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The Muppets Go Camping
by Jocelyn StevensonWhen Kermit the Frog's nephew Robin goes camping, Kermit and all his friends decide to 'help' him.
The Nomad of Time
by Michael MoorcockThree novels: The Warlord of the Air, The Land Leviathan, and The Steel Tsar. A British officer is sent into a timestream, landing in different worlds.
The Oxford Book of Short Stories
by V. S. Pritchett41 stories by Scott, Hawthorne, Poe, Twain, Harte, Bierce, H. James, Stevenson, Conrad, Kipling, O. Henry, Saki, Crane, De La Mare, Maugham, Anderson, Coppard, Joyce, Lawrence, Lardner, Mansfield, Porter, O'Flaherty, Faulkner, Hemingway, Bowen, Pritchett, O'Faolain, O'Connor, Callaghan, Bates, Narayan, Welty, Sansom, Lavin, White, Cheever, Lessing, Trevor and Updike.
The Penguin Complete Father Brown
by G. K. ChestertonAll five books: The Innocence, Wisdom, Incredulity, Secret, and Scandal of Father Brown, each containing short stories of the famous amateur sleuth.
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson G. S. FraserUnrivaled in literature, Stevenson's Treasure Island is among the most delightful adventure romances of all time. From young Jim Hawkins' first encounter with an old buccaneer and his treasure map to the final daring skirmish with the treacherous pirate Long John Silver, this classic work enchants and fuels the imagination with beautiful illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
by Alcoholics AnonymousAlcoholics Anonymous tells how members recover and how the society functions.
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
by Aranka SiegalNine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.<P><P> Newbery Medal Honor book
Answer to History
by Mohammad Reza PahlaviThe Shah of Iran explains what really happened during his exile in the Bahamas, Mexico, the U.S., Panama, and finally Egypt.
Can I Get There By Candlelight?
by Jean Slaughter DotyGail takes her horse Candlelight out to explore the woods, but suddenly she's swept into the past! Can she return to the present, or will she and Candy be stuck in the past forever?
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party
by Graham GreeneHow far will the rich go to satisfy their greed? A masterly, chilling and disturbing look at the deeper recesses of human nature.
Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood
by Terrance DicksChanting, hooded figures gather inside a ring of ancient stones, using rituals of blood sacrifice to awaken the sleeping evil of the Ogri. No. 59 in the Doctor Who Library.
Fifty-seven Saints for Boys and Girls
by The Daughters of St. PaulLearn about: St. Michael Archangel, Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, St. Anne, Mother of Our Lady, St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, St. Paul, Apostle of the Gentiles, St. Thecla, Valiant Virgin, St. Cecilia, Martyr with a Singing Heart, St. Tarcisius, First Martyr of the Holy Eucharist, St. Sebastian, Patron of Soldiers, St. Lucy, The Shining Light, St. Agnes, Lamb of Jesus, St. Helen, Seeker of the Cross, St. Martin of Tours, Soldier of Christ, St. Monica, Model of Perseverance, St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland, St. Brigid, Mary of the Gael, St. Benedict, Patriarch of Western Monks, St. Kevin, Kevin of the Angels, St. Columban, Missionary Monk, St. Dymphna, Patron of the Emotionally Disturbed, St. Margaret of Scotland, Patroness of Learning, St. Francis of Assisi, Herald of the Great King, St. Clare, Patroness of Television, St. Anthony, Wonder Worker of Padua, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Queen Who Sped to Heaven, St. Peregrine, Patron of the Cancer-Stricken, St. Gertrude, Herald of Divine Love, St. Catherine of Siena, Ambassador of God, St. Bernardine of Siena, Messenger of Peace, St. Frances of Rome, Friend of the Poor, St. Rita of Cascia, Patron of the Desperate, St. Joan of Arc, Warrior Maid, St. Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, St. Philip Neri, Saint of the Joyous Heart, St. Benedict, the Holy Moor, St. Stanislaus Kostka, Angelic Novice, St. Camillus de Lellis, Patron of the Sick, St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Patron of Youth, St. Jane Francis de Chantal, Model of Fortitude, St. Germaine, Shepherdess of Pibrac, St. Rose of Lima, Flower of the Andes, St. Martin de Porres, Everyone's Brother, St. John Berchmans, Patron of Altar Boys, St. Isaac Jogues, North American Martyr, St. Katherine Tekakwitha, Lily of the Mohawks, St. Margaret Mary, Apostle of the Sacred Heart, St. John Baptist de la Salle, Patron of Teachers, St. Elizabeth Seton, American-Born Saint, St. Joseph Cottolengo, Model of Faith, St. Bartholomea Capitanio, Lily of Lovere, St. John Bosco, Friend of Youth, St. Dominic Savio, the Teenage Saint, St. Bernadette of Lourdes, Petitioner for Penance, St. Frances X. Cabrini, First U.S.-Citizen Saint, St. Therese of Lisieux, Patroness of the Missions, St. Gemma Galgani, Example of Eucharistic Life, St. and Mary Goretti, Martyr for Purity. ALPHABETICAL
Flight of the Falcon
by Wilbur SmithRobyn Ballantyne's journey takes her to the Kalahari desert, searching for her long-lost father, and bringing the word of God to the savage tribes along the way. Or so she thought.
Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction
by Martin Greenberg Frederik Pohl Joseph D. OlanderFeaturing 23 stories, 20 memoirs, and a behind-the-scenes look by some of the most famous names in science fiction history with a special index to every story, article and review ever published (1950-1980) in Galaxy magazine.
Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite
by Michel Foucault Richard McdougallWith an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ripening bodies of her classmates, a passionate lover of another schoolmistress, she is suddenly reclassified as a man. Alone and desolate, he commits suicide at the age of thirty in a miserable attic in Paris. Here, in an erotic diary, is one lost voice from our sexual past. Provocative, articulate, eerily prescient as she imagines her corpse under the probing instruments of scientists, Herculine brings a disturbing perspective to our own notions of sexuality. Michel Foucault, who discovered these memoirs in the archives of the French Department of Public Hygiene, presents them with the graphic medical descriptions of Herculine's body before and after her death. In a striking contrast, a painfully confused young person and the doctors who examine her try to sort out the nature of masculine and feminine at the dawn of the age of modern sexuality. "Herculine Barbin can be savored like a libertine novel. The ingenousness of Herculine, the passionate yet equivocal tenderness which thrusts her into the arms, even into the beds, of her companions, gives these pages a charm strangely erotic. . . Michel Foucault has a genius for bringing to light texts and reviving destinies outside the ordinary. " Le Monde, July 1978
Hit Me with a Rainbow
by James KirkwoodA shy, bright, classy young man Kelly meets a beautiful celebrity Maggie, and cheerfully improbable things begin to occur.
How Many Zen Buddhists Does It Take to Screw in a Light Bulb?
by Matt Freedman Paul HoffmanExamples of the humor craze of the 1980s - the light bulb joke!
How to Use the Laws of Mind
by Joseph MurphyHow your mind works, how your mind heals you, the secret of success in life, become spiritual-minded, learn to pray, control your fears, the power of suggestion, etc.
In Quest of Music
by Irving KolodinThe music critic and writer maps out the road that music and musicians have traveled, particularly in the US, since 1900, both in classical music and jazz.
Jacob Have I Loved
by Katherine Paterson<P>"Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated . . ." <P>With her grandmother's taunt, Louise knew that she, like the biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin. Caroline, her selfish younger sister, was the one everyone loved.<P><P> Growing up on a tiny Chesapeake Bay island in the early 1940s, angry Louise reveals how Caroline robbed her of everything: her hopes for schooling, her friends, her mother, even her name. <P>While everyone pampered Caroline, Wheeze (her sister's name for her) began to learn the ways of the watermen and the secrets of the island, especially of old Captain Wallace, who had mysteriously returned after fifty years. <P>The war unexpectedly gave this independent girl a chance to fulfill her childish dream to work as a watermen alongside her father. But the dream did not satisfy the woman she was becoming. Alone and unsure, Louise began to fight her way to a place where Caroline could not reach.<P> Renowned author Katherine Paterson here chooses a little-known area off the Maryland shore as her setting for a fresh telling of the ancient story of an elder twin's lost birthright.<P> <b>Newbery Medal Winner</b>
Kit Carson's Long Walk and Other True Tales of Old San Diego
by Henry Schwartz13 tales from the city of San Diego, California in the 1800s.
Michelle Remembers
by Michelle Smith Lawrence PazderMichelle Smith was 5 years old when her mother offered her up to a cult of devil worshippers, to be used demonically to raise Satan himself. 22 years later, she's on a psychiatrist's couch reliving the horrors as her childhood agonies come screaming forth.
Moccasin Trail
by Eloise Jarvis McgrawJim Keath has lived for 6 years as a Crow Indian when he learns that his siblings are journeying west to take up land.<P><P> Newbery Medal Honor book
Murder with Mirrors
by Agatha ChristieTo fulfill a promise to an old friend, Miss Marple is staying at a country house, with 200 juvenile delinquents and the heirs to a fortune. One of them is a murderer...