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Overview: The classic fantasy trilogy of Elmer Elevator and the flying baby dragon has delighted children and their parents for generations. Now, on the occasion of their fiftieth anniversary, Random House is proud to bring the three timeless tales together in one beautiful commemorative edition, complete with the original delightful illustrations.

2) Finding Noel

Author

Evans, Richard Paul

Formats

Book, Book on CD

Description

A twenty-one-year-old woman searches for clues to her past while struggling with vague memories of being sent away by her parents at the age of seven, a younger sister, and a Christmas ornament inscribed with the word, "Noel."

3) Around the World in 80 Days

Author

Verne, Jules

Series

Voyages Extraordinaires

Formats

Book on CD, eBook

Description

An unmarried by mathematically precise Englishman dismisses his valet for heating his shaving water two degrees cooler than usual. He hires a French valet to replace him and the two of them set off to travel around the world in eighty days - a supposedly possible feat, now that the Indian railways have been built. If they succeed they will win a fortune off the other members of the Reform Club.

4) Toxic Bachelors: A Novel

Author

Steel, Danielle

Formats

Book on CD, eBook

Description

Danielle Steel explores the perils of dating, relationships, and love in a novel that takes us into the intoxicating, infuriating world of three charming single men, also known as…
Toxic Bachelors
They were the best of friends and the most daunting of bachelors....Charlie Harrington, a handsome philanthropist, has such high expectations for his perfect bride that no mortal need apply....Adam Weiss, a forty-something celebrity...

5) Proof Positive

Author

Margolin, Phillip

Series

Amanda Jaffe novel volume 3

Formats

Description

Defense attorney Doug Weaver believes his client, Jacob Cohen, is innocent—but the forensic evidence proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that the meek, mentally ill homeless man killed and dismembered a woman . . .

Hired to defend gangster Art Prochaska against charges that he murdered an informer, lawyer Amanda Jaffe and her father, Frank, have their work cut out for them—because, as improbable as it seems, the forensic clues

...

6) The Four-Story mistake

Author

Enright, Elizabeth

Series

Melendy quartet volume 2

Formats

Book on CD, eAudiobook

Description

The Melendy family moves to a house in the country where a secret room, a cupola, a stable, and a brook provide Mona, Rush, Randy, and Oliver with adventures far different from the city life to which they are accustomed.

7) The mouse and the motorcycle

Author

Cleary, Beverly

Series

Ralph S. Mouse

Formats

Description

A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling.

8) The 8th habit: [from effectiveness to greatness]

Author

Covey, Stephen R

Description

Lone Star audio
Pinnacle western
Last Mountain Man

The 8th Habit is the answer to the soul's yearning for greatness, the organization's imperative for significance and superior results, and humanity's search for its "voice."

9) Ambush of the Mountain Man

Author

Johnstone, William W

Series

Formats

Book on CD, eBook, Kindle

Description

THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Smoke Jensen never wanted to kill, but fate had other plans, and the Mountain Man has left plenty of blood, tears and fury in his wake. Angus MacDougal, the father of one of Smoke's victims, wants revenge. Riding up to Big Rock, Colorado, MacDougal has decided that killing Smoke won't be enough. He intends to bring him back to Pueblo and hang him before a crowd. It's a bloodthirsty plan that...

10) Messenger

Author

Lowry, Lois

Series

Giver quartet volume 3

Formats

Description

In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

11) A walk to remember

Author

Sparks, Nicholas

Formats

Description

A romance featuring a troublesome teenager in South Carolina who is changed for the better by the love of a girl. She is the angelic daughter of a local minister and the boy joins her in doing good deeds. But she has a secret which will break his heart.

12) Brian's hunt

Author

Paulsen, Gary

Series

Brian's saga volume 5
Hatchet

Formats

Description

Two years after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a rogue bear.

13) Just Listen

Author

Dessen, Sarah

Series

Class set

Formats

Description

Brilliance Audio on compact disc

From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Once and for All
To find the truth you’ve got to be willing to hear it.

When she’s modeling, Annabel is the picture of perfection.

But her real life is far from perfect.

Fortunately, she’s got Owen. He’s intense, music-obsessed, and dedicated to always telling the truth.

And most of all, he’s...

14) We are all welcome here: a novel

Author

Berg, Elizabeth

Series

Formats

Book, Book on CD, Large Print

Description

Book on CD, eBook, Large Print

It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis's birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequently--and violently--across the state. But in Paige Dunn's small, ramshackle house, there are more immediate concerns. Challenged by the effects of the polio she contracted during her last month of pregnancy, Paige is nonetheless determined to live as normal a life as possible and to raise her...

15) 12 years a slave

Author

Northup, Solomon

Formats

Description

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.

16) The Unusual Suspects

Author

Buckley, Michael

Series

The Sisters Grimm

Formats

Description

Fans of fractured fairy tales will be delighted to discover the fantasy, mystery, adventure, and humor in the beloved New York Times bestselling Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley, now with new cover art. As featured on NBC's The Today Show, the nine wildly popular books are favorites around the world. They were among the first books to bring a distinctly girl-power spin to fairy tales—a spin taken up by hit movies and

...

17) The Cold Moon

Author

Deaver, Jeffery

Series

Lincoln Rhyme

Formats

Description

Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI.

Lincoln Rhyme, the quadriplegic detective made famous in The Bone Collector is back in a thriller from the masterful Jeffery Deaver. When a sadistic killer leaves clocks at his murder scenes, will time run out for the criminologist and his partner Amelia Sachs?
On a frigid December night, an eerie pattern emerges...

18) A house called Awful End

Author

Ardagh, Philip

Series

Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 1
Eddie Dickens Triology volume 1

Formats

Description

When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's sickly parents become "a bit crinkly round the edges," he is taken in by his great-uncle and great-aunt, Mad Uncle Jack and Mad Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float shaped like a giant cow.

19) Raven's gate

Author

Horowitz, Anthony

Series

Gatekeepers volume 1

Formats

Book on CD, eAudiobook

Description

As punishment for a crime he didn't really commit, Matt was given a choice: go to jail or go live with an old woman named Mrs. Deverill in a remote town called Lesser Malling. He should have chosen jail. A strange and sinister plan is coming together made in Lesser Malling, with Matt at the center of it all. People who try to help him disappear . . . or die. It all ties to an evil place named Raven's Gate - a place whose destiny is horrifyingly intertwined...

20) Don't go home

Author

Hart, Carolyn G

Series

Death on demand volume 25

Formats

Book, Book on CD

Description