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In a comprehensive and beautifully crafted first person narrative, David Copperfield recalls key stages, memories, and incidents of his life from infancy to maturity. Scenes, adventures, and characters are summoned to the narrator's remembrance so vividly that they are rendered with the vitality of the present moment. 

 Lucy Honeychurch is a young English girl abroad in Italy for the first time and is ready to experience all the beauty, art, and romance it has to offer. She is hampered by the oppressive attentions of her chaperone, her prim cousin Charlotte, as well as the presence of a substantial British expatriate and tourist community in Florence.  

First published in 1869, Little Women is the story of four sisters growing up against the background of the American Civil War. Alcott wrote the book at the urging of the publisher, Thomas Niles, who was seeking a story about girls that would have popular appeal. Although it was commenced essentially as a children's book, it developed into something of a bildungsroman, which touches on more serious issues such as the difficulties faced by single-parent families, the death of a sibling, and fractured relationships.

The Importance of Being Earnest is Wilde's most famous and oft-produced play. First performed in 1895, and subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People", it shows Wilde at his satirical and scathingly witty best. It follows the misadventures of Algy and Jack as they attempt to woo and wed Cecily and Gwendolen under the assumed name "Ernest", much to the disapproval of the aristocratic Lady Bracknell.

New allies arrive to help the citizens of Fabens confront their Cartel problem. Before that can happen however, the horde in town must be dealt with. Dead America - The Third Week introduces new survivors and locations in addition to revisiting some familiar ones as people all across the country fight for their survival against the growing armies of the undead.

He’s on a mission to find missing shifters. She’s about to become one of them. Abandoned as a baby, Amber Allen has never known another shifter like herself. She came to Shifting Sands Resort hoping for answers about her past, but she only finds questions about her future. She doesn’t understand the connection she has with the handsome stranger at the bar, but she knows that his arms feel more like home than anywhere she’s ever been. Can Tony convince Amber that they’re destined to be together...before she goes missing, too?

A modern adaptation of The Oresteia of Aeschylus, the only surviving ancient Athenian trilogy. Across three plays, Greece's first major playwright tells the story of the cursed House of Atreus, where the bloody sins of the family's ancestors are visited upon four succeeding generations. After a series of horrific past crimes by his ancestors, Orestes is driven to matricide and for that is relentlessly pursued by the Furies, underworld demons intent on revenging the spirit of his mother.  

As the Texas Zombie Virus continues to spread, those left alive battle the living and the undead for survival. In this collection, Terrell faces stiff opposition in the Carolinas, the El Paso group engages in risky mission to appease the Cartel, a mini-war breaks out in New Mexico, Zion continues to build his Portland empire, and the battle for Spokane begins. 

Anne and Gilbert begin their life together in Anne's House of Dreams, a continuation of the story that began with Anne of Green Gables. First published in 1917, the L. M. Montgomery series continues with Anne as a new bride making new friends wherever she finds them. They settle on the seashore at Four Winds Point, an area near the village of Glen St. Mary on Prince Edward Island, Canada. She is befriended by the capable Miss Cornelia Bryant, kindly old sea Captain Jim, and the beautiful, mysterious figure of Mrs. Dick Moore. 

Despite some troubles, the men under Captain Kersey have succeeded in their first assignments in the assault of Spokane. With the wind at their backs, they press forward toward the central area of the city, where hundreds of thousands of zombies await their arrival. 

Rainbow Valley was written in 1919 by L. M. Montgomery for the series that began with Anne of Green Gables. Anne and Gilbert's children are growing up! Their new friends, the Merediths, live in the Manse nearby. When the Merediths aren't playing in the graveyard or riding pigs through town, they meet up with the Blythes to play, fish, and study insects in Rainbow Valley! 

A dying world. An academy to train seafaring heroes. Four 18-year-olds trying to survive it all. Silver beasts, lack of provisions, royal intrigue, and cloaked threats plague this realm. Four young people are chosen to attend the Hall of Explorers academy to train their minds, bodies, and magic, to sail and find their people a new world. Before they brave the unknown seas, they must complete their training. Not to mention getting to know each other and become a tight-knit team. Disturbing and bloody incidents soon make that even harder than it should be.

Before the invasion of Seattle can commence, Spokane must be pacified. With manpower at a premium, the newly promoted Captain Kersey must employ risky tactics if his men are to survive the day. Dead America: The Second Week introduces new survivors and locations in addition to revisiting some familiar ones as people all across the country fight for their survival against the growing armies of the undead.

A misunderstanding leads to all out warfare between four highly trained soldiers and a vicious small-town gang. When an innocent group of civilians finds themselves in the crossfire, hard choices must be made. Dead America: The Second Week introduces new survivors and locations in addition to revisiting some familiar ones as people all across the country fight for their survival against the growing armies of the undead.

Trouble arises as Zion works to connect the various survivor groups within the city. With ammunition being scarce, brutal hand to hand combat is required to survive the day. Dead America: The Second Week introduces new survivors and locations in addition to revisiting some familiar ones as people all across the country fight for their survival against the growing armies of the undead.

As the cartel continues to ratchet up pressure, the citizens of Fabens are forced to undertake a pair of risky missions in order to survive. With manpower at a premium, Clara heads out on her own, while the boys stay behind to venture deep into the heart of their zombie-infested town.

As Terrell and the other survivors in Clinton struggle to secure the city from enemies both living and undead, they discover a plot that could doom them unless they act. With the safety of the community on the line, they are forced to undertake a dangerous mission. While in the city, life within the walls of the fortified stadium takes an unexpected turn. Dead America: The Second Week introduces new survivors and locations in addition to revisiting some familiar ones as people all across the country fight for their survival against the growing armies of the undead.

After spending her girlhood writing gentle and thoughtful novels of the lesbian experience (Shadows, Warm and Willing, Enough of Sorrow), Jill Emerson reinvented herself in the early 1970s, just when contemporary literature was experiencing an enormous flowering of sexuality.

The Second Week starts out with a bang! As the Texas zombie virus ravages the nation, those left alive are struggling for survival. In this six-book set, civilians in Mississippi deal with the fallout from a decision made a thousand miles away, the people of El Paso fight against an invading force from the south, and the military puts numerous plans in place to start taking the country back from the undead.

Trouble arises when a caravan team delivering goods to a remote group of survivors finds that the situation is not what they expected. Nevada Caravan introduces new survivors and locations, in addition to revisiting some familiar ones, as people all across the country fight for their survival against the growing armies of the undead.