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The Sandman
 

The Sandman

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The Sandman

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The Sandman
 

The Sandman

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The Sandman

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Les Miserables a New Unabridged Translation
 

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Les Miserables a New Unabridged Translation
After nineteen years in prison, Jean Valjean has difficulty adjusting to the outside world, which scorns and shuns him.

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High Country Bride
 

High Country Bride

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High Country Bride
After his father declares that the first of his sons to marry and produce a child will inherit his ranch, Rafe McKettrick finds himself beguiled by Emmeline Harding, his mail-order bride, despite the secrets he senses she hides.

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Vile Bodies
 

Vile Bodies

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Vile Bodies
The comic aspects of London society during the thirties are treated in Waugh's early novel.

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By Night in Chile
 

By Night in Chile

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By Night in Chile
In a deathbed confession, Father Urrutia, a Jesual priest and conservative literary critic, shares his memories of his work with agents of Opus Dei and his secret job of instructing Pinochet about Marxism to the Chilean junta generals can understand their enemy. Original.

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Cities of the Plain
 

Cities of the Plain

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Cities of the Plain
In this final volume of The Border Trilogy, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, in the still point between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing or already changed beyond recognition.In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham--nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know--are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north, at Alamogordo, by the military. To the south, always on the horizon are the mountains of Mexico, looming over El Paso, Ciudad Juárez and all the cities of the plain. Bound by nature to horses and cattle and range, these two discover that ranchlife domesticity is compromised, for them and the men they work with, by a geometry of loss afflicting old and young alike, those who have survived it and anyone about to try. And what draws one of them across the border again and again, what would bind "those disparate but fragile worlds," is a girl seized by ill fortune, and a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.This story of friendship and passion is enfolded in a narrative replete with character and place and event--a blind musician, a marauding pack of dogs, curio shops and ancient petroglyphs, a precocious shoe-shine boy, trail drives from the century before, midnight on the highway--and with landforms and wildlife and horses and men, most of all men and the women they love and mourn, men and their persistence and memories and dreams.With the terrible beauty of Cities of the Plain--with its magisterial prose, humor both wry and out-right, fierce conviction and unwavering humanity--Cormac McCarthy has completed a landmark of our literature and times, an epic that reaches from tales of the old west, the world past, into the new millennium, the world to come.

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Winter Solstice
 

Winter Solstice

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Winter Solstice
The wait is over for the millions of readers who fell in love with Rosamunde Pilcher's compelling novels filled with riveting storylines and unforgettable characters. Now, New York Times bestselling author Rosamund Pilcher, has returned, giving her legion of fans another tale of love, loyalty, and rebirth...

Elfrida Phipps, once on the London stage and retired at 62, never anticipates going off with a man. But after a devastating tragedy, church organist Oscar Blundell asks for her companionship. So with her brown-and-white dog in tow, Elfrida begins her journey, not knowing that joining her and Oscar at a rundown Victorian house in Scotland will be a young woman nursing a broken heart, a teenager escaping an unhappy home, and a stranger arriving during a snowstorm... Now these five, very different people form an unexpected circle of friends that will forever change their lives...

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The Surgeon's Mate
 

The Surgeon's Mate

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The Surgeon's Mate
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. The chase that follows is as thrilling and unexpected as anything O'Brian has written.

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Necroscope II
 

Necroscope II

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Necroscope II
Harry Keogh, necroscope, thought that the war with the vampires had ended with the destruction of Boris Dragosani--his nemesis from Necroscope. But the man who talks to the dead lives on, more powerful than ever, able to transport himself instantly to any spot on the globe--and to speak mind to mind with both the living and the dead.

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Gone South
 

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Gone South
The New York Times bestselling author of Boy's Life reaches the peak of his storytelling powers with this visionary masterpiece of violence and redemption. Flooded by memories, poisoned by the deadly fallout of Agent Orange, and desperate for work, Dan Lambert kills a man in a moment of blind fear and fury. Now he is on the run, fleeing to the Louisiana bayous.

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The Bell
 

The Bell

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The Bell
The story of a lay community of mixed-up people encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns, follows the lives of Dora Greenfield, an erring wife who returns to her husband, and Michael Meade, who is confronted by his homosexual former lover. Repriint.

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The Dark Half
 

The Dark Half

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The Dark Half
Evidence indicates that Thad Beaumont whose novels seem to be the product of a twisted imagination, may just be quilty of a series of monstrous murders.

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Dream Jungle
 

Dream Jungle

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Dream Jungle
The dual tales of the discovery of a lost Stone Age tribe in remote Philippines, later discovered to be a possible hoax orchestrated by a wealthy iconoclast, and the making of a Vietnam War movie, overshadowed by its cast's and crew's self-destructive behavior, intersect in unexpected ways. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

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Standoff
 

Standoff

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Standoff
An ambitious female television reporter gets caught up in a deadly hostage drama while investigating the kidnapping of a Texas millionaire's daughter, in this tale of suspense by the best-selling author of The Alibi.Reprint.

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Reforming a Rake
 

Reforming a Rake

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Reforming a Rake
A governess must never be alone with a man. Her reputation mustn't have even a hint of scandal. She must never reveal personal emotions. No matter how strong the provocation by her employer. A governess never questions her employer's commands. Even when he's tempting her to forsake respectability for desire? She must never, ever, fall in love with someone above her station. Especially a rake---no matter how devastating his kisses may be...

Alexandra Gallant is a governess extraordinaire---and if it weren't for that unfortunate incident at her last position, she wouldn't now be forced into the employ of Lucien Balfour, the most notorious rake in London. Though the sinfully attractive earl hired her to teach his young cousin, his seductive whispers and toe-curling kisses suggest he has something far less respectable in mind...And that will never happen. For although Lucien seems determined to teach her about pleasure, she has a few lessons to teach him about love!

A governess must never be alone with a man.Her reputation mustn't have even a hint of scandal.She must never reveal personal emotions.No matter how strong the provocation by her employer.A governess never questions her employer's commands.Even when he's tempting her to forsake respectability for desire?She must never, ever, fall in love with someone above her station.Especially a rake---no matter how devastating his kisses may be...

Alexandra Gallant is a governess extraordinaire---and if it weren't for that unfortunate incident at her last position, she wouldn't now be forced into the employ of Lucien Balfour, the most notorious rake in London.Though the sinfully attractive earl hired her to teach his young cousin, his seductive whispers and toe-curling kisses suggest he has something far less respectable in mind...And that will never happen.For although Lucien seems determined to teach her about pleasure, she has a few lessons to teach him about love!A governess must never be alone with a man.Her reputation mustn't have even a hint of scandal.She must never reveal personal emotions.No matter how strong the provocation by her employer.A governess never questions her employer's commands.Even when he's tempting her to forsake respectability for desire?She must never, ever, fall in love with someone above her station.Especially a rake---no matter how devastating his kisses may be...

Alexandra Gallant is a governess extraordinaire---and if it weren't for that unfortunate incident at her last position, she wouldn't now be forced into the employ of Lucien Balfour, the most notorious rake in London.Though the sinfully attractive earl hired her to teach his young cousin, his seductive whispers and toe-curling kisses suggest he has something far less respectable in mind...And that will never happen.For although Lucien seems determined to teach her about pleasure, she has a few lessons to teach him about love!

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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
 

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
The surrealistic adventures of the young anti-hero reflect the author's irreverent view of life, using a 1950s college campus as a microcosm of the world.

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The Dress Lodger
 

The Dress Lodger

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The Dress Lodger
In Sunderland, England, a city quarantined by the cholera epidemic of 1831, a defiant, fifteen-teen-year old beauty in an elegant blue dress makes her way between shadow and lamp light. A potter's assistant by day and dress lodger by night, Gustine sells herself for necessity in a rented gown, scrimping to feed and protect her only love: her fragile baby boy. She holds a glimmer of hope after meeting Dr. Henry Chiver, a prisoner of his own dark past. But in a world where suspicion of medicine runs rampant like a fever, these two lost souls will become irrevocably linked, as each crosses lines between rich and destitute, decorum and abandon, damnation and salvation. By turns tender and horrifying, The Dress Lodger is a captivating historical thriller charged with a distinctly modern voice. . . .

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Locas
 

Locas

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Locas
A group of Mexican-American women come of age in Southern California's burgeoning punk rock scene in the early 1980s and mature into the present.
One of the most humane, graceful and imaginatively inexhaustible artists in American popular culture, Jaime Hernandez has created in Locas one of the great American novels of the last 25 years, graphic or otherwise. Spanning a quarter-century, Locas tells the story of Maggie Chascarrillo, a bisexual, Mexican-American woman attempting to define herself in a community rife with class, race and gender issues.
Maggie's story begins in the early-1980s Southern California rock scene, when it was shifting from the excesses of glitter rock to the gritty basics of punk and new wave. "Hardcore" punk rock came to the fore, and the teenaged Maggie finds herself drawn to the anarchy, energy and diversity of the scene, which in the hands becomes a very real, habitable place populated with authentic human beings rather than stereotypes. She quickly befriends Hopey Glass, a feisty anti-authoritarian punkette who quickly becomes Maggie's on-again, off-again lover and a constant presence in her life throughout the book.
Maggie comes of age in this tumultuous environment, with class and racial tension fueling the rising violence between punks and the already antagonistic LAPD. Hernandez's naturalistic storytelling and mastery of body language and facial expressions, and his pitch-perfect depiction of barrio life all makes for an exhilarating read. His characters are infused with strength, intelligence, independence, imperfection, bitchiness, frailty, obsessiveness, and so much more.
Maggie evolves from an angry young punk into a mature woman. She encounters cruelties large and small and resigns herself to dashed hopes, shattered illusions, and even death with ironic acceptance. Locas presents an incomparable body of work in comics form, created over 20 years (which not coincidentally mirrors Maggie's arc), and told with an uncompromising beauty and grace. As the New York Times Book Review has described it, "These stories have all the visual smarts of film and the narrative smarts of literature....Hernandez specializes in psychological detail; we see both text and subtext immediately ....What better than to open a book that shows there is more going on than we dream of in our workaday philosophies?

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