The powerful Kzin warriors' plans for galactic domination under feline control are turned upside down by the cunning and pesky humans, but the Kzin have come up with a new scheme to achieve their goal
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Here’s Paddington once more, just returned from a visit to Darkest Peru and his Aunt Lucy’s birthday celebration at the Home for Retired Bears. Now that Paddington is home with the Browns, he’s free t
Rule #1: There are no rules Just when you think you've got everything figured out for yourself, things get turned upside down. Families change. Lives end. New lives begin. And love sneaks up on you
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Except for minor modifications, this monograph represents the lecture notes of a course I gave at UCLA during the winter and spring quarters of 1991. My purpose in the course was to present the necess
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Skeeve, the gifted young court magician, joins forces with a scaley but clever Pervect, and a charming demon thief to obtain a trophy for the beautiful Tanda in Myth Directions, while in Hit or Myth,
When the Alden children help the curator of the Greenfield Museum set up a traveling exhibit of ancient Egyptian artifacts, the display seems to be undergoing a run of bad luck and the children wonder
For archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her family, the allure of Egypt remains as powerful as ever, even in this tense time of World War. But nowhere in this desert land is safe -- especially for Ameli
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The hero of Walter Kirn's novel Up in the Air inhabits an entirely new state: Airworld, where the hometown paper is USA Today, the indigenous cuisine wilts under heat lamps, and the citizenry speaks a
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I can't say anything new or particularly insightful about Jane Eyre. I wouldn't like to guess how many 'O' and 'A' level essays have been written about, how many dissertations sweated over, how many r
Award-winning author of The Angels Will Not CareP.I. Cecil Younger works out of Sitka, Alaska, a land of perfect beauty and not-so-perfect lives, where there is nothing more dangerous than an unsolved
A look into the corruption, greed, and betrayal that lurks underneath the bright lights of Las Vegas details the shocking murder of fifty-five-year old Vegas casino boss Ted Binion, who had a penchant
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This book deals with 2140 essential English words. Each word is used in a communicative unit and highlighted in bold face. The reader is supposed to guess the meaning of each word by investigating the
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Years after her short-lived teenage marriage to Luke Hanson ends in divorce, Nelda Hanson, a successful Chicago designer, returns to her Iowa hometown to sell the family farm and comes face to face wi
Random House is thrilled to be bringing Eloise Wilkin's Poems to Read to the Very Young back in print. Wilkin's beloved illustrations capture the poetry of childhood, and bring out the magic of over 3
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Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change her warm, familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her g
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A scholarly, shy member of the rabbit-like Montmers, Perloo is content sipping myrtle tea and reading his history books in his warm burrow. Until the day Perloo's quiet life is interrupted by a myste
The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, h
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Caroline Fremont Jones revels in her return to San Francisco, where a new city rises from the ruins of the 1906 earthquake. Even more rewarding is her business partnership and rekindled love with ex-s
A man lies dead, sprawled in the bedroom of apartment #8.??Rock music blares as two militiamen follow the bloody trail upstairs. . . and into the quick, cold slice of a razor-edged blade.The victim wa
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Though famine holds her beloved Ireland in its deadly grip, young, innocent Kitty Rooney is a survivor.??An exotic gypsy lass with cascading curls of ebony silk and eyes of brown velvet, Kitty vows th
George and the man with the yellow hat enjoy watching the winter sports competition. When they stop to warm up with some cocoa, George's curiosity about the racing equipment leads to some wild rides u
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