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The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo, Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a wandering wizard granted his wish.

Describes the worst fire in New Zealand history, which raged through Ballantyne's department store in 1947, killing forty-one people.

The stranger who helped Georgina to smuggle goods from France also introduced her to high society in London and in doing so, foiled an attempt on the life of the Prince of Wales.

As three best friends approach the age of thirty, they agree to change their lives in the most personal and dramatic way possible -- and within one calendar year.

Never has Kathleen Mallory faced as many surprises as in the case before her now.

Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic sixteenth century novel is a combination of picaresque novel and folk epic that mixes satire, allegory, and history into

Alice Hoffman evokes the world of the Samuelsons, a family torn apart by tragedy and divorce in a world of bad judgment and fierce attachments, disappointments and devotion.

Having established her reputation with the enormously successful, two-time Emmy Award-winning television series Prime Suspect, author/screenwriter Lynda La Plante enhanced it with her more recent p

A collection of short stories with the common theme of love and romance. Suggested level: secondary.

Jim Qwilleran with his two cats, Yum Yum and KoKo help to solve the mystery case behind the Casablanca apartment buildings.

Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of th

Katherine Mary O'Fallon was 16 when she went from Boston to a ranch in Canada. Soon she met Mike Flanningan of the Canadian Mounted Police and they went to live in the far north.

"A man lies half-drowned on a Cornish beach at dawn in the furthest days of this century.