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A Rose for Ecclesiastes
by Roger ZelaznyThe Martian race was dying, until a six-foot-six poet from Earth brought them a rose without roots, a book of sorrow, and a message he didn't believe in himself...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me
by Alfred Hitchcock17 short stories by a variety of authors, the novelette It by Theodore Sturgeon, and the novel Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham.
Better Homes and Gardens So Good with Fruit
by The Editors at Better Homes and GardensRecipes with fruit, information on canning and freezing fruit, and a fresh fruit raisonne
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
by Ayn RandEssays on the theory and history of capitalism by Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan, Nathaniel Branden, Robert Hessen, and on its current state by Rand and Branden.
CliffsNotes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by John GardnerLanguage and style, summaries and commentaries on Pearl, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Easy to Kill
by Agatha ChristieAn elderly lady suspected murder in the sleepy village of Wychwood under Ashe. Soon she too was dead, another victim of an unseen hand.
Essays in English: From Ascham to Baldwin
by Paul C. WermuthAn abundance of good essays, historically arranged for the study of prose style in English, and grouped into topics suitable for discussion and argument.
Hornblower and the Crisis (The Hornblower Saga, Book #11)
by C. S. ForesterAlthough this story is incomplete, the outcome is clearly indicated. Also included are 2 short stories of Hornblower's other exploits, Hornblower and the Widow McCool, and The Last Encounter.
Listen to the Warm
by Rod MckuenLove, loneliness, alienation, and the need for human contact are the themes of McKuen's poems.
Liszt
by Sacheverell SitwellBiography of the famous composer, a man of extraordinary magnetism and a pianist of unsurpassed virtuosity. Bibliography and a catalog of Liszt's works included.
Maigret and the Headless Corpse
by Georges SimenonA mutilated body was fished out of a Paris canal, but when the head couldn't be found, Maigret followed the oddest clues to the most off-beat places to figure out the most bizarre case of his career.
The Age of Reason
by Jean-Paul Sartre Eric SuttonParis in the agonizing years before World War II provides the background and sets the tone of this famed novel. A guilt-ridden intellectual; his pregnant mistress; the impulsive university girl he loves; an aging nightclub singer and her young lover; a cruel and self-tormented homosexual; and a coldly implacable Communist logician - these characters play their parts in a taut drama that is both a dissection of a society in moral crisis and a piercing examination of the basic questions of human existence.
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872 to World War I
by Bertrand RussellPerhaps the first real insight into the enigma of the aristocratic Englishman who has been heralded as a "Genius-Saint" and "the greatest heretic and immoralist of our age."
The Bridal Canopy
by S. Y. Agnon I. M. LaskIn announcing the choice of S. Y. Agnon as winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Committee said of this novel: "The Bridal Canopy is the name of one of his most characteristic stories, in its ingenious and earthy humor, a Jewish counterpart to Don Quixote and Tyl Eulenspiegel."
The Contender
by Robert LipsyteA Harlem high school dropout escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym, where he learns that being a contender is hard and discouraging work but you don't know until you try.
The Ellery Queen Omnibus
by Ellery QueenThe Adventures of Ellery Queen, and The New Adventures of Ellery Queen, complete in one volume
The Gate of Hell
by Alfred CoppelRoss Ferrar...a veteran of the Korean War, a soldier by profession, is serving as a volunteer with an Israeli paratroop company. Sarai Steiner, once a terrified young refugee from Nazi Austria who fled to England, is now a lovely woman living in Israel. This is the story of Ross and Sarai, their struggle to avoid love, and then to grasp it in the midst of the conflict between Israel and Egypt. This is far more than the bittersweet and moving record of two decent human beings caught in an unconventional emotional cross-current. It is also a vibrant portrait of a new nation in an old land, and a saga of battle, new in its techniques, but ancient in its test of men and its cruel consorting with chance. Here is the exciting adventure and pulsating emotion. Projected against an authentic moment in history, it is grimly real and tenderly human.
The Gate of Worlds
by Robert SilverbergDan Beauchamp, a young man from London, or as it's better known, New Istanbul, sails across the Atlantic to the land of opportunity, the Aztec Empire which stretches across the continent.
The Man Who Walked Through Time
by Colin FletcherFletcher is the first man ever to walk the entire length of the Grand Canyon. This is the story of his journey, 2 months of struggle against heat and cold, lack of water, dwindling supplies, and almost impassable terrain. But more than a mere adventure story, this is also a spiritual odyssey during which one man began to understand mankind's unique place in the vastness of nature.
The Singing Tree
by Kate SeredyThis sequel to The Good Master continues the story of young Jancsi and his cousin Kate, as they take care of the family farm when Jancsi's father is called off to fight in the Great War. <P><P> A Newbery Honor book.
The Time Hoppers
by Robert SilverbergA way into the past had been found, and people were flocking through it for a better life, no matter what peril they might pose to the threatened present.
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
by Robert HeilbronerAdam Smith, Malthus, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, and more...