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The Lovely Bones
By Alice Sebold
On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in...
Around the World in Eighty Days
By Jules Verne, Michael Glencross (Translator, Annotations), Brian W. Aldiss (Introduction)
"To go around the world...in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available, was not only impossible, it was madness"One ill-...
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens, Joe L. Wheeler (Contributor)
'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of...
The Last Battle
By C.S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes (Illustrations)
The last battle is the greatest battle of all. Narnia... where lies breed fear... where loyalty is tested... where all hope seems lost. During the...
Journey to the Center of the Earth
By Jules Verne
The intrepid Professor Liedenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to...
The Cider House Rules
By John Irving
It has been said before, and it shall be said 1,000 times again: John Irving is the American Dickens. Rich in characterization, epic in scope, The...
Everything Is Illuminated
By Jonathan Safran Foer
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his...
The Silmarillion
By J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor), Ted Nasmith (Illustrator)
The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back and...
The Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger
The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that...
A Brief History of Time
By Stephen Hawking
In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than...