Tag Archives: Short Stories

Richard Scarry’s Bedtime Stories (Pictureback(R))

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Richard Scarry
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Product Description
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.  

Masquerade (A Blue Bloods Novel) (Blue Blood Novels)

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 [...]

The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3)

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 [...]

James Herriot’s Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small

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, [...]

Hellboy Volume 8: Darkness Calls (Hellboy (Graphic Novels)) (Hellboy (Graphic Novels))

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 [...]

People of the Book: A Novel

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 [...]

The Death of Captain America, Vol. 2

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 [...]

Miss Rumphius

Rating: (56 reviews)
Author: Barbara Cooney
Publisher: Puffin

Cracking the AP English Literature Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep)

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 [...]

Rendezvous with Rama

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 [...]

The Beach House

Author: Jane Green
Publisher: Viking Adult

Product Description
The perfect title for the perfect beach read from the New York Times bestselling AuthorJane Green is one of the preeminent authors of women’s fiction today, and with each new novel, her audience grows. Green’s avid and loyal fans follow her because she writes about the true-to-life dilemmas [...]

Ultimate Power (Marvel Comics)

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 [...]

The Twilight Streets (Torchwood)

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 [...]

Stargirl (Readers Circle)

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 [...]

Richard Scarry’s Best First Book Ever!

Rating: (19 reviews)
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Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Book Description
Illus. in full color. Favorite Scarry animal characters introduce simple learning concepts and over 700 words.

Fahrenheit 451

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 [...]

Ender’s Game Boxed Set: Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon

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 [...]

Brian’s Winter

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 [...]

Gossip Girl: Because I’m Worth It

Rating: (84 reviews)
Author: Cecily von Ziegesar
Publisher: Poppy

A Christmas Carol and Other Stories (Modern Library)

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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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

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 [...]

A Christmas Carol, The Chimes & The Cricket on the Hearth (Barnes & Noble Classi (Barnes & Noble Classics)

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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, [...]

The 20th-Century Children’s Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud

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 [...]

Charles Dickens Classic Christmas Collection: A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist, Plus Eleven More Dickens Christmas Classics

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: House of Joy Publishing

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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 [...]