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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780451524935 | 1984 | George Orwell | view Our Feature On George Orwell’s 1984.written In 1948, 1984 Was George Orwell’s Chilling Prophecy About The Future. And While 1984 Has Come And Gone, Orwell’s Narrative Is Timelier Than Ever. 1984 Presents A Startling And Haunting Vision Of The World, So Powerful That It Is Completely Convincing From Start To Finish. No One Can Deny The Power Of This Novel, Its Hold On The Imaginations Of Multiple Generations Of Readers, Or The Resiliency Of Its Admonitions—a Legacy That Seems Only To Grow With The Passage Of Time. examines Different Aspects Of Orwell's Anti-utopian Classic, With A Biographical Sketch Of The Author And Critical Essays On This Work. | Signet Classic |
| 9780385746984 | A Brief Chapter In My Impossible Life | Reinhardt, Dana | Wendy Lamb Books | |
| 9780060256739 | A Light in the Attic | Shel Silverstein | Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their same old Whatif song:Whatif I flunk that test?Whatif green hair grows on my chest?Whatif nobody likes me?Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?...Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel.From the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up, here is another wondrous book of poems and drawings.Children's LiteratureMost of us grew up listening to our teachers or our parents reading to us from Shel Silverstein's poetry collections A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends, or The Giving Tree and loved every humorous moment of them. The only thing better than listening was to hear them and look at the illustrations Silverstein provided for each poem. In this 20th anniversary edition of A Light in the Attic, a new generation of readers is provided the additional joy of listening to Silverstein read—with great enthusiasm—eleven of his personal favorites from the collection. From the woes of homework to the practicalities of the best way to get out of doing the dishes; from the joy of imagining oneself in a rock and roll band to the amazing abilities of the Twistable, Turnable Man; young and young-at-heart readers alike will find themselves laughing at or nodding with the charming characters found in Silverstein's poetry. This collection has been and continues to be a must-use book for teachers working with students of any age to encourage or reinforce a love of poetry. 2001 (orig. 1981), HarperCollins, $22.95 and $17.89. Ages All. Reviewer: Jean Boreen | HarperCollins |
| 9780030957659 | A Midsummer Night's Dream With Connections (Hrw Classics Library) | Shakespeare, William | Holt Rinehart & Winston | |
| 9780553801279 | A Traitor To Memory | George, Elizabeth | Bantam | |
| 9780395771549 | A Wrinkle In Time: And Related Readings (Literature Connections) | Madeline L'Engle | it Was A Dark And Stormy Night; Meg Murry, Her Small Brother Charles Wallace, And Her Mother Had Come Down To The Kitchen For A Midnight Snack When They Were Upset By The Arrival Of A Most Disturbing Stranger.wild Nights Are My Glory, The Unearthly Stranger Told Them. I Just Got Caught In A Downdraft And Blown Off Course. Let Me Sit Down For A Moment, And Then I'll Be On My Way. Speaking Of Ways, By The Way, There Is Such A Thing As A Tesseract.a Tesseract (in Case The Reader Doesn't Know) Is A Wrinkle In Time. To Tell More Would Rob The Reader Of The Enjoyment Of Miss L'engle's Unusual Book. a Wrinkle In Time, Winner Of The Newbery Medal In 1963, Is The Story Of The Adventures In Space And Time Of Meg, Charles Wallace, And Calvin O'keefe (athlete, Student, And One Of The Most Popular Boys In High School). They Are In Search Of Meg's Father, A Scientist Who Disappeared While Engaged In Secret Work For The Government On The Tesseract Problem.barbara L. Talcroft - Children's Literaturewinner Of The Newbery Medal In 1963, L'engle's Work Of Fantasy And Science Fiction Combined With Some Christian Theology Has Now Been Read By Several Generations Of Young Enthusiasts. The Author Went On To Write Three Others, Forming A Quartet Based On The Murry Family, And Including Themes Like The Power Of Love And The Need To Make Responsible Moral Choices. In This Story, Meg Murry, Her Extraordinary Little Brother Charles Wallace, And Schoolmate Calvin O'keefe Make The Acquaintance Of Eccentric Mrs. Whatsit And Friends (who Turn Out To Be Extraterrestrial Beings). Together They Journey Through A Wrinkle In Time, A Tesseract, To Rescue The Murrys' Missing Father From An Evil Presence (likened By Some Interpreters To A Black Hole), And A Sinister Brain Called It. Although This Is Fantasy, The Characters Are Portrayed Realistically And Sympathetically; It Is Meg's Ability To Love That Enables Them To Return Safely To Earth And Make Secure The Right To Individuality. L'engle Herself Claims That She Does Not Know How She Came To Write The Story; I Had No Choice, She Says, It Was Only After It Was Written That I Realized What Some Of It Meant. A Plus With This New Edition Is An Essay By Lisa Sonne That Explores Scientific Concepts Related To The Story—multiple Dimensions, Dark Energy, And String Theory. Each Of These Concepts Were Conceived Since The Book's 1962 Publication But Are Amazingly Applicable To a Wrinkle In Time, And Help To Ensure That This Imaginative Book Will Be Read For A Long Time Into The Future. 2005 (orig. 1962), Laurel Leaf/random House, Ages 9 Up. | McDougal Littell |
| 9780439722148 | Absolutely Normal Chaos | Creech, Sharon | Scholastic | |
| 9780515135824 | Acid Row | Walters, Minette | Jove | |
| 9780451526342 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | Signet | |
| 9780060589349 | Away Laughing On A Fast Camel: Even More Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson | Rennison, Louise | HarperTeen | |
| 9781594480201 | Beijing Doll | Sue, Chun | Banned in China for its candid exploration of a young girl's sexual awakening yet widely acclaimed as being "the first novel of 'tough youth' in China" (Beijing Today), Beijing Doll cuts a daring path through China's rock-and-roll subculture. This cutting edge novel -- drawn from the diaries the author kept throughout her teenage years -- takes readers to the streets of Beijing where a disaffected generation spurns tradition for lives of self expression, passion, and rock-and-roll. Chun Sue's explicit sensuality, unflinching attitude towards sex, and raw, lyrical style break new ground in contemporary Chinese literature.Publishers WeeklyWhat matters about this semi-autobiographical coming-of-age "novel," cobbled together from the journal entries of a teenage scribbler who grew up in Beijing in the 1990s, is that it was banned in mainland China, ostensibly for its too-frank portrayal of the sex-drenched, drug-addled and music-obsessed world of that country's materialistic middle-class youngsters. The ban places it alongside two other "cruel youth" Chinese novels, Mian Mian's Candy and Wei Hui's Shanghai Baby, both of which rode their notoriety (and little else) to decent sales in the West. Chun's tale begins near the end of her third year in middle school as she fails her high school entrance exams and promptly embarks on an aimless and relentlessly solipsistic odyssey of love, sex, rock shows and academic disappointments all part of a fight for some hazily defined freedom punctuated here and there with suicide fantasies. There is no sense of either growth or dissolution in any of this, despite the novel's constant claims to both. Chun shows some promise as a writer, as evidenced by bits of refreshing literary experimentation and a surprising command of irony; she has also wooed the respected Goldblatt as translator. Whether she realizes her potential, however, may depend largely on how well she shuts out the dubious praise she has won, in China and abroad, with this book. (Aug.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. | Riverhead Books |
| 9780425216255 | Book Of The Dead (Kay Scarpetta, No 15) | Cornwell, Patricia | Kay Scarpetta is starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina. And the death of a sixteen-year-old tennis star will usher in a string of murders more baffling—and terrifying—than any that have come before.Publishers WeeklyBestseller Cornwell's 15th novel to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after 2005's Predator) delivers her trademark grisly crime scenes, but lacks the coherence and emotional resonance of earlier books. Soon after relocating to Charleston, S.C., to launch a private forensics lab, Scarpetta is asked to consult on the murder of U.S. tennis star Drew Martin, whose mutilated body was found in Rome. Contradictory evidence leaves Scarpetta, the Italian carabinieri and Scarpetta's lover, forensic psychologist Benton Wesley, stumped. But when she discovers unsettling connections between Martin's murder, the body of an unidentified South Carolina boy and her old nemesis, the maniacal psychiatrist Dr. Marilyn Self, Scarpetta encounters a killer as deadly as any she's ever faced. With her recent switch from first- to third-person narration, Cornwell loses what once made her series so compelling: a window into the mind of a strong, intelligent woman holding her own in a profession dominated by men. Here, the abrupt shifts in point of view slow the momentum, and the reader flounders in excessive forensic minutiae. (Oct.)Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information | Berkley |
| 9780553266184 | Brian's Song (Screenplay) | Blinn, William | Two men. Once names Gale Sayers, the other Brian Piccolo. They came from different parts of the country. They competed fiercely for the same job. One liked to talk; the other was shy. One was white; the other black. This is the story of how they came to know each other, fight each other, and help each other… Two men. One was named Gale Sayers, the other Brian Piccolo. They came from different parts of the country and competed fiercely for the same position on the professional football team the Chicago Bears. One was white, the other was black. One liked to talk, the other was shy. This is the true story of brotherhood on and off the football field. The winner of five Emmy awards. | Bantam |
| 9780671011611 | Cher And Cher Alike Clueless (Clueless) | Gilmour, H. B. | Her name is Sharon, and she's so courterly clueless. Scuffed urban combat boots, a faded pink slip dress, a safety pin in her eyebrow! It's a furious fashion faux pas, perfect for the upcoming costume ball -- except that's how Sharon dresses all the time. Now, suddenly, the grunge goddesses sees the error of her ways. She's all "Help me, Cher. I want to be just like you." It's the makeover challenge of a lifetime. But is this really what the world needs now -- another Cher? Talk about coincidence. For English, Cher's reading Frankenstein, the classic horror hair-raiser about a guy who creates a monster that goes, like, totally postal. And now Cher's creation, Sharon, is turning into a psycho-clone. She's already taken Cher's walk and her talk, and may even take Cher's Baldwin to the ball. Now, that could be a real horror story! | Simon Spotlight Entertainment |
| 9780425161241 | Chromosome 6 (A Medical Thriller) | Cook, Robin | chromosome 6 Is A Prophetic Thriller That Challenges The Medical Ethics Of Genetic Manipulation And Cloning In The Jungles Of Equatorial Africa, Where One Mistake Could Bridge The Gap Between Man And Ape--and Forever Change The Genetic Map Of Our Existence...library Journalthe Ever-popular And Prolific Cook (fatal Cure, Audio Reviews, Lj 9/15/94) Sets His Latest Medical Thriller In Equatorial Guinea, Africa. Dr. Kevin Marshall Worries That He Has Traded His Ethics For A Gleaming Futuristic Lab. Meanwhile, Stateside, Dr. Jack Stapleton, A Forensic Pathologist, Is Deeply Troubled By An Unidentified Body That Is Missing Various Parts. Jack And His Colleague, Laurie, Identify The Corpse As That Of A Mafia Kingpin, And Their Investigation Leads Them To Africa. Narrator Boyd Gaines Is Superb. The Producer, However, Would Do Well To Abandon The Tiresome And Distracting Sound Effects That Serve Only To Lend An Old-time Radio Feel To The Production. Missing Are End-of-side Cues Prompting Listeners To Flip Or Change Tapes. For Popular Fiction Collections.terrill Persky, Naperville, Ill. | The Berkley Publishing Group |
| 9780515110395 | Compelling Evidence (A Paul Madriani Novel) | Martini, Steve | Jove | |
| 9780385335485 | Confessions Of A Shopaholic (Shopaholic, No 1) | Kinsella, Sophie | Dial Press Trade Paperback | |
| 9780312288112 | Confessions Of A Sociopathic Social Climber: The Katya Livingston Chronicles | Adele Lang | Thomas Dunne Books | |
| 9780671705619 | Contamination (Star Trek: The Next Generation, No. 16) | John Vornholt | Pocket Books | |
| 9780312971397 | Cuba: A Jake Grafton Novel (Jake Grafton Novels) | Coonts, Stephen | Stephen Coonts' bestelling novels takes readers into the heart of harrowing, pulse-pounding action, whether on land, on sea, or in the air. Now, this master of full-tilt, blockbuster suspense turns into a lush setting 90 miles from U.S. soil. In Cuba, Fidel Castro lies dying. Human sharks are circling. And one man has his finger on the trigger of a weapon that will change everything... Admiral Jake Grafton is overseeing a shipment of nerve gas being transferred for a top-secret U.S. stockpile at Guantanamo Bay. But a power struggle inside Cuba has ignited an explosive plot and turned a horrific new weapon on the U.S. Now, Jake must strap himself into the cockpit of a new generation of American aircraft and fly blind into the heart of an island that is about to blow--and take the whole world with it... | St. Martin's Paperbacks |