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Author
Series
Publisher
Fall River Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Through his fiction, H.G. Wells transformed some of the most pressing social, political, and cultural issues of his day-class struggle, colonial imperialism, nation building, uncontrolled scientific experimentation-into the raw material of brilliant speculative fables.
The six novels collected in The War of the Worlds and Other Science Fiction Classics were all written at the turn of the twentieth century, and with them Wells helped to lay the foundations...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dalmatian Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Originally published serially in 1912, "The Lost World" is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of discovery and adventure. The story begins with the narrator, the curious and intrepid reporter Edward Malone, meeting Professor Challenger, a strange and brilliant paleontologist who insists that he has found dinosaurs still alive deep in the Amazon. Malone agrees to accompany Challenger, as well as Challenger's unconvinced colleague Professor Summerlee,...
5) The Stranger
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus was exploring what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd". Now in a new American translation, the classic has been given new life for generations to come.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway's landmark short story of a veteran's solo fishing trip in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory foreword by John N. Maclean.
Author
Series
Nathaniel Drinkwater sea stories volume 2
Publisher
Sheridan House
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Nathaniel Drinkwater sea stories volume 10
Publisher
Sheridan House
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Author
Series
Nathaniel Drinkwater sea stories volume 12
Publisher
Sheridan House
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Nathaniel Drinkwater sea stories volume 11
Publisher
Sheridan House
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
11) The Art of War
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books LLC
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
This ancient Chinese military text dissects thirteen aspects of warfare from a strategical and intellectual point of view. Deploring the use of excess force causing economic and civilian losses while discussing strategies that are still relevant to modern warfare, the text continues to resonate with readers around the world and has been considered fundamental in military doctrine for over two thousand years.
The Art of War was first translated...
Author
Series
Nathaniel Drinkwater sea stories volume 1
Publisher
Sheridan House
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Nathanila Drinkwater serves in the British Navy during the American Revolution, including in South Carolina
Author
Series
Nathaniel Drinkwater sea stories volume 13
Publisher
Sheridan House
Pub. Date
2002, c1997
Language
English
15) 1805
Author
Series
Nathaniel Drinkwater sea stories volume 6
Publisher
Sheridan House
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
16) The road to Oz
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Dorothy and the Shaggy Man inexplicably find themselves in Oz where they meet Polychrome, the abandoned daughter of the Rainbow, and a host of others on their way to Ozma's lavish birthday party.
17) Passing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A reprint of Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen's 1929 novel in which Irene, an African-American woman with a comfortable life, is disturbed by the return of a childhood friend, Clare, who has passed for white since adolescence and now wants to rejoin the African-American community.
18) The Bomb Vessel
Author
Series
Nathaniel Drinkwater sea stories volume 4
Publisher
Sheridan House
Pub. Date
2000, c1984
Language
English
Description
The Bomb Vessel takes place early in the Napoleonic Wars, with Drinkwater in command of a bomb vessel which is taking part in an attack on Copenhagen
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Retells the epic tale of Odysseus, the ancient Greek hero who encounters witches and other obstacles on his journey home after fighting in the Trojan War, told from the point of view of the steadfast companion who never gives up hope of his master's safe return.