Penguin USA

1984

G. Orwell

A guide to reading "1984" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author`s life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

1984 - Nineteen Eighty Four

The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell`s prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative Utopia"-a startlingly...

A Whole Lotta Love

Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

The classic novels of the adventures of Alice are together in one volume that include the original illustrations by John Tenniel and a new introduction by Martin Gardner, author of "The Annotated Alice." Reissue.

An American Tragedy

T. Dreiser

The author`s classic vision of the dark side of American life looks at the failings of the American dream, in the story of the rise and fall of Clyde Griffiths, who sacrifices everything in his desperate quest for...

Another Fine Myth/ Myth Conceptions/ 2 In 1

R. Asprin

Books One and Two of Asprin`s bestselling Myth series are now together in this two-in-one omnibus. In Another Fine Myth, Skeeve`s master is murdered, and now this apprentice magician must deal with Aahz, a powerless...

Anthem

In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person. That is a serious offense.

Apt Pupil: Different Seasons (movie tie in)

Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher: Mr. Dussander. Todd knows all about Dussander`s darl past. The torture. The death. The...

Bellmaker

Jacques

Black Notice

P. Cornwell

A cargo ship arriving from Belgium at Richmond`s Deep Water Terminal is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is on...

Black Arrow (Signet Classics)

In this swashbuckling novel, by the author of Treasure Island, young Dick Shelton is left orphaned. So he seeks the help of the mysterious Black Arrow fellowship. Brimming with adventure and suspense, this is a...

Bleeding Kansas (Exp)

Set in the Kaw River Valley where Paretsky grew up, BLEEDING KANSAS is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s, when their ancestors settled...

Bubbles In Trouble

Strohmeyer

Bubbles Goes Amish...No Tube-Tops. No Make-Up. It`s Just Murder. New troubles for Bubbles: Her friend, bride-to-be Janice, never showed up at the altar, and everybody`s blaming Bubbles for singing Lynyrd Skynyrd`s...

Bungalow

Caribbean Mystery

As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by...

Catch the Moon

Dempsey

Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks taught Alicia Maldonado that she`d have to fight to get ahead. Though it hasn`t been easy, the thirty-something beauty is now Monterey County`s star prosecutor. But Alicia`s...

Cause of Death

P. Cornwell

First, the good news: the omni-competent Kay Scarpetta is back, along with her sidekicks, in a murder mystery that`s tighter than her last escapade, From Potter`s Field. Chief medical examiner for the state of...

Chapterhouse: Dune

F Herbert

The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune`s power, have colonized a green world--and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. Here is the last book...

Chekhov: the Major Plays

A. Chekhov

Children of Dune

F Herbert

The desert planet of Arrakis has begun to grow green and lush. The life-giving spice is abundant. The nine-year-old royal twins, possesing their father`s supernatural powers, are being groomed as Messiahs. But there...

Chromosome 6

Chromosome 6 is a prophetic thriller that challenges the medical ethics of genetic manipulation and cloning in the jungles of equatorial Africa, where one mistake could bridge the gap between man and ape - and forever...

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court

In this acclaimed tour de force, Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire, from the pure joy of wild high jinks to deeply probing insights into the nature of man. Features a new Introduction by Leland...

Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang

For a woman married to the vampire of her nightmares, the honeymoon`s over and reality Pia Thomason is torn between two Dark Ones: her husband Kristoff - who doesn`t trust her-and his best friend, Alec, who is MIA. So...

Deep End of the Ocean. Tie - in Edition

J. Mitchard

It happened in a flash. One minute Beth Cappadora wa the happily married mother of three. The next minute, one of them, her favorite child, three-year-old Ben, was missing. Was he kidnapped? No one knew, and as...

Detective

Hailey

Ex-priest-turned-Miami detective Malcolm Ainslie journeys to Raiford Prison to interview condemned serial killer Elroy Doil, hours before his scheduled execution, and finds himself propelled into an investigation that...