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Price: $24.00
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Sale: $14.78
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: George Orwell
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
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Publication Date: 2003-06-01
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: ANIMAL FARM
George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that proves disastrous. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But some Animals Are More Equal Than Others. . . .
1984
In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.
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Price: $22.97
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Sale: $14.84
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Manufacturer: Tor Books
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Number of Items: 3
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Jordan
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Publisher: Tor Books
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Publication Date: 1993-10-15
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Reading Level: 2272
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Description: This box set of paperbacks includes the first three books in Robert Jordan's bestselling epic fantasy series, the Wheel of Time. No saga since Tolkien's Lord of the Rings has evoked such fervor among readers. In the first Wheel of Time book, The Eye of the World, Jordan introduces a world broken by phenomenal power and threatened by engulfing shadow. In The Great Hunt, our hero, Rand al'Thor, begins his epic journeys with a quest for the lost Horn of Valere, which promises to raise long-dead Heroes of Legend. And in The Dragon Reborn, Rand's destiny begins to take shape as his followers flock to him, and the world descends further into darkness. This box set is a great way to begin exploring the world of the Wheel of Time. But don't stop here, the second set awaits!
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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $6.95
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Manufacturer: Vertigo
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Neil Gaiman::Malcolm Jones III::Charles Vess::Steve Erickson
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Publisher: Vertigo
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Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
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Publication Date: 1991-09-24
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: The third book of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories. What's remarkable here (considering the publisher and the time that this was originally published) is that the main character of the book--the Sandman, King of Dreams--serves only as a minor character in each of these otherwise unrelated stories. (Actually, he's not even in the last story.) This signaled a couple of important things in the development of what is considered one of the great comics of the second half of the century. First, it marked a distinct move away from the horror genre and into a more fantasy-rich, classical mythology-laden environment. And secondly, it solidly cemented Neil Gaiman as a storyteller. One of the stories here, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," took home the World Fantasy Award for best short story--the first time a comic was given that honor. But for my money, another story in Dream Country has it beat hands down. "A Dream of a Thousand Cats" has such hope, beauty, and good old-fashioned chills that rereading it becomes a welcome pleasure. --Jim Pascoe
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Price: $7.99
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Sale: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Ace
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Patricia Briggs
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Publisher: Ace
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813
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Publication Date: 2009-07-28
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Price: $13.00
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Sale: $5.75
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Manufacturer: Scribner
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: C.S. Lewis
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Publisher: Scribner
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Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
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Publication Date: 2003-03-04
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: The first book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom. Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice, and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Once on the planet, however, Ransom eludes his captors, risking his life and his chances of returning to Earth, becoming a stranger in a land that is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity. First published in 1943, Out of the Silent Planet remains a mysterious and suspenseful tour de force.
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Price: $7.99
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Sale: $3.89
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Manufacturer: Roc
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jim Butcher
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Publisher: Roc
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
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Publication Date: 2004-08-03
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Reading Level: 372
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Description: Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, takes on a case as a favor to his friend Thomas-a vampire of dubious integrity-only to become the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders.
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Price: $9.99
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Sale: $4.98
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Manufacturer: Pocket
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Stephen King
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Publisher: Pocket
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: 2006-08-22
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Reading Level: 1072
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Description: At one point in this final book of the Dark Tower series, the character Stephen King (added to the plot in Song of Susannah) looks back at the preceding pages and says "when this last book is published, the readers are going to be just wild." And he's not kidding. After a journey through seven books and over 20 years, King's Constant Readers finally have the conclusion they've been both eagerly awaiting and silently dreading. The tension in the Dark Tower series has built steadily from the beginning and, like in the best of King's novels, explodes into a violent, heart-tugging climax as Roland and his ka-tet finally near their goal. The body count in The Dark Tower is high. The gunslingers come out shooting and face a host of enemies, including low men, mutants, vampires, Roland's hideous quasi-offspring Mordred, and the fearsome Crimson King himself. King pushes the gross-out factor at times--Roland's lesson on tanning (no, not sun tanning) is brutal--but the magic of the series remains strong and readers will feel the pull of the Tower as strongly as ever as the story draws to a close. During this sentimental journey, King ties up loose ends left hanging from the 15 non-series novels and stories that are deeply entwined in the fabric of Mid-World through characters like Randall Flagg (The Stand and others) or Father Callahan ('Salem's Lot). When it finally arrives, the long awaited conclusion will leave King's myriad fans satisfied but wishing there were still more to come. In King's memoir On Writing, he tells of an old woman who wrote him after reading the early books in the Dark Tower series. She was dying, she said, and didn't expect to see the end of Roland's quest. Could King tell her? Does he reach the Tower? Does he save it? Sadly, King said he did not know himself, that the story was creating itself as it went along. Wherever that woman is now (the clearing at the end of the path, perhaps?), let's hope she has a copy of The Dark Tower. Surely she would agree it's been worth the wait. --Benjamin Reese
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.53
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Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Neil Gaiman::Terry Pratchett
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Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813
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Publication Date: 2007-08-01
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time...
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Price: $6.99
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Sale: $3.33
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Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Paul S. Kemp
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Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
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Publication Date: 2008-12-02
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Reading Level: 352
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Description: The stunning conclusion to the Twilight War!
One of the Forgotten Realms world's most compelling villains--the Archwizards of Shade--have come down from their flying city with their sights set on the merchant realm of Sembia. They come in the guise of allies, but have invasion and empire as their ultimate aim.
The fate of Sembia may be sealed, but Erevis Cale still has a shocking destiny that will end in his destruction--if he's lucky. This trilogy brings about major changes to the Forgotten Realms setting.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.88
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Manufacturer: Ace Hardcover
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Simon R. Green
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Publisher: Ace Hardcover
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Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
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Publication Date: 2009-01-06
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: There’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s got the Nightside’s rich and powerful quaking in their boots. He’s The Walking Man, and it’s his mission to exorcise sinners—with extreme prejudice. Problem is, the Nightside was built on sin and corruption, and The Walking Man makes no distinction between evildoers and those simply indulging themselves. He’ll leave the place a wasteland unless someone stops him, and P.I. John Taylor has been handed the job. No known magic or science can affect The Walking Man, and if John can’t discover his weakness, he’ll be facing the very Wrath of God…
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