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Hotel du Lac

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

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Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility...
 
The Continent of Lies

The Continent of Lies by James Morrow

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The Worst Journey in the World

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Caroline Alexander

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"The Worst Journey in the World" recounts Robert Falcon Scottas ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrardathe youngest member of Scottas team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journeyadraws on his firsthand experiences as well as the diaries of his compatriots to...
 
Heat and Dust

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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Part of a series designed to provide English language students at all levels of comprehension with the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English, this story at Level 5 concerns India, past and present.
 
Ender's Game

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Orson Scott Card

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Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person...
 
Clan of the Cave Bear

Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

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Ayla is a courageous and indomitable young woman whose story begins when she is a five-year-old orphan adopted by the Clan, a group of Neanderthal. Ayla is cared for by the Clan's medicine woman Iza and its wise holy man Creb. Iza teaches her how to find food and the healing skills known only to her line, but Ayla...
 
The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance

The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance by Larry Gonick

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A fusion of history and cartoon, this book delivers important information about the people and events that have shaped the world, in a light and humerous tone. This volume covers the Middle Ages around the globe, highlighting key events and retrieving neglected historical connections.
 
The Nautical Chart: A Novel of Adventure

The Nautical Chart: A Novel of Adventure by Margaret Sayers Peden, Arturo Perez-Reverte

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Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman who immediately captures his imagination. Tanger Soto, who works for the Naval Museum in Madrid, is obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in...
 
The Day the World Exploded: The Earthshaking Catastrophe at Krakatoa

The Day the World Exploded: The Earthshaking Catastrophe at Krakatoa by Dwight Jon Zimmerman, Simon Winchester

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Eruptions. Explosions. Shock waves. Tsunamis. The almighty explosion that destroyed the volcano island of Krakatoa was followed by an immense tsunami that killed more than thirty thousand people. The effects of the waves were felt as far away as France, and bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. Today, one hundred...
 
Promethea

Promethea by Alan Moore, J. H. Williams

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Comics scriptwriting supremo Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Batman: The Killing Joke) is once again forging the future of graphic novels with an all-new line up of incredible comic creations under his own imprint, America's Best Comics. Sophie Bangs' research into legendary character Promethea, a warrior...
 
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Duty Dance with Death

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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Billy Pilgrim is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in World War II, is captured by the Germans, and he survives the largest massacre in European history the fire bombing of Dresden. After the war Billy makes a great deal of money as an optometrist, and on his wedding night he is...
 
Old Man's War

Old Man's War by John Scalzi

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With his wife dead and buried, and life nearly over at 75, John Perry takes the only logical course of action left: he joins the army. Now better known as the Colonial Defense Force (CDF), Perry's service-of-choice has extended its reach into interstellar space to pave the way for human colonization of other...
 
The Knight

The Knight by Gene Wolfe

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THE WIZARD KNIGHT springs from the myths, legends and literature of times past. A teenager passes from Earth to a magical realm of seven worlds, where he is given a hero's adult body and named Able. Though forced to act as a man, inside he is still a boy, even as he sets off to find his destined sword and become a...
 
Glasshouse

Glasshouse by Charles Stross

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When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It's the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities and target...
 
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier by Alan Moore, Kevin O'neill

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From critically acclaimed writer Alan Moore ("Watchmen", "V For Vendetta") and award-winning artist Kevin O'Neill ("Marshal Law") once more comes their alchemical mixture of myth, pulp literature and fantasy: "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen!" "The Black Dossier" takes a whirlwind journey through time, as the...
 
Accelerando

Accelerando by Charles Stross

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His most ambitious novel to date, ACCELERANDO is a multi-generational saga following a brilliant clan of 21st-century posthumans. The year is some time between 2010 and 2015. The recession has ended, but populations are ageing and the rate of tech change is accelerating dizzyingly. Manfred makes his living from...
 
Crossing the Chasm

Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore

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Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. "Crossing the Chasm" has become the bible for brining cutting-edge products to progressively larger markets. This revised and updated edition provides new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing, with...
 
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein

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Anyone who watches the television news has seen images of firefighters rescuing people from burning buildings and paramedics treating bombing victims. How do these individuals make the split-second decisions that save lives? Most studies of decision making, based on artificial tasks assigned in laboratory settings,...
 
Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul

Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

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Written by the author of "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series and "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", this is another story about Dirk Gently, the self-styled holistic detective and master of all things alternative.
 
The New Revised Standard Version Bible

The New Revised Standard Version Bible by Oxford University Press

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Many readers will welcome the introduction of a separate New Testament in the NRSV Anglicized Edition, which offers the complete text in a reduced format from the Popular Text Edition, and includes the extra features of a Chronological Table of Rulers, and Weights and Measures in the New Testament.
 
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