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  • A Prayer for Owen Meany

    A Novel

    by John Irving ...
    “A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. ... An amazingly brave piece of work ... so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world.” —STEPHEN KING, Washington PostI am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the ... Read more

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  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is an 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Irving wrote the story while living in Birmingham, England.Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle," "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with ... Read more

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  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    In a small Dutch settlement known as Sleepy Hollow, Yankee transplant Ichabod Crane is competing with local hero Brom Bones for the hand of a wealthy farmer’s daughter. Will the legends and ghost stories of Sleepy Hollow scare off the superstitious schoolmaster from his pursuit of the lovely Katrina Van Tassel? Is the Headless Horseman truly to be feared, or is this just another one of Bones’ ... Read more

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  • A Widow for One Year

    A Novel

    by John Irving ...
    “A Widow For One Year will appeal to readers who like old-fashioned storytelling mixed with modern sensitivities. . . . Irving is among the few novelists who can write a novel about grief and fill it with ribald humor soaked in irony.”—USA TodayIn A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island (in the summer of 1958) ... Read more

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  • The Great Movies III

    by Roger Ebert ...
    Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for over four decades now and his biweekly essays on great movies have been appearing there since 1996. As Ebert noted in the introduction to the first collection of those pieces, "They are not the greatest films of all time, because all lists of great movies are a foolish attempt to codify works which must stand alone. But it's ... Read more

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  • The Cider House Rules

    by John Irving ...
    Adapted into an Academy Award-winning film and one of John Irving's most beloved novels, The Cider House Rules is the story of a kind but complex doctor and the conflicted young orphan he takes under his wing.“A novel as good as one could hope to find from any author, anywhere, anytime. Engrossing, moving, thoroughly satisfying.” —Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22In the quiet, rural landscape of ... Read more

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  • A Book of Remarkable Criminals

    by H. B. Irving ...
    This classic study profiles serial killers, gentleman murderers, and every stripe of madman in betweenBenjamin Pitezel should never have trusted H. H. Holmes. In 1894, the two men conspired to fake Pitezel's death for the sake of a $10,000 insurance settlement. But Holmes decided murder would be simpler. He killed his partner, kidnapped three of his children, and tried to claim the insurance money ... Read more

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  • The Great Movies

    by Roger Ebert ...
    America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made.Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, wrote biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offered a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film. The Great Movies collects one hundred of these essays, each one of them a gem of ... Read more

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  • The First Ghosts

    A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator

    by Irving Finkel ...
    The must-read exploration of the earliest human ghost stories from leading expert Irvine Finkel, author of The Ark Before Noah'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human experience.' - History RevealedThere are few things more in common across cultures than the belief in ghosts. Ghosts inhabit something of the very ... Read more

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  • Rip Van Winkle

    From the celebrated early American author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow": The nineteenth-century classic work of fantasy about one man's twenty-year nap.In the years before the American Revolutionary War, in a village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains, lives a kindhearted Dutchman named Rip Van Winkle. He's admired by all his fellow villagers except for his wife, who incessantly nags. ... Read more

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  • Life Itself

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    by Roger Ebert ...
    **A singular, warm-hearted, and inspiring look at life from beloved writer, critic, and pundit Roger Ebert—and the inspiration for the award-winning documentary."A captivating, moveable feast." —New York Times Book Review"Thoughtful, entertaining, and emotional." —Entertainment Weekly**Roger Ebert was the best-known film critic of his time. He began reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times in1967 ... Read more

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  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    Illustrated Edition

    Ichabod Crane is a superstituous schoolmaster vying for the hand of Katrina Van Tessel, the daughter of a wealthy local farmer. He lives in a small early-American settlement near a ghostly glen named Sleepy Hollow. Many disturbing legends surround the glen, and an especially frightening tale, that of the deadly Headless Horseman, will come to determine Ichabod Crane's future.First published in ... Read more

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