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Essential Plays / The Sonnets (The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition)
William Shakespeare - 2008
Howard, and Shakespearean Romance by Walter Cohen. Like its parent volume, this concise edition gives students the vibrant introductions, readable single-column format, helpful glosses and notes, and extensive reference materials maps, a timeline, annotated bibliographies and film lists, documents that have made The Norton Shakespeare, Second Edition the best-selling classroom edition worldwide."
The Complete Orchard Valley Collection: An Anthology
Debbie Macomber - 2018
She and her two younger sisters gather at his side, praying he’ll live… At a time like this, falling in love is the last thing on Valerie’s mind. And with Dr. Colby Winston, of all people! He’s David’s heart surgeon, a renowned specialist who enjoys small-town living, while Valerie is a high-powered businesswoman who prefers city life. They’re complete opposites in every way. Yet David keeps insisting she and Colby are a perfect couple. Meanwhile,
Stephanie
has other worries besides her father’s health. She fled Orchard Valley three years earlier, after her humiliating rejection by local journalist Charles Tomaselli. Now she’s home, and it’s not long before they begin reliving past battles—and renewing old feelings. He was the reason she left. This time, will he give her a reason to stay? David seems to think so…
Norah
is feeling a bit unneeded these days. Her father is recovering, and her sisters are busy planning their weddings. But then a cantankerous Texan named Rowdy Cassidy crashes his small plane in Orchard Valley. The same Rowdy Cassidy who’d been Valerie’s boss…and who’d demanded Valerie marry him. Now he’s Norah’s patient, and in all her nursing experience she’s never encountered a more difficult man. Or a more irresistible one! Except…is he still in love with her sister?When Norah’s friend Sherry Waterman leaves Orchard Valley, Oregon, for Pepper, Texas, she’s definitely not in the mood for
Lone Star Lovin’.
But if anyone can change her mind, it’s Cody Bailman—a hardworking, good-looking rancher. Not only that, Cody has a twelve-year-old daughter who thinks Sherry’s “just perfect for Dad!”
The Alex Cross Collection: I, Alex Cross / Cross Fire
James Patterson - 2012
With over 240 million copies of his books sold, he has created more enduring fictional characters than any other novelist writing today. His novels featuring Alex Cross are the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years. This special boxed set includes three of his most thrilling Alex Cross novels.I, Alex CrossWhen a beloved family member is killed, Alex Cross faces his most chilling and personal case ever. The search for the murderer leads him to very dangerous people-and a revelation that could rock the entire world.Double CrossRejoining the Washington, D.C. police force, Cross pursues a cunning mastermind whose public killings terrorize the whole city. Even as Cross plays this lethal game, another psycho killer is targeting him.Cross CountryAfter the worst crime scene he has ever seen, Cross realizes he's chasing a new breed of killer-a predator whose trail leads to Africa. But in this land of sheer terror is Alex Cross the hunter or the hunted?
Three by Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle/Slaughterhouse Five/Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - 2007
A is for Alibi & J is for Judgment
Sue Grafton - 1993
In "J is for Judgement", Kinsey Millhone finds herself in danger - on the trail of someone who may, or may not, be dead.
Epic Knights of Legend and Steel
Kathryn Le Veque - 2016
Over three thousand pages of Medieval adventure! Welcome to Epic Knights of Legend and Steel. Six books. Six amazing tales of chivalry and passion. This collection contains books related to one another although not necessarily series. Each hero is his own epic knight, born of legend, forged in steel, an alpha male who is a giant among men. Sweeping adventures of Medieval England come together in this fabulous, not-to-be-missed collection all from the works of USA Today bestseller Kathryn Le Veque. This collection contains: The Questing - A knight, a widow, and a promise that could cost them everything. Swords and Shields - Betrayal lurks in a new love. The Whispering Night - An agent for William Marshal falls in love with an enemy. Netherworld - Evil lurks in a dark Welsh castle. The Warrior Poet - Bitter enemies become lovers in this Medieval Romeo and Juliet saga. The Legend - The greatest knight in the realm lays down his sword. Can love give him back what he's lost?
Lust
Roald Dahl - 2016
There's still a whole world of Dahl to discover in a newly collected book of his deliciously dark tales for adults . . .
We fall not in love but in lust . . .
Lust, in all its myriad forms, consumes us. What won't we do to achieve our heart's desire? In these ten tales of twisted love master storyteller Roald Dahl explores how our darkest impulses reveal who we really are.Here you'll read a story concerning wife swapping with a sting in its tail, hear of the aphrodisiac that drives men into a frenzy, discover the last act in a tale of jilted first love and discover the naked truth of art, among others.Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions: Cruelty, Madness, Deception, Innocence, Trickery, War and Fear.
Countdown to Go Set a Watchman: A Celebration of To Kill a Mockingbird, Sampler
Harper Lee - 2015
50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die, vol 2
Various - 2016
Barrie]- Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]- The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]- A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll]- The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]- The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]- The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]- The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]- On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]- Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]- The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]- David Copperfield [Charles Dickens]- Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens]- A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens]- The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]- The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]- The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]- A Room with a View [E. M. Forster]- Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]- Tess of the d'Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy]- Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse]- Dubliners [James Joyce]- The Metamorphosis [Franz Kafka]- The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]- The Sea Wolf [Jack London]- The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]- Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]- Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]- The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]- The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]- The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]- Swann's Way [Marcel Proust]- Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare]- Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]- The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.]- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [Mark Twain]- The Prince and the Pauper [Mark Twain]- The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]- A Journey into the Center of the Earth [Jules Verne]- The Mysterious Island [Jules Verne]- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [Jules Verne]- The War of the Worlds [H. G. Wells]- The Time Machine [H. G. Wells]- The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde- The Voyage Out by Virginia WoolfAlso available : 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)Classics Authors Super Set Serie 1 (Golden Deer Classics)
Night Watch: Stage Adaptation
Stephen Briggs - 2014
With a psychopath from his own time rising in the vile ranks of the Cable Street Unmentionables complicating things, Vimes has to ensure that history takes its course so that he will have the right future to go back to, and to keep his younger self alive."One of the funniest English authors alive" (Independent)
The Coming Storm: The Welcoming / The Art of Deception
Nora Roberts - 1989
But undercover FBI agent Roman DeWinter knows something ugly is going on beneath the cozy surface. He believes there is an insidious criminal gang operating out of the inn, and all the evidence points to Charity Ford, the owner. When a hit-and-run attack leaves Charity shaken and bruised, Roman is left questioning if he should trust his heart or his head.THE ART OF DECEPTIONWhen the handsome Adam Haines shows up at Kirby Fairchild’s ancestral home looking for a quiet place to paint, she’s more than skeptical. Yet the attraction she feels for him builds, whether she wants it to or not. But when Adam begins to act suspiciously, Kirby must uncover his real purpose at her father’s home before it’s too late. Otherwise Kirby might be in danger—of falling hard for a stranger who is even more practiced in the art of deception than she is.Previously published.
A House of Pomegranates, the Happy Prince and Other Tales
Oscar Wilde - 2010
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The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith - A 30-minute Chapter-by-Chapter Summary
Instaread Summaries - 2013
Robin Ellacott's long-term boyfriend, Matthew, proposes on her first day to work for Strike as temp secretary.
Classic American Literature: Works of Jack London, 43 books in a single file with active table of contents, improved 2/4/2011
Jack London - 1980
According to Wikipedia: "Jack London (12 January, 1876 – 22 November, 1916) was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing."