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Alexander Hamilton
Chernow, Ron.
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn...
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West : a novel
Maguire, Gregory.
Paper Book
This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtakingNew York Times bestseller
Les misérables
Hugo, Victor
Paper Book
In this major new rendition by the acclaimed translator Julie Rose, Victor Hugo's tour de force, Les Miserables, is revealed in its full unabridged glory. A favorite of readers for nearly 150 years, and the basis for one of the most beloved stage musicals ever, this stirring tale of crime,...
The color purple : a novel
Walker, Alice
Paper Book
The color purple
Walker, Alice
Paper Book
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Winner of the Pulitzer Prize * Winner of the National Book Award   Published to unprecedented acclaim,The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in...
The color purple
Walker, Alice
Audiobook
The Color Purple
The phantom of the opera
Leroux, Gaston
Paper Book
He lurked in the shadows of the Paris Opera House--a man with the voice of an angel but the face of a monster. His only hope for love is a beautiful soprano who draws him . . . to disaster.
Matilda
Dahl, Roald.
Paper Book
The classic story from Roald Dahl, about an exceptional young girl with extraordinary powers. Adapted into a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and a Netflix film! Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be...
Matilda
Dahl, Roald.
Paper Book
La infancia es la edad de la sabiduría y las revelaciones. La vida adulta es la época del olvido, el conformismo, el fracaso y la estupidez. Esta verdad esencial acerca del devenir de la existencia humana está magníficamente expresado en este libro singular, cuya protagonista -la pequeña Matilda- a...
Legally blonde
Brown, Amanda.
Paper Book
Elle Woods, California University senior, seems to have it all. President of Delta Gamma sorority, she's aced her major--sociopolitical jewelry design-and is on the verge of becoming Mrs. Warner Huntington III. Too bad Warner, bound for Stanford Law, dumps her with the explanation that he now needs...
Mary Poppins
Travers, P. L.
Audiobook
Mary Poppins is like no other nanny the four Banks children have ever seen. She whirls into their home and "spit-spot," she works her inimitable brand of magic to make even the bland seem extraordinary. An endless source of fascinating adventure, she slides up the banister, produces an array of...
Mary Poppins
Travers, P. L.
Paper Book
The wind brings two English children a new nanny who slides up the banister and introduces them to some delightful people and experiences.
Candide, or Optimism
Voltaire
Paper Book
With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the naive Candide,...
A Christmas carol
Dickens, Charles
Paper Book
The celebrated P.J. Lynch captures the spirit of Dickens's beloved tale in a richly illustrated unabridged edition. The story of Ebenezer Scrooge opens on a Christmas Eve as cold as Scrooge's own heart. That night, he receives three ghostly visitors: the terrifying spirits of...
Charles Dickens's a Christmas carol : with select recipes by Giada De Laurentiis, Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, & Trisha Yearwood
Dickens, Charles
Paper Book
Puffin Plated- A Book-to-Table Reading Experience. A deluxe, full-color hardback edition of the perennial Christmas classicfeaturing a selection of recipes for your holiday table from Giada de Laurentiis, Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, and Trisha Yearwood! Have...
Don Quixote
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Paper Book
Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, a landmark work of early modern literature, in an expanded P.S. edition Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, this classic of Spanish literature, Don Quixote,...
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Paper Book
The well-known works of literature in this series constitute the most valuable treasures of universal literature. The affordably priced imitation leather bound books enhance any library, putting the works of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy within everyone's reach. Las reconocidas...
Little Women
Alcott, Louisa
Paper Book
Little women
Alcott, Louisa May
Paper Book
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
Little women, or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Alcott, Louisa May
Paper Book
Little Women is one of the  best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented  Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons  of poverty and of growing up in New England during  the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays,  pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all  ages have...
The Devil wears Prada
Weisberger, Lauren
Paper Book
The deliciously witty and delightfully dishy novel about life at a glamorous fashion magazine is now a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, set to open in theaters on June 30.
The secret garden
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Paper Book
Celebrate an unforgettable classic with this gorgeous hardcover edition, including full-color illustrations. This beautiful hardcover edition includes Tasha Tudor's iconic illustrations in full color, making it the perfect collector's edition or a wonderful gift for young readers. ...
The secret garden
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Paper Book
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
O Jardim Secreto
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Paper Book
Adaptado para a TV e cinema, O Jardim Secreto vendeu milhões de exemplares por todo o mundo desde sua primeira edição em 1911.Considerado um dos mais importantes livros infantojuvenis do século XX pela National Education Association, a obra está entre os 100 livros mais indicados por professores em...
Tuck everlasting : the graphic novel
Babbitt, Natalie
Paper Book
Celebrate Tuck Everlasting's 50th anniversary with the bestselling graphic novel adaptation of this beloved and spellbinding children's classic that has sold more than 10 million copies. What if you could live forever? In this timeless story about...
Rebecca
Du Maurier, Daphne
Paper Book
Now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas "Last Night I Dreamt I went to Manderley Again..." With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the...
Charlie and the chocolate factory
Dahl, Roald.
Paper Book
What happens when the five luckiest children in the entire world walk through the doors of Willy Wonka's famous, mysterious chocolate factory? What happens when, one by one, the children disobey Mr. Wonka's orders? In Dahl's most popular story, the nasty are punished and the good are deliciously,...
Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other tales
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paper Book
Robert Louis Stevenson's short novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886, became an instant classic, a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare whose hallucinatory setting in the back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. Its revelatory ending is...
Peter Pan
Barrie, James Matthew
Paper Book
One of the most popular, magical novels in literature joins the Scholastic Classics library. Barrie's enchanting tale of Peter Pan, a boy who never grows up, his home in Neverland, and his adventures with the Darling children and the Lost Boys as they go up against the evil Captain Hook, remains a...
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Haddon, Mark.
Paper Book
Narrated by a 15-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions.
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Haddon, Mark.
Paper Book
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.......
El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche
Haddon, Mark
Paper Book
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.
Harry Potter and the cursed child. Parts one and two
Thorne, Jack
Paper Book
The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official...
Carrie
King, Stephen
Audiobook
A STEPHEN KING CLASSIC AVAILABLEON AUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIME In one way or another, everybody abused Carrie. Her fanatical mother forbade this sixteen-year-old misfit everything that was young and fun. She was teased and taunted by her classmates, misunderstood by her teachers, and given up as...
The lightning thief
Riordan, Rick.
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times Bestseller Percy Jackson and the Olympians series now streaming on Disney+! The hardcover edition of the first book in Rick Riordan's thrilling middle grade series, filled with magic, Greek mythology, and plenty of monsters...
The lightning thief
Riordan, Rick
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestselling SeriesPercy Jackson and the Olympians (Book 1)Twelve-year-old Percy is about to be kicked out of boarding school . . . again. But can he really be expected to stand by while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself against his teacher when she...
The lightning thief
Riordan, Rick.
Multimedia
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school... again. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to stay out of trouble. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself against his pre-algebra...
El ladr??n del rayo
Riordan, Rick.
Paper Book
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Wagner, Lloyd S.
Paper Book
Man has long had the power to take life, but what will happen when he learns to give it? Intrigued by this question, young Victor Frankenstein - a devoted student of science - becomes obsessed with the idea of conjuring life out of 'lifeless matter'. Using his formidable skills in...
Old Possum's book of practical cats
Eliot, T. S.
Paper Book
An engaging collection of humorous poems. These verses, originally composed to amuse Eliot’s intimate friends, have proven irresistible to cat lovers, lovers of nonsense, and admirers of Eliot throughout the English-speaking world. “Enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the...
Oliver Twist
Dickens, Charles
Paper Book
This darkest and most colorfully grotesque of Charles Dickens's novels swirls around one of his most beloved and unsullied heroes, the orphan Oliver Twist. One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Dickens's great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creation...
The adventures of Oliver Twist
Dickens, Charles
Paper Book
The story of a boy who runs away from an orphanage in England and becomes involved with a gang of thieves.
The hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor
Paper Book
A tragic tale of love and human cruelty finds Quasimodo, a deformed and hearing impared bell-ringer in medieval Paris, hopelessly in love with the beautiful Esmerelda, a gypsy who is targeted by the treacherous local archdeacon.
Coraline
Gaiman, Neil.
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman's modern classic, Coraline--also an Academy Award-nominated film "Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house...." When Coraline steps through a door to find another...
Coraline
Gaiman, Neil.
Audiobook
New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman spins a tale of wonder, dark secrets, and bravery that inspired the new 3-D stop-motion animated picture When coraline explores her new home, she finds a door. through the door is another house just like her own...except that it's...
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Laiken, Deidre S.
Paper Book
Climb aboard the raft with Huck and Jim and drift away from the "sivilized" life and into a world of adventure, excitement, danger, and self-discovery. Huck's shrewd and humorous narrative is complemented by lyrical descriptions of the Mississippi valley and a sparkling cast of memorable characters....
Water for elephants : a novel
Gruen, Sara.
Paper Book
Over 10,000,000 copies in print worldwide #1 New York Times Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A Newsday Favorite Book of 2006 A USA Today Bestseller A Major Motion Picture starring...
Water for elephants
Gruen, Sara.
Paper Book
Over 10 million copies sold worldwide! * Now A Broadway Musical Starring Grant Gustin and Isabella McCalla #1 New York Times Bestseller * A Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Bestseller ...
Big fish
Perry, Thomas
Paper Book
The great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paper Book
One of the classics of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby is now available in a definitive, textually accurate edition. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition...
The great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Audiobook
A social satire and a milestone in 20th century literature, 'The Great Gatsby' peels away the layers of the glamorous twenties in the U.S. to display the coldness and cruelty at its heart.
The great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paper Book
The notebook : a novel
Sparks, Nicholas.
Paper Book
Experience the unforgettable, heartbreaking love story set in post-World War II North Carolina about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart -- one of PBS's "Great American Reads". Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more...
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang : the magical car
Fleming, Ian
Paper Book
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William
Paper Book
Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own. Each play is presented with Shakespeare's original lines on each left-hand page, and a modern,...
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