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A collection of critical essays on Mann's novel "The Magic Mountain" arranged in chronological order of publication.

After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven

Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.

Death Comes for the Archbishop sprang from Willa Cather's love for the land and cultures of the American Southwest.

Abbie Deal was born in Iowa during the 1800's.

This book - published when Keller was only twenty-two - portrays the wild child who is locked in the dark and silent prison of her own body.

The third novel in this edgy and addictive teen series that has been a hit around the world. A fun series full of romance and drama.

"It's Detective Inspector Bill Slider's day off and he had hoped to have some quiet time with Joanna, his pregnant fiancee.

This is a story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heart-broken and believing that "Love is a terrible thing that makes you suffe

"When a black man is shot multiple times in the back on the streets of New York by an NYPD golden boy, chaos erupts throughout the city.

"In a summer that refuses to end, in the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois.

Paul loves hockey, but when a loud afternoon practice session seems to contribute to the accidental loss of Paul's father's arm, the boys' fate and relationship to the game seem to c

"Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, believes he controls the trajectory of his life, with the markers of vocation and marriage.