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Gothic tale of a country girl who falls in love with and marries an eccentric, mean-spirited man.

Vastly entertaining and outright hilarious, Paul Murray’s debut heralds the arrival of a major new Irish talent. His protagonist is endearing and wildly witty–part P. G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster, with a cantankerous dash of A Confederacy of Dunces’ Ignatius J. Reilly thrown in. With its rollicking plot and colorful characters, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is a delightful and erudite comedy of epic proportions. Charles Hythloday observes...

"The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won't ever leave their home in Four Rivers--even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead, Orquídea is transformed,...

Three orphaned children uncover a relative's sinister plot to kill them and take the fortune their deceased parents have left for them. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are taken in by a series of oddball relatives and others after their wealthy parents are killed in a fire. The first to take them in is the dastardly and cunning Count Olaf, who is only interested in their inheritance.

A rising star at a Manhattan corporation, Fiona Burkenhalter accompanies the handsome Ace Montgomery on a fishing expedition in the Florida Everglades to handle a new account. After they become embroiled in a murder and end up being Florida's most wanted couple, they desperately search for the real killer, while an irresistible chemistry flares between them.

A satire on the English Civil Service, with descriptions of prison life. First published in 1857. Little Dorrit grows up in Marshalsea prison, where her father is confined for his debts, and she helps to feed the family with her needlework until her father receives an inheritance when she is in her teens, and more problems ensue. Set in England in the mid 1800s, this novel portrays a prison-world in which the shadow of the Marshalsea reaches from...

[Seven chances] A romantically jinxed young man must marry by 7 PM to inherit seven million dollars. While fate seems to thwart his efforts to woo the object of his true affection, public announcement of his strange predicament provides him with a throng of would-be brides. [Neighbors] Buster tries to woo his tenement sweetheart in spite of the barriers that stand between them. [The balloonatic] Buster is carried by hot air from a cityside amusement...

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

The president of a furniture company suddenly dies, leaving seven board members locked in a power struggle.

"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...