“There   it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”
 
   Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering   pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of   Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager   subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a   pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With   the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security....

   A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl   explores the secrets of man's nature, the darkest depths of evil, and the   luminous possibilities of love.

Selected by the   Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time,   Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar   books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's   odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives   as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

Steep   mountain climbs, Indian raids, and lonely New Mexico roads bathed in   murderous heat – Crow Woodruff has seen it all.

   But he’s never had an ex-boss try to shoot him dead.

   Tired of being treated like a slave, Crow leaves Lawrence Bain’s freighting   company and soon finds himself in charge of his own.

   Now, Bain is losing his fortune. He’s desperate to regain his domination of   the supply routes and all the people he abuses for to maintain a life of   luxury.

   With their bitter past fueling his desire to triumph over Bain, Crow   refuses to put his mules back in the stall.

   It’s not about making money. It’s about standing up for what’s right.

   A rain of bullets begins to fall on the desert and Crow is called crazy for   keeping his wagons on the road. But others call him a hero. Like Gina   Dryden.

   Gina hates men like Bain. She’s heard the secrets of their world of silver   and gold – and she wants it all destroyed. With the help of Gina, Crow   tightens his grip on the bullwhip and sends his wagons deeper into Bain’s   tide of mercenaries and corruption.

   Will Crow’s wagons carry him to his own grave? Or can his Colt .45 and his   dreams overcome the manic thirst of the desert desperadoes?

   Another classic western with respectful romance and women as strong   frontier folk from author William Black.

   Note: Each book in the American Post-Civil War Westerns series is a standalone   story that can be read out of order.

NATIONAL   BESTSELLER • A modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism   who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected   truths about himself and the world.

   “Disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect....   Suspenseful and harrowing.” —The New York Times Book Review

   Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and   their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals   but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched.   And he detests the color yellow.

   This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious   death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual,   and widely heralded novels in recent years.

Pride   and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners by Jane Austen. The novel follows   the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the   book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to   appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual   goodness.

   Mr. Bennet, owner of the Longbourn estate in Hertfordshire, has five   daughters, but his property is entailed and can only be passed to a male   heir. His wife also lacks an inheritance, so his family faces becoming poor   upon his death. Thus, it is imperative that at least one of the daughters   marries well to support the others, which is a motivation that drives the   plot.

   Pride and Prejudice has consistently appeared near the top of lists of   "most-loved books" among literary scholars and the reading public.   It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature, with over   20 million copies sold, and has inspired many derivatives in modern   literature. For more than a century, dramatic adaptations, reprints,   unofficial sequels, films, and TV versions of Pride and Prejudice have   portrayed the memorable characters and themes of the novel, reaching mass   audiences.

Book   Three in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction   Adventure of All Time

   The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose   father, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of   Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal   abilities—making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the   Empire in the name of House Atreides.

   Facing treason and rebellion on two fronts, Alia’s rule is not absolute.   The displaced House Corrino is plotting to regain the throne while the   fanatical Fremen are being provoked into open revolt by the enigmatic figure   known only as The Preacher. Alia believes that by obtaining the secrets of the   twins’ prophetic visions, she can maintain control over her dynasty.

   But Leto and Ghanima have their own plans for their visions—and their   destinies....

A   haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural   community
 
   The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety   huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly   in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very   belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a   rival of witchcraft—and then when those accusations multiply to consume the   entire village.

   First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new   epidemic of witch-hunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold   between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective   evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly   moving but that compels readers to fathom their hearts and consciences in   ways that only the greatest theater ever can.

   "A drama of emotional power and impact" —New York Post

One by   one the boys begin to fall..
   In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are   goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the   fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story   of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of   life in the trenches.
   All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit.   'Nothing New in the West') is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German   veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme   physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian   life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.
   The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German   newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929. The book   and its sequel, The Road Back (1930), were among the books banned and burned   in Nazi Germany. All Quiet on the Western Front sold 2.5 million copies in 22   languages in its first 18 months in print.
   In 1930, the book was adapted as an Academy-Award-winning film of the same   name, directed by Lewis Milestone. It was adapted again in 1979 by Delbert   Mann, this time as a television film starring Richard Thomas and Ernest   Borgnine.

50th   ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

   Mario Puzo’s classic saga of an American crime family that became a global   phenomenon—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great   American Read.

   With its brilliant and brutal portrayal of the Corleone family, The   Godfather burned its way into our national consciousness. This unforgettable   saga of crime and corruption, passion and loyalty continues to stand the test   of time, as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld.

   A #1 New York Times bestseller in 1969, Mario Puzo’s epic was turned into   the incomparable film of the same name, directed by Francis Ford Coppola,   which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is the original classic that   has been often imitated, but never matched. A tale of family and society, law   and order, obedience and rebellion, it reveals the dark passions of human   nature played out against a backdrop of the American dream.

   With a Note from Anthony Puzo and an Afterword by Robert J. Thompson

Mitchell   Rankin couldn’t stop his parents’ violent death when he was a boy.

   Now the outlaws and Indians of South Texas can’t stop Mitchell   Rankin.

   Fifteen years after a Comanche raid upturned his young life, Mitchell joins   the newly formed Frontier Battalion to help bring peace to his Texan   homeland.

   He’s putting desperadoes on notice: someone has to pay the price for what   was done to his family.

   But after setting out as a Texas Ranger, Mitchell discovers there’s an evil   greater than the Comanche lurking on the borderlands of the Lone Star   State…

   His name is Dudley Haddock – and he nobody’s ally. The only company he   cares for are his slave girls.

   Deeper onto Dudley’s trail, Mitchell uncovers a horrific game of abduction,   slavery and merciless death.

   Mitchell starts to think he’ll have to fight Dudley’s gang alone until some   of Dudley’s slaves escape into his protection… including Narua, the beautiful   Comanche girl that Dudley prizes, and abuses, above everything else.

   Narua’s heart makes Mitchell reconsider his old need for revenge, yet also   solidify his wish to kill Dudley Haddock and end his injustices against   countless women.

   Can Mitchell end the monstrous regime of Dudley and his slavers with his   Colt .45? Or will Dudley’s women draw him too close to the secret, rotten   bowels of the borderland?

   Another classic western with respectful romance and women as strong   frontier folk from author William Black.

   Note: Each book in the American Post-Civil War Westerns series is a   standalone story that can be read out of order.

The   Iliad is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is   one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern   audiences. As with the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and was   written in dactylic hexameter. It contains 15,693 lines in its most widely   accepted version. Set towards the end of the Trojan War, a ten-year siege of   the city of Troy by a coalition of Mycenaean Greek states, the poem depicts   significant events in the siege's final weeks. In particular, it depicts a   fierce quarrel between King Agamemnon and a celebrated warrior, Achilles. It   is a central part of the Epic Cycle. The Iliad is often regarded as the first   substantial piece of European literature.

   The Iliad and the Odyssey were likely written down in Homeric Greek, a   literary amalgam of Ionic Greek and other dialects, probably around the late   8th or early 7th century BC. Homer's authorship was infrequently questioned   in antiquity, but contemporary scholarship predominantly assumes that the   Iliad and the Odyssey were composed independently and that the stories formed   as part of a long oral tradition. Given widespread illiteracy,audiences were   more likely to have heard the poem than read it; it was performed by professional   reciters of Homer known as rhapsodes.

From   #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series   is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts   action.

   Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is   now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals,   electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first   steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.

   The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metal minds owned by the Lord Ruler,   said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his   command. Hardly anyone thinks they really exist. A kandra researcher has   returned to Elendel with images that seem to depict the Bands, as well as   writings in a language that no one can read. Waxillium Ladrian is recruited   to travel south to the city of New Seran to investigate. Along the way he   discovers hints that point to the true goals of his uncle Edwarn and the   shadowy organization known as The Set.

   Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson

   The Cosmere

   The Stormlight Archive
   The Way of Kings
   Words of Radiance
   Edgedancer (Novella)
   Oathbringer

   The Mistborn trilogy
   Mistborn: The Final Empire
   The Well of Ascension
   The Hero of Ages

   Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne series
   Alloy of Law
   Shadows of Self
   Bands of Mourning

   Collection
   Arcanum Unbounded

   Other Cosmere novels
   Elantris
   Warbreaker

   The Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series
   Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
   The Scrivener's Bones
   The Knights of Crystallia
   The Shattered Lens
   The Dark Talent

   The Rithmatist series
   The Rithmatist

   Other books by Brandon Sanderson

   The Reckoners
   Steelheart
   Firefight
   Calamity

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