Chiveis Trilogy (3 Book Set)
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June 18, 2012 Chiveis Trilogy

The Complete Chiveis Trilogy

Four hundred years from now a deadly virus and nuclear war have destroyed the modern world. Those who survived have returned to a medieval-like age of swords, horses, and feudal kingdoms. Yet the breathtaking mountain realm of Chiveis lives in peace, protected from the outside empires and obedient to its own gods.

But when Teo, an army scout, and Ana, the beautiful daughter of a farmer, discover an ancient book, everything begins to change in Chiveis—old beliefs give way to new faith, persecution rises, and the kingdom’s darkest secrets begin to surface.

Journey with Teo and Ana as they discover a faith that was all-but forgotten—and see for yourself how the truth can set you free.

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  • Paperback: 1248 pages
  • Publisher: Crossway (June 18, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1433533731
  • ISBN-13: 978-1433533730
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 3.1 x 9 inches
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True Devotion (Uncommon Heroes, Book 1)
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October 19, 2005
Kelly Jacobs has already paid the ultimate price of loving a warrior; she has the folded flag and the grateful thanks of a nation to prove it. Navy SEAL Joe “Bear” Baker can't ask her to accept that risk again—even though he loves her. But the man responsible for her husband's death is back; closer than either of them realize. Kelly is in danger, and Joe may not get there in time.
Uncommon Heroes: Welcome to a world where friendships go deep, loyalties stand strong, and uncommon heroes perform the toughest jobs in the world. Dee Henderson's military romance series provides a detailed passage into the world of the military and homeland heroes, and those they love.
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.; Later Printing edition (October 19, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1414310625
  • ISBN-13: 978-1414310626
  • Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.9 x 8.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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Second Touch (A. D. Chronicles, Book 2)Second Touch (A. D. Chronicles, Book 2)
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The Edge of Sadness (Loyola Classics)The Edge of Sadness (Loyola Classics)
Publication Date: September 15, 2005| Series: Loyola Classics “A realistic Christian novel of hope in a non-Christian age.”—NewEngland Quarterly“A deeply felt and eloquently expressed work . . . A quiet, gentlenovel of considerable insight and charm . . .”—Library Journal“O’Connor succeeds in delineating poignantly the overwhelming spiritualstorms of the soul which assail the conscientious clergyman.”—The ChristianCentury Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction In this moving novel, Father Hugh Kennedy, a recove...
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Miracle of the Scarlet Thread: Revealing the Power of the Blood of Jesus from Genesis to Revelation
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Miracle of the Scarlet Thread: Revealing the Power of the Blood of Jesus from Genesis to Revelation:

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April 1, 2008

It is the story of the blood of Jesus through the entire Bible. It is about why Jesus had to be crucified, shed His blood and be raised from the dead, and what it all means to you.

The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread explains in easy-to-understand, reader-friendly language, the central story of the Bible. It makes the complexities of the Bible simple. It connects Bible stories and shows how the Old Testament and New Testament fit together, telling in one complete story, the wonderful promise God has made to mankind.

Dr. Richard Booker has years of study and experience, in preparation of this incredible book. Thousands have come to a clearer understanding of God and the Bible by reading The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread.

If you want to understand the Bible, you have to read this book first!

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  • Paperback: 220 pages
  • Publisher: Destiny Image (April 1, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0768426464
  • ISBN-13: 978-0768426465
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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The Edge of Sadness (Loyola Classics)The Edge of Sadness (Loyola Classics)
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The Heart's Journey: Stitches in Time Series #2The Heart's Journey: Stitches in Time Series #2
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The Keys of the Kingdom (Loyola Classics)
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The Keys of the Kingdom (Loyola Classics): A. J. Cronin,Amy Welborn,Joseph Bottum: 9780829423341: Am

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August 1, 2006 Loyola Classics

 

A magnificent story of the great adventure of individual goodness.”
TheNew York Times Book Review

“Cronin is a first-rate literary craftsman with an honest love ofsimple humanity.”
Time magazine

“Full of life and people and color.”
Harper’sMagazine
 
Francis Chisholm is a compassionate and humble priest whose individualityand directness make him unpopular with other clergy. Considered a failure by hissuperiors, he is sent to China to maintain a mission amid desperate poverty,civil war, plague, and the hostility of his superiors. In the face of thisconstant danger and hardship, Father Chisholm finds the keys to the kingdom ofheaven. Recognized as A. J. Cronin’s best novel, The Keys of the Kingdomis an enthralling, fast-moving, colorful tale of a deeply spiritual mancalled to do good in an imperfect world.
 
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Loyola Classics; First Edition, First edition (August 1, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0829423346
  • ISBN-13: 978-0829423341
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 1.2 inches
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One Tuesday Morning/Beyond Tuesday Morning (September 11 Series 1-2)One Tuesday Morning/Beyond Tuesday Morning (September 11 Series 1-2)
Release Date: July 25, 2006Based on the tragedy of the Twin Towers ... two powerful novels of heroism, loss, and redemption by New York Times bestselling author Karen KingsburyONE TUESDAY MORNINGThe last thing Jake Bryan knew was the sound of the World Trade Center collapsing on top of him and his fellow firefighters. The man in the hospital bed remembers nothing. Not rushing with his teammates up the stairway of the south tower to help trapped victims. Not being blasted from the building. And not the woman sitting by his bedside who says she is his wife.Jamie Bryan will do anything to help ...
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Second Touch (A. D. Chronicles, Book 2)Second Touch (A. D. Chronicles, Book 2)
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The Heart's Journey: Stitches in Time Series #2The Heart's Journey: Stitches in Time Series #2
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The Stars Shine Bright (A Raleigh Harmon Novel)The Stars Shine Bright (A Raleigh Harmon Novel)
Publication Date: July 17, 2012| Series: A Raleigh Harmon Novel After the FBI suspends her for bending its rules, Special Agent Raleigh Harmon is looking for a chance to redeem her career and re-start her life. Sent undercover to a thoroughbred horse track, Raleigh takes on a double life to find out who’s fixing the races. But when horses start dying and then her own life is threatened, Raleigh realizes something bigger—and more sinister—is ruining Emerald Meadows. She’s never felt more alone. Her one contact with the FBI is Special Agent Jack Stephanson, a guy wh...
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Golfing with God: A Novel of Heaven and EarthGolfing with God: A Novel of Heaven and Earth
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The Irrational Season (The Crosswicks Journal, Book 3)The Irrational Season (The Crosswicks Journal, Book 3)
Release Date: January 1, 1984| Series: The Crosswicks Journal , No 3 This journal follows the church year from Advent to Advent, reflecting on its seasons and spiritual rhythms reflected in the life of the church and the author's own life. ...
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Hidden Places: A NovelHidden Places: A Novel
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Jenna's Cowboy: A Novel (The Callahans of Texas)Jenna's Cowboy: A Novel (The Callahans of Texas)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Series: The Callahans of Texas (Book 1) Jenna Callahan has a young son and rewarding work on her father's ranch. She's content. But she never expected to see Nate Langley back in town--the first guy she noticed, the one her father sent away all those years ago. And she never thought the attraction they felt would be as strong as ever. Jenna's cowboy has some healing of his own to do, though, after two tours of duty in the armed forces. With the help of good friends, strong faith, and a loving family, he hopes to put the horrors of the past behind him--and b...
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Forgiven (Sisters of the Heart, Book 3)Forgiven (Sisters of the Heart, Book 3)
Release Date: August 11, 2009| Series: Sisters of the Heart (Book 3)Tragedy strikes­—a brother and sister find themselves facing a situation that will shape the rest of their lives. When a fire destroys the Lundys' barn, Winnie is injured trying to get the animals to safety. Confined to a hospital for weeks, out of touch with her loved ones who live too far away to visit by buggy, she must depend on Englisher Samuel Miller to keep her company. Though his family is part of Winnie's tight-knit Amish community, Samuel left years earlier to pursue a university education. Through c...
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Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
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Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold: C.S. Lewis,Fritz Eichenberg: 9780156904360: Amazon.com: Books

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July 9, 1980
“I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let usanswer . . . Why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? Howcan they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
Hauntedby the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C.S. Lewis wrotethis, his last, extraordinary novel, to retell their story through thegaze of Psyche’s sister, Orual. Disfigured and embittered, Orual lovesher younger sister to a fault and suffers deeply when she is sent awayto Cupid, the God of the Mountain. Psyche is forbidden to look upon thegod’s face, but is persuaded by her sister to do so; she is banished forher betrayal. Orual is left alone to grow in power but never in love,to wonder at the silence of the gods. Only at the end of her life, invisions of her lost beloved sister, will she hear an answer.
"Till We Have Facessucceeds in presenting with imaginative directness what its author hasdescribed elsewhere as ‘the divine, magical, terrifying and ecstaticreality in which we all live’ . . . [It] deepens for adults that senseof wonder and strange truth which delights children in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and other legends of Narnia." —New York Times
"The most significant and triumphant work that Lewis has . . . produced." —New York Herald Tribune
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  • ISBN-13: 978-0156904360
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The RedeemerThe Redeemer
Publication Date: October 1, 2009OVER 9 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE. ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN. TO KILL...It is a freezing December night and Christmas shoppers have gathered to listen to a Salvation Army carol concert. Then a shot rings out and one of the singers falls to the floor, dead. Detective Harry Hole and his team are called in to investigate but have little to work with - there is no immediate suspect, no weapon and no motive. But when the assassin discovers he's shot the wrong man, Harry finds his troubles have only just begun. ...
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The St. Zita Society: A NovelThe St. Zita Society: A Novel
Release Date: August 14, 2012From three-time Edgar Award–winning mystery writer Ruth Rendell comes a captivating and expertly plotted tale of residents and servants on one block of a posh London street—and the deadly ways their lives intertwine.Life for the residents and servants of Hexam Place appears placid and orderly on the outside: drivers take their employers to and from work, dogs are walked, flowers are planted in gardens, and Christmas candles lit uniformly in windows. But beneath this tranquil veneer, the upstairs-downstairs relationships are set to combust.Henry, the h...
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The Long EarthThe Long Earth
Release Date: June 19, 2012 The possibilities are endless. (Just be careful what you wish for. . . .) 1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive—some say mad, others allege dangerous—scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through the wreckage, Jansson find a curi...
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The Old Man and The SeaThe Old Man and The Sea
Release Date: May 5, 1995The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1...
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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High AdventureThe Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
Publication Date: October 8, 2007William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is a simple, exceptional story about quests—for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love—that's thrilling and timeless.   Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it impossible—inconceivable, even—to equate The Princess Bride with anything other than the sweet, celluloid romance of Westley and Buttercup, but the film is only a fraction of the ingenious storytelling you'll find in these pages. Rich in character and satire, the novel is set in 1941 and framed cleverly as an “...
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Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 3, 2004| Series: Penguin Classics Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda,...
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Bless Me, UltimaBless Me, Ultima
Publication Date: April 1, 1999Stories filled with wonder and the haunting beauty of his culture have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English, and his tales fairly shimmer with the lyric richness of his prose. Acclaimed in both Spanish and English, Anaya is perhaps best loved for his classic bestseller ... Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will test the bonds that tie him to his people, and discover himself in the pagan past, in...
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The Elegance of the HedgehogThe Elegance of the Hedgehog
Release Date: September 2, 2008Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society's expectations of what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renee: passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives. Down in her lodge, apart from weekly visits by her one friend Manu...
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Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of DataInformation Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0596100167 | ISBN-13: 978-0596100162| Edition: 1 Dashboards have become popular in recent years as uniquely powerful tools for communicating important information at a glance. Although dashboards are potentially powerful, this potential is rarely realized. The greatest display technology in the world won't solve this if you fail to use effective visual design. And if a dashboard fails to tell you precisely what you need to know in an instant, you'll never use it, even if it's filled with cute gauges, meters, and traffic lights. Don't let your i...
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The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Penguin Classics)The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 29, 2006| ISBN-10: 0143039679 | ISBN-13: 978-0143039679A sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe of deities and demons, The Ramayana is familiar to virtually every Indian. Although the Sanskrit original was composed by Valmiki around the fourth century BC, poets have produced countless versions in different languages. Here, drawing on the work of an eleventh-century poet called Kamban, Narayan employs the skills of a master novelist to re-create the excitement he found in the original. A luminous saga made accessible to new generati...
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The Remains of the Day
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September 12, 1990
The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving “a great gentleman.” But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s “greatness” and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served. 
A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.
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  • Publisher: Vintage International; 1st edition (September 12, 1990)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0679731725
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679731726
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Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: January 16, 2003| Series: Dover Thrift Editions An orphan girl's progress from the custody of cruel relatives to an oppressive boarding school culminates in a troubled career as a governess. Jane's first assignment at Thornfield, where the proud and cynical master harbors a scandalous secret, draws readers ever deeper into a compelling exploration of the mysteries of the human heart. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. ...
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The Elegance of the HedgehogThe Elegance of the Hedgehog
Release Date: September 2, 2008Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society's expectations of what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renee: passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives. Down in her lodge, apart from weekly visits by her one friend Manu...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Dover Thrift Editions)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: January 27, 1998| ISBN-10: 0486400778 | ISBN-13: 978-0486400778This childhood classic relates a small-town boy's pranks and escapades with timeless humor and wisdom. In addition to his everyday stunts (searching for buried treasure, trying to impress the adored Becky Thatcher), Tom experiences a dramatic turn of events when he witnesses a murder, runs away, and returns to attend his own funeral and testify in court. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. ...
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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High AdventureThe Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
Publication Date: October 8, 2007William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is a simple, exceptional story about quests—for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love—that's thrilling and timeless.   Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it impossible—inconceivable, even—to equate The Princess Bride with anything other than the sweet, celluloid romance of Westley and Buttercup, but the film is only a fraction of the ingenious storytelling you'll find in these pages. Rich in character and satire, the novel is set in 1941 and framed cleverly as an “...
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The Education of Little TreeThe Education of Little Tree
Publication Date: August 31, 2001The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression.“Little Tree” as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains, to respect nature in the Cherokee Way, taking only what is needed, leaving the rest for nature to run its course.Little Tree also learns the often callous ways of white businessmen and tax collectors, and how Granpa, in hilarious vignettes, scares them ...
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Never Let Me GoNever Let Me Go
Release Date: March 14, 2006From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just ...
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The HobbitThe Hobbit
Release Date: July 12, 1986THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIMEBilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band of homeless dwarves. Soon Bilbo was drawn into their quest, facing evil orcs, savage wolves, giant spiders, and worse unknown dangers. Finally, it was Bilbo–alone and unaided–who had to confront the great dragon Smaug, the terror of an entire countryside . . .This stirring adventure fantasy begins the tale of the hobbits that was continued by J.R.R. Tolkien in his bestselling epic The Lord of the Rin...
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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two ActsWaiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Publication Date: January 18, 1994| ISBN-10: 0802130348 | ISBN-13: 978-0802130341A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett’s first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a co...
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Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery)Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery)
Release Date: December 14, 2004| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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Frankenstein (Second Edition)(Norton Critical Editions)Frankenstein (Second Edition)(Norton Critical Editions)
Publication Date: February 29, 2012| ISBN-10: 0393927938 | ISBN-13: 978-0393927931| Edition: Second Edition The best-selling student edition on the market, now available in a Second Edition.Almost two centuries after its publication, Frankenstein remains an indisputably classic text and Mary Shelley’s finest work.This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein and its author. The text is that of the 1818 first edition, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Har...
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Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)
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November 1, 2003 0743262174 978-0743262170 First Edition
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."

The most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948, Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, "We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony."

Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.

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  • Paperback: 316 pages
  • Publisher: Scribner; First Edition edition (November 1, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0743262174
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743262170
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The Crimson Petal and the WhiteThe Crimson Petal and the White
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Series: Harvest Book At the heart of this panoramic, multidimensional narrative is the compelling struggle of a young woman to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Faber leads us back to 1870s London, where Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, yearns for escape to a better life. Her ascent through the strata of Victorian society offers us intimacy with a host of lovable, maddening, unforgettable characters. They begin with William Rackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose ambition is fueled by his lust ...
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The Poisonwood Bible: A NovelThe Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
Release Date: June 10, 2008 The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa....
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The Catcher in the RyeThe Catcher in the Rye
Publication Date: May 1, 1991Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. 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 tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself...
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A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
Release Date: November 30, 2001With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain futur...
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)
Release Date: October 5, 2007In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again. ...
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Before I Go to Sleep: A NovelBefore I Go to Sleep: A Novel
Release Date: February 7, 2012 Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love—all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may be telling you only half the story. Welcome to Christine’s life....
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Norwegian WoodNorwegian Wood
Release Date: September 12, 2000First American PublicationThis stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time.  It is sure to be a literary event.Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before.  Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the lonelin...
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The Awakening (Classic Reprint)The Awakening (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: July 22, 2012Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That sail right! He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, un less it was the mocking-bird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence. Mr. Pontellier, unable to read his news-( paper with any degree of comfort, arose with an expression and an exclamation of disgust. He walked down the gallery and across the narrow bridges which connected the Lebrun cottages one with the other. He had been seated before the door of th...
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The White Tiger: A NovelThe White Tiger: A Novel
Release Date: October 14, 2008The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. On the occasion of the president of China’s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society. The White Tiger recalls The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, and narrative...
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Nervous Conditions [Import]Nervous Conditions [Import]
Publication Date: October 10, 2004| ISBN-10: 0954702336 | ISBN-13: 978-0954702335| Edition: Second edition Dangaremba s acclaimed first novel tells of the coming-of-age of Tambu, and through her, also offers a profound portrait of African society. In awarding Nervous Conditions the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa in 1989, the judges described the book as a beautiful and sensitive exploration of the plight and struggle of an African people.... A distinguishing feature of this work is its courageous honesty and devastating understatement. ...
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The Twelve Clues of Christmas (A Royal Spyness Mystery)
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November 6, 2012 A Royal Spyness Mystery
She may be thirty-fifth in line for the throne, but Lady Georgiana Rannoch cannot wait to ring in the new year—before a Christmas killer wrings another neck…

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me—well, actually, my true love, Darcy O’Mara, is spending a feliz navidad tramping around South America. Meanwhile, Mummy is holed up in a tiny village called Tiddleton-under-Lovey with that droll Noel Coward! And I’m snowed in at Castle Rannoch with my bumbling brother, Binky, and sourpuss sister-in-law, Fig.
So it’s a miracle when I contrive to land a position as hostess to a posh holiday party in Tiddleton. The village is like something out of A Christmas Carol! But no sooner have I arrived than a neighborhood nuisance, a fellow named Freddie falls out of a tree, dead…. Dickensian, indeed.
Freddie’s merely a stocking stuffer. On my second day in town, another so-called accident turns up another mincemeat pie—and yet another on my third. The village is buzzing that a recent prison break could have something to do with it… that, or a long-standing witch’s curse. I’m not so sure. But after Darcy shows up beneath the mistletoe, anything could be possible in this wicked wonderland.  
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Gilgamesh: A New English VersionGilgamesh: A New English Version
Release Date: January 24, 2006| ISBN-10: 0743261690 | ISBN-13: 978-0743261692| Edition: 1ST Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed by critics and scholars, Stephen Mitchell's version allows us to enter an ancient masterpiece as if for the first time, to see how startlingly beautiful, intelligent, and alive it is. ...
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Invisible CitiesInvisible Cities
Publication Date: May 3, 1978Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times. “Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant” (Gore Vidal). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book ...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: October 13, 1993| ISBN-10: 0486278077 | ISBN-13: 978-0486278070Celebrated novel traces the moral degeneration of a handsome young Londoner from an innocent fop into a cruel and reckless pursuer of pleasure and, ultimately, a murderer. As Dorian Gray sinks into depravity, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait reflects the ravages of crime and sensuality. ...
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The Woman Who Died A Lot: A Thursday Next NovelThe Woman Who Died A Lot: A Thursday Next Novel
Release Date: October 2, 2012| Series: Thursday Next The newest tour de force starring Thursday Next in the New York Times bestselling seriesThe Bookworld’s leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate.But Thursday’s children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday’s career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday’s trouble perfecting the Anti-Smote shield, needed in time to ...
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Atonement: A NovelAtonement: A Novel
Release Date: February 25, 2003Ian McEwan s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia s childhood friend. But Briony s incomplete grasp of adult motives together with her precocious literary gifts brings about a crime that will change all their lives. ...
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A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)
Release Date: May 28, 2002| Series: A Song of Ice and Fire (Book 2) A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the ...
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White Teeth: A NovelWhite Teeth: A Novel
Release Date: June 12, 2001| Series: Vintage International Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own.At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowde...
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The White Tiger: A NovelThe White Tiger: A Novel
Release Date: October 14, 2008The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. On the occasion of the president of China’s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society. The White Tiger recalls The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, and narrative...
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The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
Release Date: March 29, 2005ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIPA poignant tale about the life and labors of a Chinese farmer during the sweeping reign of the country¹s last emperor.EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:• A concise introduction that gives readers important background information• A chronology of the author's life and work• A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context• An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations• Detailed explanatory not...
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Beauty's Release: The Conclusion of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping BeautyBeauty's Release: The Conclusion of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty
Release Date: May 1, 1999| Series: Sleeping Beauty Trilogy Before Fifty Shades of Grey, there was Anne Rice’s provocative take on the timeless fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty. “ In the final volume of Anne Rice's deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty's adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all Beauty's encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, rich prose that intens...
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Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse
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October 4, 2011
WHAT IF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT ENDED TOMORROW?

The America we are accustomed to is no more. Practically overnight the stock market has plummeted, hyperinflation has crippled commerce, and the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure have fallen. The power grids are down. Brutal rioting and looting grip every major city. The volatile era known as “the Crunch” has begun, and this new period in our history will leave no one untouched. In this unfamiliar environment, only a handful of individuals are equipped to survive.

Andrew Laine, a resourceful young U.S. Army officer stationed overseas in Afghanistan, wants nothing more than to return home to Bloomfield, New Mexico. With the world in turmoil and all air and sea traffic to America suspended, Laine must rely on his own ingenuity and the help of good Samaritans to reach his family. Andrew will do whatever it takes to make it home to his fiancée, no matter how difficult the circumstances.

Major Ian Doyle is a U.S. Air Force pilot sta-tioned in Arizona with his wife, Blanca. Their young daughter, Linda, is trapped in the North- eastern riots. Three teenage orphans, Shadrach, Reuben, and Matthew Phelps, have no choice but to set out on their own when their orphanage closes at the beginning of the Crunch. Then there is Ignacio Garcia, the ruthless leader of the criminal gang called La Fuerza, who will stop at nothing to amass an army capable of razing the countryside. And over everything looms the threat of a provisional government, determined to take over America and destroy the freedoms upon which it was built. The world of Survivors is a terrifyingly familiar one. Rawles has written a novel so close to the truth, readers will forget it’s fiction. If everything you thought you knew suddenly fell apart, would you survive?

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  • Publisher: Atria Books; 1St Edition edition (October 4, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1439172803
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The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Modern Library)The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Modern Library)
Release Date: November 2, 2004| Series: Modern Library A reissue of a Pulitzer prize-winning classic, and now the major motion picture GETTYSBURG. As a result of these acclamations, this book is considered one of the greatest novels written on the Civil War. ...
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The House at Riverton: A NovelThe House at Riverton: A Novel
Release Date: March 3, 2009The House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a secret for decades. Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party ...
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The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
Release Date: November 7, 2006| Series: Perennial Fiction Library The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge. ...
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The White Tiger: A NovelThe White Tiger: A Novel
Release Date: October 14, 2008The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. On the occasion of the president of China’s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society. The White Tiger recalls The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, and narrative...
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Till We Have Faces: A Myth RetoldTill We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
Publication Date: July 9, 1980“I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let usanswer . . . Why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? Howcan they meet us face to face till we have faces?” Hauntedby the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C.S. Lewis wrotethis, his last, extraordinary novel, to retell their story through thegaze of Psyche’s sister, Orual. Disfigured and embittered, Orual lovesher younger sister to a fault and suffers deeply when she is sent awayto Cupid, the God of the Mountain. Psyche is forbidden to look upon thegod&rsquo...
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A Tale of three Kings: A Study in BrokennessA Tale of three Kings: A Study in Brokenness
Publication Date: May 21, 1992This best-selling tale is based on the biblical figures of David, Saul, and Absalom. For the many Christians who have experienced pain, loss, and heartache at the hands of other believers, this compelling story offers comfort, healing, and hope. Christian leaders and directors of religious movements throughout the world have recommended this simple, powerful, and beautiful story to their members and staff. You will want to join the thousands who have been profoundly touched by this incomparable story. ...
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Gilgamesh: A New English VersionGilgamesh: A New English Version
Release Date: January 24, 2006| ISBN-10: 0743261690 | ISBN-13: 978-0743261692| Edition: 1ST Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed by critics and scholars, Stephen Mitchell's version allows us to enter an ancient masterpiece as if for the first time, to see how startlingly beautiful, intelligent, and alive it is. ...
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Norwegian WoodNorwegian Wood
Release Date: September 12, 2000First American PublicationThis stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time.  It is sure to be a literary event.Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before.  Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the lonelin...
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Before I Go to Sleep: A NovelBefore I Go to Sleep: A Novel
Release Date: February 7, 2012 Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love—all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may be telling you only half the story. Welcome to Christine’s life....
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The Crimson Petal and the WhiteThe Crimson Petal and the White
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Series: Harvest Book At the heart of this panoramic, multidimensional narrative is the compelling struggle of a young woman to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Faber leads us back to 1870s London, where Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, yearns for escape to a better life. Her ascent through the strata of Victorian society offers us intimacy with a host of lovable, maddening, unforgettable characters. They begin with William Rackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose ambition is fueled by his lust ...
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Drowning Ruth: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
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July 31, 2001 Oprah's Book Club
“POWERFUL . . . SUSPENSEFUL . . . RICHLY TEXTURED . . . [A] CHILLING, PRECOCIOUSLY GOOD START TO A BRIGHT NEW NOVELIST’S CAREER.”
–The New York Times

“[A] gripping psychological thriller . . . In the winter of 1919, a young mother named Mathilda Neumann drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisconsin lake. The shock of her death dramatically changes the lives of her daughter, troubled sister, and husband. . . . Told in the voices of several of the main characters and skipping back and forth in time, the narrative gradually and tantalizingly reveals the dark family secrets and the unsettling discoveries that lead to the truth of what actually happened the night of the drowning. . . . Schwarz certainly succeeds at keeping the reader engrossed.”
–FRANCINE PROSE
Us Weekly

“DEFT AND ASSURED . . . [WITH] STRONG CHARACTERS AND A PLOT LONG ON TENSION AND SURPRISES.”
Time

“A strong sense of portent and unusually vivid characters distinguish this mesmerizing first novel about horrifying family secrets and nearly annihilating guilt. Drowning Ruth is a complex and rewarding debut.”
–ANITA SHREVE
Author of The Pilot’s Wife
“RIVETING . . . A VERY SUSPENSEFUL TALE, ONE THAT WILL KEEP READERS UP SHIVERING IN THE NIGHT.”
–USA Today

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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books; 1ST edition (July 31, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0345439104
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345439109
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The Call of the Wild (Dover Thrift Editions)The Call of the Wild (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: July 1, 1990| Series: Dover Thrift Editions A classic novel of adventure, drawn from London's own experiences as a Klondike adventurer, relating the story of a heroic dog, who, caught in the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in man's world and returning to nature. Note. ...
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The Woman Who Died A Lot: A Thursday Next NovelThe Woman Who Died A Lot: A Thursday Next Novel
Release Date: October 2, 2012| Series: Thursday Next The newest tour de force starring Thursday Next in the New York Times bestselling seriesThe Bookworld’s leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate.But Thursday’s children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday’s career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday’s trouble perfecting the Anti-Smote shield, needed in time to ...
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A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)
Release Date: May 28, 2002| Series: A Song of Ice and Fire (Book 2) A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the ...
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The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
Release Date: November 7, 2006| Series: Perennial Fiction Library The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge. ...
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A Tale of three Kings: A Study in BrokennessA Tale of three Kings: A Study in Brokenness
Publication Date: May 21, 1992This best-selling tale is based on the biblical figures of David, Saul, and Absalom. For the many Christians who have experienced pain, loss, and heartache at the hands of other believers, this compelling story offers comfort, healing, and hope. Christian leaders and directors of religious movements throughout the world have recommended this simple, powerful, and beautiful story to their members and staff. You will want to join the thousands who have been profoundly touched by this incomparable story. ...
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A NovelBilly Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel
Release Date: May 1, 2012 A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents at "the battle of Al-Ansakar Canal"—three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew—has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. For the past two weeks, the Bush administration has sent them on a media-intensive nationwide Victory Tour to reinvigorate public support for the war. Now, on this chilly and rainy Thanksgiving, the Bravos are guests of America's Team, the Dallas Cowboys, slated to be part of the half...
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White Teeth: A NovelWhite Teeth: A Novel
Release Date: June 12, 2001| Series: Vintage International Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own.At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowde...
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Atonement: A NovelAtonement: A Novel
Release Date: February 25, 2003Ian McEwan s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia s childhood friend. But Briony s incomplete grasp of adult motives together with her precocious literary gifts brings about a crime that will change all their lives. ...
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Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics)Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics)
Release Date: March 20, 2007| Series: FSG Classics A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Throug...
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Beauty's Release: The Conclusion of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping BeautyBeauty's Release: The Conclusion of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty
Release Date: May 1, 1999| Series: Sleeping Beauty Trilogy Before Fifty Shades of Grey, there was Anne Rice’s provocative take on the timeless fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty. “ In the final volume of Anne Rice's deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty's adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves toward conclusion, all Beauty's encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous, rich prose that intens...
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The Catcher in the Rye
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May 1, 1991
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. 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 tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.
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  • Reading level: Ages 14 and up
  • Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (May 1, 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0316769487
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316769488
  • Product Dimensions: 4.3 x 0.6 x 6.8 inches
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Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: August 3, 2004| Series: Penguin Classics Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda,...
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Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: January 16, 2003| Series: Dover Thrift Editions An orphan girl's progress from the custody of cruel relatives to an oppressive boarding school culminates in a troubled career as a governess. Jane's first assignment at Thornfield, where the proud and cynical master harbors a scandalous secret, draws readers ever deeper into a compelling exploration of the mysteries of the human heart. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. ...
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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High AdventureThe Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
Publication Date: October 8, 2007William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is a simple, exceptional story about quests—for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love—that's thrilling and timeless.   Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it impossible—inconceivable, even—to equate The Princess Bride with anything other than the sweet, celluloid romance of Westley and Buttercup, but the film is only a fraction of the ingenious storytelling you'll find in these pages. Rich in character and satire, the novel is set in 1941 and framed cleverly as an “...
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The Red Tent: A NovelThe Red Tent: A Novel
Release Date: August 21, 2007A New York Times Bestseller A decade after the publication of this hugely popular international bestseller, Picador releases the tenth anniversary edition of The Red Tent. Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that tell of her father, Jacob, and his twelve sons. Told in Dinah's voice, Anita Diamant imagines the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of the mothers--Leah, Rachel, Zilp...
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Bless Me, UltimaBless Me, Ultima
Publication Date: April 1, 1999Stories filled with wonder and the haunting beauty of his culture have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English, and his tales fairly shimmer with the lyric richness of his prose. Acclaimed in both Spanish and English, Anaya is perhaps best loved for his classic bestseller ... Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will test the bonds that tie him to his people, and discover himself in the pagan past, in...
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The Elegance of the HedgehogThe Elegance of the Hedgehog
Release Date: September 2, 2008Renee is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society's expectations of what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renee: passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives. Down in her lodge, apart from weekly visits by her one friend Manu...
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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two ActsWaiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Publication Date: January 18, 1994| ISBN-10: 0802130348 | ISBN-13: 978-0802130341A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett’s first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a co...
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Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: August 1, 2001| Series: Dover Thrift Editions Humbled, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." One of Dickens' finest novels, this is a gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward. ...
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The Education of Little TreeThe Education of Little Tree
Publication Date: August 31, 2001The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression.“Little Tree” as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains, to respect nature in the Cherokee Way, taking only what is needed, leaving the rest for nature to run its course.Little Tree also learns the often callous ways of white businessmen and tax collectors, and how Granpa, in hilarious vignettes, scares them ...
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Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of DataInformation Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0596100167 | ISBN-13: 978-0596100162| Edition: 1 Dashboards have become popular in recent years as uniquely powerful tools for communicating important information at a glance. Although dashboards are potentially powerful, this potential is rarely realized. The greatest display technology in the world won't solve this if you fail to use effective visual design. And if a dashboard fails to tell you precisely what you need to know in an instant, you'll never use it, even if it's filled with cute gauges, meters, and traffic lights. Don't let your i...
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Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
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April 30, 2002
When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love. As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a "year of wonders."
Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history. Written with stunning emotional intelligence and introducing "an inspiring heroine" (The Wall Street Journal), Brooks blends love and learning, loss and renewal into a spellbinding and unforgettable read.
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  • Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  • Paperback: 308 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (April 30, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0142001430
  • ISBN-13: 978-0142001431
  • Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.6 inches
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A NovelThe Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
Release Date: October 27, 2009 A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover—these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably inte...
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A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)
Release Date: May 28, 2002| Series: A Song of Ice and Fire (Book 2) A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the ...
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Invisible CitiesInvisible Cities
Publication Date: May 3, 1978Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times. “Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant” (Gore Vidal). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book ...
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Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics)Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics)
Release Date: March 20, 2007| Series: FSG Classics A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Throug...
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White Teeth: A NovelWhite Teeth: A Novel
Release Date: June 12, 2001| Series: Vintage International Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith’s voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own.At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowde...
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For Whom the Bell TollsFor Whom the Bell Tolls
Release Date: July 1, 1995In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brillian...
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A NovelBilly Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel
Release Date: May 1, 2012 A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents at "the battle of Al-Ansakar Canal"—three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew—has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. For the past two weeks, the Bush administration has sent them on a media-intensive nationwide Victory Tour to reinvigorate public support for the war. Now, on this chilly and rainy Thanksgiving, the Bravos are guests of America's Team, the Dallas Cowboys, slated to be part of the half...
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Midnight's Children: A NovelMidnight's Children: A Novel
Release Date: April 4, 2006Winner of the Booker of BookersSaleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkabl...
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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two ActsWaiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Publication Date: January 18, 1994| ISBN-10: 0802130348 | ISBN-13: 978-0802130341A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett’s first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a co...
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Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of DataInformation Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| ISBN-10: 0596100167 | ISBN-13: 978-0596100162| Edition: 1 Dashboards have become popular in recent years as uniquely powerful tools for communicating important information at a glance. Although dashboards are potentially powerful, this potential is rarely realized. The greatest display technology in the world won't solve this if you fail to use effective visual design. And if a dashboard fails to tell you precisely what you need to know in an instant, you'll never use it, even if it's filled with cute gauges, meters, and traffic lights. Don't let your i...
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