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1) Moby Dick
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Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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Moby Dick volume 2
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English
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Captain Ahab's need to slay the great whale Moby Dick has becomes and all-out obsession that proves dangerous and impossible for the crew. Stars William Hurt, Ethan Hawke, Gillian Anderson, Donald Sutherland, Eddie Marsan and Raoul Trujillo.
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Moby Dick volume 2
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English
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Based on the cherished novel by Herman Melville - the definitive epic of New England seafaring life. Captain Ahab is pitted against a legendary white whale that is also his age-old nemesis. His avenging hunt brings a cataclysmic end to himself and his crew.
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Moby Dick volume 1
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English
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Based on the cherished novel by Herman Melville - the definitive epic of New England seafaring life. Captain Ahab is pitted against a legendary white whale that is also his age-old nemesis. His avenging hunt brings a cataclysmic end to himself and his crew.
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Moby Dick volume 1
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In this awe-inspiring adventure of vengeance and obsession the crew of the sailing vessel Pequod finds itself under the mad will of the avenging Captain Ahab. Stars William Hurt, Ethan Hawke, Gillian Anderson, Donald Sutherland, Eddie Marsan and Raoul Trujillo.
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, Herman Melville, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Classics-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classics...
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Ax Men volume 5
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English
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At Rygaard, the bosses clash over greenhorn Brad. Meanwhile, at the Pihl team, Dwayne is forced to do the job of a greenhorn.
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3rd Rock From the Sun volume 6
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English
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Dick is perplexed when he finds that his clothes no longer fit, but it's apparent to everyone else that he's gained a significant amount of weight. Nina tells him that he's probably eating to fill the void left by Mary.
9) Bartleby
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Cult figure Crispin Glover lends his eerie presence to Bartleby, a modern adaptation of the classic short story by Herman Melville (author of Moby Dick). The manager of a public records firm hires a new clerk named Bartleby. However, Bartleby is eccentric and with each passing day, he begins to refuse his boss' orders. Eventually, the boss discovers even stranger things about him.
10) Fictionauts
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Fantasy is a serious business for this team, as they scour fictional worlds to right dangerous anomalies and preserve the balance between reality and imagination. But recently, a rash of unexplained disturbances across the fictional universe has started to tear it apart, and they face the ultimate challenge when the mysterious Agent X threatens to bring down the barriers between our world and the world of stories. Dive headlong into the madcap, mind-bending...
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Ishmael Leseur trilogy volume 1
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English
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By the time ninth grade begins, Ishmael Leseur knows it won't be long before Barry Bagsley, the class bully, says, "Ishmael? What kind of wussy-crap name is that?" Ishmael's perfected the art of making himself virtually invisible. But all that changes when James Scobie joins the class. Unlike Ishmael, James has no sense of fear-he claims it was removed during an operation. Now nothing will stop James and Ishmael from taking on bullies, bugs, and Moby...
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Destiny doesn't factor into seventeen-year-old adoptee Maddie's rational world, where numbers and scientific probability have always proven to be the only things she can count on as safe and reliable. Still, Maddie is also an artist who draws on instinct and intuition to create the collages she makes from photographs and the castoff scraps she saves. But when her brother falls in with a Los Angeles street gang, Maddie loses her ability to create art.
Then...
14) Railsea
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Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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"On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one's death & the other's glory. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than traveling the endless rails of the railsea--even if his captain can think only of the hunt for the ivory-colored...
15) Draden's Whale
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On an ocean, where marines hunt pirates who hunt whalers who hunt whales, an animal-loving orphan will find out what it is like to be both predator and prey.
Draden, a fifteen-year-old boy trapped in a brutal island orphanage, finds solace in nurturing Maggie, a motherless lamb. When Draden is caught rescuing Maggie from the feast for the start of whaling season, the matron sentences him to ten lashes. A visiting captain cuts him a deal to escape...
16) Banned Book Club
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When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family's restaurant. But literature class would prove to be just the start of a massive turning point, still focused on reading but with...
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