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Tyler, Anne.
Anne tyler omnibus
Dinner at the homesick restaurant, the accidental tourist, breathing lessons.
2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-4481-3838-8
No other writer captures like Anne Tyler, with acerbic affection and compassionate clarity, the shifts and defences of the average family struggling to keep life under control. This first omnibus e...
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Haddon, Mark.
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Vintage children's classics.
2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-4481-3985-9
Discover this imaginative, classic coming of age story of one extraordinary boy's quest for the truth. 'Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them' This is Ch...
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Austen, Jane.
Mansfield park
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-665-4
Fanny Price is born to a poor family, but is sent to her mother's rich relations to be brought up with her cousins. There she is treated as an inferior by all except her cousin Edmund, whose kindne...
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Brontë, Anne.
The tenant of wildfell hall
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-177-2
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a novel in three parts, written as a letter from Gilbert Markham to his brother-in-Law. Markham is a prosperous farmer who is casually courting Eliza Millward. When a...
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Irving, John.
The cider house rules
2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-0-06-223518-3
An American classic first published in 1985 by William Morrow and adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, The Cider House Rules is among John Irving's most beloved novels. Set in rural Maine in...
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Irving, John.
A prayer for owen meany
2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-0-06-220410-3
"A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation in the somehow exhausted world of late twentieth-century fiction —it is an amazingly brave piece of work . . . so extr...
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Shakespeare, William.
Hamlet
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-613-5
Dive into the tragedy that many critics regard not only as Shakespeare's finest play, but also as one of the best literary works ever produced. Set in Denmark, Hamlet recounts the events that trans...
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.
The hound of the baskervilles
(
Sherlock Holmes. )
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-508-4
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle starring the great detective of Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes. Wealthy landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in th...
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Collins, Wilkie.
The moonstone
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-363-9
The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction , Wilkie Collins. It is considered, with The Woman in White , to be his best work, and is also commonly seen as the first Eng...
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Brontë, Charlotte.
Jane eyre
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-504-6
Jane Eyre is raised in her aunt's house after the death of her parents. Her aunt cannot stand the queer, quiet child and sends her off to a spartan boarding school where she is severely mistreated....
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Brontë, Emily.
Wuthering heights
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-673-9
A country gentleman returns one night to his isolated and unforgiving home with a gypsy child tucked under his cloak. Treated as an animal, the child Heathcliff grows up twisted and wild. But he an...
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L'Engle, Madeleine.
A wrinkle in time
Time quartet, book 1.
(
Time Quartet. )
New York : : Listening Library (Audio), , 2012. - Unabridged. - 1 online resource (5 audio files) : ISBN 978-0-307-91660-0
Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, now a major motion picture. This audiobook includes an introduction read by the film director Ava DuVernay, a foreword read ...
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Sutherland, Tui T.
The dragonet prophecy
Wings of fire series, book 1.
(
Wings of Fire. )
New York City : : Scholastic Audio, , 2012. - Unabridged. - 1 online resource (8 audio files) : ISBN 978-1-338-30431-2
A thrilling new series soars above the competition and redefines middle-grade fantasy fiction for a new generation! The seven dragon tribes have been at war for generations, locked in an endless ba...
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Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud).
Anne of green gables
Anne of green gables series, book 1.
(
Anne of Green Gables. )
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-146-8
Anne of Green Gables is a best-selling novel and Canadian classic. It was originally intended for all audiences, but is now commonly considered a children's book. Two middle-aged siblings decide to...
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Sewell, Anna.
Black beauty
The autobiography of a horse.
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-183-3
Black Beauty (1877) is the classic children's book by English author Anna Sewell. A cripple for most of her life, Sewell developed an early love of horses, and the story intended to teach her reade...
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London, Jack.
The call of the wild
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-448-3
The Call of the Wild is Jack London's most popular book and is considered by many to be his best. Telling the story of Buck, a domesticated dog whose wild instincts begin to kick-in while serving a...
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Alcott, Louisa May.
Little women
Little women series, book 1.
(
Little Women. )
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-456-8
Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in two parts, each resoundingly popular and receiving critical acclaim. The novel follows the lives of the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, from child...
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Melville, Herman.
Moby dick
Or, the whale.
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-700-2
The itinerant sailor Ishmael begins a voyage on the whaling ship Pequod whose captain, Ahab, wishes to exact revenge upon the whale Moby-Dick, who destroyed his last ship and took his leg. As they ...
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Christie, Agatha.
The mysterious affair at styles
Hercule poirot series, book 1.
(
Hercule Poirot. )
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62012-292-1
Who doesn't love a good mystery novel? Curl up with The Mysterious Affair at Styles , a tale from the pen of Agatha Christie, a writer who is regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the master...
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Joyce, James.
Ulysses
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-688-3
James Joyce's novel Ulysses is said to be one of the most important works in Modernist literature. It details Leopold Bloom's passage through Dublin on an ordinary day: June 16, 1904. Causing contr...
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Riordan, Rick.
Helden des olymp, teil 1
Der verschwundene halbgott.
Berlin : : Lübbe Audio, , 2012. - Digital. - 1 online resource (7 audio files) : ISBN 978-3-8387-7081-9
Jason erinnert sich an nichts mehr - nicht einmal an seinen Namen. Leo und Piper scheinen zwar seine Freunde zu sein, aber auch das kann er nicht mit Sicherheit sagen. Als es die drei dann plötzlic...
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Baum, L. Frank.
The wonderful wizard of oz
Old Saybrook : : Tantor Audio, , 2012. - Unabridged. - 1 online resource (4 audio files) : ISBN 978-1-4526-9027-8
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the classic story of fantasy that has delighted readers young and old for decades. Dorothy finds herself transplanted to the magical land of Oz when her house is sucke...
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Miller, Madeline.
The song of achilles
2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-0-06-206063-1
"At once a scholar's homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist....A book I could not put down." —Ann Patchett "Mary Renault lives aga...
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Golding, William.
Lord of the flies
2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-0-571-26738-5
This dystopian classic is 'e xciting, relevant and thought-provoking' (Stephen King). W hen a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong? ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS ...
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Collins, Wilkie.
The woman in white
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-453-7
The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels, and one of the finest examples of the genre. A young woman's husband defrauds her of her fortune, her identity and event...
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Bardugo, Leigh.
Shadow and bone
The grisha trilogy, book 1.
(
The Grisha Trilogy. )
2012. - 1. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-0-8050-9710-8
See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone , now a Netflix original series. Enter the Grishaverse with Book One of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by the #1 New York Times R...
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Cass, Kiera.
The selection
The selection series, book 1.
(
The Selection. )
2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-0-06-205995-6
Fall in love—from the very beginning. Discover the first book in the captivating, #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series. This ebook edition contains an excerpt of Kiera Cass's ne...
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Dickens, Charles.
David copperfield
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-696-8
David Copperfield is considered to be Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel. He said of it: "Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Co...
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Shelley, Mary.
Frankenstein
Or the modern prometheus.
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-515-2
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus , was completed by Mary Shelley at the age of 19. She infused this original novel with Gothic and Romantic elements. Scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a la...
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Stevenson, Robert Louis.
Treasure island
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-679-1
Robert Louis Stevenson was a great traveler, who spent his last years in the Pacific, far from his native Scotland. His novel Treasure Island is a seafaring adventure story filled with treasure, tr...
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James, Henry.
The turn of the screw
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-218-2
The Turn of the Screw is s ghostly Gothic tale by Henry James. A masterpiece in ambivalence and the uncanny, The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young woman who is hired as governess to two ...
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Stevenson, Robert Louis.
The strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-672-2
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is Robert Louis Stevenson's thriller allegory of a medical experiment gone wrong and dual personalities, one the essence of good, the other the essence of ...
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Dickens, Charles.
A christmas carol
A ghost story of christmas.
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-243-4
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol under financial duress, but it became one of his most popular and enduring stories. The old miser Ebenezer Scrooge cares nothing for family, friends, love or Christm...
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Austen, Jane.
Emma
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-666-1
Emma stands a little apart from Jane Austen's other novels. It is perhaps the most self-aware, socially critical and ironic of all her works. Her protagonist, Emma Woodhouse, is a beautiful, rich g...
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Austen, Jane.
Persuasion
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-664-7
When she was young and beautiful Anne Elliot fell in love with a dashing, but poor naval officer. Her family considered him beneath her and persuaded her to break off the match. Eight years later, ...
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
The scarlet letter
Cleveland : : Duke Classics, , 2012. - 1 online resource ISBN 978-1-62011-701-9
In the puritanical Boston of the 17th Century, a woman gives birth after committing adultery. That woman, Hester Prynne, choses to create a new life for herself in the face of adversity rather than...