Author: Michael Scott
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Tag Archives: World Literature
The Sorceress (Secrets Imrtl Nicholas Flamel)
November 27, 2008 – 5:12 am
Night World No. 2: Dark Angel; The Chosen; Soulmate (Night World)
November 20, 2008 – 2:43 am
Author: L.J. Smith
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Product Description
Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters — they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World.In Dark Angel, Gillian is saved from drowning by her guardian angel. [...]
Frankenstein Takes the Cake
October 18, 2008 – 12:53 pm
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Adam Rex
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
Product Description
No one ever said it was easy being a monster. Take Frankenstein, for instance: He just wants to marry his undead bride in peace, but his best man, Dracula, is freaking out about the garlic bread. Then there’s the Headless Horseman, who wishes [...]
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: Book 5: The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
October 12, 2008 – 10:45 am
Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Disney Hyperion Books for Children
Product Description
The prophecy surrounding Percy’s 16th birthday will be revealed in this final book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series…
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3)
October 5, 2008 – 9:25 pm
Rating: (91 reviews)
Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Product Description
When Percy Jackson receives an urgent distress call from his friend Grover, he immediately prepares for battle. He knows he’ll need his powerful demigod allies, Annabeth and Thalia, at his side; his trusty bronze sword, Riptide; and . . . a ride from [...]
The Broom of the System
October 5, 2008 – 11:33 am
Rating: (44 reviews)
Author: David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Product Description
Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year [...]
The House on Mango Street
August 20, 2008 – 7:38 am
Rating: (602 reviews)
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Publisher: Vintage
Product Description
Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros’s greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught [...]
Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon
August 5, 2008 – 9:54 pm
Author: Melissa Anelli
Publisher: Pocket
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Product Description: ***Featuring a Foreward by J.K. Rowling***
The Harry Potter Books Were Just the Beginning of the Story. . .
During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary people made history: they became the only ones who would remember what [...]
The Plague of Doves: A Novel
August 5, 2008 – 1:10 pm
Rating: (28 reviews)
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper
Product Description
Louise Erdrich’s mesmerizing new novel, her first in almost three years, centers on a compelling mystery. The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of [...]
Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths
June 21, 2008 – 5:32 am
Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Bernard Evslin
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Product Description
The earth breeds giants and ogres of indescribable horror — the heavens hold omnipotent gods and goddesses, abounding in courage, strength and wisdom.
Zeus, the almighty king of the gods, who cannot resist feminine beauty — mortal or divine, and his jealous and vengeful wife, [...]
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
May 29, 2008 – 6:53 am
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc.
Book Description
This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Twain’s language, allusions, and deliberate misstatements and malapropisms. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain’s sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, became [...]
Jane Austen: The Complete Novels
May 5, 2008 – 12:59 am
Rating: (41 reviews)
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Gramercy
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Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of [...]
Favorite Jane Austen Novels: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion (Dover Thrift Editions)
April 27, 2008 – 2:22 pm
Rating: (23 reviews)
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Dover Publications
Product Description
Three of the author’s most popular works — widely admired for their satiric wit, subtlety, and perfection of style — brilliantly re-create the provincial world of the early-19th-century English countryside, focusing, respectively, on husband-hunting mothers and daughters, the humbling of proud lovers, and the [...]