Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS'sThe Great American Read

At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley, while staying in the Swiss Alps with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, conceived the tale of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster he brings to life. The resulting book,Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus,is a dark parable warning against the risks of scientific and creative endeavor, the corrupting influence of technology and progress, and the dangers of knowledge without understanding.Frankenstein was an instant bestseller on publication in 1818 and has long been regarded as a masterpiece of suspense, a classic of nineteenth-century Romanticism and Gothic horror, and the prototype of the science fiction novel. Though it has spawned countless imitations and adaptations, it remains the most powerful story of its kind.

Frankenstein (Bantam Classic Reissue, 1991)

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An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature's most admirable and tragic heroines...

Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin--a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition.

With an Introduction by Marcelle Clements 

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Signet Classics, 2006) 

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This version of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn presents the novel in a readable and affordable format with light and supportive annotations and supporting editorial content to help you connect with the central themes of the book.

Missouri

Bedford College Editions reprint enduring literary works in a handsome, readable, and affordable format. The text of each work is lightly but helpfully annotated. Prepared by eminent scholars and teachers, the editorial matter in each volume includes a chronology of the life of the author; an illustrated introduction to the contexts and major issues of the text in its time and ours; an annotated bibliography for further reading (contexts, criticism, and Internet resources); and a concise glossary of literary terms. This title is available in print or as a Bedford e-Book to Go.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Normal Wear and Tear.

William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert

Before The Hunger Games there was Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with them—the world of cricket and homework and adventure stories—and another world is revealed beneath, primitive and terrible.Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies has established itself as a true classic. "Lord of the Flies is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager, I still read it every couple of years." —Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games "As exciting, relevant, and thought-provoking now as it was when Golding published it in 1954." —Stephen King

Lord of the Flies

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The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.

Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior—to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into ten languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.


To Kill a Mockingbird

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Kentucky

A Caroline Mystery

The War of 1812 is still raging when Caroline goes to visit her cousin Lydia and Uncle Aaron's farm deep in the woods.
While there, she finds evidence that someone is smuggling precious supplies to the British. She can't believe anyone would help the enemy during wartime!
Even worse: could the traitor be her own uncle?

The Smuggler's Secrets

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Discover the planet's weirdest and most wonderful places. Our travel experts have found 40 of the planet's most bizarre sights and natural wonders - and ranked them in order of their oddness! With jaw-dropping facts and amazing photos, we reveal the in

Lonely Planet Kids World's Strangest Places 1

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid Wrecking Ball

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

New and Selected Stories

A New York Times Notable Book from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune)

By turns compassionate, gently humorous, and haunting, this collection--sixteen classics with seven new stories--proves William Maxwell's assertion that "nobody can touch Charles Baxter in the field that he has carved out for himself."

Whether friends or strangers, the characters in these stories share a desire--sometimes muted and sometimes fierce--to break through the fragile glass of convention. In the title story, a substitute teacher walks into a new classroom, draws an outsized tree on the blackboard on a whim, and rewards her students by reading their fortunes using a Tarot deck. In each of the stories we see the delicate tension between what we want to believe and what we need to believe.
 
"A warmly disposed yet unsentimental chronicler of American lives ... Some [stories are] poignant and disturbing, and all of them highly readable." --The New York Times Book Review



Gryphon

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Black Dagger Legacy - Book 1

Joining the Black Dagger Brotherhood's training program, Paradise, the daughter of the king's First Advisor, is tested in ways she never imagined when she falls in love with a civilian and an act of violence threatens to destroy the entire program.

Blood Kiss

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Shakespeare's popular comedy of love and mistaken identity is accompanied by a section on reading Shakespeare's language, information on Shakespeare's life and theater, explanatory notes, annotated reading lists, and an essay

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Name has been marked out of inside cover page. #paperback #outerspace #learning #school

Mississippi

1000 Facts About Space

Connecticut

A New Translation

Authoritative and idiomatic, this translation has already established an impressive foothold in the college market.

The Republic

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'The figure of Galileo, whose ''heretical'' discoveries about the solar system brought him to the attention of the Inquisition, is one Brecht''s most human and complex creations. Temporarily silenced by the Inquisition''s threat of torture, and forced to abjure his theories publicly, Galileo continues to work in private, eventually smuggling his work out of the country. ''One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century'' (Observer)'

Life of Galileo: Methuen Student Ed

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The Catcher in the Rye

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The Catcher in the Rye 1st copy

California

Schools and the Moral Contract

In this groundbreaking book, Theodore and Nancy Sizer insist that students learn not just from their classes but from their school's routines and rituals, especially about matters of character. They convince us once again of what we may have forgotten: that we need to create schools that constantly demonstrate a belief in their students.

The Students Are Watching

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At St. Stephen's Academy, the students are on the verge of revolt. While the younger boys plot an insurrection, the older ones are preoccupied with sneaking out-of-bounds, thrashing each other, tearing each other's clothes off-or some combination of the three.Morgan Wilberforce, for one, can't take it any longer. Everything he touches turns to disaster in his desperate attempts to fight off desire, boredom, and angst. He knocks himself unconscious tackling the unattainable Spaulding on the rugby pitch, his headmaster detests him for crimes committed years ago, and even his closest friends are subjecting him to physical tortures normally reserved for juniors. And when an accident at the boarding school leaves Wilberforce with more suffering than he could have fathomed, he finds himself alone and adrift.Stylishly inventive, Wilberforce is an indelible portrait of a young man caught between lust and cruelty, grief and God, frustrated love and abject longing-and a tour de force that heralds the arrival of a brilliant novelist.

Wilberforce

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The Odyssey (23rd Mentor Classic Printing, 1964)

One of E.M. Forster's earliest and most celebrated works.

This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson - who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist - Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor, and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future- she is forced to choose between convention and passion. The enduring delight of this tale of romantic intrigue is rooted in Forster's colorful characters, including outrageous spinsters, pompous clergymen and outspoken patriots. Written in 1908, A ROOM WITH A VIEW is one of E.M. Forster's earliest and most celebrated works.

A Room with a View (Bantam Classics, 1988)

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Winnie Barringer’s best friend, Iggie, has moved away. How is Winnie going to make it through summer vacation?

Then the Garber family moves into Iggie’s House, and Winnie is thrilled. The problem is, not everyone is as welcoming as Winnie.

Iggie's House (25th Dell Printing, 1985)

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Palmer LaRue is running out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, he's dreaded the day he turns ten -- the day he'll take his place beside all the other ten-year-old boys in town, the day he'll be a wringer. But Palmer doesn't want to be a wringer. It's one of the first things he learned about himself and it's one of the biggest things he has to hide. In Palmer's town being a wringer is an honor, a tradition passed down from father to son. Palmer can't stop himself from being a wringer just like he can't stop himself from growing one year older, just like he can't stand up to a whole town -- right? Newbery Medal winner Jerry Spinelli's most powerful novel yet is a gripping tale of how one boy learns how not to be afraid.

Wringer (1st Harper Trophy Edition, 1998)

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A heartbreaking portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. With its sensitive depiction of the wronged Tess and powerful criticism of social convention, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, subtitled "A Pure Woman," is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels. Based on the three-volume first edition that shocked readers when first published in 1891, this edition includes as appendices: Hardy's Prefaces, the Landscapes of Tess, episodes originally censored from the Graphic periodical version, and a selection of the Graphic illustrations. 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.

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein (Bantam Classic Reissue, 1991)

Thomas Hardy; Marcelle Clements (Introduction by)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Signet Classics, 2006)

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

William Golding; E. M. Forster (Introduction by); E. L. Epstein (Notes by)

Lord of the Flies

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

Kathleen Ernst

The Smuggler's Secrets

Lonely Planet Kids

Lonely Planet Kids World's Strangest Places 1

Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Wrecking Ball

Charles Baxter

Gryphon

J. R. Ward

Blood Kiss

William Shakespeare; Barbara A. Mowat (Editor); Paul Werstine (Editor)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Pam Beasant

1000 Facts About Space

Richard W. Sterling (Translator); William C. Scott (Translator); Plato

The Republic

Richard W. Sterling (Translator); William C. Scott (Translator); Plato

The Republic

Bertolt Brecht

Life of Galileo: Methuen Student Ed

J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye 1st copy

Theodore Sizer (Editor); Nancy Faust Sizer

The Students Are Watching

H. S. Cross

Wilberforce

Homer, W. H. D. Rouse (translator)

The Odyssey (23rd Mentor Classic Printing, 1964)

E. M. Forster

A Room with a View (Bantam Classics, 1988)

Judy Blume

Iggie's House (25th Dell Printing, 1985)

Jerry Spinelli

Wringer (1st Harper Trophy Edition, 1998)

Thomas Hardy; Tim Dolin (Editor, Notes by); Margaret Randolph Higonnet (Introduction by)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics Reprint, 2003)