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Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order—all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New...
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English
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In what Henry James called a 'trap for the unwary', The Turn of the Screw tells of a nameless young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon comes to believe that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. But is the threat to her young charges really a malign and ghostly presence or something else entirely? The Turn of the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders..." And so begins the classic tale of Edward Bear--better known as Winnie-the-Pooh. For nearly seventy years, readers have been delighted by the adventures of Christopher Robin and his lovable friends. Paired with the perfectly suited drawings of Ernest H. Shepard, A. A. Milne's classic story continues to captivate...
4) Sanditon
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Publisher
Scribner Paperback
Pub. Date
1975
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Smart, beautiful and desperate for a husband, Charlotte Heywood must escape the clutches of two impossible suitors in order to claim the heart of a charming and fickle young man, in a story originally left unfinished at the author's death.
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English
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Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. Published in French as L'Île Mystérieuse in 1874, this novel is a sequel to Verne's earlier Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American...
6) Rebecca
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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Against the setting of a great English estate unfolds the story of Rebecca, its glamorous mistress, who had been dead for eight months. Maxim de Winter's young and frightened second wife gradually realizes that there is some mystery surrounding her death, but it is not until the night of the big costume ball that her suspicions are confirmed and, with an ever-increasing atmosphere of impending disaster, the real story becomes known.
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Frederick Warne & Co., a division of Penguin Random House UK
Pub. Date
[1917]
Edition
New Reproductions,
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
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English
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Beatrix Potter gathered material for a book of rhymes over many years. In 1917, when her publisher was in financial difficulties and needed her help, she suggested that Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes could be brought out quickly, using her existing collection of rhymes and drawings. The fact that the illustrations were painted at different times explains why the style occasionally varies.
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Frederick Warne & Co., a division of Penguin Random House UK
Pub. Date
[1922]
Edition
New Reproductions,
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
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English
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Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes is a sequel to Beatrix Potter's first rhyme collection, Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes. Like the previous book it contains material she had produced and collected over a period of many years. the Cecily Parsley sequence of illustrations, for example, were first made into a little booklet twenty-five years earlier, in 1897.
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Series
Publisher
Frederick Warne & Co., a division of Penguin Random House UK
Pub. Date
[1912]
Edition
New Reproductions,
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79 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
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English
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The Tale of Mr Tod brings back Beatrix Potter's most popular heroes, Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny, in an adventure that also features two very disagreeable villains. Fortunately Tommy Brock the badger and Mr. Tod the fox dislike each other so much that they Tommy Brock kidnaps Benjamin's young family, Mr Tod unwittingly becomes the rabbits' ally.
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Frederick Warne & Co., a division of Penguin Random House UK
Pub. Date
[1906]
Edition
New Reproductions,
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
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English
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This, along with The Tale of The Fierce Bad Rabbit, was intended for very young children. It recounts the tale of a pussy cat, Miss Moppet, chasing a mouse. It turns out to be a bit of a battle of wits, and who do you think will win?
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Chocolate War volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1974]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
253 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
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Publisher
Barnes & Noble Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
xvi, 218 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
•...
13) Anne Dares
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Series
Anne Chapter Book volume 5
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
65 pages : color ilustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Anne is excited to be a guest at a party at Orchard Slope, the home of her kindred spirit, Diana Barry. But when the dares start and mean Josie Pye makes the others feel bad, Anne can't stop herself from challenging Josie to a dare . . . which leads to Anne being dared to climb the house and walk along the ridgepole! Anne's dangerous dare ends in injury . . . and teaches her an important lesson. But Anne must pluck up her courage again when she is...
14) Anne Dreams
Author
Series
Anne Chapter Book volume 6
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
69 pages : color ilustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The sixth and final book in an early illustrated chapter book series inspired by Anne of Green Gables, starring the spirited Anne Shirley as she pursues her dream of becoming a teacher.
Anne is starting to grow up, but she's still disappointed with her red hair -- it's one of her lifelong sorrows. One day, she buys a bottle of hair dye in order to have raven black hair like her best friend and kindred spirit, Diana. Unfortunately, the dye ends up...
16) Tom Sawyer
Publisher
Playaway
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 audio player : plastic orange case, lock ; 3 1/2 x 2 in.
Language
English
Description
Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence--when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him--to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the enjoyment just never ends.
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Publisher
Penguin
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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When Bastian happens upon an old book called The Neverending Story, he's swept into the magical world of Fantastica--so much that he finds he has actually become a character in the story! And when he realizes that this mysteriously enchanted world is in great danger, he also discovers that he is the one chosen to save it. Can Bastian overcome the barrier between reality and his imagination in order to save Fantastica? --Amazon
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Publisher
Fingerprint Classics
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
632 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape. One of the greatest Russian short story writers and an exemplary playwright, Anton Chekhov penned down some of the finest short stories and plays in literature. His works continue to be translated into various languages across the world. This edition brings together his early short...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Among Jamison's subjects are 52 Blue, deemed "the loneliest whale in the world"; the eerie past-life memories of children; the devoted citizens of an online world called Second Life; the haunted landscape of the Sri Lankan Civil War; and an entire museum dedicated to the relics of broken relationships. Jamison follows these examinations to more personal reckonings -- with elusive men and ruptured romances, with marriage and maternity -- in essays...
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Series
Capitaine Nemo volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First Aladdin Hardcover Edition ;
Physical Desc
645 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Lord and Lady Glenarvan catch a shark during a sailing trip, they are surprised to find a message in a bottle within its belly, sent by Captain Grant of the shipwrecked Britannia. Unfortunately, the water-damaged note is mostly unreadable, giving any would-be rescuers only a latitude and no longitude to work with.
Eager to help the castaways, the couple urges the British government to launch a rescue expedition but are refused. So they take...
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