| Jane Eyre
| Jane begins life penniless and plain—an unlikely romantic heroine. But she is as indomitable in spirit as she is frail in appearance. Her relationship with Rochester intensifies, until she is forced to choose between the desires of her heart and the demands of a "moral" society.
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| Persuasion
| At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, "Persuasion" is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, i...More
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| The Call of the Wild (Dover Large Print Classics)
| This masterpiece recounts the gripping adventures of Buck, a courageous creature forced into the brutal life of sled-dog during the Alaskan gold rush. Forced to relinquish the safety of his familiar world, Buck survives and ultimately prevails in the harsh realities of the Far North through the discovery of his own primitive nature. Large print edition.
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| Big Nate Out Loud (Big Nate Comic Complations)
| Big Nate, a.k.a. middle schooler Nate Wright, is eleven years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the wunderkind creation of cartoonist Lincoln Peirce. Nate is also the star of six novelized books to be published by HarperCollins, the first of which debuted on the New York Times children's best-seller list. Big Nate Out Loud collects Peirce's Big Nate strips, originally published only in newspapers and online at comics.com.For those not familiar with Big Nate, think D...More
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| The Book of F*cking Hilarious Internet Memes
| WHAT THE HECK IS AN INTERNET MEME?Meme (pronounced meem): An idea, belief or element of social behavior spread that is transmitted from one person or group of people to another. This word was coined in the '70s by Richard Dawkins, the atheist godman worshipped by neckbeards everywhere.Simply put, Internet memes are memes that spread on the Internet through social networking sites, blogs, email, news sources, and so on. In the real world they're called "ideas," but pseudo-intellectuals pr...More
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| Big Nate: From the Top
| Big Nate, a.k.a. middle schooler Nate Wright, is eleven years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the wunderkind creation of cartoonist Lincoln Peirce. Nate is also the star of six novelized books to be published by HarperCollins, the first of which debuted on the New York Times children's best-seller list. This Big Nate Collection collects Peirce's Big Nate strips, originally published only in newspapers.For those not familiar with Big Nate, think Diary of ...More
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| Paris versus New York: A Tally of Two Cities
| A chic and humorous visual homage to two of the world's most iconic cities. When Vahram Muratyan began his online travel journal, Paris versus New York, he had no idea how quickly it would become one of the most buzzed-about sites on the Internet-it garnered more than a million and a half page views in just a few months, and the attention of savvy online critics. Now Muratyan presents his unique observations in this delightful book, featuring visually striking graphics paire...More
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| Watchmen
| FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Exceptional graphic artwork brings to life the story of the Watchmen as they race against time to find a killer, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
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| Doodle-A-Day Vol.1 (Doodle-A-Day Monthly)
| Wes Jenkins Can't Stop Doodling He thinks his doodles are serious journalism and that he's on a dangerous assignment. Every single day, he wakes up, puts on a tie, his fedora with the Press Tag, and does another doodle, Day after day, scribble, scribble,scribble, because Wes Jenkins can't stop. Thus this book, the first in a potentially infinite series of mini-comics, "Doodle-A-Day". About The Book"Doodle-A-Day" is the World's first ebook mini-comic. Each monthly volume contains 36 pages of hard...More
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| Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
| This ground-breaking synthesis of comic-book icons and modern cinematic sensibilities redefined an American myth and reshaped the face of modern graphic novels. And now, a decade later, it's back...to inspire a new generation! This edition contains 28 pages of never-before-seen sketches, art and text, with a new cover, designed by Chip Kidd. This is the tale of a tortured hero's twilight and his efforts to save the city he had once sworn to protect from spiralling relentlessly into chaos. Batma...More
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| Learn German With Less Text, More Fun: Peter und das Huhn - an illustrated (short) story for German language learners
| Some people say learning German is difficult. But German is not more difficult (or easier) than any other language. It all depends on the approach.After the first year of German there comes a time when studying grammar and drilling vocabulary lists doesn't work anymore. Eventually, each learner has to work with authentic materials such as newspapers, blogs and literature.Some teachers will tell their students that before they actually go out and immerse themselves in such materials they have to ...More
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| 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides)
| In Matthew Inman's 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides), samurai sword-wielding kittens and hamsters that love .50-caliber machine guns commingle with a cracked out Tyrannosaur that is extremely hard to potty train. Bacon is better than true love and you may awake in the middle of the night to find your nephew nibbling on your toes.Inman creates these quirky scenes for theoatmeal.com, which launched in July 2009 and already has more than 82 million...More
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| Stardust (en espanol) (Spanish Edition)
| WINNER OF THE 1999 MYTHOPOEIAC AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL. Listed as one of the best books of the year by Publisher's Weekly, Barnes & Noble, & Amazon. . .From the creator of the Blockbuster Sandman series. . . In the tranquil fields and meadows of long-ago England, there is a small hamlet that has stood on a jut of granite for 600 years. Just to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named. Here, in the hamlet of Wall, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the hauntingly be...More
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| Dilbert 2012 Calendar
| If you work in an office, chances are you know (or are) a Dilbert, Wally, Alice, or--heaven forbid--a Pointy-Haired Boss. Scott Adams's immediately recognizable characters from his phenomenally popular comic strip Dilbert scream It's you! at cubicle dwellers everywhere, whether through the Boss's lame attempts at buzz-speak or Dilbert's detached amusement at the absurdity surrounding him. The daily Dilbert 2012 Day-to-Day Calendar offers a year of relatable hilarity, no matter whic...More
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| Wish You Well
| It is 1940 and a tragedy sends two young children, Lou and Oz, along with their invalid mother, from New York City to the rugged mountains of Southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother. The portraits of the land and its people are described with an extraordinary eye for detail as the story flows through swells of prejudice, innocence, greed, and faith, and the question of whether one can ever really wish another well.
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| Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
| Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.
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| Me without You
| Looking for the perfect way to say I love you to a special someone? From famed cartoonists Lisa Swerling and Ralph Lazar, Me Without You features countless cute color illustrations of scenarios that are simply incomplete without two. A uniquely charming gift for Valentine s Day, anniversaries, or just because, readers will find themselves dipping into this beguiling book again and again.
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| The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes) (v. 1, 2, 3)
| New York Times best-seller!Watterson's imaginative approach to his material and his inventive graphics have made Calvin and Hobbes one of the few universally admired by other cartoonists." --Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewCalvin and Hobbes is unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only-to-him tiger was first syndicated in 1985 and appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watte...More
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| The Indispensable Calvin And Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes)
| Calvin, the six-year-old dirty tricksmeister and master of indignation and his warm, cuddly philosopher sidekick and Hobbes, a tiger whose idea of adventure is to lie on his back by the fire and have his stomach rubbed. This unlikely due captured the hearts, the minds, and, most of all, the funny bones of America. The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes contains a full-color section, as well as the cartoons appearing in The Revenge of the Baby-Sat and Scientific Progress Goes "Boink...More
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