysterious deaths of young vampires. With her best friend, Oliver, Schuyler travels to Italy in the hope of finding the one man who can help–her grandfather. Meanwhile, back in New York, preparations [...]
Rating: (868 reviews)
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
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From the very start of its very first scene, The Amber Spyglass will set hearts fluttering and minds racing. All we’ll say here is that we immediately discover who captured Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife, though we’ve yet to [...]
Rating: (29 reviews)
Author: James Herriot
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
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James Herriot’s Treasury for Children collects all of the beloved veterinarian’s delightful tales for young readers. From the springtime frolic of Oscar, Cat-About-Town to the yuletide warmth of The Christmas Day Kitten, these stories-radiantly illustrated by Peter Barrett and Ruth Brown-are perennial favorites, [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Mike Mignola, Duncan Fegredo, Dave Stewart
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
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Hellboy has finally returned from his adventures at sea, but no sooner has he settled on land than a conclave of witches drags him from his respite and into the heart of Russian folklore, where he becomes the quarry [...]
Rating: (105 reviews)
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Publisher: Viking Adult
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Amazon Best of the Month, January 2008: One of the earliest Jewish religious volumes to be illuminated with images, the Sarajevo Haggadah survived centuries of purges and wars thanks to people of all faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Geraldine Brooks, the Pulitzer [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Ed Brubaker
Publisher: Marvel Comics
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The Winter Soldier held prisoner by the Red Skull! While Sharon and the Falcon race to his rescue, they’re about to cross paths with the Mighty Avenger that Tony Stark has sent hunting our rogue hero - The Black Widow! Will the Red Skull [...]
Rating: (56 reviews)
Author: Barbara Cooney
Publisher: Puffin
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
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Scoring high on the AP English Literature Exam is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about English literature—only the strategies and information you’ll need to get your highest score. In Cracking [...]
Rating: (207 reviews)
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher: Spectra
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An all-time science fiction classic, Rendezvous with Rama is also one of Clarke’s best novels–it won the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula Awards. A huge, mysterious, cylindrical object appears in space, swooping in toward the sun. The citizens of the solar system send a ship [...]
Author: Jane Green
Publisher: Viking Adult
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The perfect title for the perfect beach read from the New York Times bestselling AuthorJane Green is one of the preeminent authors of womens fiction today, and with each new novel, her audience grows. Greens avid and loyal fans follow her because she writes about the true-to-life dilemmas [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Brian Michael Bendis, Jeph Loeb, J. Michael Straczynski
Publisher: Marvel Comics
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The Fantastic Four’s leader, Reed Richards, has accidentally punched a hole into an adjacent universe in a desperate bid to gain the knowledge he needs to cure his friend Ben Grimm - The Thing. But something has come [...]
Author: Gary Russell
Publisher: Random House UK
Book Description
It’s the start of a Cardiff autumn - the days are getting shorter, the dark evenings settling in. There’s a part of Cardiff that no one goes to much. No crime, no murders, just… they stay away. A collection of old rundown houses and gloomy streets. Something’s [...]
Rating: (852 reviews)
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
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“She was homeschooling gone amok.” “She was an alien.” “Her parents were circus acrobats.” These are only a few of the theories concocted to explain Stargirl Caraway, a new 10th grader at Arizona’s Mica Area High School who wears pioneer dresses and [...]
Rating: (19 reviews)
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Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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Illus. in full color. Favorite Scarry animal characters introduce simple learning concepts and over 700 words.
Rating: (1237 reviews)
Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Del Rey
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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don’t put out fires–they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury’s vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal–a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge [...]
Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Tor Books
Book Description
Boxed Set contains Mass Market Editions of Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon
Ender’s GameWinner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train [...]
Rating: (341 reviews)
Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Book Description
In Hatchet, 13-year-old Brian Robeson learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed only with his hatchet. Finally, as millions of readers know, he was rescued at the end of the summer. But what if Brian hadn’t been rescued? What if he had [...]
Rating: (84 reviews)
Author: Cecily von Ziegesar
Publisher: Poppy
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Modern Library
Book Description
A handsome gift edition, this volume includes Dickens’s immortal Christmas favorite, A Christmas Carol. Complete with original illustrations, a selection of some of Dicken’s other Christmas stories, and an Introduction from John Irving, this book will make an ideal present for the holiday season.
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Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, George R. R. Martin, Octavia E. Butler, Jonathan Lethem, Orson Scott Card, Gene Wolfe, Jack McDevitt, Tobias S. Buckell
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Book Description
Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics
Book Description
A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, [...]
Rating: (101 reviews)
Author: Janet Schulman
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Believe it or not, 44 complete read-aloud classics and future classics–from Goodnight Moon to Stellaluna–are packed in this remarkably svelte, positively historic anthology. Flipping through the 308 pages of The 20th-Century Children’s Book Treasury is like browsing a photo album of beloved [...]
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: House of Joy Publishing
Product Description
For the first time together in the same book, Charles Dickens’ Christmas classics: A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist. PLUS! 11 other rare and wonderful Dickens Christmas books and short stories: A Christmas Tree, What Christmas is as We Grow Older, The Poor Relation’s Story, The [...]