Big ol' book sale
I'm asking $1 for each book because I want to get rid of them as soon as possible. Shipping for up to 2 books is $1, 3-4 is $3, 5-6 is $5, and so forth. I accept well-concealed cash, check, or Paypal. All books are in good or excellent condition.
1. "Love in Vein" edited by Poppy Z. Brite
One of the most acclaimed young authors of dark fantasy gathers together an original collection of 20 erotic vampire stories penned by her favorite writers. Not since Anne Rice wrote as Anne Rampling has fantasy been celebrated with such powerful and seductive tales of unspeakable, forbidden, and macabre intimacies.
2. "Demon in My View" by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.
3. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike & Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row" by Christopher Golden
Pretty Maids All in a Row presents a unique supernatural tale that finds favorite demon lovers Spike and Druisilla wreaking havoc throughout war-torn Europe as only they can. As long as there have been demons, there have been Slayers. But Slayers have short life expectancies and high mortality rates. Which is why there exists a list of Pretty Maids All in a Row.
4. "The Vampire Legacy: Resurrection" by Karen E. Taylor
5. "The Complete Vampire Companion: Legend and Lore of the Living Dead" edited by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
6. "Interview With the Vampire" by Anne Rice
Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force--a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.
7. "The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice
Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying existence. His is a mesmerizing story-passionate, complex, and thrilling.
8. "The Queen of the Damned" by Anne Rice
The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco. Among the audience--pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration--are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a "greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals," fiends themselves who hate Lestat's power and who are determined to destroy him.
9. "The Tale of the Body Thief" by Anne Rice
In a new feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale - everything he has come to believe and feel safe with - is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence. The Tale of the Body Thief is told with the unique - the mesmerizing - passion, power, color, and invention that distinguish the novels of Anne Rice.
10. "Memnoch the Devil" by Anne Rice
In this 5th book of The Vampire Chronicles, the vampire Lestat is brought into direct confrontation with God and the Devil and is offered his most dazzling opportunity for redemption yet. In past books, Rice has summoned fantastic worlds as real and immediate as our own. Now she takes us, with Lestat, into the mythic world of our own theology.
11. "Vittorio the Vampire" by Anne Rice
With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures--a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power.
12. "Merrick" by Anne Rice
Merrick is bewitching -- Anne Rice is in top form with this novel of witches and vampires. In the sultry world of Rice's New Orleans, the almost-mortal vampire David Talbot, of the notorious Talamasca, meets Merrick, the sensual Mayfair witch. Lestat, Louis, and other Rice favorites make appearances in this tale. This novel is Rice's ultimate marriage of her bestselling witch and vampire story lines -- and it should not be missed.
13. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1" by Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their members. She is the Slayer.Exclusive Interviews, Totally Pointy Profiles, Behind-the-Scenes Info, and Other Buff-stuff About the Hit Show.
1. "Homosexuality: Opposing Viewpoints" edited by William Dudley
Presents opposing viewpoints on such aspects of homosexuality as what causes it, how society should treat homosexuals, and whether sexual orientation can be changed.
2. "Rainbow Boys" by Alex Sanchez
Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
3. "The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Fiction" edited by Peter Burton
1. "Lisa, Bright and Dark" by John Neufeld
Sixteen-year-old Lisa, smart, attractive, and outwardly successful, suffers from a nervous breakdown that only her closest friends seem to notice and care enough about to try to find a way to help her.
2. "Scientific Goofs: Adventures Along the Crooked Trail to Truth" by Billy Aronson
From the author of the acclaimed They Came from DNA comes a wonderfully funny look at a few items from science's "It Seemed like a Good Idea at the Time" department. Tongue-in-cheek accounts explain the circumstances under which some preposterous claims could seem the stuff of brilliance. "Goofs" include the world being flat, the Earth being the center of the universe, frogs generating electricity and more.
3. "Both Sides of Time" by Caroline B. Cooney
Imagine changing centuries-and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time.Imagine being involved in two love triangles in two different centuries. What if, no matter which direction you travel in time, you must abandon someone you love?Meet 15-year-old Annie Lockwood, a romantic living in the wrong century. When she travels back a hundred years and lands in 1895-a time when privileged young ladies wear magnificent gowns, attend elegant parties, and are courted by handsome gentlemen-Annie at last finds romance. But she is a trespasser in time. Will she choose to stay in the past? Will she be allowed to?
4. "Out of Time" by Caroline B. Cooney
Annie Lockwood exists; everyone admits it. Everyone has seen her. But only Strat insists that Miss Lockwood traveled one hundred years back in time to be with them in 1895. Now Strat is paying an enormous price: His father has declared him insane and had him locked away in an asylum. When Time calls Annie back to save Strat, she does not hesitate, even though her family is falling apart and desperately needs her. Can Annie save the boy she loves, or will her choice keep her a trespasser out of time?
5. "Strange Matter: Bigfoot, Big Trouble" by Engle and Barnes
6. "Strange Matter: The Fairfield Triangle" by Engle and Barnes
The Fairfield Triangle has always been an enigma to its namesake town. No one has ever found a reason for the strange events that take place there.Enter Russell Drake. Russell loves solving mysteries. That's why he tags along with his dad, Sheriff Drake, to investigate a disappearance in The Triangle. However, when his back is turned, Russell's crime-solving kit - his most valued possession - vanishes, and the young detective finds himself a victim of the legendary Triangle.To solve the mystery, Russell teams up with the Barker sisters, classmates from school whose father just lost some equipment to The Triangle. They return to the area to search for clues, and come back with enough evidence to persuade Mr. Barker to camp out at the area in an attempt to capture the weird occurrences on tape.While setting up his recorders at the campsite, Mr. Barker suddenly vanishes into thin air, right before the kids' eyes. When Russell and the sisters try to get the Sheriff, they find themselves trapped in a never-changing landscape with no way out!Russell quickly realizes...they're lost in The Fairfield Triangle. And worse...They're not in there alone.
7. "Strange Matter: The Last One In" by Engle and Barnes
Michelle Boyd enjoyed her first time water-skiing on beautiful Lake Wataga. She floated peacefully, waiting for the boat to rocket off, pulling her into another thrilling ride.Then her sister saw the dark shape gliding through the water, relentless, large and powerful. It broke the surface with a tremendous splash, a large brown hump as wrinkled as an elephant...and as fast as a ski boat. Watched through the sinister eyes of the oldest living resident of the lake, Michelle and Erin learn a dark and terrible secret. A secret submerged in the murky depths of Lake Wataga for forty years has returned to watch, to wait...and to feed.
8. "Strange Matter: Fly the Unfriendly Skies" by Engles and Barnes
Morgan Taylor was terrified of flying. Shocking visions of fatal falls and explosive crashes shook loose with each thump of the plane. The electrical storm didn't help much, nor did his sister Kelly. The thought of his father waiting at the boarding gate was the only thing pushing back his fear and swelling panic.Then a horrified scream brought Morgan's worst fears to life.Morgan and Kelly learn the horrible secret of an unseen war: a war being waged in our very bedrooms while we sleep. Invisible battles fought between dark and sinister visitors grappling to secure the survival of their race...And others who struggle desperately to bring us a grave warning before it's too late.Be aware...We are not alone.
9. "Teen Ink: Written in the Dirt: A Collection of Short Stories, Poetry, Art and Photography" edited by Stephanie H. Meyer and John Meyer
After five successful books, Teen Ink: Written in the Dirt offers a startlingly different collection that presents teens' innermost thoughts. These teen-authored fictional stories are filled with incredible character development, gripping plots, imagination and, of course, insight into the human condition. Their poems sing, soar and capture the essence of teen life.
10. "Growin' Pains" by Mary Blount Christian
Twelve-year-old Ginny Ruth feels stifled in her small, dying Texas town, despite her special relationship with physically impaired Mr. Billy.
11. "Loch" by Paul Zindel
Fifteen-year-old Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake, but soon discover that the expedition's leaders aren't interested in preserving the creatures.
12. "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Meet Laura Ingalls...the little girl who would grow up to write the beloved Little House books! Now, this favorite classic -- the first in the original nine-book series -- is available in a large-print, easy-to-read format, sure to captivate a new audience of younger readers. Both adults and kids will love sitting together and reading about pioneer girl Laura Ingalls and her family, in this warm, affectionate look back at Colonial days.
13. "On the Banks of Plum Creek" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome these troubles.
14. "By the Shore of Silver Lake" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they move from their little house on the banks of Plum Creek to the wilderness of the unsettled Dakota Territory. Here Pa works on the new railroad until he finds a homestead claim that is perfect for their new little house. Laura takes her first train ride as she, her sisters, and their mother come out to live with Pa on the shores of Silver Lake. After a lonely winter in the surveyors' house, Pa puts up the first building in what will soon be a brand-new town on the beautiful shores of Silver Lake. The Ingallses' covered-wagon travels are finally over.
15. "Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls is heading west! The Ingalls family packs up their covered wagon and sets off for the big skies of the Kansas Territory, where wide open land stretches as far as the eye can see. Just when they begin to feel settled,they are caught in the middle of a dangerous conflict.
16. "The First Four Years" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house. Laura is a young pioneer wife now, and must work hard with Almanzo, farming the land around their home on the South Dakota prairie. Soon their baby daughter, Rose, is born, and the young family must face the hardships and triumphs encountered by so many American pioneers.
17. "Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens: Tales to Warp Your Mind" edited by Bruce Coville
The popular author of the My Teacher Is an Alien series offers 10 scary, mind-blowing stories--seven originals and three classics--by top authors, ranging from Ray Bradbury to Mary Stanton, for an out-of-this-world anthology young fans will love.
1. "New Roget's Thesaurus"
2. "Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series" by Eliot Asinof
"Say it ain't so, Joe, say it ain't so." But to the horror of their teammates and all of America, eight members of the champion Chicago White Sox gave in to greed and threw the 1919 World Series.Eliot Asinof vividly describes the tense meetings, the hitches in the plot, the actual plays in which the series was thrown, and the grand jury indictment and the famous 1921 trial.Here, too, is a graphic picture of the American underworld that managed the fix, the shocked newspapermen who uncovered the story and the war-exhausted nation that turned to the series for relief, only to be rocked by scandal.
3. "Everything But the Burden: What White People are Taking from Black Culture" edited by Greg Tate
White kids from the ’burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture that’s giving our nation a racial-identity crisis?
4. "Stories of Old Samoa" by Fanaafi Ma'ia'i
5. "Twisted Tales of Shakespeare" by Richard Armour
6. "Forgotten Realms: The Wyvern's Spur" by Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb
7. "Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama" edited by X.J. Kennedy
8. "The Yale Daily News Guide to Writing College Papers" by Marti Page and Justin M. Cohen
9. "A Collection of Poems and Short Stories" by Steven T. Hammond
10. "The Boy's War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War" by Jim Murphy
Includes diary entries, personal letters, and archival photographs to describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War.
11. "Lincoln on Democracy" edited by Mario M. Cuomo and Harold Holzer
This unique book brings together 141 speeches, speech excerpts, letters, fragments, and other writings by Abraham Lincoln on the theme of democracy. Selected by leading historians, the writings include such standards as the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address, but also such little-seen documents as a letter assuring a general that the President felt safe - drafted just three days before Lincoln's assassination in 1865.
12. "The Ghost Writer" by Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff.At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate foreign background who turns out to be a former student of Lonoff's and who may also have been his mistress. Zuckerman, with his active, youthful imagination, wonders if she could be the paradigmatic victim of Nazi persecution.
13. "Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo" by Andy Greenwald
Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo tells the story of a cultural moment that's happening right now-the nexus point where teen culture, music, and the web converge to create something new.
14. "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" by David Sedaris
In this phenomenal #1 bestseller, David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? Yet Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below the surface, exposing a world alive with hidden motives and obscure desires. In DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM, one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today gives us his richest book yet.
15. "Brainlift" by Tricia Warden
16. "Reach" by Don Bajema
17. "The Exorcist" by William Peter Blatty
The phenomenal bestseller that inspired the classic motion picture.
18. "Today's Shakespeare: MacBeth" by William Shakespeare
The original Shakespearean play side-by-side with a modern interpretation.
19. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare
20. "For You, My Daughter" by Susan Polis Schutz
A collection of poems from mother to daughter.
21. "The Universal Myths: Heroes, Gods, Tricksters and Others" by Alexander Eliot
Crossing the boundaries of time, religion, and culture, universal myths have provided inspiration and guidance for countless generations- laying a foundation for the religious, social, and political heritage of nations and peoples since the beginning of time. Here is a rich and absorbing survey of the common myths that connect all cultures, Eastern and Western, from antiquity to the present day. With stunning power, the stuff of legend is explored in all its drama and magnificence.There are stories of gods and men - and legendary heroes from Zeus to King Arthur to the "Superman" of modern media; tales of heaven, earth, and the origins of man from Hindu, American Indian, and Western thought; and retellings of mythic quests and legendary lovers, from the epic wanderings of Odysseus to the tradegy of Tristram and Iseult and the Krishna marriage of Heaven and Earth. This extraordinary work, compiled and arranged by theme from stories of creation to tales of death and rebirth, examines and compares the world's myths that have shaped our common past and continue to influence us still.
22. "The Pocket Dictionary of Signing"
1. "Love in Vein" edited by Poppy Z. Brite
One of the most acclaimed young authors of dark fantasy gathers together an original collection of 20 erotic vampire stories penned by her favorite writers. Not since Anne Rice wrote as Anne Rampling has fantasy been celebrated with such powerful and seductive tales of unspeakable, forbidden, and macabre intimacies.
2. "Demon in My View" by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.
3. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike & Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row" by Christopher Golden
Pretty Maids All in a Row presents a unique supernatural tale that finds favorite demon lovers Spike and Druisilla wreaking havoc throughout war-torn Europe as only they can. As long as there have been demons, there have been Slayers. But Slayers have short life expectancies and high mortality rates. Which is why there exists a list of Pretty Maids All in a Row.
4. "The Vampire Legacy: Resurrection" by Karen E. Taylor
5. "The Complete Vampire Companion: Legend and Lore of the Living Dead" edited by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
6. "Interview With the Vampire" by Anne Rice
Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force--a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.
7. "The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice
Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying existence. His is a mesmerizing story-passionate, complex, and thrilling.
8. "The Queen of the Damned" by Anne Rice
The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco. Among the audience--pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration--are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a "greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals," fiends themselves who hate Lestat's power and who are determined to destroy him.
9. "The Tale of the Body Thief" by Anne Rice
In a new feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale - everything he has come to believe and feel safe with - is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence. The Tale of the Body Thief is told with the unique - the mesmerizing - passion, power, color, and invention that distinguish the novels of Anne Rice.
10. "Memnoch the Devil" by Anne Rice
In this 5th book of The Vampire Chronicles, the vampire Lestat is brought into direct confrontation with God and the Devil and is offered his most dazzling opportunity for redemption yet. In past books, Rice has summoned fantastic worlds as real and immediate as our own. Now she takes us, with Lestat, into the mythic world of our own theology.
11. "Vittorio the Vampire" by Anne Rice
With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures--a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power.
12. "Merrick" by Anne Rice
Merrick is bewitching -- Anne Rice is in top form with this novel of witches and vampires. In the sultry world of Rice's New Orleans, the almost-mortal vampire David Talbot, of the notorious Talamasca, meets Merrick, the sensual Mayfair witch. Lestat, Louis, and other Rice favorites make appearances in this tale. This novel is Rice's ultimate marriage of her bestselling witch and vampire story lines -- and it should not be missed.
13. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, Volume 1" by Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their members. She is the Slayer.Exclusive Interviews, Totally Pointy Profiles, Behind-the-Scenes Info, and Other Buff-stuff About the Hit Show.
1. "Homosexuality: Opposing Viewpoints" edited by William Dudley
Presents opposing viewpoints on such aspects of homosexuality as what causes it, how society should treat homosexuals, and whether sexual orientation can be changed.
2. "Rainbow Boys" by Alex Sanchez
Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
3. "The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Fiction" edited by Peter Burton
1. "Lisa, Bright and Dark" by John Neufeld
Sixteen-year-old Lisa, smart, attractive, and outwardly successful, suffers from a nervous breakdown that only her closest friends seem to notice and care enough about to try to find a way to help her.
2. "Scientific Goofs: Adventures Along the Crooked Trail to Truth" by Billy Aronson
From the author of the acclaimed They Came from DNA comes a wonderfully funny look at a few items from science's "It Seemed like a Good Idea at the Time" department. Tongue-in-cheek accounts explain the circumstances under which some preposterous claims could seem the stuff of brilliance. "Goofs" include the world being flat, the Earth being the center of the universe, frogs generating electricity and more.
3. "Both Sides of Time" by Caroline B. Cooney
Imagine changing centuries-and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time.Imagine being involved in two love triangles in two different centuries. What if, no matter which direction you travel in time, you must abandon someone you love?Meet 15-year-old Annie Lockwood, a romantic living in the wrong century. When she travels back a hundred years and lands in 1895-a time when privileged young ladies wear magnificent gowns, attend elegant parties, and are courted by handsome gentlemen-Annie at last finds romance. But she is a trespasser in time. Will she choose to stay in the past? Will she be allowed to?
4. "Out of Time" by Caroline B. Cooney
Annie Lockwood exists; everyone admits it. Everyone has seen her. But only Strat insists that Miss Lockwood traveled one hundred years back in time to be with them in 1895. Now Strat is paying an enormous price: His father has declared him insane and had him locked away in an asylum. When Time calls Annie back to save Strat, she does not hesitate, even though her family is falling apart and desperately needs her. Can Annie save the boy she loves, or will her choice keep her a trespasser out of time?
5. "Strange Matter: Bigfoot, Big Trouble" by Engle and Barnes
6. "Strange Matter: The Fairfield Triangle" by Engle and Barnes
The Fairfield Triangle has always been an enigma to its namesake town. No one has ever found a reason for the strange events that take place there.Enter Russell Drake. Russell loves solving mysteries. That's why he tags along with his dad, Sheriff Drake, to investigate a disappearance in The Triangle. However, when his back is turned, Russell's crime-solving kit - his most valued possession - vanishes, and the young detective finds himself a victim of the legendary Triangle.To solve the mystery, Russell teams up with the Barker sisters, classmates from school whose father just lost some equipment to The Triangle. They return to the area to search for clues, and come back with enough evidence to persuade Mr. Barker to camp out at the area in an attempt to capture the weird occurrences on tape.While setting up his recorders at the campsite, Mr. Barker suddenly vanishes into thin air, right before the kids' eyes. When Russell and the sisters try to get the Sheriff, they find themselves trapped in a never-changing landscape with no way out!Russell quickly realizes...they're lost in The Fairfield Triangle. And worse...They're not in there alone.
7. "Strange Matter: The Last One In" by Engle and Barnes
Michelle Boyd enjoyed her first time water-skiing on beautiful Lake Wataga. She floated peacefully, waiting for the boat to rocket off, pulling her into another thrilling ride.Then her sister saw the dark shape gliding through the water, relentless, large and powerful. It broke the surface with a tremendous splash, a large brown hump as wrinkled as an elephant...and as fast as a ski boat. Watched through the sinister eyes of the oldest living resident of the lake, Michelle and Erin learn a dark and terrible secret. A secret submerged in the murky depths of Lake Wataga for forty years has returned to watch, to wait...and to feed.
8. "Strange Matter: Fly the Unfriendly Skies" by Engles and Barnes
Morgan Taylor was terrified of flying. Shocking visions of fatal falls and explosive crashes shook loose with each thump of the plane. The electrical storm didn't help much, nor did his sister Kelly. The thought of his father waiting at the boarding gate was the only thing pushing back his fear and swelling panic.Then a horrified scream brought Morgan's worst fears to life.Morgan and Kelly learn the horrible secret of an unseen war: a war being waged in our very bedrooms while we sleep. Invisible battles fought between dark and sinister visitors grappling to secure the survival of their race...And others who struggle desperately to bring us a grave warning before it's too late.Be aware...We are not alone.
9. "Teen Ink: Written in the Dirt: A Collection of Short Stories, Poetry, Art and Photography" edited by Stephanie H. Meyer and John Meyer
After five successful books, Teen Ink: Written in the Dirt offers a startlingly different collection that presents teens' innermost thoughts. These teen-authored fictional stories are filled with incredible character development, gripping plots, imagination and, of course, insight into the human condition. Their poems sing, soar and capture the essence of teen life.
10. "Growin' Pains" by Mary Blount Christian
Twelve-year-old Ginny Ruth feels stifled in her small, dying Texas town, despite her special relationship with physically impaired Mr. Billy.
11. "Loch" by Paul Zindel
Fifteen-year-old Loch and his younger sister join their father on a scientific expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in a Vermont lake, but soon discover that the expedition's leaders aren't interested in preserving the creatures.
12. "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Meet Laura Ingalls...the little girl who would grow up to write the beloved Little House books! Now, this favorite classic -- the first in the original nine-book series -- is available in a large-print, easy-to-read format, sure to captivate a new audience of younger readers. Both adults and kids will love sitting together and reading about pioneer girl Laura Ingalls and her family, in this warm, affectionate look back at Colonial days.
13. "On the Banks of Plum Creek" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome these troubles.
14. "By the Shore of Silver Lake" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they move from their little house on the banks of Plum Creek to the wilderness of the unsettled Dakota Territory. Here Pa works on the new railroad until he finds a homestead claim that is perfect for their new little house. Laura takes her first train ride as she, her sisters, and their mother come out to live with Pa on the shores of Silver Lake. After a lonely winter in the surveyors' house, Pa puts up the first building in what will soon be a brand-new town on the beautiful shores of Silver Lake. The Ingallses' covered-wagon travels are finally over.
15. "Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls is heading west! The Ingalls family packs up their covered wagon and sets off for the big skies of the Kansas Territory, where wide open land stretches as far as the eye can see. Just when they begin to feel settled,they are caught in the middle of a dangerous conflict.
16. "The First Four Years" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house. Laura is a young pioneer wife now, and must work hard with Almanzo, farming the land around their home on the South Dakota prairie. Soon their baby daughter, Rose, is born, and the young family must face the hardships and triumphs encountered by so many American pioneers.
17. "Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens: Tales to Warp Your Mind" edited by Bruce Coville
The popular author of the My Teacher Is an Alien series offers 10 scary, mind-blowing stories--seven originals and three classics--by top authors, ranging from Ray Bradbury to Mary Stanton, for an out-of-this-world anthology young fans will love.
1. "New Roget's Thesaurus"
2. "Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series" by Eliot Asinof
"Say it ain't so, Joe, say it ain't so." But to the horror of their teammates and all of America, eight members of the champion Chicago White Sox gave in to greed and threw the 1919 World Series.Eliot Asinof vividly describes the tense meetings, the hitches in the plot, the actual plays in which the series was thrown, and the grand jury indictment and the famous 1921 trial.Here, too, is a graphic picture of the American underworld that managed the fix, the shocked newspapermen who uncovered the story and the war-exhausted nation that turned to the series for relief, only to be rocked by scandal.
3. "Everything But the Burden: What White People are Taking from Black Culture" edited by Greg Tate
White kids from the ’burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture that’s giving our nation a racial-identity crisis?
4. "Stories of Old Samoa" by Fanaafi Ma'ia'i
5. "Twisted Tales of Shakespeare" by Richard Armour
6. "Forgotten Realms: The Wyvern's Spur" by Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb
7. "Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama" edited by X.J. Kennedy
8. "The Yale Daily News Guide to Writing College Papers" by Marti Page and Justin M. Cohen
9. "A Collection of Poems and Short Stories" by Steven T. Hammond
10. "The Boy's War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War" by Jim Murphy
Includes diary entries, personal letters, and archival photographs to describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War.
11. "Lincoln on Democracy" edited by Mario M. Cuomo and Harold Holzer
This unique book brings together 141 speeches, speech excerpts, letters, fragments, and other writings by Abraham Lincoln on the theme of democracy. Selected by leading historians, the writings include such standards as the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address, but also such little-seen documents as a letter assuring a general that the President felt safe - drafted just three days before Lincoln's assassination in 1865.
12. "The Ghost Writer" by Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff.At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate foreign background who turns out to be a former student of Lonoff's and who may also have been his mistress. Zuckerman, with his active, youthful imagination, wonders if she could be the paradigmatic victim of Nazi persecution.
13. "Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo" by Andy Greenwald
Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo tells the story of a cultural moment that's happening right now-the nexus point where teen culture, music, and the web converge to create something new.
14. "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" by David Sedaris
In this phenomenal #1 bestseller, David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? Yet Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below the surface, exposing a world alive with hidden motives and obscure desires. In DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM, one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today gives us his richest book yet.
15. "Brainlift" by Tricia Warden
16. "Reach" by Don Bajema
17. "The Exorcist" by William Peter Blatty
The phenomenal bestseller that inspired the classic motion picture.
18. "Today's Shakespeare: MacBeth" by William Shakespeare
The original Shakespearean play side-by-side with a modern interpretation.
19. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare
20. "For You, My Daughter" by Susan Polis Schutz
A collection of poems from mother to daughter.
21. "The Universal Myths: Heroes, Gods, Tricksters and Others" by Alexander Eliot
Crossing the boundaries of time, religion, and culture, universal myths have provided inspiration and guidance for countless generations- laying a foundation for the religious, social, and political heritage of nations and peoples since the beginning of time. Here is a rich and absorbing survey of the common myths that connect all cultures, Eastern and Western, from antiquity to the present day. With stunning power, the stuff of legend is explored in all its drama and magnificence.There are stories of gods and men - and legendary heroes from Zeus to King Arthur to the "Superman" of modern media; tales of heaven, earth, and the origins of man from Hindu, American Indian, and Western thought; and retellings of mythic quests and legendary lovers, from the epic wanderings of Odysseus to the tradegy of Tristram and Iseult and the Krishna marriage of Heaven and Earth. This extraordinary work, compiled and arranged by theme from stories of creation to tales of death and rebirth, examines and compares the world's myths that have shaped our common past and continue to influence us still.
22. "The Pocket Dictionary of Signing"