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A Movable Feast
Ernest Hemingway • 2019
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Truman Capote • 2006
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
Visions of Cody
Jack Kerouac • 1993
Marathon Man
William Goldman • 1974
In a classic thriller that did for dentists what Psycho did for showers, runner Tom "Babe" Levy races toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence, until an unexpected visit from his brother throws him into a world of terror, treachery, and murder. Reprint.
Mary Poppins
P. L. Travers • 2018
<b>Based on the original 1934 novel by P. L. Travers with beautiful illustrations by Genevieve Godbout, this collectable picture book is sure to become a favorite of Mary Poppins fans old and new.</b><br><br> When the East Wind blows Mary Poppins over Cherry Tree Lane and into the lives of the Banks children, nothing is ever the same This picture book adaptation of the original novel is full of Mary's unique brand of whimsical adventure: There's a tea party on the ceiling, a visit to the night zoo, and a trip to a mysterious shop that sells stars. Told in a lyrical text with fresh yet timeless art by Genevieve Godbout, this version of <i>Mary Poppins</i> is perfect for reading aloud. Young and old, longtime friends of Mary, and those meeting her for the first time, will revel in this colorfully illustrated version of the story that inspired the image of the beloved nanny of page, stage, and screen. <br>
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov • 2021
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy The Principia
Isaac Newton • 2018
Matisse the Master A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
Hilary Spurling • 2007
The Meaning of Consuelo
Judith Ortiz Cofer • 2004
The Meditations
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) • 2022
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir • 2005
The Memoirs Of General William T. Sherman
William T. Sherman • 2014
<p>First published in 1875, General William T. Sherman’s memoir was one of the first from the Civil War, and was offered to the public because, as Sherman wrote in his dedication, “no satisfactory history” of the war was yet available.</p><p>Although the Memoirs have been revised and corrected many times over the years, Sherman, famously, never changed the original text of his recollections. He was not an historian, he said, and invited “any witness who may disagree with me should publish his own version of [the] facts...”</p><p>HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.</p>
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
John Gray • 2016
A Mencken Chrestomathy
H. L. Mencken • 2020
The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare • 2002
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris • 2009
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka • 2009
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides • 2007
<p><i>"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal."</i></p><p>So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, <i>Middlesex </i>is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.</p><p><i>Middlesex </i>is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.</p>
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare • 2017
The Miracle Worker
William Gibson • 2008
Misery
Stephen King • 2016
The #1 New York Times bestselling tale of terror from master storyteller Stephen King about a famous novelist held hostage in a remote location by his “number one fan”. Bestselling novelist Paul Sheldon thinks he’s finally free of Misery Chastain. In a controversial career move, he’s just killed off the popular protagonist of his beloved romance series in favor of expanding his creative horizons. But such a change doesn’t come without consequences. After a near-fatal car accident in rural Colorado leaves his body broken, Paul finds himself at the mercy of the terrifying rescuer who’s nursing him back to health—his self-proclaimed number one fan, Annie Wilkes. Annie is very upset over what Paul did to Misery and demands that he find a way to bring her back by writing a new novel—his best yet, and one that’s all for her. After all, Paul has all the time in the world to do so as a prisoner in her isolated house...and Annie has some very persuasive and violent methods to get exactly what she wants...
mistress of mellyn
victoria holt • 1960
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville • 2003
A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. More than just the tale of a hair-raising voyage, Melville's riveting story passionately probes man's soul.nbsp; A literary classic first published in 1851, Moby-Dicknbsp;represents the ultimate human struggle.
Moliere: A Biography
Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor • 2015
Molloy
Samuel Beckett • 2012
Mommie Dearest
Christina Crawford • 2017
A Monetary History of the United States
Milton Friedman • 2008
Monsieur Proust
Céleste Albaret • 2003
A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister
Julie Mars • 2005
A MONTH OF SUNDAYS is about the seven months that the author spent as her dying sister's primary caretaker, and after her sister died, the 31 houses of worship that she visited in 31 weeks in her hope of finding an outlet for her grief and getting some answers to spiritual questions. Her houses of worship include traditional churches, mosques, temples, Buddhist, Zen, Spiritualist, Scientology, Salvation Army, and so forth.
Motley Crue
Seamus Craic • 2006
The Mourning Bride
William Congreve • 2019
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf • 1990
Mutiny on the Bounty
James Norman Hall • 2016
My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir • 2004
My Lai 4 A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath
Seymour M Hersh • 2004
The story of the vietnam war atrocity as told by pulitzer winning journalist Seymour M. Hersh who traveled more than 50,000 miles around the United States and interviewed nearly fifty members of Charlie Company to write this book.
My Life as Author and Editor
H.L. Mencken • 2011
H. L. Mencken stipulated that this memoir remain sealed in a vault for thirty-five years after his death. For good reason: <i>My Life as Author and Editor</i> is so telling and uproariously opinionated that is might have provoked a storm of libel suits. As he recounts his career as a critic, essayist, and editor of the ground-breaking magazine <i>Smart Set</i>, Mencken brings us face to face with the literary aristocracy of his day, from the dour womanizer Theodore Dreiser to F. Scott Fitzgerald, drowning his gifts in alcohol. Here, too, are the hacks, poseurs, and bohemian crackpots who flocked around them. Most of all, here is Mencken himself, defying censors and Prohibition agents with equal aplomb in an age when literature was a contact sport.
My Life in Orange Growing Up with the Guru
Tim Guest • 2017
Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe
Myra Waldo • 1978
My Sister's Keeper A Novel
Jodi Picoult • 2004
My Struggle: Book 1
Karl Ove Knausgaard • 2024
The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer • 2018
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs • 1992
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco • 2014
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri • 2019
Nancy Drew 33: The Witch Tree Symbol
Carolyn Keene • 1956
The Nanny Diaries
Emma McLaughlin • 2003
Native Son (Perennial Classics)
Richard Wright • 2023
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
William Cronon • 2009
Nervous System, Or, Losing My Mind in Literature
Jan Lars Jensen • 2004
New Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson • 1993
For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume, he presents nearly 500 new poems that he and his associates excavated from her correspondence, thereby expanding the canon of Dickinson's known poems by almost one-third and making a remarkable addition to the study of American literature. Here are new riddles and epigrams, as well as longer lyrics that have never been seen as poems before. While Shurr has reformatted passages from the letters as poetry, a practice Dickinson herself occasionally followed, no words, punctuation, or spellings have been changed. Shurr points out that these new verses have much in common with Dickinson's well-known poems: they have her typical punctuation (especially the characteristic dashes and capitalizations); they use her preferred hymn or ballad meters; and they continue her search for new and unusual rhymes. Most of all, these poems continue Dickinson's remarkable experiments in extending the boundaries of poetry and human sensibility.
The New Way Things Work
David Macaulay • 1998
Text and numerous detailed illustrations introduce and explain the scientific principles and workings of hundreds of machines. Includes new material about digital technology.
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens • 1990
Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich • 2010
Night
Elie Wiesel • 1970
No Man Is an Island
Thomas Merton • 2002
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen • 1992
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Vincent B. Leitch • 2018
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Charles Bukowski • 2001
A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book.<br/>"People come to my door—too many of them really—and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk . . . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well. I hear from a madman who calls himself 'King Arthur' and lives on Vine Street in Hollywood and wants to help me write my column. A doctor comes to my door: 'I read your column and think I can help you. I used to be a psychiatrist.' I send him away . . ."<br/>"Bukowski writes like a latter-day Celine, a wise fool talking straight from the gut about the futility and beauty of life . . ." —Publishers Weekly<br/>"These disjointed stories gives us a glimpse into the brilliant and highly disturbed mind of a man who will drink anything, hump anything and say anything without the slightest tinge of embarassment, shame or remorse. It's actually pretty hard not to like the guy after reading a few of these semi-ranting short stories." —Greg Davidson, curiculummag.com<br/>Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany on August 16, 1920, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. Bukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including Pulp (Black Sparrow, 1994), Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (1993), and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992). Other Bukowski books published by City Lights Publishers include More Notes of a Dirty Old Man, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook, and Absence of the Hero. He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994.
Novels 1930-1942 (LOA #126) Dance Night / Come Back to Sorrento / Turn, Magic Wheel / Angels on Toast / A Time to Be Born
Dawn Powell • 2001
November of the Heart
LaVyrle Spencer • 1994
The Odyssey
Homer • 2018
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles • 2022
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham • 2004
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck • 1993
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway • 2024
Old School
Tobias Wolff • 2003
Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to mimic the bearing and manners of his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself. His final year, however, unravels everything he's achieved, and steers his destiny in directions no one could have predicted. The school's mystique is rooted in Literature, and for many boys this becomes an obsession, editing the review and competing for the attention of visiting writers whose fame helps to perpetuate the tradition. Robert Frost, soon to appear at JFK's inauguration, is far less controversial than the next visitor, Ayn Rand. But the final guest is one whose blessing a young writer would do almost anything to gain.
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens • 2003
On the Contrary
Mary Mccarthy • 2023
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn • 2009
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey • 2007
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez • 2006
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin • 2019
On the Road
Jack Kerouac • 1999
The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
Amy Tan • 2003
Oracle Night
Paul Auster • 2005
Orations
American Orators • 2012
The Oresteia Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides
Aeschylus • 1984
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood • 2003
Othello
William Shakespeare • 2015
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens • 1998
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
Donald Kagan • 2013
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon • 2004
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen • 1992
The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton • 1967
The Oxford Shakespeare THE COMPLETE WORKS
William; Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (gen.eds) Shakespeare • 2001
A Passage to India
Edward Morgan Forster • 1942
Adela Quested arrives in Chandrapore, prepared to meet and marry a city magistrate who exemplifies the narrow-minded, anti-Indian prejudices of the imperial bureaucracy, but an expedition, led by the charming Dr Aziz, ends in an incident which quickens the pulse of Anglo-Indian mistrust.
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition
Donald Kagan • 2013
Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal figure in the narrative is the Athenian politician and general Nicias, whose policies shaped the treaty and whose military strategies played a major role in the attack against Sicily.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky • 2010
The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America
Kenneth Pollack • 2004
A Personal History
Katherine Graham • 2020
Peyton Place
Grace Metalious • 1999
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde • 2021
Pigs at the Trough: Library Edition
Arianna Huffington • 2009
Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi • 2011
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Legs McNeil • 2016
Plutarch’s Lives
Plutarch Plutarch • 2023
Poems
Alfred Tennyson • 2004
Points of view
W. Somerset MAUGHAM • 1958
The Polysyllabic Spree: A Hilarious and True Account of One Man's Struggle with the Monthly Tide of the Books He's Bought and the Books He's Been Meaning to Read
Nick Hornby • 2004
Pomeranian An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet
Happeth A. Jones • 1996
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker • 1985
The Portable Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche • 1977
The Price of Loyalty George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
Ron Suskind • 2004
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen • 1813
Primary Colors
Joe Klein • 1996
The Princess Bride
William Goldman • 2007
Property
Valerie Martin • 2007
<b>WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE • Set in 1828 on a Louisiana sugar plantation, this novel from the bestselling author of <i>Mary Reilly </i>presents a “fresh, unsentimental look at what slave-owning does to (and for) one's interior life.... The writing—so prised and clean limbed—is a marvel" (Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author of <i>Beloved</i>).<br></b><br>Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah, who is both his victim and his mistress.<br><br> Exploring the permutations of Manon’s own obsession with Sarah against the backdrop of an impending slave rebellion, <i>Property</i> unfolds with the speed and menace of heat lightning, casting a startling light from the past upon the assumptions we still make about the powerful and powerful.
The Pump House Gang
Tom Wolfe • 1999
Punk The Definitive Record of a Revolution
Stephen Colegrave • 2005
The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate : Two Novels
Nancy Mitford • 2001
Pushkin A Biography
T.J. Binyon • 2004
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw • 2014
Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1912. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea first presented in 1871. Shaw also would have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the musical My Fair Lady and the film of that name.
Quattrocento
James McKean • 2003
A Quiet Storm
Rachel Howzell Hall • 2002
In this vividly written, suspense-driven novel, the secrets shared between two sisters erupt in tragedy. <br> Rikki Moore was always the star of the family, easily outshining her younger sister, Stacy, at every turn. Smart, kind, and beautiful, it was no surprise when Rikki met and married the perfect man -- pediatrician Matt Dresden. Her students at 59th Street Elementary School adored her, the church matrons solicited her help on every committee, and everyone wanted the golden couple to put in an appearance at their parties. Stacy? She was just the overweight little sister who couldn't get her love life together. <br> But the world didn't know about the storms that rippled just beneath the surface of Rikki's image of perfection. Ever since she was a teenager there were emotional breakdowns and obsessive behaviors -- secrets that Stacy was left to bear alone. Folks whispered, but they didn't know. When Rikki's husband, Matt, mysteriously disappears, however, the Moore family's carefully constructed image comes crashing down.
Quiller Bamboo
Adam Hall • 1991
Rapunzel
Brothers Grimm • 1997
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe • 2013
The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham • 2012
Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi • 2008
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier • 2013
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin • 2003
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane • 2015
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant • 2007
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad
Virginia Holman • 2003
The Return of the King
J. R. R. Tolkien • 1965
Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
Gloria Steinem • 2020
Richard III
William Shakespeare • 2018
R is for Ricochet
Sue Grafton • 2016
<b>In this #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller in Sue Grafton's Alphabet series, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has her hands full when a job that should be easy money takes a turn for the worse.</b><br><br>Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty was already in his fifties when Reba was born, and he could deny her nothing. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but wasn't there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institution for Women. Now, at thirty-two, she's about to be paroled, having served twenty-two months of a four-year sentence. Her father wants to be sure Reba stays straight, stays home and away from the drugs, the booze, and the gamblers...<br><br>It seems a straightforward assignment for Kinsey: babysit Reba until she settles in, make sure she follows all the niceties of her parole. Maybe a week’s work. Nothing untoward—the woman seems remorseful and friendly. And the money is good.<br><br>But life is never that simple, and Reba is out of prison less than twenty-four hours when one of her old crowd comes circling round...
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Stephen King • 2020
<b>#1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Stephen King’s beloved novella, <i>Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption</i>—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award–nominee <i>The Shawshank Redemption</i>—about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is available as a standalone book.</b><br><br>Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, Stephen King’s extraordinary novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, tells a powerful tale of crushing despair and liberating hope through the eyes of Ellis “Red” Redding. Red’s a guy who can get you whatever you want here in Maine’s corrupt and hard-edged Shawshank State Penitentiary (for a price, of course), but the one thing he doesn’t count on is an unexpected friendship forged with fellow inmate Andy Dufresne—an inscrutable one-time banker perhaps falsely convicted of brutal, calculated murder who will go on to transform everyone’s lives within these prison walls.<br> <br>Originally published in the 1982 collection <i>Different Seasons</i>, it was adapted into the 1994 film <i>The Shawshank Redemption</i> starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this modern classic has become one of the most beloved films of all time. A mesmerizing work of unjust imprisonment and strangely satisfying revenge, <i>Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption</i> remains one of Stephen King’s most beloved and iconic stories.
Robert’s Rules of Order: Library Edition
Henry M., III Robert • 2024
Roman Fever/other Sty
Edith Wharton • 1981
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare • 1993
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf • 2025
A Room with a View
Edward Morgan Forster • 2020
Rosemary’s Baby
Ira Levin • 2023
The Rough Guide to Europe
Rough Guides • 2000
Sacred Time
Ursula Hegi • 2004
Sailing Alone Around the Room New and Selected Poems
Billy Collins • 2002
Sanctuary
William Faulkner • 1993
A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. <i>Sanctuary</i> is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held.
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie • 2008
Savage Beauty The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Nancy Milford • 2001
<b>Thirty years after the smashing success of <i>Zelda</i>, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. <i>Savage Beauty </i>is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself.</b><br> <b><br>ONE OF <i>ESQUIRE</i>’S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME<br></b><br> If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well. Milford calls her book "a family romance"—for the love between the three Millay sisters and their mother was so deep as to be dangerous. As a family, they were like real-life <i>Little Women</i>, with a touch of <i>Mommie Dearest</i>.<br><br> Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what she found was an extraordinary treasure. Boxes and boxes of letter flew back and forth among the three sisters and their mother—and Millay kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind Sylvia Plath. Written with passion and flair, <i>Savage Beauty</i> is an iconic portrait of a woman's life.
Daisy Miller
Henry James • 2007
The Scarecrow of Oz
L Frank Baum • 2020
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne • 1994
Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally • 2013
In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and “masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), returns with an all-new introduction by the author. An “extraordinary” (The New York Review of Books) novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of The Book of Science and Antiquities and The Daughter of Mars, uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden—Schindler’s Jews—to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil. “Astounding…in this case the truth is far more powerful than anything the imagination could invent” (Newsweek).
Seabiscuit An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand • 2002
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir • 2012
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd • 2003
Secrets of the Flesh A Life of Colette
Judith Thurman • 2011
The Selected Letters of Dawn Powell 1913-1965
Dawn Powell • 2000
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen • 2003
A Separate Peace
John Knowles • 2003
Sex and the City
Candace Bushnell • 2023
Sexus
Henry Miller • 2015
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon • 2005
Shane
Jack Schaefer • 2014
<p>This classic Western is a profoundly moving story of the influence of a singular character on one boy's life.</p> <p>The Starrett family's life forever changes when a man named Shane rides out of the great glowing West and up to their farm.</p> <p>Young Bob Starrett is entranced by this stoic stranger who brings a new energy to his family. Shane stays on as a farmhand, but his past remains a mystery. Many folks in their small Wyoming valley are suspicious of Shane and make it known that he is not welcome.</p> <p>But dangerous as Shane may seem, he is a staunch friend to the Starretts--and when a powerful neighboring rancher tries to drive them out of their homestead, Shane becomes entangled in the deadly feud.</p> <p>"If you read only one Western in your life, this is the one." (Roland Smith, author of the Peak Marcello adventure novels)</p> <p>I had lain in my bed thinking of our visitor out in the bunk in the barn. It scarce seemed possible that he was the same man I had first seen, stern and chilling in his dark solitude, riding up our road. Something in father, something not of words or of actions but of the essential substance of the human spirit, had reached out and spoken to him and he had replied to it and had unlocked a part of himself to us. He was far off and unapproachable at times even when he was right there with you.</p>
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • 1986
The Shining
Stephen King • 2013
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse • 2022
S is for Silence
Sue Grafton • 2016
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
Mary S. Lovell • 2003
The Skin of Our Teeth A Play
Thornton Wilder • 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five A Novel
Kurt Vonnegut • 1999
The Sleeping Beauty
Brothers Grimm • 2014
Small Island
Andrea Levy • 2010
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Ernest Hemingway • 1986
Snow White and Rose Red
The Brothers Grimm • 2014
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Barrington Moore • 2015
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury • 2013
Songbook
Nick Enright • 2015
<p>The Nick Enright Songbook brings together 50 of the best songs from ten musicals for which Enright wrote the lyrics; and the music of five gifted composers-Terence Clarke, Glenn Henrich, Alan John, David King and Max Lambert. The book includes songs from The Venetian Twins, Variations, Summer Rain, Buckley's!, Orlando Rourke, The Betrothed, Mary Bryant, The Good Fight, Miracle City and On the Wallaby.Across this work, Enright's characteristic use of Australian imagery and language shine brightly, intertwined with the themes of resilience, lost love and religion that are familiar in his work. Together the songs display the proficiency and craft he brought to the Australian musical theatre.<br></p>
A Song of Ice and Fire
George R. R. Martin • 2023
The Song of Names
Norman Lebrecht • 2004
The Song Reader
Lisa Tucker • 2003
Song of the Simple Truth The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos
Julia de Burgos • 1995
Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett Browning • 2012
The Sonnets
William Shakespeare • 2020
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning • 2021
Sophie's Choice
William Styron • 2010
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner • 2025
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov • 2015
Stalin A Biography
Robert Service • 2005
The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin • 2002
The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary's Baby With an Introduction by Peter Straub<br/>For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.<br/>At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.
Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach • 2021
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting • 2005
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller • 1996
When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880–1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps-with the help of her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan-is one of the great stories of human courage and dedication. In this classic autobiography, first published in 1903, Miss Keller recounts the first 22 years of her life, including the magical moment at the water pump when, recognizing the connection between the word "water" and the cold liquid flowing over her hand, she realized that objects had names. Subsequent experiences were equally noteworthy: her joy at eventually learning to speak, her friendships with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edward Everett Hale and other notables, her education at Radcliffe (from which she graduated cum laude), and-underlying all-her extraordinary relationship with Miss Sullivan, who showed a remarkable genius for communicating with her eager and quick-to-learn pupil. These and many other aspects of Helen Keller's life are presented here in clear, straightforward prose full of wonderful descriptions and imagery that would do credit to a sighted writer. Completely devoid of self-pity, yet full of love and compassion for others, this deeply moving memoir offers an unforgettable portrait of one of the outstanding women of the twentieth century.
Story of O: A Novel
Pauline Reage • 2013
The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson • 2012
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams • 2004
Stuart Little
Elwyn Brooks White • 2007
Summer of Fear
T. Jefferson Parker • 1993
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway • 2022
Swann’s Way
Marcel Proust • 2023
Swimming with Giants My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins, and Seals
Anne Collet • 2002
Sybil
Flora Rheta Schreiber • 2009
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens • 2007
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe • 1983
Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald • 2003
<b>A modern classic, this edition has been restored by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III and features a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s great-granddaughter Blake Hazard and a new introduction by bestselling Amor Towles.</b><br><br>Set in the south of France in the late 1920s, <i>Tender Is the Night</i> is the tragic tale of a young actress, Rosemary Hoyt, and her complicated relationship with the alluring American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth pushed him into a glamorous lifestyle, and whose growing strength highlights Dick’s decline.<br> <br>Lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative, <i>Tender Is the Night</i> was one of the most talked-about books of the year when it was originally published in 1934, and is even more beloved by readers today.
Terms of Endearment
Larry mcmurtry • 1975
Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories
Sholem Aleichem • 1996
Theatre
W. Somerset Maugham • 2011
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Horace McCoy • 2011
The Thin Man
Dashiell Hammett • 1989
Thunder
James Grady • 1994
Time and Again
Jack Finney • 1995
Timeline
Michael Crichton • 2013
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger • 2006
To Have and Have Not
Ernest Hemingway • 1965
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee • 2002
The Town and the City
Jack Kerouac • 2000
The Tragedy of Richard III
William Shakespeare • 2019
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh • 1996
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith • 2005
The Trial
Franz Kafka • 1999
<b>A brilliant translation of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, revealing a tale that is as full of energy and power as it was when it was first written. From the author of <i>The Metamorphosis.<br></i></b><br>Written in 1914, <i>The Trial</i> is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, Kafka's nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers. This new edition is based upon the work of an international team of experts who have restored the text, the sequence of chapters, and their division to create a version that is as close as possible to the way the author left it.
Trouble in Our Backyard: Central America and the United States in the Eighties
Martin Diskin • 1984
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
Elisabeth Robinson • 2005
Truth & Beauty A Friendship
Ann Patchett • 2005
The Two Towers Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien • 2012
Tuesdays with Morrie An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom • 2002
ULYSSES
James Joyce • 2022
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath • 2007
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera • 2009
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Stowe • 2021
Understanding Power
Noam Chomsky • 2016
Unless
Carol Shields • 2004
US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis
David Patrick Houghton • 2001
Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann • 2016
The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age
Philip Meyer • 2006
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray • 2003
The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico
Joe Harvard • 2004
The Virgin Suicides A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides • 2015
Waiting for Godot A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Samuel Beckett • 2011
Walden Or, Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau • 2017
Henry David Thoreau's classic masterwork of transcendental experimentation and introspection, as he chronicles his time in the woods.
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy • 2017
<b>A stunning clothbound Hardcover Classics edition of Tolstoy’s great novel, one of the undisputed masterpieces of world literature. <b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b></b><br> <br> At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In <i>War and Peace</i>, Tolstoy entwines grand themes—conflict and love, birth and death, free will and fate—with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur.<br> <br> For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
We Owe You Nothing: Expanded Edition Punk Planet: the Collected Interviews
Daniel Sinker • 2018
What Color Is Your Parachute?
Richard N. Bolles • 2022
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Henry Farrell • 2013
The chilling novel that inspired the iconic film starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford</br></br> As seen on the FX series Feud: Bette and Joan, which chronicles the rivalry between the Hollywood stars during their filming of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?</br></br> The neighbors all whisper about the two sisters who live on the hill: It's Blanche Hudson who lives in that house, you know. The Blanche Hudson, who starred in big Hollywood films all those years ago. Such a shame her career ended so early, all because of that accident. They say it was her sister, Jane, who did it--that she crashed the car because she was drunk. They say that's why she looks after Blanche now, because of the guilt. That's what they say, at least.<br><br>Nobody remembers that Jane was once a star herself. A fixture of early vaudeville, Baby Jane Hudson performed her song and dance routines for adoring crowds until a move to Hollywood thrust her sister into the spotlight. Even now, years later, Jane dreams of reviving her act. But as the lines begin to blur between fantasy and reality, past resentments become dangerous--and the sisters' long-kept secrets threaten to destroy them. <br><br>Now with three short stories available for the first time in print, including What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte, the basis for the film Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte.<br>
When the Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka • 2003
<b>F<b>rom the bestselling, award-winning author of <i>The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, </i>this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps</b> that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times.</b><br><br>On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty incarceration camp in the Utah desert. <br><br> In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. <i>When the Emperor Was Divine</i> is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines.
When Everything Changed
Gail Collins • 2009
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee • 2000
Who Moved My Cheese
Spencer Johnson • 1998
Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gregory Maguire • 1996
Wild
Cheryl Strayed • 2013
The Wine Bible
Karen MacNeil • 2022
The Witches of Eastwick
John Updike • 2012
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum • 2024
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte • 2002
<b>Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film “<i>Wuthering Heights</i>,” which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff.<br></b><br>Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.<br><br>Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. <br><br>In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of <i>The Brontë Myth</i>, looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted, from Charlotte Brontë onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction, which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel, as well as Emily Brontë's influences and background.
The Yearling (Aladdin Classics)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings • 2001
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion • 2007
Yoga For Dummies
Larry Payne • 2014
Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis • 2014
<b>A stunning new translation of the classic book—and basis for the beloved Oscar-winning film—brings the clarity and beauty of Kazantzakis’s language and story alive.</b><br><br>First published in 1946, <i>Zorba the Greek</i>, is, on one hand, the story of a Greek working man named Zorba, a passionate lover of life, the unnamed narrator who he accompanies to Crete to work in a lignite mine, and the men and women of the town where they settle. On the other hand it is the story of God and man, The Devil and the Saints; the struggle of men to find their souls and purpose in life and it is about love, courage and faith.<br> <br>Zorba has been acclaimed as one of the truly memorable creations of literature—a character created on a huge scale in the tradition of Falstaff and Sancho Panza. His years have not dimmed the gusto and amazement with which he responds to all life offers him, whether he is working in the mine, confronting mad monks in a mountain monastery, embellishing the tales of his life or making love to avoid sin. Zorba’s life is rich with all the joys and sorrows that living brings and his example awakens in the narrator an understanding of the true meaning of humanity. This is one of the greatest life-affirming novels of our time.<br> <br>Part of the modern literary canon, <i>Zorba the Greek</i>, has achieved widespread international acclaim and recognition. This new edition translated, directly from Kazantzakis’s Greek original, is a more faithful rendition of his original language, ideas, and story, and presents Zorba as the author meant him to be.
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Helen Fielding • 1999
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time
Jim Irvin• 2001
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
Cinderella
the Brothers Grimm • 1998
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
1984
George Orwell • 1961
Absolute Rage
Robert Tanenbaum • 2003
As the city sizzles under the early summer sun, New York chief assistant D.A. Butch Karp and his family are happily vacationing on Long Island's north shore. Their reverie changes to horror when they learn that their beachfront neighbors, Rose and Ralph "Red" Heeney -- a coal miners' union leader -- have been brutally murdered back home in tiny McCullensburg, West Virginia. Irresistible force meets immovable object when the governor appoints Karp special prosecutor to bring justice to the corrupt rural town, its ruthless union boss, and his band of violent henchmen. Now, Karp finds himself not only searching for the killers, but fighting to protect his own family from an evil that runs as deep as the mines that fuel it.
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton • 1920
Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set in upper class New York City. Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's best families, is happily anticipating a highly desirable marriage to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. Yet he finds reason to doubt his choice of bride after the appearance of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's exotic, beautiful 30-year-old cousin, who has been living in Europe. This novel won the first ever Pulitzer awarded to a woman. Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s, the author's combination of powerful prose combined with a thoroughly researched and meticulous evocation of the manners and style of the period, has delighted readers since the novel's first publication in 1920. In 1921 The Age of Innocence achieved a double distinction - it won the Pulitzer Prize and it was the first time this prestigious award had been won by a woman author.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain • 1994
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain • 1998
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll • 2003
<i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> is Robert Sabuda's most amazing creation ever, featuring stunning pop-ups illustrated in John Tenniel's classic style. The text is faithful to Lewis Carroll's original story, and special effects like a Victorian peep show, multifaceted foil, and tactile elements make this a pop-up to read and admire again and again.
All the President's Men
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward • 1974
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy • 1992
Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton.<br/><br/>The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.<br/><br/>From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon • 2012
American Steel
Richard Preston • 1992
Acclaimed writer Richard Preston chronicles the nearly superhuman effort by the Nucor Corporation, America's ninth-largest steel company to build a revolutionary new steel plant from the ashes of the midwestern Rust Belt. Elegantly written and compulsively readable, American Steel has all the elements of a great novel: amazing characters, gripping suspense, towering machinery, and a driving mission.
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser • 2021
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie • 2009
The Andy Warhol Diaries
Andy Warhol • 2014
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt • 1996
A Memoir, about Irish Americans.
Anna Karenina
graf Leo Tolstoy • 1995
Angels in America
Tony Kushner • 2009
Apocalyptics: Cancer and the Big Lie : How Environmental Politics Controls What We Know About Cancer
Edith Efron • 1984
This comprehensive study examines the truth about carcinogens and life-threatening substances in the environment and reveals the political manipulation of scientific data and methodology for ideological ends
The Archidamian War
Donald Kagan • 1989
The Armies of the Night: History As A Novel, The Novel as History
Norman Mailer • 1968
The October, 1967 anti-war demonstration in Washington and the issues and politics involved are interpreted and dramatized by the novelist
The Art of Eating
M. F. K. Fisher • 2004
The Art of Fiction
Henry James • 2010
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Art of Living
Epictetus • 2007
<p> Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 ce in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Once freed, he established an influential school of Stoic philosophy, stressing that human beings cannot control life, only their responses to it. By putting into practice the ninety-three witty, wise, and razor-sharp instructions that make up <i>The Art of Living</i>, readers learn to meet the challenges of everyday life successfully and to face life's inevitable losses and disappointments with grace. </p>
The Art of War
Sunzi • 2006
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner • 2020
Atonement A Novel
Ian McEwan • 2003
Autobiography of a Face
Lucy Grealy • 2016
The Awakening
Kate Chopin • 2015
Babe The Gallant Pig
Dick King-Smith • 1995
Backlash The Undeclared War Against American Women
Susan Faludi • 2006
<b>A new edition of the feminist classic, with an all-new introduction exploring the role of backlash in the 2016 election and laying out a path forward for 2020 and beyond<br></b><br><b>Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • “Enraging, enlightening, and invigorating, <i>Backlash</i> is, most of all, true.”—<i>Newsday</i></b><br><br>First published in 1991, <i>Backlash</i> made headlines and became a bestselling classic for its thoroughgoing debunking of a decadelong antifeminist backlash against women’s advances. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Susan Faludi brilliantly deconstructed the reigning myths about the “costs” of women’s independence—from the supposed “man shortage” to the “infertility epidemic” to “career burnout” to “toxic day care”—and traced their circulation from Reagan-era politics through the echo chambers of mass media, advertising, and popular culture. <br> <br>As Faludi writes in a new preface for this edition, much has changed in the intervening years: The Internet has given voice to a new generation of feminists. Corporations list “gender equality” among their core values. In 2019, a record number of women entered Congress. Yet the glass ceiling is still unshattered, women are still punished for wanting to succeed, and reproductive rights are hanging by a thread. This startling and essential book helps explain why women’s freedoms are still so demonized and threatened—and urges us to choose a different future.
Bad Dirt
Annie Proulx • 2004
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress A Novel
Dai Sijie • 2002
Bambi A Life in the Woods
Felix Salten • 2013
Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche • 2011
<b>This captivating collection brings together five of Friedrich Nietzche’s most important philosophical works, exploring themes such as nihilism, metaphysics, and the nature of morality—featuring an introduction by Peter Gay and commentary from Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, and Gilles Deleuze</b><br><br>More than one hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. <i>Basic Writings of Nietzsche</i> gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche’s most important works, from his first book to his last: <i>The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Case of Wagner, </i>and <i>Ecce Homo</i>. <br> <br>Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume also features seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche’s correspondence, and variants from drafts for <i>Ecce Homo</i>. It is a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche’s thought.<br><br><b>This edition includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide</b>
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett • 2005
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath • 2005
<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>
Beloved Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni Morrison • 2004
Beowulf A New Verse Translation
Seamus Heaney • 2001
The Best of Martha Stewart Living: Holidays
Martha Stewart Living • 1993
The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)
Anonymous • 2008
The Big Love
Sarah Dunn • 2005
Bielski Brothers The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
Peter Duffy • 2004
Billy Budd and Other Tales
Herman Melville • 2009
<b>A master of the american short story</b><br><br> Included in this rich collection are: <i>The Piazza, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower</i>, and <i>The Town-Ho's Story</i>.
Bitch In Praise of Difficult Women
Elizabeth Wurtzel • 2012
From the author of the bestselling Prozac Nation comes one of the most entertaining feminist manifestos ever written. In five brilliant extended essays, she links the lives of women as demanding and disparate as Amy Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Margaux Hemingway, and Nicole Brown Simpson. Wurtzel gives voice to those women whose lives have been misunderstood, who have been dismissed for their beauty, their madness, their youth. Bitch is a brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behavior. By looking at women who derive their power from their sexuality, Wurtzel offers a trenchant cultural critique of contemporary gender relations. Beginning with Delilah, the first woman to supposedly bring a great man down (latter-day Delilahs include Yoko Ono, Pam Smart, Bess Myerson), Wurtzel finds many biblical counterparts to the men and women in today's headlines. She finds in the story of Amy Fisher the tragic plight of all Lolitas, our thirst for their brief and intense flame. She connects Hemingway's tragic suicide to those of Sylvia Plath, Edie Sedgwick, and Marilyn Monroe, women whose beauty was an end, ultimately, in itself. Wurtzel, writing about the wife/mistress dichotomy, explains how some women are anointed as wife material, while others are relegated to the role of mistress. She takes to task the double standard imposed on women, the cultural insistence on goodness and society's complete obsession with badness: what's a girl to do? Let's face it, if women were any real threat to male power, "Gennifer Flowers would be sitting behind the desk of the Oval Office," writes Wurtzel, "and Bill Clinton would be a lounge singer in the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock." Bitch tells a tale both celebratory and cautionary as Wurtzel catalogs some of the most infamous women in history, defending their outsize desires, describing their exquisite loneliness, championing their take-no-prisoners approach to life and to love. Whether writing about Courtney Love, Sally Hemings, Bathsheba, Kimba Wood, Sharon Stone, Princess Di--or waxing eloquent on the hideous success of The Rules, the evil that is The Bridges of Madison County, the twisted logic of You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again--Wurtzel is back with a bitchography that cuts to the core. In prose both blistering and brilliant, Bitch is a treatise on the nature of desperate sexual manipulation and a triumph of pussy power.
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
Mary McCarthy • 2002
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley • 2006
Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit<br/>"A masterpiece. ... One of the most prophetic dystopian works." —Wall Street Journal<br/>Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.<br/>"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune
Brick Lane
Monica Ali • 2003
The Bridges of Madison County
Robert James Waller • 1992
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking • 1998
Brigadoon
Frederick Loewe • 2009
(Vocal Score). The full vocal score for the Lerner & Loewe musical, complete with a plot synopsis, cast of characters, scene descriptions and more. Song highlights include: Almost like Being in Love * Brigadoon * Come to Me, Bend to Me * From This Day On * The Heather on the Hill * I'll Go Home with Bonnie Jean * Jeannie's Packin' Up * The Love of My Life * My Mother's Weddin' Day * Prologue * There but for You Go I * Waitin' for My Dearie * and more.
Brokeback Mountain
Annie Proulx • 1997
The Brontes
Juliet R. V. Barker • 2010
The Call of the Wild
Jack London • 1990
Candide
Voltaire • 2014
The Canterbury Tales (original-spelling edition)
Geoffrey Chaucer • 2005
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Louis De Bernières • 2001
Carrie
Stephen King • 2011
Catch-22
Joseph Heller and Christopher Buckley • 2011
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger • 2001
The Celebrated Jumping Frog 100th Anniversary Collection
Mark Twain • 2018
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl • 1999
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Charlotte’s Web
E. B. White • 2015
The Children’s Hour
Lillian Hellman • 1953
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
Christine
Stephen King • 2016
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens • 2013
<b>Celebrate the spirit of the season with this complimentary edition of Charles Dickens’ <i>A Christmas Carol</i>–the perfect companion for a cozy night by the fire. Includes an exclusive excerpt from <i>Marley</i>, Jon Clinch’s masterful reimagining of <i>A Christmas Carol</i>:</b><br> <br><b>“In Marley, again Jon Clinch shows his genius, taking Dickens’ <i>A Christmas Carol</i>, and turning it inside out, revealing its contemporary wonder, making the characters and actions of both Scrooge and Marley entirely modern, without losing a beat of Dickens’ Victorian music.” —Robert Goolrick, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>A Reliable Wife</i><br> </b><br><br><i>“I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,” said the Spirit. “Look upon me!”</i><br> <br>Since its publication in 1843, <i>A Christmas Carol</i> has become a cultural touchstone, imparting a message as relevant to our world today as it was in Dickens’ own Victorian age. As it tells the story of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve, the book reminds us of the true meaning of Christmas. This timeless tale of transformation and redemption makes a perfect gift for anyone who loves great storytelling.
Chrysanthemum
Kevin Henkes • 1991
Clifford the Big Red Dog (Classic Storybook)
Norman Bridwell • 2010
It only takes a little to be BIG!<br/>Meet Clifford and Emily Elizabeth in the original Clifford book! Clifford is big. Clifford is red. But most of all, Clifford knows how to BE A GOOD FRIEND.
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess • 2019
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell • 2005
The Code of the Woosters
P. G. Wodehouse • 2000
<b>The classic misadventures continue with <i>The Code of the Woosters,</i> a collection of lighthearted tales featuring the dim-witted idler Bertie Wooster and his long-suffering manservant Jeeves. Fans of classic British comedy will chuckle as P. G. Wodehouse pokes gentle fun at the English upper classes.</b><br> <br>
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty • 2019
A Comedy of Errors
William Shakespeare • 2004
Complete Novels
Dawn Powell • 2001
The Complete Poems
Anne Sexton • 2016
The Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker • 1995
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole • 1980
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Mark Twain • 2017
Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
David Foster Wallace • 2005
<b>This celebrated collection of essays from the author of <i>Infinite Jest </i>is "brilliantly entertaining...<i>Consider the Lobster</i> proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer" (<i>Cleveland Plain Dealer</i>). </b><br><br> Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person?<br><br> David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's 2000 presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.<br><br><b>"Wallace can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking, and absurd with equal ease; he can even do them all at once." --Michiko Kakutani, <i>New York Times</i></b>
Contact A Novel
Carl Sagan • 2019
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas • 2003
Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac • 2020
La Cousine Bette is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Set in mid-19th-century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family. Bette works with Valérie Marneffe, an unhappily married young lady, to seduce and torment a series of men.
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1993
<b>Hailed by <i>Washington Post Book World</i> as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of <i>Crime and Punishment </i>has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • <b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME</b></b><br><br>With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of <i>Crime and Punishment, </i>Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. <br><br>In <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision. Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.
The Crimson Petal and the White
Michel Faber • 2003
The Crisis The President, the Prophet, and the Shah-- 1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam
David Harris • 2004
The Crucible
Arthur Miller • 2025
Cujo
Stephen King • 2016
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon • 2004
Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand • 2012
<b>Regarded as one of the greatest dramas ever written, <i>Cyrano de Bergerac</i> is the story of the silver-tongued soldier whose unfortunate looks drive him to woo his love by speaking for his handsome but dull-witted rival.</b><br><br><i>Cyrano de Bergerac</i> occupies a unique place in the modern theater. Deliberately disavowing realism and contemporary relevance, Edmond Rostand’s masterpiece represents a turning back in both time and spirit to an earlier age of high adventure and soaring idealism. Its magnificent hero, Cyrano—noble of soul and grotesque in appearance, gallant Gascon soldier, brilliant wit, and timid lover, alternately comic, heroic, tragic—represents one of the most challenging of all acting roles in its complexity and mercurial changes of mood. From its original production to the present day, <i>Cyrano de Bergerac</i> has enjoyed a charmed existence on the stage, its unflagging pace of action and eloquence of language enchanting critics and public alike. Here, in a superlative translation, is the ultimate triumph of the great French romantic tradition—a work which, in the words of the French critic Lemaître, “prolongs, unites and blends…three centuries of comic fantasy and moral grace.”<br> <br> <b>Translated by Lowell Bair</b><br><b>With an Introduction by Eteel Lawson </b><br><b>and an Afterword by Cynthia B. Kerr</b><br>
Daughter of Fortune A Novel
Isabel Allende • 2014
David and Lisa / Jordi / Little Ralphie and the Creature: Three remarkable stories of children struggling to find themsleves and their places in this world
Theodore Isaac Rubin • 1998
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens • 2006
The Da Vinci Code: A Novel (Robert Langdon)
Dan Brown • 2003
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol • 2004
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller • 1976
Deenie
Judy Blume • 2014
Delta of Venus
Anais Nin • 2004
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1995
The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Erik Larson • 2003
The Diary of Virginia Woolf Volumes 1,3,4,5
Virginia Woolf • 1982
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank • 2010
<b>THE DEFINITIVE EDITION <b>•</b> Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.<br></b><br><b>Updated for the 75th Anniversary of the <i>Diary</i>’s first publication with a new introduction by Nobel Prize–winner Nadia Murad<br><br>“The single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust ... remains astonishing and excruciating.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
The Dirt (The Anniversary Edition) Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
Tommy Lee • 2011
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
Dante Alighieri • 2003
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Novel, A
Rebecca Wells • 2009
“A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter.” —Washington Post “Mary McCarthy, Anne Rivers Siddons, and a host of others have portrayed the power and value of female friendships, but no one has done it with more grace, charm, talent, and power than Rebecca Wells.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch The incomparable #1 New York Times bestseller—a book that reigned at the top of the list for an remarkable sixty-eight weeks—Rebecca Wells’s Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a classic of Southern women’s fiction to be read and reread over and over again. A poignant, funny, outrageous, and wise novel about a lifetime friendship between four Southern women, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood brilliantly explores the bonds of female friendship, the often-rocky relationship between mothers and daughters, and the healing power of humor and love, in a story as fresh and uplifting as when it was first published a decade and a half ago. If you haven’t yet met the Ya-Yas, what are you waiting for?
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
Philip K. Dick • 2010
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes • 2009
Downpour
Nick Holmes • 2019
Dracula
Bram Stoker • 2017
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the imminent arrival of his 'Master'. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count Dracula and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing deeply into questions of human identity and sanity, and illuminating dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.
Driving Miss Daisy
Alfred Uhry • 1993
Racial tensions are delicately explored when a warm friendship evolves between an elderly Jewish woman and her black chauffeur. Winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize, and Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert • 2006
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems
Edgar Allan Poe • 2013
Eleanor Roosevelt
Blanche Wiesen Cook • 1992
A study of the complex and political figure of Eleanor Roosevelt begins with her harrowing childhood, describes the difficulties of her marriage, and explains how she persuaded Franklin to make the reforms that would make him famous.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe • 2008
Elements
AU Euclid • 2002
Ella Minnow Pea A Novel in Letters
Mark Dunn • 2002
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis • 2019
Eloise at The Plaza
Kay Thompson • 2015
<b>For the first time ever, Eloise and her friends are in a board book story adapted from the original classic. How Marvelous!</b><br><br>Eloise is a very special—and very precocious—six-year-old girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. She may not be pretty yet, but she’s definitely already a real Person. Join Eloise and experience her fabulous life in the famous Plaza Hotel. You’ll be glad you did!
The Complete Emily the Strange: All Things Strange
Rob Reger • 2021
Emily the Strange is not your ordinary thirteen-year-old girl--she's got a razor-sharp wit as dark as her jet-black hair, a posse of moody black cats, and famous friends in very odd places! She's got a broodingly unique way of experiencing the world, and you're invited along for the ride. Legions of fans worldwide have joined forces to make Emily a pop-culture phenomenon.
EMMA
Jane Austen • 2020
Collector's Edition featuring illustrations and indexed pages. Complete, unedited and unabridged version. Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters.Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the first sentence, she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich." Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray.
Empire Falls
Richard Russo • 2002
<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER <b>• </b>PULITZER PRIZE WINNER <b>• The bestselling author of <i>Nobody's Fool </i>and <i>Straight Man</i> delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace. </b></b><br><br><b>“Rich, humorous ... Mr. Russo’s most seductive book thus far.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned mills whose citizens surround themselves with the comforts and feuds provided by lifelong friends and neighbors and who find humor and hope in the most unlikely places, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Russo.<br><br> Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it’s Janine, Miles’ soon-to-be ex-wife, who’s taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it’s the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in town–and seems to believe that “everything” includes Miles himself.<br><br><b>Look for Richard Russo's new book, <i>Somebody's Fool</i>, coming soon.</b>
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Donald J. Sobol • 2007
Essentials of Development Economics, Third Edition
J. Edward Taylor • 2020
Written to provide students with the critical tools and approaches used by development economists, <i>Essentials of Development Economics</i> represents an alternative approach to traditional textbooks on the subject. Compact and less expensive than other textbooks for undergraduate development economics courses, <i>Essentials of Development Economics</i> offers a broad overview of key topics and methods in the field. Its fourteen easy-to-read chapters introduce cutting-edge research and present best practices and state-of-the-art methods. By mastering the material in this time-tested book, students will have the conceptual grounding needed to move on to more advanced development economics courses.<br> <br> This new edition includes: <ul><li>updated references to international development policy process and goals</li><li>substantial updates to several chapters with new and revised material to make the text both current and policy relevant</li><li>replacement of several special features with new ones featuring widely cited studies</li></ul>
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton • 2019
Ethics
Benedict de Spinoza • 2005
<b>A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's <i>Ethics </i>is one of the masterpieces of Enlightenment-era philosophy. </b><br><br>Published shortly after his death, the <i>Ethics </i>is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles, providing a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, the emotions, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding - moving from a consideration of the eternal, to speculate upon humanity's place in the natural order, the nature of freedom and the path to attainable happiness. A powerful work of elegant simplicity, the <i>Ethics </i>is a brilliantly insightful consideration of the possibility of redemption through intense thought and philosophical reflection. The <i>Ethics </i>is presented in the standard translation of the work by Edwin Curley. This edition also includes an introduction by Stuart Hampshire, outlining Spinoza's philosophy and placing it in context. <br><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Europe Through the Back Door The Travel Skills Handbook
Rick Steves • 2022
<b>You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Europe. With <i>Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door</i>, you'll learn how to:</b> <ul> <li>Plan your itinerary and maximize your time</li> <li>Pack light and right</li> <li>Find good-value hotels and restaurants</li> <li>Travel smoothly by train, bus, car, and plane</li> <li>Avoid crowds and tourist scams</li> <li>Hurdle the language barrier</li> <li>Understand cultural differences and connect with locals</li> <li>Save money while enjoying the trip of a lifetime</li> <li>Travel safely and hygienically in the wake of Covid-19</li> </ul> <b>After 40+ years of exploring Europe, Rick considers this travel skills handbook his life's work, and with his expert introductions to the top destinations in Europe, choosing your next trip will be easy and stress-free. Using the travel skills in this book, you'll experience the culture like a local, spend less money, and have more fun.</b>
Eva Luna
Isabel Allende • 2015
Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer • 2013
The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer • 2012
Extravagance
Gary Krist • 2003
Fahrenheit 451 A Novel
Ray Bradbury • 2012
"Sixty years after the original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel 'Fahrenheit 451' stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author ; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others ; rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive ; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature."--taken from back cover.
Fahrenheit 9-11 Reader
Michael Moore • 2004
The Fall of the Athenian Empire
Donald Kagan • 1987
Fat Land How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
Greg Critser • 2004
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson • 2022
The Fellowship Of The Ring Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien • 2012
Fiddler on the Roof
Joseph stein • 1979
Book by Joseph stein
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce • 1999
Firewall The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up
Lawrence E. Walsh • 1997
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book
Emma Smith • 2018
This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now spread around the world about their eventful lives. From ink blots to pet paws, from annotations to wineglass rings, First Folios teem with evidence of their place in different contexts with different priorities. This study offers new ways to understand Shakespeare's reception and the history of the book. Unlike previous scholarly investigations of the First Folio, it is not concerned with the discussions of how the book came into being, the provenance of its texts, or the technicalities of its production. Instead, it reanimates, in narrative style, the histories of this book, paying close attention to the details of individual copies now located around the world - their bindings, marginalia, general condition, sales history, and location - to discuss five major themes: owning, reading, decoding, performing, and perfecting. This is a history of the book that consolidated Shakespeare's posthumous reputation: a reception history and a study of interactions between owners, readers, forgers, collectors, actors, scholars, booksellers, and the book through which we understand and recognize Shakespeare.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom • 2003
Flavor of the Month
Olivia Goldsmith • 2018
Fletch (Fletch Mysteries, 1)
Gregory Mcdonald • 2018
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes • 1994
Fodor's Selected Hotels of Europe
Fodor's • 1987
The Fortress of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem • 2004
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand • 1996
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Mary Shelley • 2018
<b>Mary Shelley’s classic novel, presented in its original 1818 text, with an introduction from National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon</b><br> <br> <b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br> <br>The original 1818 text of <i>Frankenstein</i> preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley’s original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also emphasizes Shelley’s relationship with her mother—trailblazing feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who penned <i>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</i>—and demonstrates her commitment to carrying forward her mother’s ideals, placing her in the context of a feminist legacy rather than the sole female in the company of male poets, including Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.<br> <br> This edition includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by National Book Critics Circle award-winner and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon, and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson. <br> <br>Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Franny and Zooey
J. D. Salinger • 1991
Freaky Friday
Mary Rodgers • 2009
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Hayden Herrera • 2002
Galapagos A Novel
Kurt Vonnegut • 1999
<b>“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”<b>—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br></b><i>Galápagos </i>takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America’ s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry–and all that is worth saving.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Galápagos</i></b><br><br>“The best Vonnegut novel yet!”<b>—John Irving</b><br><br> “Beautiful . . . provocative, arresting reading.”<b>—<i>USA Today</i></b><i><br><br></i>“A satire in the classic tradition . . . a dark vision, a heartfelt warning.”<b>—<i>The Detroit Free Press</i></b><br> <br> “Interesting, engaging, sad and yet very funny . . . Vonnegut is still in top form. If he has no prescription for alleviating the pain of the human condition, at least he is a first-rate diagnostician.”<b>—Susan Isaacs, <i>Newsday</i></b><br> <br> “Dark . . . original and funny.”<b>—<i>People</i></b><br> <br> “A triumph of style, originality and warped yet consistent logic . . . a condensation, an evolution of Vonnegut’s entire career, including all the issues and questions he has pursued relentlessly for four decades.”<b>—<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i></b><br> <br> “Wild details, wry humor, outrageous characters . . . <i>Galápagos</i> is a comic lament, a sadly ironic vison.”<b>—<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i></b><br> <br> “A work of high comedy, sadness and imagination.”<b>—<i>The Denver Post</i></b><br> <br> “Wacky wit and irreverent imagination . . . and the full range of technical innovations have made [Vonnegut] America’s preeminent experimental novelist.”<b>—<i>The Minneapolis Star and Tribune</i></b>
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge Classics)
Judith Butler • 2006
George W. Bushisms The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President
Jacob Weisberg • 2001
Gidget
Frederick Kohner • 2001
Gigi
Colette • 2021
A Girl from Yamhill
Beverly Cleary • 1996
Girl, Interrupted A Memoir
Susanna Kaysen • 2013
30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams • 1999
Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by prominent Williams scholar Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: "More than fifty years after telling his story of a family whose lives form a triangle of quiet desperation, Williams's mellifluous voice still resonates deeply and universally." This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short section of Williams's own "Production Notes." The cover features the classic line drawing by Alvin Lustig, originally done for the 1949 New Directions edition.
Glengarry Glen Ross A Play
David Mamet • 1984
The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels • 1989
<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • SELECTED BY THE MODERN LIBRARY AS ONE OF THE 100 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS • The landmark study exploring alternative perspectives of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts that could have shaped the religion differently if included in the Christian canon • "[Pagels] is always readable, always deeply informed, always richly suggestive of pathways her readers may wish to follow out for themselves."<i>—</i>Harold Bloom, <i>The Washington Post</i></b><br> <br> <b>“[Pagels] writes with the instincts of a novelist, the skill of a scholar, and the ability to sort out significances that many writers lack.”<i>—Chicago Tribune • “</i>An intellectually elegant, concise study . . . The economy with which [Pagels] evokes the world of early Christianity is a marvel.”<i>—The New Yorker </i></b><br> <br> <i>The Gnostic Gospels</i> is a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award,<i> The Gnostic Gospels </i>has continued to grow in reputation and influence. It is now widely recognized as one of the most brilliant and accessible histories of early Christian spirituality published in our time.<br><br>In 1945 an Egyptian peasant unearthed what proved to be the Gnostic Gospels, thirteen papyrus volumes that expounded a radically different view of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ from that of the New Testament. In this spellbinding book, renowned religious scholar Elaine Pagels elucidates the mysteries and meanings of these sacred texts both in the world of the first Christians and in the context of Christianity today.<br><br>With insight and passion, Pagels explores a remarkable range of recently discovered gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, to show how a variety of “Christianities” emerged at a time of extraordinary spiritual upheaval. Some Christians questioned the need for clergy and church doctrine, and taught that the divine could be discovered through spiritual search. Many others, like Buddhists and Hindus, sought enlightenment—and access to God—within. Such explorations raised questions: Was the resurrection to be understood symbolically and not literally? Was God to be envisioned only in masculine form, or feminine as well? Was martyrdom a necessary—or worthy—expression of faith? These early Christians dared to ask questions that orthodox Christians later suppressed—and their explorations led to profoundly different visions of Jesus and his message. <br> <br> Brilliant and stunning in its implications, <i>The Gnostic Gospels </i>is a radical, eloquent reconsideration of the origins of the Christian faith.
The Godfather
Mario Puzo • 1969
<b>The unforgettable saga of an American crime family that became a #1 bestseller and global phenomenon. </b><br> <br> Since its release in 1969, <i>The Godfather </i>has made an indelible mark on American crime fiction. From the mind of master storyteller Mario Puzo, it traces the Corleone family, whose brilliant and brutal portrayal illuminated the violent and seductive allure of power in American society. A tale of family and loyalty, law and order, obedience and rebellion, it has stood the test of time as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld. <br> <br> Beyond the bestselling novel, Francis Ford Coppola’s incomparable film adaptation and Academy Award winner for Best Picture cemented <i>The Godfather</i>’s reputation as a triumph in storytelling and a seminal classic for the ages. With a legacy of blood and honor, it is a cultural touchstone that has resonated for generations, and still mesmerizes readers to this day.
The God of Small Things: A Novel
Arundhati Roy • 2008
Bears Should Share!/Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Alvin Granowsky • 1996
Gone Girl A Novel
Gillian Flynn • 2014
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell • 2011
Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time—has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel.<br/><br/>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.<br/><br/>This is the tale of Scarlett O’Hara, the spoiled, manipulative daughter of a wealthy plantation owner, who arrives at young womanhood just in time to see the Civil War forever change her way of life. A sweeping story of tangled passion and courage, in the pages of Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell brings to life the unforgettable characters that have captivated readers for decades.<br/><br/>Widely considered an American classic, and often remembered for its epic film version, Gone With the Wind explores the depth of human passions with an intensity as bold as its setting in the red hills of Georgia. A superb piece of storytelling, it vividly depicts the drama of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Goodnight Spoon
Keith Richards • 2011
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford • 2020
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
José Saramago • 1994
A wry, fictional account of the life of Christ by the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, "Illuminated by ferocious wit, gentle passion, and poetry" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). For José Saramago, the life of Jesus Christ and the story of his Passion were things of this earth: a child crying, a gust of wind, the caress of a woman half asleep, the bleat of a goat or the bark of a dog, a prayer uttered in the grayish morning light. The Holy Family reflects the real complexities of any family, but this is realism filled with vision, dream, and omen. Saramago's deft psychological portrait of a savior who is at once the Son of God and a young man of this earth is an expert interweaving of poetry and irony, spirituality and irreverence. The result is nothing less than a brilliant skeptic's wry inquest into the meaning of God and of human existence.
The Graduate
Charles Webb • 2002
The basis for Mike Nichols' acclaimed 1967 film starring Dustin Hoffman -- and for successful stage productions in London and on Broadway -- this classic novel about a naive college graduate adrift in the shifting social and sexual mores of the 1960s captures with hilarity and insight the alienation of youth and the disillusionment of an era. <br> <b>The Graduate</b> <br> When Benjamin Braddock graduates from a small Eastern college and moves home to his parents' house, everyone wants to know what he's going to do with his life. Embittered by the emptiness of his college education and indifferent to his grim prospects -- grad school? a career in plastics? -- Benjamin falls haplessly into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, the relentlessly seductive wife of his father's business partner. It's only when beautiful coed Elaine Robinson comes home to visit her parents that Benjamin, now smitten, thinks he might have found some kind of direction in his life. Unfortuately for Benjamin, Mrs. Robinson plays the role of protective mother as well as she does the one of mistress. A wondrously fierce and absurd battle of wills ensues, with love and idealism triumphing over the forces of corruption and conformity.
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck • 2006
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens • 2003
The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • 2022
The Group
Mary McCarthy • 1991
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift • 2023
Guys and Dolls
Damon Runyon • 1992
Haiku (Volume II)
R. H. Blythe • 2021
Hamlet
William Shakespeare • 2003
Harold and the Purple Crayon (Purple Crayon Books)
Crockett Johnson • 2015
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J.K. Rowling • 2015
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling • 2015
<p><i>Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'.</i><br><br>Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!<br><br><br><i>Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter eBooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers.</i></p>
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers • 2001
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad • 2020
A new edition of Heart of Darkness, the 1899 masterpiece by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad about a voyage up the Congo River into the Heart of Africa. The story is narrated by Charles Marlow, recalling his obsessive quest to locate the ivory trader Kurtz, who has become ensconced deep in the jungle managing a remote outpost. As he ventures further and further down the Congo, Marlow finds himself and his surroundings become increasingly untethered. Heart of Darkness has been widely re-published and translated into many languages. It provided the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness 67th on their list of the 100 best novels in English of the twentieth century. Literary critic Harold Bloom wrote that Heart of Darkness had been analyzed more than any other work of literature that is studied in universities and colleges, which he attributed to Conrad's "unique propensity for ambiguity."
HELL'S (Hells) ANGELS - The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
Hunter S. Thompson • 1972
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Vincent Bugliosi • 2001
Henry IV, Part I
William Shakespeare • 2004
Henry IV, Part II
Shakespeare,William • 2004
Henry V
William Shakespeare • 2003
Henry VI
William Shakespeare • 2019
He’s Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
Greg Behrendt • 2012
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby • 1996
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon • 2001
The History of the Peloponnesian War Historical Account of the War between Sparta and Athens
Thucydides • 2018
The History of Tom Thumb, and Others
Anonymous • 2017
Hockey For Dummies
John Davidson • 2000
Holidays on Ice: Stories
David Sedaris • 1997
The Holy Barbarians
Lawrence Lipton • 2010
Horton Hears a Who!
Dr. Seuss • 1954
House of Sand and Fog A Novel
Andre Dubus Iii • 2018
<b>The National Book Award finalist, Oprah’s Book Club pick, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller and basis for the Oscar-nominated motion picture </b><br><p>A recent immigrant from the Middle East—a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force—yearns to restore his family’s dignity in California. A recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold onto the one thing she has left?her home. And her lover, a married cop, is driven to extremes to win her love.</p> <p>Andre Dubus III’s unforgettable characters—people with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand on—careen toward inevitable conflict. Their tragedy paints a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.</p>
The House of the Spirits: A Novel
Isabel Allende • 2015
Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg • 2023
How to Breathe Underwater
Julie Orringer • 2007
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Dr. Seuss • 1957
How the Light Gets In
M. J. Hyland • 2004
How We Are Hungry
Dave Eggers • 2005
The Human Factor (Penguin Classics)
Graham Greene • 2008
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo • 2021
Set in medieval Paris, Victor Hugo's powerful historical romance has resonated with succeeding generations ever since its publication in 1837. It tells the story of the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the tormented archdeacon Claude Frollo, who lusts after her. Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, having fallen in love with the kindhearted Esmeralda, tries to save her by hiding her in the cathedral's tower. When a crowd of Parisian peasants, misunderstanding Quasimodo's motives, attacks the church in an attempt to liberate her, the story ends in tragedy.
I Feel Bad About My Neck And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman
Nora Ephron • 2008
<p><b>#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A candid, hilarious look at women of a certain age and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.</b><br><br><b>“Wickedly witty ... Crackling sharp ... Fireworks shoot out [of this collection].” —<i>The Boston Globe<br></i></b></p><p>With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as an older woman. Utterly courageous, uproariously funny, and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling, <i>I Feel Bad About My Neck</i> is a scrumptious, irresistible treat of a book, full of truths, laugh out loud moments that will appeal to readers of all ages.</p>
The Iliad
Homer • 2017
I'm with the Band
Pamela Des Barres • 2005
The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s is back in print in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author's last 15 years of adventures. As soon as she graduated from high school, Pamela Des Barres headed for the Sunset Strip, where she knocked on rock stars' backstage doors and immersed herself in the drugs, danger, and ecstasy of the freewheeling 1960s. Over the next 10 years she had affairs with Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Waylon Jennings, Chris Hillman, Noel Redding, and Jim Morrison, among others. She traveled with Led Zeppelin; lived in sin with Don Johnson; turned down a date with Elvis Presley; and was close friends with Robert Plant, Gram Parsons, Ray Davies, and Frank Zappa. As a member of the GTO's, a girl group masterminded by Frank Zappa, she was in the thick of the most revolutionary renaissance in the history of modern popular music. Warm, witty, and sexy, this kiss-and-tell&–all stands out as the perfect chronicle of one of rock 'n' roll's most thrilling eras.
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote • 1994
Indiana
Georges Sand • 2023
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri • 2009
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Marcel Proust • 2003
Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Drama of the Greatest Courtroom Clash of the Century
Jerome Lawrence • 2003
The Invitation
Oriah • 2006
Ironweed
William Kennedy • 2007
It Takes a Village
Hillary Rodham Clinton • 2006
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë • 2003
Charlotte Brontë characterized the eponymous heroine of her 1847 novel as being "as poor and plain as myself." Presenting a heroine with neither great beauty nor entrancing charm was an unprecendented maneuver, but Brontë's instincts proved correct, for readers of her era and ever after have taken Jane Eyre into their hearts. The author drew upon her own experience to depict Jane's struggles at Lowood, an oppressive boarding school, and her troubled career as a governess. Unlike Jane, Brontë had the advantage of a warm family circle that shared and encouraged her literary pursuits. She found immediate success with this saga of an orphan girl forced to make her way alone in the world, from Lowood School to Thornfield, the estate of the majestically moody Mr. Rochester, and beyond. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
The Joy Luck Club A Novel
Amy Tan • 2006
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare • 1991
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair • 2019
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling • 2019
Jurassic Park A Novel
Michael Crichton • 2012
<b><b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • <b>From the author of <i>Timeline, Sphere, </i>and<i> Congo,</i> this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm.</b><br><br><b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br><br>“[Michael] Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.”<i>—Chicago Sun-Times</i></b></b><br><br>An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price.<br> <br>Until something goes wrong. . . .<br> <br>In <i>Jurassic Park, </i>Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Jurassic Park</i></b><br> <br>“Wonderful . . . powerful.”<b>—<i>The Washington Post Book World<br></i></b><br>“Frighteningly real . . . compelling . . . It’ll keep you riveted.”<b><i>—The Detroit News</i></b><br><b><i> </i></b><br>“Full of suspense.”<b>—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b>
Just a Couple of Days
Tony Vigorito • 2007
The Kitchen Boy A Novel of the Last Tsar
Robert Alexander • 2004
Kitchen Confidential Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain • 2000
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini • 2013
Lady Chatterleys Lover
D.H. LAWRENCE • 2022
Larousse Wine
David Cobbold • 2018
The Last Empire Essays 1992-2000
Gore Vidal • 2002
Like his National Book Award—winning <i>United States, </i>Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, <b>The Last Empire</b><i>, </i>affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and razor-edged wit to bear on an astonishing range of subjects. From his celebrated profiles of Clare Boothe Luce and Charles Lindbergh and his controversial essay about the Bill of Rights–which sparked an extended correspondence with convicted Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh–to his provocative analyses of literary icons such as John Updike and Mark Twain and his trenchant observations about terrorism, civil liberties, the CIA, Al Gore, Tony Blair, and the Clintons, Vidal weaves a rich tapestry of personal anecdote, critical insight, and historical detail. Written between the first presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and the electoral crisis of 2000, <b>The Last Empire</b> is a sweeping coda to the last century’s conflicted vision of the American dream.
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
William Manchester • 1984
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, VOLUME TWO: Alone, 1932-1940 (Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume II)
William Manchester • 2012
The Last Lion Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
William Manchester • 2013
The Last Word, and Other Stories
Graham Greene • 1990
Leaves Of Grass: 1855
Walt Whitman • 2018
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Steven Pressfield • 2000
Les Miserables (Signet Classics)
Victor Hugo • 2013
Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis • 1998
Letters of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand • 1997
Letters of Edith Wharton
R. W. B. Lewis • 1989
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke • 2018
<p>Facsimile of 1943 Edition. Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, ten in all, remain a fresh source of inspiration and insight to the poetic sensibility to this day.</p>
The Libation-Bearers
Aeschylus • 2013
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Al Franken • 2003
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Marie Kondō • 2014
Life of Pi: A Novel
Yann Martel • 2002
The Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell • 2013
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel • 1995
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis • 1994
Lisa and David
Theodore Isaac Rubin • 2018
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens • 2012
Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder • 2016
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder • 2020
The Little Locksmith
Katharine Hathaway (Butler) • 1943
The Little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway's luminous memoir of disability, faith, and transformation, is a critically acclaimed but largely forgotten literary classic brought back into print for the first time in thirty years. The Little Locksmith begins in 1895 when a specialist straps five-year-old Katharine, then suffering from spinal tuberculosis, to a board with halters and pulleys in a failed attempt to prevent her being a "hunchback." Her mother says that she should be thankful that her parents are able to have her cared for by a famous surgeon; otherwise, she would grow up to be like the "little locksmith," who does jobs at their home; he has a "strange, awful peak in his back." Forced to endure "a horizontal life of night and day," Katharine remains immobile until age fifteen, only to find that she, too, has a hunched back and is "no larger than a ten-year-old child." The Little Locksmith charts Katharine's struggle to transcend physical limitations and embrace her life, her body and herself in the face of debilitating bouts of frustration and shame. Her spirit and courage prevail, and she succeeds in expanding her world far beyond the boundaries prescribed by her family and society: she attends Radcliffe College, forms deep friendships, begins to write, and in 1921, purchases a house of her own in Castine, Maine. There she creates her home, room by room, fashioning it as a space for guests, lovers, and artists. The Little Locksmith stands as a testimony to Katharine's aspirations and desires-for independence, for love, and for the pursuit of her art.<br/>"We tend to forget nowadays that there is more than one variety of hero (and heroine). Katharine Butler Hathaway, who died last Christmas Eve, was the kind of heroine whose deeds are rarely chronicled. They were not spectacular and no medal would have been appropriate for her. All she did was to take a life which fate had cast in the mold of a frightful tragedy and redesign it into a quiet, modest work of art. The life was her own.<br/>"When Katharine Butler was five, she fell victim to spinal tuberculosis. For ten years she was strapped to a board (that means one hundred and twenty months, an infinity of days and hours and minutes)
The Little Match Girl
Hans Christian Andersen • 2001
The luminous art of three-time Caldecott Honor recipient Jerry Pinkney transforms the nineteenth-century Danish girl of Andersen's tale into a child plucked straight from America's melting pot, shedding new light on the invisibility of the poor among the prosperous-a circumstance as familiar in Andersen's day as it is in our own.<br><br>"[A] beautifully illustrated version of a classic tale."(<i>Booklist</i>, starred review)
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott • 2014
<b>Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four sisters in a deluxe hardcover edition, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.<br></b><br>Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be more different. But with their father away at war, and their mother working to support the family, they have to rely on one another. Whether they're putting on a play, forming a secret society, or celebrating Christmas, there's one thing they can't help wondering: Will Father return home safely?
Living History
Hillary Rodham Clinton • 2003
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov • 1989
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in <b>Lolita</b>, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. <b>Lolita</b> is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Lord of the Flies
William Golding • 2003
Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad • 2021
The Lord Of The Rings One Volume
J.R.R. Tolkien • 2012
The Lottery and Other Stories
Shirley Jackson • 2005
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold • 2004
Love Story
Erich Segal • 2005
<p>The Phenomenal National Bestseller<br> and Enduring Classic</p> <p>He is Oliver Barett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law.</p> <p>She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe.</p> <p>Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny immediately attract, sharing a love that defies everything ... yet will end too soon. Here is a love that will linger in your heart now and forever.</p>
Macbeth
William Shakespeare • 2003
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert • 2002
Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans • 2000
The Manticore
Robertson Davies • 2006
