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Jonathan Swift
(263,493)
Summary: Gulliver's Travels tells of the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an Englishman and ship's surgeon, who travels to the "several remote nations of the world." In the beginning, he becomes...
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Wilton Barnhardt
Summary: Jerene Jarvis Johnston and her husband Duke are exemplars of Charlotte, North Carolina's high society, a world where old Southern money and the secrets behind it meet the new wealth of bankers, real...
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George Orwell
(3,576,240)
Summary: George Orwell's famous satire of the Soviet Union, in which "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
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Call #: F ORWELL
Location: Adult Fiction
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Chuck Palahniuk
(115,129)
Summary: The leader of a suicide cult commandeers a Boeing 747 and dictates his life story into the black box while waiting for the plane to run out of fuel. The suicide is the ultimate media event of Tender...
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Call #: F PALAHNIUK
Location: Adult Fiction
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Julian Fellowes
(11,668)
Summary: Preparing to marry heir Charles Broughton, attractive accountant's daughter Edith Lavery makes humorous and astute observations about contemporary England's class system.
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Call #: F FELLOWES
Location: Adult Fiction
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George Orwell
(3,577,530)
Summary: All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that...
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Ray Bradbury (read by Scott Brick )
(2,216,576)
Summary: In Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires but start them--to burn books. It's a time when trivial information is valued and true knowledge perceived as...
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Call #: CD BOOK F BRADBURY
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
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George Orwell (read by Richard Matthews )
(3,576,219)
Summary: Animal Farm is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories. Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a...
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Call #: CD BOOK F ORWELL
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
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Judy Goldstein
(687)
Summary: "Meet Dr. Shelley Green - newly minted pediatrician. After graduating medical school at the top of her class, Shelley is hired by Madison Pediatrics, the Upper East Side's most exclusive practice....
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Call #: F GOLDSTEIN
Location: Adult Fiction
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Sinclair Lewis
Summary: The lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness, reflects the position in which America's turn-of-the-century "emancipated woman"...
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William Makepeace Thackeray
(125,342)
Summary: Originally published in 1848 and subtitled A novel without a hero, Thackeray's masterpiece traces the interweaving destinies of two contrasted heroines during the period of Waterloo and its...
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Chuck Palahniuk
(115,130)
Summary: Tender Branson, last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult, is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over...
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Terry Pratchett
(52,634)
Summary: The wizards of Unseen University in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever.
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Jean Shepherd
(4,955)
Summary: Ralphie, a nine-year-old boy in 1940s Indiana, dreams of receiving a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas but encounters resistance at every turn when he makes his wish known.
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George Orwell
(3,576,168)
Summary: All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that...
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George Orwell
(3,576,205)
Summary: George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. Animal farm has been read and reread and quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the...
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Ruth L Ozeki
(17,906)
Summary: Jane, a female Japanese-American filmmaker, hired to produce a television program aimed at Japanese housewives extolling the pleasures of meat consumption, begins to have second thoughts about the...
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Voltaire
Summary: In this witty political satire, a gentle man plagued by misfortune who clings to the belief that "all is for the best", Voltaire mocks the "eternal optimist" philosophy of his day that proclaimed...
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George Orwell
(189,629)
Summary: This edition features George Orwell's best known novels – 1984 and Animal Farm – with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others....
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Aldous Huxley
Summary: Denis Stone, a self-conscious young poet, is invited to Crome, renowned for its gatherings of intellectuals. Hosted by Henry and Priscilla Wimbush, the house party has much to offer the naïve...
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Jane Austen
(373,304)
Summary: Catherine, a seventeen year old girl, travels with her family to Bath and makes many new acquaintance, including two young men who pursue her. She is invited to visit the country estate of one, and...
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Haywood Smith
(745)
Summary: Wanting to remarry when her health-care costs eat up all of her money, widow Cassie Jones enlists the grudging help of reclusive fellow patient Jack and devises a pragmatic but unconventional solution when dating proves unsuccessful.
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Call #: F SMITH
Location: Adult Fiction
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![Out of warranty [large print] : [a novel]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/71449@2x.jpg)
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Haywood Smith
(745)
Summary: Wanting to remarry when her health-care costs eat up all of her money, widow Cassie Jones enlists the grudging help of reclusive fellow patient Jack and devises a pragmatic but unconventional solution when dating proves unsuccessful.
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Call #: LP F SMITH
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Graham Greene
(33,523)
Summary: Follows the plight of Wormold, a former vacuum cleaner salesman, who becomes a slave to the expensive whims of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Milly, and takes on a job for MI6 as Secret Agent 5920015 to pay for them.
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Call #: F GREENE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Jonathan Swift
(3)
Summary: "Gulliver's Travels" describes the voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, a land of people six inches high, Brobdingnag, a land of giants, and Glubbdubdrib, an island...
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Call #: F SWIFT
Location: Adult Fiction
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Sean Adams
(1,100)
Summary: "Standing nearly five hundred stories tall, Los Verticales once bustled with life and excitement. Now this marvel of modern architecture and nontraditional urban planning has collapsed into a pile of...
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Call #: F ADAMS
Location: Adult Fiction
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Anthony Burgess
(681,716)
Summary: Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social...
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Call #: F BURGESS
Location: Adult Fiction
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Kurt Vonnegut
(249,638)
Summary: The author questions the condition of modern man in this novel depicting a science fiction writer's struggle to find peace and sanity in the world.
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Call #: F VONNEGUT
Location: Adult Fiction
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![Mr. Darcy's guide to courtship [downloadable ebook] / the secrets of seduction, from Regency England's most eligible bachelor](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/76731@2x.jpg)
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Fitzwilliam Darcy
(245)
Summary: Inspired by the works of Jane Austen, the amusingly tongue-in-cheek Mr. Darcy's guide to courtship is written from the perspective of Pride and Prejudice's Mr. Darcy and closely based on real Regency...
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Andrew Sean Greer
(184,952)
Summary: You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too...
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Call #: BK CLUB F GREER LP
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Dave Eggers
(207,960)
Summary: "When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California...
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Call #: F EGGERS
Location: Adult Fiction
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Jane Austen
(373,295)
Summary: While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the...
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Call #: F AUSTEN
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
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Helen Simonson
(41,112)
Summary: Arriving in the village of Rye, England, in 1914, Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good family, becomes the first female teacher of Latin at the local school and falls in love with her sponsor's nephew.
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Call #: F SIMONSON
Location: Adult Fiction
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Salman Rushdie
(9,494)
Summary: "A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture--a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities. On the...
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Call #: F RUSHDIE
Location: Adult Fiction
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![The golden house [eBook] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/177316@2x.jpg)
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Salman Rushdie
(9,449)
Summary: "A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture--a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities. On the...
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