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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author: Mark Twain
Published: 1985-02-27
book: 417 pages
ISBN:0520053389
ISBN:9780520053380
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Subject: Fiction

Explanatory notes accompany the story of Huck's travels down the Mississippi River with Jim, a runaway slave

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Emma

Author: Jane Austen
Published: 2005-11-21
book: 600 pages
ISBN:0521824370
ISBN:9780521824378
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Subject: Literary Collections

The first fully annotated scholarly edition of the 1816 edition of Emma.

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The Wind in the Willows

Author: Kenneth Grahame
Published: 2005-03-08
book: 155 pages
ISBN:0812973658
ISBN:9780812973655
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Subject: Fiction

“The boastful, unstable Toad, the hospitable Water Rat, the shy, wise, childlike Badger, and the Mole with his pleasant habit of brave boyish impulse,” ...

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The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

Author: Douglas Adams
Published: 1997-06-23
book: 208 pages
ISBN:0345418913
ISBN:9780345418913
Publisher: Del Rey
Subject: Fiction

Chronicles the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveler Arthur Dent

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court

Author: Mark Twain
Published: 2001-12-04
book: 465 pages
ISBN:0375757805
ISBN:9780375757808
Publisher: Modern Library
Subject: Fiction

A blow to the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D., where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom.

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Persuasion

Author: Jane Austen
Published: 1999-09-28
book: 256 pages
ISBN:0812565886
ISBN:9780812565881
Publisher: Tor Classics
Subject: Fiction

The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth

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The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Author: Michael Chabon
Published: 2001-08-07
book: 639 pages
ISBN:0312282990
ISBN:9780312282998
Publisher: Picador
Subject: Fiction

In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes ...

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Finger Lickin' Fifteen

Author: Janet Evanovich
Published: 2010
book: 352 pages
ISBN:0312383290
ISBN:9780312383299
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Subject: Fiction

From #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Evanovich comes the next book in her Stephanie Plum series, in which complications arise, loyalties are tested, ...

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Cold Sassy Tree

Author: Olive Ann Burns
Published: 2007-09-04
book: 400 pages
ISBN:0618919716
ISBN:9780618919710
Publisher: Mariner Books
Subject: Fiction

Young Will Tweedy becomes chaperon, conspirator, and confidant to his renegade grandpa, E. Rucker Blakeslee, and the old man's young new wife, Miss Love Simpson ...

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The bean trees

Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Published: 1998-08-26
book: 336 pages
ISBN:0061097314
ISBN:9780061097317
Publisher: Harpercollins
Subject: Fiction

Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle ...

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Chasing Harry Winston

Author: Lauren Weisberger
Published: 2009-05-05
book: 288 pages
ISBN:0743290127
ISBN:9780743290128
Publisher: Downtown Press
Subject: Fiction

Making a pact that they will change the things that most challenge them within a year's time, Manhattan friends Emmy, Leigh, and Adriana shed their downtrodden ...

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A Room with a View

Author: E. M. Forster
Published: 2008-01-29
book: 316 pages
ISBN:1599865777
ISBN:9781599865775
Publisher: Fq Classics
Subject: Fiction

The main setting of this work us England and Italy, and is a critique of English society during beginning of the 20th century and also a story of romance.

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Can you keep a secret?

Author: Sophie Kinsella
Published: 2005-03-01
book: 357 pages
ISBN:0385338082
ISBN:9780385338080
Publisher: Delta
Subject: Fiction

After the worst day of her life, Emma Corrigan spills her darkest secrets to a stranger on an airplane, but when he re-emerges in her life, she will have to ...

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Everything is illuminated

Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Published: 2003
book: 288 pages
ISBN:0060529709
ISBN:9780060529703
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Subject: Fiction

Passionate and marked by an indelible humanity, "Everything Is Illuminated" mines the black holes of history and is ultimately a story about searching: for ...

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Dog on It

Author: Spencer Quinn
Published: 2009-02-10
book: 320 pages
ISBN:1416585834
ISBN:9781416585831
Publisher: Atria
Subject: Fiction

In this irresistible new detective series featuring a canine narrator, Quinn speaks two languages--suspense and dog--fluently.

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Noah's Compass

Author: Anne Tyler
Published: 2010
book: 288 pages
ISBN:0307272400
ISBN:9780307272409
Publisher: Knopf
Subject: Fiction

Preparing to retire early from an unfulfilling teaching job that supplanted his dream of becoming a philosopher, Liam Pennywell struggles to remember missing ...

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Vanity Fair

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Published: 2003-11-01
book: 736 pages
ISBN:1593080719
ISBN:9781593080716
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Subject: Fiction

Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the ...

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Wayside School Is Falling Down

Author: Louis Sachar
Published: 1998-06-01
book: 160 pages
ISBN:0380731509
ISBN:9780380731503
Publisher: HarperCollins
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

Follows the strange adventures of Mrs.

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Fearless Fourteen

Author: Janet Evanovich
Published: 2009-06-23
book: 352 pages
ISBN:0312349521
ISBN:9780312349523
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Subject: Fiction

Another installment in the popular Stephanie Plum series places the irrepressible bounty hunter and her motley companions--including Grandma Mazur, vice captain ...

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The Devil wears Prada

Author: Lauren Weisberger
Published: 2006
book: 432 pages
ISBN:0307275558
ISBN:9780307275554
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Subject: Fiction

A small-town girl fresh out of an Ivy League college lands a job at a prestigious fashion magazine, but wonders if the glamorous perks are worth working for the ...

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