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The vampire's assistant - Darren Shan
Amazon.com ReviewWhat if you were an unwilling vampire? You needed to drink human blood to stay alive, but you weren't some horror-flick villain; you were you, born human--a nice .... -
The stars my destination - Alfred Bester; Alex Eisenstein;
SUMMARY: Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die. R... -
The romantic manifesto_ a philo - Ayn Rand
Review''Bernadette Dunne is a good match for Rand's voice, delivering the novelist's passionate convictions with a metered cadence. Dunne's clear conveyance of Rand's essays is imp... -
The gathering - Anne Enright
SUMMARY: A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland's most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a return to an intimate canvas and movin... -
The gates of November - Chaim Potok
SUMMARY: From the author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev comes an epic work of nonfiction chronicling the stormy lives of a Jewish father and son whose stories span the enti... -
The World According to Bertie - Alexander Hanchett Smith
From Publishers WeeklySmith delivers yet another delightful installment to his Scotland Street series. This time out, he focuses mostly on the irrepressible Bertie Pollock, a preco... -
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Lyman Frank Baum
Dorothy is a young girl who lives on a Kansas farm with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and little dog Toto. One day the farmhouse, with Dorothy inside, is caught up in a tornado and dep... -
The Winter Ghosts - Kate Mosse
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **By the author of the *New York Times*-bestselling *Labyrinth*, a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage. ** In the winter of 1928, still s... -
The Wildwater Walking Club - Claire Cook
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Lively and inspiring!"--*Hartford Courant* "A great feel-good story."--*Philadelphia Examiner* *Just one step at a time. * After losing her boyfriend and her job... -
The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson
SUMMARY: According to mythology mankind used to live in The Tranquiline Halls. Heaven. But then the Voidbringers assaulted and captured heaven, casting out God and men. Men took ro...