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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Written by Ransom Riggs
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Quirk Books
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $10.99
ISBN: 978-1-59474-603-1 (1-59474-603-6)
Nominated for YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012
Nominated for the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Program for 2013-2014
A mysterious island.
An abandoned orphanage.
A strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in... Read more >
Written by Ransom Riggs
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Quirk Books
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $10.99
ISBN: 978-1-59474-603-1 (1-59474-603-6)
Nominated for YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012
Nominated for the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Program for 2013-2014
A mysterious island.
An abandoned orphanage.
A strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in... Read more >
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Written by Ransom Riggs
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Quirk Books
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $17.99
ISBN: 978-1-59474-476-1 (1-59474-476-9)
Nominated for YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012
Nominated for the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Program for 2013-2014
A mysterious island.
An abandoned orphanage.
A strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in... Read more >
Written by Ransom Riggs
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Quirk Books
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $17.99
ISBN: 978-1-59474-476-1 (1-59474-476-9)
Nominated for YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012
Nominated for the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Program for 2013-2014
A mysterious island.
An abandoned orphanage.
A strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in... Read more >
This is Munich
Written by M. Sasek
Format: Hardcover, 64 pages
Publisher: Universe
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-7893-2426-9 (0-7893-2426-1)
Like the other Sasek classics, This is Munich is a facsimile edition of his original book, which was first published in 1969. The brilliant illustrations have been meticulously preserved and facts updated for the twenty-first century. The charming illustrations coupled with Sasek’s playful narrative make for a perfect souvenir that will... Read more >
Written by M. Sasek
Format: Hardcover, 64 pages
Publisher: Universe
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-7893-2426-9 (0-7893-2426-1)
Like the other Sasek classics, This is Munich is a facsimile edition of his original book, which was first published in 1969. The brilliant illustrations have been meticulously preserved and facts updated for the twenty-first century. The charming illustrations coupled with Sasek’s playful narrative make for a perfect souvenir that will... Read more >
The Rescuers
Written by Margery Sharp
Illustrated by Garth Williams
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: NYR Children's Collection
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-460-9 (1-59017-460-7)
Miss Bianca is a white mouse of great beauty and supreme self-confidence, who, courtesy of her excellent young friend, the ambassador’s son, resides luxuriously in a porcelain pagoda painted with violets, primroses, and lilies of the valley. Miss Bianca would seem to be a pampered creature, and not, you would suppose... Read more >
Written by Margery Sharp
Illustrated by Garth Williams
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: NYR Children's Collection
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-460-9 (1-59017-460-7)
Miss Bianca is a white mouse of great beauty and supreme self-confidence, who, courtesy of her excellent young friend, the ambassador’s son, resides luxuriously in a porcelain pagoda painted with violets, primroses, and lilies of the valley. Miss Bianca would seem to be a pampered creature, and not, you would suppose... Read more >
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Frankenstein
The Graphic Novel
Written by Mary Shelley
Adapted by Lloyd S. Wagner
Illustrated by Naresh Kumar
Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
Publisher: Campfire
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $9.99
ISBN: 978-93-80028-24-8 (93-80028-24-5)
Man has long had the power to take life, but what will happen when he learns to give it?
Intrigued by this question, young Victor Frankenstein - a devoted student of science - becomes obsessed with the idea of conjuring life out of ‘lifeless matter’. Using his formidable skills in chemistry... Read more >
The Graphic Novel
Written by Mary Shelley
Adapted by Lloyd S. Wagner
Illustrated by Naresh Kumar
Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
Publisher: Campfire
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $9.99
ISBN: 978-93-80028-24-8 (93-80028-24-5)
Man has long had the power to take life, but what will happen when he learns to give it?
Intrigued by this question, young Victor Frankenstein - a devoted student of science - becomes obsessed with the idea of conjuring life out of ‘lifeless matter’. Using his formidable skills in chemistry... Read more >
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Treasure Island
The Graphic Novel
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Adapted by Andrew Harrar
Illustrated by Richard Kohlrus
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
Publisher: Campfire
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $11.99
ISBN: 978-93-80028-21-7 (93-80028-21-0)
Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest -
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum.’
Life changes for Jim Hawkins the day a mysterious sailor walks into his father’s inn. The sailor, Billy Bones, possesses a secret which is in hot demand. As Jim discovers when Billy Bones dies, the secret is... Read more >
The Graphic Novel
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Adapted by Andrew Harrar
Illustrated by Richard Kohlrus
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
Publisher: Campfire
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $11.99
ISBN: 978-93-80028-21-7 (93-80028-21-0)
Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest -
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum.’
Life changes for Jim Hawkins the day a mysterious sailor walks into his father’s inn. The sailor, Billy Bones, possesses a secret which is in hot demand. As Jim discovers when Billy Bones dies, the secret is... Read more >
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Bedtime Stories
Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-59494-5 (0-307-59494-7)
As Scheherezade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller’s art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire.
In Bedtime Stories, great writers of the past two centuries explore the boundaries between the... Read more >
Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-59494-5 (0-307-59494-7)
As Scheherezade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller’s art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire.
In Bedtime Stories, great writers of the past two centuries explore the boundaries between the... Read more >
The Good Thief
A Novel
Written by Hannah Tinti
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33746-5 (0-385-33746-9)
Winner, ALA Alex Award 2009
Winner, John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize 2008
New York Times Notable Book of 2008
Washington Post Best Books of 2008
San Francisco Chronicle, 50 Best Fiction & Poetry of 2008
Kirkus, Best Fiction of 2008 list
Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Hannah Tinti
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33746-5 (0-385-33746-9)
Winner, ALA Alex Award 2009
Winner, John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize 2008
New York Times Notable Book of 2008
Washington Post Best Books of 2008
San Francisco Chronicle, 50 Best Fiction & Poetry of 2008
Kirkus, Best Fiction of 2008 list
Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist... Read more >
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Written by Mark Twain
Introduction by George Saunders
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $7.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75737-2 (0-375-75737-6)
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” Ernest Hemingway wrote. “It’s the best book we’ve had.” A complex masterpiece that has spawned volumes of scholarly exegesis and interpretative theories, it is at heart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from his murderous father... Read more >
Written by Mark Twain
Introduction by George Saunders
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $7.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75737-2 (0-375-75737-6)
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” Ernest Hemingway wrote. “It’s the best book we’ve had.” A complex masterpiece that has spawned volumes of scholarly exegesis and interpretative theories, it is at heart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from his murderous father... Read more >
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Written by Mark Twain
Introduction by Frank Conroy
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $8.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75681-8 (0-375-75681-7)
This irresistible tale of the adventures of two friends growing up in frontier America is one of Mark Twain's most popular novels. The farcical, colorful, and poignant escapades of Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn brilliantly depict the humor and pathos of growing up on the geographic and cultural rim of... Read more >
Written by Mark Twain
Introduction by Frank Conroy
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $8.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75681-8 (0-375-75681-7)
This irresistible tale of the adventures of two friends growing up in frontier America is one of Mark Twain's most popular novels. The farcical, colorful, and poignant escapades of Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn brilliantly depict the humor and pathos of growing up on the geographic and cultural rim of... Read more >
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Written by Mark Twain
Illustrated by Daniel Carter Beard
Introduction by Roy Blount Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $8.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75780-8 (0-375-75780-5)
Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan brings to King Arthur’s utopian court the ingenuity of the future, resulting in a culture clash that is at... Read more >
Written by Mark Twain
Illustrated by Daniel Carter Beard
Introduction by Roy Blount Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $8.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75780-8 (0-375-75780-5)
Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan brings to King Arthur’s utopian court the ingenuity of the future, resulting in a culture clash that is at... Read more >
The Mysterious Island
Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Caleb Carr
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 10, 2002
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6642-8 (0-8129-6642-2)
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here... Read more >
Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Caleb Carr
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 10, 2002
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6642-8 (0-8129-6642-2)
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here... Read more >
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Written by Hana Volavkova
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1015-6 (0-8052-1015-6)
This expanded edition of the classic collection of drawings and poems by children of the Terez'n Concentration Camp was published in conjunction with the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. A total of 15,000 children under the age of 15 passed through Terez'n between the years... Read more >
Written by Hana Volavkova
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 15, 1994
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1015-6 (0-8052-1015-6)
This expanded edition of the classic collection of drawings and poems by children of the Terez'n Concentration Camp was published in conjunction with the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. A total of 15,000 children under the age of 15 passed through Terez'n between the years... Read more >
The Invisible Man
A Grotesque Romance
Written by H.G. Wells
Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $5.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6645-9 (0-8129-6645-7)
A gripping and entertaining tale of terror and suspense as well as a potent Faustian allegory of hubris and science run amok, The Invisible Man endures as one of the signature stories in the literature of science fiction. A brilliant scientist uncovers the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and... Read more >
A Grotesque Romance
Written by H.G. Wells
Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $5.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6645-9 (0-8129-6645-7)
A gripping and entertaining tale of terror and suspense as well as a potent Faustian allegory of hubris and science run amok, The Invisible Man endures as one of the signature stories in the literature of science fiction. A brilliant scientist uncovers the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and... Read more >
The Invisible Man
Written by H.G. Wells
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: August 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21353-9 (0-553-21353-9)
A terrifying story from the author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. An obscure scientist invents a way to render skin, bones, and blood invisible, and tries the formula on himself. Now he can go anywhere, menace anyone--sight unseen. He has only two problems: he cannot become... Read more >
Written by H.G. Wells
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: August 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21353-9 (0-553-21353-9)
A terrifying story from the author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. An obscure scientist invents a way to render skin, bones, and blood invisible, and tries the formula on himself. Now he can go anywhere, menace anyone--sight unseen. He has only two problems: he cannot become... Read more >
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Written by H.G. Wells
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: May 1, 1994
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21432-1 (0-553-21432-2)
Modern day practices such as gene-splicing and bioengineering are foretold in H.G. Well's haunting visionary fable. After a collision between two ships in rough seas, Edward Prendick survived only to be stranded on the island of the infamous Dr. Moreau. The book created a sensation when it first appeared in 1896... Read more >
Written by H.G. Wells
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: May 1, 1994
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21432-1 (0-553-21432-2)
Modern day practices such as gene-splicing and bioengineering are foretold in H.G. Well's haunting visionary fable. After a collision between two ships in rough seas, Edward Prendick survived only to be stranded on the island of the infamous Dr. Moreau. The book created a sensation when it first appeared in 1896... Read more >
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The Time Machine
An Invention
Written by H.G. Wells
Illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins
Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin
Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $8.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-76118-8 (0-375-76118-7)
When the intrepid Time Traveller finds himself in the year 802,701, he encounters a seemingly utopian society of evolved human beings but then unearths the dark secret that sets mankind on course toward its inevitable destruction. An insightful look into a distant, bleak, and disturbing future, The Time Machine goes beyond... Read more >
An Invention
Written by H.G. Wells
Illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins
Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin
Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $8.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-76118-8 (0-375-76118-7)
When the intrepid Time Traveller finds himself in the year 802,701, he encounters a seemingly utopian society of evolved human beings but then unearths the dark secret that sets mankind on course toward its inevitable destruction. An insightful look into a distant, bleak, and disturbing future, The Time Machine goes beyond... Read more >
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The Time Machine
Written by H.G. Wells
Format: Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: January 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21351-5 (0-553-21351-2)
When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything has changed. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings--unearth their secret and then... Read more >
Written by H.G. Wells
Format: Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: January 1, 1984
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21351-5 (0-553-21351-2)
When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything has changed. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings--unearth their secret and then... Read more >
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The War of the Worlds
Written by H.G. Wells
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: November 1, 1988
Price: $5.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21338-6 (0-553-21338-5)
H.G. Wells's science fiction classic, the first novel to explore the possibilities of intelligent life from other planets, it still startling and vivid nearly after a century after its appearance, and a half-century after Orson Wells's infamous 1938 radio adaptation. The daring portrayal of aliens landing on English soil, with its... Read more >
Written by H.G. Wells
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: November 1, 1988
Price: $5.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21338-6 (0-553-21338-5)
H.G. Wells's science fiction classic, the first novel to explore the possibilities of intelligent life from other planets, it still startling and vivid nearly after a century after its appearance, and a half-century after Orson Wells's infamous 1938 radio adaptation. The daring portrayal of aliens landing on English soil, with its... Read more >
Harry Houdini
A Graphic Novel
Written by CEL Welsh
Illustrated by Lalit Singh
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Campfire
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $9.99
ISBN: 978-93-80028-25-5 (93-80028-25-3)
This is the life story of Ehrich Weiss. If you don’t recognize this man’s name, that is because the world came to know him as the one and only Harry Houdini.
George Bernard Shaw once remarked that Harry Houdini is the third most famous name in history after Jesus Christ and... Read more >
A Graphic Novel
Written by CEL Welsh
Illustrated by Lalit Singh
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Campfire
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Price: $9.99
ISBN: 978-93-80028-25-5 (93-80028-25-3)
This is the life story of Ehrich Weiss. If you don’t recognize this man’s name, that is because the world came to know him as the one and only Harry Houdini.
George Bernard Shaw once remarked that Harry Houdini is the third most famous name in history after Jesus Christ and... Read more >
Opal
The Journal of an Understanding Heart
Written by Opal Whiteley
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Potter Style
On Sale: October 3, 1995
Price: $11.00
ISBN: 978-0-517-88516-1 (0-517-88516-6)
These words are taken from the turn-of-the-century diary of an extraordinary six-year-old girl named Opal Whiteley. Orphaned and lonely, she took solace in nature, writing about her vivid inner life with exceptional beauty, sensitivity, and soul. When the diary was discovered in 1920, it became an overnight sensation. Now, almost a... Read more >
The Journal of an Understanding Heart
Written by Opal Whiteley
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Potter Style
On Sale: October 3, 1995
Price: $11.00
ISBN: 978-0-517-88516-1 (0-517-88516-6)
These words are taken from the turn-of-the-century diary of an extraordinary six-year-old girl named Opal Whiteley. Orphaned and lonely, she took solace in nature, writing about her vivid inner life with exceptional beauty, sensitivity, and soul. When the diary was discovered in 1920, it became an overnight sensation. Now, almost a... Read more >
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