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The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script by Frank Darabont, Stephen King
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis modern film classic, an extraordinary tale of hope and survival inside a maximum security prison, follows the complex twenty-year relationship between two convicts who have little in common—except friendship... -
The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOstap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities... -
Roald Dahl 5-Book Box Set by Roald Dahl
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratings- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator- Danny Champion of the World- James and the Giant Peach- Fantastic Mr... -
The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFirst published in 1906, this edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works by W.J. Craig has been many times reprinted. The spelling has been modernised, and the punctuation revised. A short glossary of obsolete words is provided, and there is also an index of characters and of the first lines of songs.The drawing on the jacket, a reconstruction of the Fortune Theatre, 1600, is by C... -
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Miss Nelson is Missing! by Harry Allard
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsBooklist Miss Nelson is the nicest teacher in the school. She never yells and she gives the easiest assignments. The kids in Room 207 take advantage of her good nature until she disappears and they are faced with a challenging substitute.This Read-Along Book and CD Favorite includes a paperback edition of the book and a compact disc in a newly designed reusable package... -
Life With Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt is old Bertie Wooster's habit to land in the soup from time to time. To get into a spot of bother. Circumstances, aided and abetted by Aunt Agatha, Aunt Dahlia, Bingo Little, Tuppy, Sippy and others, seem to conspire against him, and a frightful muddle ensues.Enter Jeeves, the source of all solace. Jeeves of the infinite sagacity... -
The Mad Scientists' Club by Bertrand R. Brinley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratings"The following three stories have appeared earlier in Boys' Life: 'The Unidentified Flying Man of Mammoth Falls,' 'The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake,' and 'Night... -
The Great Brain at the Academy by John D. Fitzgerald
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Great Brain faces the challenge of life at a strict Catholic boarding school with daring exploits and money-making schemes... -
The Grand Budapest Hotel: The Illustrated Screenplay by Wes Anderson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings(Book). The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. Acting as a kind of father figure, M... -
Storing Up Trouble (American Heiresses (3)) by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Miss Beatrix Waterbury's Chicago-bound train ride is interrupted by a heist, Mr. Norman Nesbit, a man of science who believes his research was the target of the heist, comes to her aid. Despite the fact that they immediately butt heads, they join forces to make a quick escape... -
Caught by Surprise by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMiss Temperance Flowerdew is on her way to work when a stranger suddenly grabs her off the street and sends her on a Chicago-bound train before she can figure out what happened. When Mr. Gilbert Cavendish is called upon to rescue a missing woman, he follows the trail to Chicago only to discover that the woman is his good friend Temperance... -
Fargo by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWinner of the Academy Award as the best Original Screenplay of 1996.Set in the midst of the bleak midwinter snow drifts of the American Midwest, Fargo is a story of murder and mayhem.Stylistically, Fargo -in its observation of a specific Minnesota community-is at the opposite end of the spectrum from the post-modernism of The Hudsucker Proxy and the baroque hallucinations of Barton Fink... -
The Roald Dahl Omnibus: Perfect Bedtime Stories for Sleepless Nights by Roald Dahl
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEver since his stories first appeared, people have been telling and re-telling each other Roald Dahl's sometimes shocking and always brilliant and bizarre assortment of terror-tinted gems. Bawdy, funny, touching, and downright outrageous, there's simply no one else like Roald Dahl.This volume is a diabolical collection of 28 of Dahl's best stories... -
Uncle Dynamite by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom boyhood his has been a gay and happy disposition, and in the autumn of his life he still retains the fresh, unspoiled mental outlook of a slightly inebriated undergraduate.A keen matchmaker and intrepid impersonator, Lord Ickenham is in his element when at large on a sweetness-and-light-spreading excursion... -
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When Harry Met Sally by Nora Ephron
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA romantic comedy about the difficult, frustrating, awful, funny search for happiness in an American city where the primary emotion is unrequited love. The complete screenplay... -
The Great Brain Reforms by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe year is 1898, and the best con man in Adenville, Utah, is the infamous twelve-year-old Tom Fitzgerald, "The Great Brain." A year at the Catholic Academy for Boys certainly hasn't dulled Tom's love for money—he's no sooner off the train than he begins scamming his own brother! By the end of his summer break, Tom has tricked all of his friends out of everything they own... -
The Return of the Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTom Fitzgerald, alias The Great Brain, is back, struggling to stay reformed now that his friends have threatened to ostracize him if he pulls even one more swindle. But his brother J.D. knows Tom's reformation is too good to be true, and as a reformed Great Brain makes for a dull life, J.D... -
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBook by Hugh Wheeler Introduction by Christopher... -
The Great Brain Is Back by John D. Fitzgerald
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis classic trickster is back again, and he's up to no good in his eighth and final book of the series. Great mix of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Terrible Two series, and is perfect for fans of Roald Dahl.Tom D. Fitzgerald--better known as The Great Brain--has turned thirteen, and pretty Polly Reagan has put a spell on him. But when it comes to swindling his younger brother J. D... -
Me and My Little Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTom, a.k.a. the Great Brain, is off to boarding school. Now his little brother, J. D., is free to follow in Tom's ingenious, conniving, and profitable footsteps. All of J. D.'s attempts at turning a profit fail miserably, and he soon realizes that he just doesn't have that crafty Great Brain knack. But when his younger brother is kidnapped, J. D... -
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLife: A User's Manual is an unclassified masterpiece, a sprawling compendium as encyclopedic as Dante's Commedia and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and, in its break with tradition, as inspiring as Joyce's Ulysses... -
Much Obliged, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring the Junior Ganymede, a Market Snodsbury election, and the Observer crossword puzzle.Jeeves, who has saved Bertie Wooster so often in the past, may finally prove to be the unwitting cause of this young master's undoing in Jeeves and the Tie that Binds... -
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen Bertie Wooster goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court and finds himself engaged to the imperious Lady Florence Craye, disaster threatens from all sides... -
All in the Timing by David Ives
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe world according to David Ives is a very odd place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet... -
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Fish Preferred by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHugh Carmody loved Millicent, Lord Emsworth niece, but he was very good friends with Sue Brown - an attachment which Millicent, perhaps, could hardly be expected to enthuse over. Ronnie Fish loved Sue, and entertained feelings o unrestrained ferocity towards Pilbeam, a blister of the first water, who was pestering her with flowers... -
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsEbullient and perverse, thrice married, Barney Panofsky has always clung to two cherished beliefs: life is absurd and nobody truly ever understands anybody else. But when his sworn enemy publicly states that Barney is a wife abuser, an intellectual fraud and probably a murderer, he is driven to write his own memoirs... -
Freddy Goes Camping by Walter Rollin Brooks
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Freddy Goes Camping, Mr. Camphor's aunts, Minerva and Elmira, were staying with him, much to his disgust. "There's two kinds of aunts," he said. "There's the regular kind, and then there's the other kind. Mine are the other kind... -
Bamboozled by David Legge
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA fun-filled subtext is delivered in the illustrations of this warm, witty picture book about a young girl's weekly visit to her eccentric grandfather--where "tea as usual" is poured into flower pots, and helping with housework means mowing the rug. Full-colour illustrations, for ages 6-10 years... -
The Crime Wave at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne of P.G. Wodehouse's most gloriously funny stories, this is the tale of bumbling Lord Emsworth, whose quiet life reading "The Care Of The Pig" and pottering among the flowers at Blandings Castle is shattered by an outbreak of lawlessness involving his niece Jane (the third prettiest girl in Shropshire), an airgun - and the trouser seat of the abominable Baxter... -
Noir by Renita Nozaria
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Kalau aku bilang aku suka kamu, kamu bakal jawab apa?""Sori, tapi lo bukan tipe gue.""Emang kurangnya aku apa, sih?""Lo itu masih SMA.""Cuma itu?""Lo punya tiga kakak cowok yang buasnya nyaingin raja hutan.""Itu aja?""Lo bisa liat hantu. Gue benci hantu. Apalagi pacaran sama cewek yang bisa liat hantu. Ogah!"Sebastian memang takut hantu... -
The Creature From My Closet Pinocula by Obert Skye
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThings are going pretty well for Rob Burnside until Pinocula--a cross between Pinocchio and a vampire--emerges from his closet, lying, joking, and doing his best to drive Rob crazy... -
Jeeves and the King of Clubs by Ben Schott
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStorm clouds loom over Europe. Treason is afoot in the highest social circles. The very security of the nation is in peril. Jeeves, it transpires, has long been an agent of British Intelligence, but now His Majesty's Government must turn to the one man who can help . . . Bertie Wooster.In this magnificent new homage to P. G... -
This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall! by Gordon Korman
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Gordon Korman's beloved first book, Bruno and Boots team up...and school is never the same!Bruno and Boots are always in trouble. So the Headmaster, aka "The Fish" decides it would be best to separate them. Bruno must now room with ghoulish Elmer Dimsdale, plus his plants, goldfish, and ants. And Boots is stuck with nerdy, preppy, paranoid George Wexford-Smyth III.Of course, this means war... -
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo, Joseph Farrell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn its first two years of production, Dario Fo's controversial farce, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world and is widely recognised as a classic of modern drama... -
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Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsHonest space trader Haviland Tuf, the owner of the last seedship of Earth's Ecological Engineering Corps, comes to the aid of an emperiled colony struggling to cope with a variety of hostile monsters, an obsessed populace, and a dictator who unleashes plagues to get his own way... -
Dead Men Scare Me Stupid by John Swartzwelder
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne of a series of comedy science fiction novels featuring slow-witted detective Frank Burly. By John Swartzwelder, the writer of 59 episodes of The Simpsons... -
সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ৪ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsবাংলাদেশ ও বাংলা ভাষার কিংবদন্তী বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী লেখক মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল- এর আরো ৮ টি বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী গ্রন্থের সংকলন।*ত্রাতুলের জগৎ*বেজি*ফিনিক্স*সায়রা সায়েন্টিস্ট*সুহানের স্বপ্ন*অবনীল*নায়ীরা*বিজ্ঞানী অনিক... -
Clueless in Cleveland by Nelle Lewis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTen years ago, Samantha “Sam” Carter bailed on her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Now she’s back − a return less anticipated than a Browns’ Super Bowl win − to help her mom out of a funk. Sam heard it was bad, but now Mom's blowing off bingo? Sam begins to suspect that her mom’s depression may not be all it appears, but she gets side-tracked when her investigator brother Paul tosses her into a case... -
The Blonde Hurricane by Jenő Rejtő
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA combination of thriller and love story, The Blonde Hurricane centers around the race to find a priceless family jewel concealed in a statuette of Buddha that an international band of crooks are after -- and so is Miss Evelyn Weston, the Blonde Hurricane, and without her knowledge, Eddy Rancing, who is in love with her, plus a host of others... -
The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson's short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete selection of Stevenson's brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr... -
Quick Service by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen imperious American widow Beatice Chavender eats a forkful of inferior ham at her sister's country home near London, it affects the lives of everyone around her--her sister, her brother-in-law, her sister's butler, her sister's poor relation Sally, Sally's fiance Lord Holbeton, and, most of all, Mrs. Chavender's own one-time fiance, "Ham King" J.B... -
No Scone Unturned by Leighann Dobbs
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhy did someone kill Olive Pendleton and hide her body? When bakery owner Lexy Baker and her posse of iPad toting grandmas witness a murder remotely through the camera of a drone, they go straight to Lexy's homicide detective husband, Jack, to report the crime... -
How Right You Are, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring a cow-creamer, the redheaded Miss Wickham, and the formidable schoolmaster Aubrey Upjohn. Jeeves is infallible. Jeeves is indispensable. Unfortunately, in How Right You Are, Jeeves, he is also in absentia. In this wonderful slice of Woosterian mayhem, Bertie has sent that prince among gentlemen's gentlemen off on his annual vacation... -
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Village School by Miss Read
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe first novel in the beloved Fairacre series, Village School introduces the remarkable schoolmistress Miss Read and her lovable group of children, who, with a mixture of skinned knees and smiles, are just as likely to lose themselves as their mittens... -
Harvey by Mary Chase
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhen Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend Harvey, a six and a half foot rabbit, to guests at a dinner party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family, from future embarrassment... -
The Scapegoat by Daniel Pennac
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsPathetic, contrite and hapless, Benjamin is nonetheless the scapegoat at The Store: there is nothing for which he cannot be blamed. While his blunders remain minor, most of his unwitting victims can find it in their hearts to forgive him, but when violent explosions begin to follow him around, he inevitably becomes the prime suspect... -
Psmith, Journalist by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe story begins with Psmith accompanying his fellow Cambridge student Mike to New York on a cricketing tour. Through high spirits and force of personality, Psmith takes charge of a minor periodical, and becomes imbroiled in a scandal involving slum landlords, boxers and gangsters - the story displays a strong social conscience, rare in Wodehouse's generally light-hearted works... -
A Tale Etched In Blood And Hard Black Pencil by Christopher Brookmyre
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWe could tell you about the bodies. We could tell you their names, where they were found, the state they were in. We could tell you about the suspects too, the evidence, the investigators; join a few dots, even throw you a motive. But what would be the point? You’re going to make your own assumptions anyway. After all, you know these people, don’t you? You went to school with them. We all did... -
The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCulled from nearly twenty years of the playwright’s career, a showcase for Tom Stoppard’s dazzling range and virtuosic talent, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard’s sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire...
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