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A Kiss Before Dying
by Ira LevinAs a young coed's suicide leads her troubled sister into a perilous investigation, she is trapped in a web of mounting horror and suspense.
A Manual of Counterpoint Based on Sixteenth-Century Practice
by David D. BoydenSince counterpoint is the art of combining 2 or more melodies, this book discusses the contours of melodies in relation to other ones.
Nine Stories
by J. D. SalingerA Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme ... with Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, and Teddy.
Out of the Deeps
by John WyndhamFirst there were fiery red balls, plunging down from the sky into the sea. Then ships began to disappear mysteriously. Creatures from the deep wage war on all mankind.
Science and the Modern World
by Alfred North WhiteheadThe history of science, including mathematics, relativity, quantum mechanics, science and philosophy, science and religion.
Destination: Universe!
by A. E. Van Vogt11 stories: Far Centaurus, The Monster, Dormant, Enchanted Village, A Can of Paint, Defense, The Rulers, "Dear Pen Pal", The Sound, The Search, and Postscript
Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka
by Franz Kafka Willa Muir Edwin MuirThe Judgment, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Great Wall of China, A Country Doctor, A Common Confusion, The New Advocate, An Old Manuscript, A Fratricide, A Report to the Academy, and more.
The South Sea Shilling: Voyages of Captain Cook, R.N.
by Eric SwensonA novel about the South Sea voyages of Captain Cook
The Wonderful World of Books
by Alfred StefferudArticles on the pleasures of reading, reading among friends, reading more effectively, reading toward wider horizons, choosing and using books, and more.
Antic Hay
by Aldous HuxleyHuxley's brilliantly unconventional novel of a young man who jeered at moral respectability
Barabbas
by Par Lagerkvist Alan BlairBarabbas is the acquitted: the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. By the Nobel Prize winning author.
The Fox
by D. H. LawrenceLawrence's brilliant story of two women and the intruder who threatens their love.
The Masters
by C. P. SnowThe ancient rituals of Cambridge are brought to life as the intricate maneuvers of scholars are dramatized in the election of a new Master.
Music in the Life of Albert Schweitzer
by Charles R. JoySelections from Schweitzer's writings about music, his early raptures, Bach, organs and organ-building, Africa, and an essay on Medicine, Theology and Music.
Night at the Vulcan (Roderick Alleyn #16)
by Ngaio MarshIn the make-believe world of the theater, Inspector Alleyn deals with the stark reality of murder and recasts the players in a deadly drama.
Rootabaga Stories Part Two
by Carl SandburgFanciful, humorous short stories for children by the famous author.
Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun (Sin and Salvation #4 and #7)
by William Faulkner2 great novels by the famous American author, about Temple Drake, the reckless Mississippi debutante who expiated a youthful sin by mature confession.
The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael WestHollywood of the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of artist and set designer Tod Hackett
An Introduction to Literature and the Fine Arts
by The Editors at Michigan State College PressA collaborative study of the arts of literature, music, sculpture, architecture, and painting in the development of the Western tradition.
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait
by Margaret L. CoitPulitzer Prize winning biography of the prominent politician during the early 1800s.
Just Plain Maggie
by Lorraine BeimIt is 12-year-old Maggie's first summer at camp. Everything is so new and strange! She has never met girls like her bunk mates, and never has she been so homesick.
Rootabaga Stories Part One
by Carl SandburgFanciful, humorous short stories for children by the famous author.
Thereby Hangs A Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins
by Charles Earle FunkHave you ever wondered why there's a bed in bedlam or why politicians utter so much bunk before elections? This book answers such questions in a readable and informative way. charity Saint Jerome, who translated the New Testament into Latin in the fourth century, sought to avoid the use of the ordinary Latin word for "love," amor, because of the distinctly worldly associations attached to that word. It did not agree with his interpretation of agape, in the original Greek, which denotes more nearly brotherly love or the deep affection between close friends. So he substituted, wherever the Greek text would naturally have required amor, one or another rather colorless word, one of them being caritas. Its meaning is "dearness," but, being colorless, it was capable of taking the color of its biblical surroundings and thus came to mean, specifically, Christian love of one's neighbor, and especially of the poor. The English word charity, derived from it, perhaps owes its sense particularly to the great passage in I Corinthians, chapter 13, which begins: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." c