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Updated January 8, 2025
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Jurassic Park : a novel
Crichton, Michael
Paper Book
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goes wrong...and science proves a dangerous toy.... "Wonderful...Powerful." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Friday night lights : a town, a team, and a dream
Bissinger, Buzz 1954-
Paper Book
Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided,...
Watchmen
Moore, Alan 1953-
Paper Book
A "New York Times" Best Seller This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin. One of the most...
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Flagg, Fannie.
Paper Book
The remarkable novel of two Southern friendships--the basis of the hit film--available for the first time in large print.
The princess bride : S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure : the good parts version
Goldman, William 1931-2018
Other
William Goldman's beloved story of Buttercup, Westley, and their fellow adventurers in a deluxe limited edition featuring sprayed edges and a new cover perfect for fans of the movie and the book alike. A tale of true love and high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing,...
Slumdog millionaire
Swarup, Vikas.
Paper Book
Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone...
Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Strayed, Cheryl
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the...
The shining
King, Stephen
Paper Book
Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy, and their young son Danny move into the Overlook Hotel, where Jack has been hired as the winter caretaker. Cut off from civilization for months, Jack hopes to battle alcoholism and uncontrolled rage while writing a play. Evil forces residing in the Overlook--which has...
Midnight in the garden of good and evil
Berendt, John 1939-
Paper Book
THE LANDMARK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MUSICAL COMING SOON TO BROADWAY * An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: "Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast...
2001, a space odyssey
Clarke, Arthur C.
Paper Book
The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick's immortal film--and changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves. From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the outer rim of...
Julie and Julia : 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen :how one girl risked her marriage, her job, and her sanity to master the art ofliving
Powell, Julie 1973-
Paper Book
Julie Julia is the story of Julie Powell's attempt to revitalizeher marriage, restore her ambition, and save her soul by cooking all 524recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, VolumeI, in a period of 365 days.The result is a masterful medley of BridgetJones' Diary meets Like...
Never let me go
Ishiguro, Kazuo 1954-
Paper Book
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER * From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes "a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist--a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. One of The New York Times's 10...
Dracula
Stoker, Bram
Paper Book
Catch me if you can : the amazing true story of the youngest and most daring con man in the history of fun and profit!
Abagnale, Frank W. 1948-
Paper Book
The uproarious, bestselling true story of the world's most sought-after con man, immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in DreamWorks' feature film of the same name, from the author of Scam Me If You Can.  Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad,...
V for vendetta
Moore, Alan 1953-
Paper Book
In an alternate future in which Germany wins World War II and Britain becomes a fascist state, a vigilante named "V" tries to free England of its ideological chains.
The hundred-foot journey
Morais, Richard C. 1960-
Paper Book
"Slumdog Millionaire meets Ratatouille" (The New York Times Book Review) in this "delicious fairytale-like read" (NPR) about family, nationality, and the mysteries of good taste. Born above his grandfather's modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan Haji first...

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