Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England. Branded by Twain's aptitude for broad comedy and biting social satire, t
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Inspired by Anderson's Midwestern boyhood and his adulthood in early 20th-century Chicago, this volume gave birth to the American story cycle, for which Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and later writer
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Incorporating more than 5,000 new entries, this updated version of the world-famous guide to synonyms and antonyms presents thousands of easy-to-read entries in alphabetical order for easy access and
Faustus, a brilliant scholar, sells his soul to the devil in exchange for limitless knowledge and powerful black magic, yet remains unfulfilled. He considers repenting, but remains too proud to ask G
The road has just gotten tougher and a lot more personal for Miami attorney Gail Connor: someone is stalking her 11-year-old daughter, Karen. This suspenseful novel places Connor in an impossible posi
When a seventeen-year-old model claims she was raped in the VIP room of a South Beach nightclub by three high-profile men, it's up to Sam Hagen, head of Major Crimes for Dade County, to decide if they
Luigi Pirandello is widely regarded as one of the foremost innovators in twentieth-century theatre. Six Characters in Search of an Author caused a riot when it was first produced in Rome in 1921 and w
Read by children as an adventure story and by adults as a devastating satire of society, Gulliver and his four journeys make for a fascinating blend of travelogue, realism, symbolism, and fantastic vo
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Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from the big questions of her life-the emotional distance in her marriage, her inability to have children, and her bout with cancer. Getting lost in her high powered
The White Council of Wizards has drafted Harry Dresden as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in Chicago. Malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in the Windy City, bu
Jade Falcon Galaxy Commander Malvina Hazen and her warriors on the planet Skye receive a visit from a Hell's Horses ship, whose commander issues a Trial of Possession for the wartime doctrine he claim
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Haley Lambert has moved back to her Kansas City childhood home to care for her orphaned niece, Molly-and to find the monster who murdered her own sister. Molly may have witnessed her mother's murder,
In Markham's latest winning romance, rising actress Clara McCallum has just landed the part of her dreams, starring in a WWII film as a woman in love with a doomed soldier named Jed Landry. Unfortunat
Living a dangerous, hand-to-mouth existence, young runaway Hal Kailas is obsessed with his memories of bonding with a young dragon, an experience that could play a profound role in a war in which the
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New York Times bestselling author Carly Phillips reunites two long-ago lovers for a bittersweet holiday reunion. But what will it take for them to forget the past, and warm up to the scintillating pro
"A natural source of stories...she is, and is to be, the poet of children." --Ralph Waldo EmersonAt Plumfield, an experimental school for boys, the little scholars can do very much as they please, eve
Determined to restore his family's name with his newfound wealth, Gideon Harwood, while searching for his missing brother, stumbles upon a dangerous scandal involving one of the ton's most respected a
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In his youth Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West, working in a variety of professions. This is a record, fact and impression, of those early years.
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Edward Bellamy's utopian novel about a nineteenth-century Bostonian who awakes after a sleep of more than one hundred years to find himself in the year 2000 in a world of near-perfect cooperation, har
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Pennsylvania Dutch Inn owner Magdalena Yoder returns in the tenth book in the mouthwatering series... When an imprisoned con man meets his Maker after sampling a bowl of gruel laced with arsenic, it'
David Gale, a Texas professor and advocate for the elimination of the death penalty, is falsely accused of the rape and murder of a fellow activist. He relates his story via flashbacks to a reporter v
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