Catriona Ward

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

"If you love the novels of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Tana French, here's your next obsession."--Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog

From Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street, comes a masterful story about friendship and betrayal, dark obsessions, and the impossibility of escaping your own story.

In a cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow has begun the last book he will ever write.

It is the story about the sun-drenched summer days of his youth in Whistler Bay, and the blood-stained path of the killer that stalked his small vacation town. About the terrible secret he and his companions, Nat and Harper, discovered entombed in the coves off the bay. And how the pact they swore that day echoed down the decades, forever shaping their lives.

But the more Wilder writes, the less he trusts himself and his memory. He starts to see things that can't be real - notes hidden in his cupboards, from an old friend now dead; a woman with dark hair drowning in the icy waters below, calling for help; entire chapters he doesn't recall typing, appearing overnight. Who, or what, is haunting Wilder?

No longer able to trust his own eyes, Wilder begins to fear that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does.

"An origami puzzle of a book, the mystery so beautifully crafted you don't see the folds, with edges sharp as a paper cut."--Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls

Looking Glass Sound

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The Freedom Writers

Erin Gruwell

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

A true account of a teacher who confronted a room of "at-risk" students details their life-changing journey and includes diary excerpts

The Freedom Writers Diary (20th Anniversary Edition)

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Susan Pomerance

More Monologues They Haven't Heard

"Dramaline's original monologues are of ideal duration, embrace contemporary subjects, have definite points of view, are written in today's speech, and have beginnings, middles and ends. And they're not overworked warhorses. They are fresh slices of modern life that will focus maximum attention on you. And they are presented in readable spacing and printed on non-glare, eye-easy paper. Every consideration has been taken to make Dramaline books easy on the actor to make them readily usable, effective tools".

For Women

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

An Acceptable Time

Michael Powell

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Complete Resource for Aspiring Actors

Professional acting is both an art and a business, and this book advises beginning actors on how to cope successfully on both fronts. Opening chapters describe the difficulties every budding actor encounters and explains basic acting techniques, which include memory exercises and methods for developing stage presence. Chapters that follow instruct in--


 * Reading the play with understanding and learning to build the character that the actor will be portraying
 * Developing the actor's voice, imitating regional accents, and more
 * Expressing the character's thoughts and ideas through body posture and movement
 * Adapting acting techniques to different media: stage, film, TV, and radio
 * Learning the business side of acting by selling one's talents effectively
   
   The author strips away preconceptions and clichés often associated with acting, and pinpoints common mistakes that inexperienced actors need to overcome and avoid. More than 300 instructive illustrations.

The Acting Bible

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J. K. Rowling

An entertaining companion to the Harry Potter books, written by J.K. Rowling. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an extensive introduction to magical beasts familiar from the Harry Potter books and others we haven't yet met. Includes information about beasts which can be found in Australia and New Zealand and what they eat.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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The Nanny Diaries

Tanith Lee

Kill the Dead

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Stendhal

Bruce Robbins

Horace B. Samuel

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

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The Red and the Black

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To Kill a Mockingbird 

Isabel Allende

A Novel

In nineteenth-century Chile, Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases all recollections of the first five years of her life. Raised by her regal and ambitious grandmother Paulina del Valle, Aurora grows up in a privileged environment but is tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal at the hands of the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she explores the mystery of her past.

Portrait in Sepia

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Get the best of both worlds for your trip to a Spanish-speaking country; a phrasebook and dictionary in one! Vox Spanish Phrasebook and Dictionary helps you communicate quickly and easily, and minimizes the frustration that a language barrier can present. Its extensive bilingual dictionary features more than 15,000 headwords--far more than any other phrasebook/dictionary on the market. A wide range of basic phrases offers instant reassurance in the situations you may encounter while traveling, from finding the best local cuisine to handling an actual emergency, with minidialogues to provide guidance on conducting conversations. The new edition of this successful resource contains: More than 15,000 entries in Spanish-English, English-Spanish format Up-to-date coverage, including modern technology including mobile communications A comprehensive phrase book section, providing key expressions grouped thematically by requirement Sample dialogues that provide more extensive models for typical travel situations

Vox Spanish Phrasebook and Dictionary, 2nd Edition

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Richard Powers

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours--vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

The Overstory

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Patrick Ness

Awakening inexplicably in the suburban English town of his early childhood after drowning, Seth is baffled by changes in the community and suffers from agonizing memories that reveal sinister qualities about the world around him. By the Carnegie Medal-winning author of A Monster Calls.

More Than This

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In the Forests of the Night

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Work

UFO Files

Perchance to Dream

English

COM 115

Public Speaking

C. S. Lewis

A collection of questions and answers based on the seven books in Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia" series.

The Narnia Trivia Book

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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

Marlon James

One of TIME’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time Winner of the L.A. Times Ray Bradbury Prize Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award The New York Times Bestseller Named a Best Book of 2019 by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, GQ, Vogue, and The Washington Post "A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman "Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. As Tracker follows the boy's scent--from one ancient city to another; into dense forests and across deep rivers--he and the band are set upon by creatures intent on destroying them. As he struggles to survive, Tracker starts to wonder: Who, really, is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And perhaps the most important questions of all: Who is telling the truth, and who is lying? Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that's come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that's also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf is both surprising and profound as it explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, and our need to understand them both.

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

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Christine Morton-Shaw





When Jim moves to ancient Minerva Hall, he encounters the ghosts of six children, all urging him to find the seventh child. They leave Jim cryptic clues that point to a dark, ancient prophecy that only he can stop from being fulfilled. Jim turns to Einstein, a brilliant autistic boy who lives at the Hall. If anyone can help Jim, Einstein can. But the boy, who speaks in riddles, proves to be as mysterious as the dead children. Time is running out; if Jim doesn't figure out the clues, innocent people will die. Christine Morton-Shaw has linked ancient rites with modern mystery to create a chilling, suspenseful tale that will keep readers guessing to the very end.



Praise for The Hunt for the Seventh:



"A supernatural mystery that should please tween fans of Coraline and The Last Apprentice. An age-appropriate scary read just in time for Halloween"--Kirkus Reviews



"Intricately plotted, suspenseful, and eerie. This thriller is quite complex but ultimately satisfying."--VOYA

The Hunt for the Seventh

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Erin Johnson

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