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<p>For the first time in a deluxe collector's boxed set, here is the ultimate Ray Bradbury edition, including three novels, three story collections, and thirty-three other stories and rarities.</p><p>Ray Bradbury has inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. His greatest works are now presented in a deluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set, collecting:</p><p></p><p>Ray Bradbury: Novels &amp; Storiy Cycles (LOA #347)</p><p>THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES</p><p>FAHRENHEIT 451 </p><p>DANDELION WINE </p><p>SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES</p><p>Appendix:</p><p>"A Few Notes on The Martian Chronicles"</p><p>"Day After Tomorrow: Why Science Fiction?"</p><p>"No Man Is an Island" </p><p>"Just This Side of Byzantium" (An Introduction to Dandelion Wine) </p><p>"Dandelion Wine Revisited" </p><p>"Carnivals, Near and Far" (An Afterword to Something Wicked . . .)</p><p></p><p>Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man, The October Country &amp; Other Stories (LOA #360)</p><p>THE ILLUSTRATED MAN</p><p>THE OCTOBER COUNTRY</p><p>Other Stories:</p><p>"R Is for Rocket" </p><p>"Chrysalis"</p><p>"Frost and Fire"  </p><p>"Powerhouse" </p><p>"Pillar of Fire"</p><p>"Asleep in Armageddon"  </p><p>"Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed"  </p><p>"A Touch of Petulance"   </p><p>"The Screaming Woman"   </p><p>"The Fog Horn"  </p><p>"The Pedestrian"   </p><p>"The Playground"  </p><p>"A Sound of Thunder"   </p><p>"The Great Wide World Over There"  </p><p>"The Golden Apples of the Sun" </p><p>"And the Rock Cried Out"  </p><p>"All Summer in a Day"  </p><p>"Interval in Sunlight"   </p><p>"At Midnight, in the Month of June" </p><p>"The Strawberry Window"   </p><p>"Icarus Montgolfier Wright" </p><p>"The End of the Beginning"  </p><p>"The Day It Rained Forever" </p><p>"A Miracle of Rare Device"    </p><p>"The Kilimanjaro Device" </p><p>"The Lost City of Mars"  </p><p>"I Sing the Body Electric!" </p>

A box set of Toni Morrison's principal works, featuring The Bluest Eye (her first novel), Beloved (Pulitzer Prize winner), and Song of Solomon (National Book Critics Award winner). Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, Beloved transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. This spellbinding novel tells the story of Sethe, a former slave who escapes to Ohio, but eighteen years later is still not free. In The New York Times bestselling novel, The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty and yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes, that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. With Song of Solomon, Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as she follows Milkman Dead from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, introducing an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world. This beautifully designed slipcase will make the perfect holiday and perennial gift.

<p>The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with a two-volume masterpiece in an artfully designed box set. The Passenger is a fast-paced and sprawling novel while Stella Maris is a tightly controlled coda, told entirely in dialogue. Together they relate the thrilling story of a brother and sister, haunted by loss, pursued by conspiracy, and longing for a death they cannot reconcile with God.</p><p>The Passenger 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western, a salvage diver, zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit-by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul.</p><p>Stella Maris 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western is twenty years old when she arrives at a psychiatric facility with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother, Bobby. Instead, she contemplates the nature of madness, the human insistence on one common experience of the world; she surveys the intersection of physics and philosophy; and she introduces her cohorts, her chimeras, the hallucinations that only she can see. All the while, she grieves for Bobby, not quite dead, not quite hers.</p>

Red Queen [Bok / Övrigt]

<p>New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.</p><p>In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots-fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, hidden and safe.</p><p>The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled "HAP," he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio-a past spent hunting humans.</p><p>When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe.</p><p>Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic's assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.</p><p>Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?</p><p>Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.</p><div><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:#1a1a1a;font-family:'Source Sans Pro', Arial, sans-serif;"><br/></i></div>

When the Dashwood family estate passes to the eldest son John and his wife, Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret must find a new home. Moving to a cottage in Devonshire, the Dashwood women begin adjusting to a new life and a new social circle. Soon, Elinor is being courted by the gentlemanly Edward Ferrars and Marianne finds herself torn between two suitors: the brooding Colonel Brandon and the social-climbing scoundrel John Willoughby. The love and heartbreaks that they all endure are shaped by the temperament of their time and place and the sense and sensibility of their society. Originally published in 1811, Jane Austen's first published novel is revered as a classic novel about manners. This volume is one of Barnes & Noble's `Collectible Editions' classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed foil-stamped binding, with distinctive coloured edging and an attractive ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for any home library. Originally published in 1811, Jane Austen's first published novel is revered as a classic romance of manners. This volume is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed foil-stamped binding, with distinctive coloured edging and an attractive ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for any home library.

Eight years ago, Anne Elliot broke off her engagement to the dashing young naval officer Frederick Wentworth on the advice of a friend. Now twenty-seven and considered a faded beauty, she is resigned to a spinster's life when she learns that Wentworth, now a captain and wealthy with prize money from the Napoleonic Wars, has returned. While Anne visits her married younger sister Mary, Wentworth pays frequent calls on Mary's two charming sisters-in-law. Although Anne tries to avoid him she cannot, and although she knows he has not forgiven her, his presence is a constant reminder of what she has lost. Published posthumously in 1818, Persuasion is both a delightful romantic comedy and an insightful exploration of our need to persuade, and be persuaded, by others. This volume is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed foil-stamped binding, with distinctive coloured edging and an attractive ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for any home library.