Author: Marcel Saint Laurent; Publisher: Authorhouse

Origins begins the story of Siirus, the tale of a powerful weapon forged by a divinity during a time when madness encumbered the planet she had created, Arc. Troubled by a disturbing absence, Ben Porter is unhappy and laconic, numbed by the vexation of a vacant memory. He doesn't know who he is; he doesn't know where he's from, and he doesn't know if he'll ever discover the mystery of his past. Unknown and unloved, Ben decides that death is the only solution. 'Where am I?' He felt himself speak out loud but couldn't quite believe it.Ben had travelled from his life, body and mind, to inhabit an existence far beyond anything he could have imagined was true.

Genre: Action & Adventure (ISBN: 9781425958626)

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Author: Wole Soyinka; Publisher: Random House

The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland.

Genre: Literary (ISBN: 9780375503658)

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Author: ; Publisher: Routledge

A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form. Questions addressed include What is documentary?' and How fictional is nonfiction?'

Genre: Books (ISBN: 9780415903820)

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Author: Alice Walker; Publisher: Harvest Books

Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenant farmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to head North. After meeting an equally humiliating existence there, he returns to Georgia, years later, to find his son, Brownfield, imprisoned for the murder of his wife. As the guardian of the couple's youngest daughter, Grange Copeland is looking at his third -- and final -- chance to free himself from spiritual and social enslavement.

Genre: Literary (ISBN: 9780156028363)

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Author: Samuel Johnson; Publisher: Oxford University Press

Rasselas--regarded as Johnson's most creative work--presents the story of the journey of Rasselas and his companions in search of the choice of life. Its charm lies not in its plot, but rather in its wise and humane look at man's constant search for happiness. The text is based on thesecond edition as Samuel Johnson revised it.

Genre: Classics (ISBN: 9780192839138)

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Author: Ray Bradbury; Publisher: Collins Design

Dave McKean, famous for his work with the Sandman comic books, brings his internationally recognized style to the WISP (Wonderfully Illustrated Short Pieces) series with his illustrations for Bradbury's 1946 short story The Homecoming. The result is a contemporary interpretation of a modern classic bound in a collectible art book.

Genre: Classics (ISBN: 9780060859626)

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Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne; Publisher: Wildside Press

The House of the Seven Gables

Genre: Classics (ISBN: 9781557423023)

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The Greek Alexander Romance

Genre: Classics (ISBN: 9780140445602)

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Author: Rebecca Goldstein; Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company

Now in paperback, this grand Gothic novel is about the outer reaches of passion--of the body and of the mind--and about the betrayals that so often breed in that perilous place. Properties of Light carries the reader into the very heart of a physics problem so huge it thwarted even Einstein: the nature of light.

Genre: Literary (ISBN: 9780618154593)

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