This beautiful tale follows a raindrop's journey on Earth, from the time of the dinosaurs to the creation of the earliest cities and beyond. It explains how Earth has depended on the same...
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Author: Ragsdale, LindaSummary:Genre: Juvenile fiction, Picture books
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Author: Herbert, FrankSummary:
Frank Herbert's bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! In this third installment, the sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who...
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:
The likeable young Nicholas, left penniless on the death of his father, sets off in search of better prospects. His meandering route to happiness includes work as a teacher at Dotheboys Hall,...
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Author: de Rosnay, TatianaSummary:
The first new audiobook in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, set against a Paris...
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Author: Martin, George R. R.Summary:
The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO's Game of Thrones. With all the fire and fury fans...
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Author: Naipaul, V. S.Summary:
Two English people take a road trip from an unnamed African capitol to their enclave. The further they travel, the more they cross the line separating privileged outsiders from horrified victims...
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Author: Lagercrantz, DavidSummary:
The sixth Lisbeth Salander story-the crime-fiction phenomenon that has sold more than 90 million copies worldwide. Book four in the series, The Girl in the Spider's Web, starring Claire Foy,...
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Author: Jensen, CarstenSummary:
In 1848, Danish sailors set sail to fight Germans. Not all return, and those who do will never be the same, including daredevil Laurids Madsen, who escapes again to the seas. Here also is the...
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Author: Herbert, FrankSummary:
The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world—and are tuning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile....
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Author: Herbert, FrankSummary:
The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! This second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange...
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Author: Herbert, FrankSummary:
More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in Frank Herbert's DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son...
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Author: Rosnay, Tatiana deSummary:
From the internationally best-selling author of SARAH'S KEY comes an irreverent yet heartfelt collection that examines our most intimate and forbidden desires.Does a fruit taste its sweetest...
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Author: Smith, Wilbur A.Summary:
On the eve of the World War I, ex-soldier turned professional hunter Leon Courtney is recruited by his uncle Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, to gather...
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Author: Kellaway, LucySummary:
A compulsively readable, hilarious novel told through the e-mail messages of Martin Lukes. Martin Lukes is a man who is good at taking credit where it isn't due; a man who works hard at...
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Author: Mantel, HilarySummary:
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and...
Genre: Historical fiction