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Ida May

The sentimental antislavery novel Ida May appeared so like its predecessor in the genre, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that for the month of November 1854 reviewers looked for Harriet Beecher Stowe's hand in the...

All the lights

A man bets all he has on a horserace to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of the sport. Old friends talk all night after...

Sherlock Holmes

'I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart'. Scandal, treachery and crime are rife in Old London Town. A king blackmailed by his mistress,...

Poor Caroline

Caroline Denton-Smyth is an eccentric, dressed in trailing feathers and jangling beads, peering out from behind her lorgnette. Sitting alone in her West Kensington bedsitter, she dreams of the Christi...

Rock Crystal

This seemingly simple fable of two children lost in an icy landscape is eloquent in its innocence, but is implicit with the fragility of life and the inevitability of death. This quasi-fairy tale spea...

A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery-The Sentence Is Death

Death, deception, and a detective with quite a lot to hide stalk the pages of Anthony Horowitz&;s brilliant murder mystery, the second in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Ha...

The Water-Witch; or, the Skimmer of the Seas. A Tale. by J. Fenimore Cooper.

Ravel

Ravel is a beguiling and original evocation of the last ten years in the life of the musical genius Ravel, written by novelist Jean Echenoz. The book opens in 1928 as Maurice Ravel dandy, eccentric, c...

Revolution for Dummies

Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn't take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem. --Jon Stewart The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World -the creator of The Program, the most popular tele...

The Boy and the Beast, Vol. 2 (manga)

Having accidentally wandered into the beast world of Jutengai, Kyuta has gotten himself a master--Kumatetsu. But it turns out Kumatetsu's not quite as good at teaching as he is at brawling. The Grandm...

Baby's First: Zoo

Introduce your baby to their first zoo animals with this delightful noisy board book. From elephants to exotic birds, there are different animals to meet on every page, and little hands will love to p...

Jack Frost

Swept into Helmina's consciousness, Noh-A witnesses the young Helmina, heir to Devildom--her longing for freedom and the betrayal that gives rise to Solomon's reign of terror. Helmina's strength alone...