Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter. Edition: Abridged, Audio Cassette, HarperChildrensAu dio
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A vicious 15-year-old hoodlum is the central character of this modern classic, first published in 1963 and later made into a Stanley Kubrick film. Contains a controversial chapter not previously published and a new introduction. Pages: 192, Paperback, W. W. Norton & Company
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Joseph Heller’s manic, bleak, blackly humorous, and brilliant novel has become a classic of American literature, and “Catch-22″ has entered the language as a term describing a no-win situation. Set during the last months of World War II, the novel tells the story of an Air Force bombardier, the hapless Yossarian, who is convinced–quite rightly, of course–that people are trying to kill him. The famous “catch” is that the terrified Yossarian, who constantly and by increasingly inventive means tries to persuade his superiors that he is crazy and should be grounded, can’t be grounded because his fear of dying proves that he is sane–and so he is assigned to more and more bombing missions. Heller makes the horrors of war, which include Yossarian’s traumatized reliving of the particularly grisly death of a friend, into comedy with the help of a Dickensian cast of characters, including the elusive Major Major Major Major, the blackmarket profiteer Milo Minderbinder, the photographer Hungry Joe, and the wonderful
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An unearthly midnight visitor takes Meg, Calvin, and Charles across the barriers of space and time to another world. Pages: 224, Edition: 1st, Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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Her husband is two centuries away, she is related to her lover’s mortal enemy, and her neighbors think she’s a witch. In this unforgettable novel of time travel, Diana Gabaldon fuses wry, modern sensibility with the drama, passion, and violence of eighteenth century as she tells the story of one daring woman and the man who loves her.
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This classic bedtime story that has lulled generations of children to sleep is the perfect first book to share with a child. Edition: Pap/ Cas, Audio Cassette, Live Oak Media
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Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches. Pages: 320, Paperback, Scholastic Paperbacks
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