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21) A scanner darkly
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself.
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Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy's early work, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna...
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"George Eliot's beloved masterpiece in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with a foreword by Rebecca Mead, author of the bestselling memoir My Life in Middlemarch A triumph of realist fiction, George Eliot's Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of sweeping change. The proposed Reform Bill, the new railroads, and scientific advances are threatening upheaval on every front. Against...
24) Death in summer
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
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After his wife dies Thaddeus Davenant, owner of a country estate in England, advertises for a nanny for their baby but finds no one suitable. One candidate, however, decides the palatial surroundings would suit her very well and she is ready to do anything to obtain the job. The result is drama.
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
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IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
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English
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From the publisher. The 1853 edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- known as the "Splendid Edition" -- includes 117 detailed, evocative illustrations by Hammatt Billings. An introduction by Bancroft-winning historian David S. Reynolds provides a general introduction discussing the history of the Splendid Edition and the role Stowe's novel played in fomenting the Civil War, a role reinforced by the story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of...
28) We the living
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Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman’s passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state. We the Living is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a...
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"A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's 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,...
34) Ramona
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
1912-
Language
English
Description
When a young Ramona falls in love with a handsome Indian, her family turns away from her and the young couple is forced to begin a life as social outcasts
""If I could write a story that would do for the Indian a thousandth part of what Uncle Tom's Cabin did for the Negro," wrote Helen Hunt Jackson, "I would be thankful the rest of my life." Jackson surpassed this ambition with the publication of Ramona, her popular 1884 romantic bestseller. A beautiful...
35) Bob Bilby
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Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
Description
"When it's Bingo's turn to take Bob Bilby home, will they have fun times?"--
When Bluey, Bingo, and Mackenzie are tired of playing at the playground, Dad takes them to the creek instead! But the creek is very different from the playground. . . . Dad takes Bluey, Bingo, and Mackenzie to the creek after they grow tired of playing at the playground. But Bluey doesn't like the thorns, or the spiders, or the pointy rocks, or . . . the leeches! She struggles...
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Capital code trilogy volume 3
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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In the conclusion of a trilogy that began with Forty Signs of Rain and Fifty Degrees Below, humankind races against time to prevent or control the repercussions of a series of international disasters, including global warming and environmental instability, before it is too late.
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Overlook Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"The stream itself runs through a small valley in a scenic but depressed rural area. When a plan gets underway to build an industrial park, though, and the promise of new jobs and a dramatically different way of life take hold, the tranquil co-existence of man and animal begins to deteriorate. Clark depicts the changes that take place in the stream, charting the gradual but devastating effects on the plants and animals and, especially, on one particular...
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