18 books like Where the Red Fern Grows
Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Le petit Nicolas et les copains
Nicholas is invited to a birthday party by the girl next door, plays a very messy game of chess, and learns that walking on your hands is much harder than turning somersaults.
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My Teacher Flunked the Planet
Peter Thompson tours the planet with his friends, and three aliens in disguise! The aliens mission? To file the final report that will determine Earth's future in the universe.
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Vol 714 pour Sydney
“ The world’s most famous travelling reporter goes Down Under.
Tintin, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus are on their way to Sydney, Australia. Through a chance meeting they are invited to travel on board the private jet of billionaire Lazlo Carreidas. But then they fall victim to a plot to kidnap Carreidas and are captured by Tintin's arch enemy Rastapopoulos.”
– Publisher
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Harlem beat
A graphic novel in which Scratch, a street basketball team made up of Nate Torres, a known quitter, bully Kyle Ozzman, and show-off Maso Kawamura, join the Mixx-hoops tournament and draw the toughest team in the neighborhood as their first opponent.
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Astérix chez Rahãzade
Dans un lointain royaume situé dans la vallée du Gange, la belle princesse Rahàzade vit un compte à rebours funeste. Si la pluie ne vient pas délivrer son peuple d'une sécheresse redoutable, elle sera sacrifiée aux dieux! Ca, Asterix et Obélix ne sauraient l'accepter! Et c'est en compagnie d'Assurancetourix qu'ils traversent le globe sur un tapis volant pour lui porter secours... Car qui mieux…
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East of Eden
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of…
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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of prepubescent British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves that lead to a descent into savagery. The novels themes include morality, leadership, and the tension between civility and chaos.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to use the treasure to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration.
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The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita () is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940. A censored version, with several chapters cut by editors, was published posthumously in Moscow magazine in 1966–1967 by his widow Elena Bulgakova. The manuscript was first published as a book in 1967, in Paris, France. A samizdat version circulated that included parts cut out by official…
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Les Misérables
Les Misérables (, ) is a French epic historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published on 31 March 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. Les Misérables has been popularized through numerous adaptations for film, television, and the stage, including a musical.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Published in 1969, its popularity established Le Guins status as a major author of science fiction. The novel is set in the fictional universe of the Hainish Cycle, a series of novels and short stories by Le Guin, which she introduced in the 1964 short story "The Dowry of Angyar". It was fourth in…
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Crossing to Safety
Crossing to Safety is a 1987 semi-autobiographical novel by "The Dean of Western Writers", Wallace Stegner. One of his works set in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, it gained broad literary acclaim and commercial popularity.
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The World of Yesterday - An Autobiography
Stefan Zweig's autobiography
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The Little House Collection Complete 9-Books
New rack-sized editions of the classic books by Laura Ingalls Wilder--published in the spring of 2003--are now packaged together in this beautiful nine-volume gift set.
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Journey to the West
"Journey to West",a scholar-official, is one of the renowned classical Chinese novels about an allegorical rendition of the journey, mingled with Chinese fables, fairy tables, legends,superstitions, popuar beliefs, monster ......
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White Nights
White night, White Night, or White Nights may refer to:
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Conan the Barbarian: The Complete Collection (Book House)
This book contains the complete Conan stories in the chronological order of their original publication.
The Phoenix on the Sword
The Scarlet Citadel
The Tower of the Elephant
Black Colossus
The Slithering Shadow
The Pool of the Black One
Gods of the North
Rogues in the House
Shadows in the Moonlight
Queen of the Black Coast
The Devil in Iron
The People of the Black Circle
A Witch Shall be…
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