Tag Archives: Literature & Fiction

Jack: Secret Circles (Repairman Jack)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: F. Paul Wilson
Publisher: Tor Teen

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When his five-year-old neighbor goes missing, Jack can’t help feeling responsible. He should have taken Cody home when he found him riding his bicycle near the Pine Barrens. And then a lost man wanders out of the woods after being chased all night by…something. Jack knows, better [...]

Monday with a Mad Genius (Magic Tree House, No. 38)

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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In Monday with a Mad Genius, travel with Jack and Annie to Italy in the Renaissance, a time when every new morning brought with it the promise of artistic and scientific wonder. There, they meet none other than Leonardo da Vinci! Now [...]

The Flat Stanley Collection Box Set

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Jeff Brown
Publisher: HarperCollins

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Stanley Lambchop is an ordinary boy. At least he was, until the night his bulletin board fell off the wall and flattened him. At only half an inch thick, Stanley can slide under doors, mail himself across the country in an envelope, and fly like a kite!
And that’s [...]

Magic Tree House Boxed Set, Books 1-28

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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“I WISH WE COULD GO THERE!”
When they are in the tree house, Jack and Annie only have to say those simple words and the tree house starts to spin, faster and faster. . . . And then, poof!—the kids find themselves flying [...]

The Screwtape Letters: First Ever Full-cast Dramatization of the Diabolical Classic (Radio Theatre)

Rating: (24 reviews)
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Publisher: Tyndale Entertainment

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From the award-winning audio drama team that brought you Radio Theatre’s Amazing Grace and The Chronicles of Narnia. In his enduringly popular masterpiece The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis re-imagines Hell as a gruesome bureaucracy. With spiritual insight and wry wit, Lewis suggests that demons, laboring in a vast [...]

Maitland Maternity Christmas: A Heartbeat Away/The Ends of the Earth/Once in a Lifetime (Maitland Maternity Clinic Anthology)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Judy Christenberry
Publisher: Harlequin

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Hugh Blake, soon to become stepfather to the Maitland clan, has produced three high-performing offspring of his own. But at the rate they’re going, they’re never going to make him a grandpa!
There’s Suzanne, a work-obsessed CEO whose Christmas spirit could use a little topping up . . .
And [...]

Charles Dickens Four Complete Novels (Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities)

Rating: (36 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Gramercy

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Includes the major works by one of the greatest names in literature. Namely, Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities. This Library of Literary Classics edition is bound in padded leather with luxurious gold-stamping on the front and spine, satin ribbon marker [...]

The Con Artist of Catalina Island: A McAfee Twins Christmas Novel

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Jennifer Colt
Publisher: CreateSpace

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Spending Christmas on picturesque Catalina Island seems like the perfect idea for private investigators, Kerry and Terry McAfee. That is, until they learn that the hotel room they’ve checked into was recently occupied by a pair of feuding newlyweds, and that the bride and her rare green diamond [...]

A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Aurora Metro Press

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New imaginative adaptation with music. For use in schools, amateur groups, youth theater, etc.

A Christmas Celebration: Including “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens (Collections)

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks

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Here is a perfect coupling for those Christmas evenings of Christmas journeys. The greatest Christmas story is Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” which has never lost its charm as Scrooge learns compassion and love. “The Christmas Collection” is a varied, well chosen selection of words, stories, essays, poems and reflections made [...]

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Author: CHARLES DICKENS
Publisher: BCA

A Capeside Christmas (Dawson’s Creek)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: C.J. Anders
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment

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Stress Much?
Two days into rehearsal, the director of the Capeside Christmas Winter Follies drops out, so Dawson volunteers to direct the town show. But he’s finding out the hard way it’s easier to direct a small cast film than a giant Christmas pageant filled with friends, [...]

A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens: Pictured by Arthur I. Keller – 1914 Reprint (2009)

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Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: CreateSpace

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Vintage Collectors Edition of Charles Dickens’ most beloved Christmas Story on 150 pages, printed on high quality book paper. A great christmas gift. This is a beautiful 2009 reprint of the original classic edition from 1914, originally published by Publisher David Mkay in Philadelphia. Original illustrations by A.I. [...]

Eclipse (The Twilight Saga)

Rating: (1888 reviews)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devour the paperback edition Eclipse, the third book in Stephenie Meyer’s riveting vampire love saga. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, [...]

The Help

Rating: (1716 reviews)
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam

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Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter [...]

Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 (The Twilight Saga)

Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Yen Press

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When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep [...]

The Christmas Box

Rating: (129 reviews)
Author: Richard Paul Evans
Publisher: Pubs Wholesale

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“Whatever the reason, I find that with each passing Christmas the story of the Christmas box is told less and needed more. So I record it now for all future generations to accept or dismiss, as seems them good. As for me, I believe. And it [...]

Mama Had to Work on Christmas

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Carolyn Marsden
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

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Gloria always spends Christmas with Papi, Mama, and Nana. But this Christmas, Papi is away picking oranges and Mama has to work at the hotel where she is a maid. Gloria is miserable when Mama makes her go with her-until they get to the hotel with its [...]

A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Dover Publications

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This illustrated edition of the Yuletide classic features 12 full-color plates plus 18 black-and-white drawings. The timeless appeal of Rackham’s evocative illustrations form the perfect complement to the master storyteller’s wise and witty prose. Dickens’s immortal tale still sends a message that strikes the reader’s heart and soul.

The Sorcerer of the North: Book Five (Ranger’s Apprentice)

Rating: (38 reviews)
Author: John Flanagan
Publisher: Puffin

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Several years have passed since the apprentice and his master, Will and Halt, first met, and Will is finally a full-fledged Ranger with his own fief to look after. The fief seems sleepy—boring, even—until Lord Syron, master of a castle far in the north, is struck down by [...]

The Bells of Christmas

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Sandpiper

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Twelve-year-old Jason Bell waits impatiently for Christmas 1890. Set against the carefully researched background life of a middle-class black family in Ohio a century ago, “Hamilton’s story moves along at an elegant pace, giving readers time to savor the holiday preparations.”–School Library Journal

A Fairy Merry Christmas (Fairy School)

Author: Gail Herman
Publisher: Skylark

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It’s Christmas in Fairyland. What better time for a field trip to the North Pole? But bad news awaits the fairies–Santa isn’t planning to give out any toys on Earth-Below. He doesn’t think any Little Big People believe in him anymore. The fairies have to change his mind. With a little [...]

A Christmas Carol (Penguin Readers, Level 2)

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Pearson ESL

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Scrooge is a cold, mean man. He loves only money and is cruel to the people around him. Scrooge is visited by ghosts who show him his past, his life now and a possible future. Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can he change?

Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire (Hesperus Classics)

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Hesperus Press

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Building on the success of his Christmas number for 1852, Dickens used the same framing concept for 1853’s Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire. This wide-ranging round features tales of angels, ghosts, and marriages that are as treacherous as they are inspiring. With more than one horrifying account [...]

The Complete Christmas Books of Charles Dickens

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Digireads.com

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While readers will be most familiar with “The Christmas Carol” in which Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four ghosts who endeavor to show him the error of his miserly ways just in time for Christmas, Dickens also wrote four other Christmas themed books. These include “The Chimes”, the [...]

A Christmas Carol Book Set & Advent Calendar (Story Book Set & Advent Calendar Series , No 3)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

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Another in the successful Story Book Set and Advent Calendar series is a christmas carol, Charles Dickens’s great story of the true meaning of Christmas. Read in sequence, the 24 miniature full-color books tell the memorable tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, his ghostly visitors, and the family [...]

A Christmas Carol (DK Classics)

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: DK CHILDREN

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A Christmas Carol is an essential part of Christmas for families everywhere. Since the book’s publication in 1843, the story of miserly Scrooge’s change of heart after the visit of three spirits has been encountered by children in innumerable books, plays, movies, and cartoons based on Dicken’s [...]

Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: L.M. Montgomery
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

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Share Anne’s delight at receiving the dress of her dreams, the joy of a young woman reunited with her long lost brother on Christmas Eve, and the surprise of a trio of sisters who inadvertently end a family feud by arriving at the wrong uncle’s house [...]

A Christmas Memory

Rating: (86 reviews)
Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

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First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote’s rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. We are proud to be reprinting this warm and delicately illustrated edition of A Christmas Memory–”a tiny gem of a holiday story” (School Library [...]

The Annotated Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol in Prose (The Annotated Books)

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Without question, The Annotated Christmas Carol is the most authoritative and entertaining edition ever produced.
What would Christmas be without A Christmas Carol? Charles Dickens’s famous ghost story is as much a part of the season as plum pudding and mistletoe, and Michael Patrick Hearn, [...]

Warriors: Ravenpaw’s Path #1: Shattered Peace

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: HarperCollins

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Ravenpaw has settled into life on the farm, away from the forest and Tigerstar’s evil eye. He knows that leaving the warrior clans was the right choice, and he appreciates his quiet days and peaceful nights with his best friend, Barley. But when five rogue cats from Twolegplace [...]

Tales of the Greek Heroes (Puffin Classics)

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Roger Lancelyn Green
Publisher: Puffin

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Some of the oldest and most famous stories in the world—the adventures of Perseus, the labors of Heracles, the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts—are vividly retold in this single, connected narrative of the Heroic Age, from the coming of the Immortals to the first fall of [...]

Magic Tree House Research Guide #21: Leprechauns and Irish Folklore: A Nonfiction Companion to Leprechaun in Late Winter (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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Do the folk stories about leprechauns match our ideas about them today? Are there other fairies in Irish tradition? What are the origins of these stories? Why do people believe in leprecahuns and fairies? Find out the answers to these questions and [...]

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)

Rating: (2689 reviews)
Author: J. K. Rowling
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

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In one of the most hotly anticipated sequels in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where she left with Harry’s second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girl’s bathroom, [...]

Merry Navidad!: Christmas Carols in Spanish and English/Villancicos en espanol e ingles

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Alma Flor Ada
Publisher: Rayo

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Resuenen con alegría
los cánticos de mi tierra
que viva el Niño Jesús
que ha nacido en Nochebuena.
It’s time to sing out with joy
the songs that are sung in my land
in praise of the precious Child
born this holy Christmas evening.

Come share the joy of a Hispanic Christmas!
In this warm and [...]

A Christmas Carol

Rating: (197 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Dial

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A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

Ivy & Bean (Book 1) (Bk. 1)

Rating: (72 reviews)
Author: Annie Barrows
Publisher: Chronicle Books

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The moment they saw each other, Bean and Ivy knew they wouldn’t be friends. But when Bean plays a joke on her sister, Nancy, and has to hide quick Ivy comes to the rescue, proving that sometimes the best of friends are people never meant to like [...]

A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Godine Storyteller)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Dylan Thomas
Publisher: David R Godine

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This is one of Ardizzone’s last books, and in our mind one of his best; a gentle and beguiling memoir of a Christmas spent in Cardiff when Thomas was a child. Ardizzone’s quick, sure brushwork is not only the perfect complement to a timeless classic but [...]

A Pinata in a Pine Tree: A Latino Twelve Days of Christmas

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Pat Mora
Publisher: Clarion Books

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An award-winning author and a rising star artist have put a festive Latino twist on “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” populating it with piñatas in place of partridges, plus burritos bailando (dancing donkeys), lunitas cantando (singing moons), and much more, all displayed in the most vivid colors [...]

A Tale of Two Cities: 150th Anniversary (Signet Classics)

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Signet Classics

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150TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
With dramatic eloquence, this story of the French Revolution brings to life a time of terror and treason, and a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime.

Linger

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic Press

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In Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other.  Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring [...]

Ride Wit’ Me

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Deja King
Publisher: A King Production/Young Diamond Book

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Check out Mercedes and Dalvin, two beautiful young lovers in a modern day story that is destined to be a classic. Mercedes is truly a daddy s girl. She is his crown jewel and nothing in the world is more precious to him. Mercedes [...]

The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4)

Rating: (191 reviews)
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

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“Three cheers! Max is one of the smartest, strongest, funniest heroines around.” – Diane Garrett, Diane’s Books
In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her-and maybe save the [...]

The Ender Quartet Box Set: Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind

Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction

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This boxed set contains Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. 
 
Ender’s Game
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as [...]

Along for the Ride

Rating: (67 reviews)
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

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It’s been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents’ divorce—or since the fighting started. Now she has the chance to spend a carefree summer with her dad and his new family in the charming beach town where they live.
A job in a clothes [...]

Nine Days to Christmas (Viking Kestrel picture books)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Marie Hall Ets
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

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Published over 30 years ago, Nine Days to Christmas remains fresh and relevant. Ceci’s first Christmas posada party and pinata have made her Mexican town come alive for generations of readers. “The youngest child will be completely transported by this lovely story”.–The Atlantic. Three-color illustrations.

A Christmas Carol (The Kings Treasuries of Literature)

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.

The Oxford Bookworms Library: A Christmas Carol Level 3 (Oxford Bookworms Library, Stage 3)

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him traveling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future – [...]

Essential Dickens CD: Christmas Carol, A (Caedmon Essentials)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Caedmon

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Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, in a full cast dramatization, on CD for the first time!
As much a part of Christmas as mistletoe, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol warms the heart of listeners with its tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge.
This enchanting, full-cast recording brings Dickens’ London [...]

Nonesuch Dickens: 6 Book Set: Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Christmas Books, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickelby and Hard Times

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover

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The essential collector’s Dickens, based on the world-famous Nonesuch Press edition of 1937
The text in these stunning volumes is taken from the 1867 Chapman and Hall edition, which became known as the Charles Dickens edition and was the last edition to be corrected by the author himself. [...]